robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@matthew_d_green The whole point of compressing images is that your phone receives fewer bytes. If we didn't care how many bytes it receives we'd do exactly what you said with some format equivalent to PNM.

@LukaszOlejnik The existence of permanently off-limits areas is amusing. (IIRC some part of beam dump infrastructure is like that.)

@freemo @JonKramer @Free_Idealist @pyranose @georgetakei

It doesn't seem to be about boundedness: consider open interval (0,1). There is no leftmost point, and yet the interval is bounded.

@baldengineer Is the script for the video public somewhere? (I'm asking because I vastly prefer reading over watching something that tries to explain stuff to me.)

Mam wrażenie, że bezrefleksyjna powszechność zwrotu "głosowanie za kimś" powoduje podobnie dużo szkód jak "aresztowanie za coś".

Powszechny jest pogląd, że głosowanie polega na wybraniu kandydata, którego najbardziej chcielibyśmy widzieć wybranego. Nawet w przypadku wybierania jednoosobowego organu nie jest to sposób, w który najlepiej możemy realizować nasze preferencje (nawet nie może, bo nie zależy od tego, których z pozostałych kandydatów wolimy bardziej). W przypadku organów wieloosobowych sytuacja jest jeszcze bardziej skomplikowana, bo przestrzeń możliwych preferencji jest większa.

IMO warto myśleć o głosowaniu nie jak o wyrażaniu poparcia dla konkretnego kandydata, ale jak o wyborze, który ma skutki. Jeśli mamy do dyspozycji rozsądnie dobre przewidywania wyników wyborów, możemy poszacować jak każdy możliwy wybór może wpłynąć na wyniki.

Eh, chyba powinienem po prostu napisać taką symulację i ją udostępnić.

@irenes@mastodon.social @nazgul

I don't know whether modern fighters are stable with no control inputs (either from pilot or from avionics). If they are, destroyed electronics do not completely preclude stable level flight.

I wonder whether modern fighters purposefully crash themselves after an ejection.

@kh

In some cases it might also be a variant of caring for others where you care for others about as much as you think they care for themselves.

@art4857@101010.pl

Śmieszne jest też to, że plany niebronienia istotnej części kraju nie były rzadkie, chociażby https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limmatlinie (pt. nie bronimy np. połowy Zurychu) i https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizer_R%C3%A9duit (pt. prawie nie bronimy całych nizin).

@danderson @mattb

The thing is that time.Time _contains_ time.Location.

@sgf @tubetime

You might find it amusing that Block I Apollo CM (the one that only flew uncrewed on Apollo 4) had mechanical mission and event clocks.

@tubetime Is "autosyn 2" the fine one?

@lutzky @psn

Fair point. In that case: what makes vigilantism illegal?

I know of attempts to make _some kinds_ of vigilantism illegal: when they end up in illegal acts against the purported criminal (ISTR that some of the "incitement to violence" statutes have such origin), or when they coerce the victim not to make use of the standard justice system (which is often served by the surprisingly broad definition of blackmail in the law).

Note that in particular when one is suspected of committing a crime, and even is acquitted, it's perfectly legal for them to continue to suffer consequences of that suspicion. In fact, they can even lose a civil case that hinges on them committing that criminal act (because the standard of proof is different).

@foone Why should that be a good indicator of unity's ...decision?

@lutzky @psn

I don't think so. Vigilantism, the way I understand it, requires the acts that harm the person accused of committing a crime to be illegal.

@lutzky @psn

What could make that illegal?

@psn

Why is this very different than other associations that have due process for ejecting members? I would expect that they all would be faced with that problem (members claim other members harmed them in a very significant and illegal way but don't want to get the law enforcement involved; the association wants to prevent future harm). Is there something that makes universities more likely to encounter it, or that makes it more difficult for them to deal with it, or that makes the expectations on them different?

@delroth If I look at the mime types of all the things I have in my local store, there's lots of gzip. However, that seems to be:
- manpages, infopages,
- fonts, keymaps,
- entries in prefetched npm deps,
- sources, patches,
- some testfiles.