vkazanov

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by vkazanov 7d ago
Public transit is not "100 years back". London, uk is not exactly backwards looking in that sense, and the vast majority of people use trains/metto to go to work. I walk 10k steps a day on a normal day, only drive when necess
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by vkazanov 10d ago
Yeah! Same for finland, the baltic states, or poland, or russia, or any country really where there is any kind of serious winter happening.
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by vkazanov 10d ago
Reality should never stand in thr way of a good export-oriented myth :-)
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by vkazanov 10d ago
Most of the west outside of the US takes shoes off or swaps 'em for indoor shoes.
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by vkazanov 10d ago
Is this how most of the world operates? :-)
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by vkazanov 10d ago
People in the west tend to overthink spirituality. Having been to houses/flats across all of eurasia, uk to hong kong, vietnam to lithuania, the majority prefers taking shoes when entering a house, but can be as practical as necessary
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by vkazanov 11d ago
It will make you stronger period. There are side effects, problems, long-term consequences... But testosteron blood levels absolutely do regulate muscle growth.
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by vkazanov 16d ago
Or maybe we shouldnt call anything "science" until it assumes replication of foundational results. Physics solved this quite some time ago.
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by vkazanov 17d ago
Sure, a careful spec is always great. In xml's they clearly overdid it. all the formats/substandards you listed... there is just not a single library that supports all of the standard. And because implementations are so different,
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by vkazanov 19d ago
Yes, true, there is this legendary subset... but parsing even a sane subset of the spec is a nightmare for all parties involved.
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by vkazanov 19d ago
Yaml streams are just yaml docs separated by "---" withing a single file. The json spec just doesnt do anything like that but jsonl does.
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by vkazanov 19d ago
There numerous problems with YAML. It is underdefined, ambiguous, fragile, and is just impossible to write a portable parser for. JSON is naive, lacks almost everything. But is supereasy to parse and read. As funny as it sounds, XML is over
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by vkazanov 22d ago
> random chinese company Oh i have soooo many news for you!
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by vkazanov 25d ago
Heh... i wish i'd go for anything other than boxing 20 years ago. Anyways, yes, weightlifting + something active (tennis, football, etc) is the way to go. But weightlifting first. It is the only hralth-related hobby that teaches honest
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by vkazanov 28d ago
Or the reason is that something is just unfeasible with the existing architecture, or the reason is that building this would break important technical assumptions... All kinds of things.
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by vkazanov 29d ago
Its the oldest metro in the world. An achieviement, yes, but in old stations ventillation is crap, materials are poisonous, etc.
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by vkazanov 1mo ago
Thr thing is that both you and your agent should have a way to verify the solution. OBVIOUSLY, the compiler experiment was just a cringe pr stunt. But it has a point: everything works better with a good testing loop, and compilers always ha
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by vkazanov 1mo ago
Add pure C to the list. I enjoy building things in it but boy what a horrible language it is. I accept SQL as an industry standard,and i've been solely focusing on databases for th4 last decade or so, but it is such a horrible language
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by vkazanov 1mo ago
These little guys often do get a hammering on fridays...
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by vkazanov 1mo ago
Both numbers are big, no? Especially given the complete dominance of linux in many other settings.
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by vkazanov 1mo ago
Oh come on. :-) Linux is not userspace. Linux is a kernel, and android is a parallel fork of the kernel. So android is a version of linux but is not GNU/Linux. Android/Linux, if you will. We dont have to be shy this.
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by vkazanov 2mo ago
For me it is surprisngly natural to include the original thing into "a set of thing-likes". Why does it feel wrong (or meaningless) to you?
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by vkazanov 2mo ago
Self improvement books! All of them! "Make good habits, not bad habits because this is what Lincoln did..."
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by vkazanov 2mo ago
"Kernel anti-cheat" and "spyware" is exactly what i mean. Thry do have millions of players. But that's like 20-30 games out of 1000s that run just fine.
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by vkazanov 2mo ago
"Far ahead"? DRM'ed spyware, yes. Everything else? Not so much, thanks to the monumental effort of Wine and Proton projects.
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by vkazanov 2mo ago
Well, operational dbs in practical circumstances are used for queries that take predictable time to complete. "Get a row" "Get ten rows" Etc, etc. All constant, all predictable, all not requiring unpredictable time to ru
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by vkazanov 2mo ago
Yes! Distributed systems introduce severe restrictions on what can be reasonably done at scale. Having a single connection string is one thing, being able to do a massive JOIN is another (and should only be ever done in analytical databases
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by vkazanov 2mo ago
Of course 768 servers NEVER behave as 1. This is physically impossible. Global services using relational dbs typically severely restrict queries that run against the cluster. So no joins, no intervals, no grouping, etc. Transactional querie
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by vkazanov 2mo ago
True! the borrow checker is a special thing. This is what i mean when i say "explicit data flow analysis". In a way this is compiler internals exposed to a programmer.
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by vkazanov 2mo ago
I think the REALLY cool thing about apple's shared memory implementation is the ultra-wide memory bus. Otherwise, AMD is quite close to what Apple has, and Strix Halo is honestly incredible. Not sure what RDMA brings to the table.

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