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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 i…

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 mechan…

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 …

As "Forever and the Earth" shows it wasn't just stylistic, but essential.

Special, yes, but mostly because we were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Our specialness is meant to be humbling.

Developers can also build tools as needed. This is the key to simplicity.

No.

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 exac…

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…

Perfection is a search for truth, the true nature of things.

(As far as I understood those from AliExpress can also be unblocked.)

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…

This is a military tech.

We used both terms, the WW term meant the overall event and the other one was for the Soviet part that started June 22, 1941 and ended in 1945, first in Germany, the main victory, …

There have to be some limitations on the language for this to work. For example, there must be no way to specify a neverending loop or to lock something and forget to unlock, an so…

It solves a hard problem. For example, it completely insulates the sender from the fact that his transaction is just one among many others.

There are private efforts in Russia, but mostly they digitize Soviet-time books written in Russian or maybe in other languages spoken in Russia. (As far as I know, that is; I am, o…

It was their own software; and it was long time ago, so I didn't think it was still functioning, but, to my surprise, it still is: https://vif2ne.su/nvk/forum/0/0.htm

Everything is entertainment in the modern world. On the other hand, as William James wrote, one of definite characteristics of a religious experience is seriousness. "All is not va…

I frequented a forum with a two-pane UI with a tree in one page and the text in another. It encouraged long posts; was used for political and historical discussions. And what was a…

Exactly. C. S. Lewis participated in many arguments about Christianity. He was a professor and had a very good memory (the biography says "total recall") so he was a formidable opp…

I actually wanted to write "apparatus"; not sure if this would be any better though :)

Thanks, will add that to my reading list. Inheritance is both good and not so good. The problem it solves is in a way unique and the very fact that it solves it is indeed quite a f…

Yes, this is exactly what I'm saying. Objects, closures, co-routines and eventually state machines, which was the first concept, I think, all revolve around the same core thing. We…