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
@whitequark the "used to be like this" version
This looks more like what my scope would show (esp. in DSO mode with "line join" enabled).
This seems similar to the approach in Switzerland: here such raised sidewalks crossing an intersection also affect right of way on the intersection (vehicles from the road that crosses the sidewalk must yield to everyone else as if they were entering traffic from a stop), which (IMO, I don't have real evidence) reinforces the expectation that they pay more attention.
One should represent the hashes as sequences of emoji, so that they are more visually distinctive. :P
Does this mean that constituencies where the result is closer have higher turnout?
The blood donation phlebotomists (in CH) reportedly have a rule to swap with a colleague after one failed attempt.
robryk
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#Astronomy / #Astrophysics folk: are modern spectrometry techniques able to discriminate chirality in molecules?
https://physicsworld.com/a/scientists-identify-a-sugar-world-beyond-neptune/
I wanted to ask whether this is a difference between clean cut amputation and amputation associated with lots of destruction on both sides, so will piggy back on your question.
It is a thing, though not very common, in Poland ("demobil"/"z demobilu" are Polish terms used to indicate stuff from military surplus).
Also: "Hello, stranger"
s/currently work in infosec/currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes)/
I'm curious what kind of device that was. I also wonder how often that would actually break the device, by virtue of e.g. badly designed bootloader entry.
@Ange
Do deflate and gzip count? They have different headers, but iirc are identical apart from that.
Yes, so that there are two pieces of protection against touching half-inserted pins (all plugs must have half-insulated pins now, and outlets must have depressions).
But these will takes lots of time to age out of apartments.
Hm, you are right. I must have misread the manpage (I thought it claimed that it's a POSIX-mandated utility).
I would use `getent passwd`, which is apparently expected by POSIX (but I don't know whether POSIX prescribes its output format).
The problem there was that helium diffuses through everything extremely easily. If you had a diffusion-related problem with air at e.g. 2x higher pressure, it would simply manifest ~2x more slowly at normal pressure.
"Bunch of things became possible" is positive or negative depending on how you evaluate desirability of each of those things and how you evaluate the tradeoff (compare: different opinions about nuclear power, surveillance technology, encryption, extremely easy ways to publicize parts of one's daily life).
@mcc Chromatic aberration would usually have colors in different order :). This looks like a couple of reflections from a stack of thin layers (or like a graphics glitch:)).
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
