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> The West is not going to risk the Apocalypse for Ukraine.

If Putin is launching nukes, it has nothing to do with Ukraine anymore. The choices are “do we let a madman play with nukes or not?" I think the answer is pretty obvious.
Yes, if you were going to send me $100 of non RBF-enabled crypto, I'd have no issue with waiting 3 seconds to feel reasonably sure the transaction would confirm.
Because the land needed for equivalent solar and wind would be massive. There would be no room for NIMBY. Imagine someone you love would lose their home so that a windmill could be constructed. Every city park would need to have a huge windmill, and every roof would need solar panels. That is assuming that we can even locate the material and manpower needed to build so much. This would be at least 2 orders of magnitude more than equivalent power from nuclear.
"I suspect the BELL control code would be gone"

I remember my mum getting her first electronic typewriter. It went bing at the end of the line to warn you, just like the old manual jobbies. I guess that was BEL in action. Later models had a buffer that you typed into and then it would spew text onto the paper when it knew what to do with your text to avoid splitting words or whatever lowly skills it had with typesetting.
Not to mention the onset of a new Dust Bowl[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THSm-I790H0 (PBS Eons vid about it)
System name "НЕМАН" in cyrillic, I think. Much of the article appears very loosely substantiated, so far.
> Who are they going to sell their oil and gas to, then?

The world is full of countries who want oil and gas. Even the US and Europe have left open a big hole in their sanctions for oil/gas supplies because they need Russian fossil fuels.
Why don’t other STEM fields have those neighbor/parasite industries?
>Had the initial plan of decapitating the government

Why people assume that the Russian plan was to occupy whole Ukraine (the largest European country after Russia) in just several days? Even in Georgia with its much smaller army and territory it took them 5 days to be close to capturing its capital. As another example: it took US several weeks to conquer Iraq, which again is smaller than Ukraine and has a much denser distribution of population centers. Also unlike certain countries Russia does not want to bomb Ukraine into the stone age before moving ground troops in and instead it tries to keep whatever loyal parts of the populace it has there.
Absent or Swinging Prices Keep Consumers Guessing
Don't develop for Windows, or MacOS for that matter.

If your OS is uncontrolled, so is the software.
I'd be super down to throw my shoulder into a couple projects at once. It would personally help with some of the exhaustion that happens when focusing on one codebase. It would be a lower risk for organizations and provide a more affordable chunk of value for increasing the quality of their product.

I currently feel like it's too out there to comfortably propose to companies I'm interviewing at. If a job description explicitly stated "open to discussing part-time opportunities" and leadership was realistically aligned with the time commitments part-time engineers would face, I would definitely bring it up as a possibility.

There's so many companies doing cool work. Individually we commonly end up contracting our aspirations in service of one endeavor. That makes sense for some companies. For others, the benefits in terms of production value and having their engineers exposed to multivariate problems could be huge. I'm particularly thinking if companies that have straightforward apps to present or deliver their services, like a video app, community apps, etc. A lot of those problems are solved, and I'm not sure it makes sense to invest a huge amount, in terms of full-time work, in executing on those visions.

I'm also curious what it would be like to manage a part-time engineer. Work life balance would have to be front and center. Processes for dealing with emergencies would need to be realistic. Demands from management would need to be broken down with part-time chunks in mind, and so on.
Amazonian here! (Speaking for myself, not for the company.) You can use any runtime you like for your Lambda functions, even if it's not supported as a first-class native runtime. The simplest way is to build a container image that has the runtime you want to use. All you need to do is to include the Lambda Runtime Interface Client with your image, and set the proper ENTRYPOINT.

See https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-containe... for a blog post, and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/images-create.h... for the reference documentation.

Once you get the hang of it, it's super easy, and you may never want to go back to the old way!
Then where's the evidence to prove this? That's specifically what Sydorenko is saying doesn't appear to exist, or if it does, is being kept secret for unclear reasons.
Russia’s Financial Support for Anti-Fracking Groups Is No Coincidence (2017)
There was no bluffing here. Can we get over this false idea that Putin is some calm strategist.
He did mass troops before without invading..

