SergeAx

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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   I was always wondering about weird dimension choice. Why on Earth they are 88*31? Okay, 88 is divisible by 8 and 8 is bits per byte and we can bit-map one row to 11 bytes maybe, using gif paletted compression. But why 31? Why not 32, which
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   Thank to that, I've just learned about open movies and am very excited. I wonder how far open movies can get us in the indie scene, can it make impact similar to open software. I watched Tears of Steel and thought to myself: "My,
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   > Python has Django and Flask, Ruby has Rails, C# has ASP.NET, Node has Express, and PHP has Symfony and Laravel. Go is different: there is no default framework. And this is the root of most problems described by author. If I start proj
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   > you must live in the U.S., which explains why you think your experience generalizes to the whole world On the contrary, I live in Serbia, but 45 years before that I lived in Russia and USSR. So I have a first hand experience with currr
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   Lots of people are citing bad management as a most annoying thihg in tech. I wonder two things: 1) To recognize bad management, there needs to be awareness of what good management is. What is the common source of that awareness? How do one
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   I would try to correlate this list with previous massive Facebook leak. Cross-validating it would be much easier feat than scraping from scratch.
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   Are you saying that USD is very volatile currency? Volatile relative to what?
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   > The idea that Russia is holding a gun to China's head just doesn't make sense. You are absolutely right, because it is the other way around. China doesn't want to have problem with US and EU for dealing with Russia in US
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   (laughs satanically) Oh, well, Forex rates! Go try to buy USD with RUB for this rate. Go try to wire those USD out of Russia. Go try to withdraw your USD in cash. Go try to export that cash from Russia. I am sorry for sounding like a jerk,
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    > You can try to charge $2000, wait four months, get no takers, then lower to $1800, wait four months, etc. Or you can go to Craigslist, look for similar properties in your area, factor in quality of renovation, furniture, views etc, and
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    "There's no such thing as cloud - it is always someone's else computer". Although we may try to rely on the unwillingness of the cloud provider to lose revenue, probability of events like this can never be fully discount
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Yes, and what is your contingency plan for said fiber going dark?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    > AWS [...] worth 70% of Amazon's market cap I am curious, how did you figure out this 70% number? Why not 60%, not 80%?
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    George Hotz (ex-Comma.ai) says he is going to rewrite Twitter search in 12 weeks(twitter.com)

    4 points by SergeAx 4y ago|1 comments
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    I bought RimWorld year ago, but looking on its' silly graphics and cannot make myself to download and start to play it. I have no problem with ONI, because its'silliness is a part of gameplay. I am really glad that Factorio receiv
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Great writing, thanks for sharing! Special kudos to author for improving interface and contribute it to upstream. Concerning hardware: I would not compare real hardware with cloud virtual servers. For a task like that I would rent a bare me
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    What about people who cannot code, can they afford mortgage at all?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    > Low-production wines that have an affluent following cost more because supply and demand. Champagne region produces some astonishing volume of sparkling wine, like hundreds of millions of bottles per year. Any given bottle of sparkling
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    > But if you try $100 bottles, you're much more likely to accidentally discover something new You would get the same effect with $5 bottles, wouldn't you?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    I am a wine enthusiast for about 10 years. On an average week I am tasting 2-3 wines. I can definitely tell good wine from bad and more or less guess grape variety and geography in blind tasting. Saying all that, I am mostly buying wines in
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    $80k a year is totally reasonable comp for something one can learn in 1-2 years and pretty much master in another 5.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Strawberry shampoo have nothing common with real strawberry. I think it will be safe to bet on the same situation with banana chewing gum. Will we make cases out of it, or we are not interested because it's too cheap to be bothered abo
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Having friends in childhood/pubescence is a survival level necessity for most of the kids. We all know countless examples of awful things done to keep or gain the position in school/class hierarchy, to fulfill expectations, to des
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    I have a very valid question: if this method was used to sell tulips in XVII, how it can be patented in 2020?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    I beleive this is very US-centric. Living in Europe I never heard of most varieties from top-10. By the way, are description there GPT-generated?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Let's also not forget Steam pricing policies for different regions. Until recently same games in Turkey were priced 5 times lower than in Switzerland.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Release says "defendants profited illegally off work they stole". I wonder what the charges would be if they were runnig Z-Lib as a non-profit?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    As an SWE I know that my brain works on problems 24/7, and not only 9 to 5 Mon-Fri. Lots of times when I stuck with some debugging or corner case or architecture problem - I just put it away and next morning the answer is just there in
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    I have this minset too, but I have one use case for sharing EN notes: when I write articles or short posts which needed to be approved or get an editor touch. I may use Google Docs for it, but there are too many downsides with them compared
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    I am a many years paying user of Evernote. Startup time on Android became painfully slow several years ago. On Windows I just keep the app always open. Otherwise I don't see any benefit of switching to another app.