robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@bradfitz I'd expect their definition of timeout to imply that they get to do anything without you interfering.

@flameeyes

Amusingly, the way my city rate limits e-waste collection is that they prohibit the use of cars to drop it off for free (you can come on foot, by bike, or by public transit).

@8petros Do you mean a text/graphics-on-paper printer or a 3d printer?

@flameeyes Is it an unattended setup (otherwise I'm confused why identifying oneself to a chap operating it wouldn't also work)? Also, why do they care who's depositing it?

@WhyNotZoidberg @jamiesaker

I meant that I got convinced that they weren't protecting everyone equally (in the meaning of trying equally hard not to deny service to every client), which what I would expect free speech absolutists to do. I guess you are saying that they weren't doing that, right?

@WhyNotZoidberg @jamiesaker

My impression, based IIRC largely on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare#Banning_of_Switter and on the evolution of their statements about kiwifarms, was that they weren't free speech absolutists. I'd be interested to be convinced otherwise.

@mastofact Isn't it closer to worry bacon?

@juglugs

That seems like an approach that has some merit to me. Imagine a country with a corrupt judiciary. In such a country it's sometimes feasible for someone with influence of some sort to cause a single particular person to be convicted of a crime, but causing a large enough targeted fraction of the population to be convicted of crimes is at most feasible over much longer periods of time. So, that serves as a mechanism that should make it easier to get back from the brink of autocracy.

I'm not sure whether the cure is better than the disease in this case.

@sgf @danielellis

Re subtle long-term effects: people were finding correlations between number of (major) infections in one's past life and IQ. Obvious alternate hypothesis that's hard to eliminate: higher IQ causes people to be better at avoiding major infections.

@timmc @anne

Similarly with storks in Poland. Having power poles with a platform-like attachment to give storks a place for a nest is something that's very common and that people think of as natural and a bit mundane.

@whitequark

Nit: s/language/alphabet(?)/

Alas, there are places where I can't imagine where I saw/felt Braille labels and wouldn't know how to place a visual label so that a blind person could find it. For example, labels placed on handrails next to rail carriage entrances that indicate whether/where the toilet is in this carriage and how the carriage is divided between 1st and 2nd class seats. The way they're placed now ~forces you to touch them if you enter the carriage while and use handrails.

@rotnicki @panoptykon

Nie jest tak, że Fedi obsługuje posty w ~dowolnym formacie, oczekując tylko dodatkowo wersji HTML dla interfejsów nieznających danego formatu? v. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-content, https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-mediatype, i https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-summary

To czy Mastodon chce/umie emitować tam cokolwiek ciekawego to inna sprawa, ale raczej umie wyświetlać co najmniej prosty html.

I am visiting my parents for Easter. Before going, I did check that my weird setup for providing disk encryption key to my desktop without anyone physically present works. What I did not verify was whether any of the ssh keys I've taken with me are included in authorized_keys on the desktop ^^*

@dpiponi Precisely; for each entry of that matrix you can conduct an experiment, outcome of which has an expected value equal to that entry.

I think that this is an important observation when trying to map classical and quantum concepts: probability distributions do not map into pure states or into probability distributions over states, but into density matrices. (I emphasize this, because when I first encountered the concept of density matrices that wasn't made very obvious and it was later an epiphany to me that density matrices encode precisely all the information that's available via experiments (on infinite exchangeable sequences of states)).

@davidthewid @tedted

What were those other sensors? (The article mentions a thermometer, "infrared sensor", and 6 unnamed others.)

@marwa w modus ponens

@retr0id

There are two exceptions (that don't apply here) to that rule that I can think of. They both aren't really exceptions, but rather weirdnesses in market value where it can be much lower than the market value it would've had in case of ideal information flow and in the limit of large market.

One is if a product has a new release every season, then old season's release (even if ~identical to the previous) is often deeply discounted. I think it's often caused by people thinking that there is more of a difference between them, which is to the producer's benefit, so they encourage such misconceptions.

The other one is where the market for a particular version is small: then the price of it will be much more volatile. For example, this happens to weird sizes of clothing.

@dpiponi

By impure state I meant a probability distribution over (pure) states. Consider two probability distributions over single-qubit states: one of them uniform (i.e. invariant under any unitary transformation) and the other one assigning probability 1/2 to |0> and to |1>. Any measurement made on these will provide same probability distribution of outcomes, because they have the same density matrix (density matrix is expected value of the projection operator onto the (pure) state, where the expectation ranges over the probability distribution from which the state is drawn).

@dpiponi

There is a small(?) difference that this reasoning makes apparent: in the quantum setting, if you are given an infinite stream of i.i.d.-and-unentangled impure states, you can't estimate the probability distribution they come from. That's because states with the same density matrix provide same distributions on outcomes of any measurements (and the density matrix of the i.i.d. sequence is a function of the density matrix of a single element).

@rysiek

Hm~ I have a somewhat interesting comment for you, which immediately brings up a fiction recommendation in my mind, which is IMO much more interesting than the comment. Sadly, the comment coupled with the recommendation is a significant spoiler, so let me just give you the latter: "Steerswoman" seried by Rosemary Kirstein (warning: unfinished series, but the author's alive) is a fantasy-or-sf series that follows some people who value curiosity very highly. A random review that I think describes the books well: https://escapepod.org/2011/11/19/book-review-the-steerswoman-by-rosemary-kirstein/