kgeist

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by kgeist 4y ago
What's more confusing for immigrants from ex-USSR (where the Caucasus mountains were located) the word "Caucasian" there is often associated (in a racist way) with "black" instead "white" because of their
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by kgeist 4y ago
Kids as a third gender is actually an interesting case considering that in many European languages which have 3 linguistic genders the word for "child" is of neuter gender: "Kind" in German, "pais" in Ancient G
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by kgeist 4y ago
I once tried to make something similar, I used OpenCL for performance. But either my knowledge wasn't sufficient or the architecture wasn't properly designed, so on complex node trees the performance was pretty bad; if I remember
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by kgeist 4y ago
>The Cybiko is a Russian handheld computer introduced in the United States by David Yang's company Cybiko Inc. Interestingly, the Russian language version has no mention of it being Russian. The English article doesn't elaborat
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by kgeist 4y ago
If you take Russian Empire/USSR for example, most of the territories which have been lost are much closer to Moscow (Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Belarus, Georgia etc.) than the territories still under Moscow control (Siberia), so at lea
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by kgeist 4y ago
Interestingly, our SRE people specifically have a rule "never share the DB and the app on the same server", because apparently a high load on the DB can decrease the overall performance of the server. It also allows them to freely
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by kgeist 4y ago
C# has #region/endregion They are foldable in IDEs
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by kgeist 4y ago
Interestingly, there's no such problem on Cyrillic keyboards despite being a totally different alphabet. We only need to switch the current layout to English which is what we do all the time anyway.
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by kgeist 4y ago
Thank you, they explain the difference from tracing JITs starting from 11:00
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by kgeist 4y ago
>The new JIT compiler based on ground breaking Basic Block Versioning already gives some exciting results >This novel approach lazily generates type-specialized versions of basic blocks on-the-fly while propagating context-dependent t
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by kgeist 4y ago
There's a GitHub issue about it: https://github.com/bflattened/bflat/issues/6
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by kgeist 4y ago
I could decode these, because there are equivalents in my native Russian: >"With tongue one go to Roma" = you can achieve anything with good communication skills >"It want to beat the iron during it is hot" = seize
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by kgeist 4y ago
What's the advantage of invariants over unit testing? Seems like there must be lot of overhead at runtime. >I was ending up with garbage, and not realizing it until I had visualized it with Graphviz! >Imagine if we had invariants
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by kgeist 4y ago
On my first trip from Czech Republic to Germany in 2008 (as a foreign student from Eastern Europe) I was surprised there was German police checking passengers' IDs. I didn't have all the required documents with me because I though
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by kgeist 4y ago
>How does one JOIN across not just tables but opaque services One solution we use is to have an event queue from service A to which service B is subscribed. In the event handler, service B fills its own view table with data from service
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by kgeist 4y ago
I'm not familiar with Ruby, so I have a question: the first snippet has the .close method called while the second doesn't. Does the second example leak resources, or it's automatically closed after a GC in a finalizer, maybe?
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by kgeist 4y ago
You probably should add "Show HN"
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by kgeist 4y ago
>client. Short for client state >client state. A state that is economically, politically and/or militarily dependent on another, more powerful state I think "client" falls under their colonialism category and should be
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by kgeist 4y ago
From the blog post: >One of the first things you might notice is that it has a curious bit of coloring in it. What gives? >I’m actually not 100% sure why this happens It's subpixel rendering which exploits the way pixels are laid
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by kgeist 4y ago
I agree with this. Last week out of a sudden we had an increase in rejected payments from Stripe so we simply switched to Verifone for which we already had an integration. The switch is manual however so we're currently automating it.
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by kgeist 4y ago
>macOS 10.15 Catalina Microsoft Edge 108 Do macOS users actually use Edge or it's an error?
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by kgeist 4y ago
The building on the photo reminds me of the "lying skyscraper" in Moscow (0.7 km): https://9gag.com/gag/a8MQwNp
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by kgeist 4y ago
Yeah long time ago I noticed that if some concept/class can have more than 1 instance (i.e. it's not a singleton), eventually you will have to convert APIs to use arrays anyway, for optimization purposes, when the complexity of yo
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by kgeist 4y ago
>the response was simply that people quit if they aren't promoted quick enough Our company has grades instead: J0, J1, P1, S2 etc. So if someone is a junior, they can be "promoted" 2 times (J0 => J1 => J2) before bec
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by kgeist 4y ago
Well, the original Russian culture was destroyed/changed by the communists as much as the Ukrainian one (collectivization, anti-religious movement, industrialization, etc.) The Russian culture before the revolution was very different f
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by kgeist 4y ago
That's quite a one-sided viewpoint. Kievan Rus was founded by Rurikids who were Scandinavians originally based in Novgorod (now Russia). According to the Nestor's chronicle, Kiev basically became the capital after Oleg of Novgorod
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by kgeist 4y ago
>The association "USSR = Russians" is part of the systematic attempt by the soviet regime at cultural (and sometimes literal) genocide. Using "Soviet" and "Russian" interchangeably was, in my opinion, mostly
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by kgeist 4y ago
I'm fascinated by this. In my native Russian, there's a children's counting rhyme "ene bene raba kvinter finter zhaba" (and the more popular "eniki beniki were eating vareniki"). You can see some resemblen
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by kgeist 4y ago
>This is perhaps a naive question, but are there many machines that need more than 64bits of address space? I thought a potential CPU of the future could have 128 bit "word size" for integer calculations and as a side effect al
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by kgeist 4y ago
>Real question: What is a reasonable solution? I thought of something like IntPtr in C# (native size int). Although, to be portable, JVM would have to disallow doing pointer math on it, to make IntPtr fully opaque.

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