alexey-salmin

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by alexey-salmin 5mo ago
Interestingly the article doesn't mention two-dimensional arrays and they're curios because they bring a certain asymmetry with them. It always tripped me over the most in C because I otherwise find the language very "symmetr
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by alexey-salmin 5mo ago
> According to the original license they are both entitled to do that, that's the problem. I really don't see how Amazon is to blame for this problem, they weren't the ones who picked the license. > Do you think it&#x27
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by alexey-salmin 5mo ago
I can't? I mean, if Amazon does commercial version of Elastic better than Elastic themselves then so be it. I don't see how one company is entitled to turn an open source project into business and the other is not. I do see issues
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by alexey-salmin 5mo ago
I think think fertility rates will rebound once the current culture of self-destruction gets, well, self-destructed. But incidentally this means that people who value sustainable water sources over having kids won't be there anymore. S
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by alexey-salmin 5mo ago
What's the point of sustainable resources, stable climate and affordable real estate in a society that fades away? What difference does it make whatsoever?
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by alexey-salmin 6mo ago
I do 6-10 espresso cups per day, so 3-5 does sound very moderate.
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by alexey-salmin 6mo ago
In my view it would be extremely strange if it was any other way round. Anthropic is the US based company. There are no "citizens of world" at that scale, or at almost any other scale for that matter.
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by alexey-salmin 6mo ago
I think Claude Code with Sonnet 4.6 is already at the level of paradigm shift and can change the entire tech industry. If you're paranoid it doesn't mean you're not being followed. If something is overhyped it doesn't me
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by alexey-salmin 7mo ago
Not until these robots learn to self-assemble from a bag of rice like humans do
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
I hope for the same, but it's based on the assumption that space exploration will be human-driven. Unfortunately it's possible that it will be robot-driven instead and museums will stay on earth.
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
Yes, IF we know the numbers, that's the whole problem. Unprompted full-body MRI scans turn up a completely new probability distribution. We CAN'T know the numbers as of today, it takes decades of controlled studies to get them. (W
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
Whether treatment is net harmful or not depends on the level of the risk with no treatment. If you apply treatment with 15% chance of severe side effects to a tumor that will kill the patient with 50% chance in the next five years, of cours
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
No, the detector doesn't fix that, that problem is not treating people without cancer. The problem is treating people with cancer that won't kill or harm them during their lifetime. In this case even a low risk treatment becomes h
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
> With my change: 95% of people who are shown scans have cancer and are treated earlier. 5% of people do not have cancer and get CT scans. 0.5% of people get useless biopsies Without my change: many of those 95% die, the 0.5% do not get
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
There's a theory that the first-stage cancer is way more common than we think, it's just doesn't develop further most of the time, cause no symptoms and remains undiagnosed throughout the lifetime. There's some support f
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
Not op, but the number of cards doesn't matter. Only one shuffle can exist at a time, the "number of shuffles" is not a number of natural objects but rather a cardinality of a set. And as we know sets and cardinalities open t
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
Natural numbers are "natural" enough but N as the "set of all natural numbers" not so much. It only takes N to build the Hilbert's hotel. Uncountable set of all subsets of N is probably even worse. All that, of cou
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
Idk, to me it feels much much better than just picking one root when defining the inverse function. This desire to absolutely pick one when from the purely mathematical perspective they're all equal is both ugly and harmful (as in comp
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
The good news is that Q is not really entitled to a closure either.
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
There are ways to build C that result in: 1) Exactly one C 2) Exactly two isomorphic Cs 3) Infinitely many isomorphic Cs It's not really the question of whether i and -i are the same or not. It's the question of whether this quest
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by alexey-salmin 8mo ago
I have MS in math and came to a conclusion that C is not any more "imaginary" than R. Both are convenient abstractions, neither is particularly "natural".
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by alexey-salmin 9mo ago
Canada is subject to the Monroe doctrine. Forge a link too close and there will be intervention of sorts.
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by alexey-salmin 9mo ago
The only reasonable interpretation of "possibly prefaced" is that the CNAMEs either come first or not at all (hence "possibly"). Nowhere the RFC suggests that they may come in the middle. Something is broken in Cloudflar
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by alexey-salmin 9mo ago
Surely governments will not see any issues with this project whatsoever. Though in US I think you can try publishing the code and blueprints as a book and claim the First Amendment, following the PGP story. May or may not work.
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by alexey-salmin 10mo ago
Do you mean that the law is OK, just the prosecution somehow goes too far? Or the law itself allowing prosecution of insults is the problem?
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by alexey-salmin 10mo ago
In my reading he meant the author of the parent comment specifically, hence "German supports" and not "Germans support". So not a generalization.
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by alexey-salmin 10mo ago
What's you position on criminal prosecution and house searches for insults of politicians? https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/05/german-politic... > The offence means that in certain case
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by alexey-salmin 10mo ago
> have kids because they otherwise lack meaning That's how life on earth worked for 3 billion years. I think that assuming humans are somehow above that is unwise. We're not.
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by alexey-salmin 10mo ago
I know, it's not meant to be a deep observation. Rather the "some start drinking at 21 while others already quit by then" kind of situation.
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by alexey-salmin 10mo ago
It comes from experience, I know quite a few people who got their first job after 30. You study, you take the gap year, you study some more.

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