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How the universe tells me to take a break: Cleaning my locked #thinkpad keyboard with a wetwipe after which there seems to be some invisible remains left on the fingerprint sensor. These remains are "read" by the sensor as unknown "fingerprints" and lead to three unsuccessful login attempts, which leaves me locked out for three minutes. 🤷 #timeout #coffee

Weltfahrradtag 🚴🏼‍♀️

Heute feiern wir das Fahrrad 🚵🏻‍♀️🌱☀️

Radfahren ist mehr als Sport – es ist Freiheit, Natur und Familienzeit auf zwei Rädern. Und damit der perfekte Ausgleich nach einer stressigen Schulwoche oder vielen politischen Terminen. Mit jedem Tritt wird der Kopf freier und der Horizont weiter ✨

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@wanderinghermit

"Silently die" is commonly caused on Linux by the system OOM killer if the program allocates enough memory to drive the system into an out-of-memory state. Turning off overcommit on the system can be used to confirm this, as it will generally result in the Python program running until a MemoryError exception is thrown, and it will exit with a stacktrace rather than be killed before it can do so. Offhand I don't know what the behaviour on other OSes would be.

The print-prevents-dying thing I have seen before, but only when running programs on a remote machine. If there is no I/O at all happening, a network connection can end up getting reset for various reasons, causing the exit-to-shell behaviour. Adding print statements that happen to get called often enough to prevent this papers over the problem.

If this is the problem, and you're running over SSH, there are SSH options to make the session not die like this - keepalives.

"Take Five" is a #jazzStandard composed by #PaulDesmond. It was first recorded in 1959 and is the third track on #TimeOut by the #DaveBrubeckQuartet. Frequently covered by a variety of artists, the track is the biggest-selling jazz song of all time and a #GrammyHallOfFame inductee. Dave Brubeck was inspired to create an album based on #oddTimeSignatures during his state-sponsored 1958 Eurasia trip. The track was written after the Quartet's drummer, #JoeMorello.
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