avaika

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by avaika 7mo ago
> Now, I am not going around giving my real email out to random sites, though, although even that doesn’t strike me as particularly dangerous. I am fanatically following my rule "one email per website". Obviously, they all rout
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by avaika 7mo ago
> Removing Saddam in itself was good but what it did the wider region was not good. I believe this is the legacy of leaders like Saddam. They build a very messy future for their countries. Whenever such a leader is gone, somebody has to
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by avaika 8mo ago
iqair has pretty sparse coverage, especially in developing areas. A lot of places with really shitty air do not hit the top simply cause the service is effectively blind in those places. However, I regularly see a lot of Balkan cities hitti
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by avaika 9mo ago
I don't trust LLM enough to handle the maintenance of all the abstraction buried in react / similar library. I caught some of the LLMs taking nasty shortcuts (e.g. removing test constraints or validations in order to make the test
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by avaika 11mo ago
Fortunately nobody was aggressive to me. It was vice versa to a point which made me deeply uncomfortable. Once people learned that I am originally from Russia (even though I am not Russian and I don't live there for many years), people
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by avaika 11mo ago
Given that the EU after over 3.5 years of full scale invasion still buys Russian oil, should we also treat EU citizens as sponsors of the war?
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by avaika 11mo ago
> Their opinion of our politics is generally separate from how they treat me personally, and I do the same for people of other nationalities. That is such a sane thing to do. I was always astonished and sad how often strangers in foreign
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by avaika 1y ago
Not sure how much sarcasm did you put in this comment, but banning from entering other countries and disconnecting from visa / mc only hurts. Here's why. I am originally from Russia and I do not support the war my country has star
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by avaika 1y ago
>What happens when the 3 presidents disagree? Maybe the trick is to incentivize consensus-driven decisionmaking? That's where High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina comes into play. This is external guy appointed by the EU (
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by avaika 1y ago
In no way this is a good example of such a system, but I still find Bosnia and Herzegovina political system absolutely hilarious. After Dayton peace agreement the literally put ethnicity requirement for presidents to Constitution as a hard
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by avaika 1y ago
This reminds me how back in my school days I was not allowed to use the internet to prepare research on some random topics (e g. history essay). It was the late 90s when the internet started to spread. Anyway teachers forced us to use offli
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by avaika 2y ago
This has to be about people who pushes the button. Not about the people who invents the technology. Otherwise you might want to stop all the kitchen knifes production, cause people occasionally use those to kill each other.
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by avaika 2y ago
My 2024 top 3: - They would never hurt a fly. Croatian journalist Slavenka Drakulic covered the Hague trial for military crimes in Bosnia war. The book made me rethink how I view the war in general and what motivates people to do absolute e
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by avaika 2y ago
> he was under orders to shoot the plane down and now they’re trying to cover it up I highly doubt that's the case. Even though Russia went full evil mode a while ago, it's not that reckless (yet). I don't foresee any sane
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by avaika 3y ago
Unlike Xi, Putin and his propaganda machine has literally threatened to use the nuclear power if they have to. Multiple times. Yes, it is considered as a bluff. And most likely it is. However so was all the military "exercises" be
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by avaika 3y ago
The war affects everyone. Some people die, some suffer because they are under shelling or occupation, some suffer cause their loved one die. But those outside war zone suffer as well. Due to broken food chains, crazy economic inflation and
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by avaika 3y ago
I already posted this in another thread here. This particular change is not because isolationism. Most likely. Russian government added Hetzner to the list of companies who must move their infrastructure within Russian borders in order to o
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by avaika 3y ago
There is nothing to do with intelligence. They got on radar of Russian government. Which wanted Hetzner to follow Russian law and move all Russian data to Russia in order to operate with Russian citizens. Means literally Russian government
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by avaika 4y ago
This is all fun until you talk to someone who is absolutely brainwashed or alien to a peaceful behavior. Do you really want to lose the debate to flat earth advocate? Do you want to lose a debate to a war aggressor supporter? Do you want t
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by avaika 4y ago
Sounds like messengers with one to many communication feature (e.g. Telegram) fit this requirement at least partially. It might be not as interactive as mostly of websites, but it allows you to get data through API or develop own client.
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by avaika 4y ago
https://avaika.me/en/ I never really used social media, but wanted to share some photos with my friends and especially senior relatives. So I started this site. (also I was interested to try some django:) )
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by avaika 5y ago
It's not just recipes. There are tones of questions I often search which have a very specific and short answer. E.g. "how many kangaroos are there in the world?". Ideally I would expect a page with my question and a number wi
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by avaika 5y ago
What if I submit a request on behalf of someone else? Will this someone else get jailed?
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by avaika 5y ago
Offtopic: I'm genuinely surprised to see "samizdat"[0] as a part of media name from a country way outside ex-Soviet block. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
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by avaika 5y ago
So this is basically πfs of the crypto world, right? [0]: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
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by avaika 5y ago
As long as you don't have files with newline character (which is totally valid, but fortunately not widely used). However even without newline it will be fun to process all the special symbols in file names if you decide to handle some
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by avaika 5y ago
Cloud providers are not just about web hosting. There are dozens of tools hidden from end users. E.g. services used for background operations / maintenance (e.g. aws codecommit / codebuild / or even aws web console like today
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by avaika 5y ago
It really really depends on where you are. E.g. in my country it's almost like "normal". But that's not what you think. People just don't follow restrictions, people don't wear masks, abuse vaccination (simply
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by avaika 5y ago
There's some explanation by CloudFlare available [0]. But for sure that'd be interesting to read facebooks version. [0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
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by avaika 5y ago
They won't be able to effectively advertise it. In Russia websites can be blocked without court right away. Means as quick as some domain reaches at least some notable traffic it will be blocked. And in this case cat will be winning th

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