natoliniak

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by natoliniak 27d ago
it wasn't that long ago that most daily use goods were sold in reusable glass bottles, jars, paper bags. Clothes, shoes, appliances, furniture was durable, lasting multiple years, sometimes even passed on between generations. Then, lat
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by natoliniak 8mo ago
> (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia mostly) where they eat most of the EU funds "Eat" the funds? whaat? Is EU really viewed as some kind of charity to the ungrateful "easterners" in France? does surrendering their market and
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by natoliniak 2y ago
> Twitter became toxic / suppressed speech dramatically But what kind of speech is supressed nowadays on X? what about Bluesky? does Bluesky not supress any speech?
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by natoliniak 2y ago
not to mention that gp editor is disabled on non pro windows. i think there is some kind of a funky command line or registry hack to enable it. So yeah, I moved on from windows largely because of this force fed software.
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by natoliniak 2y ago
But it sounds like in Italy you entered the coffee shop to drink coffee and socialize - which fulfills the mission of a coffee shop. However, I noticed that in post-pandemic Poland and the USA where i spend a lot of time, coffee shops are s
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by natoliniak 2y ago
question: how can a municipality determine if a unit is vacant?
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by natoliniak 2y ago
I'm dealing with a very large partitioned table (several millions of inserts per day) and i solve this by running `vacuum analyze` nightly which somehow solved 99% our read issues Prior to that, we tried various indexing strategies, de
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by natoliniak 2y ago
> We continue to call on Congress and the Administration to take additional actions now to support providers ah yeah, the old socializing losses and privatizing profits.
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by natoliniak 3y ago
> you can do whatever horrors you want and i do. i run a personal static website over http. oh the horror.
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by natoliniak 3y ago
> best way to get ketchup out of a glass bottle. i store the ketchup bottle upside down and when i open it, it is immediately ready to pour and is mostly controllable
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by natoliniak 3y ago
> any site or service that makes sexually explicit materials available so basically, the internet. > Canadian ISPs required to ensure that the sites are rendered inaccessible At best, this is regulatory capture for the current tech g
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by natoliniak 3y ago
that is my point - in order to stay up, the bird would need to either flap its wings for 700 miles non-stop (unlikely) in order to maintain velocity difference between it and the ambient air OR glide which basically means he was not traveli
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by natoliniak 3y ago
ok, if the bird's natural speed is that of the ambient air, then how does it stay up? the bird is not lighter than air, so where does the upwards pressure on the bird come from? either the bird must flap its wings to stay up or there m
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by natoliniak 3y ago
but wouldn't the wind exert some pressure on the back of the bird? wouldn't it not generate any lift otherwise and just drop back to the ground? like sails on a sailboat, for the sailors it feels like there is no wind, but the sa
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by natoliniak 3y ago
in my experience, when it comes to picking two out of: quality, cost, or speed to delivery, businesses always choose speed and cost. I dont' like it, but I just grew to accept that. The reason why physical engineering seems focused o
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by natoliniak 3y ago
> not once not even on a white board?
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by natoliniak 3y ago
same. it feels like QVC for generation z
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by natoliniak 3y ago
I use it as a personal tutor. It is really good at it, because it can respond to clarifying follow up questions and it is usually right. For pure development or peer review, it is not there yet. I asked it recently to help me decipher some
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by natoliniak 3y ago
i tried, but I was immediately put off by the inability to search for an exact string. To me, that makes a search engine useless. Am i missing something? I tried using quotes etc, but the results always force up approximate matches.
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by natoliniak 3y ago
In Boston it is illegal. Plumbing as well. I tried to hire a plumber and electrician to do simple bathroom rewire and could not find a willing contractor - job too small. "Call us in a couple of months, maybe we will squeeze you in&quo
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by natoliniak 4y ago
My problem with the article is that it builds something of a straw man "conspiracy theorist" to battle against, instead of looking at the actual problem: "The plan will require local residents to apply for permits to drive on
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by natoliniak 4y ago
i agree. I think this is analogous to flying a modern airliner. After all, anyone can set the autopilot. Easy, right? Easy until a situation arises where manual flying or human intervention is required. That is when years of tedious traini
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by natoliniak 4y ago
the last place i stayed in via Airbnb requested not only to take out the kitchen garbage, but to also deliver it to the city dump. The place itself was nice and worth the money, but after paying the $100 cleaning fee i declined to turn my c
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by natoliniak 4y ago
On Massachusetts highways it is common to see "funny" electronic messages like "Wicked Stahm Coming" about an impending blizzard etc., and even though I get the "joke" it is enough to confuse me for a moment an
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by natoliniak 4y ago
> are freed up from fixing roads because of lower traffic, they don't just sit around crying, they find other work to do. yes, this holds up when there is something else to do, which is not always the case. I remember during the gre
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by natoliniak 4y ago
Feature flags.
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by natoliniak 4y ago
> nobody asked me directly, so i wasn't aware this is not meant to be judgmental (of you or your circle of friends), but if nobody asked you directly, would that not send a signal to you that maybe they are not that interested in ha
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by natoliniak 4y ago
having seen several rewrite attempts in my career, none of which were fully successful, here are some thoughts: - The ultimate reason: it will take too long and be over budget. The business will (rightfully) ask why should they invest x amo
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by natoliniak 4y ago
I really hope that this will happen, but I'm skeptical. The push to cluster around big cities is still accelerating and land scarcity around big metro areas is what is driving out affordability. Utilities connection constitutes a small
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by natoliniak 4y ago
I noticed this weird doublespeak as well. I noticed that in Poland (where I live), permanent residents from the "west" refer to themselves as "expats" while working in the same office, same position, side by side with uk

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