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
@Ange
Do deflate and gzip count? They have different headers, but iirc are identical apart from that.
Yes, so that there are two pieces of protection against touching half-inserted pins (all plugs must have half-insulated pins now, and outlets must have depressions).
But these will takes lots of time to age out of apartments.
Hm, you are right. I must have misread the manpage (I thought it claimed that it's a POSIX-mandated utility).
I would use `getent passwd`, which is apparently expected by POSIX (but I don't know whether POSIX prescribes its output format).
The problem there was that helium diffuses through everything extremely easily. If you had a diffusion-related problem with air at e.g. 2x higher pressure, it would simply manifest ~2x more slowly at normal pressure.
"Bunch of things became possible" is positive or negative depending on how you evaluate desirability of each of those things and how you evaluate the tradeoff (compare: different opinions about nuclear power, surveillance technology, encryption, extremely easy ways to publicize parts of one's daily life).
@mcc Chromatic aberration would usually have colors in different order :). This looks like a couple of reflections from a stack of thin layers (or like a graphics glitch:)).
Hmm... it's hard to answer this question, because it's hard to tell what level I should assume.
If I assume IP will unreliably transport packets to another host, UDP just wraps data together with a source and destination port numbers, and creates a convention on how to address a response packet.
No, I mean that an electrostatic potential cannot have local minima other than in locations of opposite charges. Thus, something more interesting must be going on there, probably involving energy level quantization.
You might wish to be aware of thermoluminescent dosimetry _and_ optically stimulated luminescence.
Eh... the electron is attracted equally in different directions should imply that it's in an unstable equilibrium (you can't have stable equilibria in electrostatics other than colocated with an opposite charge). There must be something more interesting going on.
My ISP (https://www.init7.net/) has such a switch on the site, but instead of making things less verbose it displays more details (e.g. the address lookup tells you which POP you'd be on, you get an explanation on what they exactly mean by supporting ip4 and ip6, etc.)
@ZachWeinersmith How do you compare cap? In inflation-adjusted dollars, or as e.g. a fraction of world's GDP, or somehow else?
The obvious counterpoint is that you might want to protect any secrets those programmers would need to have from e.g. ChatGPT. Does that not make for a self-consistent execs' behaviour?
Cursed language fact
From the box of weird combinations, albeit within a single language:
A porcupine in Polish is called "jeżozwierz". "Jeż" means hedgedog, "zwierz" means animal (with slight hint of "beast").
In stores that are like that there's usually a gate that opens upon a receipt being scanned. Obviously you can jump over it or force it open.
An interesting similar (but different in likely significant ways!) situation is a browser with an adblocker that omits any reference to the adblocker in its identification.
The way I understood that saying is similar to Peter principle: it's harder to determine whether someone's teaching well (or, it's socially harder to accept that that's not the case) so we end up with people "failing upward" into teaching. Do people actually treat it seriously?
If they are actually orbiting, then the thing will surely fall apart by length 4, and length 3 intuitively feels like something that should also fall apart.
That said, I'm somewhat surprised by the orbiting here: this is not an 1/r potential nor r^2 one (I'm not sure it's even a potential parameterized by their positions), so they ~won't have closed orbits. I guess they can just orbit over something that is not closed, just constant-{energy, angular momentum}. But, if they do, they will be twirling dipoles, so they will be losing energy to radiation. So, they can be only orbiting by being in an energy eigenstate that corresponds to an orbit. I can't imagine what kind of degeneration that has, given the nonclosed orbits. (Also, given the distance, I'd expect such orbiting not to last because interference from other atoms around is likely strong enough compared to spacing of energy eigenvalues there.)
Today in cursed units: MeV*cm^2/mg (so, GeV/cm in water but very easy to confuse with MeV/cm in water).
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
