eukgoekoko

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by eukgoekoko 3mo ago
Seriously, the fuck has happened to nerds? I expected to see some name-dropping in the post, probably some mentions of GNU / Richard Stallman. What have I found? Jobs and Woz, you're sure nerdy as hell, Mr. Apple-Fanboy.
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by eukgoekoko 9mo ago
> It is not that different from German in this matter. I've met several Germans who spoke Russian fluently, none of them has really mastered the instrumental case, not even a friend of mine who worked at the German embassy in Moscow
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by eukgoekoko 1y ago
+1 Baumwolle is my fav.
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by eukgoekoko 4y ago
> Would you have been open to her asking you to stop if she felt that was ruining her productivity Most definitely yes. But she never really shared with us what she felt. So when I heard from my boss she wasn't OK with us talking Ru
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by eukgoekoko 4y ago
I was sharing my personal experience with my boss because of > think from someone else's point of view. As for "incidental knowledge transfer" as you call it, there's another side of it: it's called distraction.
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by eukgoekoko 4y ago
No it's not. If my current boss is talking German fast enough, I can barely understand. Whenever he's talking with the legal team he's using German. This is a clear indication to me that my participation is unneeded (altough
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by eukgoekoko 4y ago
You are making too many assumptions about the nature of our conversations just in a single comment. Imagine a situation: a newly joined junior dev is given a task to implement a web scraper. Meanwhile, senior devs sitting beside her start
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by eukgoekoko 4y ago
It's good that you've mentioned efficiency. How do you think, if junior devs would have to take part in every tech conversation, scheduled or not, when would they do their job? > And I think they should be given the option to a
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by eukgoekoko 4y ago
Xenophobia is literally a "fear of unkown". What I meant to say is that one could rationalize irrational fear of unknown speech with this feeling of exclusion, but could it be it's just uncommon sounds and intonations that ma
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by eukgoekoko 4y ago
> Even in the case where a junior wouldn't be able to contribute to the discussion meaningfully ... they can learn from it. Do you mean to say junior devs should be a part every single meeting held by senior engineers? This is utter
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by eukgoekoko 4y ago
That's hilarious. I used to work as a senior backend developer in one of Berlin's startups. Another senior BE dev was a native Russian speaker, so despite our fluency in English we started chatting in Russian now and then. Our co
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by eukgoekoko 4y ago
> Nuclear in Germany was always pretty minor. This is simply not true. According to https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29295/umfrage... nuclear's share in Hermany's total power
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by eukgoekoko 5y ago
You're still missing my point: your claim about Gorbachov having no memories of NATO borders negotioations is false, the sole purpose of my comment was to debunk it. There's one thing I can agree with you though: this argument had
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by eukgoekoko 5y ago
You have claimed that "Gorbachev has publicly admitted he has no memory of it". This record of preliminary talks with Baker published by Gorbachev Foundation proves the opposite. There's no question this document has no legal
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by eukgoekoko 5y ago
> And the last point. NATO is the mechanism for securing the U.S. presence in Europe. If NATO is liquidated, there will be no such mechanism in Europe. We understand that not only for the Soviet Union but for other European countries as
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by eukgoekoko 5y ago
I remember how Konyok-Gorbunok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpWkJuXGQic was just driving me nuts, I was just 6 y. o. and couldn't handle the frustration from losing on the 3rd screen. This game was just inhumane, I&
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by eukgoekoko 5y ago
There was popular demand for these flights. My father once flew with Tu-144 from Moscow to Alma-Ata because of some urgency. The distance between these two cities is about 4000 km which is comparable to the distance between London and New-Y
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
The goal of this project is to replace tundra with grasslands. And tundra isn't a forest really, it's quite the opposite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
I still think you're missing my point, although I am impressed by your German skills ("der Schimmel" is BTW just a homonym, it's hardly related to the topic of syntactic ambiguity). > is a) another joke sentence nobo
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
Sorry if it was confusing, I really wanted to mention both a) lexical ambiguities b) syntactic ambiguities as possible obstacles for NLP. > Unlike German, English typically has very rigid word order, so in the context of a sentence, you&
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
I cannot agree. Not only English seems to have many homonyms (the word "spring" alone has more than 2 meanings), its grammar is also somewhat primitive. Let me bring one more example, this time another way around: Google Translate
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
It's not just NLP, English is pretty bad as an intermediate language for translations from language A to language B. If I try translating a Russian word "пружина" ("a mechanical spring") to German using Google tran
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
HDYT, is it time for you to cut down on soya as well?
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
I think you're missing my point. But anyway thank you, it's always nice to get a feedback from a mammal.
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
What if it doesn't? Would I be able to get my money back? Just as I've said, mentioning Sergei Pugachev and not mentioning Boris Berezovsky in one article looks strange. I totally get it why Pugachev is being mentioned: he's
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
Given all these inaccuracies in this advertising artice I don't feel too much convinced. I'd recommend everyone reading the book by Paul Khlebnikov https://books.google.de/books?id=vb2ZAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y whi
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
As a Russian national sharing most of anti-Putin sentiments I can tell that Guardian tends to provide an oversimplified picture of Russia. Most importantly this very article misses the fact that there were many actors in Russian political
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
> by a coterie of former KGB officers, or "siloviki" "Siloviki" are not exactly KGB officers, "silovik" is a name for every security, military or intelligence serviceman which is accurately described in the
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
> You just got lucky with Cyrillic that a Helvetica version supporting it exists. This is hardly a coincedence that Cyrillic alphabet has broader support and adoption among fonts.
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by eukgoekoko 6y ago
Sure, I can go with font-family: sans-serif But what if I have to add Mongolian support for a website using Helvetica typeface for the currently used Cyrillic script?

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