(Swiss)Germans are completely mad about food.

It’s their culture to complain about everything, except food. All they care about is that it’s as bland as possible and has big portions. If you manage that, they’ll give you five stars every time.

I spent 3 years living in Germany, and not only can you not get anything spicy for love nor money, they also don’t use herbs. It just blows my mind. They’re physically so close to France and Italy, but the food is so far away.

I’m at this point too. I think the next step is to just declare sock bankruptcy again and throw everything out and start over.

Pi is predictable and deterministic.

Computer programs exist that can tell you what the next digit is. That means it’s deterministic, and running the program will give you a prediction for each digit (within the memory constraints of your computer).

The fact that it’s deterministic is exactly why pi is interesting. If it was random it would typically be much easier to prove properties about it’s digits.

No. 1011001110001111… (One 1, one 0, two 1s, two zeros…) Doesn’t contain repeating patterns. It also doesn’t contain any patterns with ‘2’ in it.

But pi is believed to be normal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

So it should contain all finite patterns an infinite number of times.

Work socks as well.

They’re socks that go with construction boots. Basically the same as hiking socks but cheaper.

Both. It’s like the saying “Governing a big country is like cooking small fish.” (With the explanation that if you keep poking it, it’ll disintegrate) also taught me how to cook fish as well as realpolitik.

The fish advice was most useful.

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Is buddy really a problem?

I’d be more worried that someone thinks I’m treating them like a dog, than a man.

If you don’t know about it, check out https://wordnet.princeton.edu/

It’s a great starting point for any English word hierarchy.

More generally any personal data obtained from a third party. E.g. if you’re generating a credit score you might contact someone else with a record of financial transactions.

Yeah I thought you’d ask this. Basically they’ll never do this, just because their attitude is “fuck you I’m a bank”.

Beyond this, there’s a big difference between source code and having a working system.

For very long running systems their state depends very heavily on how they were maintained, little bits of informal design decisions that get components working together, and the order stuff was loaded in, and what other services were up and running when you booted up.

None of this magic is captured by source code, and it can make even setting up a replacement server, even as part of the same infrastructure really hard.

Of course banks are moving to more modern dev methods that encourages turnkey deployment, but the fact that they still rely on a bunch of COBOL code tells you there’s a lot of very old system running in “do not touch” mode

It wouldn’t matter much.

Most of what a bank does isn’t on your phone, but server side.

In fact most bank apps could be replaced with an internal web browser that is pointing at their website, and a password manager, with no loss in functionality or change in security.

And if you’d like to review the client side code the bank is using you can just open dev mode in your browser, right now.

Doom on the switch was amazing for this. I tried to play Doom eternal on the ps4, afterwards, and it was just such a disappointment because it didn’t have gyro.

Did you have symptoms from low vitamin d, and how long did they take to resolve?

Garmin does that too if you want to buy something from a company that still exists.

Because any detector has to be based on machine learning you can open source all code providing you keep model weights and training data private.

But there’s a fundamental question here, that comes from Lemmy being federated. How can you give csam detecting code/binaries to every instance owner without trolls getting access to it?

Some instances will be run by trolls, and blackbox access is enough to create adversarial examples that will bypass the model, you don’t need source code.

Probably bad.

It makes the desolation of the UK less likely, which as a non-scott I like, because it’s good having the Scottish people about.

But, honestly, Scottish independence didn’t look that likely anyway, and it was good having two large centre left parties about (SNP and Labour) because it kept things honest.

What it probably means is a large swing to Labour in the next election, because most Scotts would rather shoot themselves in the head than vote Tory.

That sounds like a bug.

Software can theoretically recover location by searching.

Like my TV hasn’t moved in the last 3 years, if any app searching for Bluetooth sees it they can know where I am.

You don’t need to what?

Location services have to be turned on in Android whenever you’re searching for Bluetooth devices.

This isn’t because they’re necessarily using your location but because scanning Bluetooth/wifi devices could be used to localise you.

As far as I can tell, Garmin does not use location on the phone. Weather updates come through the phone’s internet connection but only work based on the watch location.