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
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.
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).
@freemo [qoto issues]
In the last weeks I see cases when:
- my reply doesn't seem to be propagated to the instance of the person I'm replying to (e.g. https://qoto.org/@robryk/113466284303691885, https://qoto.org/@robryk/113466431766455928, and https://qoto.org/@robryk/113438196768975142),
- a reply made to me doesn't cause a notification to appear (IIRC https://mastodon.social/@_thegeoff/113437771508645893 had that issue).
I don't know if both issues started at the same time. At least in one case of my replies not making their way to the other instance (https://qoto.org/@robryk/113438196768975142) my posts made their way to that instance both before and after, so I would be even more surprised than by default if a relevant blocking relationship existed.
TIL that there's a detective Monk movie released last year.
I'm amused by the various ways (incl. an impatient one) one can read a "when will you too become Swiss?" letter subject.
A study claims to compare giving people same molar amounts of potassium chloride and potassium citrate... (They obviously didn't do that, because potassium citrate has 3 potassium atoms while chloride has 1, so (a) it would make no sense to do that (b) they would need to be exceedingly lucky to so happen to find a potassium dose ratio other than 1:1 that gives indistinguishable effects. They most like mean "moles of potassium" without saying that.)
I just saw a different version of righty-tighty-lefty-loosey: left-liberates-right-restricts.
Die Maus sagte: "Obwohl alle Feuerwehrautos rot sind (...)".
Stimmt das wirklich in Deutschland? In der Schweiz stimmt es nicht, mindestens in der Stadt Zürich.
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.
TIL that work hardening during machining may have nothing to do with increased temperature (at least according to implications of wikipedia).
robryk
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80s: The A-Team
90s: MacGyver
00s: Mythbusters
10s: The Martian
What's today's kids' reference for "locked in a room with a bunch of random stuff and a problem to solve"? Asking for a high school science technician...
ISTM that the transformation that #rust does to bodies of async functions to split them into pieces-between-await-calls requires unsafe blocks (if we hold a ref from one block to another, the ref remains valid only by virtue of !Unpin around its target and so we start relying on things that cannot be expressed in the type/lifetime system for safety).
Is there a macro library/something that would allow me to do something similar _without writing unsafe myself_?
WTAF. Firefox has "sponsored shortcuts" on new tab page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy
@rysiek who I think might be ~interested
robryk
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Serious question to people born on 1970-01-01: Did you ever encounter weird IT related issues due to your dob?
Sharing encouraged, because I'm genuinely curious
Apparently Geberit doesn't want to sell spare parts to people other than their "certified technicians". When (If?) will the new #righttorepair legislation in EU force them to do otherwise at least in the EU?
What's the mechanism that creates these apparent horizontal lines in the cloud? #meteorology
@freemo there are some toots that don't appear in my timeline (even though I follow people who publish them) and that give a "500" error with no additional descriptive text when I search for them using the search interface. An example is https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/112772710128720822
So we seemingly don't know why washers are called washers: https://www.etymonline.com/word/washer#etymonline_v_25445
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
