Notices by Colin the Mathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz), page 3

@fribbledom No doubt you know this, and equally no doubt others will also point this out, but:

https://xkcd.com/1319/ : Automation

Your fingers have fingertips but your toes don't have toetips. Yet, you can tiptoe but not tipfinger.

Grr ... just one small mistake ...

#CellTower 814

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https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=814

Current streak: 160
Best streak: 160

Quick one today ... balanced correctness against speed:

#CellTower 813

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https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=813

Current streak: 159
Best streak: 159

One thing no one ever talks about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself on keeping a cardboard box because it's, like, a really good box.

Grrr ....

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https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=805

Current streak: 151
Best streak: 151

No messing about, straight in.

(In other words, I got lucky)

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https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=803

Current streak: 149
Best streak: 149

HAPPY APHELION EVERYONE !!!

From here on in for the next six months, the Earth accelerates in its orbit.

STAND BY FOR ACCELERATION !!!

I need to download this to check it out later:

Calling @Chartodon Spine ...

It's enraging ... all of it ... and I hope you take them to the cleaners, and justice is served.

CC: @ashleygjovik

Never deploy at 16:30 on a Friday afternoon.

Trying to follow the suggestions about preventing the cacheing of an image, I've now borked my access to the server. I've been locked out for breaching some mod_security rules.

I really, *really* hate *everything* to do with web programming, and anyone who does it competently is not being paid enough.

People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. -- Neil Gaiman

Bertrand Russell on how fascism starts: 'First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent.' (Compressed ... full quotation: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/906301)

@dcnorris While I agree with you, this needs to be put in the context of random people reading the comment.

In my experience, most random readers would read the first 15 to 20 words and lose interest.

To gain readership it needs more "punch", which I think the abbreviated version(*) provides

(.*) I didn't write this, I saw it elsewhere. The justification here for the simplification followed by a link to original is mine.

@AstroAndyN I'm not changing the HTML file, so I can't insert randomly changed things in the image name.

CC: @theruran

@AstroAndyN Thank you ... I'll try that when I get access back to the web site. Currently, having followed someone else's suggestion, my access is totally borked.

CC: @theruran

@AstroAndyN OK, access has been restored.

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Cricket

Seems to be working ... thank you!!!

It shouldn't be this hard ...

CC: @theruran

@jtwcornell91 It would also be making sure that England ... their traditional "friend" ... doesn't make it out of the group stage.

But the benefits of manipulating results like this are marginal, uncertain, and almost certainly the payoff absolutely isn't worth it.

With my experience in security-adjacent fields, I can't help but speculate.

@hattom That's a wicket.