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    Sheafification – The optimal path to mathematical mastery: The fast track (2022)

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    95 points atomicnature | 14 comments | 31 Aug 25 04:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source | bottom
    1. rfl890 ◴[31 Aug 25 05:15 UTC] No.45080549[source]▶
    The optimal path to mathematical mastery is "Error establishing a database connection"?
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    2. ethersteeds ◴[31 Aug 25 05:18 UTC] No.45080559[source]▶
    That's correct
    3. klipt ◴[31 Aug 25 05:19 UTC] No.45080563[source]▶
    Obviously it's not meant literally. The database represents your mind, and the error represents all the mathematical proofs you haven't written yet. By solving the error (proofs) you learn mathematics.

    /s

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    4. bbor ◴[31 Aug 25 05:35 UTC] No.45080615[source]▶
    Oof. Not usually one to comment on technical issues, but that's a rough one to get for a (presumably) completely-static site!

    Dr. Sheaf, please consider serving your site via a dedicated service like S3. This is a solved problem <3

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    5. Avicebron ◴[31 Aug 25 05:38 UTC] No.45080625[source]▶
    Sheaf residuals, each edge checks if its two endpoints line up. The squared differences add up to a single number R. That’s your “how inconsistent is the network right now?” gauge.
    6. CobrastanJorji ◴[31 Aug 25 05:50 UTC] No.45080672[source]▶
    Computer science is math. Software engineering is not math.
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    7. figassis ◴[31 Aug 25 06:02 UTC] No.45080731[source]▶
    He probably doesn’t know how. This message is em from Wordpress. There are many WP providers where you just signup and start writing. They don’t tell you that if you get to HN front page, your db will die. I don’t know any static blog providers. He’d have to roll out his own or use Medium/Substack.
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    8. easygenes ◴[31 Aug 25 06:38 UTC] No.45080893{3}[source]▶
    > I don’t know any static blog providers.

    Bear Blog comes to mind (no connection): https://bearblog.dev

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    9. stared ◴[31 Aug 25 08:07 UTC] No.45081375[source]▶
    It stings be a bit that people use Wordpress in times of really wonderful static sites generators AND vibe coding. They are both pleasure to write, make it easy to tweak style however you please, can cost nothing (just host it on GitHub pages), no maintenance, and if something hits Hacker News, no risk of an outage.
    10. heresie-dabord ◴[31 Aug 25 10:33 UTC] No.45082085[source]▶
    And vibe-coding is barely coding, nevermind software engineering. (;
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    12. stavros ◴[31 Aug 25 11:53 UTC] No.45082477{4}[source]▶
    That doesn't look static, it's a Django app, no?
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    13. bbor ◴[31 Aug 25 21:03 UTC] No.45087062{3}[source]▶
    Fascinating, thanks for sharing your expertise. I've never published a blog, obviously. This just seems like such an absurdly simple use case... If blogs aren't static, what is???
    14. easygenes ◴[01 Sep 25 04:04 UTC] No.45089334{5}[source]▶
    Ah yeah, I guess I just assumed it was static because every time I've been to a Bear blog it has been so light and snappy.

    Just did a little looking. Micro.blog [0] is a true hosted static site offering; just hosted Hugo. There's also Publii [1], an open source cross-platform desktop static CMS that has one-click push to a variety of cloud CDNs (e.g. Netlify or Github Pages)

    [0] https://micro.blog [1] https://getpublii.com