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If you're talking about the software and stability/performance for gaming, anecdotally I've been using Radeon GPUs for the past two years and they've been awesome.

I still agree that Nvidia is ahead with their software ecosystem in general, though. And AMD GPUs being in stock while Nvidia's are out of stock does not prove the quality of drivers. I suspect AMD is just doing better with their supply chain the past few months (and Nvidia has retained an edge on brand preference). On pure rasterization performance, the Radeons are currently a better value, but Geforce GPUs have some feature advantages.
The irony is if we want to make war between NATO and Russia unlikely, the non-military responses to Russia need to be dramatic. I'm concerned NATO nations will bungle this. Seize oligarchic holdings. Shutdown Nord Stream 2. Make Russia a pariah state. This cannot go unpunished.
This is a very important point. Whereas there is "convergence" between for example the penal codes of states commonly referred to as "democratic", what is nothing in one country might be a crime to just say in the other. In fact, comparative political science has only some veeeeery basic "features" that make them say it's "a democracy"; there is a lot of freedom to tip the scales in one direction or another. Also, commonly overserved is the notion among elites that some democracy is "too much" (for example, no referendums in core governance questions).
Spain NOT the US

We had an illegal lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic. Number of people punished 0.

During most of the pandemic it's been back and forth on do this, do that. Things done that flies against all science like masking outside (just lifted) and other silly things like keeping small children masked in school knowing now that there rate of infection has been the same with or without masks.

Other than that we seem to have avoided the authoritarian tendencies of the us, canada, australia, new zeland, germany, austria, france etc.

Compared to those countries we have not had it to bad when it comes to violating our rights.

Now it's time to vote all of them out of office. I don't want a single politician in power who got used to wielding power during a pandemic.
What historical period does he want to rebuild Russia to?
> Why not take the less morally righteous, but infinitely more practical, path of convincing folks to stop making porn movies of themselves?

A ton of reasons[1], including that such preaching is ineffective and so the only impact of doing it is to justify excoriating the victim later and excusing failing institutions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming
Misread your comment, my bad.
Because nobody became a billionaire without been bullish.
Keeping peace on planet Earth is like keeping this lamp ON all the time — bumpy road, one click at the time.
I think the preference is that the acquiring companies aren’t subject to extrajudicial influence by their governments where one might be cautious of Chinese or Russian ownership because their governments have embeds in these companies.

So it’s usually safer to have a Korean, Japanese, W European or Anglophone company take a stake. Obviously, all companies have some ties with their governments but the difference is degree and independence as well as a non-rubber stamping judiciary. Revolving doors can be an issue but it’s much less an issue than actual gov officials embedded in companies.
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I've heard good stuff from ProtonMail. It also adds a lot of security to email, if this of concern to you.
It’s hard to give meaningful security assurances when the powers involved have nuclear weapons. Ukraine is far more important to Russia than it is to the U.S. Clearly the U.S. is not willing to go to war with a nuclear power over Ukraine. Treaties are only as useful as the willingness of the signatories to abide by them and/or enforce them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the spanish past all about a right wing dictatorship?
> ... defiantly possible

In a lot of cases, yes.
When I think of this shouldn't then people consider google business account? Which costs money but has also support? Doesn't then risk of random lock out go to zero?
I don't know if anyone can create account there, but it just came on my mind.
Russia has grown its gold reserves drastically over the last decade, has relatively little debt and is increasingly trading with China without using US dollars at all.

I'd say they've anticipated those serious economic repercussions to some extent. But I also suspect Russians may be more willing to tolerate things such as a weak economy if it helps achieve other goals. I kind of see it like a parallel with Russia shooting a bullet at its own economy, while the Soviet Union in the 20th century shot plenty of bullets at its own people...for various reasons.
But Putin - and Russia - are being dealt with, via international sanctions and being cut off from the world's economy. That's a big source of attrition. Russia is self-sufficient to a point and may still have (financial etc) ties with China, but it will hurt them badly.

But that's as far as it will go at this point. Russia invading Ukraine (again) has been universally declared a Dick Move, but since Ukraine is not an EU or NATO member and as far as I know there's no defense pacts either, there's nothing that they can do that would not be considered an unnecessary escalation.
The USA is the oldest democracy in the world, and only has been that way for ~250 years (And even then, having survived one of the worst Civil Wars in history). Most European democracies have only been so for a few decades. I think some of the bias comes from the fact that people have a a short-term memory. We've had it so good in the last century that we forget that we are the exception, not the rule.
I don't really understand what goal you're trying to achieve that the GPL or LGPL couldn't. As a dev, if I see a project using a license I'm unfamiliar with, I'll probably first look elsewhere as I already understand the ins & outs of GPL- and MIT-style licenses, but not whatever this new thing is.

