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
@vidister How strongly does this rely on the host (a) not doing something silly like flooding the interface with outgoing packets (b) not messing up the NICs configuration in some standard way (c) not doing things that are unlikely to happen by accident but if they happen will mess up the BMCs connection?
> OF COURSE the reason that worldwide labour markets are tight is that so many people were died or disabled from COVID!!!!
How would you convince yourself either way and what would you use to estimate the effect size?
I'm somewhat lazy here, but I'm a little tired of trying to look at labor statistics, given the many pitfalls I've found when I looked at them some time ago (starting from weird definitions of jobless, going through having to remember about various seasonalities, ending at effects related to some kinds of work counting or not depending on particulars with those particulars only changing over time[1]), so I want to piggyback of someone going through at-least-half of the exercise of finding sources and associated pitfalls if at all possible.
> I hate everything. Because I doubt anyone works anywhere where one of the reasons a few of their colleagues aren't there or can't work as much ISN'T COVID at this point.
Anecdotally, in my case the largest reason for that over the last years is that they simply quit for reasons not directly related.
[1] e.g. childcare, where "family does the work" is never counted and the amount of tax fraud will change over time and affect how much of that is actually counted
I really wonder what would be the public reaction thereabouts to a similar statement about religion.
@sugarbell
I don't get why you expect any difference there. If a color is less in demand, it's less likely to be trendy now, and there would be fewer shops stocking it in that alternative reality.
@sugarbell Why would they coordinate between themselves? In absence of color trends, they would be happy picking independently (and maybe changing it later on if they ended up colliding, because a collision implies an underserved niche somewhere else).
Good point about secondhand, but secondhand is anyway delayed enough that trends have changed a few times, no?
cosmetic surgeries
> A clothing store only has so much space to sell things, so they cannot possibly sell every possible colour and shape you could possibly want. So of course there will be trending colours so that clothing stores will know what to prioritise. So if you're looking for a specific colour that is not a neutral one, you only need to check if it's currently trendy or not, instead of going through 10 different stores and being frustrated afterwards.
Huh? The obvious alternative is for each store to pick non-standard colors they stock and announce them very visibly. If you cared about colors, you could then go to the appropriate store(s) and save on the frustration.
@rysiek That seems to be the curse of all Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet: they don't get transliterated, but the pronunciation is incompatible with English.
Now that I think of it, the same's the case for German. Do we know of some German-sourced names that got the same treatment for "j"?
@ellie Direction of compression and of phaser do not really match with each other. (And depicting both requires, I think, 3d.)
@dchest Oh, ok, then I agree that the per-cpu-core thing is bonkers. (I thought that per-view would be too difficult to audit and people were being inventive while trying to find some more auditable proxy.)
The excluded middle appeal was granted! (https://efile.dcappeals.gov/public/caseView.do?csIID=63269)
I have no clue what the 2 year pause was about, why the appeal was granted as a result of the _appellee's_ motion to (seemingly) "get on with it" (i.e. why the appellant didn't care to file a similar motion way earlier), or when/under what case number the Superior Court will pick the case back up. The original case is marked as "closed" in the Superior Court.
At the same time: the lack of consequence in case numbers is grating (DC Superior Court uses spaces as separators, other courts replace them with dashes, and the DC Superior Court's lookup thingy doesn't understand those; the lookup thingy also deals in some broken way with parties with a middle name *and* the lookup thingy doesn't ever provide people with stable URLs for anything...).
@eta I've tried reproducing, but the layouts I've seen that actually have double-berth platforms are too complicated for me without automatic code insertion, and ACI might be doing all sorts of abnormal magic.
Consider the most convenient world in which the bond is actually verifiably true and verifiably used at most once.
In that world we'd still heavily object to such replacements. One reason for that is that being able to kill _a person of your choice_ is a very potent way to do blackmail and thus get others to do your bidding.
So, let's consider the case where the killer can kill a person chosen uniformly at random. At this point I'm unable to argue convincingly in either direction without employing dirty eristics.
@BartoszMilewski IIUC you are saying something similar to "everything interacts with everything else, because interactions have no upper distance limit". Am I getting it wrong?
@eta Only a vague recollection from simsig.
@eta Why are there two berths there? For splitting and merging?
I was under the impression that in such two-berth segments you don't need to care which berth the singular traincode is in -- as long as the other one is empty, we any motion will move the code from the nonempty one. Am I totally wrong, or does that depend on which signaling equipment are we talking about precisely?
That doesn't avoid most of the surprises:
- adding lots of small values is still tricky,
- still ~nothing is associative,
- still 1.0/3.0 + 1.0/3.0 + 1.0/3.0 != 1.0,
...
The only one it seems to avoid is that numbers entered as decimal fractions are represented precisely. However, that is, arguably, harmful: it makes it less apparent than other numbers are not, and encourages doing things in a way that relies on some outputs being exact.
@eta The phrasing also seems to be that it's only "consumption" that's forbidden, so I guess if someone opened a bottle of cider a bit earlier, they are now expected to sit with the opened cider bottle until the train passes the stretch without drinking it, and the security people are expected to pay attention to whether the cider is actually being drunk?
From similar weird partial-route prohibitions, S10 in Zürich (a commuter-type train, ~10km long route) has a 3-station-long interval where bikes cannot be carried on the train. (The reason there was to reduce the amount of downhill bike riders in the area.)
@neil Sure, but the non-joke part is actually true (props for including only things that are obviously a joke or obviously true) and so some people might be learning from your posts contrary to the intent :P.
@dchest I think that this is an attempt at finding a proxy for number of people who are viewing the site/number of person-minutes viewing the site. It's obviously somewhat poor in the original world and very trivially manipulated. However, I don't really have a good idea of a better proxy that would not be unprovably falsifiable.
It's useful to know that at least Mastodon has a user-controlled setting for the robots tag on one's profile and post pages. NoIndex in profile will have no meaning to web indexers, so it ~always makes sense to combine it with that.
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
