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by benterix 9mo ago
Rest assured that if Trump started to kill Canadians he would be as hated by the world as Putin is.
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by benterix 9mo ago
I'm asking seriously: do you really believe that if Ukraine ever joined NATO (which is dubious as they already requested in 2008 but their request was denied), it would actually attack Russia?
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by benterix 9mo ago
> The West still wanted to allow ex Soviet countries to join NATO even if that would cause hostility from Russia. I find it hard to understand people still use this argument with the straight face. NATO is not an entity that expands itse
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by benterix 9mo ago
The right question isn't "do you want your country to be greater", it is "do you think it's something worth starting a war over". Have a look what normal Russians are saying: https://www.youtube.com&
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by benterix 9mo ago
> Navalny was dumb and nazi. He was called worse names. Nevrtheless, he did something past Russian heroes did: voluntarily sacrificed his life. He knew Putin will kill him but decided to go back anyway. Yes, you may say it "dumb&quo
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by benterix 9mo ago
> Let's, for the sake of argument, say that the west was orchestrating regime change in Ukraine with the end goal of regime change in Russia, knowing it would lead to war. OK, let's play this game. The logical fallacy here is t
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by benterix 9mo ago
Russia needs to find a new identity. Someone like Navalny might have led it out of the blind alley it was in. I still hope after Putin dies there is some good changes as young people, at least the educated ones, don't share Putin'
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by benterix 9mo ago
> It's not just their leadership. It's the nation. I completely disagree. I know anecdata is useless but since you are generalizing I can as well add that all Russians I met, without exception, are normal people who just want
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by benterix 9mo ago
Well, Putin doesn't always follow logic. Logically, all these provocations make Europe more united. But in his mind he's probably doing some kind of force projection and punishment for supporting Ukraine.
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by benterix 10mo ago
Which is saddening as the first thing I think when I see this overview is "How do I verify this statement is correct" and paradoxically it sometimes just slows me down.
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by benterix 10mo ago
It has nothing to do with logic, rather this person knows that person etc.
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by benterix 10mo ago
Well, the very fact that we are even discussing it means Trump already weakened NATO as an alliance.
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by benterix 10mo ago
> Ubuntu just recently got a way to automate its installer (recently being during covid). I think you can do the same on RHEL too. But that's largely it on Linux right now. If you need to admin 10,000+ computers, Windows is still th
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by benterix 10mo ago
Because he choose the hardest path. Difficult problems, no shortcuts, ambitious, taking time to complete. Our environment in general is the opposite of that.
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by benterix 10mo ago
> And the size! A 70% quality JPEG of a 1080p desktop is like 100-150KB. A single H.264 keyframe is 200-500KB. I believe the latter can be adjusted in codec settings.
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by benterix 10mo ago
> When I pointed out that this is the work culture in most American corporations, I was told that is a feature, not a bug, because US government and most big tech at the time preached values in line with average white middle-class Califo
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by benterix 10mo ago
It might be painful short term, but excellent long-term. Many people already realized they gave away control over many aspects of their lives, especially the most important one, attention, to big corporations who are exploiting whatever the
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by benterix 10mo ago
> I deliberately park in the farthest spot at the other side of campus (about a half mile, and up four flights in the garage) to get in exercise steps with the heavy pack. As a side note, this is an excellent habit, sadly I noticed peopl
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by benterix 10mo ago
> Switching CI providers isn't hard, we had to do it twice already. Granted, most of our CI logic is in a custom build script that you can run locally, and not in the proprietary YAML file. But to be honest, I'd recommend that
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by benterix 10mo ago
Yes, in theory any CI/CD (whether Github, Gitlab, Jenkins etc,) is just a shell script with some warpping. But this wrapping matters because it's convenience: how you integrate with the repo, how you deal with variables, secrets,
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by benterix 10mo ago
Well, these people earn their living by saying these things that only seem to make sense superficially but don't withstand closer scrutiny.
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by benterix 10mo ago
My kid needed Windows and Office for school. I went through the pain of installing the system for her while avoiding creating a Microsoft account. As for Office, I bought a perpetual license. I believe these are the last months while these
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by benterix 10mo ago
I have to admit an unintended chuckle, too.
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by benterix 10mo ago
> The article explicitly argues against the use of GUIDs as primary keys, and I'm arguing for it. Let's clarify things. The author argues against UUIDv4 as primary keys when compared to integers or bigints in large databases fo
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by benterix 10mo ago
Your comment is valid but is not related to the article.
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by benterix 10mo ago
I always thought they are used and stored as they are because the kind of transformation you mention seems terribly expensive given the YT's scale, and I don't see a clear benefit of adding any kind of obfuscation here.
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by benterix 10mo ago
UUIDv7 but not UUIDv4.
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by benterix 10mo ago
The article sums up some valid arguments against UUIDv4 as PKs but the solution the author provides on how to obfuscate integers is probably not something I'd use in production. UUIDv7 still seems like a reasonable compromise for small
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by benterix 10mo ago
OK, so in spite of higher ratio of incidents in the vaccinated group the overall mortality was lower. The question is, what are the consequences of that for an average person.
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by benterix 10mo ago
Well, this was the case decades ago, too, just few people paid attention. The US made sure their interests are always put before Polish interests, and these were regularly reported by the US embassy in Warsaw. See e.g.:[0] "Rozanski we

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