golergka

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by golergka 2y ago
I've learned most of what I know about database internals from MCU lecture course on YouTube. It's great.
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by golergka 2y ago
Can we make something like a “non-deprecation” pledge for libraries? Just make a public commitment on the top of your readme file saying that you will maintain backwards compatibility in your API for at least a couple years. This will make
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by golergka 2y ago
Spotify has offline mode in their iPhone app
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by golergka 2y ago
It took a 100 years from first phone public networks in the 1880s to the basic expectation that you would have a phone number in 1980s. Public internet came this way in ~20 years (early 90s-early 10s). Smartphones did it in 15?
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by golergka 2y ago
> The real problem was that they intentionally broke web standards to push websites to "work best on Internet Explorer," so even those who chose not to use Windows were caught up in it. Microsoft tried to build their own extens
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by golergka 2y ago
> Your security is nonexistent unless you disable iMessage and JS in Safari, even then Uncle Sam has Five Eyes watching your every move for any traces of "terrorist" support. Your security is non-existed until you've estab
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by golergka 2y ago
> You literally pay for access to a tech stack that has nothing better than you would be able to do with USB. Tech stack has the customers. You pay for access to customers.
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by golergka 2y ago
Whiskerwood looks an improved version of Timberwood, one of the best colony sims I've played. Thanks for the link, I've enjoyed it!
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by golergka 2y ago
> No matter how many times you read that, you cannot understand what the experience is like. OK, so you don't have qualia. But if know all the data needed to complete any tasks that can be related to this knowledge, does it matter?
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by golergka 2y ago
Out of 10 richest people of the world, 8 have background in software engineering. Musk, Zuck, Bezos, Ellison, Gates, Page, Brin, Ballmer. Only Buffet and Arnault are exceptions.
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by golergka 2y ago
> So, you reach for class warfare? Sheesh. It is anyone's fault that they are born into an upper middle class family? Are people from lower economic circumstances somehow superior, as you imply? To be fair, I don't see any valu
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by golergka 2y ago
Just in case anyone missed it, this is an internal parody: > This is the famous Windows 1.0 parody "advertisement" shown internally at Microsoft, now in glorious 60FPS and high-quality audio! Surreal to think this was only prev
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by golergka 2y ago
> Where I can watch videos/read books, and fully feel like I understand everything. However, when hand touches keyboard I realize I didn't really retain any of it. Always type everything down from a tutorial when you follow it.
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by golergka 2y ago
> I decided to give an AI What model? What wrapper? There's just a huge amount of options on the market right now, and they drastically differ in quality. Personally, I've been using Claude Code for about a week (since it'
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by golergka 2y ago
Reading is a creative process. You should not be bound by author's intention or by conventional knowledge about the material. If you approach it with a new perspective and get new ideas out of it, or even if it just means you have a go
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by golergka 2y ago
I built a small service to get all the RSS feeds of hn posts you interacted with: https://hntorss.com/
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by golergka 2y ago
It really depends on their fault tolerance. I think there's a ton of useful applications where OCR would be 99.9%, 99%, and even 98% reliable. Skillful product manager can keep these limitations in mind and work around them.
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by golergka 2y ago
> chip fab in Arizona, thousands of miles from the assembly lines where the chips will be used 1. Chips have a very high $/kg density, so logistics isn't go to change unit economics a lot. 2. These assembly lines are much easie
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by golergka 2y ago
> Russian army has plenty of combat experience. Russian weapons were export product and are battle tested. Both Russian personell with real combat experience and russian weapons that have been sold to outside customers have run out in th
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by golergka 2y ago
> Intellectual property isn't real. It's a fiction we constructed Regardless of my opinion about IP in particular, argument "X isn't real, it's a fiction we constructed" is silly. We have "constructed&q
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by golergka 2y ago
This just makes me happy to work on a team where I can say things like that (if they're true) and no feelings would be hurt.
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by golergka 2y ago
> People are used to streaming YouTube while they sleep Youtube is used to showing them ads while they sleep
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by golergka 2y ago
Good location or bankrupt. Just look at all the tourist trap restoraunts.
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by golergka 2y ago
Reading through the article and comments, it seems like there's a lot of confusion about what is considered "a user" and what typical dosages are. Obviously, a rave fiend who used to do MDMA twice a week and coke at least 5 a
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by golergka 2y ago
This sounds like a very similar service to Hasura, and I just loved using it. I also have some of former colleagues building it, and they've been one of the best engineers I've ever had privilege of working alongside of. If you&#x
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by golergka 2y ago
> almost everyone deposit them in institutions Why do you think so? Of course, we all hear about people who lose it all in crypto exchanges. But how would we hear about the ones who don't?
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by golergka 2y ago
How does it measure up to Hasura?
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by golergka 2y ago
Green screens are international
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by golergka 2y ago
How do you tell that to them in the first place? You got someone's phone number. The person who gives it to you tells them that they use whatsapp. You can't even tell them "Sorry I only use Signal" unless you open whatsa
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by golergka 2y ago
For a second I wondered how would you assign suits to people — but quickly realized that this would be easy, but probably racist.

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