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
@_dm We often base policies on what's possible to ensure, or possible to prove to an auditor. For example, we might declare that owning a high power laser pointer is illegal, because pointing it at people is something that's hard to prosecute. Isn't this another example of such an approach?
@andyy @wariat @olgamatna @lukyan
Nikogo, jeśli firma umie mnie przekonać, że ostatni wypożyczający zostawił ją w rozsądnym miejscu i została przeniesiona później.
@simonchris1729 Including in movies for children?
@dunderhead @hipsterelectron @halva
Can you think of a way to improve that short description? (I usually find that people who misunderstood something have unobvious phrasing improvement suggestions.)
@szczurtorebkowy chyba każdy kto jeździ samochodem: jeśli dobrze pamiętam to ustrojstwo produkujące gaz do poduszki powietrznej jest wyzwalane zapalnikiem
@mcc What do you mean by index here? I'd guess you mean an usize that you use to index into the string, but that doesn't contain any references.
@phil You can replace the litany of `no-agent-forwarding,no-frobbing,...` with `restrict`.
@delroth Also, if you haven't noticed, the double l got lost along the way :P
@delroth Yup, it also migrated to Czech, Russian, Belarussian, Lithuanian, and Slovak have similar word for this meaning (according to wiktionary, which also claims that it came from German to Polish).
@delroth Compare beletrystyka (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beletrystyka) :)
I assume you're humorously asking for how people view fedi and APub. In that spirit: for me APub is a set of protocols for doing email with mailing lists as first-class citizens.
I think you didn't get the middle one until I sent the top one (or at least the middle one was invisible on your instance's public UI until ~that time -- I checked because this is something that started randomly happening recently; my instance's admins are going to try figuring out what's going on).
Another example of "my post doesn't make it someplace": https://qoto.org/@robryk/113482933819338562
Notably:
1. I did try submitting the post twice, first time I got a toast with "500", so I retried.
2. The post appeared on the target instance after I submitted the self-reply underneath.
Hm~ something somewhere doesn't forward some of my posts to your instance :/ Let's see if that causes the parent post to appear there.
~20yrs ago
I'm pretty sure they were simply using the meme that pre-ww2 stuff was better.
Doesn't butter go rancid in oxygen-free environments too (albeit much more slowly)?
There was a grocery store next to my high school that sold something they advertised as "pre-war butter".
It sounds sane to me. The alternative, where `path("/foo") / "/bar"` would mean "/foo/bar" would be extremely confusing, because we then sometimes _silently_ strip the path of its absoluteness (in second argument of `operator/()`), but in other cases we don't. Another variant that'd be not that confusing for me is having `path("/foo") / "/anything/absolute"` error out in some fashion.
@whitequark how did you arrange for an adequate view and what method of finding root depth did you use?
@cstross I recently wondered whether having lived experience as another gender (at least socially and practically) is something that is significantly helpful in transgender people. You made me curious whether transgender writers think that experience helps them.
On the topic of "the Other": what do you find challenging in writing characters that think very differently than you?
and two other potentially related things (which bother me, resp., less and not at all, but might be clues):
- when I press "load more" on _top_ of my feed, some very old posts get loaded (when I instead reload the UI, top of my feed actually contains newest posts),
- amusingly, the "@robryk" link in the left pane (see screenshot) opens a 404 page in the right pane (instead of my profile page).
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
