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bkovacev

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bkovacev··on I hope work from home continues
I believe you have misread it - the commute is an hour +/- 10 minutes.
bkovacev··on AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered after 10 years
If anyone from AWS is reading this - is there any way we can get multiple devices for 2FA?
bkovacev··on Viber extreme long list of *trusted* partners
I don't even have that as an option. I only have:

- Collect Analytics

- Allow Content Personalization

- Allow Interest-based Ads

- Allow Accurate Location-Based Services

- Request your data

- Delete your data

bkovacev··on Ask HN: Anybody want to work on something together?
Six pack of beer or abs?
bkovacev··on Is soy a key driver of deforestation?
you're absolutely right - preparing a high quality beef meal takes a lot more than just processing soy, but what I was aiming at was that we will replace one mass consumption with the other, just like we always do and that may mask the problem but I believe it won't solve it. I could be wrong though.
bkovacev··on Is soy a key driver of deforestation?
You are aware that tofu/tempeh/s. milk are made out of soy, right? I'm seriously concerned that one mass production (meat) will turn to another. The mass producers need to sell.

I hope my comment does not start a carnivore vs vegan war (as just like you, I'm neither).

bkovacev··on FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
I'd love to give this a go - we use Django/DRF extensively and we love it, however sometimes serialization performance is awful. Are there any speed ups compared to Django in serialization speed?
bkovacev··on FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
Was there any performance gain when you guys switched to MsgPack?
bkovacev··on Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
Is there a plan for supporting Viber?
bkovacev··on Facebook senior software engineer interview
How was your overall experience through all of the rounds?
bkovacev··on Learn Go in five minutes
Is there something like this for Golang API development, that also incorporates best practices? Even a solid book recommendation would be helpful.
bkovacev··on BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards
Do you have a source for this?
bkovacev··on BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards
How are they foregoing their position as the market leader in handling and dynamics? They’re still miles ahead of Audis where it feels as if the transmission and the engine are fighting vs each other especially in 50 engines, and Mercedes where it feels you’re driving a barge rather than a car.
bkovacev··on 'I am mine': Alzheimer's at 41 (2018)
I am so sorry for your loss. As someone that has gone through something similar about two months ago, and who is still grieving, I can tell you that I share the same thought - "Part of me knows that death wasn't something my Grandma feared" - and I believe we are right. That generation of people is extremely strong - they went through much more than we did. Your Grandma stoically handled the nursing home and every conversation with you, but so did you. In a way, I believe she was preparing you for her death. When my other Grandma passed away she told me that I should not worry or stress, but just grieve and reminisce, and that change of generation is required for the world to function properly.

I know the last few conversations you had with your Grandma were at times extremely hard to handle for you, as mine were with my Grandma. I'm making a lot of assumptions here and I apologize if they are off in any way. Grieve, reminisce and once again, I'm so sorry for your loss. I had to comment as this resonated with me on multiple levels.

bkovacev··on The US Dollar Could Outlast the American Empire
Will the value of US Dollar drop further? In comparison vs euro it has been dropping steadily for the past six months or a bit more. I am unsure if I should convert now, or wait for the bounce back.
bkovacev··on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
Can you please provide resources for Ubuntu?
bkovacev··on Startups that have hit more than $1K MRR in about 12-24 months
In a sea of startups/products, where everything feels as if it is already created - how does one come up with a product idea?

I feel that every problem I try to tackle is not a real problem. It’s a vitamin and not an ibuprofen. The real problems already have a solution - which means that I’d need to spend a few years and a few hundred thousand dollars to just get a chance to maybe make a profitable product.

bkovacev··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
As someone who is not that much into politics but receives salary in US dollar - what does Biden win mean for the US economy and the dollar?
bkovacev··on Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, says WHO
Neither do NAC (n-acetyl-cysteine) nor glutathione?
bkovacev··on Celery 5.0
Amazing news and congrats to the devs! We rely on Celery to handle about 700k tasks daily and it has not failed us once.

However, if anyone from the maintainers is reading - could you guys please have auvipy not deliberately close outstanding issues / PRs that he thinks are not important and that other maintainers then proceed to re-open.

Disclosure: I got banned for pointing that out only, so I may be slightly biased. [0]

0 - https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/4817#issuecomment-47...

bkovacev··on Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux
Would this eventually allow us to run things like iMessage?
bkovacev··on Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
"No problems, just work" - Seth Feroce
bkovacev··on Home Office Projects Series: Air conditioner setup
Why would it fail within 5 years? Isn't the usual lifespan of those pumps 10-15 years?
bkovacev··on Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
An anecdotal story, so YMMV. I was 280lbs and dropped to 240lbs using fasting + low carb + keto (at times). During the time my stomach would always bloat when I ate carbs. The harmony lasted for about a year and then all the benefits stopped for me at least. I stopped losing weight, lost a lot of strength even though I was eating 1800-2000 calories a day (two meals one protein + oats the other fish/meat + veggies and if really hungry I'd do the same meal one more time) with occasional one meal a week cheat day.

It took me about a solid year of eating 100-150gr a day from oats/rice/pasta/bread to be able to start utilizing carbs as fuel completely and not until I doubled it to 200gr (250-300 at times) did I start noticing weight loss + increase in strength. I was able to drop my weight to 225lbs in span of 4 months. My macros are around 220gr of protein, 200gr carbs, 60gr of fat.

When I was doing my research I found that most body builders / athletes were talking about reverse dieting as a must after a long diet. They were slowly reintroducing carbs I think an increment of 20-30gr per week for their daily intake (I dont recall the exact numbers).

bkovacev··on Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
Why is a government ID required for account deletion process - you never asked for it during the registration process?
bkovacev··on Stripe's API was down
It prevented us, we were getting:

Sorry! There was an error while talking to one of our backends. We have already been notified of the problem, but please contact support@stripe.com(opens in new tab) with any questions you may have.

bkovacev··on Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
As a non US citizen I own:

- HBO Go

- Youtube Premium

- Netflix

- Amazon Prime

However, content absolutely blows. I regularly go to cinemas, but there are not any tv shows in there. As of today I am going to cancel all of them and I know it's not much of a "blow" to their cash flow, but seriously, this is ridiculous. They kill the only platform that lets me watch content that's not available for me otherwise and that I would have gladly pay for if it was available. Popcorn time had an amazing support for streaming directly to TV, which was my main use case. I have a desktop computer in a separate room and I definitely do not plan on drilling my walls to push an HDMI cable through them. I guess it's time for Plex.

bkovacev··on Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for everyone
We are being spammed by Google Account Managers to join in on the Google Meet, even though it's not available for our basic tier. After we have specifically declined the invitation multiple times, we are now being spammed to join in for free until September 30th. I do not want to break the Account Manger's heart, but we simply cannot rely on any product Google makes[0]. We still use docs/sheets and email, but that's about it - hopefully they won't manage to kill/mess that up as well.

[0] - https://killedbygoogle.com/

bkovacev··on Heat Pump Water Heaters
I moved into an apartment that has a Gree Versati Pump, and it's super neat because I can control it via modbus and raspberry pi. Electricity bill decreased tremendously when I moved.
bkovacev··on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Was anyone able to run 18.04 or 20.04 successfully on a relatively modern desktop spec (AMD Ryzen 9 3950X / Nvidia 2080 TI / 32GB RAM / Custom water cooling) and two displays? I'm thinking of upgrading my development machine and running ubuntu only and I'm looking for some hints as to what could go wrong.
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