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
The reasoning of those volunteers was different: the expected time until adverse effects was longer than their expected remaining lifespan, so they were likely not to suffer any health issues.
@IPEdmonton @elana I can't seem to find the link
@greenpete @thomasfuchs you mean electrolytic or some other kind? (I don't know of any specific smell associated with burning/exploding any capacitors other than electrolytic.)
@bonifartius but how does that explain different directions of rotation? From what I understand you are saying that the torque from wind will vary between positive and negative over one rotation. I would expect that to cause oscillations.
@bonifartius how? I would understand if it rotated always in the same direction. I don't understand what changes to cause it to sometimes rotate in one and sometimes in other direction.
@timorl it is mounted on top only, so it seems unlikely that the axis is not vertical
#physics riddle
My parents have a garden ornament that contains a "vertical spiral thingy" that can freely[^] rotate. When wine blows, it sometimes rotates clockwise and sometimes counterclockwise. What gives? When it has rotated by 180 deg it should be in the same position as if the wind was blowing in the opposite direction (the cage around it nonwithstanding), so I'd expect it to always rotate in the same direction, or to oscillate.
Some videos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CQWvBBggW4jXQPKZ9
[^] there might be some weird hysteresis there, because it's basically a wire that slips in a hole
@JoshuaACNewman @donmccurdy @techghoul
It trusts SGX: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
So, it is sending contact lists in such a way that they cannot be extracted without a collusion between Signal and Intel.
@futurebird seeing magnetic fields would also let you tell at roughly what latitude you are
It doesn't even need to freeze: max density of water is at four degrees and it gets less dense as it cools further down.
If you mean it getting bigger when it freezes: ability to make snowballs, IIUC ability to skate and deep refuge for fishes when lakes freeze over.
@cadey
Or nand ("drink or drive")
So both him and the unnamed 17-year-old stalked people?
very silly
Well, they must always be charged, or they wouldn't be polar :)
@_dm control arm of unprompted people or unprompted people who also didn't search?
@_dm the paper's text talks about differences between experiment arms which were or weren't prompted to search though (contrary to figure labels). Do you know which thing they actually measured?
@_dm have you figured out whether they were looking at the effect of searching, or effect of being prompted to search?
@lauren isn't the main problem with mercury not acute toxicity, but that it doesn't leave the body once absorbed?
very silly
Which end of the polar bear is positively charged?
@b0rk it's kinda hard to follow this advice when the problem is "there is no consistent model how this should work": any single problem you have can be fixed by one more epicycle it by just knowing about this one more piece of usually helpful magic. (Examples that I encountered recently: systemd-resolved and choosing which interface to use for a request, nix flakes' treating top level of flakes specially.)
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
