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" But it truly is fascinating to watch as a moderately tech savvy person - not sure I can remember anything like this where a tech company in a position where it has a lot of industry/programmer goodwill has inexplicably fucked over its developer-base so often in an 18-24 month period."

Then you haven't been paying attention to the last 23+ years of PC gaming, Microsoft and the game industry have been at war with the PC as an open platform once they discovered the average PC user was a moron and didn't understand that buy a client-server application for your PC (mmo's) is literally stealing software from yourself.

When richard garriot launched UO in 1997, the entire silicon valley business community was overjoyed. Garriot had done what other software companies failed to do, they literally got gamers to pay for the privilege of robbing themselves.

For those who don't know "MMO's" are a fake genre invented by the game industry to confuse the tech illiterate so they could monopolize their own products and prevent piracy (aka you can't really copy a game during its window if you don't have the server back end required for it to function).

They wanted to back end all the big budget games (aka steal them). So they needed a cover story to go along with it. Valve got the idea for steam from the success of Ultima online in 1997 and Everquest in 1999.

Everyone saw the sick money being made from stupid.

If you think "MMO's" are some special type of software, you're lacking basic computer literacy.

We've restored the networking code that was pulled out of need for speed world.

Here's an "MMO'" we've restored the networking code of, so no your whole post shows you don't grasp anything about how computers work. Any client server C++ application can be converted back to a local application (aka singleplayer+multiplayer PC game, no login accounts or user names /w server browser).

https://sites.google.com/site/djnfswo/

There are a few other "MMO's" which we've restored the networking code.

Up until the mid to late 90's EVERY PC GAME came with the ability to host your own multiplayer inside the game and quake 2 was already an "MMO" had limitless multiplayer.

John carmack (slightly paraphrasing) "No limit to the # of players..."

https://youtu.be/TfeSMaztDVc?t=100

For those of you who are shaking their heads, you can go view johns carmacks comment here saying quake 2 has limitless ("MMO") multiplayer, notice it didn't require giving up the game or carving back some of its code to lock the game down behind user accounts. They just wanted to get rid of the infinitely copyable binaries that most PC games were with Descent, doom, duke 3d, Unreal tournament, UT2003, UT2004.
> If you ask me, the whole "military on their doorstep" argument is a canard.

The US does. It's been a foundation of US foreign policy for 200 years [1]. The US went right to brink of triggering a nuclear war over a breach of this in Cuba. So why are we surprised Russia doesn't believe this?

> Putin is paranoid but he's not an idiot.

Prior to a week ago I thought so too but it's difficult to see a scenario where Putin "wins" here.

> This war is about resources plain and simple.

This is a contributing factor, for sure.

Russia pays Ukraine billions for the the rights to pipe natural gas over their land. But this was a "solved" problem in the sense that Russia has been busy building pipelines through Belarus and the Baltic to avoid this that were on track to cut Ukraine out of these fees by 2024 or so.

That leaves the issue of oil and gas deposits that have been found in Ukraine. The first is in the Black Sea and these are within the territorial waters of Crimea. Crimea is essentially a "solved" problem after the annexation in 2014.

That leaves two regions that have (IIRC) shale deposits. The first is in the West of the country. It seems like that would be difficult for Russia to control as it would require occupying the whole country.

The other is in the Donbas and is covered by the "republics" of DPR/LPR.

So if Russia had launched a limited invasion to carve out the Donbas they may have gotten away with that (IMHO). Like there'd be a period of sanctions and blowback but they could've "won" eventually (IMHO).

But this? This is just unwinnable and completely unjustifiable.

> The idea that NATO is going to launch a land invasion is flat out goofy.

You're viewing this through the lens that US and NATO are benign, maybe even that NATO is a defensive alliance (which it isn't). Even if it is truly defensive, there's very little that separates a defensive military alliance and an offensive one, particularly when that alliance has strategic nuclear weapons.

Remember that all the ploys that Putin has done like justifying military action in Georgia on protecting Russians can be turned around on Russia. Imagine a Ukraine in NATO that decides they need to protect persecuted Ukrainians in Belarus and carve off a piece.

Whose to say that Ukraine emboldened by NATO membership doesn't take military action to reclaim Crimea? Again, this is from the Russian perspective.

You might say that's crazy and it may well be but not if you're Russia.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
Samsung is reportedly throttling the performance of 10k popular apps
The "necessary" part is the real political bone of contention. The "doable" part is where the argument shifts to "parenting isn't about doing what's easy", and the "easy" part is where it varies by individual.
> the deployers run away in 2 weeks tops

Well, they probably didn't run away - they were probably only paid for two weeks tops. The only constant I've ever observed in 30 years of software development is that the people who make decisions think that saving a few thousand dollars in programmer salaries is worth having a business that nobody really understands, that operates at minimal efficiency, and generates unhappy customers. God forbid anybody ever treat highly educated programmers as competent professionals and equal partners in the business.
Whatever gas is flowing to Europe right now, keeps flowing with no change in price or conditions. The Kremlin made it an explicit point to guarantee this, even in war time.

