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rciorba

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About rciorba

https://devrandom.ro https://github.com/rciorba

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    Comment #49058224

    If NATO as a whole responds, yes it's in Ukraine's interest. If the NATO response is weak and non-cohesive, it is a victory for Russia, demonstrating article 5 isn't worth the pape…

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    Comment #48620238

    I assume you're thinking of Tick-borne Encephalitis

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    Comment #48537596

    This is not in-kernel eBPF, this is a userspace eNPF runtime, so I don't see why it would pass fewer boundaries

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    Comment #48526254

    Because it's an implementation detail, not a change to the language itself. Similarly, when they re-implemented the dict type to preserve insert order, they also introduced it with…

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    Comment #48517599

    I read the first Dune books in Romanian, then re-read the first one in English, and I was amazed at how nice the translation was. I actually prefer it to the original. For example,…

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    Comment #47847137

    And the Galaxy S5 that came after it, still had a replaceable battery while being waterproof.

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    Comment #47259379

    I mean, the "one-queue per consumer" they eventually ended up with, is basically an inbox that the sequential process reads from.

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    Comment #45114302

    Fair enough, this is a sign of clear progress for Eastern Europe.

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    Comment #45075113

    > And the migration exists in the other direction, you'll be amazed by how many French dentists are studying in Romania. Those people don't really plan to stay in Romania. They int…

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    Comment #45057535

    In Germany you can sometimes find it at Turkish grocery stores. I grew up eating it every autumn. It's still common in my part of Romania.

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    Comment #43204893

    Firefox has such a small slice of the browser market, that I doubt Google will bother.

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    Comment #42998037

    Just tried it for German. The cards gave me the word without their article. Because grammatical gender is so important and impacts so many aspects (adjectives, case markers, etc), …

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    Comment #40307554

    The seasonality is not an exception. It's not a case of "just this once". It's a well understood thing of "every year, before the tax deadline we have crunch-time, so don't plan on…

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    Comment #39950441

    I have lived in several commie block apartments over the 30 some years I lived in Romania, and in every single one every radiator had a manual valve I could use to regulate tempera…

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    Comment #39499761

    Having the workers acquire the lock and update the terminal themselves seems like it would cause lock contention. An alternative would be to have only the main process do the updat…

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    Comment #38857077

    if you choose to share data with Bob, you have to accept the consequences of Bob being sloppy with your data

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    Comment #38496999

    CANDU reactors use un-enriched Uranium. Technology exists, and has been in use for half a century.

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    Comment #34361513

    It really depends on the use-case. Async Python is nice for IO-heavy APIs If CPU-heavy workloads are likely, I'd probably look into using go. In terms of FE, it really depends on t…

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    Comment #32374919

    And even before apps became common-place, in Europe it was common to call a dispatch and ask for a cab at an address.

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    Comment #31060816

    I've ordered from such a place in Munich. The novelty factor made it entertaining to watch and at some point I could identify my order being prepared. Not sure how many people you …

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    Comment #28727464

    that deal is (was?) only available in few parts of the world, sadly

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    Comment #28415711

    Brilliant!

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    Comment #27579883

    I just add intermediary way-points for long routes. Works well enough.

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    Comment #26543867

    Even just using an ad-blocker will prevent this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

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    Comment #26540323

    The FB pixel is how FB gets to know about conversions. If your company runs FB adds, FB encourages you to let them know about which users converted to paying customers so it can im…