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Sin2x··on Understanding gambling addiction (2012)
Gambling addiction is not different from social media addiction, i.e. brain seeking dopamine rush. The question is how to practically desensitize.
Sin2x··on What’s New in TensorFlow 2.10?
Industry does not exist in a vacuum, it follows research.

Additionally, see Google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Sin2x··on What’s New in TensorFlow 2.10?
Slowly becoming irrelevant: https://paperswithcode.com/trends
Sin2x··on Impact of programming on primary mathematics learning
"In Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory and Practice, While In Practice There Is"

For me personally it seems rather obvious that learning theory is a prerequisite for being good at practice, not the other way round.

Sin2x··on The Trouble with 5G
I think you misinterpret the words. Equivocal means that it's unclear from the study if there's a causal association while negative means no association was found, not that EMF reduced incidence of gliomas.

Also, an important quote in the description following that table:

"The association of glioma and acoustic neuroma is stronger among long-term heavy users of mobile phones, which is also the most extensively investigated exposure source, and in some cases the onset of tumours was related to the side on which the device was handled."

Sin2x··on The Trouble with 5G
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2021/6900...

The review shows: 1) 5G lower frequencies (700 and 3 600 MHz): a) limited evidence of carcinogenicity in epidemiological studies; b) sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental bioassays; c) sufficient evidence ofreproductive/developmental adverse effects in humans; d) sufficient evidence of reproductive/ developmental adverse effects in experimental animals; 2) 5G higher frequencies (24.25-27.5 GHz): the systematic review found no adequate studies either in humans or in experimental animals. Conclusions: 1) cancer: FR1 (450 to 6 000 MHz): EMF are probably carcinogenic for humans, in particular related to gliomas and acoustic neuromas; FR2 (24 to 100 GHz): no adequate studies were performed on the higher frequencies; 2) reproductive developmental effects: FR1 (450 to 6 000 MHz): these frequencies clearly affect male fertility and possibly female fertility too. They may have possible adverse effects on the development of embryos, foetuses and newborns; FR2 (24 to 100 GHz): no adequate studies were performed on non-thermal effects of the higher frequencies.

Sin2x··on Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD (2011)
See here: http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/mkultra... (58-2)

This document states, however, that Wasson had three expeditions prior to CIA involvement.

Sin2x··on The Big [Censored] Theory
This idea can be easily reversed:

It's a deeper level of indoctrination. When these things are covertly inserted in an innocuous sounding show, not only will you start thinking about them, you will subconsiously think of them in a tolerant light.

China has its own culture and mores, why should it allow that kind of soft projection of Western power.

Sin2x··on Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?
Logically, if it's Ubuntu-certified, it should run other distros well too regarding hardware compatibility.
Sin2x··on Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?
FYI, Ubuntu has a list of certified laptops: https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops
Sin2x··on The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
Nginx is still faster and that's what matters for highload. If you are not using the server for highload, no need for Nginx.
Sin2x··on Moving to Estonia
This article might have been correct before the Ukraine war but right now Estonian inflation is nearing 25%. Digital economy is working well only when the economy overall is booming.
Sin2x··on Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?
It should. NetBSD is relatively conservative.
Sin2x··on Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?
BSDs tend to have pretty good docs in general. Take a look at NetBSD's internals for instance: https://www.netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/index.html
Sin2x··on JetBrains Research
They also have a pretty darn good project-based learning platorm: https://hyperskill.org/tracks
Sin2x··on Choosing Julia, Matlab, Python or R in economics?
TLDR: R
Sin2x··on Stop using DICT dictionary apps (such as GNOME/MATE Dictionary)
If you need dictionary lookups, I suggest Goldendict with offline ones.
Sin2x··on The AK-47
If you are interested in Russian guns, check out this marvel of overengineering, a dark twin of AK: https://armamentresearch.com/russian-an-94-self-loading-rifl...
Sin2x··on CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus
From 2020 interview:

SF: What is the next big thing for CudaText? AT: A mate of mine, young programmer Artem Gavrilov from Saint Petersburg, has suggested that editor rendering should be in OpenGL, and he has good experience in 3D graphics and Pascal. I am thinking now how this can be done, it’s a lot of coding even with ready OpenGL libraries. This will make scrolling in editor much smoother. And another idea: make configurable docked panels. CudaText has several panels (Code Tree, Project Manager, Console, Output, etc.) but they are locked in the side or bottom, no configuration, panel cannot be moved from side to bottom, no docking to the right. It’s not needed much but configurable panels are handy.

