chalcolithic

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by chalcolithic 3y ago
Yet another chance to regret that REBOL has never caught on
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
>Many people don't seem to realise how existential this is for Russia. I, being Russian, can not understand how is that an existential threat to a country that has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, has insane amount of natur
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
The soviet worldview was "We're trying to build communism and some day we will succeed, but for now what we have is socialism". So while it's easy to attribute all the wrongdoings to the Communist Party, it's not th
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
You seems to be pretty confident in China prospects. Are you willing to bet $1000 against my $100 that if China tries to lure in immigrants from a wide range of countries it will fail?
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
docking also has to be performed to a non-rotating (and consequently zero G) part of the station, so it's not a excuse
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
so much wasted potential long-term stay in zero gravity(ok, in free fall to be precise) was perfected on Mir, it was time to try and build a rotating station
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
I'd love to move to Brasil but I'm too scared
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
> if you buy a condo in a building built in the 1970s, the building will become unsafe OTOH if I buy a condo in a building built in the 1970s....
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
can they even be bought in Russia?
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
I'm used to HN being sensible, and seeing your comment being downvoted makes me wonder what's happening? What's the reason for that optimism?
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
How long ago would you have considered this discussion ridiculous? How long till GPT-N will be churning out solutions faster than you can read them? It's useless for me now as well, but I'm pretty sure I'll be doomed professi
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
Locality is underrated
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
Since nothing about the keys themselves is new(the new stuff is how I would use the control surfaces), I should start making a prototype by ripping out the keys from some existing keyboard:)
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
can we bring back ice age if we build enough of these?
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
>Like the Roli Seaboard more like nanokey with additional control surfaces
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
I'm far away from a point where I can make an informed decision about that yet. Thanks for your offer!
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
I wish there was a developer workstation in this form factor (with split keyboard insted of joysticks, of course). Plus the holes so I can strap it around my neck like we did with cameras many years ago.
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
> struggled to find a job. It took 18 months > I quit when we got back to the office. Wow. Just wow.
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
Absolutely, but I must know what will follow if the prototype turns ok
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
>Microkorg or Minilogue replacement keybeds I can't have a product that is built using these keys, can I? I assume Korg will not be happy about it.
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
Thank you! 175 for 7 octaves is not bad at all (although they say it's 5 octaves, but the photo shows 7 - confusing) ! It's a pity I'm thinking about a smaller size suitable for a backpack. But at least they exist! It's
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
I wonder how many visits your gethub page gets
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
>Market is not that bad. It's totally ok. Not in my experience(got hired recently). Market is really bad right now, those layoffs have left a helluva impact
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Ask HN: Manufacturing somewhat novel MIDI controller
20 points by chalcolithic 3y ago|23 comments
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
It definitely is not self-sufficient when it comes to food. But trade routes are pretty low tech things, we've been having them for thousands of years, I expect them to reappear quite fast.
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
No nuclear fallout to speak of (you can go outside and it's safe, unlike in Northen Hemisphere). Much milder temperature drop. Covid era taught me how to stay put really long, so I'm gonna be prepared. Southern Hemisphere has plen
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
Soooo .... back to the dark matter is black holes hypothesis?
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
Can't agree more. My favorite way to cheat with them is to have integration tests that follow demoing scenarios, so you can run them right before the demo (preferably twice)
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
Ah, makes sense now, thank you!
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by chalcolithic 3y ago
Wow, all three are totally unexpected. Could you please elaborate?

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