robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@petros

Jest tam jeszcze jeden mechanizm: firmy, które ich by nie zastępowały, mają mniejszą szansę przetrwać. Aczkolwiek nie jestem pewien czy ten efekt nie jest na tyle mały, że wszystkie przybliżenia które implicite czynię (np. że ludzie którzy chcą/nie chcą podejmować takich decyzji w niczym innym się nie różnią) nie są na tyle duże, że ten efekt tak naprawdę nie istnieje.

@timorl

@freemo I can see a few plausible explanations for such a phenomenon. Do we know why that is the case? (I couldn't find references either for mutagenicity or for effects on cancer risk on Wikipedia, so don't really know where to start looking.)

@Stoori

I see a piece of infrastructure that doesn't need to be in an area of high population density and that requires lots of space placed in a place of low population density, where fewer things compete for the land it takes. Railway yards, thermal power plants, water treatment plants are other examples of infra with similar requirements. Would you consider them to be inefficient uses of land, too?

@garbulix @kuba

I'm curious if you know whether weddings parties are expensive compared to a similar-sized, similar-duration non-wedding party. I'd expect that the answer is yes, because they are organized by inexperienced organizers and they are very inflexible in timing, but I don't actually know.

A weird curiosity: One can find lots of brass orchestra arrangements of various pieces of more or less popular music by searching for "stabsmusikkorps <song>", many of them very much not intended for brass instruments.

Why? Because a German military ceremony that is used to honor people involves having the target of the ceremony choose the music.

@freemo Are these brine-pickled or acid-pickled?

Dziś się dowiedziałem, że każdy może zarejestrować dowolną domenę pod .edu.pl; nie ma żadnych wymogów na zawartość ani na tożsamość właściciela.

@tadzik @kuba Nix embeds the exact path to the dynamic library this executable was compiled with into the executable. So, it'll never use a different minor version of that library and updating the library requires rebuilding the executable, but the library will still be shared by everyone who loads it.

Whether dynamic linking is worth it in that situation is debatable.

@kuba But that's how dynamic libraries work in large part? This is why we have the major version number in soname (https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html#AEN49). If you linked against libfoo.so.5, the dynamic linker will search for libfoo.so.5 and it's of no concern to it that libfoo.so.1 or libfoo.so.51234 exist.

One issue is when you need libX.so.1 and libY.so.5, but the installed version of libY needs libX.so.2. Sometimes this could work, but doesn't due to the flat namespace of symbols (this is the problem that glibs tries to combat by symbol versioning). But in some cases this can't work even in principle: if you want to pass objects from X to Y, you _need_ to use the same version of X.

@freemo @Pat

FWIW the ultimate source is https://sci-hub.se/10.1001/jama.1974.03230150016004

They recruited families and asked them every week for a year whether anyone's sick. This nicely removes some kinds of selection bias, but probably leaves the selection bias where among people living alone they see more of the healthier ones.

This paper cites something for more information about their selection approach, but the scan is bad enough that I can't tell which reference it is, and I couldn't easily find the reference I suspect it is.

Sounds funny without context:

> Please note: Only people need tickets, bots don't.

@kmic

Silnie skojarzyło mi się z Phoresis (https://subterraneanpress.com/phoresis-ebook).