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He's also a HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross
He'll block you on twitter for politely quibbling with his presentation of facts.
https://twitter.com/maxerickson/status/685506107695972352
Anyone with that many followers is likely going to disengage with low-effort replies of that nature. It adds nothing of consequence to the lengthy post it is correcting.
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He'll block you on twitter for politely quibbling with his presentation of facts.
That may be a bit harsh, but nobody owes you a conversation and people with a ton of followers have to do something to manage the SNR. It's not obvious what the right answer is, and almost anything you do will have false positives.
I can see hitting mute on accounts that make uninteresting comments, I'm not sure why you'd block someone that comments on ~1 tweet and isn't being persistent or otherwise antagonistic (I suppose it can be better curation to block).
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He'll block you on twitter for politely quibbling with his presentation of facts.
This? https://twitter.com/maxerickson/status/685506107695972352 Anyone with that many followers is likely going to disengage with low-effort replies of that nature. It adds nothing of consequence to the lengthy post it is correcting.
And I learned something about his concern over accuracy. For instance, reddit hasn't quite lived in the shadow of Conde Nast in the meantime.
Asking because I have no idea - Will other mRNA vaccines have short-lived efficacy like the covid one does? Will you need an AIDS vaccine booster every six months?
Regarding spacex in this, my starlink terminal recently hit a milestone of 0.00% ICMP loss to terrestrial ISP things in the pacific northwest. Averaged over 5, 6 hour periods. 20 icmp pings every 60s, basically a default smokeping install set to once a minute. Previously it was running somewhere around 0.15% to 0.60% which was still totally usable... if you put a similar test setup on a noisy/oversubscribed coaxial c…
Last time I checked, there were dozens of commercial satellite ISPs ramping up their launches. Do these companies have a plan to deal with potential collisions and the potential space debris that would cause?
oneweb is just now becoming barely usable above 55 degrees north latitude. they have a lot of launches to go before it's anything like a real network (and will not be for individual end user CPEs, a oneweb terminal is much bigger and more costly). other things like telesat LEO network remain in the land of vaporware, same as with amazon's.
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He'll block you on twitter for politely quibbling with his presentation of facts.
'I am forever advising people, "Why hit Reply when the Block button is right there?"' - jwz
https://twitter.com/mrfilmkritik/status/995446576536530944
> When someone disagrees with you online & demands you prove your point to their satisfaction by writing a logically sound defense, u can save a lot of time by not doing that.
> Dude, I’ve known u for ten seconds & enjoyed none of them, I’m not taking homework assignments from you.
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I don't really understand your tone. I think you are mocking me, but I'm not sure why you think you have the necessary context to do that in an effective way.
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This? https://twitter.com/maxerickson/status/685506107695972352 Anyone with that many followers is likely going to disengage with low-effort replies of that nature. It adds nothing of consequence to the lengthy post it is correcting.
Mute though. And I learned something about his concern over accuracy. For instance, reddit hasn't quite lived in the shadow of Conde Nast in the meantime.
Should be be worried that the author of Accelerando complains about things going too fast? Future is complex, and not only "good" developments happens and start changing everything faster than ever before, bad ones does too. And we aren't rational enough to avoid the bad ones. Anyway, I'm more worried about the consequences of climate change that are not the slow rise of the global sea level than about COVID. That is…
that depends, have you recently received any Signal messages from lobsters representing the moscow windows NT user group?
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He'll block you on twitter for politely quibbling with his presentation of facts.
Is there a deeper meaning to take from this? Some people block anyone negative on Twitter. He's free to use the platform as he pleases, I see no reason why someone should feel obligated to have or present an externally valid reason for blocking others.
Personally, strongly curating something like Twitter with all the tools they give you is pretty much the only way to keep somewhat high quality of conversation.