Notices by ColinTheMathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz)

I don't often post about politics here on Mathstodon, but this is exceptional.

The Department for Work and Pensions has destroyed reports into suicides linked to benefits being stopped.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-benefit-death-suicide-reports-cover-ups-government-conservatives-a9359606.html

Your shadow shows that light has come nearly 150 x 10^9 m, only to be deprived of reaching the ground in its final metre, thanks to you.

It's not new, but it's worth remembering, or knowing, that Facebook embeds tracking data inside photos you download.

https://twitter.com/oasace/status/1149181539000864769

Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. -- Anonymous

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Question:

Can a person on instance X issue reports on instance Y about a person on instance Y?

It appears that @wilw is being driven off that instance because the admins are getting too many reports every day.

Would he be "safe" from the dogpiling on a smaller instance?

You can't make a computer do things faster, you can only ask it to do fewer things, or do more things at the same time. -- Source ??

@lnxw48a1 Given that you like their other posts did you first try filtering by regular expressions? Judging from what you've said I'd guess not ...

Web designers need to know of this exchange between my parents:

Father: Ah - they've updated their web site!

Mother: Oh no.

Father: It looks good ...

Mother: Can you find the things we need?

... (long pause) ...

Father: No ...

A faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates : http://news.mit.edu/2017/faster-way-make-bose-einstein-condensates-1123

100% of data processing is fixing other people's screwed up formats & content. The other 100% is dealing with the remaining inconsistencies.