Notices by Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la), page 2
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Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 16:18:27 UTC 
Hallå Kitteh
@dtluna @scolobb I agree to a reasonable degree. Have you verified that the reference kilo in France, the laser definition of the meter and the density of water at the triple point agree with what your physics table says? -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 16:17:05 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@dtluna No, you built up a strawman.
> You're saying that no individual can figure out things on their own.
Yes.
> That is to say that YOU KNOW THAT NOTHING CAN BE KNOWN. This is contradiction.
No. It just means that we stand on the shoulders of giants. You cannot figure things out on your own because you don't have centuries to do it. Things can be known, but only if we start with the assumption that we already know some things.
If something doesn't smell right about the things we thought we already knew, maybe because of new observations, or just because of new angles of looking at things, we can go back and verify the chain. People do it all the time, and sometimes it leads to new breakthroughs.
But if all people are doing it all the time, there will be no time for new science and no time for new breakthroughs. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 14:44:11 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@cwebber Sounds silly, but, hey, computers amirite.
I'm guessing it needs to load all code and then chooses some paths in runtime, but I haven't looked inside tzinfo.
It is my belief that what setup does is compile, generate and copy things, and any missing setup should only result in missing files, not a type mismatch or compilation phase mismatch or whatever this is. But I'm open for improved knowledge. :-)
"tzinfo" sounds a package that should be in use by a lot of other packages, and so shouldn't have obvious bugs. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 14:37:14 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@cwebber Or hm, no that's internal to zoneinfo talking to itself. You're probably right, I just don't know enough to understand why. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 14:35:57 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@cwebber No, that just looks like you got further in the process to uncover a previously shadowed error. I'm guessing gregor hasn't been updated for a long time? -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 14:35:02 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@cwebber Wohoo, you helped me discover an uncovered source type in racket2nix!
https://github.com/fractalide/racket2nix/issues/143 -
ꙮ❌Only Imani 🌽ꙮ (imani@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jun-2018 22:42:12 UTC 
ꙮ❌Only Imani 🌽ꙮ
https://medium.com/@dr_eprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01
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Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 11:40:00 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@h @alcinnz I imagine the Nordic countries all have a similar story. I'm surprised and impressed than Finland seems to be doing IPv6.
What does "doing IPv6" mean in this graph? Google receiving mainly or a significant amount of IPv6 traffic?
Either way I can say about Sweden that national ISPs generally understand and somewhat promote IPv6, or at least individuals inside their organizations do. These ISPs all support IPv6. But they reach their customers through DSL and municipal fiber networks, and some corporate fiber or cable networks, and all of those categories generally do not support IPv6 at all. A few networks do. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 11:02:17 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@dtluna You have taken my vague, conversational human language and chosen to interpret it as a statement of precise logic. This is not good faith communication, it's debate wankery. -
Kit Redgrave 🕯 (kitredgrave@glitch.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 02:21:38 UTC 
Kit Redgrave 🕯
@Fenreliania google should have never stopped doing blobs
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Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:56:41 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@dtluna It's only a contradiction if you deal in absolutes. This is not a mathematical proof.
"It seems to me that knowing any subject up to our modern level of knowledge, working entirely from first principles, is a ridiculous amount of work that you won't finish in time." is what you should interpret my words as, not "I can prove in no uncertain terms that you can't prove things in no uncertain terms.". -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:53:13 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@dtluna What can I say? Life is full of these ambiguities. ;-)
I'm reasonably convinced that reasonably convinced is as knowing as you can reasonably be about a subject, unless you make it your life's work to really know that one subject from the ground up.
And I just have other problems I want to solve in my short time here. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:50:27 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@h @alcinnz Sweden is an old-timer on the net and a small country, so it simply has a boatload of IPv4 and has been able to kick the can down the road. It's a disgrace, really, but easily explained.
South Korea surprises me. I would have assumed that they would have been using mostly IPv6 for years. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:48:21 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@dtluna Yes. It took us hundreds of years to get to this point. You are saying that you can figure out things from first principles, but I simply don't believe you.
By coincidence, I was reminded the other day by the surveillance machine that I had posted in 2014:
"I prefer my simplifications of how the world works to yours."
I still stand by that -- it's as good as it gets. State with confidence what you believe to be reasonably true, as long as you are willing to adjust it as you discover its blatant flaws as compared to reality.
Or you can do everything from first principles, do all the proofs on your own, and you'll never even reach the level of da Vinci, because there is so much more we know we don't know today than there was back then. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:43:04 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@dtluna You really can't though. If you think you can, you've just put some alternative absolutes in there without noticing, and it feels more true and self-taught because it's contrarian. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:40:27 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@dtluna The easiest way to control that individual is to provide them with an absolute fact sheet. Isn't that what you are accusing state school of doing? -
Quad 🌸 (quad@weeaboo.space)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:22:54 UTC 
Quad 🌸
@lain Also have you tuned GitLab. I recommend you lower unicorn workers to 2. Set sidekiq workers to only a couple (Instead of the default overkill 25 or whatever it was). And disable the Prometheus monitoring plugin.
You often shave of a nice gig of ram simply by doing that. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:34:55 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
Kenneth Arrow (of the Impossibility Theorem) wrote a book "The Limits of Organization". It's on the Internet Archive!
https://archive.org/details/TheLimitsOfOrganization
David MacIver calls it "an extremely well written and brief non-mathematical introduction to the economic factors driving the formation of organisations." and came out all excited at the other end of the 80 pages of it.
https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1004784081941524481 -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:06:59 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
@dtluna
> why do we see the "nothing is certain", "nothing is black and white" attitude?
That's the counterreaction to people's willingness to put things into boxes and never look back.
If you see lots of signs saying "please don't hang your clothes to dry in the public park", that's an indication that people tend to do that -- otherwise the sign wouldn't be there.
> The State loves when people have their mind clouded by ambiguities.
State good. Anarchy bad. People's mind clouded by ambiguities is another way of saying that people are thinking for themselves. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 10:04:40 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
https://hackernoon.com/my-journey-into-mastodon-three-ish-days-of-overcoming-friction-d8d80285c23c
Coming to the Fediverse there are a lot of choices to make and you don't really have the information to make them.
It's easy for those of us who have been here for a decade to go "oh, just start somewhere, you'll get the hang of it and *then* you can make an informed choice", but for a newcomer that initial overwhelming experience may be enough to drive them off indefinitely.
Not sure what to do about it. "Just tell people to go to mastosoc" is *not* the solution.
/by @indrora
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