culebron21

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by culebron21 14d ago
Learn to say "no". It's freaking easy. I do have a smartphone, and every time someone asks me to install something on it, or ask for my phone number for "accumulating bonuses", I say simple and dry "no" lo
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by culebron21 17d ago
Leroy Merlin cuts particle boards and laminates the end faces for you, at any arbitrary dimensions (rectangular though). You pick the boards, make the order for cutting with the staff, leave the carriage with the boards, and in 15 minutes t
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by culebron21 17d ago
At Leroy Merlin, you can order either particle boards, or normal wood boards, whether 16mm for walls, or 30mm for the table top, cut to your sizes (as long as they're rectangular), with end faces laminated as well, and all of that at a
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by culebron21 25d ago
I think the post has kinda contradictory parts. The beginning says that a requirement of formal training, like in medicine or architecture, or transport planning, is desirable. But then a number of examples are given, that suggest that degr
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by culebron21 29d ago
https://zagge.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/13333008.jpg Translation: Somewhere inside IKEA. - How do we call the table lamp? - GNVOERK
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by culebron21 1mo ago
I remember in 1999 reading some tech executive (with tech education, I guess) complain, like "I'd like to make executive financial reporting, but not like this horrendous and too complicated accounting". Then he proceeded wit
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by culebron21 1mo ago
Apparently the server was overloaded, and I didn't see my area. Now it works. https://shademap.app/@43.22319,76.93616,12.00576z,1786337482...
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by culebron21 1mo ago
I see only a grey rectangle and a hand cursor.
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by culebron21 1mo ago
Great read. I wish it loaded faster, without the retina resolution images.
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by culebron21 1mo ago
Similar to the argument made by John Blow several years ago. Though, Blow blamed frameworks/engines and layers of abstractions. I wonder if the authors came to this framing themselves, or listened him. https://www.youtube.co
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by culebron21 2mo ago
That's why I do all DIY myself, incliding plumbing or electrics. Craftsmen cost money and they try to finish in one session, so they do lots of compromises. Examples: under a sink, there were two 2m-long supply hoses, where 40cm would
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by culebron21 3mo ago
This is about the journalism that is serious. That tells stories, reports, and goes deep into subjects. My impression is that most media today is nowhere near this. They're just cheap dopamine source, containing only "news",
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by culebron21 4mo ago
I must say that already in the early 2000s web developers were tired of hand-coding everything, and many sought some sort of automation -- a framework, a CMS. Already in 2004 I made a site with barebone approach -- put a txt in a diretory t
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by culebron21 4mo ago
I worked mostly on frontend in 2012-16, in plain HTML+CSS, and then quit, because React was required everywhere, and I tried and hated it. But before React, I don't recall frontend as very inspiring and joyful. It was fun to see your w
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by culebron21 4mo ago
There was an article here, 18 years ago, called The Gospel of Consumption. It also noticed that since 1950s, the productivity had gone so far, it would have been enough to work just 2 hours a day. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by culebron21 4mo ago
I had similar problems. Compilation got 10x faster once I split one crate into workspace with crates inside. The checks are only done on the compiled one. Then, I got rid of serde, because its derive macros are heavy and add some seconds of
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by culebron21 4mo ago
I split into subcrates and also reduce the number of proc macros (e.g. got rid of Serde).
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by culebron21 4mo ago
> Many languages of Russia got their alphabets already in the late nineteenth century or around the 1906 rebellion. If you look at publications then in Mari, Chuvash, Ossetic, etc. the Cyrillic orthography already has most of the special
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by culebron21 4mo ago
Oh, yes, the alphabet is used to write texts to convey evil empires' messages! Why am I so strangely defensive, really? Well, it's the most ridiculous argument people use here. Somebody is conquered, governed -- you may say coloni
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by culebron21 4mo ago
I wonder, what's your take on your alternative scripts. Latin was enforced by Roman catholic church. Poor Germanic peoples! Muslims enforced their Arabic abjad on Indo-European Farsi, where abjad doesn't quite fit. All these alter
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by culebron21 4mo ago
They're just 3 states, and they have 0 texts from pre-Cyrillic period in the Latin alphabets they came up with. Azeri language is similar to Turkish, it's an easy job, and they can watch Turkish media with no issues, and there&#x2
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by culebron21 4mo ago
No, you're wishfully thinking. What made people absorb the Soviet version of history and politics, was school curriculum, and central TV, and teaching Russian to keep them in orbit. Cyrillic alone won't allow this.
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by culebron21 4mo ago
Funnily, you don't know or omit the details yourself. Russian Empire didn't give the conquered nations the alphabet, but USSR did, as part of supporting local nationalists (surprize!). And it first gave them the Latin script. Seco
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by culebron21 4mo ago
Oh, I see. Good point, thanks.
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by culebron21 4mo ago
> The adventure genre was what people liked before the mentioned Don Quixote, not by reading, but from folk tales, which are older than dirt, especially if you lived by the coast and met sailors around. Well, maybe. I meant the genre lik
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by culebron21 4mo ago
Селищев А.М. Старославянский язык, 1951, страница 39 https://maxbooks.ru/images/slavimg/52.jpg Selischev A.M. Old Slavonic Language, 1951. Page 39. https://www.academia.edu/126241874/%D0%90_%D
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by culebron21 4mo ago
Interestingly, it was also a derivative of Greek, but the cursive version. It's harder to write, but apart from that, I like it. Ⱂⱃⰺⰲⰵⱅ, ⱂⰺⱎⰺⱅⰵ Ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰺⱌⰵⰻ!
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by culebron21 4mo ago
This author is suggesting that Cyrillic is a sort of tool or weapon in the arms of the authority, and is imposed upon the people for purely political reasons. This is just false projection of modern politics onto old times. It's shamel
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by culebron21 4mo ago
I guess, there's another set of tranformations in stories. At least in European culture, stories lost their religious part in the modernity. Probably people stopped understanding it earlier, but they were transformed in the XIX century
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by culebron21 4mo ago
Interesting read, wouldn't have thought this of Pinocchio. Sadly, when I was learning Italian, I was reading more sophisticated things like Il Fu Mattia Pascal, with quite superficial understanding.

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