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
Naming _a particular employee_ a DEI hire implies that their identity affected the decision to hire them at some stage. That implication is socially corrosive and insulting for many people.
Do you have a context where "DEI hire" can be used in a noninsulting way?
Wydaje mi się, że widziałem "syjoniści" użyte w znaczeniu "zwolennicy Izraela <w jakimś kontekście/konflikcie>".
First thoughts: interesting question -- a variant of the "why is sky black" paradox that still appears to work in finite universe.
What direction would you expect the pull to go in? Everything appears to be pulled (after taking into account space expansion) away from us? I'm not sure whether that would actually be possible to be the experience of every observer, and I expect that this is a way to figure this puzzle out.
Anyway, I should be sleeping, so will think about this in the coming day(s).
Also, using that as a gotcha or a reason to shame encourages keeping up appearances, which decreases levels of honesty. More insidiously, it can create positive feedback loops, when someone would benefit from others' help in reducing the amount of mess, but is too ashamed to ask for it.
@raphaelmorgan @hacks4pancakes
I wonder whether the ability to have non-familial connections is getting better or worse in different areas. E.g. when I was a kid, we had "the Grandma" as a neighbour. She was actually a grandma (I was friends with her two grandchildren), but she was also a grandma to ~every child living in the vicinity. I also remember a semi-retired gardener, who ran a tiny gardening store two streets away, whom I'd randomly visit every so often on the way home from school. I now live in a different country, so can't really see changes of that _over time_.
Have you maybe tried the same with "fellows"? I'm somewhat unsure of how people perceive it.
@patcharcana Have you read stories by Hal Clement? They are ~all science fiction with same physics as we have, but in very weird environments. I think they might be useful to make you notice more interesting parameters of the environment (and maybe ways of noticing more).
Hm~ once you have a hole, do you intend to mount a (wooden?) cane rod in it using wooden wedges?
I started to wonder whether adhering things to obsidian by heating it to ~its glass transition temperature would work and gotten nerd sniped into reading about metal-glass seals. Thanks.
I don't really have any suggestions (apart from the likely obvious warning to think about thermal stresses), but am curious how was it shaped into the ball shape in the first place.
Also, even for things that are beneficial, there are incentives to make them appear more beneficial potentially at the expense of actual benefit (c.f. various dashboard and extraneous-but-flashy functionality).
Do you think such incentives don't apply to internal security teams, or that they are (relatively) much weaker?
@mcc Unless it's a single tube portable AC unit I don't think it's ever impossible and I would be surprised if was impossible without tinkering.
@mcc can your AC be made not to ventilate, but only pass internal air through a heat exchanger?
The way this fails to match up with intuitive meaning of boredom is that it claims that white noise is the least boring thing possible.
<rhetorical>So how would they have people explain the shape of reentry vehicles?</rhetorical> (Which wouldn't be stable if most _braking_ wouldn't come from compression in front of vehicle.)
@kuba it's traditional to put up a flag of your origin on your ogródek działkowy in Switzerland
@cell what sounds do the three circles represent?
What's the mechanism that creates these apparent horizontal lines in the cloud? #meteorology
It doesn't listen on HTTP{S,} at all.
@WPalant I thought a common argument was "They are likely to fail to make something better while succeeding at making it appear better".
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
