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New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:51:17 +0000

Russians do not do that. It is contrary to our culture.

There was a lord (knyaz) in old times who even warned enemies that he is going to attack them. Of course it is not as advantageous as a covert approach. But it is very Russian.

When you hear otherwise it is those other entities targeting you, that's all.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:23:40 +0000

I'd say a common sense "cui prodest" inquiry leads to a much simpler answer, but to each his own.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:01:21 +0000

If they ever start actually hurling massive objects to the orbit then these will be weapons. The data center functionality will be imitated remotely, if necessary.

See "Starlink is a way to give internet to whales" and "Pokémon is a fun little game" maybe "to train delivery robots as a surprise by-product nobody foresaw" and other such stories.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:53:36 +0000

Apparently that story was manufactured and promoted by someone else, don't you think?

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:22:12 +0000

Space based data centers is a cover for space weaponry.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Doing something that’s never been done before (2025)"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:02:37 +0000

Don't strive to be original. Pursue other goals and the originality will emerge naturally. Accept that it won't be yours because your role is a supporting actor.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:33:31 +0000

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 and re-read the phrase. It felt exactly same, but the city name was different.

(LLMs carry other numerous similarities to dreams or to certain psychiatric disorders. So there is indeed a mechanism in our brains that is similar to how they work. But it is not the only thing there and on its own it won't "evolve" into consciousness. Even if we believe consciousness evolved somehow, it would be hard to imagine it started as a delirious state and then somehow ceased to be delirious.)

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "macOS needs its grid back"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:14:42 +0000

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 to switch and drag mini-windows between them. Combined with other capabilities it was a true gem. (But somehow in Windows 95 the updated version started to feel less useful and I eventually abandoned it. Maybe it was the effect of moving between systems and a typical reinstall-to-clean-up routine that was common those days.)

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:31:30 +0000

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 Windows is barebones compared to that of Mac. As a result there are other custom-made layouts in circulation, e.g. a typographically enhanced one.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "C array types are weird"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:11:58 +0000

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 half of compilers will happily do that, and another half will refuse to compile the naive version. (There's a more sophisticated proper way.)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79897621

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "The user is visibly frustrated"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:21:11 +0000

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 to solve your problem in a single step, yet the solution is only good if you match a predefined pattern. If you don't, then the service is of no use; there are no small steps you can combine to get where you need to.

Tools are very pleasant to use.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Leave Me Behind"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:56:42 +0000

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 whatever experience you've accumulated so far. (E.g. could be a Communist rationalization of alienation under capitalism.) Yet the underlying feeling is true. Stick to it.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:03:46 +0000

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 ignore the notation? What is Lisp? What is Pascal and how it is different from C?

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:09:13 +0000

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 complete or it expects an explanation on why this record is in it and this one is not. A search engine user does not expect things like that and will put up with false positives and negatives if their number is not too big.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:36:33 +0000

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).

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:32:54 +0000

The person takes the responsibility; you are excluding him from the society that you implicitly claim to represent. These two are very different intentions.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "Education must go beyond the mere production of words"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:21:10 +0000

Starlink, a camper van, a webcam and no kids.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:07:56 +0000

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 afterlife. Everything you do either makes is muddier or cleanses it a bit. This change is what stays.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:18:28 +0000

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 endless. It is very different and, speaking of boredom, definitely not boring. Boredom is an invention of mind.

New comment by Mikhail_Edoshin in "A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)"

Mikhail_Edoshin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:44:58 +0000

False religions are all fanatic; they are narcissistic pseudo religions, stemming from the desire to be right.