alexey-salmin

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by alexey-salmin 10mo ago
Biking is faster, you can arrange for all visas for 6 months in advance but not for years. Even for 6 months to have them all approved with no gaps requires either a lot of luck or a very strong passport or both.
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by alexey-salmin 11mo ago
That's just how life feels without caffeine, not a withdrawal effect.
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by alexey-salmin 11mo ago
Toyota 5A was in production 1987–2006, and IIRC was licensed to Chinese manufacturers afterwards. The A series as a whole lasted 1978–2006. Less modern than Honda K, but these were lovely engines. They just won't fail as long as you re
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by alexey-salmin 11mo ago
> This is of course in stark contrast to dynamic linking, which is performed by a userspace program instead of the kernel I'm not sure what the contrast is. In both cases the interpreter lives in userspace, in both cases kernel find
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by alexey-salmin 11mo ago
The very first sentence is confusing. "Power demands of data centers have grown from tens to 200 kilowatts in just a few years". I assume they're talking a single rack here, not "power demand of data centers".
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by alexey-salmin 11mo ago
Not within the socialist system, there was absolute zero incentive to do a quality job. Sometimes there were incentives to do more on the quantity (see "udarnik") with moderate success but these were detrimental to the quality.
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by alexey-salmin 11mo ago
It still makes me sad that Lada Niva is such a missed opportunity, basically world's first SUV with 4wd, unibody and coil spring independent suspension. The 2-door version looks good even. Could have been a huge success if not for the
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by alexey-salmin 11mo ago
Dogs are pretty f*ed up, I'm not sure it's a good example.
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
I usually reply with this image: https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeTemplatesOfficial/comments/lhwy...
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
I don't think that the State can somehow solve or sidestep the morality problem. The laws of the state are the consequence of beliefs and culture of the citizens (or the elites), not the other way round. Everyone needs to be able tell
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> So what counts as a genuine Christian in your view? I assumed that among other things it requires just accepting that God exists whether we need him or not. The practicality of having God around seems off to me, but in the end I'm
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> This book is also notable for me in that I fundamentally disagree with one of the author’s main idea - that humans need religion as a source of morality. I think in Dostoyevsky's world it's not just religion that is necessary
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
I tend to agree with bayareapsycho that Dostoyevsky doesn't feel genuinely christian. In his books God is derived out of ultimate necessity, it's the only sane way to survive. If you follow that line of thought you can come to a c
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
I like Dostoyevsky and enjoyed many of his books but the Brothers in my opinion is just badly written: long and self-repetitive. It has moments of clarity and beauty like the The Grand Inquisitor novel or the discussion in the monastery, an
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Right so what are the downsides?
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
The real question is: was COVID less harmful for kids than lockdowns. I'm relatively confident it was.
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
That's why Docker and layers exist. Containers predate them by more than a decade.
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
The article seems to assume that containers appeared to solve the software distribution problem and then somehow got repurposed into virtualization, isolation and management of production services. I think this view is very far from truth.
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Well the line is law: infringing copyrights and patents. And the US law is very specific about ideas not being copyrightable, so clones are usually safe.
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> Except it isn't, because you keep doing this to pretend like you're paying 50% of your salary in taxes which just isn't true. No one advertises a job as "pays €60k a year" and then you find out it includes the
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
No, I'm sorry but this is just pointless, arguing about some technicality like "you can't call that income". That doesn't matter, these are just words. What matters in real life is the size of the cut the government
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> Right, but I've never met anyone who looks at it this way - this part: "the employer social contributions will be around 40k". Is not your salary. I don't know, maybe you should speak more to people about this. Lite
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
I don't know about Germany, but in France for 100k gross salary, the employer social contributions will be around 40k, the employee social contributions another 20.5k, then 15.5k income tax. In the end 140k that employer pays result in
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> Non-optimal positioning is already included in your "Measured (not projected) yield in Germany". Because that is the difference between a projected yield (under optimal conditions) and actual measurements of actual panels, wh
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> Just on an economic basis we can bound the energy payback time to about four years If you use electricity prices to make that calculation, you need to take in account that solar panels are produced in China off cheap coal-based electri
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> > This makes sense in certain situations but presenting this as a green solution or as future of humanity is just delusional. > which is probably the reason why China installs absolutely HUGE numbers of panels. But according to y
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
I'm aware of such calculations and they are in disagreement with fundamental limitations of these technologies. Nuclear has EROI of 20-80, solar has something like 3 if you account for inverters and batteries. The fact that they forgot
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
30 years lifetime (if there are no heavy storms), 5-10 years to recoup energy, that's 3-6 EROI. Then you also need to include inverters which are energy-heavy. If we're talking of any meaningful scale, then you also need to includ
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
I like this approach, feels like something Mark Twain would've advised
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> Your generalization that any kind of decentralization amounts to collective action failure is wrong. Some kinds of decentralization do; ... Others don't. That's correct, yes. I too prefer a decentralized washing machine to c

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