@JasonB next time you change your nick please at least use one that is easy to remember :) I'm often searching for duplicates by authors

This is close:

ReadList[StringToStream[
  ExportString[Compress@data, "Package"]], "Byte"]

but export as package is not the same as Put, it add the header and line spacings

ToString on the other hand respects Format rules...

@rcollyer I wanted to make a mesh out of the Mandelbrot set, but of course ImplicitRegion doesn't work. I was only a little miffed, until I tried RegionPlot with the intent to use DiscretizeGraphics afterwards. Then I got annoyed...

If I were an ordinary user who didn't know about NumericQ, I can see why that'd be frustrating.

@Kuba apparently it's a mac-specific issue....

@JasonB Done, but you certainly could stand to be less idiosyncratic about things you need to poke a mod for to change. ;P

man, it's hard being me sometimes. When in a bad mood, I tend to break my own things. In the past I would delete my social media accounts, but I'm older (perhaps a bit more mature) and realize I'll probably regret it so I resist the temptation to go and delete the old posts

also, I partly wanted to have a cool username like Oliver's, but if I chose user22 that would be too obvious of a copycat :-D

@JasonB "the temptation to go and delete the old posts" - that's against the rules, and just not nice, please don't even consider it. :)

Hello! Could anyone please tell me if this bug which crashed macs with sierra and mathematica 11.0 mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/127178/1089 is now supposed to be fully fixed with 11.0.1? This is not what I find so I am wondering if I should ask a new question?

(if you happen to know)

@chris - fwiw, I've been using the 11.1 beta and various Sierra betas (10.12.3 now) on one of my machines (because I am a sucker for punishment?) and it has been quite reliable. I can say that, up until the 11.1 beta (e.g., 11.0.1) the major crashes (rotating some graphics, some typography issues) had been fixed in the sub-point release.

so then I should write a new question pointing out that DensityPlot3D crashes?

(thanks for answering !)

@flip would you know if the pb is specific to mathematica 11 (would 10.4 not cause a crash?)

@chris You didn't warn that it was going to crash the whole OS. Please make a big read bold al in caps warning next time.

@chris But I didn't lose anything critical, so don't worry :)

@chris BTW it's the second time I fell for this. Someone has asked the same question a few months ago and I crashed the machine that time too. But I forgot ...

@Szabolcs Even something as simple as "random triangle" has so many different plausible definitions... maybe I'm just a bit pedantic about it.

@kirma I just wanted to make something that is random and looks comparable to those pictures. I'm still stuck with a random linear combination of spherical harmonics.

Hmmm... :)

@Szabolcs welcome to the club of forgetting things… I write programs more than once forgetting I had already written it before :-)

@again I am sorry for the crash. Since it was mentioned elsewhere on this question that it crashed the mac I assumed it was the standard expectation.

@Kuba - so to get that to work in OS X, you add the option Appearance -> "Framed" to the Inset. (or, strangely, Appearance -> "Frameless")

sorry, not Inset, but InputField

@JasonB good to know, thanks.