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
Disclaimer: my preference for minimal terminals is weak (and doesn't apply to some classes of features: I dislike features on the "input" side but don't mind weird features on the "output" side).
Often I use the same machine both over its own keyboard and screen and over ssh, so I want consistency between the two. For some terminal features that would only require me to have the same terminal with same configuration on both sides (which is doable, but in some cases annoyingly onerous to maintain). Some features, such as tabs, are strictly worse than using something underneath (e.g. tmux) in such a setup, so I don't want to use them at all. I then don't want them to (a) take up screen space (b) be an attractive nuisance.
Być może chciałbyś poznać (jeśli nie znasz) koncept "wyuczonej bezradności epistemologicznej" (https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learned-helplessness/). W telegraficznym skrócie: jeśli czyjaś zdolność oceniania argumentów jest słaba, warto żeby je generalnie ~ignorował.
Wspominam o tym, bo może on wyjaśniać podobne zachowania nawet bez prób wymuszania bezrefleksyjnego posłuchu ze strony kierownictwa (pracownik może myśleć, że istnieje jakiś powód dla którego winniśmy nie mieć tu psa, nawet jeśli go nie zna).
@psn Re why: isn't the subsidy for the party dependent on the fraction of the votes cast for that party? If so, there's monetary sense in having a candidate in every <insert name of appropriate territorial unit>.
`git diff HEAD:a/b.c X:m/n.c` seems to work
Actually, https://manpages.debian.org/testing/git-lfs/git-lfs-config.5.en.html describes a bit more of how lfs finds the correct remote. It seems to be settable per branch, but I don't get how the default heuristics work.
You might wish to set `lfs.remote.searchall` git config element to true. I've learned that by finding https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/main/config/config.go#L227
If you have floating point values that you process, often they come from some noisy measurement, and then you can't avoid understanding numerical stability regardless of how you process them, which is only a small step from thinking of numerical stability of various steps of computation separately, as if noise was added everywhere inbetween (which is often a good enough approximation of what FP does).
So we seemingly don't know why washers are called washers: https://www.etymonline.com/word/washer#etymonline_v_25445
robryk
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Anyway, here's some words about Junyer. He would find it very funny that I put them here. https://github.com/google/re2/issues/502
@whitequark the "used to be like this" version
This looks more like what my scope would show (esp. in DSO mode with "line join" enabled).
This seems similar to the approach in Switzerland: here such raised sidewalks crossing an intersection also affect right of way on the intersection (vehicles from the road that crosses the sidewalk must yield to everyone else as if they were entering traffic from a stop), which (IMO, I don't have real evidence) reinforces the expectation that they pay more attention.
One should represent the hashes as sequences of emoji, so that they are more visually distinctive. :P
Does this mean that constituencies where the result is closer have higher turnout?
The blood donation phlebotomists (in CH) reportedly have a rule to swap with a colleague after one failed attempt.
robryk
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#Astronomy / #Astrophysics folk: are modern spectrometry techniques able to discriminate chirality in molecules?
https://physicsworld.com/a/scientists-identify-a-sugar-world-beyond-neptune/
I wanted to ask whether this is a difference between clean cut amputation and amputation associated with lots of destruction on both sides, so will piggy back on your question.
It is a thing, though not very common, in Poland ("demobil"/"z demobilu" are Polish terms used to indicate stuff from military surplus).
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
