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> an autocratic leader that does not represent them

They did elect him (with 76.69% of the vote).
I am talking about people’s reaction to this. People are painting it as a moral type of good/evil situation.

i know and understand that governments are supposed to be acting in their own interests. This does not surprise me one bit.

What bothers me ( again I understand this is selfish), is that the same people that preach about democracy/human rights/freedom know their governments are guilty of egregious crimes like Russia’s and arguably worse. I find it hypocritical when they started lecturing and posturing about respecting a country’s independence.

I hope this explains my pov better.
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There are 2,700 ways to arguably lose a packet within the kernel and 6/10th of 1% are reported to the log.

One thing I’ve noticed is that introducing another function argument can alter tightly written loops and calls (also known as introducing instruction-cache busting).

I am quite sure Jen Axboe has something to say about this while he is busy pushing the Linux kernel toward multi-million IO and packet processing throughout.
Should the global community have targeted all Americans for the actions of the Bush Presidency invading Iraq under false pretenses?

Who realistically could have done this, keeping in mind the Coalition of the Willing [0]? The global "community" was clearly not of one mind about this. Sanctions are working against Russia because most of the richest countries are behind the sanctions.

Other commenters have alluded to sanctioning US/UK over Yemen, which sounds reasonable, however, in that the case, too, why would European countries impose sanctions for conflicts they're taking part in themselves [1]?

Also, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is merely the (very large) straw that broke the camel's back with regards to these sanctions. Russia went it alone. Let's not pretend that Russia was on good terms with NA/EU or that Putin had any built up good will, either. The situations are vastly different. I'm not sure the precedent being set is what you think it is.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing

1 - https://www.adhrb.org/2021/01/european-involvement-in-the-hu...
This is getting really stupid. Anytime there is some major event we always work to try to ensure that people appreciate there is a difference between the people of a country and the bad actors of a country - even when those bad actors are the government. But now because it's our favorite geopolitical enemy, everything goes out the window.

Imagine if the victims of our wars (or their partners) were more influential and were able to effectively spread global messages of arbitrary hate and intolerance against people simply for being American. And not mob mentality from extremists and radicals already predispositioned to hate, but orchestrated top-down hatred and intolerance from the "liberal" world order.

This is not going to spark some amazing revolution of frustrated chess players, disabled athletes, and cat show enthusiasts. The only thing this sort of stuff is doing is driving more hatred and division, and helping us inch that much closer to WW3. Putin invading Ukraine was a terrible decision; many Russians of all walks of lives oppose it. Yet they're at least as helpless to ever change any of it than we are to end our never-ending wars in the Mideast since we, at least in theory, could stop voting for warmongers.
If they have lower costs, some companies will exist that otherwise couldn't. Then you get options that wouldn't exist and more competition drives down prices.
Streaming video is not like static files from a torrent. The term "popular content" is a bit of a misnomer. Nominally with streaming a single uploaded video will be encoded into a number of different versions at different frame sizes and bitrates packaged into individual stream segments. So while a particular video URL might be popular, the actual video segments served to viewers will depend heavily on the configuration/environment of all the viewing devices.

So a FHD stream for a video could be super popular while a 480p version might not have any viewers. When some 480p viewers load the stream they don't get any benefit from the P2P/cache popularity of the FHD stream.

This is compounded by the fact that for video time to first byte doesn't matter very much. A decoder can't do anything with a single byte or even a partial stream segment. It's the time to locally buffer a decodable stream segment and a steady reception of segments as the play head reaches their time stamp.

If a segment gets held up (as happens with P2P) it can't be decoded so you either pause playback or drop frames (if you've got later segments available). You want the media segments to cover at minimum a single GOP (Group of Pictures) which is a relatively large I-frame and the following smaller P and B frames. If you were to tune the video segmentation such that each segment was some tiny time slice it would balloon the bitrate since you need way more I-frames. Super long GOPs don't help either because segment drops end up ruining playback until a new I-frame is received.

Streaming video is hard enough with a reliable CDN, adding P2P makes much harder and orders of magnitude less reliable.
> "Fairness, to the privileged, can look like persecution."

Given the history of anti-Asian racism in the US, I don't know how anyone can say with a straight face that Asians are "privileged".

As for "parents are more interested in boosting their children scholastically", this being HN, few here will see that as anything other than an absolutely good thing that we should want all parents, regardless of color, gender, creed, or anything else, to be doing.
> Also other measures can be taken, like stocking napkin dispensers and condiments on tables so that trivial requests don't over-burden staff.