But the US intelligence played it, yes, it's not surprising.

Honestly, I thought it could have gone either way. This will have more consequences than anything before, I don't see how we normalize relations with Putin anytime the next 20 years.
> Meetings and collaboration to figure out what to build, discuss issues etc. if these take up 10 hours a week [...]

There's your problem.
Just speculation, but there may be different teams (or subsets of teams) responsible for different kinds of bindings, and it may be easier to support the latest .NET LTS than the latest Node LTS.
I'd kill for something like that. Don't have me create and solve some arbitrary math problem in code syntax, this isn't quiz bowl and work isn't a scholastic decathlon. This is tech, give me broken technology tell me its expected behaviors, give me space to figure out what makes it tick and and I will fix it.
If you need to get out quickly then yes, but if you have a few years there is ample guidance that says 'lift and shift' is a way to really hose yourself in the cloud.
I'd also like to understand this: how does Russia intend to prevent foreign clients from making direct sales of securities to other foreign (or even domestic) clients? Are they saying that they just won't honor those sales?

This sounds like a terrific way to have foreign companies value their Russian assets at near-zero, since it's not clear whether they're actually still securities at that point.
Who says you'll have a choice?

This is why plain text matters.
Google’s average tenure was under three years (as of 2015 anyway), and their acceptance rate is famously below 1%, so they’re hiring at least 33k and screening three million.

edit: I don’t know their boomerang rate, that might matter.
Putin's huge mistake was that he pissed off regular people in the west. Through snapchat and tiktok etc young people have become aware in a new way how much of a dick he is. These people then put pressure on their governments to act.
Ideally they would pull the plug on Nord Stream, but people would freeze. That's a hard ask. They're going as far as they can without hurting themselves too much. Cutting Russian banks off from SWIFT was a tough call.
No, I would say that the comments (at least collectively) convey the information that Thunderbird really has a problem, and that the developers are concentrating on the wrong things. It is also really true that new versions introduced regressions by breaking the workarounds for font issues in older versions, and that the devs don't seem to care.

The purpose of a mail reader is to read mail. If the fonts are too small to read and can't be enlarged without a lot of hassle, then the mail reader has a serious usability issue no matter what other features it has.
I was wondering the same thing. Great you get "starlink reception" in Ukraine, but unless Musk plans on moving shipping containers worth of compatible equipment to Ukraine I can't see how it helps.

Also what's stopping Russia from jamming whatever frequencies Starlink uses?
Exactly. I was flabbergasted at the sheer number of Ukranians I've seen interviewed by the media that said they didn't believe it would actually happen etc. I followed every development since it started at the end of last year and by the time it was announced that blood supplies had been moved in around a month before the invasion actually happened that led me to believe actually there really is likely to be an invasion as you wouldn't need blood otherwise. Then the next big, big clue was the soldiers sticking around in Belarus after the Olympics ended. That was your first major warning to get out. I can't quite remember the order in which the next few things happened exactly, but certainly when Putin announced he was recognizing Donetsk and Luhansk you could tell his plan was actively underway. The next big tip-off that the invasion was close was when China told its diplomats to leave. My assumption is that Russia would have given China a heads up to avoid surprising China and creating tensions. That would have been my signal to exit the country and my bags would have already been packed and plans firmly made. The next critical signal was that Russia itself told its diplomats to leave. There's only one reason Russia itself would tell its diplomats to leave. After I saw that news I thought to myself... hmm there isn't anything more Putin needs to do to actually be ready to invade, so next comes Z-day. Then they invaded.

