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@_thegeoff

It might be interesting to show them that sound bends when speed of sound changes in space, and tell them about the rescue bombs that were once placed on aircraft (they'd explode at some depth if the aircraft sunk, and listening stations around the ocean would triangulate the location of the accident).

@whitequark Doesn't the same apply to the signal you're providing via the external probe?

@whitequark Potentially naive question: why not the other way round (have the IC configure everything as outputs, toggle them at seminrandom, and observe what the probe sees)? Is that not in general possible via JTAG?

@b0rk Unless you could also inherit fds and specify /dev/fd/N there, this would make it harder to avoid race conditions and require replacement of many pipes with named fifos.

@mark ah; nothing around probability distributions talks about finite time. They're at the same abstraction level as (not necessarily comoutable) functions.

@mark it's well formed insofar we've built an abstraction (probability distributions) and declared that this is what picking a random number means.

I think you can make some statements about computability of functions that map between probability distributions, but I don't see how to get around defining some way of picking things axiomatically.

@mark I don't understand what mathematical object you want to prove the existence of.

@mark what do you mean by "choose"? Defining a probability distribution over reals where each interval has nonzero probability doesn't require AoC.

@munin can you give some pointers? A very quick search yielded only articles about grok's behaviour, and I have failed to find anything about them blaming an intern.

@cstross Do not confuse with Rodwell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodriguez_well).

@kravietz

Czy wiesz jak częste jest niepoprawne rozpoznanie braku oddechu?

@oz1lqo

So this is something like half of a 1d waveguide?

Can one cause the extremum of the refraction index to be somewhere in the middle of a column of liquid (perhaps by having two different dissolved substances?)?

@azonenberg I wonder whether people use custom clients that pretend to be WhatsApp on both ends to avoid the great firewall.

@azonenberg Oh, I am surprised to see WhatsApp and Signal treated differently.

@azonenberg

What about Signal? signal-desktop doesn't need periodic reauthentication ttbomk.

@azonenberg I would sometime use ntfy.sh for such things.

@_thegeoff

I didn't read much of Baxter (I recall Voyage/Titan/Moonseed). Is there a point in time when his writing changed, or is it that it was always like that to some extent?

(In case I caused confusion, the two books I mentioned are by Greg Egan and not Baxter. The society described in Clockwork Rocket does contain various malicious parties, but it IMO shows an optimistic view of how society can change.)

@_thegeoff @edavies

posted too soon... Clockwork Rocket takes place in a world where spacetime interval is x^2+y^2+z^2+t^2 and Dichronauts takes place in a world with spacetime interval of x^2+y^2-z^2-t^2