GrantZvolsky

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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
> How did you first get into programming? I stumbled upon a book titled 'The magic and mysteries of the command line' when I was ~13 and I've been hooked ever since. > Were any books, blogs, forums, or people particular
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
How can anyone trust any other complex system? Even something as seemingly trivial as a bridge. Picture driving on an unfamiliar road when suddenly there's a bridge ahead. How can anyone in that situation trust that bridge? Without kno
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
From my experience of using microk8s for mostly offline development and trying minikube once: Microk8s pros: - bind-mount support => it is possible to mount a project including its node_modules and work on it from the host while it hot-r
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
CO2/(passenger*km), not CO2.
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
My anecdotal experience corroborates your quote: when I was 13-14 I occasionally did truck unloading/stage construction for an entertainment company. When another below-legal-age friend of mine got injured while unloading a truck, the
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by GrantZvolsky 5y ago
Radical idea: Don't let users choose their passwords. Let them instead generate access keys.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I had been in the same position for about ten years until I set up a limited liability company. It does take some effort to set up and costs about $20/month[1], but to me the peace of mind is well worth it. [1]: https://www.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
It feels as though I simultaneously remember and recall an image of the number as well as its numeric value. What helps me remember the numeric value is identifying its interesting properties and patterns. This mental phone book improved my
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
My grandmother[1] was a political prisoner and her favourite pastime while in prison was poetry. Since the inmates weren't allowed to have any possessions, not even a strip of paper, she composed poems in her head. She later published
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
OP is implying the i5 was Pareto-optimal in terms of price and performance.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
While the comment is funny, it is misplaced on an article that is refreshingly hype-free.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Your graph could be improved by avoiding interpolation. Interpolation is misleading in this case because the observations are complete without it.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
If one of your top commands is `clear`, you may like my alias `c`: $ alias c='clear &&' $ # Usage: $ c git status [1]: https://github.com/grantzvolsky/skel/blob/ea43b1969463a97f96.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I'm not sure whether I'd call 10e10 nearly the size of 10e12, but the dataset is open, so it shouldn't be an issue. https://github.com/google-research/text-to-text-transfer-tra...
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
LibreOffice, to some extent. But more pertinently, the Czech search engine Seznam[1], founded in 1996, was the most used search engine in the Czech Republic until Google took over in 2014 due to the influence of Android. Seznam is well dive
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Video upload may be instant but the video doesn't get indexed without a review.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I remember raising an issue[1] back in 2015 asking for the unit to be changed from `cores` to `vCPUs`. Small world. [1]: https://github.com/powdahound/ec2instances.info/issues/111
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Having studied both in Prague and the UK I can attest that British students are getting their money's worth of leisure and luxury. An interesting side effect is that the same facilities enjoyed by the largely native undergraduate stude
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
> My optometrist said that wearing glasses would speed the slide This is a myth widespread among opticians and optometrists. I have discussed it with those who treated me and not a single one could provide any evidence.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Try turning off the sound and observe how she communicates through facial expressions. The actress veiled by the model speaks a different language.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Having grown up in an area with an abundance of crime I prefer to live with the surveillance of public spaces. I'd wager that opinions on surveillance highly correlate with exposure to crime.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I see. I don't know whether an ISP should be viewed as a custodian of infrastructure or as a platform to relay information. Maybe both?
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Let's examine two cases for an ISP utility. They both lead to the same conclusion without turning everything downstream of ISPs into utilities. 1. The utility of an ISP is that of an ad hoc communication platform. Here we must ask why
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
> Now where I could see it getting interesting is if consumers in the area don't have an alternative way to access content. Assuming private companies have the moral right to fully regulate their services, they're just blocking
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
edit: this is how my vscode is configured using nix on top of Xubuntu: vscode is installed globally using the buildEnv-based declarative user environment approach ( https://gist.github.com/lheckemann/402e61e8e53f136f239e
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Let's not jump to conclusions with Jack Ma. It could all be explained by an illness.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Wow, this service finds photos of people with faces so similar to my own that I find it difficult to believe it isn't me in the pictures.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I also phased out Docker for local, non-isolated workloads in favour of nix. It's saved me many hours of figuring out how to install software whose official packages don't work out of the box / aren't compatible with my
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
> Presumably, they have the transaction data from the software, and the transaction data is saying he's lying. No, the error seems to be just in the aggregates: > We went through the system together, and found nothing. The other
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
I don't see the evidence against Bob. If I were Bob, my defence would be along the lines of 'The software says there was $x in the office. Then surely all transactions must add up to this number. Your allegations are baseless with

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