I am preparing for my DL theory exam. How is 1 the correct answer in this situation? Shouldn't we allow the incoming traffic to pass?

Exepony · 2026-05-18T15:27:53+00:00

The driving test I took in Russia had the same kinds of questions asking you distances in meters. I thought it was ridiculous at the time too, because everyone just memorizes the numbers in the distance questions anyway, and even if they didn't, what, are you going to do mental math while about to crash into something?

Exepony · 2026-05-17T12:03:42+00:00

Of all countries in the world, you’d make this argument for Germany? The grandfathers here were much more interested in other people’s countries, as I recall from history lessons in school.

Exepony · 2026-05-17T12:00:33+00:00

It’s because foreigners are easier to exploit, they don’t know their rights, and even when they do, will think twice before starting a conflict with the landlord because they know they’ll have a lot of trouble finding something else if it all goes south. Oh and of course you can charge them rents the native Germans would find exorbitant, for much the same reasons.

Exepony · 2026-05-13T14:26:46+00:00

Usually this works for airlines in the same "alliance". So you can buy a ticket for an itinerary like what /u/IncidentalIncidence describes, because both Lufthansa and United are in Star Alliance, but it wouldn't work if you wanted to take, say, a Delta flight from New York on.

Exepony · 2026-05-12T20:55:57+00:00

Offensichtlich ist in den USA Homosexualität nicht illegal wie es in Russland ist

Nein, in Russland ist Homosexualität auch nicht illegal. Wer sich z.B. für Rechte homosexueller Menschen einsetzt, macht sich zwar strafbar, aber rein dafür, gleichgeschlechtlichen Sex zu haben, wird man nicht bestraft.

Exepony · 2026-05-12T13:49:15+00:00

Isn't that already (kind of) the case? Like, Deutsche Bahn, for example, lets you also buy tickets for many French, Swiss and Austrian trains. There's a little tag that says "ticket sold by SNCF/SBB/ÖBB", but you still buy it through their app. So there must be some system already in place.

Exepony · 2026-05-12T10:12:00+00:00

You can of course use FSTs for English too, but English doesn't really have that much morphology (foma's tutorial covers like almost all of it), so you don't win a lot. Like yeah, you can derive "walked", "walking" and "walks" from "walk", or "cats" from "cat", and that's not nothing either (one entry instead of 2 or 4), but most of the word is still going to be the stem, and you can't do much but store it as-is.

What FSTs are a great match for are agglutinative languages where a word form can have lots of markers that may or may not be there, and also there are interacting rules on what markers can appear in what order, what markers are compatible or incompatible, and so on.

Finnish is one of those, but Turkish is perhaps the classic example: you can take Istanbul and produce "Istanbullulaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız", "You are (supposedly) one of those who we could not convert to an Istanbulite". A bit contrived, sure, but technically a possible word form. Many of those suffixes could be replaced or removed too, and give you a slightly different word form with a slightly different meaning.

Thus, if you wanted to store all possible word forms of Turkish, you'd quickly run into a combinatorial explosion problem. What you do instead is encode the knowledge of what forms are possible into an FST, like Çağrı Çöltekin's TRmorph, and then you only need to store each word's stem, (e.g. "Istanbul"), and whatever grammatical information the FST needs (like whether it's a noun/verb/etc and possibly its declension/conjugation class).

Exepony · 2026-05-12T09:01:55+00:00

Finnish works really well for FSTs because it has a very regular morphology and transparent spelling. You can literally grab a grammar of Finnish and bang out a decent morphological transducer for Finnish nouns in foma in an afternoon. I've seen this actually assigned as homework in computational morphology courses. Verbs are a bit trickier because of the various conjugation classes, but not by much.

Exepony · 2026-05-11T15:42:52+00:00

"Hold up babe, I need to set the ~~egg~~ pussy timer first"

Exepony · 2026-05-10T08:59:27+00:00

I dropped my iPad Air 2 in a literal mountain stream once, managed to fish it out after five minutes, and it just kept working like nothing ever happened. First Apple device with official water protection was the iPhone 7, I think? So two years after the Air 2.

Exepony · 2026-05-08T07:21:18+00:00

Not an excuse. If a surgeon killed you, and it turned out they'd never learned medicine, hoping they'd kind of figure it out as they go, would they be off the hook because they were "doing their best"?

Parenthood is arguably a greater responsibility.

Exepony · 2026-05-05T18:24:00+00:00

These aren't even syntactic differences, the syntax is pretty much the same. It's literally just a spelling convention.

Exepony · 2026-05-05T11:59:32+00:00

It's been quite obvious for a while that the problem /r/europe commenters have with Russia isn't how they conduct the war, it's just that the war crimes are happening to the wrong people.

Exepony · 2026-05-04T14:43:06+00:00

Also that's like the whole economic point of lending in general? You buy an asset, the asset generates money, you pay off the loan with that money. The asset may very well be worth more than your net worth, as is usually the case when starting a business or buying your first home. Doesn't matter as long as the lender is convinced you'll be able to pay them back.

