SergeAx

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by SergeAx 4y ago
What about Iraq and Libya?
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Fun fact: in his detailed descriptions of how was the day he mentions his job ("software engineer at Meta", according to About section) only twice. It seems like a tiny fraction compared to writing blog and working on own company.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I think they won't succeed if the thing isn't running on a typical MacBook M1.
724.
by SergeAx 4y ago
About ChatGPT email assistants case I just wonder: what is the point of creating a product that could be cloned in a couple of weeks?
725.
by SergeAx 4y ago
Between train and plane in Europe I will almost always choose train hands down. Oftentimes the trip time is comparable. Train station are in the city center, so it's easy to book the hotel in the walking distance. For plane it is a tax
726.
by SergeAx 4y ago
The whole WiFi ecosystem today seems like answers in a search of questions. What we really need is not speed, but connection quality, interference resistance and, maybe, in the third place - range. For speed we have copper or optic fiber.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> The regular web is going to get worse Author implies that web = Google (or search engines in general). But web is not search, and Google doesn't own it, although it seems so. There are other methods of content discovery on the web
728.
by SergeAx 4y ago
Right after my torrent client, please.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
When ChatGPT hype just started, I managed it to produce a coherent text about Hitler being right and Holocaust being totally justified. I don't see how it's a problem of ChatGPT or its authors, and not mine. Also, I am the only on
730.
by SergeAx 4y ago
Let me see how crypto is banned first. Same case, even worse: not just used to scam people out of their belongings, but to buy and sell illegal things too.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
There are no facets in the case from the book. Germans are 100% responsible for parents' deaths. All other things are just coincidences. Easy as that.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
The point is that you won't access the info you came for without shoveling all the tracking malware up your cookie storage.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Yes, it's a lot of energy, and it shocked me first, because I never lived in a home that big before. It also costs the money most people consider worth saving. But it still fascinates me how relatively small this amount of energy compa
734.
by SergeAx 4y ago
Why Ubuntu in the first place, when there's Debian?
735.
by SergeAx 4y ago
I see here a number of comments about turning heating down as a way to live more "green" lifestyle. I see it as a corporate brainwashing and guilt shift getting into people's heads. I just moved and now renting a place with e
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by SergeAx 4y ago
The presense of wife actually makes this trick much safer. She is a capable adult and can take care of herself and daughter.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
In my opinion, they are not strikingly beautiful. They are really average good-looking. To be strikingly beautiful a face needs some outstanding features (thus, in fact, "strikingly"). Also, unrelated: Leo Tolstoy had his number o
738.
by SergeAx 4y ago
It's okay, you don't have to use AI assistants to program.
739.
by SergeAx 4y ago
I really love that format and wish there were more content like that!
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by SergeAx 4y ago
US is the only place on Earth where I found out that a sale tax is added to price tags in grocery store at the moment of check-out. I remember my astonishment the first time I faced that abomination. How's that even possible, what is t
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I am currently in Serbia. It is not a part of EU, so there is no smoke ban at all (neigbour Bulgaria is EU and has at least some restrictions). There are no such things that "smoke or non", the whole venue is usually smoking. Ther
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by SergeAx 4y ago
If you living in EU and this is an Apple Police App - you should, IMO.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
TBCH, my pain was on the other path - getting money out of the system and into my bank (I am not in US). Also PayPal never let me make a payment with just a card, without logging in to the system.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I heard that EU food delivery apps was frauded this way: customer installs app, get hefty first delivery discount, asks to delete their data due to GDPR, rinse. repeat. They figured that out by keeping a hash of their phone number for some
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Good take, thank you.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> When someone installs your app, you need to detect whether they have already installed it previously. If they have, then their activity (including blocks and people who have already declined them) should be linked to this new account Q
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by SergeAx 4y ago
It is not safe indeed, but since when we (as in "humans") started doing only safe things?
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by SergeAx 4y ago
There was a moment when I needed to buy an expensive ticket from Qatar and their Visa processor was unable to bill my card. PayPal managed to get my money to airline. I appreciate that, but still thiunk that creating user experience worse t
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by SergeAx 4y ago
As a non-US citizen one of the worst user experience in fintech I had was PayPal. Especially when I tried to stop using it and it just didn't allow me to just pay by entering card data without login, even in anonymous mode. There also
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> TDD shines when refactoring a codebase. Treat it as a black box, document and validate the behavior, and start rebuilding the inside. This looks to me like writing tests around code that didn't have any before. It is crucial for r

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