ivandenysov

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by ivandenysov 5d ago
What are some reasons to pick Sublime Text over Zed for someone not familiar with either?
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by ivandenysov 9d ago
Prisoner’s dilemma: margins are razor thin. If your fellow farmers use better seeds then you are forced to use them as well. Otherwise you won’t be able to match their prices without selling at a loss.
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by ivandenysov 10d ago
Who designs a signaling system where a ‘major disruption’ can be caused by a jumper cable applied at any point along potentially hundreds of kms? What about resiliency and fallbacks for something that critical? Fear not! I’m sure the Europe
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by ivandenysov 17d ago
Anecdotally not in Berlin, Rome, or Dublin.
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by ivandenysov 22d ago
The big bet is that the LLMs will get good enough to invent new frameworks or even branches of math. I hope it pans out. Otherwise we will get stuck in a local maximum for a while. On the positive side We won’t get the cars, but our horses
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by ivandenysov 1mo ago
> statistics can tell you absolutely anything you want them to say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Collins
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by ivandenysov 1mo ago
> Debian is a large and complicated project: the release announcement for version 13 says it has 69,830 packages, which take a total of 403 GB of disk, and contain 1,463,291,186 lines of code. So, suitably, it is a large and complex poll
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by ivandenysov 2mo ago
I started noticing a lot less annoying stuff like that after reducing my caffeine intake and overall stress level.
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by ivandenysov 2mo ago
And Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines until 2022
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by ivandenysov 2mo ago
> it must still undergo scrutiny by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. I wonder what exactly that means. I hope the European Parliament won’t have to waste time voting on this.
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by ivandenysov 2mo ago
I’d love to crowdfund this. I’ve been on a hunt for a perfect blank t shirt. After trying 10 different models either the fit or the material is not up to my standard. I wonder how automatable manufacturing of T-Shirts is. Not sure if it is
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by ivandenysov 3mo ago
To calculate +/- 3/6/9 months I shift by seasons. 3rd month of summer becomes 3rd month of winter. That works well cause all months live in a primitive memory palace in my head: an analogue clock face with July at 12 and Janu
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by ivandenysov 3mo ago
Ukrainian P1-Sun interceptor FPVs were built specifically for this purpose. They are way cheaper than a Shaheed drone and have a practical ceiling of 5000+ meters according to wikipedia. https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/P1
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by ivandenysov 5mo ago
Those goals can be achieved in parallel.
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by ivandenysov 5mo ago
This comment is a mandatory mention of Betteridge's law of headlines.
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by ivandenysov 7mo ago
Oh wow: it was more expensive than MacBook Air
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by ivandenysov 7mo ago
> Not since the polycarbonate MacBook’s retirement in 2011 has there been a notebook in Apple’s lineup with a lower price point than the MacBook Air Wasn’t the 12-inch MacBook (2015-2017) exactly that? https://en.wikipedia.org
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by ivandenysov 7mo ago
Google recently released a smartphone without a camera bump: Pixel 10a.
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by ivandenysov 8mo ago
Which approaches do you think work well?
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by ivandenysov 8mo ago
Would shutting down the game server for good be considered property damage then?
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by ivandenysov 9mo ago
As an example loitering munition with foldable wings is already fairly compact. 2x storage space savings might not justify assembly space and effort
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by ivandenysov 9mo ago
Checklists that I use in personal life: - Office packing list. A “do-check” checklist that takes 20s to run through right before leaving home - Checklists for multi-day business and leisure trips - Home maintenance checklist for filters, dr
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by ivandenysov 11mo ago
What price did Turkey pay for shooting down a Russian military plane on their territory?
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by ivandenysov 1y ago
And Teslas use conventional breaks for the last few mph. But I never feel that transition from regen to friction brakes.
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by ivandenysov 1y ago
Yep. That was added back in 2019: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/11/02/tesla-one-pedal-driving...
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by ivandenysov 1y ago
British Airways operated a similar flight between 2009 and 2020: an A318 between LON and NYC with 32 lie-flat seats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_World_London_City
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by ivandenysov 1y ago
I always knew Vista was a window into hell
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by ivandenysov 1y ago
France’s high speed trains have a dedicated network of tracks. They don’t have to share those tracks with regional and cargo trains.
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by ivandenysov 1y ago
That was the case before long range weapons of mass destruction became a thing
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by ivandenysov 1y ago
Money can’t buy. But money can rent for a few days

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