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by vkazanov 5mo ago
It is the other way around. White collar crime might be illegal but most societies would definitely punish a murderer either legally or illegaly. Social stigma is a MUCH more serious thing than legality of action.
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Set theory is actually the basis for all of math. This includes basic counting of the number of things in, ehm, sets. Cant be nore practical than this.
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
I have this inner model of something i call "the rock star economics": many people want to do music but only one becomes a rock star and makes serious money. But he gets so much attention that many more people want to become rock
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
a) enthropy can be injected as well. In fact there are hidden sources in current training. b) well, it can be the case that, say, certain kinds of computation are either too inefficient or outright impossible within the current model. Who k
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
I don't ignore anything. I just refuse to accept the magical thinking around biological machines that are our brains/bodies. There are inputs, there are outputs, there is hidden function. And it seems that, given enough input&#x2F
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Yes, physically absolutely nothing. But conceptually they seem to to form this very generic function from inputs to outputs that neurons also form.
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
I dont know when where these "good old days" but in 2000s KDE was superunstable. It seemed to have all the cool UI tweaks but 30% of them barely worked. Modern KDE is nothing like that, and i cannot see how this is a bad thing.
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
True. What i am saying is that one has to have a good feeling of what this extra rep is like. Personally, i only saw that it works over time because of my journal. Most people dont do records.
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Yeah, sure. The point is that it doesn't work like those Witcher potions. Nothing changes here and now.
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Strength training is not only about mass but for most intents and purposes it is about gaining as much muscle as possible while not gaining too much extra. It's not like one can move from squating 100kg to squating 150kg without extra
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Used to do something similar. If you intend to have any benefits of going to the gym then protein (and overall calorie consumption) would have to be monitored. Running sort of conflicts with working out: it wants you to be light and burns p
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Creatine is known to give you some more energy. Like, 3%-5%. That's just an extra rep, hardly noticeable.
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Yeah, wanted to point this out. I have mid-range natural test levels, more than my dad, and don't have any signs of balding. My dad lost half of his hair by the time i was born. Steroid consumers have al least ten times my leves, and w
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Sometimes people just have good hair and spend a lot of time in the gym. Even early 90s famous era mass monsters were not all bald. Baldness is known to be related to a bunch of things: testosterone levels, something to do with blood delive
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
The effect of creatine is measurable but in no way is related to balding. Using steroids does have the effect. And a bunch of others, most of them unhealthy. These things might look correlated as steroid ppl often consume creatine as well a
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Ehm. Shared hosting was a thing since forever. VPS also existed. Linode definitely had something along those lines. Amazon won on APIs and overall integration but VMs were around already. I remember the story really well as this is when i j
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
Most people kind of merge the kingdoms together, while every kingdom is unique in both the culture and, say, external influence. And the late period is quite long as well. There is a very strong connection between periods, of course. But 25
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
I dont think this chnages anything. The writing was less convenient than modern alphabets but still capable of expressing all things necessary. The closest analogy might be: modern alebraic notation is compact and clean but this doesnt mean
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
That is correct, but my knowledge of middle egypytian is limited to a single introductory book, and didnt want to muddy the waters with details. The point stands still: the writing was not as clean as modern alphabets but was capable of ex
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by vkazanov 5mo ago
I am sorry but this like saying that "chinese cannot represent abstract notions" because "picture" . In middle egyptian (the language you probably assume) "pictures" are just syllables. They are phonetic, not s
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by vkazanov 6mo ago
tracing jits are slightly harder to grasp than usual ones. The technique comes from real CPUs so the mindset of people behind the original idea is very different from the software world. Metatracing ones are kind of an interesting twist on
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by vkazanov 7mo ago
Try it. Switch to desktop mode. Behold! A desktop linux! SteamOS is so very much linux that even WebOS and Androids pale in comparisom.
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by vkazanov 7mo ago
Well, in the overall kernel space there is nothing but Linux-based kernels right now.
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by vkazanov 7mo ago
As somebody who has been around linux almost for as long as it exists, i must say that is a very strong statement. In real life: systemd IS useful, Wayland is becoming (has become?) the default, ubuntu is the most popular desktop distro fam
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by vkazanov 7mo ago
I was involved in it-related deals on both purchasing and selling sides. Sums involved were larger than both numbers you mentioned. And I honestly see almost no correlation between the amount of negotiation involved, and value received. So
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by vkazanov 7mo ago
It seems that you work a lot with managers who have no clue what they are buying and why. I mean, you're not wrong: buying enterprise software from Oracle or Microsoft or Salesforce is pure pain. But nobody expects buying niche hardwar
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by vkazanov 8mo ago
Well, codex is better than opus right now. I have both subscriptions, and use claude for grunt work + codex for reviews. Codex is comparable at code writing but does much better with tools, skills and ad hoc investigations, say, lauching em
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by vkazanov 8mo ago
Well, while i am porting micropolis, there is always tetris!
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by vkazanov 8mo ago
Well, one thing i know for sure: it reliably misplaces parentheses in lisps.
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by vkazanov 8mo ago
...of the unix version. That's the one i played back in the day!

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