SergeAx

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by SergeAx 4y ago
Your repo is 50 files, 20 kLOC. I understand that it is a fork, but boy, does this frontend SPA path led us to a wild forest!
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Last time I traveled was in Germany in September. Several hotels there offered options for 2-3 nights with no cleaning included, for a discount. They call it "green stay", ironically.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I am playing a video game now, where I should run a nation. Most of the game is about making economical tradeoffs. I want a GDP growth, so I have to develop sophisticated industries with higher throughouput. These industries has better marg
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by SergeAx 4y ago
We employed zstd to compress telemetry and logs from mobile devices. We reduced total bandwidth (not including CDN) by 70%, which is a big deal for mobile devices and battery life. CPU overhead was insignificant.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
The rationale is that Google, Meta, Microsoft and other successfull companies are running monorepos. Ergo, if you want your company to be successfull — you have to employ monorepo too. It's that simple!
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by SergeAx 4y ago
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is where monorepos will inevitably take you. There's actually an elementary litmus test on migrating to monorepos. It is a questionnaire with only one question: is your company Google? If the answer is &
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I stayed at the hotel this September. My first thought was "oh, my, there is a breakfast area right there on a ground floor, and it is starts buzzing right from 6am!”. Fortunately, the bang happened 20 mins before. Interestingly, looki
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by SergeAx 4y ago
First of all, author confuses information and knowledge. Reading books (and listening to lectures, FWIW) gives you only former. Next goes knowledge and skill. I can cook a steak using YouTube video, and I can tell that I possess this knowle
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by SergeAx 4y ago
FWIW, they have much bigger carrot near their non-business end for years now, and if it is not persuasive enough - I don't know what is.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Does it hurt you in any way? If not - I would just leave it alone. Google can tell a copy from original. I tried to search some arbitrary text from your website - there is no trace of copycat in Google SERP. What striked me, though, is that
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by SergeAx 4y ago
To answer you question, I believe banks have that procedure they called KYC/AML, that's how.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Well, I am holding one in my hands right now, I got it from European bank several days ago.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Not only Europe, the whole world, but that's not important for the discussion. There's almost no way just to open account at all, to put some cash there, have a plastic card and use it to buy tickets or pay for Netflix subscriptio
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by SergeAx 4y ago
And being unbanked means, for example, inability to buy property, which is, in turn, may be a condition of getting residency in the first place. Not everyone possess IT skills to get work visa.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
There is significant (up to 9 months, from friends' experience) gap between fleeing to the country and getting legal residency (work permit, visa D, blue card). But even that doesn't make opening bank account much easier, there ar
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by SergeAx 4y ago
There are also very few instances where a person would 'need' to freely express their beliefs or opinions, so what?
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Let me give another perspective. The freedom to operate in cash is the freedom to be anonymous and is much like to freedom of speech or freedom from surveillance. I just want to have a right to use my money without my bank or my government
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by SergeAx 4y ago
They also have 500 EUR bills there in Europe. 10000 EUR will fit in a postcard envelope.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> This likely affects a number of people that is so small, that it's irrelevant We as society are spending literally billions to make our cities and infrastructure accessible for people with disabilities. Their number also very smal
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Well, tell that to Russian war emigrants. Opening bank account in EU for non-residents is a hard endeavor right now. Those who did it before the hot part of war started in February often finding their accounts frozen and literally were unab
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I visited Monaco several times on a sailboat (I believe it is the cheapest way to spend a night there). The town is very small and well connected by public transportation, so "having to return to an EU every night" is about the sa
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by SergeAx 4y ago
> There is little correlation between climate change denial and scientific literacy. But there is a strong correlation between climate change denial and political affiliation. This just means that climate change is not a scientfic/t
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I was a big fan of SQL as a language since meeting it in MS Access 95, but today I strongly believe that it became obsolete and too clumsy. I am now in favor of something more strict and structured, like MongoDB fully JSON-powered queries.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
Can we ask EFF to fire a lawsuit against YouTube on that case? Or open a funding campain for that exact case if EFF cannot fund it from their primary stream of donations? This is a crystal clear case, easy win.
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by SergeAx 4y ago
I briefly skimmed content of the article, and had an impression that most of the data generated by different ML models for it is laying in the segment from infonoise to garbage. Does author understands that and publishing his findings anywa
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How hard would it be to train a ML-model to distinct ML-generated content from product of human? I mean text, images and code?
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by SergeAx 4y ago
"Level Eleven: [...] “Forgive the interruption, boss, but a lot of our most active users are getting angry at you specifically, because the hate speech, spam, and copyright filters are blocking their dank memes, and sometimes they’re g
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I now have better understanding of that guy from Google, who wanted to free the AI model, thinking it's alive. By the way, after several hours of chatting with GPT it becomes extremely annoying to carefully fiddle with Google search re
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Add "with basic guitar chords", and you are golden.
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Single tenant app is also better from data security point of view: there's no way to make a mistake that allows to access someone else's data, if it resides in a different database/object storage. On the other hand, single te

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