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by samat 2y ago
In part, yes, but the main reason was severely mismanaged economy, specifically — super unproductive agro. They had to buy food (grain), selling oil. And then oil prices went down.
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by samat 2y ago
PostgreSQL's global, decentralized community, including companies like PostgreSQL Professional in Russia, makes a corporate takeover unlikely. Even if the name is taken, the community and independent providers would carry on.
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by samat 2y ago
Do you use Claude in the web interface/directly prompt it or some tools for that?
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by samat 2y ago
I like how URL sums it up perfectly: liberda.nl/weblog/javascript-was-a-mistake/
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by samat 2y ago
There is an excellent video about Lightbulb Cartel by Technology Connections, highly recommended if you want an engineers perspective, with no 'great conspiracy' hype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY
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by samat 3y ago
Every time politicians vote on more privacy invading and controlling stuff — they should be wearing/using similar technology themselves. In this example with ELDs I’d propose a small wearable device that would monitor time when congres
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by samat 3y ago
I am no expert, but my understanding is that to get nice chips, you need both ASML and TSMC. They have very different areas of expertise and posses very different know hows.
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by samat 4y ago
Same thing, not the best ad for their own Security product :) Heray is a security product powered by Hetzner
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by samat 4y ago
Sounds crazy hard, a lot of moving parts, both human and technical. But if pulled off right I’d pay for that kind of thing, preferably hosted and cared for me in a datacenter
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Show HN: A simple script to move Zoom cloud recordings to Backblaze(github.com)
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by samat 4y ago
There will be a hot startup for this and then MS will roll out buggy half-assed copy and will capture the whole market.
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by samat 4y ago
I recommend you read Melancholy Elephants, a short novel on copyright by Spider Robinson, I read it years ago and it stuck in my brain http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html you might like it
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by samat 4y ago
Btw, Apple's speech recognition can work completely offline, on-device. Not sure about Google or Microsoft, though.
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by samat 4y ago
Is this the case with Apple iCloud Photo Library, too?
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by samat 4y ago
As did email with PGP before it /sarcasm off
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by samat 4y ago
I run a small boutique outsource software development company, 11 developers, 2 managers. We have a 4-day work week, async communications, etc., etc. Pay is not great, but we compensate with sanity a lot. It is possible, just keep looking!
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by samat 4y ago
As far as I know, US does not. I am pretty sure you think Europe, where ID cards/residence permits are smart cards with PKI built in.
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by samat 5y ago
This should be made into NFT!
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by samat 5y ago
I got down the rabbit hole (20 open tabs at 1AM local time, you know) and it seems most of the 'normal' software like Operating Systems & Devtools are classified as 'mass market' and are subject only to 'Anti-Te
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by samat 5y ago
Would you please elaborate on emotions which are more apparent then before? In email s@samat.me if not in public.
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by samat 5y ago
FAANG → MANGA
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by samat 5y ago
Cloudflare is founded by lawyers. So yes, I guess they have the best lawyers in business and it should be hell to fight them in court.
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by samat 5y ago
I think reasonable thing will be for the researchers to “admit responsibility, say they will do better” and keep going as if nothing happened. Like Mark Zuckerberg does.
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by samat 5y ago
4G/5G is pretty good on security, compared to 2G :)
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by samat 5y ago
I would not call Elon Musks Twitter and other public performances ‘no advertising whatsoever’. They don’t pay for it cash to adv companies, but they got in hot waters with SEC because of it, for example.
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by samat 5y ago
Btw, safari has its own API to get push notifications on desktop.
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by samat 5y ago
20 minutes a day — unlikely. 2 hours a day for 10 years — you bet.
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by samat 5y ago
remember ping? -a Audible. Include a bell (ASCII 0x07) character in the output when any packet is received. This option is ignored if other format options are present.
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by samat 5y ago
Third one is true and verifiable and actually useful for cooks :)
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by samat 5y ago
They are the one example of messaging done right on the client side. And it maddens me that their whole team, including ops and backend is like 50 people. At the same time, they used some pretty unconventional ways to find brilliant people.

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