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sakopov

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github.com
3 points·by sakopov·3 months ago·0 comments

I grew up in Russia. Here's why we're afraid of freedom

youtube.com
5 points·by sakopov·7 months ago·1 comments

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1 points·by sakopov·9 months ago·0 comments

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sakopov
·3 days ago·discuss
I've seen men shed their egos and women become incredible caretakers when they're with their children and they carry some of that joyfulness, compassion and humanity into the world they occupy. It's a sad world without kids.
sakopov
·9 days ago·discuss
BT's moat is data. 40 years of data engineering, building relationship with data providers, consuming direct exchange feeds, building proprietary data sets, normalizing and cleaning decades of historical data. Displacing BT is a gargantuan effort.
sakopov
·13 days ago·discuss
When I was a teenager I always had Knoppix on a floppy disk in my bag to do illicit things on school computers :)
sakopov
·16 days ago·discuss
Does loss of muscle mass, commonly associated with Ozempic weight loss, become an issue after regaining the weight? Can it result in proportionally more fat at the same body weight as before if exercise wasn't part of the regiment?
sakopov
·28 days ago·discuss
This seems to be the answer. Building a rig with a decent graphics card will cost $2k+ and will produce sub-par results. Might as well milk the $100/m Claude sub until open-source alternatives reach parity with today's frontier models.
sakopov
·2 months ago·discuss
This hit home. My dad was diagnosed with colon cancer last week and had a large portion of his colon removed last Thursday. Polyps, which often become cancerous given time, can take a few years to get there. So you don't have to get screened every year but should definitely get the ball rolling. They'll usually be able to take them out during the procedure.
sakopov
·2 months ago·discuss
For context, property values have gone up 40-50% since 2021. Additional expenses are much easier to digest when you're not already paying an arm and a leg for a house at much higher mortgage rates.
sakopov
·2 months ago·discuss
I would really recommend getting a Home Warranty. I probably saved myself $7-$8K just in the last year fixing all kinds of electrical, plumbing and HVAC issues.
sakopov
·2 months ago·discuss
I would argue against this. I'm not sure owning is that much better. At the very least it's just as bad as renting if you bought in the past few years... I bought my home in 2023 and since then my monthly HOA payments doubled, my insurance premiums (nearly) tripled and my property taxes have gone up about $1000. Homeownership went from 35% to 45% of my monthly income. If you bought in the past few years, owning has absolutely been nothing short of a liability.
sakopov
·2 months ago·discuss
Most of the job losses are in tech and it all started back in late 2022 and early 2023 arguably before AI was perceived as a real threat. I think after 3 years of tech hiring melting because of all the economic uncertainty people can't see the forest for the trees anymore. Justy $0.02
sakopov
·2 months ago·discuss
Not trying to get into conspiracies, but about a month ago Michael Burry revealed that he opened a position in $GME which seemed very strange. Now with the news of a potential eBay acquisition I wonder if he's in on this pump and dump scheme if that's what it is.
sakopov
·2 months ago·discuss
GameStop CEO was on CNBC and acted like a total dick the entire time after they asked him how financing would work for this deal [1]. It appears that he's upset that Squawk Box previously stated that GameStop is a bankrupt meme stock. This is probably one of the funniest CNBC interviews I've seen.

[1] https://youtu.be/Bmj2PaxX24E
sakopov
·2 months ago·discuss
I know this is anecdotal but after almost 2 years of no activity, I have been absolutely hounded by recruiters for nearly a month. They show up in my LinkedIn feed and I get multiple emails a week asking to interview. What in the world changed? It doesn't look like the job market's improved much. In fact I see more layoffs than ever before.
sakopov
·3 months ago·discuss
Why is the ecosystem bad? I haven't ran any .net code on anything but Linux in years. The open source community is great. I don't know why it gets a bad rep.
sakopov
·3 months ago·discuss
Can we just get back to html/jQuery/handlebars? Those were the good old days :`(
sakopov
·3 months ago·discuss
LOL, very true.
sakopov
·3 months ago·discuss
In my opinion, the “code is garbage” argument is a moot point. Anthropic is in the business of removing humans from the SDLC. As long as their models can understand and update the code they generate it can remain garbage. They’re not optimizing for human comprehension of the output. They don’t even want you looking at it. And eventually the models will get good enough that you won’t have to.
sakopov
·4 months ago·discuss
Will there be any built releases available?
sakopov
·4 months ago·discuss
How do escalations work for statphone? If the first group doesn't respond to the call, does it escalate to the second group while the call is in progress still? What happens if the caller hangs up? Very cool idea btw!
sakopov
·4 months ago·discuss
Perhaps your experience varied with zip code, but in the area where I lived at the time, the perception was that software industry was in a decline and acquiring a degree in the field seemed like a dubious bet. Maybe the sentiment was different if you were in the Bay area.