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I'm a big fan but be careful, Ruff doesn't support current versions of python >=3.11 yet. Instead of direct python parsing ruff uses RustPython, that is still lack of match operator support and other modern 3.10+ stuff. If you're ok with that - go ahead and switch to ruff, you will never get back.

Internet (as ARPANET) has started at 1969. And before 1982 it wasn’t widely adopted. It’s pretty normal to be biased but fact checking is a must for this type of conversation.

Internet “invented” а 1969 and never was used widely till 1982. Neural networks was developed at 1980 but real applications started at 2011. Speech recognition showed at 1962 and still looks like “pretty new piece of tech” for humanity.

We have to admit, we are really slow in adopting tech.

Just for clarification: it's illegal to build news aggregator in Russia if you use any sources that is not certified by Russian government. So technically you're right, "source is state_approved_media", and pretty the same for all Russian news aggregation services.

I understand the idea of sanctions but didn't get how it works in this case. He is not in Russia. He lived and pay taxes in Israel for last 3 years. He is even not a Russian citizen (changed his passport to Malta and Israel 4 years ago).

I have nothing to say about sanctions against Tigran Khudaverdyan (who is COO and really in charge of Yandex actually), it's pretty logical.

That's the difference between us: you're believe in possibility to save the country, I believe that "Carthage must be destroyed" before people can build the new country on top of that. 20 years of dictatorship for Russia, even more for Belarus - it's not something that can be easily fixed.

Disclosure: I've worked for Yandex as deputy CTO till 2015, and one of the reasons i've left the company was increased pressure from Russian government. Since then I have lived in Ukraine, now in Kyiv.

We're nervously joking about "ID of Good Russian" inside the Russian community. It's like "somebody from Russia who proves he/she is against Putin's regime." At least a third of them are now in Israel, trying to do something to stop this war. Arkady, who was the founder and CEO of Yandex since the beginning for me, is one of these "good Russians." He's helping to run from Russia for many people who's against the war now, trying to build a startup-asylium for russians with jewish roots in Tel-Aviv. I do not believe that Russia as a country will change soon, so one of the best ways to accelerate the process is to help intelligent people to leave the country, as Arkady does.

Honestly, I think everybody at Yandex, including me is guilty because, indirectly, we helped to build this regime. It is not fair to penalty for Volozh this hard. We all have to be penalized somehow, but give us a chance to fix at least something.

Phantom OS 4 years ago

The author of the concept is a pro-government-minded Russian dude who actively supports Russia in this war against Ukraine, Dmitry Zavalishin.

It is sounds not so important, but I think there's no way to build something new for the whole world (like new OS) with a founder who supports Putin.

Elementary OS 6.1 5 years ago

Honestly, the whole support of Iris Xe in modern linux is terrible painful. You have to carefully pick right kernel number and always use "disable Panel Self Refresh". And after that you have to stick to this exact kernel because "don't touch it while it works" even for Ubuntu now.

Typora 1.0 5 years ago

looks like there's something wrong with your card bc mine zip also from Russia and I have no problem with it.

This very book (but in russian) is the source of all my math skills. Academic Zeldovich was a brilliant physicist and I am glad to know what his works translated to English

I've read the whole thread and am absolutely surprised. Why is nobody telling about plex's ditching of their plugin system? Have invested a lot of time in developing plex's plugin for youtube, twitch, and my favorite streaming services, paid a lifetime fee to plex. And now the whole plugins system is disabled.

That's the only reason why I've switched to Jellyfin. It's not better than plex. It's definitely worse, but it's open, and that's how I am sure it will work forever.

98% of Russian sites uses Yandex Metrika. It's really easy to track bounceback if you control both search engine and web analitics tool :)

Actually Metrika is quiet big even outside of ex-CIS countries, IIRC it's like 15% of GA in terms of number of sites.