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Comment · 1 year ago
> The shift to Claude Code? That took just hours of use for me to become productive.

> This isn't failure; it's the process!

> The biggest challenge? AI can't retain learning between sessions

ai slop

Comment · 8 years ago
1. CPI is a wrong deflator to use when comparing to GDP growth

2. Wages != Compensation

Comment · 8 years ago
Our front end engineers were extremely happy. Me personally, as a backend engineer, not as much, but it isn't too bad.

There are some quirks (error handling), performance issues (e.g. fixing n+1 queries) and DOS concerns, but again, it isn't all that bad.

(we're using rails/graphql-ruby on backend | react/relay on frontend)

Comment · 8 years ago
Depends on typography traditions. In Russian, em-dash in the middle of a sentence is always typeset with short spaces. We also rarely use en-dashes (I think there are maybe two cases when it is allowed: in date ranges like 1940–1945 and as a bullet point in lists).
Comment · 9 years ago
> In what bizarro world would anyone actually want ISPs competing for the last mile

You can easily have up to 1 gbit symmetric internet connection in Russia for $10 because of that competition.

It's not rocket science, guys, US ISPs suck because your regulation killed all the competitors, and your solution is what, more regulation?

Comment · 9 years ago
Are you confusing tw with twhr/y?
Comment · 9 years ago
Well, not exactly an app, but some forums dedicated to reviews for courtesans are quite old.
Comment · 9 years ago
There is a setting for menu being always on.
Comment · 9 years ago
Man, just post a link to CV like you're advised and let good things happen to you. If they don't, you lose nothing, but if they do, you got something out of your effort.
Comment · 9 years ago
Chekhov had this very weird and dry sense of humor. Some jokes would certainly look like insults to a random observer.

In this case, though, I believe he was actually frank, if blunt, but well meaning (his brother had issues with alcohol).

Comment · 9 years ago
Russian laws effectively prohibit all kinds of internet pornography. More precisely, they restrict "unlawful distribution of pornography", but never define any "lawful" way to do so.

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That said, if it weren't pornography, small rant about our judicial system:

Any judge in any city pop 50000 can issue a country-wide block for any site. Often these resolutions are too far reaching, sometimes they order to block root page (/) instead of specific page (/foo/bar), rendering whole sites unavailable. Sometimes they ban ip addresses of aws services, disrupting half the internet.

Another important thing about these hearings is that there is often no defendant. They might call in the site hoster, but hosters are never interested in defending their customers so they simply ignore the subpoena. Site owner would often discover their site was blocked after the fact.

Finally, in many cases judges don't even bother writing their own verdict. Instead they copy-paste whatever public attorney cooked up, including all the factual and orthographic errors, and sign it.

https://medium.com/@aalien/law-limits-8d733178e158 this is a very insightful post (alas, only available in Russian) from @aalien, founder of lurkmore.ru, which is arguably the most often banned site in Russia, about how this horrible system functions (or rather, malfunctions). I found this excerpt especially hilarious:

«Full list of Roskomnadzor-banned pages is available on our site. Unfortunately, that page is also banned by Roskomnadzor, because it contains "textual information about committing suicide". It's in the quoted Roskomnadzor letter, of course»

Comment · 9 years ago
Slop / stdlib
Comment · 10 years ago
> Now, the JS community seems to be thinking more about stability and backwards compatibility. That's very welcome, at least from the perspective of this grumpy server-side developer.

That's exactly why the blog post suggests using yarn instead of npm, isn't it?

Comment · 10 years ago
> I don't think any sport-themed games are played professionally though.

FIFA is somewhat popular.

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