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ashurov··on Shimano Bicycle Museum Review
Ah great! and thank you for your kind words.
ashurov··on Shimano Bicycle Museum Review
infra, for now, is relatively cheap. Eventually i hope the community will contribute to maintain the website. Moderation will be interesting, hopefully partial automated, partially by the community, partially my own time.

it is truly my intend to keep it ad free and true platform for the cycling fans.

I registered a non-profit company to make sure those believes are captured and part of the website.

ashurov··on Shimano Bicycle Museum Review
great! I e-mailed you
ashurov··on Shimano Bicycle Museum Review
the daily digests on the "HUBS" section are already in English, and you can sign-up for automatic message (per e-mail or push notification). I'm considering translating all news headlines into English using AI. working on that.

And yes, proper live races would be great with content from people along side the road as well. Currently i think sporza.be is best in this (live race report), but it is all in Dutch.

Thank you for your feedback!

ashurov··on Shimano Bicycle Museum Review
I’m building a non profit cycling website, perhaps you are interested: https://cyclohub.cc

It is still in the early stages. i want to gather news from across all channels and make a place for cycling fans, without all the ads.

Also check out my dad’s biography at https://championwillpower.com

Great to see cyclist fans on here!

ashurov··on Cognitive load is what matters
did you try here?: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/publisher/yaknyam-press...
ashurov··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
doesn't seem to be available in the Dutch app-store.
ashurov··on Wind Knitting Factory
you could, but the (original) website is from 2009...so probably not enough interest to keep that up. The old link is dead: https://windknittingfactory.bigcartel.com/
ashurov··on Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?
i've been using a rather 'rare' two letter tld for my e-mail address since forever. besides the typical autocomplete in forms to suggest to change it to a more common tld, it seems to work quite well for me. People also don't seem to have an issue remembering the tld as it seems to match closely with the common tld used within my country, but distinctive enough to not forget. .party as tld might not be the best idea of course, considering you might want to be taken seriously in your future e-mailing endeavors.
ashurov··on A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published
So, why can they publish it now? His death doesn’t nullify the agreement, does it?
ashurov··on What Was ISDN?
it was shell-scripting (bash). And i'm not sure, but it i think i was mandrake linux distro. It was quite the work to get ISDN working properly, especially to use two lines at a time (one dialing, while the other one was in use).
ashurov··on What Was ISDN?
Got ISDN as a previous job as parttime helpdesk employee at an ISP. Together with the rise of numberous dail-up providers, including the legendary Superweb. It would allow free internet against a fix rate, not paying per minute, which was something new for the Netherlands. It would only allow one or two hours after it would disconnect you and you had to redial. Due their succes getting dialed in again could take quite long (too many users, not enough lines). So I wrote code/script and made changes to the Linux distribution to allow me to dial with my second line as part of my ISDN, starting ten minutes before I would get disconnected, and “transfer” the connection to the new connection when it was finally able to dial-in, hence having internet 24hours a day. Good times! Superweb didn’t exist very long…
ashurov··on 24 Hours of Lemons
For people in Europe/the Netherlands there is a race based on the same concept but somewhat different: https://www.jyr.nl

Edit: short description in English: https://www.jyr.nl/index.php/general-information/

ashurov··on Memories from old LAN parties
The outdoor lan parties that quickly popped up in the Netherlands is where I have my best memories of. Also, modding levels of Shadow Warrior or Quake and then telling your friends that they had to copy this newer version as it had a patch and then pranking them for an hour in game by completely destroying them with hidden passages and explosions… all the while hearing them in disbelief.. and then sharing the secret… also FTP Servers with more music, movies and games you could ever put on your own hard drives..
ashurov··on Las Vegas approves 68 miles of underground transportation tunnels
what a crazy stupid idea... thunderf00t [1] already outlined why all of this is a horrible idea.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ezF7NmwQZs&ab_channel=Thund...

ashurov··on Bike as a Service
VanMoof bike manufacturer is going bankrupt. People should export there private keys otherwise their bikes might get locked for ever..
ashurov··on Dell to layoff 6,650 employees as demand for PCs plummets
i can only attest on personal experience, but yes...
ashurov··on Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch
it seems that they didn't migrate the video. https://players.brightcove.net/5387496921001/default_default... is unavailable, but the old wordpress images are still online and available: https://www.msgnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/chamb...
ashurov··on Taking jigsaw puzzles to infinity and beyond
Yes, there are 6 in total now.
ashurov··on Taking jigsaw puzzles to infinity and beyond
The magic puzzles are also amazing

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magicpuzzlecompany/magi...

ashurov··on My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop
ay yes, uploading crap to get download credits.. or paging and sucking up to the sysop for credits..
ashurov··on Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request
I wouldn’t mind paying a premium instead of a monthly insurance fee to get this resolved. And I have time, it doesn’t need to get resolved today.
ashurov··on Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request
Yes, free account. And having lost the ability to do 2FA I probably won’t be able to upgrade it. I’m fine paying for support, but that is not even provided as far as I know (for free accounts).
ashurov··on Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request
I have this issue with Google and no way to get any support or help to get this resolved. I just have to accept i’ve lost access forever…
ashurov··on Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga
I think the Q4 earnings report will show massive improvements, furthermore, them moving away from just being a brick-and-mortar store will help valuation in the long run. MOASS is unlikely to happen, but I think in the long term the valuation of GME will keep increasing considering their new plans and their new following/customers. They definitely gained in brand-name in the last year.

This whole saga seems to at least introduce some new rules and regulations. Although enforcing them will be the real game-changer.

ashurov··on Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga
I don't necessarily believe in MOASS happening anymore, but I do have a strong believe that introducing an NFT marketplace and what else GME has in store will make sure the long term view for this company is optimistic. Wallstreet might have "won", but it seems that SEC is introducing new bills to prevent some of the stuff that was going on.. Hopefully they will start enforcing it as well.
ashurov··on Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga
I think the Q4 earnings report will show us quantitative reasons to believe the company is turning around to a profitable company. Furthermore, their move to a NFT marketplace will also move them away from just being a brick-and-mortar company to more than just that.
ashurov··on Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga
I have seen so much fuckery with the stock price and ridiculous headlines in het media about GME that can't really believe that we have seen the actual squeeze. Furthermore, the SEC report said that the price run-up was because retail bought in, not because the hedge funds closed their positions. So when did they do this and went from 200% to 20%? Besides all of that, the fundamentals for GME are great. They are hiring great people and seem to be working behind the scenes with some of the biggest companies to, what seems to be, create a NFT marketplace linked to gaming, that will be 'carbon neutral'. all-in-all a good investment on that end I think. time will tell.
ashurov··on Pip has dropped support for Python 2
Same problem here..
ashurov··on Ask HN: When coding, how to do remember what you were doing the previous day?
I typically combine a TODO list with an overview of my (next) high-level steps in the flow that I had in mind to implement/work on. Also noticed that typically, after a day/night of rest, your thoughts get re-aligned and you might even come up with a better approach for one of the problems you encountered.
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