These two licenses in particular are pretty crummy. Define "commercial." When does the 30-day period start? How would my usage be proven one way or the other in court?
A single nuke may lead to more nukes.
Look at the trends. Brave has barely 3 years since it became usable enough to be a daily driver, and it has already 20-25% of Firefox market share. Firefox is constantly shrinking its user base, Brave is growing 40% YoY.
What signal? That NATO is a defensive alliance and not the world's police?
most likely Putin and his cronies are too isolated from reality, i.e. the information they receive is filtered/doctored to fit whatever they expect. Not dissimilar to the kings of old, or Dictators like Hitler, or Fidel
You seem to be delusional.
It’s time we all started thinking of BBC’s Engineering as one of the best
Did you never go over to Tarren Mill? IIRC, back in 2004 there was a ton of world PVP going on there, and one of the most fun aspects of it (IMO) was exactly the fact that there was no purpose other than "hey let's go fight some other players". Then BG came out and kinda ruined that aspect of things by making the PVP experience far more systematic and I guess purposeful. They may have improved it in later years but by then I had lost interest and stopped playing.
Russian-founded company JetBrains condemns Russian invasion to Ukraine
This is sending a strong message that everyone must own nukes to control their own destiny.
The hidden side-effects of your example code make it hard to reformat, but in general people don't advocate for your first example. The push is more towards defining smaller logic blocks (with names that hint at what they do):

def computeSomething() {
if (condition1) return 0;

let value = getValueSomehow();
if (condition2) return value;

doSomethingElse();
return value + getSomeOtherValue();
}

let value = computeSomething();
finishUpBusinessLogic();
return value;
linux has xattr too.
so technically, our filesystems already support tags.

that means it is now up to the other tools to catch up and make use of them.

here is a discussion about tags and extended attributes in gnome.
https://blog.chipx86.com/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-de...

it is from 2005, so not really current, but the arguments are interesting.

in short: filesystem attributes are systemwide (but you and i may want to have different tags on the same shared file) and the user needs to have permission on the files, so you can't tag files that you can read but can't change.

i believe these issues are solvable, esp. the latter would work if we have permissions to add tags but not the content of a file. (like you can rename a file even if you don't have write permission to the file)
And because the US has a weak president, weakest in decades. Biden also started with a political gaffe, in his first week he lifted the Trump-era ban on the NS2 project for no apparent gain.

Trump might admire Putin as a leader, but he actually shored up the eastern flank of NATO and banned the NS2 pipeline, which Biden rushed to open back up.
So it's okay to give people who will never be forced to step onto a battlefield and die the power to decide who to fight and when to do it?

> That's how democracies work, and they can't work any other way.

Bullshit. This is how democracy works now because of universal suffrage. Historically it is not the only form of democracy and it is most definitely not a fair system.
Ideas:

(1) Help them locate countries that they can travel to.

(2) Arrange local accommodations in hotels/apartments so they have a place to stay when they arrive.

(3) If you have not done so already, get a Brex virtual credit card in their name that they can use to pay expenses once they are out. Paypal is another way to move funds that does not require a bank account. There are many others.
We should send Hunter back over there and see if he can’t fix this mess.
No way to know, of course, but the risks would have been much higher.
I'm reasonably convinced that the only reason for anyone relevant to float around the idea of a NATO-Ukraine relationship was to drag an already economically fragile Russia into a conflict that they may "win" but at a high cost for Russia and for Ukraine. I say "win" because Russia will poison Ukraine for NATO, making it less (or not at all) desirable for NATO but will pay a heavy price. Overall that's a win for NATO as many (most?) members can breathe a lot easier around a weakened Russia.
I think the issue is (as always) not technical but a human problem. If the swift payments were blocked, what incentive would the creditors have in paying back the debt?
To get a sense of scale: The USA uses on average ~76 twh per day. Tesla produced ~100 gwh of batteries over the whole last year.

So if we nationalized all the tesla gigafactories, it would take us over 760 years to produce enough batteries to store a single days worth of electricity.

I do not think grid storage is solvable with current technology.
Very very cool!

I've constantly found AMD to be a better value in the consumer market than Intel, 10 years ago. I was very concerned AMD was on its way out. Smaller chip manufacturers like Via ( I was so broke as a teenager I had a laptop with a Via CPU, it was the cheapest laptop you could find) stopped making consumer cpus. I might be wrong here, but you can't buy a laptop with a VIA CPU now.

More competition is always great!
North Korea is actually right - promises and agreements are worth their weight on paper.
One thing to note: a huge threat to democracy is war.

Frequently autocracies invade democracies because autocracies are inherently unstable and need frequent propping up of internal support by fake "injections of popularity", such as war.

Look at Eastern Europe bloom in 1990 - 1992. For all intents and purposes these countries were under foreign occupation and regimes imposed from abroad.
I am wary to bring the topic up but I wonder if this might have some degree of connection with what people call morgellons disease.

