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Nationalistic sentiment (fatherland, my people, my country, patriotism...) has been carefully nurtured since the rise of the nation states in the late 19th century Europe. So people are conditioned to die in the name of pride.

It's the reason we are seeing any conflict in Europe since WW2: if we decided that people can easily self-proclaim independence with a majority vote (under certain democratic principles) without regard for imaginary borders of countries post-WW2, any pretext for recent conflicts in Europe would be gone.

Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Donbas would have been split into multiple tiny independent countries, but just maybe, we'd avoid any need for war.

Conditions have to be reasonable and fair for all sides (eg. investment from other parts of the country should be repaid as if they were a loan; if they are pulling significant natural resources, remaining parts should be "compensated"; bigger parts should guarantee freedom of movement for people and goods so no crazy visas and tariffs...).

I, for one, don't see anything natural in insisting on imaginary lines on the map, or in ignoring millenia of history where states have joined and separated repeatedly in different arrangements. UN should step up the game and turn into United People, and we can move towards a more reasonable peaceful future.
True - but Russia has nuclear weapons which are more precise and would send the strongest possible message. This is also important because destroying a country might land you a victory, but if it's destroyed, that is a shallow victory. A well-placed nuke is scary and controlled.
My single-dyno app was affected.

However, while I could not connect to my app, nobody I know could connect to my app, and my monitoring service could not connect to my app for a ping... my app logs showed that some traffic continued to connect throughout the outage. So it was not entirely universal. And was clearly a routing problem of some kind.
There was some kind of scheme for accessing objects on other machines over the local network using a very long memory address, but I don't know if it was ever used.
I could almost perceive the scent of Chanel No. 5 and roasted-cashews while I was riding on the UP-elevator.
How much onshoring did orange man actually do? According to St. Louis FRED - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP - basically nothing

> call him an idiot!

And you were and still are right to do that!
> The studies show that giving better information helps to undecided.

I think you're discounting an incredibly powerful distortion field created by malevolent misinformation by some very sick and confused people.
Once we have computers embedded into the brain, we can automatically generate stretchtext based on crowdsourced statistics about the parts that the audience tends to mentally skip over or dismiss. Then recurse.
And support for the `#[naked]` attribute will likely be stabilizing within the next few months (source: I'm getting sponsored to work on it), allowing one to write functions that have precise control over the stack, which is useful for interrupt handlers.
While I agree that in Eastern Europe anti-EU often means pro-Russia, Poland is a more of an exception here. Poland still has a very negative aftertaste of Russia after WWII.

But if anything, Eastern European countries will cling to NATO more than ever, they most certainly won't leave it.

Just look at the most recent speech of the Czech president, who is generally pro-Russian (the president, not the whole country). In the speech he absolutely condemned Russia's aggression and expressed support to Ukraine. Moreover, he urged to kick Russian Federation out of the SWIFT system as soon as possible.
Perhaps not as important but the humble helium neon laser is also still an important practical standard for position measurement at submicron accuracy.
If Russia really wanted to create nuclear fallout problems, they have weapons that do so far more targeted and effectively.
Hefty increases in oil prices have a way of changing people’s minds. Particularly people who don’t normally care about politics.
I'm not sure what your point is there.
In some cases the visual requirements are also accessibility-related.

For example, <select> will give you a drop-down that lets you type to pick, but only the first letter, and only letters that directly correspond with a keycode. So you can't type "Uni" to get "United States of America"; you can't type "とうきょう" plus enter to get "東京", and so on. If you need to support IMEs or picking through large option sets, dropdowns are a bad option.

Of course, native UI developers know that you can use a combobox instead of a dropdown picker; but there's no <combobox> tag. You have to implement your own by attaching a bunch of div/event soup to an <input type=text>[0]. In this particular case, doing so will actually make the input more accessible, because keyboard users can just type the answer instead of having to press the first letter and hit down 200 times to get to the thing they want. It's also more internationalized, because you can use your IME to compose the characters you need to search through the list with.

