ingas's comments

Very interesting.

It was absolutely the same in Soviet Union.

I still remember formula from my childhood: 3 empty bottles (10 kopeks each) + 3 kopeks = 1 full bottle of lemonade (33 kopeks).

I think it was a good thing, less glass garbage at least.

> You usually return them at shops that sell them, even if you haven't bought them at this exact shop.

It seems that such things needs some central regulation, they did not survive in pure capitalism

This conspiracy theory that telegram is a secret KGB project and all bans are kind of promotion campaign - I heard it a lot of times.

More frequently as a joke but sometimes you start thinking: "what if?"

It's shameful that there is no real opposition in Russia.

Looking on Latin America it's always ends with something violent.

On the other side: in Asia it's usually transforms into something not that bad, e.g. South Korea.

In 2001 we started a GSM-operator on Compaq Server (it was before they were bought by HP) with whole 1Gb(!) of RAM and 2x10Gb SCSI disks.

It served up to 70K of subscribers, call center with 30-40 employees, payment systems integration, everything.

Next was 8 socket Intel server. We were never able to saturate it's CPUs - 300 Mhz (or was it 400 ?) bus was a stopper. It served 350-400K of subscribers.

And next: we changed architecture and used 2 servers with 2 socket Intel CPUs again but that was time when Ghz frequencies appeared on market. We dreamed about 4xAMD server. We came to ~1 mln of active subscribers.

Nowadays: every phone has more power than it was those servers. Typical react application consumes more resources than billing system. Gigabyte here, gigabyte there - nobody counts them.

/grumpy oldster mode

> This is not a problem for multiple reasons.

Wernher von Braun considered this a problem. He (and his team) once was frustrated when instruments came in yards and pounds.

I can believe that maybe geographic mile will be used in future but all those local standards cleary not belongs to space future.

Yeah. And I don't know whether Jeff Beck was the first who played "A Day in the Life" but he did that magnificiently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHY3eRUMsM&ab_channel=feedb...

I understand motivation for remix of "Let it be" - McCartney was very dissatisfied with "wall of sound" by Spector. And it's already done.

But "Sgt. Pepper" - I think the only motivation is to try squeeze a little bit more money from fans.

My hope is that sometime in future we will get a remix of Metallica "Justice for All" with bass on it.

But Hetfield already stated that they don't plan to do that:

> "And why would you change that? Why would you change history? Why would you all of a sudden put bass on it? There is bass on it, but why would you remix an album? You can remaster it, yes, but why would you remix something and make it different? It'd be like… I don't know. Not that I'm comparing us to the Mona Lisa, but it's, like, 'Uh, can we make her smile a little better?!' You know?! Why?"

That's quite sad but that's creator's decision.

> Apple vendored displays have a proprietary protocol

OMG. What will be next? Apple vendored flash cards?

I don't see anything wrong in measuring gallons per mile and measuring in yards and other non-metric systems when it's something local. Maybe it's convinient if you live somewhere where everybody accustomed to that.

It's when I see articles about space exploration with miles and pounds - it feels wrong.

It seems NO.

In Soviet Union considerable part was in cooperation. And more in Stalin era then later.

Citing Russian wikipedia:

> By the end of the 1950s, there were more than 114 thousand workshops and other industrial enterprises in its system, where 1.8 million people worked. They produced 5.9 % of the gross industrial output, for example, up to 40 % of all furniture, up to 70 % of all metal utensils, more than a third of upper knitwear, almost all children's toys. The system of commercial cooperation included 100 design bureaus, 22 experimental laboratories and two research institutes.

China is capitalism all the way now.

IDK about North Korea but they don't seems like a "communist country" for me.

> Arguing over dictionary definitions is not going to lead to anything useful in this matter.

> If we are going to be pedantic

The whole article was about going to be pedantic over dictionary definitions.

"Now, one major concern in academia is rigor. Academics like to get deep into a topic, examine the nuances, and bring clarity."

I suppose it's hard to argue against that words in "technical debt" were chosen poorly: it's not debt and it's not technical.

Maybe better definition is needed.

"Summa Technologiae" by Stanislaw Lem. It's the book about everything existing, possible and impossible too. For me it gives motivation to learn new, think about something new, try to find limits of what I already know.

"Mathematician's Apology" by G.H.Hardy. IDK why exactly this book (essay?) influenced me. I'm not a mathematician but I certainly found something that touches me.

"ANSI Common Lisp" by Paul Graham. I did not became a lisper because of that but it helped me to came out of my cave. I considered myself an experienced programmer but that was something about "other" programming. I remember the feeling that I had a secret magical weapon in my hands.

"Programming Erlang" by Joe Armstrong. This book is not about Erlang mainly but about ideas and conceptions behind Erlang. Actor model, messaging, "let it fail", "happy path" - all that influenced me a lot.

"Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modelling" by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross. The book about how to make data clean, inambigious and easy to understand.

> Among other things, that lets you do things like regularly consume dishes that use geographically distant ingredients.

I think that you idealizing ancient Rome.

Ice was a delicacy.

"Dishes for geographically distant ingredients"?

No meat, no fruits, no milk products.

So it's only cereals could be imported from long distances.

I always thought that garum is the same as fish sauces in South Eastern Asia.

Differences must be same as differences between Thai/Vietnamese/Japanese sorts.

You just leave salted fish to ferment under sun and then collect liquid. Add other ingredients you like but they are not essential.

I used NTFS with linux a year ago. It's read-write and suitable if you need to access files on Windows partition. It was OK but not great: I used it to share media files between Windows and Linux and soon I noticed that if I'm playing mp3s from NTFS partition a lot of CPU used.

At least it's possible to write COM in a measurable time. I did it in C++ although that was a pain. It became much easier in .NET.

CORBA - I did not even finish reading "Introduction to CORBA". A book of 500+ pages.

I think you were right in RISC prediction.

Starting from some point (Pentium Pro I suppose?) even x86 CPUs became RISC internally CISC externally.

Psychodelics are not something that one will use everyday.

From the list: " psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT) , ibogaine, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) , ketamine, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)" - I think only MDMA is abusable.

Yes. A lot of programmers are lost without step-by-step debug. That's why concurency problems becames unsolvable for them.

So it's a generation of graphql on-fly, right?

I conclude that it will be incompatible with hasura Allow-list (or lead to explosion of Allow-list for all possible combinations which is impossible in practice)

So it could look nice but makes unusable in case you rely on Allow-list for security.

It could be good for prototyping.