cyberax

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by cyberax 4mo ago
I don't know... Maybe by growing up in Russia and starting my software career there? To add some color, here is my favorite hard-to-translate idiom in a Russian developer community: "File away rough edges" ("доработать н
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Description of different developer mindsets when they encounter a problem with a tool from a vendor. Americans: contact the vendor and report the issue. Then wait for the vendor to fix it, applying pressure as needed. Because of the delay,
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Competition. Nobody in the US cares about school math/physics/... olympiads. But they are/were a big deal in schools in the xUSSR. There also was no centralized test system (like SAT) up until early 2000-s. People had to go a
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by cyberax 4mo ago
The problem is that 5G needs fiber connectivity and electricity for the towers, and this is not easily achievable in rural areas. You certainly can use microwave backhaul links between towers, but the existing solutions don't provide n
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Let's try this: "greenie hippie who want to starve the humanity deserve a special place in hell". Hmm? Not bad, I think? What? You're saying that greenie hippies think that they're actually saving the humanity by fo
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Really? How? Has Monsanto used its termination patents?
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Well, yes. That's what is happening. The contest is called "market" and "the people" reward competitors by paying them. Patents are used to enforce the rules so that competitors don't cheat. Selective breeding
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by cyberax 4mo ago
> ALL our staple food crops and most non staples are genetically engineered by millennia of cultivation and selective breeding And during the last 100 years, the yields for many types of plants have grown several _times_ because of moder
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by cyberax 4mo ago
So you want to destroy all the people who create hybrid plants? Isn't that a bit cruel? Edit: also, Monsanto has never actually used their non-replicating seeds. This is a common trope in the greenie hippie community that "Monsant
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by cyberax 4mo ago
They want software subscription income. It's as simple as that.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
I have a Sony A7 from 2019. I also tried a couple of other newer cameras from Nikon and one from Fujitsu.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
The WiFi in cameras is definitively in the "do not use" category. It's usually some kind of flaky, broken, and/or slow. I wish camera manufacturers just used Android on their devices, with possibly 5G for geotagging and
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Sorry, but "both sides" went out of the window in 2024. There are _some_ decent Democrats in the Congress. There are also plenty of bad ones. There are NO decent Republicans in the Congress. And yes, reality appears to be partisan
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Would you mirror your videos to something like Peertube if it included automated pay-per-view (via something like x402 API)?
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by cyberax 4mo ago
The problem is that these loans went to _businesses_, not workers. There was an orgy of corruption, with newly formed LLCs claiming to have dozens of workers. And then these loans were just forgiven. And since they went to businesses, Repub
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by cyberax 4mo ago
I switched from Docker to rootless Podman for our build server. Completely positive experience so far. Our builds went _down_ from 1 minute to 2 seconds. I'm also using podman-compose that is small and delightful (I had to fix a few bu
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by cyberax 4mo ago
This actually is possible now. Contexts are now garbage-collectible, even if cancel() is not called. In this case, the cancel() function was preventing the collection. But I think it can be changed to hold a weak reference instead. The over
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by cyberax 4mo ago
The cancel function escapes the function body, so static analysis can't detect it. There's another lint for that (containedctx), but I think it's off in K8s. This is a serious tripping point with Go. There's no way to ex
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Hey, the sky's the limit. The next version can also shock the user!
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Ah, "the secret to longevity is pension fraud and poor record keeping".
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by cyberax 4mo ago
They're idiots. They think that they just need to be buddies with the leading fascist and they're going to be golden. They don't have enough knowledge or curiosity to study what happened EVERY time this was attempted. Hint: y
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by cyberax 4mo ago
A higher delayed fraction of neutrons makes it easier to control the reactor. Without delayed neutrons you can only make a bomb.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
I have never heard it pronounced in any other way than "s-q-lite".
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Cyrillic block letters are mostly the same as Latin letters :) > Odd to realise now that the average russian seeing my writing would be dismissive instead of impressed! There's a HUGE difference between learning Russian as a native
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by cyberax 4mo ago
I remember breathless editorials about "the RADIATION is at TEN TIMES the normal levels we need to shut down EVERYTHING"! These numbers really need to be put into proper perspective.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
My problem with radiation: the units of exposure are so clumsy. We should have standardized on nanoSieverts as the main unit. The normal background radiation is 200 nSv per hour, and you get acute radiation sickness at 1_000_000_000 nSv. Th
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Yea, no. AOP was never worth the trouble. And one giant problem with it is the reliance on global variables. An AOP wrapper has to modify something, and it typically does not have enough access to enough context to do it. So it has to rely
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by cyberax 4mo ago
There are studies showing that cursive is better for some purposes: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.... But the results are quite weak. What's really important is handwriting
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by cyberax 4mo ago
You can write cursive left-handed just fine, slanting letters the other way helps. I'm right-handed, but I had to learn left-handed cursive at school when I spent 5 months with a cast on my right hand.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Why? If a person can't hand-write an essay for an exam, then they're under-educated.

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