If you were paying close attention and could connect the dots you absolutely had ample warning to get the hell out of dodge. I agree, this is the type of news you should be paying attention to.
I would not get into a car implemented with 8051s. I entered the market on a project where an 8051 only had to manage a 2x16 character display, 16-key pad, and several motor/limit switches. The dang thing was challenged at that.
> It is important to note that an implementation goal of The Merge is simplicity in order to expedite the transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. Developers are focusing their efforts on this transition, and minimizing additional features that could delay this goal.

This is the exact forum to discuss this.

I can't wait till your kind of vitriol has no legs to stand on.
Even the latter, as long as you're doing something like restricting yourself to a shared subset of OpenGL.

You really just need to dump textures and set up a matching context, which at worst should require an indirection shim to translate handles if they are stored by the application but generated by the driver with no way to force custom values during object creation (like how Linux allows custom PIDs for checkpoint/restore and other replay tech like rr).
Not just externally. If they don’t move faster, they all, maybe except the right wing party, are committing political suicide from their constituencies.
> grinding leetcode is just as bad, if not worse, than a take-home test

For leetcode, I can study once for a week or so, and then do a bunch of interviews at different companies, where each onsite is gonna take me a single day (4-5 hours or so).

For take-home projects, it usually takes way more time than that (about a whole week of a few hours every day). And it doesn't reduce the more I study or do those projects.

So no, thank you, I would rather take a single day to do a full loop with a company, as opposed to spending a week doing the same. Back when I was heavily interviewing last year, I could easily do leetcode interviews with about 1-2 companies a week without breaking a sweat. I did a take-home project a couple of times, and I am never going to do it again. The time sink on take-home projects is insane, and it is a much weaker signal. Given a lot of people here heard those stories last year where people were even trying to cheat on leetcode interviews (by asking other people to take those for them, and they eventually got caught), I imagine the cheating on take-home project is much more common and is much more difficult to detect.
> Now its faking disorders.

When you put it that way, it sounds like Munchausen Syndrome. Maybe it sort of is. But with a stronger memetic component.
There's hubris in the belief that one 'knows' always and every time what good and evil are. There were always multiple sides, each on the side of Good, killing each other, since antiquity. The more modern enlightened moralist should strive to question one's information and assumptions, at all times. Oftentimes, looking back in history we see moral ambiguities.

Certainly in the field of international relations the concepts of good and evil are in the realm of media commentary and politicians. Foreign policy crafters, and the literature around them, have a completely other way of talking.
He brings up politics in his videos occasionally and it clearly still gets to him. He left twitter because it made him feel bad. It hasn't changed how he sees the world.

edit: or just look at his reddit account lol
These statements always confuse me.

Never in history has there ever been consequence-free speech or egalitarian trade and economics.
I'm surprised Apple supports custom email domains to any extent. Apple is a consumer electronics company. Hosted email on custom domains is very distinctly not a typical consumer behavior.
That confirmed some of the thoughts on their real motivations. The focus is on new world order and so describe what is why votes in UN were in abstain the resolution.

It’s not war only in Ukraine vs Russia but in between two worlds.

This could be higher escalation possibility as new alignment would be necessary.
Will the energy suppliers then also pay back the compensation they received because of the (deliberately) badly done exit from exit from the nuclear phase-out?
Typed on an iphone mini.

3Blue1Brown

The connections and visuals are stunning.

I am a simple soul like that.

Currently doing advanced high school math in order to fix my fundamentals.

Fundamental weaknesses that I discovered:

- I hated trig and was bad at it

- I didn’t understand certain algebraic manipulations

- Integrals, I still need to learn how to do them

That’s what I am fixing with my high school advanced math course. And it’s working!

But the explanations kinda sucked, especially trig explanations.

They did stuff like:

sin(2a) = 2sin(a)cos(a)

With no explanation why!

Just suck it up and memorize.

In high school I refused this treatment and got told off which is how I started to dislike math.

Now I am older.

I am wiser.

I still refuse :P

I still get told off (in the course I am doing now).

