Mikhail_Edoshin

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by Mikhail_Edoshin 5mo ago
The same thing can be noticed in dreams. I once heard advice to try to re-read what you see in a dream. So I was dreaming and in a dream I read a phrase about something and there was a name of a city there. I managed to remember that advice
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 5mo ago
I remember some very old Windows shell app, Dashboard, by Starfish software, I think. It run under Windows 3.1, possibly replacing Program Manager, and it had a neat virtual desktop feature with tiny pictograms of several desktops for you t
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 5mo ago
Some symbols may not be readily available, e. g. <> or {} or [] and you'll have to either switch to English or install and learn a modified layout. But this is mostly a Windows issue, I think; the Russian keyboard layout on Windo
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 5mo ago
There are differences. E.g. va_xxx functionality may be implemented either with a pointer or an array. The difference becomes visible if you try to pass a va_list to another variadic function and then extract it later with va_arg. About hal
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 5mo ago
Instead of making tools we're making services. This is not confined to AI, it's everywhere. A tool does not fully solve your problem, it only goes in small steps. Yet these steps are predictable and consistent. A service attempts
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 5mo ago
AI is repulsive. You either feel it, maybe not immediately, or don't. When you feel it, you'll rationalize it one way or another. The rationalization does not matter that much. It's essentially arbitrary and is a product of w
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 5mo ago
To me the most interesting part of a notation is the underlying thing that actually runs the code. The virtual machine, if you will. There are many ways to do that but I don't know a good systematic overview. E. g. what is Forth, if we
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
There was an article on database UX and it compared the expectations of a database user and a user working with a search engine. It's interesting, because both are searching, right? Yet the database user expects the found set to be com
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
Before the US started an open war. US has been involved in a relentless anti-Iranian campaign since before I was born (I'm 55).
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
The person takes the responsibility; you are excluding him from the society that you implicitly claim to represent. These two are very different intentions.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
Starlink, a camper van, a webcam and no kids.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
In afterlife certain things are lost; but certain are not. And those that are not are affected by what we do in this life. It's like you got a drop of a somewhat muddy water that is the center of your life. The drop will remain in the
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
Could be; I'm not too literate on this, I'm only retelling what I understood directly and this could be very limited. I just wanted to point out that "eternal life" is not going to be the same life we have now, only endl
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
False religions are all fanatic; they are narcissistic pseudo religions, stemming from the desire to be right.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
The reference to eternity in afterlife doesn't mean "very long time"; it means "no time", a world that has no time. You can briefly feel the difference by being present in the current moment.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
It matches what I briefly experienced when I felt ill staying alone in a hotel. (E. g. I understood that the events of the few recent days were sort of preparing me for that; I could ask questions.) BTW there's a book "The night o
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
Or maybe Westerners stop lying that much.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
Most things you think you know is a psyop too.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
The "poisoning the noosphere" is a very good description. There is someone called Peter Ralston; on YouTube there's a few videos of him and in one bit from an interview he starts on honesty. "Honesty", he says, &quo
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 6mo ago
A good movie makes you love the people more. Such moves are rare. "Idiocracy" or "Don't Look Up" are not like that. (Satire is a low genre in general.)
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 7mo ago
Chomsky wrote that Western media publishes only what is "useful" for certain ends, usually political. So you think the article is useful, don't you?
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 7mo ago
There was an interview with a historian and he said an interesting thing about the ancient Sparta: "Everything we know about Sparta we know from its enemies".
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 7mo ago
Nobody grabbed anyone. It was an unusual, but otherwise a normal bureaucratic process. Got handed a paper, signed, have to appear. Many probably didn't have plans to go voluntarily, but felt it unmanly to dodge. I was at one of such si
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 7mo ago
Saying certain thing hurts them like a scientist's knife that opens up an animal for a study but also kills it. Thus certain knowledge about life cannot be expressed in an analytical way: it loses the very subject it tries to catch. Bu
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 7mo ago
I always advocate for XML. While Markdown is like "a car in any color as long as it's black", XML is a) exactly what you need and b) as precise as you need it, and also c) not more precise than necessary. We all need headers
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 8mo ago
I saw tables with more than a thousand columns. It was a law firm home-grown FileMaker tool. Didn't inspect it too closely, so don't know what was inside I remember a phrase from one of C. J. Date's books: every record is a l
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 8mo ago
I just remembered my password reset battle with an online store. Yes, the email or the SMS took too long to arrive and when the code came, it was already expired. And I knew the password, by the way; it was just a "new browser" an
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 8mo ago
To celebrate deaths this way is satanic.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 8mo ago
There was a study which menus work better, on a screen edge or context menus that appear right under a mouse pointer. One might think that the second kind would win, because they are so close. No, the first kind was faster. Apparently the s
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 8mo ago
And if the state is slow to overreact the puppeteers that stage the thing will make sure the overreaction happens on time: they will try to provoke backfire or they just plain kill some protesters themselves and make it look as if the state

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