timorl @timorl@qoto.org

My friend is a very good floutist and she just uploaded some music I really liked, so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfaH76cHvpE . Somewhat instance-appropriate, her project is called Flute Infinity: www.fluteinfinity.com . #music

@Merristasis Oh, and of course if you'd like some help with the transition feel free to message me here. :>

@Merristasis There are two very different financially approaches to veganism, you either eat heavily processed food (like all the meat substitutes and whatnot) or not. The former is much more expensive, but the latter requires more time for meal preparation. If you go with the latter you should probably still drink some fortified plant milks, which are a bit expensive, but their cost should be offset by the lower cost of other food (pulses as a source of protein mainly). Other than that just remember to get some B12 supplements, and possibly D too (although you should've probably taken the latter regardless of your diet, if you are in non-southern France).

I also second @yojimbo 's opinion, you can do this in steps to easen the burder (although I quit cold turkey and it wasn't that hard either).

@MrJimmy Duuh, it's all the math there is, have you guys not heard about Gödel numbering?

@myconidiosyncracy Dune is brilliant, it's one of the two books that temporarily altered my basic perception of reality. For a couple of weeks after reading it I was struck with awe everytime I saw a body of water.

The drawback is that the book conveys the aridity of the world so well, that I don't remember almost anything else about it. There was some psychodelic drug and something about not sitting with your back to the door, but I remember literally nothing else.

@Shamar Ugh, that reminds me of the time when I was trying to work within the Polish Pirate Party. Most of the people were nice and had good ideas (duh), but one guy in particular was very disruptive to any constructive work. Add to that problems with being a really small party, so the biggest portion of our workhours went towards maintenance stuff, and I eventually gave up and left.

Saddest part to me is that the disruptive guy was possibly the most enthusiastic about the party, but his extremely cynical worldview make him argue for very strange ideas about how to run the party. They kept not working, and no one had any time left to pursue other ideas, so it was a mess. :/

@freemo I'm not sure how to see the posts there without logging in, but based on your description I guess they are TERF's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF . Key quote: "These feminists, mainly second-wave feminists, perceive trans men as "traitors" to womanhood and trans women as "infiltrators"."

This seems like a pretty natural stance for radical feminists that consider gender to be based purely on non-brain biology, but it still makes me a bit sad.

@mngrif I'm using it and it's fine for casual browsing, but I kind of suspect it's missing some features I don't even know about. Also, it doesn't show custom emojis, not sure how normal that is for an app.

@freemo Ah well, I suspect you will post any public progress here, so I will stay tuned. :>

@freemo So what is the blockchain stuff you are working on?

Feel free to ask me about Aleph, although I'm under an NDA about some things that are not public. Thankfully, this pertains mostly details of the implementation that is currently being developed.

@freemo

The jars with papers inside represent a permutation, every piece of paper points to the next jar in the permutation, say we number the jars from left to right. As all permutation, this one can be represented as a collection of cycles. Two key insights about these cycles:
1. Every cycle containing the jar numbered $k$ neccessarily contains the piece of paper with $k$ written on it, otherwise it wouldn't be a cycle.
2. At most one cycle has length greater than $50$.
With these insights the solution is simple. Your assistant looks at the whole permutation, and if any of the cycles has length greater than $50$ they switch the pieces of paper to break the cycle in half. They do nothing if there are no big cycles. Now you get told the number you are looking for and go for the jar numbered with it. Afterwards just trust the pieces of paper to lead you to the correct jar.

Thanks for this puzzle, solving it gave me a very needed confidence boost. *smugness incoming* Especially since I didn't even need to use paper.

@freemo With pleasure, although my response times withing the next couple of days might vary wildly. It should get better around Monday.

Aleph released the proof-of-concept implementation: https://gitlab.com/alephledger/proof-of-concept ! I helped writing it, so this is a bit of a brag.

Transaction validation time was ~6s with 256 machines all around the world, so pretty nice. Since then, we have been working on a proper implementation in Go (this one I am even more involved in), but it'll take a while before it's published.

#cryptocurrency #alephzero

@freemo what is your reasoning behind setting up a discourse instance? I thought these work best when focused on a specific topic, and I cannot see what this topic would be in QOTO's case.