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
I'm curious whether you find it wrong to provide narration of a speechless video in captions (technically it's captions that have nothing to do with what's being said, but I would guess it doesn't cause the problem you describe IIUC).
@kuba Ah, trzaski jak sie nagrzewają i chłodzą? IIRC olejowe też mogą je wydawać (ale może tylko bardzo biedne olejowe).
No ale coś spowodowało, że w ogóle zacząłeś myśleć o tym, że głośność grzejnika ma znaczenie. Jakie odgłosy to spowodowały?
(pl?)pol
To jak duże skutki ma głosowanie to jeden problem (~10^-7 szansy na wpłynięcie osobiście na skład sejmu/senatu iirc). Stwierdzenie, że głosowanie jest niewarte zachodu z powodu mizernych skutków ma sens.
Natomiast stwierdzenie, że głosowanie nie ma sensu, bo nie ma na kogo głosować, jest IMO wynikiem jakiegoś dziwnego przeświadczenia, że głosuję się "na kogoś". To, że karta do głosowania tak wygląda niewiele znaczy; ważne jest to, jakie są skutki oddania głosu. Oczywiście (patrz wyżej) można uważać, że skutki są bez znaczenia (albo dlatego że szansa na wpłynięcie jest mała albo dlatego że skład sejmu/senatu jest mało istotny); jednak jeśli ktoś uważa, że skład parlamentu jest istotny i ma potencjalne składy, które by wolał od innych, to nie jest prawdą, że nie ma na kogo głosować: zawsze może zagłosować tak, żeby zwiększyć szansę tych składów które woli[^].
[^] To nie jest prosty wybór, bo (a) wymaga założeń na temat innych głosujących (b) wymaga porównywania większej szansy na dobry wynik z mniejszą szansą na jeszcze lepszy.
@lauren Ah, a sibling comment mentioned enough to let me identify it (it's the "google rewrites search queries to increase ad revenue/income" one).
Grzejniki podczerwone nie służą do ogrzewania pomieszczeń, ale ogrzewania ludzi w zimnych pomieszczeniach. (Stereotypowy przykład dobrego ich zastosowania to kościoły: dużo ludzi bez czapek.) Ogrzewają one ~tylko przez promieniowanie, więc: (a) tylko rzeczy które widzą (b) praktycznie wcale nie ogrzewają powietrza (wyłącznie poprzez ogrzewanie np. ściany która ogrzewa powietrze). W sypialni będą one co najwyżej ogrzewać górne połowy głów, więc warto się upewnić, że są na nie skierowane.
Jakich odgłosów chcesz unikać?
@lauren Which story was that? (Aside, I think it's a very poor practice not to leave a description of withdrawn articles up.)
It's way more messy for CJK due to Han unification: given that you actually want to draw the "same" pictogram differently across different languages, you need to pick a font depending on the language. :(
This reminds me of the Steerswoman series (by Rosemary Kirstein).
Huh. I've thought people used herunterladen both formally and informally.
I'm confused why they aren't marked as vegan and also confused by their name.
I'm guessing that they're actually a restaurant, but they have closed their kitchen for a day or something like that, and Uber Eats is terrible at explaining that.
robryk
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I just realized that `let _ = ...` and `let _foo = ...` behave differently in #rust.
The former drops the value immediately while the latter drops it at the end of the scope. This almost never matters due to the borrow checker but this was resulting in my tracing context being broken because I was calling `let _ = span.enter()` and the guard was being dropped right away.
robryk
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Wie hoch ist das Unfallrisiko auf Deiner bevorzugten Veloroute in der Stadt #Zürich?
Checke den Velounfallrisiko-Rechner dazu unter 👉 https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/so-gefaehrlich-ist-ihre-zuercher-veloroute-ld.1749405
Chapeau @nzz -Visuals (!) Einmal mehr eine sehr gelungene #OpenData-Anwendung 👏
#ddj #velo #unfall
@WPalant Also, this means that only the sender sees the other reactions? That's kinda weird compared to all the other places that have emoji reactions as a concept.
Bad incentives can suddenly create a larger problem when the context changes, but I'd wager that they were causing less visible problems earlier: if you structure resource allocation so that getting physically someplace early is important, you might get a free-for-all shoving match, but also you might get a fast-walking race which maintains decorum. The latter is still a problem for at least a few reasons (filtering on physical ability, on willingness to take part in a zero-sum game that filters on physical ability, discouraging people from helping others, etc.), but is not a problem that gets reported on as nearly as much as a shoving match would.
I didn't observe this mechanism in events, but in longer-lasting social contexts, where reduction of slack available to participants is usually the trigger that causes them to worsen.
@freemo Why not? Matrix has a concept of room that has moderators, which then contains all the messages including replies-to-replies, so the semantics of moderation match what IMO people expect.
People find it weird, but I don't think it's correct to think of Matrix as a chat protocol. Jabber is a protocol for sending messages, while Matrix is a protocol for synchronizing contents of message lists. If you look at it from this angle, it makes way more sense that Matrix is suited to various "less online"[*] usecases.
[*] Matrix still has some weird failure modes when _homeservers_ are not online enough, but they are being worked on as part of the p2p Matrix version (https://arewep2pyet.com/ mentions them).
@piotrsikora Dobowa zmienność mocy ma niewielkie znaczenie jeśli chodzi o zasilanie lodówek, podgrzewaczy wody i klimatyzacji, ale cała reszta (kuchenki, czajniki, komputery) nadal muszą być zasilane w nocy. Jak działa rozliczanie się z siecią energetyczną jeśli czasami to ty oddajesz moc, a czasami pobierasz?
plpol
W międzyczasie mój znajomy zrobił ~taką symulację:
https://github.com/OnufryW/Dhondt
(Nie bierze ona pod uwagę szansy na bycie języczkiem u wagi w kontekście przekraczania progu wyborczego, bo jej głównym celem jest pokazanie różnic między okręgami.)
@rygorous hmm but a reverse setup also makes sense: let's imagine that prover had an array of statements they can prove and what we want to keep secret is _which_ of them the verifier wanted proven.
I wonder if I'm describing something that's will known under some renaming (or maybe it's just a special case of private retrieval; but it's if maybe strictly simpler than that).
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
