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
@delroth Oh, the other photos seemed as if they were taken while walking over the ice, so I assumed lack of such.
Huh, doesn't it have crevasses then?
Would you say that learning to debug efficiently usually requires learning evidence-based reasoning along the way?
@delroth How deep is the ice layer and how does it get replenished? (I wonder if it slides down and if it has holes.)
@whitequark As a survival strategy, or as a nice-to-have ~optimization?
@rogatywieszcz używam nixosa, więc mam małe repozytorium git z definicją ~wszystkich customizacji
@rygorous But also, this is a good approach when one needs to look at combinations of mostly-independent improvements.
I once got annoyed by people inventing units and used Bq instead of qps at work. :)
That also happens in the other direction sometimes: https://social.wuatek.is/objects/d0531961-2a89-4777-94cd-38f33490a073 :) (@timorl is my neighbour now)
Do you know of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexitarianism? I feel that the wiki article fails to describe a variant where the choice depends mostly on cost/level of incovenience caused by not relying on animals. That is an approach that I mostly have, my threshold of inconvenience above which I ignore is pretty low, and yet I eat mostly vegan due to the power of defaults.
The reason I mention this is that I imagine a person with a similar approach to mine, but slightly better organized and with a slightly higher threshold would eat basically only vegan food[1], but their approach to abortion would be basically unaffected.
[1] I specifically mention only food, because the levels of inconvenience caused by e.g. having to find an alternative to leather hiking boots or woolen shirts are very person-dependent.
Yeah, and Am-241 which is often used there decays into Np-237, which (a) has orders of magnitude larger halflife (b) also alpha-decays.
Was that related in any way to ionization smoke detectors?
The smallest tick on the scale seems to correspond to 100uSv/h (also the units are weird, this should be scaled in something like kerma in air and not does, but I assume this is scaled in dose that water/tissue would absorb), so clearly unhealthy environment to stay in, but you might be able to see some intermittent not-too-unhealthy sources with that (e.g. xray machines have exposure times below a second and give total does of a fraction of uSv, so that gives dose rate of fractions of mSv/h).
Kanalizacja zbiorcza jest gorsza, ale nie uniemożliwia rozsądnego jej oczyszczania. Od ~lat 70tych w Szwajcarii większość(?) rzek i jezior jest wystarczająco czysta, żeby w nich pływać. Nadal w niektórych miejscach (nie udało mi się w 10 minut znaleźć oszacowania w jak wielu) jest kanalizacja zbiorcza. W celu radzenia sobie z ulewami chyba częściej są budowane zbiorniki buforowe przed oczyszczalniami niż osobna kanalizacja burzowa (nie mam dobrych źródeł statystycznych, tylko anekdotycznie widziałem dużo artykułów o budowie takich zbiorników i chyba żadnych o budowie osobnej kanalizacji burzowej).
I'm afraid that causing a _subset_ of software engineers to take that to heart is a recipe for getting those people to leave software engineering :/. I don't see a way of getting into a sustainable state of that kind that doesn't change things in some localized places (single companies, some cities, ...) first, so that one can rely on others having the same attitude there.
Do you mean experience with community or experience with community in an adversarial environment? If former, I would appreciate if you elaborated: my model is that most(?) people have experience with community, albeit often in a kind of "easy mode" (where e.g. tradeoffs between doing things that are beneficial now vs. ones that are beneficial if they became the norm forever are nonexistent or can be ignored).
You might wish to know that Switzerland limits the total area of living-spaces-that-are-not-primary-residences to 20% of living space in every ~county, sadly with some exceptions that might allow more short-term rentals, but only if rent-controlled in some way. (Ref.: https://www.are.admin.ch/are/de/home/raumentwicklung-und-raumplanung/raumplanungsrecht/zweitwohnungen.html)
amatorskie pytanie dotyczące miejsca na dysku twardym
W sensie wolnego miejsca jest mniej niż rozmiar partycji, czy rozmiar partycji jest mniejszy niż rozmiar dysku?
Jeśli pierwsze, to `dumpe2fs -h /dev/partycja` powinien powiedzieć ci, ile jest tam bloków/wolnych bloków/...
Jeśli drugie, to `fdisk -l /dev/dysk` powinien ci powiedzieć, ile która partycja zajmuje i ile jest miejsca niezaalokowanego.
BTW. Czy przypadkiem nie padłeś ofiarą różnicy między GiB a GB?
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
