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
@cristiioan I don't have an answer to your question, but want to make sure you're aware of this prior art (possible competition? :)): https://proxysto.re/en/index.html
@AgathaSorceress My sense of figurative smell would agree with all your examples (with the caveat that I didn't know that kibana exists 5 minutes ago) except for tailscale. I'm curious why we disagree there; from me POV the most enterprisey thing tailscale does is force you to use one of the 3 blessed identity providers. The thing that makes me think of them as less enterprisey is that they advertise their service as providing simple semantics of "you can authenticate users by passing their IP address to this endpoint". Do you see some properties that I fail to see (or to have mentioned) that are important, or is it a question of weighting?
@AgathaSorceress If you want to containerize things without all this cruft, you might wish to take a look at bubblewrap. It just accepts a description of how the container should look like as a (long) commandline.
Last I used it (disclaimer: long ago), there was literally no way to pull an image by hash, or even to verify that an image has a particular digest. The only way not to trust the image store was to use signing, which is kinda weird if you _already_ have a way to pass something from the build process to the machine that will use the software in a trustworthy fashion.
I'm not sure if that would count as a Strong Criticism. I would tend towards yes, because apart from the direct issues caused by that it makes one doubt the way the software gets designed (it really smells of someone implementing a "we must have signing" requirement).
Regarding machines that are turned on for a single "cycle" (like dishwashers): the way I schedule my dishwasher with a mechanical sequencer is that I switch the power off, set the sequencer in the "start" position and cause power to be reapplied at the time I want it to start. This suggests that another desirable property is that the state of the device is preserved across power failures.
BTW. "Cycle complete" notifications can be had by observing power draw. I haven't implemented that for my dishwasher, but am pretty sure it would be reliable (mostly due to the heater used for drying at the end).
@mew@eldritch.cafe @niconiconi I was once surprised how much longer cats are when unconscious (our vet would ask owners to hold the cat while beginning to anestethize them for surgery, to make the whole thing less scary for the cat).
@niconiconi To be fair, "service module can collide with the reentry vehicle" is a problem even if it's low probability, and it wasn't too uncommon in the past.
In Apollo the SM would, after separation, fire thrusters to spin (for stabilization) and thrusters facing the CM (to move away). During Apollo 11 the crew saw the SM through the window going in a weird direction way after separation. It turns out that propellant slosh during those thruster firing caused it to essentially reverse direction over a few minutes. See https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37047/how-did-sloshing-prevent-the-apollo-service-module-from-moving-safely-away-from
The thing I find most crazy in that situation is that it was found out only because Apollo 11 astronauts noticed the SM through a window.
I don't know how similar this situation was (both in mechanism and in probability of collision).
@maris I would expect that you can often recover the text from exact word lengths, because there's lots of mutual information between subsequent words.
codzienne wycie syren
@rogatywieszcz Czy częstotliwość się zwiększyła ponaddwukrotnie?
Jeśli nie, to może to jest remont w jakiejś remizie/stacji, który powoduje większy wykorzystanie innych, które są bliżej Ciebie?
@_ Would you assign the same meaning to pride outside of the US?
> This option has no effect when --parallel is used.
This sounds like a recipe for an outage. Wouldn't it be better to outright fail if both are specified?
> Primarily because you then ask for the transfers to happen simultaneously and we have not figured out how this option should affect such transfers!
I'd naively expect it to mean "at most N transfers are started within each unit U of time". Is there another reasonable interpretation?
Eh, wyraziłem się nieprecyzyjnie. Chciałem zapytać o to, czy twoim zdaniem niesprawiedliwość jest użyteczna podczas definiowania tego, w jakim świecie chcielibyśmy żyć. Jasne, że jest to użyteczne pojęcie gdy opisujesz zachowania ludzi.
@efi I think it's the only game ever made with such graphics. It's sad that the sequel did not materialize.
@rdarmila Czy uważasz, że niesprawiedliwość jest użytecznym pojęciem? (Np. czy jest sens rozważać sprawiedliwość jakichś rozwiązań, zamiast np. średniego wpływu na ludzi, jak one wpłyną na zachowania ludzi, i jak te zmienione zachowania wpłyną na średni wpływ?)
@efi The Last Express has a very good retry-once-you've-lost system: you are always placed back at a reasonable point in time (i.e. so that you can avoid losing in this way). It doesn't mean that you can get the best ending from that restore, but it still felt very nonfrustrating.
@unascribed It's kind of funny that we think of water as this totally safe substance. It's a very potent polar solvent, the only reason it's not dangerous is that it's ubiquitous so evolution made us able to tolerate it.
Pe Lang has a temporary exhibition in Paris (in https://www.deniserene.fr/) until ~first week of July: https://bibliogram.art/p/Cdf2MDjseRm
Pe Lang makes artifacts that, for me, show some nonobvious or obvious-but-often-overlooked physical property. https://www.pelang.ch/works.html has some examples (but even not the ones I liked most when I saw his exhibition in, sadly defunct, museum of digital art in Zürich).
@ajroach42 What do you think about Tasker the Android app? (https://tasker.joaoapps.com/, which provides example usage)
It seems that mastodon does server-level blocking ("suspension") of other servers in a way that appears as if it considered all the signatures from that server invalid. Thus, it seems that we can test whether Mastodon server A suspends server B by sending it any public object from B and seeing what the result will be.
That should be non-disruptive, accurate _for Mastodon servers_, and cheap, so it could probably be used to archive the history of suspension graph.
Thoughts on desirability?
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
