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by dgudkov 6y ago
>I won't miss them. I will. I don't have a car, but sometimes I need it so I typically go to Avis. I had very good experience with Avis almost always. Nice clean cars, friendly personnel, sufficiently convenient website. I freq
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Microsoft acquires RPA platform Softomotive, the makers of WinAutomation(techcrunch.com)
1 points by dgudkov 6y ago|0 comments
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Google says it won't build AI tools for oil and gas drillers(apnews.com)
2 points by dgudkov 6y ago|0 comments
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British Airways Flight 5390(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by dgudkov 6y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 6y ago
Or, this information can be thrown in intentionally to divert attention from the real mission. Make it plain and boring so that people quickly lose interest and switch to next topic in the newsfeed.
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by dgudkov 6y ago
>1) client sends request for content with some header with payment information attached. 2) server verifies payment transferred What you describe looks like authentication and authorization rather than payment processing. Which may be a
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by dgudkov 6y ago
There is a good advice for writers (bloggers are essentially writers) - write only if you can't NOT write. If you write because you can't not write, then you don't care about the number of readers.
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by dgudkov 6y ago
I'm afraid what workers want is not really important. The pandemics became a huge proof-of-concept for many C-levels execs. The vast majority of them were absolutely sure that if the employees start working from home their companies wo
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by dgudkov 6y ago
Not as hard as tedious. Here is a trivial example: your application generates a message that informs the user about the number of file copied. Most developers generate the message templated as this: {N} file(s) copied. Which kinda w
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by dgudkov 6y ago
This sounds so American to me. I grew up in Eastern Europe and general attitude towards work, life, and friendship is so much different. Some of the best friendships I've made were at the companies I worked for. I've seen cases wh
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Mozilla’s handy new Firefox extension generates burner email addresses on-demand(thenextweb.com)
4 points by dgudkov 6y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 6y ago
The problem with OAuth and Google is that Google requires from 3rd party vendors verification and it's very hard to obtain. Unsurprisingly, Google rejects requests for verification without any explanation and ignores any follow up comm
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by dgudkov 6y ago
>And what happens if Google arbitrarily suspends your account? Well, I guess you can't log in to your own Windows computer. A brave new world as it is.
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Why Mining the Moon Seems Possible – Moon Mining History(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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We are hardwired to focus on the wrong parts of our product(uxdesign.cc)
3 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft Tupolev Tu-119 ... had two conventional turboprop engines and two direct-cycle nuclear jet engines, and got around the shielding weight issue by simply not inc
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The Nucleon, Ford's 1958 nuclear-powered concept car that never was(thenextweb.com)
96 points by dgudkov 7y ago|93 comments
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Zoho banned 3rd party cookies(zdnet.com)
1 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Didn't Mazda do it first? https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1148040/Mazda-3-to...
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Cars move in a 2-dimensional space (surface), aircraft move in a 3-dimesional space (without costly highways), so you can utilize space way more efficiently and move more people per square mile. The safety distances will probably reduce due
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Fascinating. Correct me if I'm getting it wrong: The Quantitative Easing brought rates down to almost zero for a decade. Abundant liquidity, low rate loans. Corporate management use the chance to get cheap money to buy stocks back. Sto
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by dgudkov 7y ago
For a recession to start something fundamental has to change irreversibly . E.g. cornerstone companies implode. A class of securities evaporates. What does the virus pandemic change irreversibly?
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by dgudkov 7y ago
More like Power Query.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
If you're not sure if you can, probably you can't. At this point nothing indicates that we've learned how to reliably avoid recessions. Quantitative easing and negative rates don't look like the Holy Grail, quite the opp
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by dgudkov 7y ago
It's well known that the Soviets advanced in the Space race because they neglected people's lives. Cosmonauts were launched in half-baked, hastily assembled spacecraft. It's a gruesome example of iteration.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I hope re-education of the plant workers is part of this campaign.
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Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 servicer docks with Intelsat satellite(spacenews.com)
2 points by dgudkov 7y ago|3 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I know many non-technical people love VBA because it empowers them to do cool things, especially in Excel. However, there is a no smaller number of people who view VBA as a necessary evil, because they are forced to do programming and they
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I learnt French (stopped just shy of B2) in 1.5 years. My learning pace was intensive (4-6 hours/week), but not as much as the author's. So I find the author's statement credible. My advise to those who want to learn French -
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Data can be partially sorted and it happens quite often. As I understood, it's exactly the purpose of quadsort - to leverage locally ordered sequences.

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