Koshkin

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871.
by Koshkin 4y ago
What a mess. (Plus, time is relative, i.e. it depends on the frame of reference.)
872.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Well, if you remove one element from an uncountable set, then...
873.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Isn't the list of infinite binary strings between [0,1) also uncountable?
874.
by Koshkin 4y ago
The situation is complex indeed.
875.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I am not even sure if one can say that tuna itself "exists," in this context.
876.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Is the integral a "thing"? - No, it, along with the reals, is the method (we call "analysis") that we humans invented to solve a certain class of problems in science and technology.
877.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Or, alternatively, the human brain, unlike dog’s, has the capability to learn (and eventually understand) that may already exceed what is needed to understand all there is to understand.
878.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> The size of each step in these “infinite staircases” was a ratio of Fibonacci numbers. On the other hand, it would probably be an interesting exercise to see if there is a pattern in the ratios of various Fibonacci numbers…
879.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> If an alien ran that experiment, they would get the same answer. This depends on the world they live in. If, for example, things were hard to control, tended to move, to disappear (and reappear in a different place), to look the same
880.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> they're probably isomorphic That's a strong statement. I'd probably talk about homomorphism.
881.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> There are animals that sense gravitational and electromagnetic fields, something we cannot do. That actually proves the fact that reality is not simply someone's perception. (We humans do not perceive these fields, and so it t
882.
by Koshkin 4y ago
One person is not a society. The second example is virtually unreal (and even expressions of 'love' and 'care' can be harmful).
883.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> [laws] differ So does the definition of justice. > vigilante justice Except 'vigilante justice' and 'justice' are concepts that have little to do with each other. You might as well be talking about the '
884.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> I believe that math is universal The only thing that is "universal" is Nature itself. Mathematics, on the other hand, is a reflection of Nature in the human mind ; or, put differently, it's Nature's language we h
885.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Not if you take into account the special properties of 0. (Generally speaking, a structure that admits a neutral element with respect to addition is not isomorphic to one that does not.)
886.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> what is owed This is extremely subjective.
887.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I, on the other hand, cannot. (I can imagine many strange things, but not this one.)
888.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Often, what is good for some is bad for others (and vice versa). Justice would be way too relative (subjective) outside law, so as to be devoid of any meaning, actually.
889.
by Koshkin 4y ago
There is no justice outside (or without) law.
890.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Well, first we could send a series of integers, each being a sequence of pulses, to convey the fact that we are talking about integers. Then express each axiom by a series of concrete examples. And repeat. Intelligent species should be good
891.
by Koshkin 4y ago
But “the concept of justice” is not universal, because it really cannot be understood outside the context of law.
892.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Counting implies the ability to perceive the discrete, but such discreteness may not be obvious to a shapeless creature living in a liquid or a gaseous substance.
893.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> because they are useful? But the usefulness is objective, that is, it is not an arbitrary product of the mind but rather it is dictated by the logic of things once the goal is set, so invention (or discovery) of useful things is more
894.
by Koshkin 4y ago
1) wine is not an OS (or a VM), so you can’t “run wine under qemu” (not directly) 2) you do not need qemu (or any other emulation layer) to run wine
895.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I have the same feeling about Notepad++ (in part because it is Windows-only), and for years I have been using SciTE which I found to be no-nonsense editor that does everything I need an editor to do (and just a bit more).
896.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> they are relics of the past, a reminder of what might have been if they had continued to be maintained How do you “maintain” a computational algorithm that was carefully designed and withstood the test of time over decades?
897.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> tries to explain why quantum mechanics is mechanics Curiously though, since the 1800s analytical mechanics, too, began to be seen as a branch of mathematics. But I think that in this case, just as in the case of quantum mechanics, it
898.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I think I've seen it spelled "black whole", but that's probably just me...
899.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> The point of Wine is to run older Windows software. Is this really true? What “newer” Windows software would not run under Wine “in principle”? (And, for that matter, what older Windows software wouldn’t run on Windows itself?)
900.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I don’t know man… Acme requires a GUI (and a mouse), has been imported from Plan 9 (Unix does not have a notion of a “plumber”), and its UI is pretty much a copy of Oberon’s. The way it look to me, this is as far removed from whatever Unix

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