aliher1911

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by aliher1911 3y ago
Wagner group (russian private military) which is now busy in Ukraine and lost quite a bit of personnel was actively involved in Sudan. I might be mistaken but they have some interests in gold mining operation which is a shared venture betwe
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by aliher1911 4y ago
Most recent MacOS is still shipped with bash 3.2.57 FWIF. Since default was changed to zsh they would likely never bump bash. So you never know.
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by aliher1911 4y ago
I don't think my background is important here. But I'm technical if you need to know. I had first hand experience of colleagues specifically not working on certain parts of projects because of NDA from their previous employments.
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by aliher1911 4y ago
I think you are confusing non-compete and NDA, IP rights, non solicitation agreements and the like. You can go work for competitor, but it doesn't allow you to use any of your previous employer's IP, poach colleagues, clients etc.
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by aliher1911 4y ago
Fully agree with the view that ё seems out of place and looks like TETЯIS of atari days. Never the less I think you should be careful when generalizing monarch's name conventions more widely. For example King Charles III is called Karl
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by aliher1911 4y ago
It is still used in ESP8266 based ESP-01 WiFi boards that people connect to Arduino and the like to make it an IOT device. AT commands that it support allows you to connect to wifi and then establish TCP/UDP.
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by aliher1911 4y ago
Can you back that with any numbers? Coming from a large soviet city of the era I wouldn't agree with this statement. People that had western computers I knew were usually children of party officials, prosecutors. The situation changed
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by aliher1911 4y ago
Yandex has a news block right in the middle of its front page. Only "approved" news sources could be shown there. For people not specifically searching for recent updates on a topic or particular media outlets it represents the ne
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by aliher1911 5y ago
When people say electric car will outlast ICE what do they mean exactly? I'm driving 10 y.o. Honda and with my usage I think rubber and plastic trims will fall apart and the body would rust much sooner than its engine or gearbox will f
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by aliher1911 5y ago
Not an astronomer, but from my limited knowledge telescopes usually use reflection e.g. mirrors so they don't need to correct for chromatic aberrations introduced by lenses and they also don't use things like optical stabilisation
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by aliher1911 5y ago
There's OpenBTS, but it is GSM only afaik.
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by aliher1911 5y ago
I don't think Google or any other tech company is doing something new here. If you look on Enron scandal or shady things tobacco companies did or car manufacturing not doing recalls etc etc. This isn't that different.
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by aliher1911 5y ago
I also struggled to find a mouse with a decent wheel that you can click without moving it off which is handy in CAD's. Gave up in the end and switched to using thumb button for middle click. But there's an option to get one of 3DC
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by aliher1911 5y ago
Keeping the data for European users after deletion would be in breach of GDPR, so Facebook does delete data after some grace period. It doesn't necessarily mean physically removing files, but you can do other things like storing data a
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by aliher1911 5y ago
Rocket engines could only be throttled down to certain power and manoeuvring thrusters would run out of propellant way before it reaches any orbit. Maybe something like electric propulsion can do it but it will take very long time to make i
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by aliher1911 5y ago
When I had to deal with "customer retention dept" as a part of cancellation I was saying that I'm moving to another country and that immediately killed their interest.
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by aliher1911 5y ago
Facebook doesn't hold your chat data. As soon as message reaches recipient(s) it is deleted. That's why Whatsapp nags you every year about making a google drive backup (it archives data from your phone to drive, not sends it from