They are not in a position to demand anything because if they do, the dependency will soon be resolved. Europe is already working with the assumption that this is not future-proof, so alternatives will be found, rendering any demand useless.

Not even almighty China can lay heavy "demands" on the West or build dominant international alternatives. China needs the world far more than the world needs China. Just a few decades ago, we didn't depend on anything coming from China. We can dial that back.

The opposite is not true. China has a useless geography making them heavily dependent on many external geographies just to acquire the very basics to sustain their population.

The world wants the western model, even if imperfect. People migrate to the west, nobody wants to live in Russia or China. When given a choice, every former Soviet territory wants to join the EU, not Russia. I think that says enough.
I'd like to see mankind drop everything it's doing and focus on making portal guns a reality. Once we have the ability to step from our home office into our work office (and back again as many times as we want throughout the day) then we can all happily continue working together on other stuff.
As I said, batteries of any kind... Nuclear would be better, but that takes time to build.
They are rational in the sense that most of the world is trying everything they can to avoid a shooting war with Russia. It's the whole of sanctions that will put pressure on Russia, not any single one.
I used to buy this, but I disagree.

If you could say your school friends were "real friends", you can say your work friends are real friends. Modulo some child-like naivety, you were only friends with your schoolmates because you had to be at school with them. Hell, say you're homeschooled, and you're friends with kids in your neighborhood; you're only friends with them because you have to live around them. You can always make this argument for all except purely Internet friends you plucked from the æther of some Discord server.

No-strings-attached friends are different from school/geographic/work friends, in terms of quality of life threat and the social strategy that should govern your interactions, but I don't think you can't say they're all friends.
Yes, that's still SFINAE. Now `is_constructible_v<S<X>>` evaluates to either `true` or `false`, depending on `X` being complete or not on the point of instantiation, while with the static assert it's always `true`, but you get an error at the point where the default constructor is instantiated. The different value for `is_constructible_v<S<X>>` can cause ODR violation in this variable template itself https://eel.is/c++draft/meta#rqmts-5, or otherwise further down the line.

About your edit: I didn't know about that issue. Apparently it is ODR violation and ill-formed, no diagnostic required according to https://eel.is/c++draft/temp.point#7 :(. I'm not happy about it.

Having said that, yours is not free from ODR violation issues.
So it's supposed to be Nadella?

Guess that makes more sense, I initially thought it was a comment on Nestle somehow.
These guys have blood on their hands.
I'll be honest. I did not realize that Chernobyl is only about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kyiv.
Very impressive! Please correct the error in the title -- it's "line of sight," not "line of site."
In the US that's mostly because that's the biggest lever the Federal government has to pull. The power to legislate things within states directly is mostly devolved to the states so Congress mostly has the tax code to point a firehose of money to incentivize things. It's why the Affordable Care Act hinged on the individual mandate initially, all the regulation of healthcare legally depended on the existence of a tax to put it in Congress's legal authority.
Very interesting, and the Bankers Almanac was something I'd never heard of before. We're all used to PayPal/Stripe/etc. working instantaneously because it's already inside the US system. While SWIFT seems decrepit, it explains how much trust is involved in banking; more-so for international banking. If there was not a person in the middle of international transactions banks would face a lot more potential fraud. If your bank went out of business because they participated in some dodgy international transactions you would be rightfully pissed off at losing all your money.

The Bankers Almanac also helps explain how "legit fraud" takes place, ie: how money can move around sanctions. It seems clear that by cutting Russia off from SWIFT probably stifles unrelated 3rd parties from moving around other road-blocks. Could also be something helping to clear the path to CBDC's: by removing major exit points to "Freedom Dollars"/cash.
- "Roscosmos will also stop servicing rocket engines it had previously delivered to the U.S., Rogozin said, adding that the U.S. still had 24 engines that would now be left without Russian technical assistance."

Here's ULA's CEO's response to this threat:

- "We prefer to have them available for consultation in the event that the engine might do something unexpected. But, we have been flying these for years and have developed experience and expertise"

https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1498381441817886724

- "United Launch Alliance said Friday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will have no impact on the company’s Atlas 5 rocket program, which has 25 missions left to fly with Russian-made main engines before retirement."

