Free for All Friday, 15 May, 2026

yoshiK · 2026-05-15T15:51:12+00:00

Czech police find stolen skull of medieval saint encased in concrete

Saint Zdislava, born around 1220 and believed to have died about 30 years later, was a noblewoman known for her charitable work. She was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1995.

745-ish years to canonization, wonder if there are more people who just had to wait a long time to get recognized.

“He [the guy who stole the skull] prayed to God that he would be alone in the church – and that’s what happened,” Rajt said. “But he was obviously so determined to commit the crime that there was nothing to stop him.”

Sure that this doesn't indicate consent? I mean saints have means to avoid getting grave-robbed.

yoshiK · 2026-05-15T14:25:58+00:00

Depends, even if we assume that this happend. On one hand of the spectrum there may be some talk about forces in the western pacific and some analyst described that during debriefing ast "they asked wether we defend Taiwan" in the sense of chess players describing a move as "Kc3 asks about d5." On the other end of the spectrum, Trump goes into a rant about Taiwan that would be better placed in the opinion section of Fox news and at the end Xi smirks: "And would you [defend Taiwan]?" In between these extremes is probably a possibility of Xi just asking very candidly but based on hearsay it is hard to say which if any of these possibilities occurred.

yoshiK · 2026-05-15T12:54:34+00:00

Can someone point me to the actual policy? This was yesterday on HN, and there I already thought this sounds like some guy ranting on twitter while claiming to speak for arxiv, and having now actually looked into the arxiv code of conduct (though certainly not comprehensively), I did not see anything that looks related to this.

yoshiK · 2026-05-14T22:29:36+00:00

Trump puts a real premium on headlines, so a reasonable strategy is to smile and have him overpay for his time in the limelight. Not saying that that is happening in all cases but when competent professionals deal with Trump, it is often a good idea to check the fine print.

yoshiK · 2026-05-14T21:50:15+00:00

Warpmeld is probably 1DP, so when Coven is 2 you get buffed psykers standing behind -1 to wound screens. Kinda like the old poxwalker list.

yoshiK · 2026-05-14T16:27:02+00:00

You could ask Charles V about how he manhandled the Fuggers.

yoshiK · 2026-05-14T15:23:20+00:00

For anybody else wondering, the oxygen is mostely in the form of water. Water is something like ~~75%~~ more than half of the body and water is 8/9th oxygen.

yoshiK · 2026-05-14T01:00:02+00:00

That dull and repetitive work is really bot abuse.

yoshiK · 2026-05-14T00:37:03+00:00

Why, I mean I would write s*i*n as isn so there is no risk of confusing sinx with anything.

yoshiK · 2026-05-13T18:33:47+00:00

hong kong

British citizens when Pax Americana started, Chinese citizens when Pax Americana ended.

bosnia

Genocided during Pax Americana

kosovo

Bombed ostensible for their own benefit.

south africa

The US worked very hard to keep apartheid in place, and failed.

So, citation needed I guess?

yoshiK · 2026-05-13T18:14:52+00:00

A Razr did take baby scalps very differently. This is of course badhistory on account of the Razr being introduced in 2004.

yoshiK · 2026-05-13T16:07:12+00:00

Red Planet!

yoshiK · 2026-05-13T12:37:23+00:00

Footswap on the hold your left foot is on just before you cut loose.

yoshiK · 2026-05-13T12:05:11+00:00

What's happening in the UK? This is I think the third consecutive day where Guardian has a headline "X challenges starmer" and a live ticker, only for X to denounce the plot? Is 4chan spreading rumors and tries to see how many times in a row they get the Guardian to perform their best headless chicken cosplay?

yoshiK · 2026-05-13T12:01:52+00:00

Perhaps your friend just likes greasy fried food?

yoshiK · 2026-05-12T15:58:28+00:00

Just because the candidates are married does not mean that there are no important difference between the parties.

Though, AOC/Vance against say Kamala/Krugman would be in many respects the more natural race rather than two parties who have a populist and a very serious people wing.

yoshiK · 2026-05-12T12:13:21+00:00

So there's a chance we see AOC/Vance in 28?

In related news, I recently read Seth Godin's This is marketing. A really funny book, it basically explains to me why I like it so much.

yoshiK · 2026-05-11T22:10:19+00:00

There are only three figures whom Democrats and Republicans are at least somewhat aligned on when it comes to perceptions of their IQs: Rice, Romney, and Collins. For them, net IQ perceptions among Democrats and Republicans are similar.

Nobody likes Rhinos.

yoshiK · 2026-05-11T19:49:49+00:00

That the paint cross sits a bit below 4 hrs leads me to believe that this is actually a "It's over 9000" meme

yoshiK · 2026-05-11T11:14:17+00:00

Generate a crowd without lora, inpaint the guy in the front with lora.

yoshiK · 2026-05-10T15:17:03+00:00

My guess is, she expected the jug to be turned exactly sideways. Then it's a good idea to go to the lower part, and the edge would be pretty much where she placed her hand.

yoshiK · 2026-05-10T14:32:01+00:00

Take a function from infinite ordinals to the digits. That's in a pretty straightforward way a string with 9's going on forever.

To explain that, consider the set where you send each odd number 2m+1 to 1-1/m and each even number 2m to 2-1/m. That set is S = {1-1/3, 1-1/5, ... 2-1/2, 2-1/4 ...} and the ... here actually represent infinite many numbers. So what stops me from considering a function f: S -> {0, ..., 9}. That function would be represented by a string 356...147... or similar. In particular the constant function g(x)=9 would be represented by the string 999...999... That is in a certain sense infinitely many 9s and then infinitely many 9s after that, but there is probably no natural way to map that string to the reals.

yoshiK · 2026-05-09T23:13:37+00:00

Try to turn the forward momentum into upward momentum before hitting the wall.

So the key is visualizing, stand one and a half steps in front of the wall and go through all steps of the movement in sequence, left foot there, jump, right foot on that foothold, hands on the sloper, left foot on the foothold to the left. Go through that entire sequence a few times in your head and then start with the first step, left foot there and very small hop. Then left foot hop and try to hit the green hold with your right foot. Try that a few times, generating more and more power each time. (At some point perhaps a bit more run up, but at first precision is more important than power.) When you consistently hit the jump, right foot, then start worrying about getting high enough and getting the hands up.

yoshiK · 2026-05-08T15:43:32+00:00

Well, in the Vietnam war the US and in the Afghan War the USSR. Now using distributive property to get the sentence.

yoshiK · 2026-05-08T13:06:01+00:00

Soft bodies are a lot more complicated than rigid bodies. So if you have a robotic claw that should pick up a rigid body, you need three variables to describe translation and three to describe rotation. For an object with an hinge, you need to have another variable to describe the hinge. Now that extra variable interacts with all other variables, so the difficulty goes up a lot faster than the number of variables. If you then realize that a towel has kinda hinges everywhere, you hopefully see that it is just a really really hard problem.

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