robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
@freemo Sweat also contains ammonia.
Do you know how fast the reaction is? Would one typically expect most of ammonia to leave the pool by evaporation or by this reaction?
@lucifargundam @freemo You need to ensure that the hdd-noise-simulator does still work if the machine is stalled (e.g. thrashing).
Some very old machines had a "computer activity" light that would be extinguished by the idle cpu handler (and switched back on when the idle handler exited).
On that note, don't modem machines still have an HDD activity light? Mine does.
discussion related to child abuse
The thing that surprises me about the coverage of Apple's new child abuse photo detection thingy is that it appears to me that it might be counterproductive from the POV of protecting children against abuse. The mechanism is intended to detect _known_ child abuse photos and is publicized. If I wanted to have access to child abuse photos, knowing about this mechanism would make me try to acquire photos that are not well known, or that are very recently taken. So, assuming rational behaviour, this shifts the demand from photos of child abuse to new and unpopular photos of child abuse, which increases the amount of child abuse happening (assuming there's some market with enough information sharing to have sane supply/demand dynamics).
Is this reasoning incorrect somewhere? Is everyone (else) practicing the virtue of silence on this topic, given that the effect is magnified by public discussion thereof?
My personal approach (which I don't consider to be the sane approach, or maybe even a sane approach) is that I want to learn a language either because I want to speak it with people (or read it), or because it's inherently interesting in some way -- for me that boils down to interesting grammar or word formation. So, if I wanted to learn a language now for reasons of curiosity, I'd have a few candidates ahead of Esperanto. From the ones I'm aware of: Lojban (due to unambiguity and very LEGO-like word formation), UNLWS (because it has so little in common with all the other languages), Japanese (because it appears to be extraordinarily compositional for a natural language).
Once again: my approach might be weird in many ways, and it's nice that we have people who generate internal enthusiasm in a large variety of different ways.
@IceWolf You'll still only get bit-exact reproducibility using the exact same binary (maybe even on the same hardware and with same libc), but that might be good enough for you. Many floating point operations (libc functions, instructions, ...) are defined to return a result with some accuracy, and they can choose any value within that range.
Jeśli ta strona zawiera informacje, które zmieniają się w czasie rzeczywistym (wiadomości od innych w czymś chato-podobnym, aktualne wartości z czujników w stacji meteo, ...). Również, jeśli strona składa się z wielu kawałków, których stan chcemy zachować gdy aktualizujemy inne (np. formularz, w którym jedno pole potrzebuje jakiegoś hierarchcznego wyboru lub ma wyszukiwarkę w bardzo długiej liście; albo mapa, która ma boczny panel z szczegółami dotyczącymi zaznaczonego na niej elementu oraz np. filtr do wybierania które rodzaje elementów będą widoczne).
Hotwire wygląda ciekawie. Dzięki! Przeglądnąłem dokumentację i brakuje mi w nim dwu rzeczy. Ciekaw jestem, czy (a) ich nie ma (b) zbyt pobieżnie czytałem dokumentację, czy może (c) chciałbym tego używać w bardzo dziwny sposób.
Po pierwsze, niezależnie od tego, którego mechanizmu przeładowywania używam (wyjąwszy Streams), muszę sam zdecydować, który kawałek strony jest przeładowywany. Jak już jest przeładowywany, to wszystkie np. wypełnione pola formularza tam są czyszczone. Nie mogę więc zbytnio wprost przenieść czegoś zaprojektowanego pod React; muszę zawsze mieć jakiś spójny kawałek DOMa, który jest "odświeżany". Czy to jest coś z czym należy po prostu żyć, czy jest jakiś sposób na dostanie podobnego półmagicznego zachowania jak to, które daje np. React?
W Hotwire Streams bardzo nie wiem, jak radzić sobie (albo nawet zauważyć) zerwane połączenie po WebSocketach (lub SSE). Najchętniej miałbym jakiś mechanizm, w którym wiadomości z kolejnymi aktualizacjami przesyłają jakiś tag, i tag z ostatniej odebranej wiadomości jest podawany przy próbie wznowienia połączenia. Czy tego powinno się używać jakoś zupełnie inaczej?