[0] The select2 library will do this for you and it's my go-to if I need a combobox.
I didn't play at launch, but have heard that it could have probably used a few patches before it would have been so immersive. The pace of leveling however probably was its slowest at launch, and it seems like to do that, you would necessarily have been sucked in, because it would have probably taken a hell of a lot of playing, especially without all of the web resources we currently have. I started probably around 2005/6 I'd guess, before leveling was quickened. I'm not really sure what you mean by hand-holding exactly; at best there wasn't much in terms of assistance through any means. Though it was never a technically difficult game, I found it immersive in that it was slow, if you weren't deliberately trying to hit max level in the shortest possible time. I just played it to do something, that had some gradual reward and power system that felt intuitive and meaningful, and it probably took me a year to hit max level. Doing that with people is really what made it compelling, I couldn't imagine playing it alone at that time, it wasn't that kind of game. In contrast to your experience, none of my friends stopped playing the other games you mention, but WoW uniquely augmented our daily lives with questions about what gear you recently got, what level you hit, doing dungeons and raiding together, bumling into someone from the opposing faction and killing them or getting killed. Runescape had elements of that, but the graphics and gameplay were sluggish and more rudimentary, whereas WoW felt like I was "in" something more than ever before.

It just seems like you expected something different going in, when my impression was that it was intentionally designed initially without the focus on end game content that you might have been hoping for, but that they'd later start building on. I didn't really have any expectations, other than that the graphics were way better than what I was playing, which was actually a huge deal for immersion at the time.

In retrospect, the original questing experience and everything were incredibly tedious, but in my mind that also was actually what kept it immersive. It required a social element to be fun, and it was absolutely exhausting to just power through at the rate you might have been. So I'd quest and grind, and then just hangout doing nothing, or work on a profession and try to make some gold, because there were other bits. That's what I do now too to some extent, because games that are played only because they have some sophisticated mechanic are kind of unsubstantial in my view. My friends would play Diablo 2 or Counter strike, and those games were also miserably tedious when reduced to their core game mechanic or whatever is considered meta at the time.
Agreed, the focus should definitely be on exploration rather than promotion. Although I feel like allowing some level of promotion while still shaping the thing being built would attract more ambitious projects which might help give the platform a better reputation for collaboration-seeking.

Maybe allow a mix of both? Like, people can open a thread starting from a pure problem and throw in some ideas for solutions. Or start with an idea and, as part of it, describe the problem. Let people filter if they only wanna see one type. And of course people can always link threads.
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Reader Mode is really best-suited for longform article consumption, IMO. So reading an individual article in CNN works well in Reader Mode, but you wouldn't want to necessarily browsing the whole site that way. I'm not sure it would even work.

(EDIT: Nope. Front page doesn't even show the option. I believe Firefox expects some kind of meta tag to let it know that the page in question has a clearly-defined article/content body.)
this is the 2nd time in a week I've seen Fire In A Bottle linked on HN.

It's good to see it. This guy is so ahead of the curve.
It is actually deviously brilliant. No one wants to shell the area because it would release all the dust and radionuclides that were buried during the cleanup.

It is a perfect staging area because the downside to attacking it is so high. No allied forces in Europe want to deal with the fallout - literally.

This is so genius I'm genuinely in awe. This is right out of Sun Tzu: “The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. ”
The only current example of this technique that I know of is the in-universe encyclopedia of the (brilliant but humongous) transhumanist Madoka fic To the Stars[1]. It’s utilized there mainly to instill a certain ... SCP-ish feeling of vague paranoia in the reader, though, not for the original purpose.

[1] https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002
Just be careful when you buy Avocado oil, a recent study showed that 82% of the Avocado oil on shelves is either mixed or rancid:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095671352...

Chosen Foods and Marianne’s Avocado Oil are the only two that are 100% pure refined avocado oil.
I see same case with companies moving to aws
Correct. I have section 8 tenants in one of mine. They pay around fifteen percent of their rent, and the government pays the rest. There are advantages and disadvantages, but we're three years in and they're good tenants. Ten times better than the colleges students I always had in there before.
Do you want a scary thought? Imagine if Taiwan gets invaded and China manages to steal all of America's computer chip designs. Technology problems solved.
My first place in London in 2003 was £520 a month, about £875 today. It was a 10 square metre room with a shower in one corner, bed in one corner, small kitchen sink in one corner, and a door in the fourth corner. There was a shared toilet.

Ideally I'd have had a slightly smaller room, but with a private toilet (there was certainly enough space in the footprint for a 2m*1m toilet/sink/shower), but apart form that it was great (given the cost - about half my net income), far better than sharing a house. As a young person needing to be close to a London office but without the luxury of having parents giving me a free room.
Also (or as a corollary), otherwise businesses have no incentive to plan for rare, adverse events. They will be out-competed by businesses that don't care.

Personally I think the solution is for governments to have a contingency plan, and opposed to forcing any individual business to do anything, but if we did want businesses to change their behavior, it's definitely a government issue.

