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mkevac··on Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
No, it was basically free.
mkevac··on Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
You would regulate temp by opening the window.
mkevac··on Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
I am still amazed at how one can return a used device a month after buying it. It would not be possible where I grew up. And still, when I hear, "I have returned it," I am like, "What? You returned it just because you did not like it? And it was not broken? Wow!"
mkevac··on Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B
What do you mean you are returning it? It has been used already.
mkevac··on Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel
> Americans spend billions of dollars on stuff they have forgotten about

How can you forget about something when you are getting an SMS / Push notification the second they take your money?

Is this not true for the US?

mkevac··on Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset
How can you return a working product that you used for 30 days?
mkevac··on Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset
This is possible only in the US, I think. In most of the world, you cannot return a working device that you just decided you didn't like or want.
mkevac··on How to Pay Professional Maintainers
Had to use VPN to read this from Turkey :-(
mkevac··on Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year
It is interesting that this site is blocked from Russia. I've tried using VPN and going there from different countries and yes, it's only from Russia.

  Access Denied
  You don't have permission to access 
  "http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm" on this server.
  Reference #18.14645e68.1639219418.12814b8e
mkevac··on Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles?
How is it possible that he is returning used and perfectly working kettles? Is it common in the US that you can return something that is not broken and was used just because you dislike it?
mkevac··on Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow
What is a distributed compute platform? It's the one thing they are not explaining :-(
mkevac··on Things You're Allowed to Do
Бутчер is one of the best steak houses in Moscow, Russia. Steak is not $100. Here is the menu: https://butchersteak.ru/en/menu/
mkevac··on US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations
24$ for 5x3 ml in Russia [1]

> The final, net prices paid for insulins are likely to be significantly lower than manufacturer prices in the U.S. because rebates and other discounts often drive down the price paid by individuals in the U.S.

Here in Russia price can only go up from manufacturer’s price. Simpler world.

[1] https://redapteka.ru/catalog/lekarstva/endokrinologiya/sakha...

mkevac··on When good ideas make bad business
Company that made Doppelganger-like product is flourishing. They are selling it`s product to governments and other companies for ton of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindFace
mkevac··on Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
Seems that your IP is blocked in Russia. Had to use VPN to check your site out.
mkevac··on Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?
I am using raindrop.io and I am pretty happy with it.
mkevac··on Show HN: Morning Cup of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles
I've subscribed in January, but received only one email from you (Issue #1).
mkevac··on Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes
What is service mesh? Seems that I need some more info to understand what is this for...
mkevac··on Couple turns to viruses to beat back superbug
Doctors routinely prescribe phages when they think that antibiotics would be an overkill or if they don't want any side effects from antibiotics.

Here is the list of phages that are sold in Russian pharmacies: https://imgur.com/a/vkEJo

mkevac··on Couple turns to viruses to beat back superbug
Phages are being used in Russia. Right now two types of phages are sitting in my fridge.
mkevac··on Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands
Is it safe to swim with one day only contact lenses and goggles?
mkevac··on Is Sugar Killing Us?
No access.
mkevac··on Go’s march to low-latency GC
> Next up is runtime.scanobject. That function does several things, but the reason it’s running during the chat server’s mark termination phase in Go 1.5 is to implement finalizers.

How did you know that?

> We emailed back and forth and the Go team was very helpful with suggestions on how to diagnose the performance problems and how to distill them into minimal test cases.

Can you give us the link?

mkevac··on Show HN: What every browser knows about you
They do that on Android too now.
mkevac··on Introduction to x64 Assembly (2011) [pdf]
Link is not working.
mkevac··on Kerf: a columnar tick database for Linux, OS X, BSD, iOS, Android
What is tick?
mkevac··on New Machine Can See Bones, Organs in Stunning Detail
How is this different from modern MRI?
mkevac··on Duktape: an embeddable JavaScript engine
Nothing to see here. Come along. Just one guy that wrote whole JS interpreter in his free time. Holy shit!
mkevac··on Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?
8k req/sec on so much hardware? Is it a mistake? Maybe 80k at least?
mkevac··on Channels Are Not Enough
But FAQ clearly states that generics are open issue. Something changed?
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