Hello, law enforcement. I suspect you’re reading this because, as a TSA supervisor told me recently, “… we are interested in you”.
Yes, I asked to fly selectee–to not provide ID–at Denver International recently. Yes, I’ve done this before. Yes, there was a lot of confusion between TSA employees on whether that was legal or not–eventually M. Gatling of the DIA police told me I was required to display ID. Yes, I opted out of AIT. Yes, it did take no fewer than eight TSA officers, airline representatives, and police about 45 minutes to determine I posed no threat. Yes, I was exceedingly polite, and most of us got along quite well. Yes, I was asked all kinds of questions I was under no obligation to answer (among them my address and phone number), and no, the TSA supervisor was not very pleased that I asked whether I was legally required to respond.
“What is your contact number.”
So Technology Review published a summary of an arxiv article arguing for mass quantization in black holes. Looks like an ultraviolet catastrophe argument, which is fascinating in itself. But first, I have to address this journalistic clusterfuck:
Of course, the question of this kind of black hole production at the LHC once again raises the thorny question of whether the safety assurances we’ve been given about these experiments are valid.
No, it means the exact opposite. The article is prompted by the absence of black holes in experimental products. The implications of the model are that black holes are harder for the LHC to create.
Bob and Sarah are a physicist and chemist, respectively. They should have known better than to send us mad libs for an RSVP card.
Translation: On July 23rd, Bob and Sarah will finally be elements of the set of unordered pairs of people. Kyle is very (the official sequence ID of the “happy numbers”) for them, and wishes them an uncountable infinity of happiness and that they should be an ideal example of the wedding ring together. Therefore, 1 will, with less than 1 percent conformance with the null hypothesis, attend and look forward to seeing the undefined (as bride/groom is indivisible) in their Klein bottle dress/suit.
For only 650 per month, I could enjoy…
... an interest in: Group Habitation, Rocketry, Radio, Making Things, Creating Art, ReProgramming the World, Video Kaleidoscopes, Mad Science, Performing, Music or Entertaining, WareHousing, and the list goes on.
Or perhaps
If you ever need to unzip data compressed with zlib without a header (e.g. produced by Erlang’s zlib:zip), it pays to be aware that
windowBits can also be -8..-15 for raw inflate. In this case, -windowBits determines the window size. inflate() will then process raw deflate data, not looking for a zlib or gzip header, not generating a check value, and not looking for any check values for comparison at the end of the stream. (zlib.h)
Hence, you can do something like
Smear green blood
Your palms are sweaty
Scaly skin glistening
To last demands
The planet’s going under and
You’re floating overhead
(Lizard men) [x2]
Realizing that the sexism of beer advertising is just too implicit, Dos Equis helpfully spells out exactly how to treat women as subhuman.
I don’t even want to get near the colonialist thing here, either.
You’re so prolific
An impact factor well above thirty two
It makes me jealous
And in need of passing this peer review–
You know my motivations
In search of reputation
My erdos number ill acquire from you
So in this explication
Of conformal transformations
Please excuse me I don’t mean to be crude
But tonight I’m citing you
(11:14:44 AM) Duretti Hirpa: I HAVE ALL THE GAY CARDS IN THIS RELATIONSHIP
(11:14:54 AM) Duretti Hirpa: shit, i had all the boyfriend points in your LAST relationship
23:09 < justin> Erlang tattoo might be cool
23:09 < justin> not many have those
23:10 < justin> not even sure what that would look like
23:10 < aphyr_> Yeah, really gonna add to my aura of mysterious sexiness
23:10 < aphyr_> "What's that?"
23:10 < aphyr_> "Oh, that's Erlang. It's a distributed functional programming language."
23:10 < justin> Mad tail
23:10 < aphyr_> "Tell me, would you and your friends like to do it... concurrently?"
23:13 < aphyr_> "Oh sorry. You're not my... TYPE."
23:13 < aphyr_> DAMN YOOOOUUU STATIC COMPILERS!
Things are getting a little slap-happy here in the final hours before Showyou launch.
“So,” our CEO asked me, “what happens if our new service becomes a huge success?”
aphyr: I think basically we can *expect* the service to collapse in unpredictable ways
mark: that would not be good
aphyr: No this is good!
aphyr: It means we averted all the ways it would predictably collapse!
mark: thanks kyle, i'll sleep well over the weekend now :-)
Today I realized that this project has basically been to build a service on par with Twitter or Yammer. The difference is they employ about 15 or 20 people to do my job! This… should be interesting!