- "“As we manage the transition to the Vulcan launch system, all necessary RD-180 engines to execute the Atlas 5 flyout are safely stored in our factory in Decatur, Alabama,” said Jessica Rye, a ULA spokesperson. “We have agreements for technical support and spares, but if that support is not available, we will still be able to safely and successfully fly out our Atlas program.”"

https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/02/25/ula-says-russias-invas...
Good thing you don't need to enter in any credit card information to use windows 11, as is explained in the article.
> and don't verify regularly

I think that's it really - you need to have checks and balances on all things (including yourself imo as the boss).

Personally I would not want to be double-checking receipts every day (and with 100 employees, the volume is likely significant), but if he enjoys it, that's all that matters eh!
Yeah, from the headline I thought that the credit card was mandatory for access to the test build or something. But it's just allowing you to (voluntarily) save credit card info for making purchases in the App Store, similar to how Android and Apple devices do it.
But so does a credit card... or a deposit in a Swiss bank.
Then explain:

1. NATO bombing of Kosovo. This is offensive military action;

2. NATO invasion of Libya. This is offensive military action; and

3. NATO having strategic nuclear weapons. The US deploying nuclear weapons to Turkey is really what precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis.
They understand that.
You're not going to get physical intervention on Russia <-> China connectivity.
I didn't suggest forcing you to do anything. Only that some people prefer different things than you. Apparently that upsets you.

Believe it or not, a lot of people do make friends at work. I can see why that might happen less for you.
So did my Android phone, and my Apple phone.
One could make taxes very easy in a way that would definitely boost the popularity of the anti-tax crowd. Makes taxes a single bill sent out at tax time. No tax collections, not withholdings, etc. You get a bill, you log into an IRS website, enter in the information for donations, dependents, etc., and you get your final bill you have to pay. IRS can even prepopulate that data for you and just have you sign off or make any needed modifications.

You can streamline the process and at the same time turn it into a single bill that would be much more shocking to tax payers than the current situation where they often get either a refund or a small bill.
It isn’t ICANN’s job to control propaganda.
> But the border of Finland is like 50 miles from St. Petersburg...the city of the Czar's

Yes but it doesn’t go anywhere

Look at Ukraine and Poland on the map - they can close off Russia to Europe
This comment assumes that western peoples are safe some any kind of propaganda.
Well from my humble opinion i think otherwise.
> wouldn't ask the manager to approve every small refactoring

It becomes an issue if it takes more than a day. Scrum, Kanban, RUP, XP, waterfall - whatever "methodology" they say they're following, it boils down to "tell me how long this is going to take and I'll check to see how close what you said was to the time it took". If you can make a change in an hour, sure. If it takes a day, it's going to break your "commitment".
You think that if you only close enough TV stations these people are going to start watching Rachel Maddow?
I think it's important to not confuse WFH life with WFH life during a global pandemic.

Many people WFH and their kids have been stuck at home, they dont feel safe popping to the coffee shop for a few hours of work, and they dont feel safe going to social events.

Once people feel fully safe doing those things and the kids are back in school in person WFH life will elevate for so many.
Going after developers with excellent tooling has been part of the MS strategy since at least the 90s. MS knows that they need lots of 3rd party developers to make their own offerings more successful and that's why they're throwing them bones. They are still trying to lock users into MS products and services. It's always been a mix of direct and indirect vendor lock in - for example, proprietary data formats or no equivalent application/extension for competing product/OS.
You can find the live European Aggregated Gas Storage Inventory info here https://agsi.gie.eu
We'll just see a repeat of the Deutsche Bank laundromat:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-ba...
These gestures are basically useless
spokesperson Doug Neville wrote that OSN is “not an ongoing operation.”

However, according to emails obtained and reviewed as part of our investigation, the operation does appear to be actively ongoing [..] as “OSN 2.0”

This whitewashing of illegal/unethical activities by simply renaming them is so common, it must have a name?
fixed that for you:

A neural-network based grammar checker doesn't make sense.
I'm not the OP, but my insurance program (BCBSNC) offers some things. I get

* a 'wellness portal' (which... doesn't open anything when I click on it) - nope - goes to 'werally.com'

* a 'nurse support program' - which seems to be a bullet point list of things they say they help me with, but... no call to action, or phone number, or.. anything actionable.

* 'Behavioral Health Support' - which takes me to quartethealth.com, which says their service is free, but it's just the matching portion - services still cost something (and I've got... $7000 in deductibles to hit first, only for 'in-network' - out of network, it's... $35k)

* a 'blog' where I can 'explore articles and videos on fitness, nutrition and more to help keep you healthy.'

