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alex-ant··on Certainly: Fastly’s Own TLS Certification Authority
404
alex-ant··on Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? (2019)
LOL, we still use bank cheques in Malta
alex-ant··on Ask HN: Have you ever heard of users demonstrating against software?
SJWs and Parler
alex-ant··on Is this how Russia ends?
It is because I'm Russian, and I can confirm that it's an authoritarian state.
alex-ant··on Is this how Russia ends?
The majority of this coastline spreads across the Arctics, so only Icebreakers can navigate there, the rest of its access to the ocean crosses other countries' territorial waters (Turkey and Japan for example) and can easily be blocked. Which is why Russia has never been a naval power.
alex-ant··on Is this how Russia ends?
What about Switzerland?
alex-ant··on One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
Currently Russia doesn't have a singe reliable news source. We all have seen the pro-Russian narrative - there's no war, we're not murdering the civilians, all Ukrainians are nazis developing bioweapons targeting "slav DNA" and to be delivered across the border by birds, etc. Those are not news. Needless to say that this propaganda also targets people in other countries with large ethnical Russian population, specifically the Baltic states and incites those people to riot and hate the land they live on creating a bridgehead for possible Russian invasion.
alex-ant··on Ask HN: What (almost) company sinking engineering mistakes have you witnessed?
That is funny xD
alex-ant··on Swapping two Numbers without Temporary Variables
That was an interview question at one of my first jobs, had to take few minutes to figure out.
alex-ant··on 3,599,040,600 € wired by Germany to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine
Russia breaks its legal obligations all the time.
alex-ant··on Apple’s iOS versus Google’s Android
Wrong website?
alex-ant··on Making the dislike count private across YouTube
Exactly
alex-ant··on Why the Job Search Sucks (2018)
I see it as "we'll be judging you basing on your skin color rather than your knowledge and skills".
alex-ant··on Why the Job Search Sucks (2018)
diversity manager - wtf??
alex-ant··on Startup Ideas
9990 - Chef Watson had this a decade ago, there's also been few restaurants offering dishes the AI came up with.
alex-ant··on Building Container Images with Nix
"some dependencies are only needed to build the image" - it's true if you don't write proper Dockerfiles. You're always free to build an app in a separate image, mark it with `AS build-env`, and then copy the result into an image containing an entrypoint with `COPY --from=build-env`, all within the same dockerfile.
alex-ant··on Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without changing anything
Would be nice to add a support for native docker flags (-t for --tag, -f for --from-dockerfile, etc.)
alex-ant··on Battle Chess
Remember playing this on 286
alex-ant··on Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
Had a case where I needed to update MySQL column's value if an incoming argument is less/greater than it without using functions or procedures.

This returns the greatest value (passed ? or max_value column):

  ?^((?^max_value)&-(?<max_value))
And for minimum:

  min_value^((?^min_value)&-(?<min_value))
alex-ant··on Adventures in Curling
same here