The bactarium shown in the video looks very similar to what people describe.

My understanding is that morgellons is largely seen as psychosomatic or "fake". I now wonder if some people might have similar bacteria on them and that it might explain some of the symptoms.
This whole Trump being pro-russia needs to die. It's so dumb. If repeated enough times it'll become truth unfortunately.

Trump looked to increase NATO defenses and aggressively pump oil and gas to crash the global price of Russia's chief source of foreign exchange. That's hardly pro russian. Ironically, Biden comes in and kills oil production in the US, forcing us to then rely on external oil markets for our resources which gives Putin money to pull shit like this.

Trump also unilaterally left the assymetrical US-Russia missile accord. Hardly pro russian.

Trump ordered lethal force to be used against large numbers of Russian mercenaries who attacked a U.S. installation in Syria. He also sold offensive weapons to Ukraine.

Where is this pro russian Trump you speak of?
Don't most of us work in environments that are basically a variation of a dictatorship?

As a species we're quite accustomed to a having an alpha male\female\etc make the calls.
I think all of us are just a few steps in the wrong direction from a dictatorship.
North Korea can afford not only maintanence, but also development of their own nukes.

>You need to control the complete supply chain for some very exotic spare parts.

...if you want 100% guarantees of their success, sure. But not everything has to be maintained to the US Air Force standards. At the very least, dirty bombs are successful too.
We had an illegal lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic.

What law was broken?
Back when the USSR fell they barely could maintain their own stock.

I read somewhere that the US even gave them money to keep the nukes safe.
It's a mix of all the above, I've written several OSS projects over the past 10 or so years. Recollecting on it, I typically get little value back by releasing it as OSS and license(s) pretty much guarantees this will happen.

If it's not shared at all few can benefit at all. So the goal is to strike a balance.
according to the posted website Australia is the oldest, not the USA.

Edit: Actually Switzerland seems to be older in their data
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Ukraine didn't want to join NATO until 2014.
The possibility of a nuclear skirmish between neighboring countries seems awful. A poor country with a fragile government should not be entrusted with nuclear weapons. Imagine what the terrorist organizations of the last 25 years would do with access to such weapons.
As others have said "non-commercial use only" means "not open source". But ignoring that for the moment, what does "non-commercial" even mean? Is the license violated if the software is used on a website that has ads? Can a for-profit company use it for any purpose? Can a self-employed consultant use it to assist with their work?

In academia there's a lot of "for research purposes only, get a license otherwise" software releases. Again, the line for what is allowed and what isn't is very vague.
I actually use Windows (and OneDrive) quite a lot nowadays. I have very little problem thinking of disk space as a sort of OneDrive cache at this point and basically you have different devices that are faster vs slower. And when that's the case detaching a disk just means removing a copy of the data.

But datasets in general on ZFS are great because you can just mount and unmount them at will. They're there on the disk, but if you don't need them they're not mounted. This is great if you don't want to accidentally modify some subset of data you're not working with. One of my favorite features of ZFS are the encrypted datasets where you can have chunks of data stored with different encryption on the sane disk and all the integrity and migration etc works without needing to decrypt anything. Which is also great because it means ransomware can't touch it. I do think it's useful to have some sort of "chunking" of the data like that which mostly maps to ownership. This data belongs to this client/project, that data belongs to that client/project, etc. Often those divisions have different use restrictions so I've found it great to isolate things that way. And again ZFS is great at this because you can just dump out the full encrypted datasets for handoff/archival or whatever.

But anyway I would point out that filesystem boundaries come from whatever the filesystem implements and exposes to the application. The only real issue with filesystem boundaries is that renames that move files between devices aren't possible. And that's an artifact of that filesystem's design needing to synchronize the hierarchy at a hardware level. If you could call up the same path and it comes from wherever it happens to be then it's not a problem. Like in OneDrive when you open a file that's only online and it needs to suck it down first.
Sheesh, organization and hierarchy are not the problems with file systems. It's the APIs and the network awareness. Can someone name a network filesystem that doesn't suck horribly in some way? Samba? NFS? CephFS? GlusterFS? They all have some glaring problem that holds them back.

We need storage that works everywhere and that doesn't suck. DropBox, et al, tries to make it happen but they're held back by mediating everything through the filesystem layer. Traditional filesystem concepts aren't going to make that happen.
It’s not the young people who are turning against democracy. It’s the baby boomers who talk ceaselessly about “fake news”, rejecting anything that doesn’t match their cloistered reality.
Russia considers the Budapest Memorandum as broken far earlier - after the Euromaidan coup/revolution (depending on your point of view).
> only alive because he was able to flee to Russia

This is disingenuous. America hasn’t resorted to polonium tea tactics in the modern era. Chelsea Manning is injured but free.
So you are saying NATO should have started nuclear war because of Crimea?

