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by grishka 1y ago
This problem is endemic to the industry. All mainstream operating systems have been done products for quite a while. But because full-time designers need to be designing something even when nothing in the company needs designed any more, th
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by grishka 1y ago
Back when Russia had Visa and MasterCard, debit cards issued by our banks counted as credit cards as far as the payment systems were concerned. I'm sure there are other countries where this is the case.
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by grishka 1y ago
I am Russian but am also fluent in English so I watch videos in both these languages. This automatic translation doesn't happen that often with my usage of YouTube, but when it does, it frustrates the crap out of me. So yes, I did look
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by grishka 1y ago
I've stayed at a hotel in UAE that took a deposit that they returned on check out. They were perfectly fine with it in cash. Last time I visited the US was in 2016 and back then my country wasn't an international outcast so I had
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by grishka 1y ago
Do hotels in the US not allow you to pay with cash any more? What if you don't have an internationally accepted card?
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Hair dryers are mentioned several times, so I would assume one of the things these sensors look for is a rise in the air temperature.
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There are technologies that actually solve genuine problems or meaningfully improve people's lives, and then there are technologies that are immensely overhyped solutions desperately looking for problems. We're having too much of
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by grishka 1y ago
Dear battery technology claimant, Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary battery technology. Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion technology and is just around the corner from taking over th
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by grishka 1y ago
My first Android phone was an HTC Desire S. It had a rather sturdy metal case with some plastic inserts for the antennas. The bottom insert slid off to reveal the battery and SIM and SD slots. The only downside is that because of this const
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by grishka 1y ago
The Cloudflare "you have been blocked" page. Many Ukrainian websites do something like this, so in my mind it's just a common thing that happens . Some non-Ukrainian do as well, seemingly with no rhyme or reason, I run into
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by grishka 1y ago
No, that page is always a sign that the person who configured Cloudflare for their website has chosen to deliberately block Russian IPs.
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by grishka 1y ago
Yeah, might be Twitter, but might as well be Facebook. Though I'm leaning towards Twitter
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by grishka 1y ago
That's a very odd website. Blocked by the Russian government so you get a TLS error, once you get past that, you get the Cloudflare "you are blocked" page, and then you use a VPN and... get the option to read this article in
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by grishka 1y ago
You may have some success with DPI bypass tools we've been using in Russia for years now, like GoodbyeDPI and Zapret.
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There's nothing wrong with fixing actual mistakes. It's obviously in everyone's best interest for documentation to be correct. But updating dependencies and such is totally unproductive. It's contributing for the sake of
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by grishka 1y ago
Reminds me of those "I updated your dependencies/build system version" and "I reformatted your code" kinds of PRs I got several times for my projects. Yeah, okay, you did this very trivial thing. But didn't you
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by grishka 1y ago
That's the cool thing about analog video, it doesn't really have the concept of horizontal resolution. Especially when it's monochrome. It's made up of lines that continuously change brightness as they're drawn. Col
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All our senses are.
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To me the magical part about CRTs is color. I don't quite understand how the shadow mask works. Like, yeah, there are three guns, one for each color channel, and the openings in the mask match their layout, and somehow the beam comin
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by grishka 1y ago
In Russian as well, свободный vs бесплатный. Free software = свободное ПО, free beer = бесплатное пиво
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by grishka 1y ago
I have a good enough understanding of what it is capable of, and I remain unimpressed. See, AI systems, all of them, not just LLMs, are fundamentally bound by their training dataset. That's fine for data classification tasks, and AI do
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by grishka 1y ago
In the early web, there already were forums. There were chats. There were news websites. There were online stores. There were company websites with useful information. Many of these were there pretty much from the beginning. In the 90s, no
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by grishka 1y ago
The internet actually enabled us to do new things. AI is nothing of that sort. It just generates mediocre statistically-plausible text.
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by grishka 1y ago
You keep comparing appliances to general-purpose devices. You also act like the "accept to continue" legalese actually matters to anyone but the legal department that wrote it. Please stop. When someone buys a car, they usually do
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by grishka 1y ago
Thank you for writing it all out for me :D
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by grishka 1y ago
I keep seeing that argument made but it doesn't make any sense. Yes, Apple may deserve a cut when a user was acquired thanks to the app store alone . Like in that case when you're an indie developer and the app store putting your
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by grishka 1y ago
If someone is trying to help themselves by participating in forums and following instructions, that's already very much an above-average user. They'll be fine anyway. I'm talking more about the kinds of people who would downl
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by grishka 1y ago
They share a lot of "AMFI" infrastructure between iOS and macOS, with macOS having a much more permissive security model (you can run self-signed code) while still retaining "private" entitlements for sensitive private A
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by grishka 1y ago
Apple does market the iPhone as a general-purpose communication and computing device. Not an appliance like a game console. Most iPhone users don't know what making an app is like, how asinine the app store review process is, and what
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by grishka 1y ago
Yes, guard rails are good. I'm not denying that. They are an important part of user education. But only when they can be overridden. MacOS around 10 years ago is a good example. It came out of the box in a foolproof state — only apps f

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