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by ingas 5y ago
Very interesting. It was absolutely the same in Soviet Union. I still remember formula from my childhood: 3 empty bottles (10 kopeks each) + 3 kopeks = 1 full bottle of lemonade (33 kopeks). I think it was a good thing, less glass garbage a
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by ingas 5y ago
This conspiracy theory that telegram is a secret KGB project and all bans are kind of promotion campaign - I heard it a lot of times. More frequently as a joke but sometimes you start thinking: "what if?"
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by ingas 5y ago
It's shameful that there is no real opposition in Russia. Looking on Latin America it's always ends with something violent. On the other side: in Asia it's usually transforms into something not that bad, e.g. South Korea.
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by ingas 5y ago
In 2001 we started a GSM-operator on Compaq Server (it was before they were bought by HP) with whole 1Gb(!) of RAM and 2x10Gb SCSI disks. It served up to 70K of subscribers, call center with 30-40 employees, payment systems integration, eve
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by ingas 5y ago
> This is not a problem for multiple reasons. Wernher von Braun considered this a problem. He (and his team) once was frustrated when instruments came in yards and pounds. I can believe that maybe geographic mile will be used in future b
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by ingas 5y ago
Yeah. And I don't know whether Jeff Beck was the first who played "A Day in the Life" but he did that magnificiently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHY3eRUMsM&ab_channel=feedb...
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by ingas 5y ago
I understand motivation for remix of "Let it be" - McCartney was very dissatisfied with "wall of sound" by Spector. And it's already done. But "Sgt. Pepper" - I think the only motivation is to try squeeze
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by ingas 5y ago
> Apple vendored displays have a proprietary protocol OMG. What will be next? Apple vendored flash cards?
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by ingas 5y ago
I don't see anything wrong in measuring gallons per mile and measuring in yards and other non-metric systems when it's something local. Maybe it's convinient if you live somewhere where everybody accustomed to that. It's
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by ingas 5y ago
It seems NO. In Soviet Union considerable part was in cooperation. And more in Stalin era then later. Citing Russian wikipedia: > By the end of the 1950s, there were more than 114 thousand workshops and other industrial enterprises in it
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by ingas 5y ago
> Arguing over dictionary definitions is not going to lead to anything useful in this matter. > If we are going to be pedantic The whole article was about going to be pedantic over dictionary definitions. "Now, one major concern
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by ingas 5y ago
"Summa Technologiae" by Stanislaw Lem. It's the book about everything existing, possible and impossible too. For me it gives motivation to learn new, think about something new, try to find limits of what I already know. &quot
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by ingas 5y ago
> Among other things, that lets you do things like regularly consume dishes that use geographically distant ingredients. I think that you idealizing ancient Rome. Ice was a delicacy. "Dishes for geographically distant ingredients&qu
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by ingas 5y ago
I always thought that garum is the same as fish sauces in South Eastern Asia. Differences must be same as differences between Thai/Vietnamese/Japanese sorts. You just leave salted fish to ferment under sun and then collect liquid.
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by ingas 5y ago
I used NTFS with linux a year ago. It's read-write and suitable if you need to access files on Windows partition. It was OK but not great: I used it to share media files between Windows and Linux and soon I noticed that if I'm pl
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by ingas 5y ago
At least it's possible to write COM in a measurable time. I did it in C++ although that was a pain. It became much easier in .NET. CORBA - I did not even finish reading "Introduction to CORBA". A book of 500+ pages.
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by ingas 5y ago
I think you were right in RISC prediction. Starting from some point (Pentium Pro I suppose?) even x86 CPUs became RISC internally CISC externally.
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by ingas 5y ago
Psychodelics are not something that one will use everyday. From the list: " psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT) , ibogaine, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) , ketamine, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
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by ingas 5y ago
Yes. A lot of programmers are lost without step-by-step debug. That's why concurency problems becames unsolvable for them.
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by ingas 5y ago
So it's a generation of graphql on-fly, right? I conclude that it will be incompatible with hasura Allow-list (or lead to explosion of Allow-list for all possible combinations which is impossible in practice) So it could look nice but
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by ingas 6y ago
> I had to set up Python projects for some machine learning classes in college and it was a complete mess. "Machine learning" here is crucial I suppose. Sklearn, keras are big beasts. Would you install something like django&#x2
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by ingas 6y ago
I like hasura too. But honestly absolutely the same result could be achieved with REST too. GraphQL is not that different from REST.
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by ingas 6y ago
Strange, but my impressions are opposite. We are using hasura (which is written in Haskel), I'm interested in dgraph.io (which is golang). I had terrible experience writing graphql-service in typescript. I finished it but I did not lik
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by ingas 9y ago
It's only natural that coming from such terrible mess as javascript ecosystem author is trying to solve problems he encountered in past. I wrote comment to him: It's only natural that you're trying to find solutions for probl
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by ingas 9y ago
But "OO design itself" had(still has) a major flaw: it was not clearly defined. Everybody had his/her own unique vision of "OO design".
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by ingas 11y ago
> Economic growth depends on resources That's a point from ... long past. Dollar, yen, euro, bitcoin(!) have no direct relation to resources. So, I agree with your opponent that economic growth is not limited in principle.
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by ingas 11y ago
Ha. It brings nostalgic feelings. Gyrojet rifle was the ultimate weapon in Jagged Alliance 2 (my favorite game in college times). I always thought that it was pure sci-fi element in game until somebody on forum posted information about this
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by ingas 11y ago
> All that said, Japanese spelling is infinitely worse than English spelling. I think you're overestimating weirdness of 日本語. For native Russian speaker, Japanese is slightly weirder than English. The only rule: be prepared that eve
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by ingas 13y ago
WinForms - in fact is OK. It's just old. WCF and EF - "oh noes". My eyes are bleeding with just one look at this. Microsoft can make something simple and brilliant as TPL, but on other side we have such overengineered behemot
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by ingas 13y ago
In which way C# and .NET is proprietary? WCF, WindowsForms, EntityFramework are proprietary. But nobody in sane mind will use them.

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