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
re: covid, diabetes
Yeah, this is the part that convinces me more. I found that amusing, because usually an attempt to actually study a correlation on an individual level instead of something related to "pitacy and ocean temperature are correlated" is more convincing, but here is the other way round.
I continue to be confused by the receive to where flip's mass is as a reason for its stability. Is expect that you'd care about c-o-gravity to c-o-buoyancy distance for roll stability and about cross section at surface level for stability in room and in vertical motion (because, respectively, that controls the changes in buoyancy caused by waves and horizontal drag forces exerted by waves). Is there any reason location of mass directly (i.e. other than via the c-o-g vs -b distance) affects stability?
covid, diabetes
Amusingly, what makes me believe this result more is the population statistics (of a larger than the preexisting trend would imply increase in t1 diagnosis rate in children): otherwise I'd be very suspicious of the lack of attempt to consider that onset of diabetes is not instantaneous (so having more exposure to the family doctor will pull the time of diagnosis earlier; I couldn't easily find how quick it is) and the somewhat confusedly described attempt to exclude cases where the diagnosis of diabetes was first (reading between the lines, they seem to have 3mo resolution and there's at least a bit of a reason to expect exposure to COVID to be higher around the time one is diagnosed with diabetes, because that involves lots more contact with people).
robryk
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speaking of πλανητες watch the anime planetes now if you haven't already
@phil The wikipedia description states that the way stinging nettle works is by injecting that acid using tiny pointy things. This seems to be confirmed by squashed stinging nettle no longer stinging (you can even eat it raw). If I understand that correctly, applying that acid to surface of skin should not sting.
If you've read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age, I'd be curious whether you'd consider the overt hypocrisy of Neo-Victorians there to a significantly different/special kind of hypocrisy. (The reason I'm asking is that that's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of a society that overtly accepts hypocrisy.)
Additionally, one can get a stove with flame detectors that shut the burner off if there is no flame (unless the user is also pressing the igniter button at the same time). Technically the defectors are pretty simple: they measure electrical resistance of the purported flame.
robryk
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@harcesz "The name and logo of "NERV" are used with the explicit permission of khara Inc., the copyright holder of the "Evangelion" series, and Groundworks Corporation, which manages the rights to the series." (https://nerv.app/en/support.html). Dodatkowo w jednym z nagrań głos podkłada aktor, który w anime wcielał się w kolegę Shinjiego :)
Why can stinging nettle sting through clothes, but only if they're wet?
robryk
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Przez chwilę myślałem, że to jakiś nieoficjalny dostęp do danych z aplikacji NERV (heh*), ale wygląda na to, że to jednak zupełnie oficjalne działanie agencji odpowiedzialnej za tą usługę;
www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/…/news134.html
note.com/xanac13/n/nbf49cf724c19
Wygląda na to, że w sumie prowadzą ponad 230 kont na mastodonie, tak że można precyzyjnie dobrać preferowany typ ostrzeżeń a dodatkowo najważniejsze są podbijane przez wszystkie konta regionalne w zasięgu - sprytne rozwiązanie. Usługę uruchomili w 2017.
*Czy jakaś bardziej japoniofilna osoba może mi wytłumaczyć - czy Japończycy faktycznie nazwali agencję ostrzegającą przed katastrofami za, oraz skopiowali logo/motto agencji konstruującej roboty do obrony ziemi z popularnego anime?
@gws I'm curious what made you think of that gcd of polynomial values about now. A friend has described it to me as a puzzle last week and I wonder if there's a common reason for you both thinking about it nowish.
@freemo What's the door for? If this side is accessible by lorry, this might be a dangerous-but-usable loading dock.
robryk
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I know corporations are evil but I'm still quietly impressed at the LEGO group's tax policy (namely - to pay them, make sure to pay them and to acknowledge that taxes are a core part of giving back to society and corporate responsibility). The corporate income tax rate in Denmark is 22%, and 22% is what they pay on their gross profit. The tax policy document is a short but informative read (see link).
Compare this with Google, Amazon and friends, who constantly trumpet their social responsibility but who are somehow only paying a few percentage points of US federal income tax on their own profits.
And yet Lego continues to make generous net profits and has not been taxed into oblivion as conventional thinking in the US would consider inevitable.
https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/aboutus/assets/bltfc621352618d8b90/Tax_Strategy_2023_Final.pdf
I don't know if anything changed in that area, but in the past you could disable that completely via "enterprise policy". See https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates for a terse description. E.g. NixOS sets "DisableAppUpdate" for FF built by its build system.
@delroth I don't know how hot the chips are now, but maybe making it hotter and seeing if the problem appears more often might help?
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
