robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@rysiek @jai_oh

For background, the guide for search result raters can be found at https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf (it's totally public, linked from e.g. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9281931?hl=en)

@rysiek @jai_oh

Seems to be from https://www.businessinsider.com/google-search-contractors-testing-chatbot-ai-race-chatgpt-2023-3

@ninawillburger Do we know how they were made? (I'm curious whether the ridges were added at high temperature, the space between them emptied at high temperature, or the space between them emptied at low temperature.)

@biffvernon Also, this wasn't the case in Switzerland a few decades ago and improved by explicit efforts with exactly that goal. A random article in English on the topic: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/wastewater_bathing-prohibited-in-switzerland-definitely-a-thing-of-the-past/43296836

@rogatywieszcz

Nie mam jednej (ani nawet kilku) ulubionych książek z dzieciństwa. Losowy podzbiór (trochę zbiasowany w stronę niefikcji) książek, które lubiłem, nadal pamiętam, i o wielu z nich podejrzewam, że miały niepomijalny wpływ na mnie:

"Lilavati" Jeleńskiego
Różne powieści Verne'a (pewnie powieści Hala Clementa też by mi się podobały w podobnym wieku, gdybym je wtedy znalazł)
"Jak myśleć logicznie" Ruchlisa
Pewien podręcznik do Quick Basica, którego autora nie pomnę.
"Zabić Drozda" Lee
Różne książki wydawnictwa Dorling Kindersley (mieli wiele różnych serii książek o jakiś urządzeniach, albo innych kawałkach świata, zwykle bardzo wizualne)
"Dzieje świecy"
"Może dobrze, może źle" Barkera (z perspektywy czasu widzę, że to jest dalece nieidealne, ale mimo to imo godne polecenia)
"Rozmowy ze zwierzętami" Lorenza
"Genetyka w obrazkach"

@isomer Doesn't this just at worst delay your collection of timestamps, as long as you have an uninterrupted stream of packets being sent? (I'm not sure what you want to use this for, and so whether that's no inconvenience, some inconvenience, or an insurmountable problem.)

@biffvernon

Nit: Inside the city of Zürich there are 4 public baths _in Limmat_ (and 5 more in the lake from which the river flows). https://badi-info.ch doesn't mention any baths on Limmar outside of the city (though there surely are unofficial beaches there and there's lots of people floating downriver on inflatable unicorns in the summer).

BTW. Swimming in the spot depicted on the photo is usually forbidden (due to existence of boat traffic and various places where collisions would be hard to sufficiently surely avoid); the photo was taken during a once-a-year event that involves forbidding boat traffic from using that part of the river for a change.

@rysiek Also, I'm somewhat conflicted about what social contracts I'd want around defining things.

On one hand, being explicitly imprecise has value. This is ~always part of figuring out what precise statements are true.

On another, being imprecise trashes modus ponens (because you end up doing the logical implication equivalent of the game of telephone).

An obvious contract that seems to satisfy both is to expect everyone to be explicit when they are imprecise. However, a failure mode of that is that people often don't want to bother being precise and this doesn't create ~any incentives not to be imprecise all the time.

@rysiek It sounds like you are describing an example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy (I mention this because knowing names for things is sometimes useful, like in that old joke/anecdote about flowers that are more easily recognized if one can name them.)

@sargent Isn't gumroad such a tool?

@HerraBRE I once managed to cause a leak just next to the valve. I suspect that I inserted the valve not perpendicularly enough and the force from the nut that forced it perpendicular was causing it to rub against some part of the wheel there.

@SwiftOnSecurity

Is the BIOS serial number related to the machine's MAC address?

@HerraBRE The problem is solved unless all this manipulation actually added a leak to the tube :)

@bagder So the next one is going to be Klapaucjusz? :)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad#Trurl_and_Klapaucius)

@bradfitz You can also use Nix to generate a VM image. If you have (or want to have) Nix available somewhere outside of that VM that is likely simpler than going through installation.

@lambdatotoro @uriel @juglugs

I'm confused by the lack of any explicit statement about fish there. Is the weird understanding of "meat is forbidden, unless it's meat of a fish" something that local episcopal conferences promulgate?

@gingerrroot Do you have any guesses why? (On the first glance, I'd expect that they were using a library of composable parts of characters (doing something different for PC and NPCs seems like something that would require more work for <=little benefit), so someone would have had to go out of their way to choose some hairstyles for character creation instead of listing them all. This sounds like something that requires strictly more work, so I'd expect that fellow to have some reason (not necessarily a reasonable one) to do so.)

Haven't found an answer I'd be satisfied with. The simplest way I know of right now is picking a random high density parity code (with the downside of the necessity for randomness in the code's construction and high but still polynomial time complexity of decoding).

@jaysonmassey

I was under the impression (will look later for corroboration) that poor grammar in phishing serves as a filter: phishers don't want to waste their time on people who won't get duped, so in an attempt to filter those people out early they send initial e-mails that will look suspicious to those people. If that's true, then the most obvious way to interpret the reason from that article doesn't apply. However, there might be some more involved reasons: e.g. if text generators make interaction with the potential victim cheaper, the reason for the filter's existence might disappear.