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@hspmauli@troet.cafe

Wie anders kann man zu viel Macht definieren? Ich denke, dass zu viel Macht ist genau die Menge vom Macht, bei der es missbraucht wird.

@glyph

Aside, do you know of other interesting approaches to having an editor-like interface to shell? I know of shell buffers in emacs and of the plan9's acme's default actions, and am curious if some other models exist.

@glyph

> surely nobody would write a program with *bugs* in it, everything should be programmable all the time

I don't see the reasoning. I would agree that everything would be better off being more programmable, but don't see how average(?) bugginess of programs can be part of an argument for/against that. Could you elaborate?

@mhoye

That one of them is voluntary and the other is not. I fail to see the connection.

@mekkaokereke I thought that typically speedy trial statutes require that, upon defendant's request, trial will start within 6 months. Wikipedia claims that NY (I assume state of NY) has such a statute. Is it something that cannot be relied upon?

@mhoye What's the difference between keeping secrets and choosing what and when to reveal?

Mastodon meta 

@simon

Note that replies are _usually_ sent to original post's followers, too.

(If you want to see how various Mastodon concepts (e.g. public vs unlisted) translate into ActivityPub concepts (e.g. `to` and `cc` lists), append `.json` to a post's URL and look at the ActivityPub object shown.)

Mastodon meta 

@simon

It's not a given that their server has all the replies, either. (ActivityPub doesn't really have the concept of a thread being "owned" by someinstance; it's much more similar to an e-mail thread that consists of messages that happen to reference older ones' IDs, but then can be sent wherever.)

@isomer On an absolute scale, is it louder than a small portable generator? (I wouldn't describe that as making massive amounts of noise and am slightly surprised at a small two-stroke engine that is louder than that.)

@erictopol

Note that the dispersion (be aware of vertical logscale) can be seen on the figure, which might somewhat alleviate concerns about very sparse reporting about time-since-last-dose (only extremes are reported, not even average).

I'm also somewhat sad about lack of any demographic information about participants~

@jonny @djsundog

I'd like to be able to send a non-public boost. I'd also like to be able to send a message that's public but not `to` my followers. Both of these are valid ActivityStreams messages, but Mastodon doesn't allow me to emit them.

@tqbf

It seems natural to assume that the after-the-fact evaluation is better (because it doesn't suffer from halo bias). How could we test that though (and how would we define "better")?

@elhotzo

Nicht genau dieselbe, aber âhnlich:

> Der Name rührt daher, weil gemäss Ratsbeschluss vom 11. März 1525 nach der Tagundnachtgleiche Ende März die zweitgrösste Glocke des Grossmünsters abends um 6 Uhr den für das Sommerhalbjahr gültigen Feierabend verkündete; im Winterhalbjahr war Arbeitsschluss abends um 5 Uhr.

-- de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sechsel%

eurocentrism, linguistics 

@schratze Did you find any sources that look at a wider range of languages?

@landley @cstross

Hm. That leaves me confused about how that's a flow battery. It seems to work by depositing ions on plate electrodes, so it should have all the issues of batteries with plate electrodes: electrode size (not volume of electrolyte) limits capacity, electrodes' surface area matters so their erosion matters.

Do you know what prevents the electrodes from getting reshaped into something with much smaller surface area over time?

@landley @cstross

Ah, it was in a side thread. I should finally find a reasonable way to view branching conversations here~~

@landley @cstross

No. I can't see it either upthread or on your profile page here. Could you link to it?

@landley @cstross

I am not trying to answer the question of "is this outright fraud". I want to understand what are the most challenging parts of that without having to (try to) figure that out myself.

@landley @cstross

It might count for what I asked for, but not for what I meant: I wanted an independent source. Sorry for being imprecise.

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