* 'nutritional counseling' - 'Simply make an appointment for nutritional counseling with a registered dietitian. If you see an in-network dietitian in an office setting, your copayment can be waived...' - except if you have a high-deductible plan, which is the only thing I can remotely afford.

"Telehealth" services are from 'Teledoc', and are 0% for me once I hit my deductible. Yay.

What I would value is being able to go visit a doctor more than once a year. If I'm physically ill (bad cough, aches, headaches, etc) I would like to be able to go see someone for some basic inspection without it costing hundreds of dollars or more. My wife broke a bone in her foot years ago - this was at least a couple of thousand dollars out of pocket on top of the (at the time)... $7k year in insurance premiums. But... it's my own fault because I 'chose' "high deductible". If I'd just have been willing years ago to commit to paying $12k/year for the two of us, perhaps we might have gotten away with 'out of pocket' for her foot of under $1k.

Essentially, between 'premiums', and 'deductibles' and 'copays', I have to be willing to commit to ... $15k-$20k up front before I see any 'benefit' from a health care encounter. I don't see how this is sustainable, but... I've been saying that for years, and... I'm hanging in there - I don't know how other people do it. 5 years ago a friend's insurance was $1900/month for him, wife and a kid. And.. yes, high deductible.
There are those that end up cleaning up after everyone else that don't necessarily have the time to do that because the work needs to get done or someone gets blocked. I envy the people that get to clock out at the normal time, and are free to not consider downstream effects of what they do because that would take too much time away from their social endeavors. At least with WFH, you generally have enough contact info to call that sort of thing out, and ideally, wort it out.
Some banks support multiple currency accounts, so it might not be necessary to open accounts in different banks.

Check out the all weather portfolio or the dragon portfolio, they try to create a portfolio that performs reasonably well in "all" circumstances.
with real reasons.
>So when the generals say, hey there's Finland, sitting there all by itself, right next to us. It'll take us two weeks, nice and clean. And Sweden's up next, we can get Ikea and Abba too. But we must hurry, in another month or two they might join Nato. Just sign here, mr president.

Well, yes. This is simplification of course, but generally - yes. Obviously you have to keep cultural aspects in mind.
Sweden going into NATO is bad but not as bad as Ukraine because Ukraine is basically part of Russia from Putins point of view. Them joining NATO or EU is like Chechnya going for independence (again) from Putin's\military point of view.

They (someone) just decided to be proactive here.
That's up to individual service providers, and it wouldn't surprise me if some were starting to reconsider peering agreements.
Ha! Why so modest that you stop at just digital services? Surely with that wide an interpretation farming can be seen as "facilitating" the production of content by RT as it helps keep food prices down.
This is an oversimplification. China can't support Russia directly for couple of reasons (from Taiwan perspective). Even neutral is a kinda bad.

* Russia is foreign country, invading other country. China respects sovereignty. Their claims for Taiwan are based on that - Taiwan is not independent according to their narrative. Huge military invasion into Taiwan is against this ideology. It proves that Taiwan was not part of China.

* If they are OK with invasion of Ukraine, then other countries have arguments for invading China, and help Tibet, Inner Mongolia or Xinjiang to be independent nations. China really does not want that.

Also they remind us all the time, that what happens in the country, happens in the country (China). It is country's business and nobody else should take part for that.
The actual process is essentially the same than in an industrialized country: trucks that move goods from A to B. It's just that A, B, and the agent moving the goods are very different. By "different", I mean "much worse". Maladies: bad refrigeration, multi-week delays, places crumbling down.

Check this photo of a "bodega" in Cuba (first image in this page): https://www.cibercuba.com/noticias/2018-08-01-u1-e192519-s27...
I'm interested in this for its potential reverse engineering apps on Android. I've had some success with `mitmproxy` but I'm wondering what other HN-ers use for this purpose.
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In my experience productivity is up and people get their work done. What I do see is a lot of extrovert getting depressed because they no longer have access to the smorgasbord of interactions at the office. Certain managers also seem worried by this move to remote, since it has become harder for them to "play the game" of office politics.

My own opinion is let the people decide what to do. Once a week, everyday, once a month, only when needed... Let people and teams decide.
Y'all need to stop making stuff like this because when we go into the dark ages or humanity is wiped out, future people or aliens will be trying to find things that don't exist.
Yet the article is just making baseless accusations and so are you.
Russia has state sponsored hackers who's only goal in life is to ddos / disrupt / destroy the internet.

Why would the internet entertain a country that has set its mind on destroying it?

The only argument I see in comments is that letting Russian citizens get on VK is more important than allowing Ukrainian citizens to communicate and organise evacuations before the Russian tanks turn up. Are you all on crack or something?
They didn't. Ukraine has had compulsory military service since 2014 so most men do have military training.