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
BTW. For tractors the scope of _additional_ risk is usually tiny: if someone is likely to break their tractor in a dangerous way (e.g. by removing covers over revolving elements, or defeating deadman switches), they're IMO likely to also use it in a dangerous way (e.g. by having people ride on an unsuitable part of the tractor).
But, all of that applies to the parts of tractors that TTBOMK owners are not prevented from repairing (IIUC that's mostly the drivetrain and other electronics, right?), which makes attempts to prevent that even weirder.
Exactly. My point is that this is an important property to consider when substituting "chair" in that conversation, and it's useful to note that the cases we care about here are more like "chair" than "gas furnace". Many countries also have different ways of making it legal (if sometimes somewhat onerous) to maintain things that are inbetween on the scale of socialized risk (e.g. requiring an inspection by an electrician after DIY modifications of fixed electrical installation), so even in cases that are close to the gas furnace case one can do something other than outright forbidding it (though IIRC the gas furnace case itself has ~no such exceptions in Poland).
To be fair, if we replaced "chair" with "a gas furnace", in some countries that would be illegal, but the reasons for that don't apply to general purpose computers.
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#2810 How to Coil a Cable
The ideal mix for maximum competitive cable-coiling energy is one A/V tech, one rock climber, one sailor, and one topologist.
https://xkcd.com/2810/
@sgf There's another potential reason why it might be good: it would add incentives for creation of sock puppet accounts to inflate the counts, which would make admins' lifes harder (because they'd need to deal with a larger quantity of people trying to do things that should count as abuse).
Polish TV used teletext for subtitles, so that required being able to update within seconds. (Wasn't there some delta-encoding scheme there for quicker updates?)
Sure there are; usually the duty of care towards patient, when exercised well, is sufficient to prevent harm from that. I wonder if you see any cases other than shortage when that's not the case.
BTW. Anti-obesity is definitely not aesthetic: standard strategies of reducing obesity decrease all-cause mortality noticeably (I don't know if someone studies effects of _this_ way of decreasing it already.)
Medications that there is a shortage of? (I'm curious whether you'd think the same about any medications that don't have a shortage.)
@foone Deep underwater instead of underground might also be an option.
@foone Or, if the rotation of the planet is really slow, keep the sun-facing hemisphere mostly empty at all times.
@foone If the planet's axis of rotation is roughly parallel to normal of its orbit, there can also be life that doesn't spread that quickly but lives close to the poles.
I recall seeing those numbers on some public documentation somewhere (maybe maps of more complicated stops?), so it might not be totally useless, even if confusing.
There seems to be a similar parameterization of a sphere: take latitude and latitude for a pair of poles placed on previous one's equator.
I don't see how one follows from the other. Why would an accurate simulation of me deserve less compassion than me?
@sophieschmieg @nickzoic @cstross @lauren
You can't as in there is no punycode for it because it's mapped to x.com, or as in the registry will refuse to register the punycode name that it would have if it wasn't mapped to x.com?
I actually meant Solidity (silly typos..), but you're right that Singleton is also related.
"old man" complaint about board games
If the set of possible moves is hard to enumerate (either large or the game does not have perfect information), I can imagine a game where no player can tell who can win even just before the last turn, even when the whole game state and enough computational resources would allow one to determine that.
Do you know of any games that go in the direction of making it as hard to tell whether you're winning as it's to be winning?
Consider reading Soliton by @gregeganSF. It explores a similar world.
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
