konart

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by konart 4y ago
Gundam in the title is an absolute clickbait... as expected
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by konart 5y ago
To make a point? You do this to us - we do this to you. No statute of limitations.
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by konart 5y ago
> I'm not sure ordinary Russians were as awed, or even if they were made aware of what happened My brother in law lives 1,5km from the place that was hit. He was not impressed. And yes - ordinary russians are aware of this, mostly c
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by konart 5y ago
They do mention Andy Pavlo in this publication by the way: https://habr.com/ru/company/yandex/blog/660271/ saying that YDB was inspired by his and Michael Stonebraker's NewSQL ideas.
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by konart 5y ago
In case it is something relatively minor - yes. Fork and rock. Though this is a though decision in itself - you will have to continue the support of your changes, merging upstream changes etc. So in many cases this is a mostly fictional opt
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by konart 5y ago
1: I don't get it either. For some reason Krita is okay, but selling your app in some sort of Store is not...
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by konart 5y ago
>If you don’t want to participate you don’t have to use it This has nothing to do with OSS though. You can switch from a closed sources solution too. The problem is you investment and attachment to certain things.
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by konart 5y ago
This. Now if only people start investing in UI\UX on linux desktop.
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by konart 5y ago
That Soviet PC though... Shame we'll never see it.
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by konart 5y ago
Let's say you have a gun at home. This doesn't mean you have to shoot it every time the door bell rings. >Your tests for the existing functionality won't, obviously, be testing the new functionality you're creating. W
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by konart 5y ago
>For the default switch you'll only find out at runtime, which isn't very useful when developing. Test are useful when developing. Tests should've told you that you are not handling the input as expected.
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by konart 5y ago
If only I was 25 and didn't have pregnant wife who doesn't want to leave... And now there is no way for me to even go abroad but still send money back home.
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by konart 5y ago
The hand is just closer to the camera.
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by konart 5y ago
What does opening representative office has to do with their stand? Apple and Google, Meta also opened representative offices back in February. Did in stop them from doing business here (at least part of it, likely temporarily)? No. >At
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by konart 5y ago
>This is not true. Even just the opposition party leader Navalny is good enough. Yeah, only because he's anti-Putin. People who follow internal deals more closely remember how he was marching with slogans "Russia for russians,
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by konart 5y ago
The sadder truth may be that you won't be getting anything much better than Putin from Russia in its current state.
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by konart 5y ago
> First of all, at least 40% of the planes are home-built, so aviation in Russia most certainly will not come to a halt. Home-build - maybe, but not without parts from the US\EU, not to mention most of the production equipment is not Rus
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by konart 5y ago
To be honest this sounds like a fairytale to me. IKEA has\had good things like lamps and tabletops. But the furniture has terrible quality. I'm still kind of angry at myself for buying their Stockholm cabinet. You _have_ to fix it agai
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by konart 5y ago
>Visa and MasterCard are blocking service to sanctioned Russian banks, which explains why Russians are busy going to the ATM to pull out cash. VISA and MC has nothing to do with lines to the ATM for cash. We have MIR system that works wi
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by konart 5y ago
>So when the generals say, hey there's Finland, sitting there all by itself, right next to us. It'll take us two weeks, nice and clean. And Sweden's up next, we can get Ikea and Abba too. But we must hurry, in another mont
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by konart 5y ago
As a Russian: yes. What people seem to not understand is that Putin does not really a key figure here. Not the only key figure. The only reason he started the war is because he was assured by his generals that they can do the whole thing ra
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by konart 5y ago
As a russian who is going to move from NC - you are being very unproductive at least. The russians who are using nc's services are mainly the ones who are protesting actively and who are concerned about their privacy for this reason. Q
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by konart 5y ago
So basically you are withholding any money I've paid you in case my domains are paid through 2025 (for example).
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by konart 5y ago
>However Russia failed to suppress and replicate YouTube that is the only massively popular Western platform in Russia. I'd say Instagram is as popular. Not sure about other services.
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by konart 5y ago
To counter attack in case of possible attack from the West.
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by konart 5y ago
This, thank you
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by konart 5y ago
>no reason Again. Reason is something one has in this mind. You may find no reason where a different person sees one.
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by konart 5y ago
This is very simplistic view. People often try to shrug it off as if Putin (or Hitler) "just wanted to grab more land". I don't really want to change anyone's mind and give a lecture. It's just that world is not as
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by konart 5y ago
Sure, but what Russia was constantly telling NATO is that while Russia respects other countries' desire to join NATO - Russia believes that NATO should not allow those countries to join. Russia does not care about Ukraine's self-d
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by konart 5y ago
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450987

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