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
Why can stinging nettle sting through clothes, but only if they're wet?
robryk
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Przez chwilę myślałem, że to jakiś nieoficjalny dostęp do danych z aplikacji NERV (heh*), ale wygląda na to, że to jednak zupełnie oficjalne działanie agencji odpowiedzialnej za tą usługę;
www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/…/news134.html
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Wygląda na to, że w sumie prowadzą ponad 230 kont na mastodonie, tak że można precyzyjnie dobrać preferowany typ ostrzeżeń a dodatkowo najważniejsze są podbijane przez wszystkie konta regionalne w zasięgu - sprytne rozwiązanie. Usługę uruchomili w 2017.
*Czy jakaś bardziej japoniofilna osoba może mi wytłumaczyć - czy Japończycy faktycznie nazwali agencję ostrzegającą przed katastrofami za, oraz skopiowali logo/motto agencji konstruującej roboty do obrony ziemi z popularnego anime?
@gws I'm curious what made you think of that gcd of polynomial values about now. A friend has described it to me as a puzzle last week and I wonder if there's a common reason for you both thinking about it nowish.
@freemo What's the door for? If this side is accessible by lorry, this might be a dangerous-but-usable loading dock.
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I know corporations are evil but I'm still quietly impressed at the LEGO group's tax policy (namely - to pay them, make sure to pay them and to acknowledge that taxes are a core part of giving back to society and corporate responsibility). The corporate income tax rate in Denmark is 22%, and 22% is what they pay on their gross profit. The tax policy document is a short but informative read (see link).
Compare this with Google, Amazon and friends, who constantly trumpet their social responsibility but who are somehow only paying a few percentage points of US federal income tax on their own profits.
And yet Lego continues to make generous net profits and has not been taxed into oblivion as conventional thinking in the US would consider inevitable.
https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/aboutus/assets/bltfc621352618d8b90/Tax_Strategy_2023_Final.pdf
I don't know if anything changed in that area, but in the past you could disable that completely via "enterprise policy". See https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates for a terse description. E.g. NixOS sets "DisableAppUpdate" for FF built by its build system.
@delroth I don't know how hot the chips are now, but maybe making it hotter and seeing if the problem appears more often might help?
I've reported a "your bug creation ACL is broken" bug (via some creative means) multiple times at work. :)
@delroth Where do people who work on it (e.g. add buildings) stand while doing so, so that they don't damage the model?
@tek Also, in a different way, transactions are not resistant to censorship by a sufficiently large fraction of mining pool/stake pool/set of nodes that do consensus. I suspect something along these lines is a necessary property in a system that doesn't treat any nodes specially.
Before looking at the photos I thought this was something along the lines of the Swift Rifle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCJoGyiqbw)...
@freemo What is baby talk? I thought it referred to the way people modify pronunciation (and continue to speak using standard grammar, obviously using rather simple words) when speaking to young children.
What's roughly the variance of energy expenditure depending on whether one is actively thinking or not?
Two other IMO important properties of this setup is that insurances are required to offer basically the same thing: they have some leeway in requiring one to jump through some hoops before visiting a doctor, but then there is no concept of a "network" of doctors, nor can insurances have any exclusions for preexisting conditions (I gather that post ObamaCare this is also true in the USA?).
/* either of you: please feel very free to tell me to butt out */
If you're thinking about a temporary situation, then covering accessible pieces of south side elevation with aluminum foil might be helpful.
Even if wet bulb temperature outside is high, it might still be lower than the temperature of e.g. the roof, so if water is available in large quantities one could try evaporating it off the roof.
I wonder if there's an easy and relatively quick way to increase heat capacity of a building (filling something with water? I can't think of a way to get enough volume that can be filled with water to make that reasonably effective).
How much does gas infrastructure depend on the power grid?
@vivtek @nickspacek @futurebird
Also: Is it enough for the compressor itself to reliably start (as in, not stall)?
@Dianora It has advantages though: it's easier to clean and the interface is liquidproof.
OT: I'm amused by the hashtag, because it has a completely different meaning in German (bathroom design).
Re testing: why isn't nix-shell strictly better?
Re lack of home-manager: well, you can always add your stuff to `environment.systemPackages`~~~
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
