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
The behaviour of stdout handling (at least in glibc) depends on whether it's a terminal: terminals get line buffering, pipes and regular files get a fixed-size buffer. This means that a program that runs for a long time and slowly outputs stuff to stdout will appear to be stuck when its output is redirected to a file _or even piped to `tee`_.
Since when does it have them? I didn't see any up to ~2w ago.
I wasn't suggesting appealing to higher power. The change I described is a purely client-side one (and is probably similarly confusion-engendering as the "ignore DMs" switch some people enable).
WTAF. Firefox has "sponsored shortcuts" on new tab page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy
@rysiek who I think might be ~interested
Do you see any obvious problems with a stronger version of "no DMs" where one doesn't ever see any posts that are not public?
Would solving just this (causing you to never see non-~public responses) be a significant improvement for people in positions similar to yours?
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@_thegeoff Hmm... I thought the ending claimed that the clone that returned lived for some time on Earth.
Also, expose to whom? The people who operate the Earth end of the operation and thus can probably tell that no new engineers are being sent up? But yes, I didn't consider this option, and the people dealing with helium shipments need not have been in on the whole thing.
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)?
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
