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
Does the Sun constitute overhead lighting?
@danluu Do you mean performance for someone who wants to read the contents only, or who wants to interact with comments too?
Also, Polish has an amusing variety of beams named after letter shapes (teownik, ceownik, zetownik, dwuteownik which IMO should rather be haownik but sadly isn't).
Amusingly, I-beam works only in serifed fonts.
robryk
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incidentally, the two are related; back in late 1800s, when people wanted to manufacture things like typewriters and sewing machines, they didn't have an entire industrial base that would do precision things out of metal on contract available for them
they could, however, hire a gun manufacturer, which is someone who makes precision things out of metal on contract
@irenes @akareilly @ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill
Are they examples of resp. lying and self-deception, or do you feel that they are closer than these two?
Do you know how this looked like during the later 1910s flu pandemic? (It lasted at least 2 years, so even novels should have been affected, but the then very recent Great War might have been a confounder.)
@dalfen @Dandelion I was under e impression that many scents evaluate and thus are not aerosols but simply gases. Am I wrong?
what the fuck
Relatedly, in my area it's in some way illegal (I think civilly) to use tap water for evaporative cooling of buildings.
Additionally to editing the weird file, I request that the weird file contain the before-both version ("conflictStle" set to "diff3").
A thing that bothered me in all (I think) merge tools I've tried is the conflation between the final state I want and something else (i.e. you do something that feels like editing one of the three "inputs" to make it look like the intended state; then the diffs between the various columns change their meaning as soon as I start actually resolving conflicts, so I need to keep track of the state I'm in in my head.
@eta How can you tell that it's side-to-side? Inertial cues?
Would you say that it's strictly more useful than a microwave (assuming you also have a stove and a setup to heat things in a water bath)?
I understand that that's the intended setup, but I wonder what happens when one uses such a converter outside of that setup (either by not providing an LP filter, or by providing a signal with a strong enough higher frequency component so that filter's attenuation is insufficient). Can we get results that are out of the range in which the (LP-filtered) input signal was?
Even above correctness? In my circles the attitude that it's easy to quickly be wrong was always predominant.
How do delta-sigma converters degrade for signals with high frequency components? It's not obvious to me whether they could provide bitstreams that would correspond to lower frequency signals with a higher amplitude (i.e. whether they could exaggerate amplitude).
You might want to be aware of Club Floyd, in which people play IF cooperatively via a MUD (without really using any features of the MUD that aren't present in IRC). https://www.ifwiki.org/ClubFloyd is a good starting point to read about it; I think it's still active.
The reason I mention that is that they have similar requirements to what I'd expect a screen reader user would want, or possibly somewhat stricter ones. That said, the standard approach there is that this does restrict the set of playable games.
Would it make sense to also have people seed that file as a torrent?
If so, it might make sense to compress it using `gzip --rsyncable`, so that subsequent versions are more similar to each other. I've roughly estimated (using first 5%) that this would result in ~1% larger files, so the cost is IMO very small.
@seedyh @LouisIngenthron @peterdrake @freemo
Ah, this seems to be a terribly large backlog. I'm starting to see more posts, delayed by a day or so.
@seedyh @LouisIngenthron @peterdrake @freemo
Also, my own post does not appear in my home timeline (or rather, appears but then disappears upon refresh). That suggests something is still broken, and that we're not dealing just with an aftereffect of something.
@seedyh @LouisIngenthron @peterdrake @freemo
Same thing is happening for me. My home timeline has exactly two posts, both from ~1day ago.
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
