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
@PeterCxy
I'm confused why anyone is regenerating Date field value for every request. It's eminently cacheable (for the next second), and some sort of RCU setup (or optimistic concurrency control, but that's more expensive on average) with a periodic task that updates the value should work well, and not require optimizing date printing.
@modrinth Frankly, this seems to me to be something-like-a-vulnerability since forever: using polymc gave code execution on your desktop to whoever runs the metadata server, without leaving any verifiable audit traces (something like binary transparency logs could be used to leave indelible audit traces of all versions of meta files that were ever used by clients). If I understand the related threads on twitter correctly, then metadata server would be contacted without explicit user request when "shit updates itself" (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/196460#issuecomment-1281510701), so the rate at which that happens is likely nontrivial (so acquiring access to the metadata server would be valuable from the POV of creating a botnet).
@modrinth https://xeiaso.net/blog/OVE-20221017-0001 seems to be a good succinct description of the situation.
Wow, https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/other/221009A.gcn3 was a Gamma Ray Burst that caused noticeable disturbance of ionosphere.
@a1ba Ok, then I am as confused as you are.
@a1ba Shouldn't their posts be still visible in thread view? (I'm not sure what's the expected behaviour.)
pol annoyance
Sometimes you can protest in a way that has an impact on some entity, but doesn't make _public's_ life harder (e.g. bus drivers that strike by refusing to collect fares), but that's rather an exception than a rule. I expect (but might be wrong) that most people espousing that view would not consider such protests bad. Do you think otherwise?
Also, let me steelman that view: There are some implicit rules that we expect people to adhere to, and we adhere to, so that life in the society is more bearable. If those rules start being broken all the time, the loss caused by that is larger than the directly observable costs, because it also:
a) destroys trust that those rules will be adhered to,
b) makes others think that they also have a good reason to flaunt those rules.
So, one should break them only if one thinks that it'd be fine if everyone with at least as good a reason to break them would do so. Reason to break rules is evaluated on two axes: how important is the thing one wishes to affect and how affected it will be by this act that breaks them. Often protesting in a way that simply causes cost for a random set of people is low on the second criterion.
Do you think this is a reasonable steelman of their position? Is there something obviously illogical in it?
@MicroSFF https://qoto.org/@robryk/109168115585802587 (which I failed to thread)
@trinsec My head :) For some reason it didn't get threaded correctly; it's a continuation of https://mastodon.social/@MicroSFF/109161698752565804
angry perfectionist shouting at humanity
@wolf480pl And sometimes we do plan for the failure to deliver (random examples: datacentres have redundant power supply usually). Do you want to say that we do that too rarely, or that we should do that always, or something else?
mh, ph, anxiety, --, applying curiosity to sadness
@moonbolt Yeah, it's so weird that people have so many positive feedback loops. I would naively expect that they would be penalized by evolution significantly, and yet they are here.
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"Both. You learn that it's not about recipes at all."
"So, you do anything you want with magic?"
"Well, not just by wishing it. When you learn how to think about magic, you learn how to predict its effects."
"...and then I can try to figure out what to do so that I would have the effect I want?"
"Yes. Just like when you deal with any other part of the world."
Pratchett's #dragons are to all dragons just like gnomes are to people in standard fantasy settings. (They all are tinkerers, though out of necessity~.)
@moonbolt That seems like a good comparison, because in both cases the distinction is pretty unclear (is Green Revolution wheat genetically modified? is every HDR image AI-processed?).
@trash_cat Private keys are sort-of co-toothbrushes.
I'm not sure. I'd rather expect that a large(?) fraction wouldn't care, but would fear unknown unknowns (e.g. if that feels terrible, would I be able to go back? would there be no lasting changes?).
2685. 2045
"I have another appointment that would be really hard to move, in terms of the kinetic energy requirements" is my favourite phrase of the week
@timorl With types defined at which level? E.g. in each document style?
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