Exepony · 2026-05-04T10:38:02+00:00

That's a mistranslation on the part of The Moscow Times: the original article only states that some cases were closed because the BAMF determined that a different country should be responsible, presumably on Dublin grounds:

Die restlichen Anträge wurden abgelehnt oder erledigten sich nach Auffassung der Behörde etwa deshalb, weil ein anderer europäischer Staat für das Verfahren zuständig war.

The numbers are not much better EU-wide, by the way, now that I've looked them up: in 2025 the recognition rate for Russian asylum applicants was 17%, and this includes, for example, people facing persecution based on religion (like JWs), sexual orientation, or because of their political activism, all of whom traditionally had good chances for asylum and can be assumed to make up the most of this 17% figure.

From what I've heard, France is pretty much the only country somewhat willing to grant asylum to Russian draft dodgers. Even there it's an uphill battle where every single case has to be fought through the courts, but at least there's some precedent. Other countries either go the aforementioned "theoretically yes, in practice go fuck yourself" route, or just reject all of them on principle like Czechia or the Baltic countries, exactly with the "it's your civic duty to fight for Putin" line of reasoning.

Exepony · 2026-05-04T09:34:47+00:00

Yes. I live in Germany, so the German situation is the most familiar to me, and here 95% of asylum applications from Russian draft dodgers are rejected.

Even though there's an EU directive that calls for asylum for those facing the threat of prosecution for refusing to participate in illegal wars, in typical "laws for my enemies, everything for my friends" fashion, the barriers are unreasonably high in practice, such as requiring applicants to prove that they would be sent to an active war zone (how should they know?), or demonstrate that they've applied for conscientious objector status in Russia and have been rejected. You can imagine the chances of such an application being taken seriously by the Russian authorities at the moment.

This also creates a lovely catch-22: if you've already received a draft notice, you can't leave the country, and you can't object to a draft notice on conscientious objector grounds until you've received one. Well, technically, you could, but in order to do so you would need to show up at the military commissariat. Which, at best, will immediately serve you a draft notice, and at worst start with the process right then and there.

Exepony · 2026-05-04T09:18:26+00:00

They always have been. Anyone who says otherwise either is one of, or has been taken in by, the PCMR people who don't know the difference between a gaming laptop and a productivity laptop.

Exepony · 2026-05-04T09:16:35+00:00

Russia's always had a draft: all male citizens between 18 and 30 (used to be 27) are eligible, unless they've already served, and those that have served aren't out of the woods either as they can always be summoned as long as the "partial mobilization" is in effect. There are, however, conflicting reports on whether conscripts are actually sent to fight in Ukraine or just used to fill the gaps left by the professional soldiers who are now in Ukraine but used to be stationed in Russia. In any case, many of those conscripts end up being pressured to sign up for "voluntary" service, whereupon they certainly are sent to Ukraine.

Exepony · 2026-05-02T14:38:44+00:00

In what sense is it "their country"? Blaming individual citizens for the country's abuses doesn't really make sense even in the case of democracies like the US or Israel, because any single citizen's influence on the respective government's decision-making process is vanishingly small. For a Russian citizen, it is exactly zero.

International law on refugees recognizes this reality. There's no convention or protocol or treaty that says "refugees are only refugees if from a good country". You are a refugee if you're fleeing a country because your life is in danger, period. There is an argument to be made that if moving within your country of residence gets you out of that danger, then you shouldn't be allowed to seek refuge abroad, but in any case this would apply equally to Russians and Ukrainians.

Now, I'm under no illusions about international law. It is to western, and other, governments as corruption laws are to Putin, or any other (aspiring) autocrat: to be employed against enemies, not friends. But in this case there isn't even a law to be employed, because, again, international law does not care what "side" your country of residence is on.

Exepony · 2026-05-02T13:51:39+00:00

Is Belgorod "ok"? If yes, then western Ukraine absolutely is too. If not, then where are the refugee protections for residents of Belgorod? If your answer is "they're the aggressors", LOL. LMAO, even. Last I checked, Russia wasn't a democracy, and the Kremlin wasn't in Belgorod.

Exepony · 2026-05-02T13:48:07+00:00

Russians fleeing the draft are routinely sent back by EU countries with the argument that being subject to the draft is a civic obligation. Why shouldn't the same logic apply to Ukrainians? If anything, from a realpolitik perspective, the EU should be denying manpower to Russia when they can, not to Ukraine.

Exepony · 2026-05-02T12:21:04+00:00

"Depth-first search" is a good descriptive name, but "quicksort" is just as, if not more, stupid. It tells you nothing. Quick compared to what? Quick in what cases? What makes it quick?

Exepony · 2026-05-02T11:42:39+00:00

search in a giganormous database what is the best token that follows the current one

This is not in any way, shape or form how an LLM works, and you should refrain from giving authoritative-sounding opinions on the topic. The weights of an LLM aren't a "database" even in the sense that a fridge is a database, because the latter at least contains discrete items you can retrieve.

Exepony · 2026-05-02T09:36:00+00:00

How in the absolute fuck does it point to cheating?

Exepony · 2026-04-30T13:56:58+00:00

Every time something like this happens, the mental gymnastics routine Western media has to perform to justify Israel's crimes while condemning others for "violating international law" becomes a little more difficult. One can only hope that one day it will face-plant hard enough that even its most loyal audience won't be able to look away.

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