Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Joined Sep 2018
I don't know it's a misunderstanding as much as just a carelessness or lack of rigour with the vector math (mixing observers without accounting for time dilation when adding velocities leads to errors at relativistic speeds). The sum of the velocity of B as observed from A and the velocity of C as observed from B is not necessarily the velocity of C as observed from A.
> All that matters is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light relative to me the observer.
More generally, since this is true for all observers:
> All that matters is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light relative to *any* observer.
Which is exactly what is meant by saying the speed of light is a "universal speed limit".
@awethon It's technically incorrect, but common in casual speech. "Used to do so" is the more formal or proper equivalent, which contains the full infinitive.
@awethon It's correct, but maybe a bit awkward having so many forms of "use" in one sentence. Some possible changes for a more natural sound:
"I have not" -> "I haven't" (US) or "I've not" (UK)
"used to use it" -> "used to" (casual) or "used to do so" (formal)
@lucifargundam You generally can't do that in the USA; federal law prohibits putting anything in a mailbox unless you pay postage. However, the restriction does not apply to mail *slots* that feed directly into the building.
@Absinthe Hey! Good to see you back again
Hi @muamarfatih, welcome to QOTO! @freemo, @arteteco, @Sphinx, and I are the current moderators here. You haven't posted yet, and I'd just like to make sure your account is run by a real person, rather than an automated spambot. Would you please tell us a bit about yourself?
@blinkwarp use the googlebot user agent instead.
@freemo Looks like you resolved this. For future reference though, I can read/write French okay; I just can't understand it by ear.
Lots of celebratory gunfire mixed in with the fireworks this year. I'm sandwiched between office buildings to the east and a pretty expensive residential area to the west, so I wouldn't have expected that much shooting around here. But I'd guess I've heard upwards of a hundred rounds fired just now, maybe two hundred.
@freemo Reminds me of an old xkcd punchline: You don't use science to show that you're right; you use science to become right.
@freemo "I'd rather you agreed with me than were well informed, so I'll only tell you the facts that support my position. That way you can feel like you came to your own conclusion based on the facts, but you really just believe what I want you to."
@freemo Thanks for keeping the lights on around here! I'll continue to do my best
@nanko Here's one I've been kicking around but probably won't get to this winter. There's a musical ornament set called Santa's Marching Band - see the link below. These can be had used pretty cheaply, but they only play a preprogrammed set of carols, which gets mighty old over an extended advent/holiday season. So the idea is to gut the controller box and replace its contents with an Arduino that reads a simple MIDI file and gives the bellringers the appropriate commands to play it.
@gawrsh ooh that does look nice, but... 100USD/mo/line? You can get five lines for that money. Hard to justify the cost just to give the metaphorical finger to snoops.
You may be interested in this previous conversation on the topic: https://qoto.org/@alex_/103263224293042663
@lhackworth Thanks! Looked it up, and that's the contact email for each instance, not the registration email for the user. So if you see unusual traffic in your logs, you can send an email to the responsible admin. It basically saves you the trouble of figuring out which instance made the request (reverse DNS may be ambiguous if the IP address hosts multiple instances), going to that site, and finding the contact info for the admin.
@lhackworth Where do emails appear in the log? Some kind of cookie or header?
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