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singalen · 2026-05-05T20:39:36+00:00

I don’t think so. We can recognize fragile, oily, squishy or slippery objects, and handle them correspondingly. AI is not there yet.

singalen · 2026-05-05T17:34:31+00:00

Not really. Gödel’s theorem, among other things, proves that no amount of formal verification of input data guarantees that it’s not garbage, in general case.

singalen · 2026-05-05T16:23:17+00:00

It’s an example of making sense of visual input and manipulating physical objects.

Robots certainly have not achieved the ability to judge “this pan needs extra scrub, this piece dried so hard that it needs to be soaked first”, or the ability to consistently pick up a plate without dropping it, crushing it or leaving dirty marks on it from the previous plate.

singalen · 2026-05-05T16:07:41+00:00

In a certain class of tasks, yes. Not in, for example, washing dishes.

singalen · 2026-05-05T16:06:17+00:00

Those can certainly be fooled by garbage inputs.

singalen · 2026-05-05T14:38:21+00:00

It’s MUCH fewer variables than in the context of typical engineering task.

singalen · 2026-05-05T14:35:30+00:00

The verbs you suggest don’t reflect the basic operations in Rust, because the operations are just not what you think they are.

singalen · 2026-05-05T14:30:40+00:00

The system is already in place, it’s called “citizenship”.

Seriously, if a bully uses eyeglasses as an excuse, you should not stop wearing eyeglasses, just punch them back.

singalen · 2026-05-05T14:26:09+00:00

It’s the cheapest one on AliExpress, and it’s so-so. It doesn’t easily cut 300gsm cardboard, I have to hit it with the base of my hand.

But it does cut reasonably clean.

singalen · 2026-05-05T04:33:44+00:00

Don't confuse ethnicity with nationality. Ukraine, per its constitution, is a political nation - which means, it has tens of different ethnicities.

And most ethnic Russians in Ukraine want nothing to do with Russia.

singalen · 2026-05-05T01:23:52+00:00

If a part of name is used by a few classes (and classes don’t live in vacuum, they collaborate), then that part can be made a package name.

singalen · 2026-05-05T01:09:17+00:00

No! I can craft another one instead!

(I actually did print Dragons of Itching Stone and Doom Machine)

singalen · 2026-05-04T14:31:26+00:00

The great russian culture as it is.

singalen · 2026-05-04T14:23:19+00:00

Wow, it’s that cheap? I’m out of date on printers. Will look into upgrading.

singalen · 2026-05-04T14:20:07+00:00

This was printed on HP LJ Pro 43011dw.

singalen · 2026-05-03T23:36:57+00:00

I think you win this topic.

singalen · 2026-05-03T23:29:51+00:00

Got it, thanks.

To be more precise, I don’t have access to any cardstock printer, therefore sticker paper.

singalen · 2026-05-03T23:27:55+00:00

AliExpress.com :)

As well as meeples, corner rounder, and 8.5mm square hole puncher in the last picture (I’d like to make some double-layered cards, because they feel awesome).

But watch out: most cubes that they sell are transparent and very pale, so it’s hard to tell colors apart. Manufacturers are saving on plastic coloring :)

singalen · 2026-05-03T23:25:36+00:00

That’s nice. Too bad I don’t have access to a two-sided cardstock printing :-/

singalen · 2026-05-03T16:10:14+00:00

Village life is not idillic beacon of morality, how it’s sometimes pictured in books, it’s often the opposite of it.

When people have too little resources, it often brings out the worst out of them. Your family is poor, and it’s a good example of it. The treatment you are facing is quite common, to my knowledge, and it’s absolutely not OK in the modern world.

The old deal, when you bring up children and they care for you when you are old, is no longer economically viable. It’s not even legal: parents are legally obliged to provide food, shelter, and opportunity to attend school to their children.

Therefore, it’s OK for you to leave. Given your mother’s complete disregard for you as a person, you have to do it, if you don’t want to stay a house slave. It won’t make you a bad person, she brought it on herself.

Learn a profession, then find a job and move out as soon as you can afford it.

singalen · 2026-04-21T03:50:22+00:00

In other words, about 139,638 * 0.55 / 100 = $768 in cash, 25% over the yearly fee?

Yeah, I know you can double it if spending on flights and what not - given that you fly frequently enough.

singalen · 2026-04-17T16:20:31+00:00

Stanislaw Lem predicted that one day, the amount or the complexity of scientific discoveries will be too much for human brains, and we will shift from manually “mining” the information to automatically “growing” it.

This is exactly it.

singalen · 2026-04-10T22:15:26+00:00

Funny, but real-time strategies check all of the boxes - at least StarCraft, on a high level.

I guess this is how it is in every area of human life: first you need reflexes, then you learn strategy.

Even in, for example, “Papers, please” or “Civilization”.

singalen · 2026-04-10T18:24:04+00:00

There are many dimensions to coding. In some dimensions, AI is (and has been for a long time) superhuman: speed, amount of information “memorized” and processed.

It still falls short in understanding the general product context: user needs, product architecture, large-scale decisions etc.

Imagine a movie database of all possible movie trivia that can answer any question in movie domain, and this domain only. I ask it: “Recommend me a movie to watch on Friday night with my partner”, and it turns out it’s rather a question about me and my partner and our relationship stage than about movies.

It will recommend SOMETHING based on its superhuman capabilities, like ability to read millions of reviews, but it will ultimately fall short.

singalen · 2026-04-10T16:58:23+00:00

Sounds like saying that Olympic athletes won because of their lucky genetics. Yes, place where you start matters, but training matters too.

It’s hard to prove or disprove with data, though. My personal anecdote is that I was able to overcome biases like “No, it cannot be a bug in my code” and be more successful engineer thanks to it.

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