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by vzaliva 3y ago
I enjoyed using Mathematica at work and grew quite fond of it. After the project concluded, I was keen to continue using it for personal projects, so I invested in the "Home" edition. Although it was not inexpensive, I quickly dis
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by vzaliva 3y ago
for some of us the answer is a plain text file with org-mode markup
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by vzaliva 3y ago
"true is a #define for 1" is bad idea. Because when `x` is, say, `2` then `if x` is not the same as `if x==true`.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
It was for work. I worked for a small ISP and they tried to use 286 machines as terminals and mail servers. So I ported stuff like CNEWS, UUCP and bunch of related stuff. It was around 1994.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
-enko is a common ending for Ukrainian last names and Petro is Ukrainian first name.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
I've spent a considerable amount of time porting various Unix C software to Xenix 286. My main task has been to identify and correct the implicit assumptions that pointers and integers are 32-bit, as opposed to 16-bit, and to ensure th
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by vzaliva 3y ago
It might seem obvious, but I'd like to highlight that this illustrates another benefit of a distributed system like Mastodon. Even if one of the Mastodon servers goes down, the others will continue to function.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
Although I have a comfortable home office, I still rent a small office within walking distance. It has a conference room and desks for both myself and my business partner. I've found I'm more focused and productive working from th
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by vzaliva 3y ago
How this compares to WebP?
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by vzaliva 3y ago
"Beeper does not have an official office, and we all work from home: ..., Sochi, ..., Kiev, ....". So they work with Russia and do not know how to spell the capital of Ukraine.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
That's surprising. I see maybe under 30 trains shown in whole California. Anyway, according to [1,2]: US: Ridership 549,631,632 UK: Ridership 1.738 billion [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_t
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by vzaliva 3y ago
It shows the sad state of the public train system in the US. For comparison, here is a similar map for the UK: https://www.map.signalbox.io/
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by vzaliva 3y ago
I would love to hear a first-hand report of running in this mode from a week or two. Any bugs? Performance isses?
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by vzaliva 3y ago
It might be an unpopular opinion, but I think the days when JavaScript was an optional part of the web are past. Now it is an inherent part of the web. We need to accept that there is no going back to the days when it was not. Instead of tr
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by vzaliva 3y ago
I tried it with C and it does not work. So I guess it is go-specific indeed.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
Just heads-up: the developer is located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. For some of us this could be pertinent for ethical, legal or security reasons.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
I used to run Xroach to freak out colleagues. You move a window and they scramble! Tiling window manager I am using nowadays made it obsolette :)
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by vzaliva 3y ago
Given the time and effort spent to get compensated, the amount should be significantly increased in the law.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
I use dropbox to sync.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
Personal journey: I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but encountered a bug that the developers were not keen on fixing promptly. It was then that I realized the importance of personal notes surviving beyond companies, apps, and formats.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
It is unclear how it deals with private channles. On our Discord server some channels have limited access and information from them should not leak outside the list of members.
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by vzaliva 3y ago
When organization starts using struct it will entrust you with a lot of confidential information. Assuming you also feed it to OpenAI the question arises on how it is protected. The privacy policy seems to written for an individual user. As
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20 Days in Mariupol: The Trailer(youtube.com)
2 points by vzaliva 3y ago|1 comments
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by vzaliva 3y ago
The trailer for the award-winning "20 Days in Mariupol" from The Associated Press and Frontline PBS. The documentary charts the nearly-three weeks an AP team was in Mariupol as it was under siege by invading Russian forces at the
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by vzaliva 4y ago
There is a reason there are so many words in the dictionary. They communicate different, nuanced shades of meaning and emotion. Same with the grammar going beyond simple sentences. Dumbing down your prose, you lose all that power. Indeed, a
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by vzaliva 4y ago
How about IDE with base codebase of 1.5M loc and tons of 3rd part packages? (emacs)? Most modern programming is not about performance, it is about managing complexity.
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by vzaliva 4y ago
The article starts "Kurt Vonnegut, who was born 100 years ago this month". Today is November 9 and according to Wikipedia Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922.
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by vzaliva 4y ago
Before considering switching it I would love to see a more detailed feature comparison to `andOTP` I am presently using. From what I can see it is encryption at rest which andOTP may or may not do and scheduled backup. andOTP does manual ba
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by vzaliva 4y ago
This is known in the motorcycle community for decades. There is even a "get horizontal" mantra. The idea is that the wider you look (via light placement), the more likely drivers will notice you. One of the reasons is that the hum
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by vzaliva 4y ago
As an engineer, I see little value in removing any sensors. No matter how noisy or limited they are, they bring additional information which, if processed, could improve overall accuracy. This is commonly referred to as "sensor fusion&

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