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skywalqer··on Star Trek TNG: When the Bough Breaks (Wikipedia)
Recently, I often think about this TNG episode.
skywalqer··on Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
macOS as Unix is not dead – the compatibility with developer and unix infrastructure it has is an important reason why the company I work for uses MacBooks (at least I believe so).
skywalqer··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
Well, I believe the incompleteness theorems speak about provability, not about how the proofs themselves are expressed.

We know as a consequence of Goedel theorems (at least I believe so), that there is no algorithm that would take a statement and output a proof if it is provable or a counterexample if it is not. However, AI provers never give anything for sure, so I think there is no contradiction here.

skywalqer··on Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You
Why aren't the keys stored encrypted?
skywalqer··on Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
Why didn't they place it in .well-known? Also, I couldn't find a website that has it.
skywalqer··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
But the widespread adoption and cheap client devices are a product of the market economy.
skywalqer··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
It is dead because everybody is asking LLMs now.
skywalqer··on Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It
You can do that with any open source license.
skywalqer··on Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket
I believe a power law acts differently from an exponential distribution. I think wealth distribution is commonly approximated by a Pareto distribution.

In your model, the exponential distribution is caused by the fact that you cannot go below zero; otherwise, it would be a normal distribution.

I don't agree with your opinion about laws against power laws, but that is another matter.

skywalqer··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
Well, if the price would be incorrectly set, then bots like this one would make money, which would in sufficient time cause the market to adapt and the average price would change so the bot doesn't work.
skywalqer··on Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
Well, the device tiers could be an intentional joke also
skywalqer··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
Yeah, because killing murderous dictators is helpful, and it doesn't matter that much who does it. In Europe, states aren't sacred – it is the freedom of people, and when people are freed, Europeans are happy even if it includes breaking the sovereignty of some terror state. I'm not saying I like Trump, but when he kills evil dictators, I can't complain. (There was 10k+ protesters killed in Iran recently)

There is huge potential hidden in Iran; it has always had a huge influence over the region and possibly the whole world.

skywalqer··on I’m joining OpenAI
You also believe that AI will replace mathematicians?
skywalqer··on How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
Best comment here
skywalqer··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
You know that tax money is taken from people who could buy art with it? Or, maybe buy food and other things that they need even more than art at the moment.
skywalqer··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
What about SimpleX? Is it good? Did somebody try it?
skywalqer··on Some C habits I employ for the modern day
Nice post, but the flashy thing on the side is pretty distracting. I liked the tuples and maybes.
skywalqer··on Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
At my university (Charles University in Prague), we had oral exams for 200+ people (spread over many different sessions).
skywalqer··on Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
However, ads are also the reason why many services on the Internet are free. So maybe they are not completely bad.
skywalqer··on You know more Finnish than you think
I don't think it is as clear with the Russian word for market (торг) being derived from the name of the Finnish city, because related words (trh in Czech, targ in Polish...) (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/t...) are used in most Slavic languages, so this origin explanation feels a bit strange.
skywalqer··on Sci-Net
Wikipedia:

> Elbakyan was in conflict with the liberal, pro-Western wing of the Russian scientific community.[8] According to her interview, she was attacked on the Internet by 'science popularizers' who supported liberal views that led to the shutdown of Sci-Hub in Russia in 2017 for a few days.[59] In particular, Elbakyan was strongly critical of the former Dynasty Foundation (shut down in 2015) and its associated figures. She believes that the foundation was politicized, tied to Russia's liberal opposition, and fit the legal definition of a "foreign agent".

> She has also done work on religion,[57] and has argued that Stalin was a god of science, and an incarnation both of the god Thoth and the Christian God.[58]

Idk but this sounds so sus that I don't believe her with anything. Arguing that Stalin was good is very similar to arguing that Hitler was.

skywalqer··on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
Yeah, but maybe it is a powerful country because it has a lot of hard-working people with improving conditions, not because it has a communist government. I mostly think that the Chinese government harmed Chinese development in the future with their shortsighted policies, like the one-child policy.

Also, does the government really work for its citizens if they are doing a genocide of one nation in the country?

Yeah, I agree that the Trump situation is frustrating and idiotic, however, we should not resort to shifting towards totalitarians. That's problematic thinking.

skywalqer··on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
Yeah, more efficient in making suboptimal decisions for everyone in the country.

With freedom of thought and markets, you get competition of ideas, which ultimately selects a better solution than any central planner can plan.

skywalqer··on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
Yeah, Palestinians are indeed Semites, however, the word antisemitism (for historic reasons) is used to refer specifically to hatred of Jews. It makes historical sense that Germans are afraid to criticize the Jews.

I probably disagree with your opinions, but the debate would likely be useless.

skywalqer··on The Russian Paradox: So Much Education, So Little Human Capital
Nah, Gorbachev and Yeltsin were good. The people who took it after them (the one guy) led the country to this state.
skywalqer··on The Burnout Machine
Yeah, great, give programming a high entry barrier for new people. One of the worst ideas I've heard today.
skywalqer··on PHP Doesn't Suck Anymore
You can't build a good house with bad foundations.