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
@Remittancegirl @nacho @cube_drone
I think that's what people mean when they say a city's banning cars: that it's banning vehicles other than ones that are ~necessary.
@LadyDragonfly
TIL that there are more bisexual people than homosexual ones. Is expect the hidden fraction to also be higher amount bisexual people (naively it sounds easier for them not to realize), so this might be a real effect.
@niconiconi 3GB of writes to main memory only, or does that include writes to cache too?
How do you provide a shared clock to them, so as to keep better sync than the sync between SDR's clock and absolute time? (Does the signal serve as that, or do you simply not want that?)
Can I copy over _some_ snapshots only between repositories? https://kopia.io/docs/reference/command-line/common/repository-sync-to-sftp/ seems to allow me to copy _all_ of them but not some.
I use restic currently. I remember that one of the reasons for choosing it over borgbackup was existence of `restic copy` (so that I can make a local backup and copy _that_ offsite, instead of doing separate offsite backups). I think I had some other reason related to some kind of ease of automation, but I can't recall it.
That said, restic's approach to being used as a FUSE filesystem is somewhat frustrating: it takes a lock on the repository and holds it until the FUSE mount is unmounted. That precludes the obvious approach of having all your (local) backups mounted at all times (or at least having a recent snapshot mounted). I don't know if Borg shares this property.
BTW. For tractors the scope of _additional_ risk is usually tiny: if someone is likely to break their tractor in a dangerous way (e.g. by removing covers over revolving elements, or defeating deadman switches), they're IMO likely to also use it in a dangerous way (e.g. by having people ride on an unsuitable part of the tractor).
But, all of that applies to the parts of tractors that TTBOMK owners are not prevented from repairing (IIUC that's mostly the drivetrain and other electronics, right?), which makes attempts to prevent that even weirder.
Exactly. My point is that this is an important property to consider when substituting "chair" in that conversation, and it's useful to note that the cases we care about here are more like "chair" than "gas furnace". Many countries also have different ways of making it legal (if sometimes somewhat onerous) to maintain things that are inbetween on the scale of socialized risk (e.g. requiring an inspection by an electrician after DIY modifications of fixed electrical installation), so even in cases that are close to the gas furnace case one can do something other than outright forbidding it (though IIRC the gas furnace case itself has ~no such exceptions in Poland).
To be fair, if we replaced "chair" with "a gas furnace", in some countries that would be illegal, but the reasons for that don't apply to general purpose computers.
robryk
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#2810 How to Coil a Cable
The ideal mix for maximum competitive cable-coiling energy is one A/V tech, one rock climber, one sailor, and one topologist.
https://xkcd.com/2810/
@sgf There's another potential reason why it might be good: it would add incentives for creation of sock puppet accounts to inflate the counts, which would make admins' lifes harder (because they'd need to deal with a larger quantity of people trying to do things that should count as abuse).
Polish TV used teletext for subtitles, so that required being able to update within seconds. (Wasn't there some delta-encoding scheme there for quicker updates?)
Sure there are; usually the duty of care towards patient, when exercised well, is sufficient to prevent harm from that. I wonder if you see any cases other than shortage when that's not the case.
BTW. Anti-obesity is definitely not aesthetic: standard strategies of reducing obesity decrease all-cause mortality noticeably (I don't know if someone studies effects of _this_ way of decreasing it already.)
Medications that there is a shortage of? (I'm curious whether you'd think the same about any medications that don't have a shortage.)
@foone Deep underwater instead of underground might also be an option.
@foone Or, if the rotation of the planet is really slow, keep the sun-facing hemisphere mostly empty at all times.
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
