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
I think that sqrt2's complaint is different: the author of that comment is now getting ~your experience, albeit nearly only on a single comment of theirs.
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When I watched it, I got mightily confused near the end: I couldn't imagine why the guy is trying to commit suicide (I think something earlier in the movie implied that the accelerations of the cargo railgun were too high for humans).
@cliffordheath @foone isn't white smoke usually burnt engine oil?
USpol, social security leak
Did this actually happen (just now)?
Istm that it's useful to also note that per mass of protein it's still more than 5x less efficient than wheat (though it's not less efficient than rice in that metric).
@david_chisnall @sidereal do you remember what they assumed about distribution of pedestrians' arrival times? (Poissonian seems reasonable on the face, but in reality is very wrong.)
@niconiconi I don't understand how you'd measure that optically. I remember seeing densitometers that were used to measure lead acid battery charge level by measuring electrolyte density.
@foone it's older: 7400s (which were originally TTL) require 5V, while 4000s have a much wider supply voltage range (apparently 3-15V).
@foone do you know why 5v got chosen in the first place?
@_dm Yes. Parts of the story had no witnesses who didn't have an incentive to lie to cover their involvement, so I'm afraid that these parts might be whitewashed.
@_dm Given the lack of an equivalent of Andreotta et al in this case I wonder how much worse the reality was compared to what was reported.
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
