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New comment by miksik in "Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It's Under Russian Attack"

miksik — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:01:08 +0000

Not sure how you came to the idea that supporting Ukraine militarily has been decided undemocratically...

Every European nation can and has made their own decision on this matter. Spain, Portugal, Italy, some Balkan countries have contributed a lot less. Hungary, who are in NATO, have almost contributed zilch.

Thinking that de-escalating the war as-is giving Russia the strategic victory is a very dangerous thought. This will destabilize the Northern and Eastern parts of Europe, which we definitely can not let happen.

New comment by miksik in "Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid"

miksik — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:32:38 +0000

> In the EU under GDPR you have to disclose within 48h

72h actually, but yes, data protection and breaches to sensitive personal information is taken very seriously in the European Union and its legislation.

New comment by miksik in "Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners"

miksik — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:27:12 +0000

I'm actually interested whether there is some larger explanation on these study methods. Maybe there's something worth integrating with myself and get more efficient at learning.

New comment by miksik in "Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners"

miksik — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:50:33 +0000

> four key cognitive behaviors -- verification, backtracking, subgoal setting, and backward chaining -- that both expert human problem solvers and successful language models employ.

Based on what have they claimed that such methods are used by expert human problem solvers?

New comment by miksik in "Half-Ass It"

miksik — Fri, 31 May 2024 10:02:35 +0000

I even skimmed reading it and thought I would give it a whirl.

New comment by miksik in "Do Papercuts Matter?"

miksik — Mon, 01 May 2023 13:18:57 +0000

Referencing from The Pragmatic Programmer book - broken windows. Just like having broken windows in a neighborhood would slowly bring down the quality of the block I believe the same will happen to software if there are the same glaring issues popping up that are ignored.