SergeAx

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1. 1231.▲
   by SergeAx 5y ago

   157 000 hectares is a lot (pun intended). This is not one place, price of similar flat in the center and in the outskirt would be 2-3 times different just because of the location. You cannot consider those hypothetical dwellings similar.
2. 1232.▲
   by SergeAx 5y ago

   Yes, but it is totally different economy. You need producers, PR researchers, you need sound technicians, you need studios with equipment, you need cover designers, print materials, replication lines, packing lines, music shops, logistics,
3. 1233.▲
   by SergeAx 5y ago

   Here is a very popular in Russian tech joke, in my humble translation. Why do engineers hate to work with other people's code? Let me try to make an analogy. You are hired to finish building a scientific lab on a distant island. When y
4. 1234.▲
   by SergeAx 5y ago

   This is a very valid addition that I've skipped for clarity. But rental prices are very location-bound, and we can build only that much houses in a given location.
5. 1235.▲
   by SergeAx 5y ago

   "we don’t have a substantial labor force willing to work for a few thousand dollars a year" Few thousand dollars, room and food, to be precise.
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   by SergeAx 5y ago

   Studio recording is a different type of labor, to produce a one hour record musicians should put at least 6-8 working hours. This is for quartet, bigger orchestras will tend to take even longer to properly record. We also need to factor in
7. 1237.▲
   by SergeAx 5y ago

   "Back in the 1960s, the economist William Baumol observed that it took exactly as much labor to play a string quartet in 1965 as it did in 1865—in economics jargon, violinists hadn’t gotten any more productive. Yet the wages of a profe
8. 1238.▲
   by SergeAx 5y ago

   Not sold, sorry. I have a very good electric drill. Made in Germany, hammer function, Pobedit bits. For the last 3 years I've used it mostly to make holes in leather belts, about once a quarter. Because I don't have a "well s
9. 1239.▲
   by SergeAx 5y ago

   https://web.archive.org/web/20220123073501/https://www.rapti...
10. 1240.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    Did I miss some important context here? What is wrong with the division of labor in the first place?
11. 1241.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    Okay, so I have to count the device cost in. And I don't see an official Android client in Google Play. Seems like showstopper for me.
12. 1242.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    Is it available for customers without iPhones?
13. 1243.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    My primary Gmail address.
14. 1244.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    1) valid point, but how can I be sure another email provider won't do just the same, or even worse? At least Google is sitting on it's data using it to profit for itself. Smaller actors are just wholesaling everything they can rea
15. 1245.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    G Suite Business Starter is $6/user. Even if you find something viable for, say, $3/user (and I really doubt so), it just not worth the fuss with migration.
16. 1246.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    Why migrate to Fastmail for $5/user, if one can keep their installation of G Suite for $6/user?
17. 1247.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    I don't know if it was inevitable, but I do not share a sentiment here. Supporting domain mail with web interface and services around is costs resources, and Google have no obligation spending it forever. It was a nice gift and I feel
18. 1248.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    You are right, I am being a bit emotional about this topic recently. I am reading that Postgres is a most popular database today and I can't beleive it is so immature in critical points. I see a recommendation of using pgbouncer almost
19. 1249.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    For my pet projects I want more reliability than for work ones. At work we can afford dedicated SREs and PagerDuty and on-call shifts and stuff. As an individual developer I want things to just work and deal with problems when I am awake an
20. 1250.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    I am strongly against treating Redis as yet another cache. For me it is a perfect database for non-critical short-lived data, that can be reproduced from more reliable databases in case of failure.
21. 1251.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    I've spent last 5 years with MongoDB and currently trying to use Postgres for my pet project. Alas, it seems to me that Postgres is not really production-ready. It needs external connection manager (pgbouncer). Replication is very basi
22. 1252.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    I wonder if it is possible to return such a system to the vendor based on a claim that the lock is irreversible decreased it's consumer value?
23. 1253.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    Wow, great job! That's the real hacker spirit) > I have found that with the calculations for energy expended from the Oxygen utilization algorithm is slightly higher than that calculated by the work/watt output of the Zwift Ap
24. 1254.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    Not to disagree with your take, but where this "40% raise elsewhere" comes from? Are the other company pays new engineer in advance for all those specific knowledge and skills they will learn in a next three years?
25. 1255.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    I am more surprised that there are no hundreds of clones around, it is so easy to do. Original is fully client-run, it is even has a dictionary unencrypted inside bundled js-file.
26. 1256.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    Your commercial VPN provider may collect data about you (and make larger profit from it, not from your fee). I don't mean using commercial VPN is bad, just keeping this in mind.
27. 1257.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    I think this can be carefully thought through and become something interesting. I don't fancy SQL, to be honest, despite having "structural" in its name it is too chaotic for XXI century. Rows and columns! Schema-enforced doc
28. 1258.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    What is the difference between this idea and exposing a read-only MongoDB (JSON in, JSON out) via HTTP endpoint? In the end, 50 ranged HTTP requests is not that great for unstable connection, 1 request is way better, and you need a server a
29. 1259.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    Theory you citing is not that credible. Smallpox virus was with humanity for at least 3500 years. In XX century it's lethal rate was about 30% for adults, more for children.
30. 1260.▲
    by SergeAx 5y ago

    For those who like me didn't understand the title. From paragraph 9: > For those who don't know, "deep blue" means very pro-KMT, generally favoring Chinese identity, closer ties with China and eventual unification wi