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
Czy przez newsletter masz na myśli coś, co jest wysyłane e-mailem?
Note that https://sensors-eawag.ch/sars/overview.html has recently had very large (positive) derivatives (so much that I'm somewhat surprised not to see anything that looks to my eye as timing variation across different regions).
Cataclysm: D(?)DA, colonialism reference I guess
@timorl It should rather be turkey cataclysm instead of turkey days IMO.
@sophieschmieg amusingly enough, the exact opposite is true in Polish (I did hear ćwirk or ćwit many times, but don't recall any variation of trąb) if you consider nouns.
@mjg59 Where do you typically look for service manuals of such appliances?
PC that is located in an inconvenient place that you want to avoid having to lug a CRT to, and that for some reason is hard to attach a serial console to (maybe because any available device that could be used as a terminal also includes a CRT that's unwieldy to move).
(Somewhat relatedly, I still remember that a particular single-floppy distro that I was using on a PC acting as a router at my school would beep out melody of Yesterday on i/o errors when reading the floppy.)
robryk
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@b0rk It gives a somewhat better intuition for the meaning of commit range a..b for cases where b is a descendant of a -- the range corresponds to the diff between a and b regardless of any multiparented commits present (this does break down if the commits are not descendants of each other, but if you combine that with merge commits, the interpretation of ranges gets hopelessly confusing anyway).
It also reinforces the fact that when you rebase/cherrypick a commit, you get a brand new commit with no obvious relationship with the original one (even if the diff is identical) other than the similarity in the diff to parent. That helps with understanding how one should go about rebasing a sequence of branches built on top of each other (or at least why some approaches cause one to be asked to resolve the same merge conflicts multiple times and/or be asked to resolve merge conflicts of a commit with itself).
@b0rk at the same time git fails at supporting that intuitive model across history editing operations: there is no way to implement the equivalent of `hg evolve` and the recursive across branches behavior of `hg rebase`, ~because branches' relationships are a function of commits' relationships.
The whole motor unit must be able to estimate the power you're providing (because it obviously knows the rotational speed and it measures torque from you to decide how much torque to apply by itself), so I wonder how practical it would be to use that to help with pacing (assuming that mechanical power is a good proxy for the pacing you need and that cues for pacing would be helpful).
Why have a membership list for a public chat at all?
"completion" in which sense?
I just wondered whether this was a first system of that kind and was extremely surprised to learn that proto-CTCSS was already used in 50s: https://www.repeater-builder.com/tech-info/ctcss/ctcss-overview.html
Because it's not obvious that this is their function (as in, that their function is purely ground-side -- do you think that people assume these are tones for switching _something_ on and off and leave it at that?). I'd expect all sources that explain what they are more exactly for to mention the name.
Even if they knew what they were for? I'd expect it's kinda hard to learn that without learning the weird name.
@lauren
... yes?
Isn't that pretty common knowledge among anyone who heard original recordings? "What are these beeps" is very easy to look up and is an obvious question to ask.
That is indeed the word sort of patronizing bollocks, but why is that specifically transphobic? Is it about measuring blood hormone levels on one's own?
@koakuma is there a reason for joining to be an action observable to anyone else?
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