Condiments and napkin dispensers on the table are hallmarks of fast casual and otherwise down-market restaurants, aren't they? Last time I waited tables, I had a few customers like the ones the GP described, and the best you could do was give them whatever time you could spare after giving your other tables the attention and service you would normally give. If I had asked the chef/owner to put ketchup bottles on every table, I would have gotten a long lecture on the joys of fine dining and the importance of maintaining a luxurious atmosphere.
I don't like this one bit! In many cases, finding the right docs in an org is like finding a needle in a haystack. When someone asks a question that's in the docs, I default to assuming they looked and they couldn't find it, not that they are lazy or trying to put down my work. FWIW with this approach I have not had people needling me like the author here, and I have a ways to go but I have been in this industry for 17 years now.

I think the people that could use more effort in communication will see this post as relatable, and will justify their behavior when interacting with other teams / team members. In my experience infra teams are particularly bad at this, which I attribute to lack of building up a "customer first" muscle that feature teams tend to build by necessity. Of course this is wreckless speculation. I do know that it's annoying when other teams are short with reasonable questions, and have this self righteous attitude that what they work on is obviously perfect and that I'm an idiot for asking these questions!
Awesome thanks!

I am trying now to bring genres and other data in, my hope being that if you are on the WW2 page you can filter it to show only history, or only historical fiction, or even science fiction.

And, I would like to do similar on genre pages (yet to be built), so that if you are on a fantasy genre page, you can filter down to elves, dragons, or things like that.

Big technical challenges but I am going to see what I can do. This is something I've been wanting for a long time, and playing with some cool formats other than the current one to help people bump into awesome books/authors.
Perhaps more importantly:

> Mobile roaming enabled, so phased array antenna can maintain signal while on moving vehicle.
AppleScript might be one of the single most bizarre and arduous-to-write-in mainstream scripting/coding languages in history. I can’t say I’m a fan of such a literal interpretation of writing code.

That being said, before I got a solid grasp on Obj-C and the (at the time) OSX APIs like CoreImage, etc; it got me started on writing Mac applications whereas otherwise I’d have had a much rougher time with it.

Back when I’d made the switch from Windows to OSX in 2005 or so, I had written an AppleScript and accompanying Xcode app to auto-align desktop icons to the left, such as on the Windows desktop, as it drove me nuts that they auto-aligned to the right. (Now I prefer the right, lol…)
The real issue here is how much information is shot at you when you’re working at a place like this. You’re likely in a number of groups where people are posting design questions, specs, announcements, new team joiners and leavers etc. Then there’s a wiki and a chat thread or two, and there’s probably even an old wiki page that’s still used for specific aspects that haven’t been migrated to the new one.

Bonus points if the group posts are just mixed in to a newsfeed with some kind of non-chronological algorithm.

Oh, and, you know, don’t forget to check email. And do your actual work.

‘I posted it to the group’ is as bad an excuse for not properly informing as ‘It wasn’t on the wiki’ is an excuse for not finding the info. The real culprit is just the disorganized firehose of information from all the teams and people you’re supposed to keep tabs on.
I read his reply as stating that it is inaccurate to say that the device currently allows mute people to speak.
To answer your question, no it's not a fee.

According to the .ru ccTLD agreement documents [1], the "Coordination Center for TLD RU" (the entity which operates the .ru TLD) voluntarily agrees to pay to ICANN $30k USD annually. The document is worded that ICANN's obligation to continue letting them use it will cease if the payment isn't made, but it also states "this review will take into account all relevant circumstances."

The way I read this is it's an agreement to donate per year to cover the infrastructure/overhead of ICANN, but doesn't state it's a contractual fee or payment _for_ the ccTLD. If I had to guess, if this payment does fall under sanctions/restrictions, that would be covered under "relevant circumstances" to which ICANN wouldn't just pull the rug out from Russia in the name of Internet stability.

[1] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/icann-ru-letters...
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> The important part is to give the Russian state a fake victory. They know it is fake. We know it. But it is still a victory.

Somebody already told that, but when one looks to Russia's history, they'll see that, the goal is to get bigger and bigger for centuries. They want access to warmer waters (i.e. Mediterranean waters) for at least two centuries now.

So, there's no fake victory, and there's no stopping for them. Also, this is not related to Putin only. Russia is one of the countries which have a stable strategy for at least a century, and they just want to make their goals a reality.
I've made a living from selling developer tools for the last 10 years. It's not hard to sell to developers at all. Sure, there are a lot of people who only use free tools, but the 10% of devs who pay for their tools are still a huge market.

I've bought a lot of licenses for developer tools - text editors, version control GUIs, a decompiler, multiple database clients, a client for SFTP, another one for testing HTTP APIs, multiple graphic editors, various ssh/shell tools for the phone... There's a lot of commercial dev tools out there and if you don't mind the fact that you will be dealing almost exclusively with tech dudes all the time it's a great opportunity.
Uri should have never been able to get away with that lawsuit, because the character in question (Kadabra) is clearly a homage to him; not a cameo or direct rip off.

