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
@kuba Wydaje mi się, że te dwa wyrażenia mają różne znaczenie.
@freemo Wasn't there also ocular oxygen toxicity?
@topaz I'm not sure what prevents them from boosting your posts after you block them, if the posts are publicly available. A boost is essentially an activitypub message that points at the boosted post (I don't remember if it's inlined additionally). If you can fetch the post to boost, would anything prevent you from simply sending such a messages? Would other servers know that you have blocked that account and drop/hide/... that boost?
@d For better or worse, plain language explanations are expected in RFCs. I think the reasoning is that (a) it should be simple enough so that this is not a problem (b) we can distinguish between "we just happened to handle it in this way" vs "any compliant implementation has to handle it in this way" (c) we'd anyway want to call out subtle parts using plain language, so you wouldn't want to implement the thing based on some sort of pseudocode alone. At least IETF's editors complain (probably rightly) a lot about specifications being simple enough so that a typical programmer, with no expertise in the area, can implement them.
If I completely missed your point, then I would very much appreciate a more verbose description of the failure mode that you see.
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@chjara@mk.absturztau.be I was surprised that you mentioned w3c and not whatwg and I've just learned that most of stuff that whatwg does becomes a w3c standard eventually.
@freemo Do you remember what was the order of magnitude of effect?
@freemo That sounds like (b) rather than (a)? (As in, you want to reproduce the experience you'd get if you were seeing everything in person, in the lighting conditions that are there.)
@freemo What is the goal of color correction here? Is it to reproduce (a) the light as it reaches the eye (b) the impression you get (so, correcting for white balance that "the eye" would do if exposed to ambient light of a different color) (c) the color of the objects (i.e. how would they be seen if illuminated by sunlight at surface) or (d) something else?
@libreture Many of them (all?) have a search endpoint. Maybe it would be possible (and permissible) to aggregate search results from the booksellers' search functionality?
@libreture Thanks, the list is nice and I expect it to be helpful.
Two questions/suggestions:
Would it make sense to separate it into a list of authors who self-publish drm-free books and bookshops that sell more than one author? If I'm looking for a particular book, I would want to look _in_ every multi-author bookshop and _at_ every single-author bookshop.
Do you intend to list bookshops that sell only non-drm books, that sell any non-drm books, or that mostly sell non-drm books? Many large bookshops sell a few non-drm books (sometimes due to e.g. insistence of an author/publisher). I do not see any large bookshops included in the list nor do I expect them to be, but technically they do sell (very few) non-drm books.
robryk
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Do you prefer to buy DRM-free ebooks?
You can read them on any device you want, and they're not locked to a single vendor or company. You actually own them.
Here is a list of online bookshops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, and RPGs!
Why would it need to be the same PE line? If the buildings are on TN-S (which is rare), then their ground/PE is connected to grounding rods, water pipes, and nothing else. If they are on TN-C, then their ground/PE is connected to the neutral line from the grid: but they might be on different substations. In both the TN-S and TN-C with different substations case, PE of both buildings is grounded (hopefully with some reasonably low resistance to ground[1] on the order of tens of ohms), but the only way they are connected with each other is via the soil, so the resistance between PE of one and the other building is of the same order of magnitude as the resistance-to-ground of either. This is way higher than the resistance of the shield in a coax cable, so if the actual ground potential under the two buildings is different, you'll get some current through the shield.
Am I mistaken in the way I imagine this somewhere?
[1] I use a model where we have some "true" ground and grounding rods have a connection to it via some resistance. I don't know when this model breaks down.
Not sure if you misread or mistyped: it was 1 megaohm.
I really don't see how you could avoid having a ground loop through the network cable otherwise, at least for runs that span buildings.
Re safety: do you mean that one of the transceivers could be broken and connect the shield to something?
I just saw an application note for 10base{2,5} transceivers and it shows transceivers with complete galvanic insulation (well, apart from a 1MOhm resistor between shield and ground): http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/components/national/_appNotes/AN-0442.pdf
It also states that the 1MOhm resistor is mandated by spec to discharge static electricity, so I infer that spec requires galvanic insulation.
@vriska This seems vaguely similar to some conditions that have no cure and often the best treatment is lifestyle modification (e.g. early stage diabetes II, or many orthopedic issues). Why do you think requiring therapy is to make sure that it's a "real" condition for some value of real and not to check whether it can be treated (with satisfactory results) by something that is less likely to cause additional issues?
@rogatywieszcz Chodzi Ci o to, że ci piekarze wyolbrzymiali wpływ problemu/kłamali na temat swojej sytuacji, czy o to, że legendą jest różnica w podatkach powodowana przez rozdawanie miast niszczenia towaru?
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