But I know it’s not their fault, I’ve simply learned that most math teachers can’t help me as they are not in the business of teaching the why. They teach the how (which I need as well, I need both the why and the how).

Enter 3Blue1Brown

He taught me:

To feel why 1/x is the derivative of ln(x). Yea, I can derive it, but now I feel it.

To feel why the midpoint plus/minus a deviation is a way of expressing the quadratic formula.

To feel why double angle identities are the way they are (he shows it visually with complex numbers, it’s so obvious! How can I forget something that I can visualize in my mind as easy as visualizing my dreams?).

To feel why sin(pi/4) = sqrt(2)/2

Khan Academy did it for a few other sin(...) values.

Suddenly, this high school math course transformed from not understandable to super duper obvious!

3Blue1Brown shows the why visually

The course shows the how.

I need both.

But there are a lot of courses of similar quality, but there is only one 3Blue1Brown.

(There are others like Khan Academy, Numberphile, etc. but 3B1B has shown me the beauty of math, not just the context. Animations with piano music really help!)
I think we should also comment on the quality of the framework. I use a home grown approach too. It doesn’t mean I’m not hoping for something to come along and disrupt (for the better) my approach for the “right” abstraction.

That’s what is missing from the conversation: do the abstractions seem justified based on the problems it claims to solve.

Who knows, it could be as influential as jquery was for web development in 2006 (I’m exaggerating of course).

I just find the tone is generally dismissive and that robs viewers the chance to evaluate the tool within the problem space: DI injection for Go.
Pakistan and Saudi seemed to have quite a bit to do with it also, but...no invasion there.
What turned out to be a suitable place?
Magic Keyboard with integrated Mac inside patented by Apple
FWIW I think you're coming from the right place on recommending SELinux and NixOS too. Using SELinux as an example, with Gentoo there are significantly more resources on how to use it compared to what NixOS currently has. I would still recommend NixOS for software development and probably more things down the road as support for things like SELinux improves.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Workgroup:SELinux
I've always been curious, whether any popular systems made good use of US/RS/GS/FS. E.g. I'm surprised never to have seen any support for CSV files using US/RS instead of TAB/(CR)LF or comma/(CR)LF. Or any support in Unix to use RS instead of LF or NUL to delineate records.
For more software alternatives, try AlternativeTo (crowd-sourced) or LibHunt (mix of crowd-source and ai).

[0] https://alternativeto.net/

[1] https://www.libhunt.com/
Again, this is dramatically overestimating the initial effects of a nuclear blasts. There will be no major wildfires from nuclear war, for the simple reasons that a.) you don't aim a nuke at the wilderness and b.) the blast wave of a nuclear explosion tends to put out the fires that the thermal pulse ignites. Nukes have specific strategic purposes: the vast majority of them will be aimed at U.S. missile silos, airports or airbases with long runways, ports, refineries, and military shipyards. Those left over will likely be aimed at areas of high population density, specifically the downtown cores of cities.

It's not 1945 anymore, when there was a sharp divide between urban areas and rural areas. The majority of the U.S. population lives in suburbs, and many only go into cities for cultural events. The suburbs are already wired into the U.S. logistic network - that's where are Walmarts and Amazon warehouses are - and are decentralized enough that they're not likely to get taken out by an initial strike.

Coronavirus (particularly Omicron) was much more devastating to our logistic network than nuclear war would be, because it affected essentially all truckers and port workers at once.

I'd encourage you to read the pamphlet; it's put out by scientists whose full-time job was to plan for the continuation American society in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
District heating is heavily regulated here..

I think owned by the consumers.

Indeed local regulation for the lot of land I'm on stipulates that district heating must be the primary heat source.

This gives it some economies of scale, I'm guessing...

But I do wonder if geothermal power will come along to make district heating cheap and renewable.
I'm at present not enjoying it. I have decided to buy a spa pool this weekend so I can be both anxiety ridden and at least somewhat enjoying it.
Definitely wrong. Vendors like predictable revenue. Pricing based on actual usage doesn't provide this.
Gotta add Refika to the list.

