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by sakopov 3y ago
I like how we keep pretending that any of this complicated shit is better than good old phpBB. There are no modern inventions for social interactions which made actual interactions better. They're all incomprehensible UX nightmares use
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BlackRock and JPMorgan help set up Ukraine reconstruction bank(ft.com)
2 points by sakopov 3y ago|0 comments
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by sakopov 3y ago
I remember stopping in Portland for a fill-up around 2 AM on my drive from Seattle. It was pouring that night and the gas station clerk was standing in the doorway and watching me with the door closed. I thought it was weird and then I foun
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by sakopov 3y ago
Around the time Angular came out with v2 and everyone basically realized that they either had to completely rewrite their Angular apps or spend the same effort to migrate to React (which was the new hotness at the time) I really started con
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by sakopov 3y ago
> They currently don't seem to be winning, but that does appear to be their main gamble. So who do you think is winning it?
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California electric bill could depend on income(washingtonpost.com)
7 points by sakopov 3y ago|0 comments
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by sakopov 3y ago
> My salary here as an American can feel very low, but I feel wealthy in Sweden. You don't need to make a lot of money to live a good life. Back in the US, I was making $60,000 a year before taxes and that was almost eight years ago
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by sakopov 3y ago
> The phrase “climate change” was invented by Republican spin doctors and for unfortunately it’s become the standard term. Let's avoid jumping to delusional conspiracy theories. Both terms have a place in science. > Global warmin
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by sakopov 3y ago
I have a friend who was hired in 2019, moved to a city with Amazon office and then moved back in 2021 while keeping his job. He still works at Amazon and is fully remote indefinitely. From what he had told me, this is only impacting those w
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by sakopov 3y ago
At my old job we used DynamoDB in a microservice architecture and I always thought it was a perfect fit. Not sure about JunoDB, but DynamoDB is notoriously difficult to index for various querying patterns. This seemed like less of an issue
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by sakopov 3y ago
Befor COVID, my AWS certification exam was in such a setting. It was an office space with a row of cubicles each containing a monitor, keyboard and mouse. You drop your belongings at the receptionist and walk in to take the test.
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by sakopov 3y ago
Years ago, I moved from Kansas City to Denver and used to drive back and forth a lot. I remember during my first drive to Denver I noticed my ears were popping and shortly after I discovered that western Kansas sits at almost 4000 feet, but
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by sakopov 3y ago
> if it hadn’t been for some last-minute Python I wrote to fill the last drive to rush out the door. What was the code doing?
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by sakopov 3y ago
It's ElevenLabs [1], according to OP's earlier comments. [1] https://beta.elevenlabs.io/
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by sakopov 3y ago
People also inexplicably get better for a few days/weeks before they die. This happened with my grandfather who died of cancer and my great-grandmother who died of sepsis.
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by sakopov 3y ago
+1 for battery tech. Particularly interesting what Enovix is doing in this market.
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by sakopov 3y ago
I struggle to see Meta as a good investment. IG lost a significant market share to TikTok. Facebook seems to be floundering. I do have to say that Market Place is awesome and is probably a better product than anything else in its space. If
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Ultra-realistic body cam gameplay(youtube.com)
3 points by sakopov 4y ago|0 comments
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by sakopov 4y ago
I was looking at the docs and kept seeing a lot of similarities with Auth0. Looks very promising and fully featured. Perhaps I missed it, but I was looking at the .NET SDK and didn't see much plumbing for verifying JWT with Kinde (in t
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by sakopov 4y ago
I don't bank with them, but Betterment has been advertising 4.2% yield on savings for a couple of months now.
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by sakopov 4y ago
> Being a borrower is the way to go, where your interest payments are less than inflation AND you get to deduct each year on your taxes and save keep more real dollars in your bank account than you would otherwise. With mortgages at over
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by sakopov 4y ago
> State lawmakers had set aside $500 million for the program as part of the 2022-23 budget. But a looming fiscal shortfall led Gov. Gavin Newsom to propose a 40% cut, so when CalHFA launched the program late last month, it was allocated
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Ask HN: Have you been able to achieve outsized returns in markets?
1 points by sakopov 4y ago|3 comments
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by sakopov 4y ago
> With respect to the 51,351.89785803 Bitcoin forfeited in the Ulbricht case before Judge Schofield, the Government has begun liquidating (selling) it. On March 14, 2023, the Government sold 9,861.1707894 BTC (of the 51,351.89785803 BTC)
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by sakopov 4y ago
I walked from St Jean Pied de Port, France to Finisterre, Spain twice. It was a great experience and highly recommended.
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Enovix BrakeFlow(enovix.com)
1 points by sakopov 4y ago|0 comments
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by sakopov 4y ago
Kansas City's new airport, which opened just a month ago, was finished on budget and a day early. So, it's not always bad :)
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by sakopov 4y ago
The sense that I got is that the whole relocation thing is on case-by-case basis. That is, it's up to your manager to work it out with you and determine whether or not this is a requirement. At least this is what I hear from someone wo
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by sakopov 4y ago
There is a pretty decent YouTube community of guys flying these bush planes around. They fly in to meetups at some pretty fascinating places usually in the middle of nowhere. If they need gas they just drop at a gas station in some desolate
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by sakopov 4y ago
Heh, last year I was renewing my car registration online and used an option in the system to send the license plate tags to a new address I recently moved to. I ended up fat-fingering the zip code and was really worried that they wouldn&#x2

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