Uri Geller is basically in the same camp as Jack Thompson and Uwe Boll because of this old stunt. At least as far as I am concerned.
Which would be great if we could invite russia to build nuclear plants in the U.S. and EU. Right now that might not be the best plan.

We need a model that is cheap and safe everywhere, in every country, not just in china and russia.

Also, I wouldn’t put too much faith into Russian numbers for their nuclear projects. They’ve pretty much got the patent on propaganda.
What antenna?
> Better yet, Ukraine should build some well fortified military bases on top of/next to the pipelines. It seems like Russia's only advantage in this war right now is artillery. But if an errant shell could shut down one of the last remaining sources of revenue, maybe the will think twice?

That would only hurt Ukraine's allies. Russia is probably going to end up pivoting to exporting energy to China, anyway.

Russia's going to see this invasion through. It's clear that there's not some "one weird [economic] trick" that will get them to turn around and go home. The only way that's going to happen is if they're defeated militarily.
it is safe to say that the world needs some history deleting virus. if we woke up with no knowledge of history and relations between nations, all this disputes would disappear over night.
It's "Passenger Service System" in this context. The core of where flights are sold. Killing off different GDS systems kills off individual sales channels. Killing off PSS kills the core of where it all lives, flights, seat inventory, pricing, etc.
Passenger service system. It's the one that handles reservations and (usually) checkin.
Yes, my point is that cultural and economic forces inhibited further development along these lines. They had the engineering sophistication to create things like odometers (to accurately place mile markers), basic steam engines, concrete, etc. It may not have looked like an 18th-century industrial revolution, but something along those lines could have happened but for the cultural and economic forces at play.
This post knows nothing about the subject it talks about.

Reads like "Russia stronk, Russia do not care" kind of propaganda, SWIFT is exclusively used for wire transfers and exclusion from it leaves companies to conduct their business via Cash-only, just look at the Iran, they only trade with cash when it comes to exports/imports.
You’ve obviously never met a British plumber …
Just wanna say, getting a job and continuing your entrepreneurial journey don't have to be mutually exclusive options!
It could come off as a little snarkier than I would like to be, but as soon as someone says something should have been documented better I ask them where they think I should have put said document. Then I ask them if they looked there before asking me. 9 times out of 10 the answer is no, and it's then obvious to them that if I had already done exactly what they're asking of me, they still would have come and asked me.

Sometimes people have a point and something should be documented better. Especially if I've been asked twice, it's worth documenting better. And I would welcome their input on where and how that should be done. But those are the people are being constructive.
China has 5x more population yet their planes aren’t taking over the world.
I’m good at slowly building a product I understand. I’m horrible at iterating quickly and I’m not super great at whipping out a front end. I might try random business ideas when I have money to risk on such things, but for now I make a better employee than entrepreneur. I had a modestly successful recruiting business with a Rails app about 10 years ago, but I’m glad to be free of it. I had a chance to sell for like 2x my annual income and transitioned to software development. It was a great decision and I make more money as a developer than I ever did as a recruiter.
Yes! I often wonder whether, in the far future, there will even be historians that know that for a brief moment in time - a couple of centuries - a historical blip - there was a significant chunk of the world where the masses could educate themselves and rise above their origins, without fear of reprisal from the state.

What I fear most is a return to the historical mean - where the vast majority are mere peasants. Ignorant, and systematically oppressed, restrained, and exploited.
There is the management career track and the individual contributor career track. Advancing along either of them should depend on growing scope of influence. That means ICs need to drive projects across larger and larger groups of people.

Of course the people who show they can do that get promoted. Try it!
Wget will exhaust all available ram on a long enough crawl.
I think the author is referring to a somewhat different personality type. While wet noodles will ask you to basically do their job for them, there is another personality that has a confrontational, zero-sum perspective where they are constantly trying to dominate other workers.

I've experienced it firsthand, and I eventually found a term for it: a "high conflict" personality [1]. There are a few ways google says you can deal with these personality types, the main one being: do not interact with that person.

[1] https://www.highconflictinstitute.com/hci-articles/who-are-h...
It's time for the aspirati to stop putting the wrong article in front of "History". It really doesn't make them look intelligent by pretending to have an unaspirated pronounciation while violating basic English euphony rules.
> i usually also ask "where did you try looking for it, so that i can put links there?". and then i put links there.

This is a seriously helpful move. When I remember to, if it takes me a while to find a link I will go back to the first place I looked for it and then add a link there.

And similarly, if I forget the password to something, after going through the password reset process I set the new password to the first thing I tried to guess initially, since apparently that's the password I already have in my head.
The Russian diplomatic corps and information operations teams are taking advantage of the emotional signaling power of the word "cancel" to attempt to manipulate the American right, with whom the word resonates as their world seems to unfairly change around them.

