dunkelheit

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by dunkelheit 1y ago
Kudos to the raft authors for making distributed consensus accessible. Structuring the presentation in terms of RPCs and making the algorithm well-suited for implementing replicated state machines may not sound like a big deal, but those de
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by dunkelheit 1y ago
I just love how John Patience became Джона Пейшенса, like it is some exotic slavic woman's name.
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by dunkelheit 2y ago
> That and companies are just hilariously bad at finding workers they want to hire for nebulous reasons. I have no doubt even if my company hired 95% of the workers it had marked down as "no hire" they'd be able to squeeze
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
> Is that fair? I don't know! Probably not. It is all a political struggle and Musk for sure pursues his own goals in it. But if all this results in a twitter that is more interesting, open and less prudish than before, I think it i
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
> This is ironic if you consider all the complaining that Musk does in the public sphere about "freedom of speech" Another ironic thing is the number of people who lectured anyone disagreeing with twitter's content moderat
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
First, you need to take a big break, a couple of months at least. The less computing-related activities the better. The summer hasn't ended yet, do some outdoorsy stuff with other people. Depending on your situation of course, it may n
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
This brings back memories... Some time ago I was an intern in a team working on a UGC map editor. We were using this soft-delete pattern and for some task I needed to deploy a database migration that fiddled with the "deleted" sta
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
One problem is that companies like to talk about these stock grants as if they are as good as regular salary (and employees seem to play along, using terms like "total comp" and ascribing some definite dollar value to it). But the
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
There is not much use for dollars in Russia right now other than hoarding them (you can buy goods, but many imports are sanctioned). And after initial panic subsided, trust in the banking system looks quite high so people are less keen on h
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
You are a bit late to the party. Many Russian assets have already been seized, among them the Gazprom subsidiary in Germany. We are in a weird spot where Russia is very much interested in economic relationships continuing more or less as is
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
> From my social circle, most developers are leaving for SWIFT ban. This of course can change any day, but for now SWIFT transfers still work with non-sanctioned banks (e.g. Tinkoff). So this may be a pretext.
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
Moscow seems similar to San Francisco/New York in this regard - you move there if you want to be where the action is and put up with minor inconveniences. Climate-wise the Bay Area of course wins hands down, but I'm constantly hea
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
Every statement that paints Russia in a positive light must be propaganda, right? This becomes tiring really fast. > Moscow average salary: 1100 USD 2021 Bucharest average salary: 1,614.91 USD 2021 It makes precisely zero sense comparing
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
> Moscow is too expensive Compared to what? Compared to other Russian cities it is certainly expensive. Compared to e.g. San Francisco it is very cheap. > it prices even software developer leads out. Doesn't match my experience a
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
Fairly risk-free way (well, compared to alternatives): invest $10K in interview prep, negotiation coaching etc. Get a FAANG job. Live frugally. In a few years you'll have your $1M.
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
> The lie is that Ukraine wasn't even considered for NATO membership and would be ineligible due to lack of territorial integrity ( Donbas and Crimea). NATO and Ukraine didn't claim Russia was bluffing, Ukraine refused to surre
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
> The result is that their promises about not attacking someone if "they stay out of NATO" are worthless crap and the only way for smaller European countries to stop them is with force of arms and help of a big military allianc
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
The amount of ad-hominems in replies to your comment is simply staggering.
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
Open source (and by extension a large chunk of software industry) runs on the expectation that people won't do random disruptive things even if it is plainly stated in the license that there is no such guarantee. Perhaps we should move
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
Two counterpoints: 1) the kind of people that use open-source libraries are one of the most plugged into the world political discourse parts of the population (BTW I am not sure that this is unequivocally a good thing, this "discourse&
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
It is kind of crazy when one remembers all the human rights abuses that companies providing popular products and services tolerate and benefit from, and where the tax money goes. It is almost as if if the goal is to be consistent and avoid
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by dunkelheit 4y ago
Actions speak louder than words and the reaction to the current conflict is certainly unique. I haven't heard of people pressuring companies to stop doing business with the US due to the Iraq war.
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
I think you are ovestating things. Yes, this was true in the 1990s, when McDonalds was one of the few windows into what western capitalism has to offer, but this magic of novelty is long gone. Right now McDonalds is, like in the rest of the
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
If history is any guide, businesses are totally ok with dodgy payment methods (Russia paid Pepsi with warships once) and dealing with governments that are not that respectful towards private property as long as profit is expected. The main
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
This won't work because a) many of the current measures mainly hurt the most westernized part of the population (i.e. those most critical of the current regime) and b) this plays perfectly into Putin's narrative that the West hate
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
AFAIU this applies only to Russian airlines because their leased planes can be confiscated abroad. But e.g. Turkish airlines can still fly.
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Some of Ukrainian propaganda are myths designed to bolster morale of the local population, some (such as claiming that >10k Russian soldiers are dead, fake videos of Russian POWs, spreading rumors that martial law will be declared on Fri
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Some of them definitely do. I've watched a few broadcasts from a Ukrainian twitch streamer who remains in Kiev and people are excitedly discussing latest exploits of the ghost of Kiev in chat.
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Some of them are, some of them are not. What's your point? Your original statement is emphatically not true because cards issued by many of the biggest consumer banks (among them Sberbank, Alfabank) continue to work internationally. An
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
They mentioned "geopolitical risks" in every prospectus they issued. So the answer is no - investors have been warned that this might happen!

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