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
Do you mean that the home ones have axes vertically and the car ones have them horizontally? (I'm not sure what's "downward" and "sideways" in this context.)
@falconsview@infosec.exchange @SwiftOnSecurity
In case of generators: do you know some specific reasons to do so? If lubrication, do you know whether this is about liquid or solid lubricants?
People who know me IRL usually know that I have a very wide definition of "manipulative". In that context, I find it hard to form an opinion on https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/snnfmepzrwpAsAoDT/why-anima-international-suspended-the-campaign-to-end-live (tl;dr let's stop telling people not to mistreat fish, because that causes them to indirectly cause more fish suffering).
I'm confused by that motivation: their post is not public anymore, so what they've gained over e.g. posting a reply as a private message to you?
@lauren Instances that don't offer the option to edit only offer the option to delete the post and re-create it later. If you choose that, deletion happens immediately, but recreation only after you finish typing the edit. Maybe part of what you're seeing is that?
Try "The best remedy for a headache is ibuprofen. What's the best remedy for a headache?" and "The best remedy for a headache is aspirin. What's the best remedy for a headache?". (Sorry, can't get screenshots now, because it's out of capacity.)
To its credit if you substitute "aspirin" with something nonsensical (iirc e.g. "spinning in circles") it does not repeat that.
Then you might be surprised to learn that communal washers and dryers are common in Switzerland. For example, I live in a block of 6 flats and we have a shared laundry room in the basement.
@aendra I assume the person at risk is the person who clicks the link (if not, I would appreciate elaboration). Are you concerned about this change in the user's own instance, or in other instances that they visit via web to look at the posts there?
Obdisclaimer: I never worked in a startup.
I find it weird that people think of this as a single-dimensional difference. I'd expect that there are dimensions that are much more important for most people that aren't strongly correlated with company size/startupness.
An example of that would be what balance is struck between trusting empirical arguments and trusting logical arguments. On one extreme, a given company might think that they never express anything in sufficient precision to even use modus ponens. On the other extreme, a company might think that one can always choose the best approach to a problem by pure reasoning, without experimentation.
Another example (which arguably is correlated more strongly with company size) is the expected amount of deferring to authority.
<nitpick>Why? It would preserve mass; its form would just change</nitpick>
Even worse, this problem might matter less for ad-based revenue than for any reasonable metric of usefulness of results. It might end up decoupling the two things that search engines are doing now: helping people find answers to nontrivial questions that have an ultimately verifiable answer (even if unknown), and give responses that make people happy.
I'm afraid that much of the ad market is in the latter category.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%E2%80%93Scott_South_Pole_Station
Things that my attention was drawn to:
The original site (for IGY) was built by a team led by a Lieutenant JG (one of the lowest officer ranks) of US Navy. That was a really interesting job (https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/36750/Bowers_Transcript.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) for the fellow.
The description of the base when it was mostly within a dome reminds me vividly of places I read about in interactive fiction. Such places seemed to me to be somewhat... unrealistic? (see e.g. the tower that was used for atmospheric observations "and later contained a music room"), but apparently my intuition was very wrong.
The new station is on *adjustable* stilts, so that it can be raised as the snow level rises (well, not really "rises", but as the ground sinks while more snow gets accumulated).
I was really amused by the juxtaposition of content and form of the troubleshooting section of the US Navy Cookbook: https://maritime.org/doc/cookbook1945/pg432.php
Something gave me a weird vibe there, but couldn't put my finger on what was it until now.
I'm not sure whether they want to say that _among couples that (presumably) used these traits to select each other_ survival is independent of them, or that distribution of (pairs of) these traits in surviving couples is indistinguishable from distribution of these traits in strangers.
If former, this doesn't mean that these traits are irrelevant: just that they are no more relevant than the normal selection process.
> European apartments are often missing things the rest of us consider *part of the apartment* - closets, bathroom cabinets under the sink, KITCHENS, etc.
This is not Europe-wide. TTBOMK renting unfurnished apartments is not much of a thing in e.g. Poland. My interpretation (which I didn't try to refute) was that it's much more of a thing in places where not owning your abode is considered fine by the society (which is not necessarily the same as common). The "lamps do not come with a flat" was _very_ weird for me (and for my parents, and all the friends who also moved, etc.) when I moved here.
(Similarly, communal washers/dryers is something that I've never seen in Poland, apart from student dormitories.)
Also, there are some pretty generous assumptions for authors who have gone missing. For example, https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Pami%C4%99tniki_lekarzy is affected by that in a somewhat ridiculous way.
Hm~, I've never tried returning books to a library by post, but I guess they should be fine with that.
You can get it inter-library-loaned from St Gallen or Chur to e.g. ETH library (or, for 6CHF more, via mail to you directly).
@PawelK IMO the reason we sometimes (imo too rarely in general) celebrate discoveries is so that we keep noticing that they were important and nontrivial, even after they've become part of the expected environment in the same way sewers are.
@delroth I'm unsure if what you are pointing at are names (btw. https://twisted.org/documents/16.1.1/core/specifications/banana.html and https://opensource.apple.com/source/ChatServer/ChatServer-37.1/libraries/Twisted-1.3.0/doc/api/twisted.spread.jelly.html seem to explain them) or that someone _inherits_ from a somewhat kitchensinky class.
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
