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 receive ~no invite spam on Matrix (not only no message spam, because that's impossible). I'm curious why the amount of invite spam on Matrix is smaller than the amount of /msg spam on IRC.
@sophieschmieg Doesn't TLS have alert messages (sent inside the encrypted stream) for "I'm not going to send anything on this connection anymore and am closing it"?
@agturcz można też ją wrzucić do czajnika (i w ten sposób zmniejszyć liczbę momentów, gdy trzeba coś zrobić)
I wonder what's your opinion on, instead of having the prospective gift-receiver prepublish wishes, having the prospective gift-giver ask them explicitly.
@lcamtuf it does involve backwards time travel (communicating with the daughter from the "tesseract"). I was thinking of e.g. Lem's Return from the Stars
@lcamtuf or it's only time travel forward (e.g. everything that involves large amounts of time dilation).
Braunwald has basically no road connection (there's some narrow winding road, which I'm surprised doesn't have problems with jams caused by inability to pass), which makes this sounds slightly less weird.
I'm amused by the implication that the same helicopter will be used to bring mail up and down.
@mjg59 Now that I think of this some more, I wonder whether it would make sense to have a way to specify rules like "every commit has to be signed in a way that satisfies <foo> or has to be an ancestor of commit <bar>", so that one can do effective rotations of signing keys while not having to trust the repo storage to do all the verification (i.e. while allowing the same verification to happen when e.g. cloning).
That has a weird effect where you cannot repush a commit that was there already, if it got gced in the meantime, and where e.g. accepting a pull request might work differently depending where the source branch is (because it either does or does not involve adding the commits).
SSH certs can expire. What should happen if a commit is signed with a key that had an expiring cert attached? Should we outright reject it (because the signature will become "invalid" for some meaning thereof in the future), accept if it's valid now, accept if it's valid at its stated commit time (and maybe enforce that commits are younger than their parents), or something else?
@mjg59
How does that support in git handle expiry?
@foone Sometimes the device will accept both, or will want AC.
@dunkelstern Huh. I think we had an accidentally grown nut tree that started having single nuts within something like 5 years, but random sources agree with you, so I probably misremember. Thanks.
I wouldn't be so sure. You can get a new one out of this one if only you provide some soil, light, water and wait.
@rephlex00 absolute basics that I found not obvious btw: grab the blanket so that your hands are shielded from the fire and hold it spread out in front while approaching the fire; if using an extinguisher against a fire in a can/basket/hole walk around it so that fire doesn't hide on the near side. If the fire is larger than ~office wastebasket and no people are in danger, escape and alert the fire brigade instead of extinguishing. If able, keep a reserve of the extinguishing agent in case the fire starts back up.
@rephlex00 similarly, learning how to use a fire blanket or an extinguisher (and when not to) can be very useful and the basics take not much more than an hour.
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