If you want to be taken seriously as a nuanced thinker, rather than a sketchy what-abouter trying to yank people around, I wouldn't use that word.

Prediction: https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1498441260499017733

Outcome 1: https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1499041366696992772

Outcome 2: https://twitter.com/PaulSonne/status/1499421918629404681
Fortunately the law has not been approved, but if it will be approved, this would make Russia even worse place.
I saw somewhere that Elon's jet has roaming Starlink installed. I'm gonna guess mobile roaming adds more load to the system (switching satellites more often, etc).
Godwin's law is sadly (or ironically) applicable here, as Gestapo / NKVD were collaborating in 1939. And NKVD and KGB are in the lineage of current day FSB. They adapted it to current time but the purpose and their methods aren't much different.

Regarding second paragraph, would existence of NATO even make sense if it won't defend one of its members?
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The constitution of the Russian Federation guarantees freedom of speech and prohibits censorship. I seem to recall the Soviet Union had a pretty spiffy constitution, too. The United States certainly did, during the Palmer Raids, during McCarthyism.

Constitutions alone do nothing. If we're not on guard, collectively, we could easily end up without freedom of speech and press in practice.
Contrast with the next presidential election, which also had Russian interference, but questioning the results of make you a conspiracy theorist.

The Democrats have the election as either a sham or the most secure election ever based on if their side won.
I’m surprised the army literally calls it PsyOp rather than trying to disguise it as something more mild like “Communications Specialists”.

Is there a reason for this?

In my mind it would be to attract better talent that actually wants to do PsyOps rather than Communications, so it’s a good filter to attract smart people that want to do spy-like work.
I'm not going to defend America's military adventurism, but do you really see no difference between a limited military campaign against a brutal dictator (and yes, partially over control of oil) vs a campaign to take over a bordering, more-democratic country for mythological ethic reasons, including by shelling cities?
The OHIP 3-month waiting period was suspended in 2020 due to COVID-19. They're going to restore it at some point, but for now it looks like there's no waiting period:

From https://www.ontario.ca/page/apply-ohip-and-get-health-card

"There is no longer a waiting period for OHIP coverage. If you are eligible, you will have immediate health insurance coverage. Find out if you qualify."
Ehhh. Servant != Supplicant. It's a workable tactic, sure, but I would not expect it to actually resolve anything (only alleviate symptoms, temporarily).
Both size and cost are dropping pretty quick with the development of better MOSFETs - the same ones that are soon to get very cheap because they're used in electric car motor inverters. I predict that in 100 years the majority of big power links will be DC (although we'll probably still have an AC grid too)
I think we're simply seeing the positive effects of an administration that cooperates with the intelligence community, and not just unidirectionally.

There are numerous reports to dig up about how the former admin flat-out ignored or went directly contrary to what the IC was saying, and I think that hurt us more than we will ever know.
They probably don’t. As with almost all modern dictatorships, the military is there to protect the elites from the general populace, and is not fit for much more purpose. Besides Russia doesn’t have to worry about external invaders, because they have their nuclear deterrent. So the state of their military makes perfect sense.

Can’t risk a military coup.
I'm not pro-Russia. I oppose virtually all wars, especially ones that have a terrifyingly high chance[1] of solving global warming by nuclear winter. Furthermore, I'm neither Russian nor Ukrainian and I didn't have an opinion on the validity of the parties' justifications for the last 8 years of the Donbas conflict and I see no reason to let CNN/FOX/NYT/Twitter or any other American media outlet assign me one now. That being said the Ukrainians shelling ethnic Russian regions for 8 years was wrong. Russia invading and shelling Ukrainian regions is also wrong. My bias is against the unnecessary taking of human life. My intellectual interest here is in the use of propaganda and how it mutilates the ability of otherwise intelligent persons to make sense of world events.

Evidently the anti-Russia side is doing a fine job already, so why wouldn't Russian propaganda operations in the West just focus on the completely occulted pro-Russia side? And rest assured there is a pro-Russia side, we just don't get to hear it. If Russian "troll farms" were effective they'd manage to get it out. They observably haven't, so we can conclude they're incapable of doing so. Furthermore, the powers that be in the West act as though we are children that can't risk exposure to dangerous Russian media. This offends me and it ought to offend everyone else that has any intellectual self-respect. Regardless which side, if any, is in the right, the infantilization of the subject in the West is depressing.

How many people here have even heard of the Azov Battalion[2]? What is behind the apparent absurdity of an openly neo-Nazi unit fighting for the Jewish President of Ukraine? There's a lot going on here to be curious about and we're not permitted to be.

[1] I estimate it's around 1% right now.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion