sakopov

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by sakopov 7y ago
Use this time to spend your mental energy on projects that you're really passionate about while enjoying your great (i'm sure) Google salary. I think you underestimate what an amazing position you're in right now.
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by sakopov 7y ago
Fully immersive VR tech will become the future of gaming.
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OpenAI Plays Hide and Seek and Breaks the Game(youtube.com)
3 points by sakopov 7y ago|0 comments
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by sakopov 7y ago
> Meanwhile, in Algeria, 41 percent of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math—or “STEM,” as it’s known—are female. I used to live in Russia in my teenage years and went to school there until grade 9
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by sakopov 7y ago
> They have a few experienced hires, but not many, and most of their experienced hires have something trendy on their resume, not a boring old company like Microsoft Is this how Microsoft is perceived on the coasts? Here in the Midwest i
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by sakopov 7y ago
My company manages a little over a hundred (and growing) microservices running on .NET Core a bit of Python and NodeJS in AWS. I don't think there is anything dated or boring about .NET in comparison to say Node. The tools are a pleasu
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by sakopov 7y ago
As someone who grew up in Russia, I can say that (in my humble opinion) Russians, even older generations, didn't idealize Stalin. They just knew that the country always needed someone who put fear into people to stop stealing, bribing
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by sakopov 7y ago
I honestly didn't even know this was in the works. It's amazing how much effort is put towards blocking out any positive news about this administration.
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Boyan Slat Unveils the Ocean Cleanup Interceptor(youtube.com)
2 points by sakopov 7y ago|0 comments
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by sakopov 7y ago
I used localstack a while ago to test DynamoDB queries then ended up switching over to DynamoDB-local. But I'd often come back to this to see how this fairs with some of the lambdas I have and most of the time there is something missin
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by sakopov 7y ago
Just throwing this out there, but can this issue be tackled with licensing? Similar to a HAM radio operator license. The drones would also have to be registered and identified with the operator license number. I feel like it is likely where
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by sakopov 7y ago
I haven't used Fitbit since the first iteration of the product, but why would you want Spotify on a device that tracks your fitness level?
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by sakopov 7y ago
Similar situation with a lost kindle [1] [1] https://twitter.com/MbyM/status/1183796234420736002
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by sakopov 7y ago
Popular in Russia as well and known as buterbrod (butter bread).
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by sakopov 7y ago
I didn't know you could do this. For anyone interested here's a simple CF template that illustrates this scenario [1]. [1] https://github.com/s0enke/cloudformation-templates/blob/mast...
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by sakopov 7y ago
Not a security expert by any means and it'd actually be nice to get some feedback on this. I have a Gmail account protected with a hardware token and no additional 2FA mechanisms. I created a google voice # that forwards any text or vo
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by sakopov 7y ago
I'm pretty biased in my thoughts on this. I used to DJ EDM back in my early 20s and still have thousands of dollars worth of equipment and vinyl records accumulating dust. Every once in a while I'll whip out a record and listen to
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by sakopov 7y ago
I jokingly say that Amazon should have a couple of sessions at re:Invent where they talk about the things they fixed in Console. I generally find that I no longer mind most AWS UI quirks, but some things are really annoying like the broken
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The Legend of Baltimore Jack(outsideonline.com)
1 points by sakopov 7y ago|0 comments
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by sakopov 7y ago
I recently watched a Deep Fake video of The Shining with Jim Carrey's face over Jack Nicholson's. It was so damn good you couldn't even tell it wasn't actually him playing the role. This was all fun and games, but one th
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by sakopov 7y ago
I, too, care about the well-being of people I'm sharing society with. This is why I'd rather have my money spent on realistic things like educating kids about management of personal finances and passing legislature to curb ridicul
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by sakopov 7y ago
I'm on XPS/Windows and switched to Firefox a month ago and so far it's been enjoyable. I think it is noticeably slower than Chrome but no more memory usage issues with just a handful of tabs open and adblock running over a pe
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by sakopov 7y ago
I was born in one of ex-Soviet republics and lived in Russia for a bit in the 90s and on one hand I'm surprised that people tolerate this level of bullshit, but on the other hand I can see why they do. Russian government basically need
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by sakopov 7y ago
Man, the older I get the more I realize that life is always a balancing act. I immigrated from a 3rd world country (probably a 2nd world now) 20 years ago with my parents. Both of my parents were engineers and both were paid about once a ye
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Cancer Research Points to Key Unknowns about Popular “Antiaging” Supplements(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by sakopov 7y ago|0 comments
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by sakopov 7y ago
It is indeed. I'd also recommend giving this podcast [1] with Paul Stamets a listen. He's a fairly well-known mycologist who has some very interesting things to say on the topic. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Space Engine(spaceengine.org)
2 points by sakopov 7y ago|0 comments
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3 Year Timelapse – Raw Land to an Off Grid Homestead(youtube.com)
6 points by sakopov 7y ago|0 comments
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by sakopov 7y ago
That is very typical in the Caucasus. I have countless of stories of people going completely out of their way to help out and requesting nothing back in return, but instead maybe even invite you for a dinner with their family. Incredibly ho
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by sakopov 7y ago
As someone who was born and raised in Soviet Union/Russia and spent half of my life there I read this article with a bit of amusement seeing Westerners trying to make sense of this typical Soviet behavior. You're absolutely right.

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