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by ddalex 5y ago
> blame Italy I would like to remind everybody that this happened in Milano just before the outbreak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o_uXF9B4KI
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by ddalex 5y ago
Once a colleague made an accounting error and it showed that we're in debt something like 100 million.... I told him to stay calm and relax, we don't have that kind of money so why worry :)
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by ddalex 5y ago
Very, very interesting point. Art has a couple of sticky points that allows it to be used as storage of value: * It is impossible to copy and produce second original * It is recognizable by trained and common people alike, it is useful a sy
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by ddalex 5y ago
(looking on Flight Radar, blockade is gone now) Just out of curiosity, I checked now (2021-05-27 10:38 UTC) and not one flight over Belarus is an EU airline: * Aeroflot, MOSCOW to BELGRADE * Unmarked plane T7-HHH under San Marino registrati
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by ddalex 5y ago
> EU keeps soiling their pants, and still can't gather enough courage to point a finger on Russia https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53367425 https://www.rferl.org/a/dutch-court-rejects-
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by ddalex 5y ago
> If I have to trust an oracle or similar why even bother with a blockchain in the first place? Well how else do you generate hype with an aura of breaking edge tech to impress the clueless and give credibility to your scam?
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by ddalex 5y ago
There is a bit of a difference between using a legal framework to enforce a policy (the parties know what to expect) and arbitrarely chasing a commercial jet with a MiG (the parties don't know what to expect). The tactics are not remot
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by ddalex 5y ago
Because a MiG firing on a NATO-country airplane that's in NATO airspace is definitely sound reason of invoking NATO Art 5
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by ddalex 5y ago
It was searched according to the local law where it landed. Nobody forced them to land in Austria - could have just as easily returned to Moscow. The stark difference between the way the West does it is that you have a choice whenever to co
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by ddalex 5y ago
In the event that you are not a Russian troll, let me explain two key differences: The Morales jet was warned ahead of time in a legal way, not intercepted and forced to land in an unintended destination. No persons from the Morales jet wer
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by ddalex 5y ago
as a Romanian, I feel you On the other hand I started to appreciate way more the way the English do it once I moved there for a while and worked closely with them - they tell you what's wrong, but really nuanced and careful as to not o
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by ddalex 5y ago
There is a huge difference between a comms relay sat (basically a transponder, a battery, and solar panels ) and an imaging satellite , which needs a huge collector mirror that coats O(billions) to polish.
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by ddalex 5y ago
I would further that and say it's a good thing there is no "top" EU official - distributed governance makes this way more resilient, e.g. should the head honcho be a bad guy with a taste of dictatorship
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by ddalex 5y ago
Loss of a hundred dollars is a tragedy... the loss of billion is a statistic
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by ddalex 5y ago
See the Three Body Problem
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by ddalex 5y ago
> political factors in 2020 (a major re-election year in the USA) which drove the completely unusual and unjustified lockdown response I'm very interested to understand what part did the US 2020 election played in the (still continu
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by ddalex 5y ago
Googler here - I speak for myself, not representing the company, yada yada yada... Google offers really easily 80% time for 80% salary, even for nooglers. You just have to ask for it, some of my friends here went for it straight away after
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by ddalex 5y ago
That's one smart book
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by ddalex 5y ago
And then you need to filter the output of the bubbler because microparticules will be suspended in the gas flow, and then you need to sterilize it, because you don't know what's growing in the bubbler, and then cool it down (is st
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by ddalex 5y ago
The difference is that there is no new informational knowledge coming out from the East Europe affair. It's just matching expulsion numbers, but none of the parties (or the general public) learned anything new (as with this disclosure)
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by ddalex 5y ago
I am facing with this exact problem at work - I have a tool that scans thousands of files and tells me No. Why ? I don't know why. The algorithm it performs is split between 10-20 other subtools (microservices, right?) making following
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by ddalex 5y ago
They will not tell you not out of malice, but because they don't know. It's literally a black box, and we don't understand whys. And it doesn't take a deep CNN to become a black box - any sufficient complex algorithm wi
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by ddalex 5y ago
I'm thinking the current-generation AI (deep CNNs, not symbol-based reasoning) are enough to be paradigm-changers in the future by allowing us to record empiric knowledge. Computers are good at recording structured knowledge - who owns
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by ddalex 5y ago
The thing in EastEurope is not intelligence-based, its' political.
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by ddalex 5y ago
You can't breathe in industrial Oxygen. At least, you need a humidifier cycle in between or it's going to dry out your lungs.
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by ddalex 5y ago
Sadly this is the case now in India....
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by ddalex 6y ago
Only DisplayLink... but I've tried to compile the DisplayLink drivers for Pi4 for my adapter and failed miserably.
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by ddalex 6y ago
My next company will be called "Anonymous Association of Business Interests". Has a cyberpunk feel to it.
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by ddalex 6y ago
What does data at rest has to do with the cpu architecture ?
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by ddalex 6y ago
That's an easy one: yes :)

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