roveo

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by roveo 18d ago
My experience with greenfield is that when you're just starting out, you have to be really strict and careful about overall architecture, establish a framework, provide structure, separate concerns well. If the project is not throwaway
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by roveo 3mo ago
HN is essentially the only news source that I consume in addition to local news that are likely to have stories that do affect me personally. When I stopped reading X, I had this thought one morning: > The political crisis, the bloody wa
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by roveo 6mo ago
It's called "tacit knowledge" and I think we generally overindex on explicit, formal knowledge and ignore tacit knowledge. You can see that with language learning, we treat languages like something you "learn", but
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by roveo 1y ago
I'm using eigenrobot's (X user) prompt for ChatGPT and the style is very recognizable. Everything lowercase, tone, zoomer abbreviations, esotheric style of jokes.
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by roveo 2y ago
Telegram wasn't fully blocked in Russia even for a single day. They tried to block it and failed miserably. The team actively circumvented the blocking by deploying to new IPs faster than they were blocked, and in addition to that ever
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by roveo 3y ago
> GPT4 alone will especially not be that useful for analytical work. However, developers can make it a semi-capable analyst for some use cases by connecting it to data lakes, describing schemas, and giving it tools to do analysis. Usuall
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by roveo 3y ago
Thank you for your game, kind stranger, I've just wasted my day.
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by roveo 3y ago
You can edit any of your messages in ChatGPT and the chat will start from there. Not quite branching, because you will lose the old "branch".
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by roveo 3y ago
Oh, I recently moved to Israel, and at first was shocked with how much worse design in general is. Like, typography, ads and of course UI. There are maybe 3-4 common fonts used everywhere, and I think it's a common problem for "ra
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by roveo 3y ago
I imagine this word should be of Indoeuropean origin, Eastern Slav words for a mill also contain m-l-n (e.g. melnitsa). Modern English lost the "n" part, but it was present in Middle English, milne.
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by roveo 4y ago
I did the same thing, but also mapped Caps Lock to Cmd+Shift+Ctrl+Option (so-called Super key) when it's pressed together with another key. Useful for application switching and other custom stuff.
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by roveo 4y ago
Oh, I actually received such a call from a government-funded polling agency while still in Russia. Told them everything I think about it (which was still somewhat difficult despite the fact that the actual risks were low), but some question
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by roveo 4y ago
A better idea would be to use custom inputs that produce "typos" that the user didn't make. E.g. you have a "zip/postal" code field and your input sneakily swaps 2 neighbouring characters at some point, resulti
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by roveo 5y ago
There's another thing that was different at Euromaidan vs current Russia: Yanukovich and his people had somewhere to run (Russia). Putin doesn't.
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by roveo 5y ago
Also Estonia isn't a prime destination for Russians in this situation. Countries that don't require a visa are. Yesterday 42 passenger planes landed in Yerevan (Armenia), normal number being 3-4 daily.
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by roveo 5y ago
It's a huge pile of money and other stuff (like gold) that the central bank can sell if the want to support the Ruble. Basically they sell dollars and buy rubles on the open market to keep the price from falling.
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by roveo 5y ago
Ummm, yes. There’s Shpilkin’s famous research (dont know if available in English) suggesting that about 30% of latest Duma election ballots were fake. And what people also don’t understand is that they falsify on all levels. First, they per
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by roveo 5y ago
Yeah, I think this time period will be called "The Great Cancelling of Russia" in the history books.
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by roveo 5y ago
Persecuting Russians who oppose the invasion, who fled Russia and went to the West because they don't want to be associated with the regime, is just plain stupid. These people are actually your allies and a very valuable resource (inte
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by roveo 5y ago
This is incorrect. Electoral rating of Putin (as of 2021) is around 30%. The central election committee will just declare the results that Putin wants. People in the West who live in (relatively) democratic countries just go around saying &
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by roveo 5y ago
I wouldn't agree. Of course there's a push for homogenisation because everyone has to speak Russian, which is the official language of the state, but nobody is stopping people in the "national republics" from using their
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by roveo 5y ago
Interesting, just yesterday I discussed with a friend of mine how dumb it is for Putin to attack and try to capture Kiev, because urban warfare is very difficult and usually leads to very heavy casualties. She asked "why?" and I r
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by roveo 5y ago
Well, it's complicated. I think Putin's understanding of a "Nazi" is deeply connected to the Russian trauma of WWII that the West still doesn't get. Russians believe that due to the sheer number of lives lost, the U
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by roveo 5y ago
It is a page with a schematic depiction of a floor lamp. "Click anywhere to turn the light on/off" is written below. When you click, the light turns on or off depending on the previous state, and background color changes acco
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by roveo 5y ago
Look up the stuff David Sinclair is doing with his team. They are already rejuvenating and regrowing severed optic nerves with Yamanaka factors in mice and are preparing to start human trials. It's not rock-solid that this is going to
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by roveo 5y ago
In the world of data analytics/BI are many people whose main job is writing SQL.
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by roveo 5y ago
What's up with if __name__ == "__main__": some random code at the end of module files? Never seen that, why is it used? I understand that it's a guard that only runs when the module is executed directly, but wha
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by roveo 5y ago
there's also "да не ебет", which means roughly, "well, it doesn't fuck me"
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by roveo 5y ago
In many languages "saint" and "holy" are the same word.
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by roveo 5y ago
Yes, in addition to the ridiculously long life (30h seems to be the standard), they also have somewhat-easily replaceable standard cell batteries. (judging by iFixit guides) My friend has an older model that he uses every day for like 4 yea

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