SergeAx

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by SergeAx 4y ago
I don't know. I am building my own computers for about 30 years, starting with Intel 486, and using them heavily. Couple of times I bought ECC memory, but most of the time - not. For the last 4 years I have 64G of non-ECC RAM. Maybe I
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I sold my second company for chips, for a price of software and domain name. For couple of years I thought it was a total failure. Then one wise man said that most failed businesses are ending up deep in debt, so exiting net positive is act
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by SergeAx 4y ago
It also doesn't have a KYC phase. Email and Stripe billing info - that's all they got.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Demand Microsoft to give away for free things they literally invested billions into?
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The same "transnational corporations from Silicon Valley" paying their outsourced third world workforce 3-5 times less than US residents for the same engineering tasks. But nobody calling it "exploitation", because this
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Most of smartphones' magic exists due to very expensive labor of hardware and software engineers. Production of parts and assembly is 1-2% of the total work done.
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One problem I see in this particular domain is autonomy condition. We can't put that much computing power on board of Atlas/Spot (also minding literally power consumption) and should not make them depend on external computation, b
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34412671
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Interesting, three replies and all about strict types. In my own experience moving to Go from PHP downsides was exactly strict typing and (de)serialization. It is a major pain to handle variable JSON schemas, especially in verbose multi-nes
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by SergeAx 4y ago
What's wrong with Python that you want an alternative?
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How's that "not possible to unDRM" thing works? The reader able to decipher the content to show it on screen means that everything it needs to decipher content is inside the reader, and can be extracted.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I was asking beacause a friend of a friend has the similar condition after catastrophic motorbike crash. He spent a month on a medical bed and then had to learn walking again. During that, he had to rest a lot after a minute of walking. I c
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by SergeAx 4y ago
In earlier Windows versions users sometimes had to fiddle with swap file size. Even on newer versions the "System determine size of swap file" may be a default option (don't have a Windows machine nearby right now). Resizing
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> walk longer than a minute without needing to lay down for the rest of the day and sleep I'm sorry, do you mean it literally?
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Did you ever had to rollback some unlucky changes? Specifically rolling back, not fixing it frantically by several layers of fixes on top the buggy deploy?
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> Commits are not units of deployment Thank you for this statement, I will write it in all caps some very visible place.
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> internal libraries that depend on other internal libraries This is where you start to develop nostalgia for well-structured monolithic apps.
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I generally like pizza, but more interested in rich and sophisticated toppings, not just dough and cheese. Normally I have pizza about once in a month (except when I am vacationing in Italy, of course). If what you are saying is close to re
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> Should you have absolutely everything in 1 system? As long as you physically able to do that - absolutely yes.
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The mission of your manager is to help you to be productive. So this is one obvious theme: what is going on, what is holding you back, how your manager can help you to circumvent the obstacles. Another theme is getting a helicopter view of
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Also nothing intelligent.
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John Connor behaves and talks like a figure any kid in the movie theater want to associate themselves with.
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I remember the feeling of sheer awe while watching both movies. "Wait, what, he is a metallic skeleton underneath?!! No goddamn way!!!". I really miss that feeling in today's movies, even "Avatar 2" by the same Jame
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by SergeAx 4y ago
In a perfect world Airbnb should reimburse you 1-2 nights of stay in a hotel while looking for alternative place, and then retrospect that cost onto a first property owner. But this scheme opens up much more ways to scam Airbnb out of their
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> Hadn’t we done stupid, selfish shit too? Driven drunk in the Tetons? Taken selfies with a moose? Of course we had, but there's a quirk: they did it for ads money, and they kinda lied to their viewers about "anyone could have
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Anecdotal confirmation: a friend of mine recently paid back the money she took from company's founder. He was genuinely astonishes, because she was the only one who did this out of tens similar debtors.
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> Rewording a commit is guaranteed to not cause a merge conflict Except when the commit is already synced to another instance of this repo.
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Noooo, Apple, you can't take my personal data away from Facebook and Google just to sell it yourself!
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There was never a thing like "privacy" in Apple roadmap. All that buzz was to take users' private data away from Facebook and Google and bank on it exclusively.
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Sales people need something to sale. Soaring productivity should mean delivery of lots of features wanted by prospective clients, thus an occasion for sales people to contact those prospects, pitch them those features and close a lots of de

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