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by grishka 2y ago
Yeah sometimes Chinese tourists are also annoying here. So what? I feel like every country has these kinds of stereotypes about foreign tourists. I always treat everyone with respect by default and expect the same from others.
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by grishka 2y ago
I don't see how "they don't work" and "they are inconvenient" are contradictory statements. They would've been if there were feedback mechanisms that we could use to communicate our point of view the gover
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by grishka 2y ago
Not sure if it's caused by this or the sanctions related to USD and EUR currencies themselves, but CBRF has introduced limitations on foreign currency transactions in March 2022. They were supposed to last 6 months but every time they&
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by grishka 2y ago
Few of them do have an effect on the military, but hardly a significant one. Some of them forced the government officials to eat their own dog food. Most of them, however, feel like mocking petty revenge. If anything, those sanctions that
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by grishka 2y ago
> For example, Apple store is working in Russia. Apple hasn't officially sold any hardware in Russia in the last 2+ years. Any Apple devices you can buy come from "parallel import" and are priced 1.5x compared to other cou
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by grishka 2y ago
I live in Russia and I've never experienced most of the things you're describing. And it's become so much worse after 24/02/2022. We even had Spotify for a year! It was starting to genuinely feel like a first-world
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by grishka 2y ago
Oh, I visited it in 2015. There were some very odd-looking huge boards with pins inserted into them that I assumed were ROMs. Also panels that were clearly intended to display some part of the state of the CPU. Here's some pictures I t
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by grishka 2y ago
I don't want to get rid of JS entirely, I want to discourage building apps with it. I want it to be the macro language for hypertext like it was originally intended.
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by grishka 2y ago
You can't imagine how desperately I asked for that. Backend guys came up with all sorts of excuses to not do it. As far as I know, they did do it sometime after I quit.
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by grishka 2y ago
I meant the permanent unique ID assigned by the server.
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by grishka 2y ago
Yes, I miss Flash too.
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by grishka 2y ago
> Of course they are, the end game is browsers being the OS. But could we please not do that? Can I do something to prevent this from happening?
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by grishka 2y ago
This reminds me of a very particular problem that we tried to solve when I worked at VKontakte. It was about instant messaging and flaky mobile data connections. The problem: you're on a subway train and you send a message as it depart
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by grishka 2y ago
The most serious problem with the web IMO the endless scope creep. Maybe, idk, set a clear goal, work towards it, and then just stop and consider the web "done"? I hate it so much that almost everything in the IT industry is a pr
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by grishka 2y ago
Feature request: please add Mastodon/fediverse as a type of social media account. Also, you generate invalid URLs for cities that have spaces in them, like Saint Petersburg.
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by grishka 2y ago
To me it feels obvious — making them the same codepoint makes case conversions require knowing which language the string is in. Making them separate codepoints does not. The only important question is whether Turks use separate keyboard lay
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by grishka 2y ago
And didn't give a distinct codepoint to the Turkish "i" that needs to keep the dot when transformed to upper case.
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by grishka 2y ago
An honest question — when will unicode be finished? Or is it now like so many other things in IT, an endless path with no goal?
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by grishka 2y ago
IMO the line is my device having non-removable hardware modules that are specifically designed to protect the device from me, its legitimate owner. I'm fine with software-only DRM, it'll always get broken by someone eventually any
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by grishka 2y ago
> pornography/obscene content (31 per cent), copyright infringement (14 per cent) > We reiterate that Malaysia’s implementation is for the protection of vulnerable groups from harmful online content. Who could possibly be harmed
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by grishka 2y ago
A good implementation of DoH/DoT would use regular DNS in these situations.
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by grishka 2y ago
Please give me some examples of real new capabilities that LLMs gave people. Something that they weren't able to do before, or something that was wildly impractical before LLMs appeared.
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by grishka 2y ago
Well yes, neural networks are very good for pattern recognitions and data categorization tasks. Also for speech synthesis. I wasn't saying that this is a bad application of AI. I was talking about generative AI and LLMs specificall
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by grishka 2y ago
The internet brought us an entirely new type of worldwide communication between people that wasn't possible before. Generative AI brought us cringe. It has existed for like 5 years now and it's still a solution in desperate search
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by grishka 2y ago
The only problem with that is that then you have to use Linux.
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by grishka 2y ago
How would that make them not interoperable? A metro system is just an underground electric railway. The only serious difference is how the power is delivered to the trains, it's usually some sort of third rail instead of an overhead wi
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by grishka 2y ago
It felt really odd for me to have to choose one or the other because my language has a name for that intermediate color between blue and green (also applies to any light blue, like that of the sky) but English doesn't. edit: actually,
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by grishka 2y ago
That service is also a file, iirc it's among those wua* ones. Everything is a file!
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by grishka 2y ago
You can uninstall the updater too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Just move its files (C:/windows/system32/wua*.dll) somewhere else. Put them back when/if you want to install updates, install updates, then move them again.
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by grishka 2y ago
It is possible to uninstall any Windows component if you know which files contain it. And it's not like Windows would refuse to boot if Recall exe/dlls suddenly go missing. (this website is behind Cloudflare and blocks me unless I

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