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Retro-causal experiment

For a few years I was contemplating ideas about the future. Especially those that give some insights about predictability of future events. When I was working in a cryptocurrency company I was exposed and became interested in markets. I became … Continue reading

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Doomsday paradox

It’s always good to imagine the worst. If you can imagine the worst that can happen, then doing this process repeatedly builds up your shield and hardens yourself against fears if you are able to make the leap to the … Continue reading

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How to brew install OpenSSL 1.0.2p (for Python3.6)

“`brew install –ignore-dependencies -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/062799b7a384eddc42be0dfbfd1b63e7127c4d7b/Formula/openssl.rb“`

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Windows 7 installation under KVM hypervisor

I had to install Windows 7 virtual machine under KVM hypervisor running on Debian 6.0 host server. The goal was to use QCOW2 type file as virtual hard drive. I’m used to take advantage of available tools, so I have … Continue reading

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All alone at night

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Force Midnight Commander to exit in current directory

I have some Gentoo systems that have mc installed, but it’s default behaviour is to exit to the directory it was run from. I wanted to change this, because most of the time I’m using it to navigate the filesystem … Continue reading

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Why the all famous “cloud” is not an answer?

Edit: Seems like my post is irrelevant since there are projects like Tahoe-LAFS and Ceph. Being lucky to own a new machine capable of running multiple virtual systems, I have decided to try few of them I wasn’t able to … Continue reading

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Grown up boy with his toys

I’ve just finished my work for today. For the first time since I can’t remember when it was truly productive and inspirational day. I had time for research, time for administrative work and fiddling with my hardware. But let’s start … Continue reading

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Back To The Future… ;)

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