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
robryk
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#2797 Actual Progress
Slowly progressing from 'how do protons behave in relativistic collisions?' to 'what the heck are protons even doing when they're just sitting there?'
https://xkcd.com/2797/
I think "trusted" plays a similar role for me.
@delroth Is it only longer, or both longer and thicker?
I would dearly like to see more ActivityPub clients as opposed to Mastodon clients, and with the current sad state of proxy fetching anything not publicly fetchable is hard to observe for such clients. (Sure, they'd need the rest of c2s implemented to actually write something, but readonly ones are already pretty useful.) Thus I'd really like us not to do mostly-ineffective public-except-for-blocks posts, because they're not public enough for such clients to see them but also don't help that much against the original problem.
Note that some other instance could forward a reply to an instance of your follower. (You can't avoid that without giving instances of your followers an oracle for querying your blocklist.)
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@robryk @ilja @rysiek
We probably need to face that there's no such thing like "almost-public posts".
The only thing we can achieve is preventing interaction below our post – at least on our own instance and on the ones of our followers, as we won't relay these replies to all our followers like done otherwise.
@niconiconi is there an easy to phrase heuristic for the value of the proportionality constant in the exponent?
@pixelfed do you already have a description of how this looks like from the pov of the activitystreams layer? In particular, is like to understand if/how other instances get to know the original post's author's wishes, so that they can apply them to comments they've received directly.
@rochelimit @deirdrebeth @CAnxiolytic do you understand how that situation differs from dropping the gun (or striking it against an object)? I would expect that momentum of the firing pin could cause it to move wrt the gun when the gun strikes an object, and iiuc making sure that gun is safe from accidental firing when dropped is a property that gun makers try to uphold
@whitequark I don't consider myself disabled in any way, and think this is a good advice for people like me too: i find it easy to enter a positive feedback loop of undersleeping and finding it fine to take a nap ~whenever reduces the strength of the feedback significantly.
Ah, right, you can jacket steel in something softer. Do you have some rough estimate of how large a fraction of armor piercing bullets contain steel?
But bullets are usually not ferromagnetic: they are usually made from lead (steel is (a) less dense (b) more expensive (c) harder).
Is there a hypothesis on what exactly happened (did the gun fire by the normal mechanism of the pin striking the cartridge or somehow else (e.g. due to sparking?)?)?
I think that part of the situation is that you have more time to be confused and notice the confusion: due to Russia being at war, the coup attempt involves traveling larger distances and thus larger delays.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE9rEQAGpLw that's some very advanced and high effort shitpost-but-not-really. Building a fake real camera in Blender.
I guess I will weigh in on Meta + ActivityPub stuff
The way fedi works right now becomes increasingly confusing and messy the more examples of intransitive federation there are, though.
robryk
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I did it! I made an epicycle clock!
Check your loopy time here:
https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/
@keir do you know what created the faint vertical lines?
> Ale coś mi chodzi po głowie, że silniki się zasila ciekłym LPG, który odparowuje dopiero w silniku
Silniki z gaźnikiem zasila się gazowym LPG. W takich samochodach jest zamontowany wymiennik ciepła służący do ogrzewania LPG za pomocą chłodnicy, żeby go odparować (i dlatego te samochody trzeba rozgrzewać na benzynie i dopiero gdy chłodnica się nagrzeje przełączać na gaz).
Nie wiem jak jest z silnikami z wtryskiem.
Jeśli jest inaczej, to potencjalne rozwiązanie to użyć odparowywacza. BTW. Zauważ, że jeśli chcesz pobierać gazowe LPG z butli, to skądś musi przychodzić ciepło potrzebne do jego odparowania, więc tempo poboru jest ograniczone przez tempo wymiany ciepła między butlą a powietrzem. Podejrzewam, że samochód potrzebuje większego niż osiągalne w ten sposób tempa poboru.
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
