Andrew_nenakhov

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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Kinda forgot India is still part of the Commonwealth. Maybe because all Indians I ever corresponded with uniformly used US spelling, likely because they work a lot with the USA. YMMV.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I regularly correspond to people from all over the world, India, China, Brazil, France, and they all tend to use US English, thus the suggestion. Commonwealth countries are relatively minor in population compared to the USA and the rest of
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I'm actually Russian. The whole world uses American English, by virtue of US dominance in all important technical and cultural spheres.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Speaking of which, isn't it time to consider American English to be the standard one? Colour and licence are so quaint.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
English is not my first language, and Tolkien's prose is one of the easiest English language texts I've ever read. Even the occasional stylizations to old scaldic verse is very easy to comprehend.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I always felt that Asimov had good imagination and ideas, and could craft the plot well, but his actual writing skills were rather weak. He could get me curious, but I never felt any emotions when I read his books.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
> Russian culture considers translated (I think) Shakespeare to surpass the original. Can't say about Shakespeare, there are many translations, and in my eyes all of them lack something that the original has, but Russian translation
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Btw, the 'website requires chrome browser' problem is often solved if you just make Firefox user agent say it is Chrome.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I'd rather start with replaceable batteries in smartphones.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Non upgradeable storage and ram is ridiculous. Interestingly, when M4 mac mini went on sale, version with 32GB RAM/1TB drive was priced exactly 2x as 16GB RAM / 512GB drive version. This kinda implies that Apple sells only RAM and
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
The same reason you don't compare speed with distance. Distance is meters, speed is distance per the unit of time, meters / seconds, m/s. Likewise, market cap is measured in monetary units, dollars, euros, etc., while GDP is
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I used Fireworks a lot, and what amazed me at Sketch when I found it, is that they figured out every single thing that bothered me in Fireworks and did it right. At that period, Figma was mostly copying all the tiny clever innovations done
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
The first act of the latest (fourth) movie was actually brilliant. I could watch a whole movie about Neo doubting the reality, his paranoia and his sessions with psychiatrist, etc (no Hugo Weaving is a downer, though). But once they logged
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
> The first movie was a perfect sci-fi action movie The first movie was more of a sci-fi thriller. Second one is, indeed, a sci-fi action.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
It was on my reading list for a while, and after the movie trailer was released, it finally nudged me and I read it. Took a few hours. It is very easy to read, quite enjoyable being a 'plausible' sci-fi. Though, spoilers ahead, al
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Pretty much. Sweden was almost destroyed by socialists in the 1970-80s, which culminated in 1990..1994 crisis, and they only got back on track when they rolled back the most insane economic initiatives of previous governments. They sharply
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Yeah, people in Russia and Iran use it all the time to circumvent the sanctions. A godsend, basically.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Because they won't be fine for much longer under their socialist government. Look at Spanish economy: high public debt, high unemployment, low productivity growth. All this results in low competitiveness, and will inevitably lead to th
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Yes, and the more socialistic it gets, the worse it becomes. Also, the naivety and arrogance of ppl here who have never experienced real socialism is something.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I had the misfortune of being born in very socialistic USSR, so please, don't preach to about the joys of socialism to me or others who had actually experienced them. And yes, Cuban economy would have imploded even without sanctions, j
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I think you are misunderstanding socialism and what it brings to its victims. Cuba is a very good demo of what socialism eventually results in.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Move to Cuba then. It's like a little part of the USSR in a time capsule. Quite a surreal place for people like me who were born in the USSR.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
That's socialism for you.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I tried using Zed for a few months, but somehow ended up with a conclusion, that VSCode serves my needs better. Just a sum of small issues, like the need to manually re-apply coloring schemes to some files.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Living in Chelyabinsk, I believe I'm rather capable to recognize the difference. Yekaterinburg is at least 300km from the nearest part of Kazakhstan (which up to a few days ago wasn't even officially permitted there). So no, there
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Ppl I know use it live in Yekaterinburg, rather far from the front lines.
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
> Aren't starlink have some kind of geolock? Perhaps. Apparently, it isn't applied in RV mode > All data shows that Russia have one of the strongest and best firewall in the world If you have a pile of shit in the world righ
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
Actually, they do work is Russia. You need account registered in some allowed country and also use RV plan (or maybe it is called 'roam' now). I know some ppl who use it. Was thinking to get one myself, to have a reliable bypass o
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by Andrew_nenakhov 1y ago
I don't think I've ever seen non-round manhole cover. In all exUSSR countries they are round.

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