robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@lcamtuf

Well, but are they really square? All approaches I can think of rely on sufficiently high amplification ratio of some subcircuit. Is that so very different from e.g. relying on sufficiently sharp lowpass filters?

@Brendanjones

There's some reason to care about own/own company's wealth instrumentally then: it allows it to benefit society more or, imo more importantly, allows it to continue doing so for longer by allowing it to weather larger disruptions. For the same reason preserving competitive advantage seems instrumentally desirable.

This all obviously assumes that spending wealth is necessary to get dinner services the company or its employees need, but I don't see how that could not hold in any world vaguely similar to current Europe.

Obviously that creates a rationalisation-inducing trap: how much wealth is enough? How do we weigh continued survival of the company (and thus increased fraction of companies that try to benefit society) against preserving secrets? (Or do we try to e.g. share them with other similar companies only?)

I'm curious whether you have a different viewpoint on this.

@phos

If it's in a different location for this night, it's a significant piece of evidence: it's carried by someone who spent each of these nights in a different place, which is atypical.

Similarly, it would be interesting to note that it's moving at night: this means it's with someone (or something) that travels at night, which is also atypical.

Did you explicitly ask that driver about potential shift changes at HBF? (I would not assume that drivers and conductors have same shifts.)

@Snowshadow

Huh. My impression, when I read one of them, was that they recommended allowing children to face natural consequences of their actions (and adviced on how to make those nonpermanent) over imposing artificial ones and apart from that mostly repeatedly advised that one should treat a children like an adult that has some temporary disabilities. Is my impression wrong, or does your opinion apply to this?

I'm curious whether you have an opinion about UpToDate (or rather, whether you think it's included in your generic statement about materials from the internet).

@Snowshadow

On reflection, I'm somewhat surprised that (apart from somewhat expensive UpToDate) there doesn't seem to be a resource for (not necessarily pediatric) patients comparable to Dr. Spock's books on child rearing. The likes of webmd are watered down (by not differentiating between very different probabilities or very different amounts of evidence various symptoms give). Only thing I can think of as being similarly useful are the NHS guides, but even they could be improved and are focused on explaining particular already-diagnosed injuries, illnesses, and consequences of procedures.

This obviously doesn't really replace a GP, but it could reduce their caseload and improve communications with patients (though this last might be a projection bias of mine).

@phos

Where is it at night? If it doesn't ping at night, is the area where it's in the evening somewhat consistent?

Whom do you mean by the driver? Driver of the train you lost it on, or a driver of one of the trains it was on?

I see that others already mentioned the possibility of it being the same train, but serving different services. How do you know what service it was on board of? (I don't know how often trains that pass through a station but don't have a stop there actually stop for a short while somewhere nearby anyway, or drive through very slowly in Austria.)

@PalmAndNeedle @SomaFMrusty

Assuming lack of helm control, what kinds of maneuvers would you consider?

@niconiconi

Audio games are a thing, see e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/app/989790/The_Vale_Shadow_of_the_Crown/

@rysiek @noracodes

In a world where fedi is more of a set of sometimes-connected communities it's much more important to make the choice of community(ies?) to be part of less permanent. Already today people fret a lot about the choice of instance to join and sometimes join none.

(Somewhat tangentially related, I found the description of desiring a community while having doubts about it in https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/ though-provoking, in that it describes an, I think, common problem that is rarely described in this fashion.)

@foone

Is it usually the amplifier or the coils (I assume this is a CRT with magnetic deflection) that fails? Also, did you ever have horizontal deflection alone to fail?

@ellenmorrisprewitt

A reason why I try to phrase things differently is that "privilege" often carries the notion of something that's very much not a right or should not be a right (compare: "driving is not a right but a privilege"). People sometimes refer to things that I think _should_ be rights as privileges (e.g. being safe when walking around at night). I feel that I'm normalizing the not-a-right status of things when I call them privileges (or part of privilege).

I just realized that I don't have the same impression when I see the word underprivileged. Thanks for making me notice that.

@Rasta tbf it's not the case that animals can't be frozen (they can if they are small enough: you can freeze and thaw rats)

@b0rk

I really appreciate that, in all cases I remember, you are more specific than "don't start weird arguments", and would be happy if you continued that.

(The reason for my appreciation is that being more specific (a) helps me not fret on whether what I intend to do follows the request (b) intimates that specificity and directness are part of norms of the space, so let's me fret less about people being unhappy with what I'm doing without telling me that in an effective fashion.)

@amin

This might even be solidarity with yourself at some future point in time.

A funny place where that happens in imo many cities is buying paper public transit tickets (as opposed to using some kind of app).

@janboehm Was ist die Besonderheit des Pistaziencroissants? Ich kann mich nicht erinnern solches zu sehen, aber würde es nicht ausserordentlicher als ein nüssiges finden.

@gsuberland

Ah, wait, the macro seems to affect the names of the functions that are compiled into libgcc, and not the names used to call them.