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by kgeist 3y ago
Looks like it was designed be wrong and bad to break web crawlers.
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by kgeist 3y ago
China and Russia will keep using US models because they don't care about US laws. I think if restrictions on AI are only applied in the US, such restrictions will only put Americans at a disadvantage. P.S. I'm from one of the said
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by kgeist 3y ago
I guess it depends on your region. In Eastern Europe, RAR seems to be more popular than ZIP (that's why, I think, you mostly saw it on warez sites because they are often managed by East Europeans)
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by kgeist 3y ago
>As each team dictates its own release schedule and has complete control over its codebase, less cross-team communication is required, and therefore decisions can be taken in less time. In my experience, it's the opposite. When a fe
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by kgeist 3y ago
Open-sourcing software and uploading it to a site owned by a US-based company is the opposite of self-isolation.
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by kgeist 3y ago
As far as I remember, formally, Yandex Russia is also a subsidiary of a company based in the Netherlands.
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by kgeist 3y ago
For me, time is linear, too, but there are no cycles. I visualize it as an infinite number line [0]. That's how I also visualize numbers as well - always as notches on a number line. Whenever someone mentions a number, I immediately pi
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by kgeist 3y ago
If you mean Elma CRM, then no, we have a different product.
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by kgeist 3y ago
>360 I meant 180, of course :)
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by kgeist 3y ago
Russia is probably an outlier here, but the pendulum here is swinging back to on-prem, especially if the cloud provider is located in a different country. (Example: former McDonalds recently bought an on-prem solution from our company, alth
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by kgeist 3y ago
Here, before the rise of Yandex Taxi (which eventually bought Uber Russia), we used to have several independent "taxi aggregators", you'd call them and they'd tell you your car's license plate and when it would arri
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by kgeist 3y ago
On the other hand, Uber Russia was acquired by Yandex Taxi
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by kgeist 3y ago
There was a similar Windows bug when a tooltip in the notification area (systray) wouldn't disappear no matter what. I first found the bug in Windows XP, and then witnessed it in Vista, in Windows 7, Windows 10. It was my ritual to ch
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by kgeist 3y ago
>It is one of three countries that kills North Koreans who flee their country Source? I only heard about sending them back.
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by kgeist 3y ago
>it still means your users will need to download (at least) 6MB of WASM Isn't it like 1 second of scrolling through Instagram?
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by kgeist 3y ago
I suspect the article was written by AI: >Of course, the platform represents an interesting experiment that can lead to new approaches to assessing the social status and standard of living of citizens. However, it is necessary to ensure
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by kgeist 3y ago
The government can't just take away all your cash on a whim without any notice. That's why, I guess, some people prefer cash. If you want to use cash, you want local shops to accept cash. Personally, I'm OK with being cashles
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by kgeist 3y ago
In my country, we have a similar system like in India (in fact, we copied it from them) and I've experienced this situation: a government-run gas company mistakenly claimed I owe them money, and the bank withdrew the claimed amount wit
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by kgeist 3y ago
The article also says the Hungarian side later confirmed he did have a mental illness but it's RenTV which is not a very trustable source so one should take it with a grain of salt.
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by kgeist 3y ago
Casting a value to an interface forces it to be allocated on the heap.
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by kgeist 3y ago
We use Miro as well, it's pretty solid. Our PMs use it for almost everything. Developers, however, prefer draw.io
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by kgeist 3y ago
>There is already precedent for this happening in Russia; in that incident every VPN pulled out of the country. However if everyone enforces it, it's gonna be hard. Not only that, ISPs now close all connections which look like VPN t
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by kgeist 3y ago
Clickhouse is a Yandex project and at Yandex, they historically use C++ for almost everything, I guess it's part of their culture (probably the founders were C++ programmers?) Their web services such as Yandex Taxi's backend (Uber
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by kgeist 3y ago
The idea is that the server must have a known allocation budget, similar to Java's max heap size. There's a tree of allocators, i.e. a temporarily created arena allocator needs initial memory for its arena, so it can grab it from
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by kgeist 3y ago
In my hobby project, I started always passing an allocator argument to every function or object which requires allocation (inspired by Zig) and I love it so far. Often I can just pass a bump pointer allocator or a stack-based allocator and
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by kgeist 3y ago
>words for tea that sound like chai reflect a historical spread via overland routes, the argument goes, while words like tea are a legacy of maritime trade >A 2018 viral article by the data journalist Nikhil Sonad in Quartz first put
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by kgeist 3y ago
This bit about knowledge cutoff actually is part of the internal pre-prompt which hardcodes September 2021 as a constant (i.e. the service before the AI model itself internally adds "knowledge cutoff: September 2021" to every prom
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by kgeist 3y ago
Sqlite-based file formats are also very easy to debug, which saves a lot of dev time. After my app writes to a file and loading back doesn't work, I can just open it in Sqlite and inspect it in any way I wish because I have the full po
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by kgeist 3y ago
I can't find where it says it's per customer. It says they have "a few physical shards". From what I understand, they had a few physical DB servers which stored their own subsets of data. When a request came in, the appr
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by kgeist 3y ago
One of our projects has ~15 backend engineers and ~30 microservices. It also requires a separate platform team. A k8s cluster with several nodes. It has incidents like every week because the whole thing is like a house of cards. A small fea

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