robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@erin

Relatedly, in my area it's in some way illegal (I think civilly) to use tap water for evaporative cooling of buildings.

@b0rk

Additionally to editing the weird file, I request that the weird file contain the before-both version ("conflictStle" set to "diff3").

A thing that bothered me in all (I think) merge tools I've tried is the conflation between the final state I want and something else (i.e. you do something that feels like editing one of the three "inputs" to make it look like the intended state; then the diffs between the various columns change their meaning as soon as I start actually resolving conflicts, so I need to keep track of the state I'm in in my head.

@eta How can you tell that it's side-to-side? Inertial cues?

@lcamtuf

I understand that that's the intended setup, but I wonder what happens when one uses such a converter outside of that setup (either by not providing an LP filter, or by providing a signal with a strong enough higher frequency component so that filter's attenuation is insufficient). Can we get results that are out of the range in which the (LP-filtered) input signal was?

@katykaty

Even above correctness? In my circles the attitude that it's easy to quickly be wrong was always predominant.

@lcamtuf

How do delta-sigma converters degrade for signals with high frequency components? It's not obvious to me whether they could provide bitstreams that would correspond to lower frequency signals with a higher amplitude (i.e. whether they could exaggerate amplitude).

@rooktallon @zarfeblong

You might want to be aware of Club Floyd, in which people play IF cooperatively via a MUD (without really using any features of the MUD that aren't present in IRC). https://www.ifwiki.org/ClubFloyd is a good starting point to read about it; I think it's still active.

The reason I mention that is that they have similar requirements to what I'd expect a screen reader user would want, or possibly somewhat stricter ones. That said, the standard approach there is that this does restrict the set of playable games.

@zarfeblong

Would it make sense to also have people seed that file as a torrent?

If so, it might make sense to compress it using `gzip --rsyncable`, so that subsequent versions are more similar to each other. I've roughly estimated (using first 5%) that this would result in ~1% larger files, so the cost is IMO very small.

In what languages, apart from Polish, one "burns" a cigarette (as opposed to "smoking" it)?

@eniko

On one hand, very often the notation is annoyingly imprecise, making it hard to understand for anyone who is not familiar with the concrete area (e.g. anything about PDEs).

On the other, when the notation is precise, it reduces the amount of reliance on comprehension of whatever language the text is written in (and in particular reduces the requirements around understanding how one expresses e.g. quantifier order and other things that are rarely relevant in everyday use of that language).

@whitequark
if you don't mind, what do you mean by black-and-white states of mind? (ISTM that you are pointing at increased contrast/variance/things being always pegged but in different directions, whereas I'd expect less contrast and things just being pegged in mostly the same direction.)

@Red_Shirt_Dude

I think that specifying the threshold of faithfulness that you desire (e.g. Expanse -- ignoring its declared departures from our physics -- has the "Roci running silent" sequence that is unrealistic at least in timescales) might net you very different answers.

There are various semi-historical or semi-documentary series that might fit your bill. From The Earth To The Moon is one such (the faithfulness complaints I had about it were minor and not about realism, but about faithful reproduction of actual space hardware[1]). I haven't watched more than excerpts of Masters of the Air, but ones I've seen suggest that it's realistic.

[1] of the sort "this is not how you switch the LM descent engine off, doing that would have no effect"

@BathysphereHat Amusingly enough, Catholic lithurgy requires that consecrated wine is sufficiently diluted (I never tried to dig up what's the story of that requirement).

@freemo

People use (I don't know how successfully) gravimetric anomalies to supplement inertial navigation underwater (in a similar mode to those early car navigation systems that could never locate you, but would use their knowledge of how the roads look like to correct dead reckoning). I wonder if this could be used in a similar way.