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by anticodon 9d ago
I worked in a EU company that was developing a product competing with one of Microsoft offerings. All the code was hosted on GitHub, we used Azure for hosting and all the internal communications were in Microsoft Teams. To me it looked absu
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by anticodon 2mo ago
I'm not saying that it's not catching bugs. Sometimes it does. But most of the rules are nonsense and the number of rules that makes no sense is growing. Also, mutable default argument is not a bug. It is a bug only if mutable def
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by anticodon 2mo ago
You know how many bugs I've met working on large Python codebases over 20 years, caused by unsorted imports or `except Exception`? Yeah, you've guessed it: exactly 0 bugs. It's really annoying how many people think that if yo
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by anticodon 2mo ago
What? In other words, you're saying: "Russia is losing war with Ukraine, so it wants to start a second front with bigger enemy". Also, how's Ukraine war is sustainable for Ukraine? It's economy is non-existent (almo
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by anticodon 6mo ago
West is living in its own bubble of misinformation. Including the government. On many occasions I've read self-soothing wishful thinking messages about my country. In 2022 it was that Russian army is fleeing, all Russian tanks were bur
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by anticodon 7mo ago
> Would we still get web browsers? There was Lynx text browser that was ported even to MS-DOS. I was using it until about 2010. It was a great browser until websites become unusable.
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by anticodon 7mo ago
Crypto was and is inconvenient to use. So many years passed and almost nobody uses crypto daily. It's too inconvenient. And it's not secure or anonymous at all. At some point you need to buy crypto or sell crypto, or buy some good
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by anticodon 7mo ago
> Of course, right now nothing can dethrone Visa/MC for international payments UnionPay can. They are accepted in many parts of the world, and they are free from US restrictions.
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by anticodon 7mo ago
Russia had roughly ten years to prepare. First talks about building national payment system started around 2010-2012. And it was meeting notable opposition: "why should we care? MC/Visa are good enough, why spend money on national
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by anticodon 8mo ago
What really do Americans know about Ukraine or Taiwan? E.g. can even 1% of US population show Ukraine on the world map (without using Google Maps)? Could they do it before 2022? Before 2014? Do they know anything about Ukraine or Taiwan his
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by anticodon 8mo ago
In 2023 there was record harvest of potatoes in Russia. Prices dropped, so farmers stopped planting potatoes in 2024 and 2025. Wouldn't be surprised if they plant more this year due to high price.
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by anticodon 8mo ago
shell_plus is still superior because it also imports other useful stuff and allows adding custom list of additional imports. Also, shell_plus has --print-sql option for easy construction and debugging of ORM queries.
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by anticodon 8mo ago
I was 2000 km from home (1242 miles) and I was in panic because it was pretty uninhabited place. My bike is 12 years old but I used it in very harsh conditions (dirt, mountains). Probably should replace the lock but it is so expensive.
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by anticodon 8mo ago
EU is a colony of USA. If it would be necessary, US can simply force EU to buy US technology. If you check the EU politics, they never do or say anything that can be interpreted negatively by US or damage US interests. In 2025, EU and US si
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by anticodon 8mo ago
Had the same problem with my moto (key not turning the lock). Fortunately, there was a car nearby and owner had a spare jug of oil. I put some oil on the key, put it in the ignition lock, waited for 5 minutes, and it started to turn again.
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by anticodon 8mo ago
I've used Redpanda for local development and testing stands. It is super easy to setup in docker, starts really fast and consumes less resources than Java version. Haven't really compared it to anything, but I remember using Java
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by anticodon 8mo ago
I have information from the first hands because half of my family lives in Ukraine. Where do you get your information? From CNN? Can you show an Ukrainian law that allows men to freely cross the border?
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by anticodon 8mo ago
I don't follow Ukrainian laws closely. I remember they allowed young men of ages 18-22 to cross the border in August 2025 (!). That caused enormous lines on the borders as the first day after this law 11,000 young men fled the country.
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by anticodon 8mo ago
Very unlikely. Men of ages 18-60 are forbidden to leave Ukraine since February 27 or 28 of 2022. Women cannot cross the border since 2023. Of course, there should be some exceptions. For example, some people need to go abroad to bring Weste
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by anticodon 8mo ago
Which exactly weapons are supplied by China? Even ever lying news sources like Bloomberg and CNN never made such unfounded accusations. Also, how and why some "spy" would work both for China and Russia? Two very different countrie
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by anticodon 8mo ago
What Russia and China has in common? Why would somebody work for both countries? Do you know, for example, that China willingly sells huge amounts of drones to Ukraine?
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by anticodon 9mo ago
Russia is anti-west because traitors Gorbachev and Yeltsin (who was indeed an alcoholic) sold the country to the West for nothing, for promises that we would be treated as equals that were never kept. As you can see in many comments here (a
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by anticodon 9mo ago
Crimea is a Russian territory that was given to Ukraine by totalitarian non-elected leader Nikita Khrushev. It was a crime done by totalitarian government and Russia restored historical justice.
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by anticodon 9mo ago
People living in Ukraine now clearly don't like that Zelenskiy cancelled the elections and don't want to sign peace agreement. Why they don't go to the streets and protest?
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by anticodon 9mo ago
Why would we want to join the EU? It's a government comprised of people that weren't elected that destroys countries it supposed to govern by forcing non-rational choices that people hate but too afraid to openly criticize. The le
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by anticodon 9mo ago
He crossed the border illegally and was carrying a firearm with him. Maybe it's ok in the USA to cross the border illegally carrying a firearm with you, but I assure you it's not legal in all the other countries in the world and p
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by anticodon 9mo ago
Django had ORM from the very beginning. I've been using Django since 0.95 at it had ORM even back then. It was primitive but I hadn't to resort to raw SQL until much later.
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by anticodon 9mo ago
Wouldn't it be much easier than to put micro reactors on a ship directly? Like on Russian icebreakers that can function on one load of fuel for 3 or 5 years, don't remember exactly but at least 3 years for sure.
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by anticodon 10mo ago
Infrastructure is not only cars/buses. It is also: roads (paved roads), electricity lines, water pipes, bus stops, traffic lights (you won't find many traffic lights in SEA countries), train stations, railroads, etc. It's evi
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by anticodon 10mo ago
Infrastructure is expensive. It costs lots of resources and human labor and intricate planning (most SE Asia cities are not looking like anything there was planned). Most countries on the planet simply cannot afford good infrastructure. I&#

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