@timorl Which part of its semantics and what do you usually want to do instead? (And what would you prefer something-like-? to do instead?)
robryk
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"Our ship must seem primitive to you who have been spacefaring for millennia."
"Not at all," the Frinx ambassador said, "we find it very clever. Especially that reality evacuation facility. We have not seen anything like that before."
"Reality evac- Oh! You mean the library?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
@micahflee I've never used weblate and find it very hard to get enough context for a string to translate it (even the basic things like whether this is supposed to be a noun or an adjective form, or how should a noun phrase be declinated). Is there a way to get linked to the source line that uses the string from weblate?
@kuba Wydaje mi się, że lepszym argumentem przeciw wysyłaniu strony, która się wyświetli bez JSa, jest "i tak chcemy dynamicznie aktualizować tę stronę, więc nie twórzmy dwóch metod tłumaczenia zawartości na HTML".
Oczywiście można odświeżać kawałki strony poprzez dociąganie ich w postaci HTMLa, ale nie wiem jak to łatwo zrobić bez np. resetowania pól tekstowych formularzy, które się na nich znajdują. Znasz może bibliotekę JSową (albo zupełnie inną metodę takiego odświeżania), która by robiła to w sposób unikający tych problemów?
gender
@noctiluca Stephanie Coontz's "Marriage, a History" (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7641298M/Marriage_a_History) was the book that showed me that virtually all the societal properties of gender and marriage-like relationships I thought were universal aren't.
BTW. I don't have secondary sources for things I've learnt from that book, so I'd appreciate any opinions on its accuracy.
robryk
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"Installation: we recommend that you use Docker."
what I'm supposed to see: "hey, it's a simple one-liner! Such clean install, much wow."
what I actually see: "we couldn't figure out how to install this thing on anything but our own machine, but hey, here is a well-compressed image of our entire disk, use this instead so that we can stop trying"
> Then Sci-Fi as a genre would be dead in the water if they had to adhere to physical reality.
I beg to differ. Most of Hal Clements novels and short stories happen in a world with our physics (with some actual mistakes once in a while). Many of Greg Egan's novels and short stories also happen in world with unchanged physics (though not the most well known ones). Also Martian-the-novel had few (2?) purposeful departures from reality.
Why do you think they must've known it's not natural (and what do you mean by natural)?
robryk
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**Interesting fact of the day**: While Native Americans never developed the metallurgical knowledge to create steel and iron themselves they did in fact have steel and iron tools long before contact with Europeans.
What happened was drift iron, from asian ship wrecks, due to the current, would often wash ashore along the American north wast. This would take the form of nails or other iron pieces embedded in wood (thus being capable of floating. Native Americans had no idea where this iron was coming from or how it was made, but they did recognize its superior quality as a metal compared to the sorts of metals they typically had access to. As such the Native Americans in the north west would typically harvest this iron and forge it into tools.
To me this is just so extraordinary because they had no contact with outside peoples at this point and had no idea anyone existing out there across the ocean. Yet they kept finding this odd metal they had never seen and must have known it wasnt natural as it was shaped into a nail or a winch or something. So I can only imagine the fantasies they came up with about where it was really coming from, especially considering that it was far stronger and could be made far sharper than any metal they had ever seen. It must have seen magickal to them.
@trinsec Not necessarily. It's probable that I just had a nonmatching preconception.
@trinsec The match?
@trinsec I think I have trouble parsing. By "lit up" do you mean illuminated (presumably by the light from my match)? Or maybe do you mean that the light from that objects reaches my eyes?
Forgot to ask: Do you have similarly confusing riddles (maybe about something other than physics)? I would love to hear some.
robryk
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This whole Internet thing seems to be going peer-shaped.
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
