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
@pocketcrocodile you might find it interesting that if you speak e.g. Polish, the way you refer to a person directly sometimes depends on their grammatical gender (e.g. some verbs have different forms for indicative second person singular depending on grammatical gender).
PLpol Kraków
Mógłbyś streścić swoje opinie o obu kandydatach? (Od dawna nie mieszkam w Krakowie, więc o Miszalskim wiem nic, a moje bardzo mgliste wspomnienia wrażeń o Gibale wsadzają go do pudełka wolnorynkowych liberałów.)
pining, very violent
You probably are aware of physio-pedia.com, but in case you aren't I've found this to be the fastest way to look up which things attach to a particular bone in a given place, or which muscles are used to exert force in a particular direction. (Also, if you have a better source for such questions, I'm very interested.)
Wie erkennt man, welche sind welche? (Haben sie immer unterschiedlich genug Farbe, Grösse, oder etwas anders sichtbares?)
Aber welche kommen raus? Alle, wenn irgendetwas raus muss?
Wie funktioniert das bei den Veränderungen, die mitte in den Woche passieren und müssen schon dieselbe Woche berücksichtigt werden?
System transportu kolejowego przewiduje transportowanie prywatnych wagonów (głównie towarowych) między bocznicami, których właściciele się na to zgadzają. Przynajmniej kiedyś było to zoptymalizowane pod kątem częstego transportu tych samych wagonów z A do B i z powrotem, ale może teraz jest mniej.
Strzelałbym niestety, że jest mało nieużywanych i zdatnych do użycia bocznic. W jakich miejscach byś się takich spodziewał? (Przy jakichś podupadłych stacjach, czy może prywatne przyfabryczne?)
I wonder how many broken bones are caused by DST each year (because clocks are sometimes hung up somewhat high).
Was it called The Deparment/Ministry of Military in any country? "of War" sounds inaccurate insofar it also deals with things such as posturing while not at war.
I agree that this is a good treatment (it's also somewhat nostalgic for me, because this is what my father dug up for me when I wanted to read something about Apollo 13, I think after we watched the movie). An awesome more detailed (and thus longer) treatment is the Apollo Flight Journal.
But also, the volume of the sound I was hearing wasn't that high, so either I failed to notice the same effect when I was hearing louder lowish frequency sounds, or this is more pronounced because eyes are "closer" to teeth than ears.
I guess I can bust out my bone conduction speaker that I have somewhere and try using that to have a continuous frequency variability (without messing with play-doh).
Vibrating your head blurs your vision (try taking a metronome or substitute, striking it, and then touching your teeth with the stem while looking at something with a well defined edge or ridge: the picture will become slightly blurry).
I wonder what's the frequency dependence. I have two (nonlocking) forceps that, when measured with my phone's accelerometer, give similar amplitudes of ~50Hz+harmonics and resp. ~60Hz+harmonics. Maybe I'm placeboing myself, but it seems to me that the blur from 50Hz one is significantly larger.
How thick (perpendicularly to the surface) is a stroke of a nonerasable marker? Does it depend on its color? I assume it does depend on the surface -- I would expect it to have no thickness on paper but some thickness on e.g. metal.
Or the company doesn't have a consistent long-term plan and this is a result of everyone being incentivized to punt every public-ish statement of that sort into the future?
Is there some markedly dominant way in which people shoot their own legs? (I wonder whether it usually happens when the gun is still in the holster and they're trying to grab it, or when they've just pulled it out and are bringing it to a more horizontal position, or in some other situation I'm not thinking of.)
OK, so my argument is that you can get all the benefits you want already today. There is no need for any changes in TLS/CA infra/... The whole thing can be a totally separate system where you have e.g. a `.well-known` URL where you expect to find assertions about the domain owner made by various third parties (signed by those third parties, etc.). That is just as good, because these assertions have to be bound to a domain name only, not to a cert.
This is a setup that can be easily introduced incrementally, can be done browser-side in extensions, etc.
I don't see how this addresses what I wrote.
Let's say you have a system where some additional useful information is attached to the cert, with verifiable provenance, and it's displayed to the user when they are visiting a site (so that they can determine whether they want to trust its contents/trust it with secrets).
That will be made equivalent to what I sketched (separate system for assertions about domain names) by semantics of same origin policies: if you determine that cert A for foo.com identifies an organisation you trust with some secret, then any holder of a cert B for foo.com will be able to impersonate you in front of the holder of A and thus likely get the secret you entrusted to the holder of A.
Do I assume correctly that "please stop killing civilians" would also get you nowhere without significant external changes of the kinds you describe?
(The reason I'm asking at all is that you originally explicitly referred to decision to wage war, so I suspected that you might have wanted to be very specific.)
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