Unless somehow "buy my product , it's more expensive because our business hedges against war and pandemics" works in advertising (eco-friendly seems to get some traction, so maybe?)
There is no way he doesn't stop at Ukraine. He doesn't have enough troops to hold it against a population which will be against him. He has already bitten off more than he can chew. The idea of Russian tanks marching on Germany is delusional fantasy and hyperbole, even apart from Article 5.
I appreciate the need to help homeless folks, but I don't understand why they need to be housed in California. Why can't we build housing for them somewhere else, where it's cheaper?
There's a good deal that I feel is lacking, but a big issue is the lack of continuity of documentation between Phoenix's component parts. If I want to build a CRUD app with Rail, Django, or Laravel, then I can get all the information I need from their docs. If I want to do the same in Phoenix, I'll have to jump between the docs for Phoenix, Ecto, Plug, and HEEx/Liveview.

Rails, while it has its equivalent of these modules, presents them in a cohesive manner and makes it clear the role they play in the greater context of the application. Phoenix doesn't make it nearly as clear and instead of being able to gradually learn these various concepts as they become relevant you have to take on the burden of them all before being able to even begin to be productive.
> Would you agree to go to jail if a user posts something illegal on a forum you run?
> No? Fair and reasonable. Neither do I. Now let's ask ourselves - would ANYONE reply yes? A bit unlikely?

You seem to be asking rhetorical questions and then answering them on your own instead of letting the OP answer? So, I am not sure what the point is?
Regarding your last point, I think you're overestimating how much rental income is subject to California's income taxes. For real estate investors expensive areas like most of CA have a reputation for being profitable in a different way than most other places.

Often rent alone isn't profitable in CA if you have to get a mortgage and even if you don't - the rent you would get is a low ROI, so investors rely more on appreciation. For some it's considered a win if the monthly cashflow is around break even, but some investors bet so heavily on appreciation and rely on the low property taxes that they find having a renter isn't worth the risk. They just want to own something that's going up in value $100,000 every year with minimal hassle.

On top of this, when they go to sell, it will often be through a 1031 exchange where they can sell the property and not have to pay taxes on the appreciation right away as long as they quickly buy another-like property within a short period after. Eventually they will have to pay the capital gains if they ever just want to sell and keep the money, but they've spent years with a negative cashflow (especially if they just let the buildings stay empty) which will help out with those capital gains taxes.
> but it feels like my real job is now to rein in junior developers

That's quite the paternalistic and insulting approach.

We were all "junior" at some point.

I don't find mentoring boring. I find it one of the most engaging and enjoyable aspects of becoming a senior/lead on my team.

However, code reviews can be a mixed bag. Seeing people get overly focused or "clever" with formatting when we have a style guide and an auto formatter. Just use the formatter.

Seeing mid-level engineers blindly enforcing their personal "best practices" where they don't really apply (e.g. debating about what fields should be public/private final/non-final in unit test classes).

Junior engineers completely missing the mark of how to add comments (e.g. adding inane and redundant comments on incredibly obvious code but not a single comment around really complex or important code)
Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
Puerto Rico is not part of our union. And until recently, Puerto Rico generally wanted to be the gray area it is in within the USA. It's not sovereign, but it is exempted from laws that apply to all other states and incorporated territories. It can have a lower tax rate, doesn't have to follow the same regulations. It's like being part of the EU without having to follow all the rules.

And unlike US states, it can be granted independence by a simple vote of congress. It gives them the option to gain independence.

It's important to note they are full citizens in every respect. If you move from Puerto Rico to Florida, you instantaneously can vote, without having to anything other than register the same way Floridians do. And a Floridian who moves to Puerto Rico loses their ability to vote for President and doesn't have real representation in Congress either.

Though some territories, like American Samoa, don't even get citizenship. They are full-on colonies.
Ran into that problem yesterday at the grocery store. I wanted to buy horseradish sauce but every single product offered had soybean oil as a primary ingredient, often the first ingredient. Thankfully horseradish root can still be obtained for making sauce at home.
I'm still fuzzy regarding whether or not USB4's support for Display Port is a way around this problem.

My understanding is that DP 2.0 can do 4k@120Hz. But I don't know if it has its own issues with Linux open-source.
I give it 3.5 / 5. It needs to preload the audio at least shortly before I click the button for optimal experience.
No, we are not talking about a homeless shelter or a temporary stopgap, these kinds of units are the "something better" that people in homeless shelters and other temporary stopgaps are in a holding pattern waiting for.

