Mikhail_Edoshin

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by Mikhail_Edoshin 8d ago
Copyright should be commoditized. A possible first step could be giving copyright owners a single obligation: you have to sell what you own. That thing you have must be available on the market. This rules out negotiations. They imply a poss
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 9d ago
This is common sense. Germans are our long term neighbors and generally friends. As "Pravda" wrote at the end of WW2, "Hitlers come and go, but the German people remains". It's about time they take their country bac
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 12d ago
I used the Selenized color scheme once and it indeed came in four variants: light, dark, white and black. One may also think about a grayscale theme, perhaps.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 13d ago
Chekhov went from rags to riches. But this was closer to the end of the century.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 17d ago
Differences are supposed to convey information. E.g. a paragraph's first line is indented to indicate that this is a start of a paragraph. Differences in line width convey no useful information, so the are suppressed. Same goes for ove
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 20d ago
There was another similar loss and discovery about non-linear geometry of submenus. Most websites build it naively so that once a submenu has opened, you must guide your mouse very carefully toward it or it will close again. There is a bett
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 22d ago
When I grew up in Soviet Union we heard "political" jokes and also heard that they were written by CIA. It was not generally believed to be true. Even mocked later, like "You think Soviets could not come up with jokes on thei
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 22d ago
This would still take at least time. But it's a bit more layered. Art must be original. But the originality cannot be the aim of art. It will emerge itself if the artist strives for truth, because all the originality is already given t
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 23d ago
Art became an investment and artistic properties ceased to matter.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 26d ago
There were experiments that zipped music pieces, I think, and then classified the compressed files by similarity. They got rather interesting resuls. But I do not remember much details. It was, I believe, about 20 years ago. Asked Google: &
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 26d ago
William James suggested a criterion to tell these two apart.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
Well, I can only quote Pushkin's letter to Vyazemsky (used Google AI to translate; in the letter Pushkin wrote about Lord Byron's lost personal memoirs): "The crowd greedily reads confessions, memoirs, etc., because in its ba
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
The usage of the term varies. E.g. the GNU C library uses the word "arena" to describe the internal structures used by its 'malloc' allocator. What you describe they call "obstack", which also has internal &quo
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
"Honesty is a skill most people don't appreciate." This phrase starts an excerpt from a Piter Ralston interview that was one of turning points for me. I was caught by the word "skill"; not "virtue", as hon
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
One is getting guidance and another is using that guidance. They are not substitutes. Zen teacher talks with students, but then the students work on their own. They cannot get that knowledge in a dialogue. In Zen the situation is clearest,
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
That would be the quality of any allocator that is created as a separate object. Internally it can use any algorithm, e.g. a typical malloc-free cycle. Once you're done, you drop the whole allocator, it returns big blocks it used inter
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
There's a book that briefly mentions the same effect on cluster headaches. They are not the main topic, but in the foreword author tells a story about having them as the reason he started the the journey. "The Presence Process&quo
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
It's both. You have a purpose defined by God, but you have to understand what it is and the journey is your own. There are a lot of hints, explanations, personal stories, but you have to do some work to understand what they mean.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
A normal computer company mixes finely with residential and commercial spots: clean and quiet operation, employees can live closely, etc. A woodworking shop would be noisier. But it has to be normal, not a cryptominer or something like that
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
True understanding requires not knowing, and LLMs cannot "not know". LLMs have to come up with an answer, this is their nature. They are search engines. We do have a similar mechanism; one can notice it by reflecting. The mechanis
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
Bradbury was very popular in USSR. His Wikipedia page has an anecdote of a Soviet filmmaker recognizing him in a crowd and surprising the rest of the celebrities around who had no idea who Bradbury was. (Another such author would be Vonnegu
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
As "Forever and the Earth" shows it wasn't just stylistic, but essential.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
Special, yes, but mostly because we were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Our specialness is meant to be humbling.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1mo ago
Developers can also build tools as needed. This is the key to simplicity.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 2mo ago
No.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 2mo ago
The problem is not that it limits the wearer's free will. On the contrary, it allows the wearer to exercise it way too effectively on the premise that the wearer already knows exactly who he is and what he needs.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 2mo ago
This is a good companion to the yesterday's HN post of ten steps to happiness. I've read that Malachi Martin described what he called "a perfect possession". I do not know where as I haven't found this piece myself.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 2mo ago
Perfection is a search for truth, the true nature of things.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 2mo ago
(As far as I understood those from AliExpress can also be unblocked.)
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 2mo ago
The real understanding builds on not knowing. Once I realise I don't know something I cease thinking and start watching the thing. Then somehow I understand. We do have a mechanism similar to LLMs but it provides existing knowledge; it

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