Because when you admit state that has part of it's territory occupied into a defense pact, you are effectively declaring war on the occupying state.

Imo it's not quite arsehole thing to not start WWIII due to non-alliance country.
I’m a bit amazed at how many people here watch the news. Of course you’re going to feel better if you don’t watch it; TV/internet news is the bottom of the barrel. If you don’t subscribe to your local paper though, you’re really missing out, imo. You get a sense of community, and info that actually impacts your life, that is actionable. And usually if a non-local story is big enough, the local paper will report on it anyway.
> Indians are also insensitive to critics and get outraged very quickly.

Can you blame them? It's been barely 74 years since they got independence, and yet they have managed to achieve so much: satellite launches, mission to moon, Mars, stable democracy, well-run elections, booming tech sector, nukes, etc. And they still have to deal with Western media portraying them as a shitty country.
> Putin probably did the math and found it acceptable

I assume military belligerence, aggression is about domestic political power moves. Meaning, in this case, Putin's calculus gives more weight to tightening his grip on Russia than any economic impacts.

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IIRC, studies have shown that economic sanctions empowers the hardliners. The hardships impacting the citizens drives them to embrace the hardliners more. Also, the sanctions expand their internal domestic inequity.

So while I totally understand the European and US response to Russia -- what else are they gonna do? -- the cynic in me knows it'll prove counter productive long term.

Nor do I support military involvement. That option is even worse.

There really are no good options.
Promise is not disputed. There are no signed papers - there is no promise.

Whenever it was discussed at all is 1% a purely academic dispute and 99% demagogy.
If the public key needs to be a secret then it is the same as it is now. If the attacker obtains either secret they win. The whole point of asymmetric crypto is that the public key doesn’t need to be kept secret.
Is there a list of countries that underwent some major form of disarnament? I know Libya also had chemical and nuclear program that they gave up, only to be overthrown by the West in 2011

From just a few examples in my head, disarnament doesn't work out compared to holding on to your capabilities. Can anyone more knowledge comment on the track record of disarnament?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...
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There is more talk than usual about bitcoin as an alternative to cash (vs as an investment) for transactions that are not government mediated. So, if I wanted to use bitcoin (or any major crypto), is it actually possible? Can I pay < .1% fees like I would with fiat and can I buy physical goods anonymously? Or is it really just that I can send money to someone else? I've tried some googling but certainly not found anything definitive. If I don't want to "invest", why would I get BTC instead of cash for personal spending? Or is that not what it's for?
The Kremlin website, as well as most Russian government websites, are down
What Putin is doing to Ukraine right now is absolutely horrific.. but quite frankly, NATO intervention is unlikely and the Ukraine is going to be taking the L here.

This isn't a 1-dimensional scale (NATO > Russia). China can always weigh in. Europe can have mixed reactions. etc. That's how world wars start, which would be catastrophic for everyone. Nukes are also on the table if Putin really feels cornered.

Economic sanctions won't deter Putin. Europe still has to deal with them for energy, and a pro-west Ukraine is an existential threat to Russia. (Imagine if Mexico were to join the Russian Federation.) This is Russia's sphere of influence, which has historical precedent. Stalin's post WWII foreign policy was to maintain a buffer zone in eastern Europe.

Further, Ukraine has little real geopolitical value to the west. They're not a major trade partner, they don't have strategic resources, or control strategic ports. The west only wants Ukraine in order to gain leverage against Russia.

If you're wondering what the catalyst was, this is basically retaliation for 2014. [0] Russia believes the west is responsible for the revolution that ousted their puppet.

February 22nd, 2014 - protesters control Kyiv and Yanukovych has fled to Russia. [1]

Almost exactly 8 years later (Feb 23rd) this happens.

We have to assume Russia has been unable to "counter coup" Ukraine and regain a foothold, thus leading to this drastic action.

Putin has threatened severe consequences if any other nation meddles in the war, but he's not out for conquest. His mentality is simply: "I'd rather wreck Ukraine before letting it fall into the hands of the west." [2]

Putin will likely stop once the message is received.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140228013838/http://www.boston...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
And it's not just true for children. The narrative from the media has been overwhelmingly "Stay-at-home has been bad for everyone! Nobody is happier! Everyone wants to get back to normal." Almost zero recognition that for some people it's been bad, for some, not much of a change, and for some, it's been a very positive experience.

Sure, some have pointed out that billionaires have gotten better off, but that's a non-story--when has that not been true?
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You think he'd just roll over and surrender if they cut them off from Swift? I doubt it...
I believe the old Dell chargers simply have a data pin, which I presume would carry the data generated by this project
Maybe it's a distraction.

Mainstream media is already using it as justification for the present extreme inflation in usa.
How convenient for Russia.