Shipping the homeless elsewhere than California's most expensive cities is way outside the Overton window.
To be fair, the republican party trashed its brand so thoroughly that it essentially doesn't exist in California, so we're under one party rule. There is no other side of the aisle. It's a shame because Schwarzenegger gave the party a winning formula when he was governor, but the party swung so far off the rails that his centrism makes him a bolshevik to the party as it exists now. One party rule isn't good, but we don't have any sane alternatives here.
> Let's not pretend we can just torment Russia until a "good Russian leader" emerges to attend to our every desire

Let's not invent ridiculous strawmen to argue against. Pointing out that Putin was politically all-in long before the invasion began doesn't even remotely imply what you are arguing against.
The US gave assurances not to invade, not to offend them. Big difference
Why are you too old to have a 30 year mortgage?
Found here "Ukrainians put together a list of resources on how foreigners can help. There are all reputable organizations doing good work. Spread far and wide" https://twitter.com/JaneLytv/status/1495926609194500104
Because if it is cached, then it is 0 bytes transferred. First request could be probably a few hundred bytes, but never needed again. And once it is at a CDN, there is never another request to the server.
Warheads != delivery vehicles, and hasn't been for a long time (MIRV).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta...

> Only a coordinated first strike gives Russia a chance on victory

The idea that a nuclear war can be won died a while ago too.
Ask HN: Is Downtector a reliable and useful source of outage information?
I never noticed it on Meduza. Thank you for mentioning.

It doesn't seem to me that Агенство and Медуза are using the same content management system. I wonder: Is there a longer history of this kind of expandable note in the Russian blogosphere? It feels very Art Lebedev to me, but I couldn't say why.
> What is luxurious about them?

I'm reminded of a previous thread where I asserted that America's poor have a higher standard of living than medieval kings :-/
> Things get complicated when you go toe to toe with a nuclear superpower.

Especially one ruled by a egotistical madman with a grudge

That said, nato should have made huge show and noise about the Russian preparations around Ukraine directly causing nato to strengthen and beef up on the eastern boarder, and upped the troops on nato states massively. Things they are doing now. Those things should have been done before.

The sanction timeline is okay, the nato beefing up an communication around it was late.
Hell no I hate every kind of war but I am sure that I need to be ready to fight if I want to be left alone.

Putin took control of Chernobyl tonight, you know. How do you think he thinks about this stuff?
> with Omicron, they're really only effective at preventing severe disease. That's huge for saving lives, not so much for preventing transmission.

Given that your employer is also your health insurer its in their interest to prevent severe disease and death as well.
I've heard that oxygen levels are lower now than they have been in the past (this seems to change a lot on geological timescales), and that high oxygen levels may help allow megafauna's existence. I wouldn't think it's so much the buoyancy as it is about all the other biological machinery that can operate more efficiently at higher oxygen levels. Oxygen levels are largely driven by algae and plant levels, which of course could have been dramatically affected by the impact.

It's also possible you'd be better received espousing an alternative to conventional science if your handle didn't sound like a reference to Flat Earth Theory.
I wonder if Finland joins NATO now.
Why blow up a dirty bomb when they have 1000 real bombs?
Agree or disagree with his politics, it's so rare to see a person really live their principles like this. It's very heartening and inspiring.
That is not true. I use a solar filter for my telescope and I can clearly see the Sun magnified.
I don't think the second is realistic, as that might be considered an attack on NATO countries, which is likely not a scale of war Russia is looking for.
> Two, a gun to the head of Europe. They could threaten to destroy the containment, and/or to bomb the reactor building to aerosolise as much radioactive material as possible.

If they wanted to go that extreme, they always had the option of just launching nukes. Capturing the reactor and blowing the sarcophagus just seems like a lot of needless extra steps.
I bet your cats got really startled.
>Do you want the US interfering with your country?

Not in Ukraine, only of Ukrainian descent.

The US has already been interfering... Orange Revolution, Maidan, beating the NATO war drums, etc... They "encouraged" Ukraine to leave Russia's sphere but kept dragging out real timelines and concrete promises.

Right now, I'm watching Biden talk about "supporting" Ukraine while smiling and smirking. But nothing concrete. Really feels like the US wanted this just to sanction Russia. But Ukraine is being sacrificed...
This article is a perfect example of how word tenses can be used to manipulate and misrepresent information.

The title says that the city "is spending" an amount, which suggests that this is a routine cost, leaving the reader of the headline to fill in the blanks 'oh, is spending annually?'.

But the tense in the article itself is different:

> Most of the units are studios or one-bedroom apartments. The audit found 14% of the units build exceeded $700,000 each, and one project in pre-development is estimated to cost almost $837,000 per unit.

"Is spending" != 'expected to spend'.

The former has the unstated implication that this is a recurring cost, or at least that this is a cost the city is in the process of spending, whereas the article explains that this is only a projected cost.