robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@brandon @stfn

A set of random people on the internet (after excluding ones that say things that can't be real) is reasonably unanimous in claiming that it's because co2 is in some way "soluble" in solid rubber. See e.g. https://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may98/895552329.Ch.r.html

Thank you, I learned something new.

@brandon @stfn

Why can CO2 leak (I guess that's what you mean) through a valve easier than air?

@grimalkina

Which meaning of safe do you refer to? (Not risking some form of ostracism, having resources to do so without sacrificing more basic needs, not being prevented from seeing outcomes of your choices, or something still different?)

@rysiek

One thing that I'd dearly like to see is a separation between equivalents of MUA and MTA. In e-mail, your mail client actually operates on emails and not some abstraction level placed on top of emails by the MTA. This lack of separation contributes to whole fedi sending around only Create Note messages, because people cannot create any other messages. It also prevents people from viewing APub objects of nonpublic posts, because Mastodon doesn't expose an API where it would proxy a query to a remote server for you, but once again places its own abstractions over it.

I think this wish has something to do with the way Mastodon is developed, and would be more likely to come true in a world you describe. (I've seen Mastodon PRs assume ~unchallenged that Mastodon will interact with Mastodon only (or things that will try to emulate Mastodon exactly).)

Eh, why does the most recent #Sachgeschichte consequently use value and cost interchangeably~~~

@whitequark Because creating a fake agenda to present instead of the real one is harder (and thus rarer) than not presenting any and hiding the real one?

@steffo

I might be old fashioned, but concept of user statuses that are visible to ~all their contacts. For people who don't meet each other IRL all that often this is a way to notice that the other is involved in something that you'd want to talk about.

@mcc @ecn

Sox shares the same pattern fwiw (and I vaguely remember some document/image/... converter doing the same, but can't recall which one).

@grimalkina

IMO Agda or Forth.

@TechConnectify @root42

A friend of mind had a 3-phase tankless water heater that would, depending on water flow, either connect some resistors between phases and ground (getting 230V on each) or across phases (getting 400V on each)[1]. I don't know whether stoves did anything of that sort.

[1] We found this out in a very amusing way: the setup was kinda borked, in that the main circuit breaker for the house wasn't ganged. If you tripped one phase only in that CB, you'd get some lowish (<100V) voltage on that phase if you opened a hot water tap to the correct degree. Thus, in that state the hot water tap controlled ~a third of the lights in the place.

@freemo

Putting "https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112328384373243115" in qoto's searchbar results in an error toast saying "500". When I look at network requests involved, I see a request to "https://qoto.org/api/v2/search?q=https:%2F%2Fmas.to%2F%40TechConnectify%2F112328384373243115&resolve=true&limit=5" returning an error page with status code 500.

@TechConnectify

I would intuitively rather refer to them as Joule farms, so I'm probably not seeing some pun here. If there is one, can you explain it?

@HitokiriEric @RickiTarr

I could imagine it making sense if it created bubbles behind whatever it is that we're trying to clean (e.g. if the thing that's dirty is porous). However, that would not happen unless the bicarbonate made its way there, which would ~only happen if it was pre-dissolved, not added as a powder to vinegar (in which case you'd end up neutralizing it very close to the powder grains it's dissolving from). (Or am I overestimating the reaction speed compared to diffusion speed?)

Now this made me curious whether putting stuff in soda water under pressure, letting it soak it in, and releasing the pressure, could be a halfway sensible way to clean things.

@sundogplanets

How well maintained is that website?

I've looked at a random low-speed close pass between two payloads it has shown, and it claimed that "41963U 0 FLOCK 3P 27" and "41964U 0 FLOCK 3P 25" are the satellites that will pass by each other (full text that was displayed: https://paste.sr.ht/~robryk/2403f065780b51d04a6068f104b0da3302968ce2). My web search yielded multiple sites claiming that both had decayed (resp. in 2022 and 2023). Am I reading that wrong?

@cstross

I'd really like to see more novels published with commentary alongside (i.e. in footnotes or in some other way that makes it easy to refer to while reading), with a much broader range of topics than the one you mention (also describing the reason for slightly puzzling situations, references that have aged out, and also simply commentary). I've seen that done consistently only in the Bible, and I really liked it when I saw it in iirc a bilingual edition of Alice in the Wonderland.

@dpiponi

Do you think there's a reason to learn planar geometry? I ask because the standard reason given is that it is a good way to learn about semi-rigorous proofs, auch seems similar to "makes one reason better".