danielodievich

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by danielodievich 2y ago
My long-departed grandmother lived her entire life in Grodno, a city in western Belarus on Nieman river. It is a lovely and fertile region with well defined seasons of the year. All kinds of things grow there, mostly temperate weather crops
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Quincy Jones went to Garfield High school in Seattle's Central District, I lived very close to it for a while. Garfield and nearby community are very proud of that. The city/school district did an amazing job rebuilding their perf
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by danielodievich 2y ago
My 17 year old high school senior told me that the suckiest thing about their school-issued laptop is lack of Notepad++. I teared up and my hacker dad skillboard got another achievement! I told him that it has a portable install and this we
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Another vehicle I've been paying some attention is the push to upgrade the US Post Office vehicles from the old boxy Grummans to the new duck nosed vehicle https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62187981/usps-new-
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Many years ago my then girlfriend now wife and I were finishing the trip through France. We wound up in the port city of Rouen up north, with the plan to drop off the car near train station, rent a room for a night and take the train to Par
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by danielodievich 2y ago
The only useful thing on Twitter that I ever saw was the lovely and tender Dog Rates https://x.com/dog_rates . You could read anonymously and be all aww and schucks about all those good dogs. They've thankfully stopped
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by danielodievich 2y ago
There was a really dumb but also really entertaining Awkwafina/John Cena movie that I watched recently called Jackpot https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26940324/ . At one point in the middle of the movie one of the
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Every time I see this, I refer to Krazam's brilliant video about LinuxCon Worldwide. https://youtu.be/nUsDk8wjRPs?si=KnSxBan1QV5WVwih
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Um, they are one half of duopoly of widebody aircraft makers, they are a huge portion of high technology export from USA, they are in every state (for better or worse), they are a defense provider of insane importance with planes, rockets a
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by danielodievich 2y ago
During national neighbor night out few weeks ago I met a couple who just moved to the neighborhood, wife is a doctor and husband is a Boeing engineer in the material science something rather. Me being a huge Boeing fan we've immediatel
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I bought a Valve VR headset just to play Half Life Alyx. It was beyond awesome. My son and my wife also played it and also thought it was very, very cool. I played a few more games since then, nothing as good as HL-A (I haven't heard t
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Synthetic diamonds from "cremains" (ash from cremation) have been a thing for a while. That ash is mostly carbon with other elements. "Wear your grandma" is thankfully not a slogan. My teenager children's recent ans
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I am a huge Culture fan. Yesterday at my birthday dinner there were 3 others who are also fans of Banks, one of whom I turned onto the Culture just last year. We were having a great discussion of those books and lamenting the untimely passi
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I just came back from short business trip Australia. Getting the visa was an interesting exercise, you install the AU gov app on the phone and fill out a form which at one point photographs your passport and then read yours passport via NFC
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Terrifying. You must like living dangerously.
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Our school district is implementing identical thing, very similar, justifying this with health and emotional wellness and anti-cyber-bullying. They are checking in the phones into Yondr pouches. I wish them luck on the implementation... I t
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by danielodievich 2y ago
An xkcd Drain the Oceans https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ is highly entertaining on this vein.
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by danielodievich 2y ago
One thing I'll agree on John Mearsheimer is that an incredibly well articulated. He's also absolutely wrong. One of my also russian friends used one of his videos as a proof that everything is west's fault in the conflict in
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by danielodievich 2y ago
So very timely, reading The Economist from last week https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/07/16/russias-vast-sto... ( https://archive.is/Z9j7Y no paywall). I'd definitely trust The
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by danielodievich 2y ago
This is a frequent topic of discussion in various forums and I am sure by Very Serious People in Charge [TM]. Extrapolating from the general sad state of the weapon systems in use by Russians where they are at this point unpacking tanks mad
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Hugo and Nebula awards drive my fun-reading list. It is sad to hear that even this quaint corner of the book world is no longer ignored by vote and review manipulators. Is nothing holy anymore!? man shakes a fist at the space-ship shaped c
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by danielodievich 2y ago
SMBC is a treasure, just like XKCD. Zach's and Kelly's books are quite nicely, some like Soonish are just good accessible futurism/science reading, their comic collections are excellent, and they aren't afraid to offend.
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Travelling to any ex-USSR countries on the periphery from the "western" world is taking a nice fun gamble. The bigger places in Kazakhstan are probably okay, and yeah, you likely would have fun in Tbilisi or Yerevan, but the chanc
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Back in 2018, I built a flame graph generator for AppDynamics APM-captured snapshots which are traces of call stacks captured over execution time with stack frame timing. Those would typically come from java or clr, although other types lik
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I live on a dead end street with forest park across, very quiet. For when my boys were preteens, we celebrated their birthdays together and one year we had the typical party with probably 30 kids, I blew up bunches of balloons and made them
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I sometimes respond to those in random languages, turkish, finding, farsi, polish, really throws them off the script...
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by danielodievich 2y ago
My family both won Green Card Lottery which and then got a refugee status. I am pretty sure that double thing is quite rare. Anyhow, either of those programs provide far more support than h1-b or spousal visa, like both allow right to work
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by danielodievich 3y ago
Apparently my parents didn't know what to name me for about a week and eventually settled on Daniel, in this spelling it was a very unusual name in Soviet Union at the time. I think they liked some famous polish actor https:/&#x2
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by danielodievich 3y ago
My great-grandfather was widowed and remarried in late 1940ies to a woman who was his university-age daughter's friend (that daughter was my grandmother). Yeah, he was considerably older (late 40ies/early 50ies?) than her (like 23
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by danielodievich 3y ago
I regularly fly to SFO from Paine field, it is 20 more minutes drive for me from Mercer Island but the experience of the airport is worth it. The lobby that is like a nice W, no security lines whatsoever, and seeing all the green pickle bir

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