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by _xnmw 2y ago
While I think Apple's rules are ridiculous, it is pretty standard in the industry. AirBnB doesn't allow hosts to accept cash or arrange alternative payment. Amazon doesn't allow suppliers to offer direct sales to potential cu
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by _xnmw 2y ago
I'm not in Kharkiv anymore, but I'm in a relatively calmer part of Western Ukraine.
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by _xnmw 2y ago
I've had this discussion with a professional mathematician. As unintuitive as it does sound, actually random independent events are more likely to follow after it has happened. https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions&
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Reminds me of when the full-scale invasion started in Ukraine, I was in Kharkiv, and I met several people for whom "this was not their first war". The neighbour's family was from Nagorno-Karabakh, and had just fled the Armeni
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by _xnmw 2y ago
> unless you think all their subscribers are stupid Ah, there’s the capitalist’s circular religious belief, if it’s profitable it must be good, and it’s good because it’s profitable. Except some of the best things in life are not profita
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Brilliant. Bravo. Well said. Look at the companies in any recent YC batch and it’s mostly just a long list of ridiculously simple SaaS ideas that anyone who knows how to use a spreadsheet doesn’t need. It’s amazing that so much money and ta
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by _xnmw 2y ago
The error didn't show up until multiple entities were created. I can forgive someone for not having unit tests for scaling issues.
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by _xnmw 2y ago
I don’t get it. Can’t you just upload the data to an anonymous GitHub repo or other public service? Have a predetermined prefix for the repo name and you can pull it from the firehouse.
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by _xnmw 2y ago
This is a mathy solution to a CS problem. I would’ve preferred the route to a more CS-ey solution using bit shifts and recursion. Teaches an understanding of low level representations.
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Len() and str() are a loop under the hood.
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by _xnmw 2y ago
> considering the migration/demographic trends There is a large "return to Ukraine" sentiment on Ukrainian social media, even during the war. People assumed the West is better, because that's what everyone else thinks
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Yes, that’s the point. Profit is more important than human well-being, beauty, culture, or anything else. It’s why I love the moderation of Europe, though even the EU is over-capitalized, hence I chose Ukraine.
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by _xnmw 2y ago
I don’t care whether you call it the “opposite of progress” or “less optimized” or whatever. In my experience day-to-day life is just better and everything is cheaper and more enjoyable when it is NOT highly optimized in favor of megacorps
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by _xnmw 2y ago
The point about having an economically viable use-case is very relevant in today's times. The Romans didn't need engines because they had slaves. I have a hunch that the abundance of "VC money" and high cost of living in
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Makes you wonder what limitations of our own language and culture are preventing us from inventing certain things?
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by _xnmw 2y ago
I would summarize it as: you realize you can actually do whatever you want, live where you want, and construct your life however you want as long as you make something other people want. Another way running a business changes the way I thin
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Russia is producing artillery shells 3x faster at a quarter of the cost(news.sky.com)
9 points by _xnmw 2y ago|2 comments
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by _xnmw 2y ago
To see some statistics about the number and duration of air alerts in all regions of Ukraine, including number of media-reported explosions by region and time period, check out https://alerts.in.ua/en , they have a statistic
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Wow, the fact that "solar has scaled up faster than any other sources of electricity" is news to me, and very encouraging. Can anyone comment on the viability of solar in countries that are not so sunny? Rain, clouds, winter solst
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by _xnmw 2y ago
The US may not want an artillery war, but the US needs to inspire confidence among partners and allies, and this sort of manufacturing failure really sends a bad signal. No wonder half of Africa is turning away from US/Western partners
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by _xnmw 2y ago
And now we know that the Incas had a sophisticated understanding of astronomy and detailed astronomical records and observatories. It is highly unlikely that trick would've worked on them, they would've probably predicted the ecli
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by _xnmw 2y ago
The point is not whether US/NATO would fight an artillery war. The point is about proving your industrial base's manufacturing capacity. Artillery shells should be relatively cheap and easy to produce. It's a really bad sign
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by _xnmw 2y ago
> The plan is always to park a carrier close by (maybe two) It's an open secret in military circles that aircraft carriers are useless against a peer adversary like Russia or China, which both have the ability to sink carriers and s
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by _xnmw 2y ago
As a Ukrainian, this sounds like betrayal. We went to war expecting sufficient military support from our superpower partner/ally.
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Estonia Says Russia Removed Border Markers(bloomberg.com)
6 points by _xnmw 2y ago|1 comments
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Actually, an American engineer notes, the US is actually "struggling" with manufacturing artillery shells for some strange reason. https://roblh.substack.com/p/as-much-as-you-ever-wanted-to-k...
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by _xnmw 2y ago
For searching I just use DevonThink. Works with either mbox or a directory/file structure. Instant full-text search, date-based filtering, and continuous re-indexing as I archive my email there monthly with command line tools for GMail
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Slavoj Žižek talks about "wartime communism", the tendency towards centralized control during extreme situations like a war or pandemic, because it is absolutely necessary for effective results at scale, when the problem is narrow
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Meanwhile America is now struggling to produce something as simple as artillery shells, while Russia is producing 2-5 times the number produced by the entire US + EU combined. Sources: [1] https://www.defenseone.com/business
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by _xnmw 2y ago
Laravel. I had been developing web apps since I was 12 years old, but Laravel completely changed the speed at which I could deploy and maintain a production-ready app. And the ecosystem of plugins, add-ons and developer tooling is incredibl

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