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by atemerev 4y ago
Glasses are expensive because they are not just a medical device, but also a fashion accessory, and this market is a fashion market. I have to try about 20-30 frames or so, until I find something that looks OK on me. But! It is still possib
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by atemerev 4y ago
It is, but this will have to wait until late high school, when kids are old enough for matrices and complex numbers and Dirac equation and the origin of 2x^2 (2, 8, 18, 32 — the electron shells etc). You still can have meaningful and useful
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by atemerev 4y ago
https://melscience.com/US-en/chemistry/ — chemical kits (with some very interesting reagents and experiments) by subscription, something new for your kids (and yourselves) for $30/month. (not affiliated by th
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by atemerev 4y ago
Come on, I was balancing equations at the age of 8. Knowing the multiplication table is enough.
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by atemerev 4y ago
I can program in Scala and Haskell relatively easily. I still struggle with Rust's lifetime abstractions and things like this: impl<I, F> LendingIterator for Map<I, F> where I: LendingIterator, F: for<'a
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by atemerev 4y ago
Physics. If you do any computational physics, sooner or later you’ll have to read and write Fortran.
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by atemerev 4y ago
ADHD is not just "having trouble concentrating". It is a completely broken prioritizer, executive function deficit, and nearly non-existing ability to linearize tasks into intermediate-scale command sequences. And tons of other th
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by atemerev 4y ago
An order book in electronic trading. It is not too large (a few thousand of entries usually), but it needs to be accessed and modified extremely fast. There can be insertions and deletions anywhere, but it is strongly biased towards front.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Yes, and people were happily reading news in newspapers for centuries. Targeted advertising exists, it is legal everywhere, and we are way past the point it could be put back in the bottle. What still can (and should) be regulated is privat
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by atemerev 4y ago
"Apache AGE is currently being developed for the PostgreSQL 12 release" Well sorry, we have PostgreSQL 15 already.
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by atemerev 4y ago
No UIs feel native these days, everybody invents their own UI kits.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Advertising and branding. Google is a search monopoly, and has (or used to have) the reputation of "we are making high-quality software". We have a web search monopoly, because our search engine is the best, so why not trust us fo
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by atemerev 4y ago
I have checked myself with 23andme, apparently, I am in the 99th percentile of night persons, and I need at least 8.5 hours of sleep to feel healthy. Well, that explains things!
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by atemerev 4y ago
Well, there will be no business sense for Facebook in deploying a free service like that if it doesn't bring along some business value.
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by atemerev 4y ago
The "third parties" are usually Whatsapp users who have your phone number in their contacts on their phones (Whatsapp belongs to Facebook). This is how Whatsapp can automatically connect with everyone you have in the contact list.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Because a password manager is a tiny piece of software. Instead, it is now a multi-component black box installation with a general purpose operating system running on a full-scale Linux machine with a containerization platform designed for
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by atemerev 4y ago
Yes, Docker is a black box. You don't know anything, you just launch something without understanding what components it consists of, what are they doing individually, what is their attack surface. Not to mention that it encourages slop
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by atemerev 4y ago
But this article is doing exactly that, telling introverts to act like extroverts (just mentioning some precautions). Like, they are not even recognizing the issue. While what we need instead is normalizing introversion.
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by atemerev 4y ago
On one hand, this is incredibly cool, and brings some great security. On the other hand, docker containers on a RPi Zero? What a sad state of affairs we have in 2022.
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by atemerev 4y ago
What an interesting device. Sadly, it is available only in the US and maybe a few other countries. If you try to access the MS store page from, say, Switzerland, they are very passively-aggressively saying "Page not found". I hate
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by atemerev 4y ago
I’m fine, I have an actual engineering degree. (Not Canadian, though).
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by atemerev 4y ago
That’s what they told us in a Soviet primary school back in USSR. The alternative wasn’t compelling enough.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Because the entire economic structure that supported “jobs” has deteriorated and became unsustainable. It was only working in industrial society with tangible outputs. “Jobs” were a temporary development only suitable for a particular socia
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by atemerev 4y ago
“Minimum wage” is fiction. There are many countries (including European countries) that do not have minimum wage. It doesn’t have any base in reality, and people should not accept such ridiculous salaries. That’s what unions and labor nego
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by atemerev 4y ago
You can, if you’re working as an independent consultant. I have a few friends like this who do live in a terminal. (I am also a consultant, but Gnome works fine for me)
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by atemerev 4y ago
To start working, you need a VPS instance, a Postgres, and a backup scheme. If that's starting to be not enough, then consider yourself lucky, and start scaling. "Premature scaling is a root of all evil" (and a good source of
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by atemerev 4y ago
This is why there are so few growth-oriented startups in Europe, and so few chances to compete with large companies who can afford absorbing such losses. And (at least in tech) such low salaries, compared to US-based companies. European eco
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by atemerev 4y ago
Yes, that's called a privilege.
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by atemerev 4y ago
> If you can be fired easily, you will find a job easily. If there is another economic crisis and nobody is hiring, preventing companies to fire people will make the crisis even worse. > It is called "job security" An outdat
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by atemerev 4y ago
NSA wants to know your location.

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