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
@b0rk Out of curiosity, why does the "do a fastforward merge" tip not use `--ff-only`? (I would expect it to, because that makes the situation less confusing if an ff merge is impossible. But maybe brevity won out?)
BTW. I really like that you mention `--force-with-lease` over `--force` (especially that I keep forgetting the name of the flag for the former).
I would guess that the main risk comes from blows to the valve (which enjoys a significant but incomplete protection from that collar).
Where do you try to run it?
I'm somewhat amused that you complained about the queue and promptly contributed to its growth. :)
Thanks for the recommendation.
Do you want to see the whole graph in one view, with each node having some (editable) position, or do you envision some other visual representation?
I'm asking because you mention thousands of nodes, and that seems like something that can be wieldy in single-sheet setup only if it's really sparse.
Clumpiness needs some notion of scale: at some scale, a big ball of water is extremely clumpy, because most of it is ~empty and there are some very heavy nuclei strewn around. At more coarser scale, it's very uniform.
(At sufficiently coarse scales ~everything becomes uniformish, but the coarseness of that scale depends on the thing and IMO there might be multiple changes back-and-forth below that.)
Also, printers tend to print confidential information.
"The spectral wolf fears only fire. The Google Maps team can no longer help, but if you master the wolf, he will guide you. Godspeed."
I never really understood why: signal strength of brain compared to everything else is not used diagnostically. I don't think PET is so close to the acceptable SNR boundary that the amount of "shiny glucose" this takes away from everywhere else matters (or am I wrong?). Or does this introduce variations _within_ the brain that might be confusing?
Also, _good luck_ getting some people not to think too hard :)
@timorl https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTransZone/comments/zo56jm/collects_gender_this_is_a_surprise_tool_that_will/ ?
(Though it's very likely not the original copy of it~)
Sadly one of the MS blog migrations got rid of all the comments :/
Static or dynamic?
If dynamic: it's really neat to see that magnetic field is caused by Lorentz contraction applying differently to charges moving in different directions.
From the area of misconceptions: the concept of EM waves that can travel through space far away from any charges and that carry energy with them is somewhat nonobvious, and is worth exploring on its own. (This is much more apparently weird when you consider lumped circuits: capacitative or inductive coupling between circuit parts there appears very distinct from EM radiation.)
You mean shooters where you play against people or against bots?
What's the dial on the probe?
Today in people are nice:
I saw a small corvid that was sitting suspiciously motionlessly on a kerb. I was running for a short distance, so didn't even have a phone with me. Before I could think of whether I should go back for my phone and a box (and hope the bird didn't hide) or ring a random doorbell a woman with a cardboard box appeared.
Best stick to things around iron: ~everything below iron in atomic number can be fused. Things sufficiently above iron can be taken apart for energy (though sometimes we have found no way to catalyze that).
What's the difference between a road for cars that's red and one that's not? Should one expect a separate bike path right next to the latter (and thus ~no bikes on the latter)?
@phil Nope, GPS was right. They made tiles from OSM once and didn't refetch them for years while the tram network was built out.
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
