robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@lcamtuf I'm curious how that varie[sd] with tenure. Do you have some intuition?

@Neblib @whitequark

It might be. My native tongue (Polish) has verbs that declinate by gender of subject. I think that makes me prefer picking different genders in setups where there's more than one participant (because it's more effective than in English at disambiguating them).

@freemo Does this cause you to also automatically trust new company keys signed by that key (but not keys signed by them in turn)?

@timClicks An often overlooked point is whether a sandboxed thingy is a trustworthy source. IMO not universally: if you sandbox something that parses unsafe input and is written in an unsafe language, output of that sandbox should still be considered untrusted (because an attacker who can get code execution in the sandbox can inject arbitrary output).

@timorl wo?

@freemo What kind of wild animals would you say have lots of variation?

@erin

tell people "please lobby for your instance to have a subscribe feature and use it instead"? though that's somewhat pushy

@tubetime

Ah, it's at least partially about leaks, which might create a water path between stator winding and ground. See e.g. https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0306/ML030650924.pdf

@tubetime Generators often do the same with stator windings: they are basically pipes and distilled water is passed through them. I'm not entirely sure why conductivity of that water matters (after all its share of current will be very small, and it being AC would seem to obviate worries about corrosion). It seems that here the internal pipe is insulated?

I realized today that this is a good alternate way of looking at what voltage dividers hanging off a power rail do: they are like a voltage source of the expected voltage with an internal resistance equivalent to a parallel connection of the divider's resistors.

@tedherman @danluu Do you ever worry about the handbrake getting stuck in the applied position (e.g. in winter)?

I wonder how much time will pass until I get the rest of the setup for problem 17 from https://www.iypt.org/problems/problems-iypt-2024/

@whitequark

I was recently thinking about this: we believe that clock domain crossing gadgets can get rid of xs, as long as the fraction of time the input is an x is small enough (because otherwise they would produce xs when actually used as clock domain boundaries). So, have people tried to do circuits with areas that are not sync in any normal way to a clock, but still preserve the "is rarely x" property on their outputs (though not necessarily internal signals)?

(It does seem to offer at very most few benefits, but what I'm after is a succinct argument for why that's e.g. always majorized by some more conventional circuit.)

@timorl @m @aris @delroth

It builds only on knowledge of who the patrician is, no? Iirc that does get explained naturally there too. What did I forget about?

@delroth ok, that at least makes it clearer, but doesn't make English phrasing any less comical.

@delroth @m @aris

Going Postal is also imo a good choice for the first novel to read.

@delroth what does it say in German or French?