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
@zandra I have a setup with magnets for attaching an inflatable buoy to a belt and the difference between the closest magnet on the belt being on different sides of the belt is the difference between it working well when I run and it falling off with nearly every step.
Hacky solution: add something very thin inbetween the two magnets (e.g. a sheet of paper folded a few times). The force after all decreases pretty rapidly with distance.
@phil I don't see how they intend to clue the user on the expected alignment (and current misalignment) in the hidden version.
From a skim of the video I expect that placing a moral equivalent of a wire loop next to/around an appliance would cause that to heat up. I'm not sure how much energy would get sunk into e.g. a large knife lying to the side.
Did the yellow-green transition look more sharp than e.g. yellow-red with your eyes too?
What's distance field doing exactly? (It doesn't seem to be "distance to closest pixel that's lit in the input", because the lit pixels from the original texture -- which would end up with the same value then -- disappear at different points in time in the threshold step.)
So what is represented by the repetition count? Is it an intended weighing to compensate for something else or what?
It's less than if the lid was black, which it usually is.
The important part in the original post is that we're giving the two helium atom a choice of two _same for both_ states. If one of them is here~ish and the other is 1km~ish away, they are nearly perfectly distinguishable (which does not mean that they aren't identical).
Coming back to "atoms in the body are replaced", this is most obviously effectful for carbon: C14 is unstable, so as long as that replacement is going on you have around the same ratio of C12 to C14 as the environment around you. Once you die, as long as you don't decompose (and thus stop exchanging carbon with the environment), the amount of C14 will go down as it decays, which is what makes carbon dating possible.
Actually, how well known is Verne's Mysterious Island?
When I tried to make sense of reasonable doses (fwiw I take 1mg/day in a supplement and my milk, yoghurt, and cheese replacements are fortified to levels iirc similar to the originals) I've encountered descriptions of reasons for low levels. There is apparently an efficient food->blood transport that's broken in some people (in whom this is the reason for the low level in blood). There's also a ~100x times less efficient transport by, afair, just straight up diffusion, so one approach (but the least well studied iiuc) for those people is to give them absurdly massive doses orally (the better studied approach to treating those people is IM injections).
Related: "Are you sure you want to cancel" dialog, where in some localizations the "yes, cancel" and "no, cancel cancelling" buttons end up with the _same_ label, because the translator never saw them side by side (or maybe even the same translator didn't translate both, as the generic "cancel" one was likely translated way earlier).
YMMV, but I never found it hard to get supplements of B12 only in Poland or Switzerland (I mostly eat vegan, so I need to take them, eat things fortified with B12, or both), but had to specifically ask (and specifically ask for a nontiny dose).
robryk
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I'm looking for a student for an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Calgary. *This is a fully funded position.*
The project: building tools to help understand how "retro" video games were made under amazingly constrained circumstances. While it's a CS position, this is interdisciplinary work done in collaboration with archaeologists and others.
Needs: strong coding skills, good writing abilities. Ideally: low-level, reverse engineering, or compiler experience.
robryk
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Durch meine Inkompetenz habe ich jetzt in drei Wochen eine B2-Deutschprüfung. Mein Deutsch ist nicht ganz schrecklich, aber ich schreibe gar nicht gut, und jetzt muss ich schnell üben. Darum werde ich in diesem Pfad (sagt man “Pfad” oder “Thread” eigentlich?) jeden Tag bis dann etwas schreiben.
Wenn jemand Fehler oder so bemerkt, wird ich ganz dankbar sein für Hinweise.
Also, the aged username and password part and the not-so-aged port part.
TIL that work hardening during machining may have nothing to do with increased temperature (at least according to implications of wikipedia).
Ah, right, I confused the direction of electronegativity (I think; you chelate lots of other metals using sodium or potassium salts after all).
Ok, so this should be making the solution basic, so could be easy to disprove.
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
