mike_k

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by mike_k 4y ago
This is a very bold statement. Care to provide any evidence? I was there. What about you?
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by mike_k 4y ago
It is interesting how you only have purely visual "signs" on your list ). It can't be only this for a tech crowd. There is so much more about the way software is shipped, configured & used. Also, the hardware. (It is muc
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by mike_k 4y ago
It sounds like it is possible to justify the invasion, if you have a good enough story... It is still not clear if the threat was real or imagined, I'd the "deescalation" proposition had real things or was just a very unreali
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by mike_k 4y ago
Coffee brewing. Both pour over and classical barista world championships are possible once you win your nationals. I know someone who came 2nd in higly competitive nationals in my country and the person has a different full time job. It is
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by mike_k 4y ago
Any proofs?
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by mike_k 4y ago
On the Kramatorsk train station attack. No, Russia had Tochka U officially in use (and of course we're also able to bring them up from storage, as it does with other old equipment now). Can you show the source for the serial number? h
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by mike_k 4y ago
Being in Ukraine, I appreciate such a cencire and public view on this war from a Russian citizen. I have two major objections, though. 1) Solzhenitsyn & Brodskiy are very anti-soviet and famous guys, but they only go thus far. The first
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by mike_k 4y ago
This is not only about current headlines, it is the very same list of hybrid war tactics shared by two figures. https://texty.org.ua/articles/105990/putler_en/ Originally published: 21 December 2018. Translat
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by mike_k 5y ago
A surprisingly long list of hybrid war tactics shared by two figures. It looks like history have taught us almost nothing. Originally published: 21 December 2018. Translated into English: March 2022.
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by mike_k 5y ago
Good points. But I somehow hope we underestimate the moral aspect here (and the WWII lessons) that EU leaders and people take into account. Also, hasn't Russia proved to be an unpredictable and dangerous partner? Rethoric question: ho
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by mike_k 5y ago
> [...]a no-fly zone that no one will enforce given it would mean engaging with, guess what, the air force. Oh, and starting a nuclear war at the same time. A thought experiment: - if Putin is not insane and wants to live and enjoy his l
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by mike_k 5y ago
Do you really think there is no difference for US/EU with what kind of regime to cooperate _now_? Purely economical short term gains proved to be too risky even for Germany. Moral and cultural aspects are still important enough. Regard
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by mike_k 5y ago
Real Nazis are as close to Stephan Bandera's groups in 1940s as they are to IRA, for example. Don't mess these movements, motivation and historical context. It was more about getting rid of Red Russia then about anything else. &gt
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by mike_k 5y ago
Good point about public perception. But there's a deeper problem with this: people _want_ to believe it is a justified and necessary act of violence. And this is really hard to change now. Too many years many of us/them were passi
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by mike_k 5y ago
> large Neo-Nazi supporting population in Ukraine Do you care to list those sources? It sounds exactly like a successful work of Kremlin propaganda. Please, ask anyone, any foreign citizen who lived in Ukraine, if they ever saw people li
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by mike_k 5y ago
I wonder, what is the current state of satellite technology available to military? Can they stream near real-time hi-res images that would "prove" that one side or the other is effectively responsible for a certain escalation? An
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by mike_k 5y ago
This kind of a very short-term thinking is what brought us here. In the recent history: look at how "effortless" the Crimea invasion was for them and what they did a few months later. They will certainly use this chance to bring e
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by mike_k 5y ago
I would be very surprised if that is the real "high" point there. Maybe, the country is very small or lacks tech universities & engineering/math "tradition". Tax systems are very different in the region, but wit
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by mike_k 5y ago
As someone born in Crimea and moved to Kyiv in 2014, I can tell you that a preventive strike is the last thing people in Ukraine really want now. And that is exactly what Russia wants to provoke or stage if that fails. And I will have to de
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by mike_k 5y ago
Regardless of the content, it should be noted that Pozner had (and probably still has) a very nice broadcast time on one of the most popular Russia's channels. He is smart enough not to look like an obvious regime proponent, but he is
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by mike_k 5y ago
> There was no imminent danger to those inhabitans when Russia annexed. Please tell this to many thousands of people who moved out and never looked back. Also, hundreds of Crimean Tatar and various active citizens were imprisoned during
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by mike_k 5y ago
Thanks for doing this! It would be very nice to know the list of countries where you will ship this year. I was very excited and ordered it to an US address. But that means: I pay US tax + shipping/forwarding costs + local import tax o
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by mike_k 5y ago
Seems now we need a perfectly PC-correct newspeak. That will a be a subset of all words in all languages that excludes any words that _could_ sound like a different word in a different language and then filtering it further to exclude anyth
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by mike_k 6y ago
Elixir seems to be quite pragmatic choice despite being a niche tool (most Erlang OTP pros and cons are is still there). Rust has already passed point of no return by gaining so much support (and hype) in the industry. I almost feel like it
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by mike_k 6y ago
This is also very in sync with the The Python Paradox[1] article by Paul Graham. You have (had in that case) a better chance hiring someone passionate/talented if the technology is (was) not very mainstream. [1] http://www.p
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by mike_k 6y ago
I should have expressed this in a more clear way: the most interesting thing to understand for me here is the non-technical aspect of different jobs. It is not specifically about embedded, just more systems and low level than working with (
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by mike_k 6y ago
I do aknowledge that everything will be different ) (There was no attempt to compare different languages or their "abstractness" levels and to apply them to the same class of problems. Of course, that almost never the dilemma peop
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by mike_k 6y ago
Wow, these are two quite different jobs. What about the the differences in project management, planning and a sense of accomplishment though? (Sure, it depends on the other factors too.)
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Ask HN: Is low level progarmming job more satisfying?
77 points by mike_k 6y ago|66 comments
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by mike_k 6y ago
In Ukraine, however, the reality is that most of the engineers are employed as PE (private entrepreneurs) with some additional things included, like a decent insurance. And the overall tax for this scheme is just 5% so far. No other benefit

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