aleksei

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by aleksei 6y ago
Many people have had the same experience over the past year. There's three things that are usually suggested which might help you, that you've touched upon. First, you should have a dedicated work space. A room is preferable, but
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Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using NSO Group spyware(theguardian.com)
111 points by aleksei 6y ago|22 comments
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by aleksei 6y ago
First of all I should think copyright only restricts publishing, not reading. Obviously if you put a price on your book I have to pay it, but that's a different issue. Secondly the Internet is best viewed as a public noticeboard purely
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by aleksei 6y ago
Yeah, same. I find keeping my fingers on the home keys makes me twist my wrists outwards, which gets uncomfortable pretty fast. I mostly try to minimise wrist action in general. I've actually had a Planck EZ for a few weeks now and I a
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Automated welfare surveillance system violates human rights, Dutch court rules(theguardian.com)
8 points by aleksei 7y ago|0 comments
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by aleksei 7y ago
Start every update and delete with BEGIN; and never fret again.
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by aleksei 7y ago
Octopuses have been around for 300 million years, I think they've got survival and reproduction covered at this point. I would be careful of conflating shared culture with intelligence, especially in this context given octopuses are ma
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by aleksei 7y ago
> I'm usually surprised with all the comparisons to REST. I'd say that's because you should mentally substitute RPC whenever you see REST. Basically everyone talking about REST APIs mean RPC over HTTP with nouns in the end
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Plan to sell 50m meals made from electricity, water and air(theguardian.com)
14 points by aleksei 7y ago|7 comments
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by aleksei 7y ago
Although you can be pro break-up-Google while using one, or even many, of their services. So I don't really see the amusement.
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Nasa Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life(nytimes.com)
20 points by aleksei 7y ago|1 comments
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by aleksei 7y ago
You aren't limited to a single database though, so you could stream your main database to a public facing one with a more stable structure. But you'd have to handle changes through another API, or at least route them differently,
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by aleksei 8y ago
In my view libraries are simply evolving with the times, but perhaps I'm not yet quite so old after all. I like the idea that there's a public space for soldering, 3D printing, sowing, or just being. I wouldn't really make sw
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by aleksei 8y ago
Aside from K&R, you might want to look at the Modern C PDF https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/modern-c-is-now-fea... for an opinionated but sane guide. Also 21st Century C has been recommended, and
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by aleksei 8y ago
Can you expound on that? What would you wish to know?
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by aleksei 8y ago
Can you please specify how life is different? I feel lucky not to have noticed.
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by aleksei 8y ago
There is no such thing as >40 terms of 18th century life expectancy. What a ridiculous notion.
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by aleksei 8y ago
Democracy has nothing to do with it. But yes, it's how most if not all governments operate.
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by aleksei 8y ago
> What is it that users don’t realize? You answered yourself in an exemplary fashion, but I'll state it explicitly (and simply). People don't think about it. I'd like to imagine anyone who realises the implications of owni
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by aleksei 8y ago
It's not confusing on purpose. Coordinating law, economy and movement of people across 28 countries is just fucking complex.
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by aleksei 8y ago
> Hand counts aren't particularly accurate. Citation? Hand counts are as accurate as you want them to be. Just keep counting. The problem with any form of voting that allows you to verify your vote was counted correctly, is that any
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by aleksei 8y ago
Yes, the university life portrayed in American tv shows is also quite unfamiliar to Nordics. Your experience mirrors mine in Finland. You could enrol for a course and only turn up for the exams. No one cared whether you attended the lecture
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by aleksei 8y ago
It's not quite that simple: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/21/oliver-... Relevant quotes: > Muhammad was the 10th most popular name for boys, but if the alternative spellings o
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by aleksei 8y ago
To be brutally direct, why do you think mainframes should not survive "in the coming decades"?
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by aleksei 8y ago
> It doesn't need to be a service provided by a company in a foreign land, it can just be software you run on your own computer. Problem is, in a worst case scenario ISPs could be compelled to proxy all traffic through government bo
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by aleksei 8y ago
Perhaps this why HN still uses tables for presentation - nobody dares to change it? There's also simply no reason to change it, it works.
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by aleksei 8y ago
TBH, if you've rolled your own time handling logic you were already in a special kind of hell. But time zone changes aren't that irregular, so it should be pretty straightforward for library maintainers to fix the timezones up.
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by aleksei 8y ago
If your job requires no interaction with the rest of society, that would work. As it is, people's lives ironically revolve around the clock and not the sun, so you're expected to be available from a certain hour of the day to a ce
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by aleksei 8y ago
Sitting in an office from the morning I couldn't give a toss when the sun rises. But I would like the sun to be up when I leave, so I could actually enjoy the sunlight. But this does seem to be a pretty polarizing issue.
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by aleksei 8y ago
> Do we want Facebook to be the arbiter of what we are allowed to say to each other, or do we want them to be a neutral carrier for communications? Facebook is a private entity that can do as they please. It most certainly is not a neutr

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