Sin2x··on Did we all believe a myth about depression?
Recommended read: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6943460-the-emperor-s...
Sin2x··on Go 1.19 Released
Hugo is huge.
Sin2x··on What ever happened to xmms.org? (2010)
XMMS2 is a bit more recent: https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel/releases/tag/0.9.1
Sin2x··on Modula-2 and Oberon (2007) [pdf]
Oberon language and Oberon OS are two distinct entities and given the context of this post it's obvious that I was talking about Oberon the language. Whether you like Go or not, it's the closest modern production language to Oberon and derived very much from it, so my point stands.
Sin2x··on Modula-2 and Oberon (2007) [pdf]
Golang is the modern Oberon.
Sin2x··on Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021)
To me diversity in itself has no intrinsic value. Such make up means white males were more rigorous in their pursuits, that's all. Also, I don't think your numbers are even accurate -- a quick google shows that 44% of tenured are female.
Sin2x··on Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021)
Everybody in my circle does. I am not aware of any real non-staged (like Bucha) atrocities commited by Russian forces while I do know of such perpetrated by Ukrainians -- at least three instances of torturing and killing POWs and the literally daily shelling of Donetsk and surrounding area. If you are, do enlighten me.

Oh, and Ovsyannikova was fined again this week for ~$800, that's the extent of "anti-war oppression" in Russia.

I find it rather suspicious that you did not mention the lecture in your reply -- have you watched the video? Any thoughts?

Sin2x··on Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021)
I would point you to the excellent lecture of John Mearsheimer on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

But the whole conundrum started much earlier, in my understanding, when western elites realized that Putin is not going to dance to their tune as readily as Eltsin did and wants Russia to be truly sovereign. The timeline of proxy warfare would start with 2003 Rose revolution in Georgia, then 2004 Orange revolution in Ukraine, then Putin's Munich speech in 2007, then Ukraine coup in 2014 and subsequent retaliation of Russia by taking Crimea and then today. In the interim Russia also meddled with Syria but that's far enough from Russian border to disregard as irrelevant to the Ukraine situation where Ukraine is right on the border of Russia. It's the second Cuban crisis basically. USA created a puppet state on Russian border and Russia obviously doesn't want that. Ideas that Russia wants to conquer Europe or restore USSR are idiotic and paranoid. What Russia wants is for US/NATO to get the heck away from its borders -- as was promised when USSR dissolved.

https://www.vox.com/22900113/nato-ukraine-russia-crisis-clin...

Sin2x··on Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021)
You keep saying words that appear to make sense but actually don't in the context of this post. Pretty much like politicians do. What is your point exactly? You said that academia is more free now than in the 90s -- is that your point? If so, this point is incorrect, because in the 90s there were no political witch hunts against academics that are prevalent and widespread nowadays.
Sin2x··on Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021)
Ovsyannikova and Kara-Murza are not jailed, they are detained and their fate is going to be determined in court. And they are not detained for being anti-war as you said -- they are detained for spreading misinformation -- repeatedly. Yep, just like they would be in the glorious free USA.

As for the thousands of protesters being jailed -- you make the same (deliberate?) mistake again -- they are detained, not jailed. And then released with a fine. And again -- they are detained not because they are anti-war but because their protests are illegitimate -- they are not properly registered with the authorities. And guess what? It works the same way in the USA!

Makes your comment look in a totally different light now, doesn't it?

Oh, and if you didn't know, RFERL is directly sponsored by the US government while WaPo and NYT are covert fronts for the Democratic Party so anything you post from them should be taken with a truckload of salt.

The situation in Russia right now in regards of Ukraine war is very simple -- everybody has rallied around Putin and against the West, everybody knows that this war is a proxy war against USA ands Ukraine is just an unlucky puppet. If you see some media telling you otherwise, you should know outright that it lies.

Sin2x··on Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021)
Academic freedom is a relatively well-defined term, and requiring other people to acknowledge you and your ideas is not a part of it. Forcing your ideas onto others is fascist and the opposite of freedom.
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