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New comment by RuslanL in "GPT-5.6"

RuslanL — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:33:47 +0000

Cavemen Yoda merge can.

New comment by RuslanL in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

RuslanL — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:04:12 +0000

Does anyone know which tool can be best used instead of Google for "classic", non-AI googling?

New comment by RuslanL in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

RuslanL — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:52:28 +0000

67?

New comment by RuslanL in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

RuslanL — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:09:12 +0000

To create artificial scarcity on a free market, it should be either a direct monopoly, or a giant cartel that includes every single developer and has mechanisms of punishing the outliers.

New comment by RuslanL in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

RuslanL — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:54:37 +0000

Yes, it is a downward spiral. How do you propose to stop it, assuming both parties want another one to disappear from reality, and see any compromise as weakness?

New comment by RuslanL in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

RuslanL — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:10:45 +0000

This is a side effect of using a guerilla terrorist tactics - normal people are start to be seen as "threat".

New comment by RuslanL in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

RuslanL — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 07:41:20 +0000

I hope this helps to return some sense into the architectural bureaus that live in their ivory towers of "trendy" architectural styles of modernism or brutalism. Too smug to ask what people actually prefer, too detached from reality to realize how their sterile monstrosities would look in real life.

New comment by RuslanL in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

RuslanL — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:34:26 +0000

Do we have comparable European companies though?

New comment by RuslanL in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

RuslanL — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:41:06 +0000

Leaving the price formation nuances of some US peace-time military artifacts aside, my point is that manpower a.k.a. human soldiers become more and more obsolete and should not be treated as a main criteria perhaps already in the current Russian-Ukraine conflict.

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4 days is exactly the time frame to understand that initial calculations have gone wrong and it is time for damage control (try to pull out, initiate peace negotiations, etc).

New comment by RuslanL in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

RuslanL — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:00:31 +0000

1. Manpower does not matter anymore. Drones and (soon) robots do.

2. I remember media sphere prior/at the time of invasion rather well. The general consensus was that Ukraine would fall in less than two weeks. The invasion itself started on the Fatherhood Defender's Day and I believe was supposed to be completed before the International Women's Day to make a good picture of Russian soldiers gifting flowers to Ukrainian women.

New comment by RuslanL in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

RuslanL — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:36:43 +0000

The majority of Russian population genuinely believes that if the country "becomes weaker", some evil Western soldiers would come and either (belief A) physically exterminate every last of them or (belief B) enslave for eternity.

From that lens, loosing a few millions in a "pre-emptive strike" to save the bulk of population looks reasonable. Don't ask me how they ended up with this picture of reality.

New comment by RuslanL in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

RuslanL — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:06:08 +0000

Indeed. I've heard Elon is upgrading his Colossus computer just to experience dragging grey rectangles seamlessly.

New comment by RuslanL in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

RuslanL — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:02:25 +0000

But Microsoft is a small business which just cannot afford to have two versions of interfaces for clearly distinct modes of interaction: touch and mouse-based. They had no other choice except trying to merge things together.

New comment by RuslanL in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

RuslanL — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:52:40 +0000

Yes.

New comment by RuslanL in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

RuslanL — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:23:30 +0000

How is $1450 justified in modern times?

Journals receive papers for free, peer review is free, the only expenses are hosting a .pdf and maintaining an automated peer review system. I would've understood $14.50 but where does the two orders of magnitude higher number come from?