She's way more natural and earnest than most of these bros. Weissman is insufferable.
This is what computing looked like 60 years ago. Minus the excessive data collection.
Ukraine was (and still is) quite corrupt. They ran their president out of town on a rail in 2014 because he was massively corrupt. To the point of using government funds to build a private zoo at his house. Zelensky made his name by portraying an everyman who lucks his way into the presidency by vowing to fight corruption and somehow life imitated art. He was clearly inexperience and in over his head, but his character and showmanship are paying huge dividends right now.

And to just because we have to make everything about US politics, the corrupt leader who was run out of town was elected with the assistance of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates who both ended up working on the Trump campaign less than two years after their cash cow was exiled to Russia.
> IRA itself formally and substantially act in Ireland [...] if they have made attacks outside Ireland they are just hyper-rare cases.

Not really. There were loads of bombings in the UK and especially London. The IRA even performed attacks against British troops in Brussels and West Germany.
Curious how part-time those part-time developers have been, as well as what schedule/how much work the person you are replying to was looking for.

I have successfully gotten 80% four-day-week at a string of engagements... but I work in the non-profit academic sector, and get paid quite a bit less than that $200K+ salary.

I think a four-day-week, or even a three-day-week, makes a lot more sense than tha 4-hours-a-day 5-day-week the OP was suggesting.

Because, yeah, one (or certainly two) meetings could pretty much blow a 4-hour-day. But at the 4-eight-hour-day schedule I've been doing, I feel like there is still plenty of time for meetings and overhead, and I am pretty confident I end up 95% as productive working a four-day 32 hours as I would be working 40 hours. I feel like it would still work pretty well at 3-eight-hour-days too.

Below that -- or trying to work four-hour days instead of fewer eight-hour days, I could definitely see problems with "overhead" or lack of commitment.
"But you really care about the chinese people right?"

Yes, because I have known some for over 30 of my formative years. It has been New Years so I've spoken to many of them recently. The Chinese people are not their political leaders (any more than Russians, British, or Americans), they are smart, hard working, and kind.

Somehow you seem to have conflated the two. The idea that China modeled their society (other than economically) off of their most despised (excluding Singapore) neighbors, is laughable. There are fairly recent wars with each (and I'll include Vietnam in '79).
That's because politicians like Altmaier sabotaged the expansion of wind and solar energy.
Fukushima was not a case of unknown unknowns. That style of reactor requires active cooling to prevent meltdown, and the cooling failed. The consequences of the cooling system failing were known, as were the vulnerabilities of the cooling system. They just didn’t add enough safeguards/didn’t account for the backup failing. There’s an argument that you can’t add enough safeguards to account for all possible ways an active cooling system could fail, which is perfectly reasonable/a good argument. Thats’s why next gen nuclear reactor designs don’t require active cooling.

People citing Chernobyl and Fukushima strikes me as rhe equivalent to people citing the Hindenburg when talking about flying; I’m pretty sure both reactor designs could be thought of as the design equivalent to the hydrogen blimp. People’s minds are stuck on an image of a blimp on fire when thinking about flying even though modern passenger jets exist.
You must be utterly delusional to think that the EU, US, Japan etc. are implementing these sanctions because of popular pressure and not because Russia's behaviour is an existential threat to the world order.

If it was purely populist Germany would be using the $100b they have committed for NATO defence and spent it on universally popular policies e.g. tax cuts or handouts.
Yeah, Uber had this realization a few years ago too. If you recall, they were also developing self-driving technology in hopes of reducing their cost basis. However, they abandoned the project after an internal report leaked indicating that it wouldn't get them more than, IIRC, a 5% uplift - for exactly the reason you say. Once one company has it, the rest will not be far behind.
Maybe come discuss your concerns with us on https://discuss.status.im or Status' Discord server? Looking forward to it!