yakireev

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by yakireev 15d ago
Creating a card is a first step in learning that card. Worth it! And you don't have to do that on your phone - there's a desktop app available.
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by yakireev 11mo ago
You posted your comment on one of those, didn't you?
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by yakireev 1y ago
Records, shmekords. The practical experience of having your own domain for your email is that you delegate your domain to Google / Fastmail / Proton / whatever, and it takes care of everything else. Some webmail providers wil
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by yakireev 2y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by yakireev 2y ago
Usually you can't, but not always: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Chilean_presidential_refe...
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by yakireev 2y ago
In a typical retelling of Chilean 9/11 there indeed was a guy who abused his power to become a dictator, but that was not Allende. It seems that the story you have is different from the one I have. Could you tell yours?
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by yakireev 2y ago
> Copy and paste them into the Jira ticket so the junior employee who makes half your salary can run them next time. Or, more likely: so that you yourself can remember what you did the next time the problem arises. Or your colleague, w
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by yakireev 2y ago
You can do chargebacks, it's just that you are not likely to have business with that merchant again. No big deal, given that that merchant is proven to be not very reliable with your money, right? The issue arises when there is no othe
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by yakireev 2y ago
This was the first thing I did when I landed in the South. Answer: very easy. You know the shape from the flags and logos, you can't miss it. Magellanic clouds are harder to see, and require a place with little or no light pollution, b
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by yakireev 2y ago
> Given the very limited space available in Paris centre, I don't really see an easy way unfortunately... Bicycles take less space than cars, both on road and when parked, don't they? A four-lane bicycle highway is as wide as o
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by yakireev 3y ago
Funny that you chose Amsterdam to give an example: this is one of the places in Europe where there actually are IT startups - some "home-grown", some moved from elsewhere. "Nobody" is plainly not true.
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by yakireev 3y ago
> I don't understand why he went back to Russia --- on principle, maybe? He was a Russian politician and was intending to stay one. In the eyes of Russian public opinion, a politician who fled abroad - opposition or not - is not a p
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by yakireev 3y ago
> Personally I'm going to move out of the country as soon as it forbids the cash transactions Which country is it? In many jurisdictions cash transactions are already illegal above certain threshold. It might be that you won't
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by yakireev 3y ago
I absolutely should not anthropomorphise LLMs, but I can't get rid of the feelling that "it" was writing this answer with a mischievous smirk, and was having a lot of fun in the process. The future is weird.
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by yakireev 3y ago
Don't take me wrong, but it certainly sounds that your mom needs some Linux in her life. Pick a stable distro, set things up once, leave them be. For basic stuff like web browsing Linux is stable, reliable and won't do any surpris
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by yakireev 3y ago
If what Google does - closely observing us, collecting the data for further analysis, often without our knowledge or permission - is not surveillance, then what it is? Which word should we use to describe these activities?
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by yakireev 3y ago
> People are not criticizing ethnic Russians. Some do, and are rarely denounced for that. Alas.
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by yakireev 3y ago
An honest question from someone without a car or a driving license: why exactly were you renting/borrowing these SUVs and trucks? Where does the need come from, what were you transporting?
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by yakireev 3y ago
€3k today is a price of an expensive laptop or an expensive bicycle (e.g. a bakfiets). €3k in ten years will be the price of a normal laptop or a normal bicycle. How not being able to buy a laptop or a bicycle without asking permission from
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by yakireev 3y ago
> What other practical changes will there be? Your online banking will stop working on your unapproved software, just like your baking app stopped working on your rooted/old Android phone some 3-5 years ago.
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by yakireev 3y ago
> Since I've been hosting Tor Nodes since I was 14 Honest question: why do people host exit nodes when they aren't 14 anymore? Given how dangerous it is to host one, and how little personal benefit one gets from it, I kinda a
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by yakireev 3y ago
> Im just trying to raise a few kids, go to some parties and sell some junk around the house None of these things should require selling your soul or firstborn rights to Facebook, right? But somehow it does, and we should be angry at
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by yakireev 3y ago
> You can find some of these by searching the shipping address and seeing if it's a freight forwarder Am a legitimate user of a freight forwarder, this attitude makes me sad.
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by yakireev 3y ago
> So what happens when yo invent/create a thing, attempt to commercialize it, and an established corporation just rips you off because there's no barrier to doing so? Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. As of righ
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by yakireev 3y ago
> The last two waterproof phones I had had user-replaceable batteries, a USB port, and even a headphone jack. Asking unironically: what were they? I want such a phone
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by yakireev 3y ago
Huh? Could you please explain what you're alluding to?
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by yakireev 3y ago
Huh? Tried that. Dutch winters are pretty mild, still no big deal. That being said, I used to live in Moscow before, and did have a daily 1.5h bus-and-metro commute there for a while. Not perfect, and quite anger-inducing because of the &qu
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by yakireev 3y ago
Never been to Benschop, but I've just checked, and Google says it's 1h 17m driving and 1h 36m on public transport from my place. It's a bike ride to Amsterdam Centraal, then a train to Utrecht Centraal, then a bus. No big dea
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by yakireev 3y ago
So many people in the comments angry at the article author having the privilege of not having to drive, instead of being angry at the people who deny them this privilege. Y'all need to visit Amsterdam and Rotterdam at least once in you
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by yakireev 3y ago
> I was on windows mobile before iPhone and the browsers were essentially useless. It was a game changer when safari mobile was a thing. I'm a couple decades late with this advice, but - did you try Opera Mobile on PocketPC back t

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