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Thank you for making it clear, exactly what I wrote. Absurdity!

> fighting against the Westernisation of Ukraine

What business is it of Russia to dictate what other countries do? Insanity!

In your first comment you spoke about Russia, now that I responded you moved on to Ukraine and it makes no sense either.

Last time I checked, when I was in Ukraine, they want to be westernized.

We can go back to your previous comment, if Russia does not want it, you can do whatever within your borders. Nobody complained, as I mentioned, the West let Russia do whatever with little to no repercussions. Russia is not a victim, it is an aggressor, without any logical reason.
What could go wrong with the civilian families of Ukrainian soldiers “choosing” to go to put themselves at the mercy of the enemy attacking Ukrainian soldiers, an enemy that has been specifically targeting civilians with bombing and death.

Russia: “hey civilians that we keep bombing and killing, we are generously offering you a stay in our re-education camps. Our words and promises are meaningless so we won’t bother saying whether we’ll use you to extort your soldier relatives”
By realizing that the programming knowledge is vast.

After realizing this, I realized that I am so far away from perfect. I'll just do my best to make the architecture somewhat future proof without writing unnecessary code.
Just to add to your comment, here's a chart showing how college education (probably a good proxy for socioeconomic class) correlates with Democrat/Republican leanings across racial groups: https://assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2020/09/1618431...
And when Germany is no longer satisfied with Greek loan defaults due to the Greeks simply not taxing their population? Do you think that Germany will let Greece tank the Euro without exhausting every option on the table, including replacing Greek politicians if necessary?

If this sound far-fetched to you I implore you to look at the last decades' relations between the countries.
This will just accelerate the centralization of everything in the cloud out of the reach of sovereigns.

But ok, go for it.
The embodied energy problem with nuclear plants is nothing to laugh at.

The barrier for getting new plants up is going to increase as we tackle the carbon footprint of concrete. At least until someone certifies these new concretes for building nuclear plants.
> Build an EU force so that Austria and other non NATO members such as Sweden and Finland can participate

Austria is an odd example, given that it's completely surrounded by "friendlies". What would the Austrians gain by joining NATO? It's fairly clear what they would lose, which is the ability to stay out of a future NATO conflict.

Thought experiment: let's imagine the UK or the US were to somehow kick off a hot war with - let's say - Chinese forces, on/around the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

Do any of us seriously believe that the UK or the US just press some magic "Article 5" button and troops from all over NATO just grab their weapons and set off round the world to join in the fighting?

Looking back at the history of NATO's Article 5 it's clear it has more holes than a Swiss cheese. It's political theatre.[0]

[0] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm
One of the other pronunciations of btrfs is “Better-FS,” and there is another one of those — BeTRFS (B-epsilon tree FS).
Eh, good one :) (btw we don't, and I think the whole preschool parents will soon hate us but hey they're the ones lying!)
Oh man I’m so much lazier, I would just set the G4 on top of the mini and try to figure out how to send video to the G4s screen, give up, and just use a new monitor.
I am a huge proponent of academic independence, but without central leadership a device like this simply will not get built. It's not about cost, it's about coordination. For more detailed arguments on the type of research that requires centralization, see here: https://www.dayoneproject.org/post/focused-research-organiza...
Can we stop shallowly dismissing anything we don’t agree with as propaganda?
Perfectionism is just one tool in your toolbox. It can be favorite and strongest tool, but you also have to know when to put it down. It's not a compromise of your ideals to delay the ideal solution, as long as you are being rational about your reasons for doing it.

It's easier for me to put down perfectionism as long as I have a plan, or can see the plan, that I would use to move from the "good" solution to the "perfect" solution. Then I circle back to that plan when the problem needs more attention.
This would be resolved if you said just how bad the service was that it received a $0.10 tip
The Cummins is not unique in that regard, any diesel can be modified that way, any many are -- the question is, why the RAM 2500 and not the Sierra 2500, Silverado 2500, or F250?
That’s a good one. I’ve heard that referred to as “faulty separation.” “Apron” was supposed to be “a napron,” not “an apron.” “Umpire” was from Old French “nonper” (meaning not even, i.e. an odd-numbered person to settle a dispute between two even groups).
Why are you facing any liability whatsoever for linking to public resources?

If the owner of that S3 bucket is facing losses from serving files to the public, why don't they revoke public access? S3 prints big warnings that you are making things public, so it's unreasonable for a company to claim "We didn't mean to make this public"

What was in the bucket? In any case, sounds like you need a better lawyer, I don't see how HN can help you without you going public and telling the whole story.
Perfectionism is too short a label, and could be one or many of multiple underlying issues. Ultimately, you seem aware of the tendency, so ask yourself: why can't I do "good enough" and move forward?

Maybe the fear of actually doing something outweighs the costs of not doing it under the guise of making it better? Maybe something else?

I found Bezos's thoughts on decision making useful: understand if the decision is a two way door, and if so, move forward with 70% of the data you wish you had.
Or 70% of the product, implementation, whatever.

See e.g. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2016-letter-to...
I have no idea about their condition. That's state level knowledge and requires military training, & I'm just a dog (with an interest and some talent in CS ;) on the internet and pretty much assume most if not all info prepared for me by the media (of all sides) is dog food. At least that's what it tastes like to me :)
Super Mario RPG did frying pan as a melee weapon back in 1996. Sure it was character locked, a single player game in a totally different genre, etc, but it still means frying pans ere an established video game melee weapon long before before TF2, much less PUBG.
You personally hold the same views exposed in the XIX century by the Romantic movement.
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can you explain how having the UK inside the EU would have prevented Putin invading Ukraine?
It's not completely arbitrary. Notice that they said "the last C GCC". After that version, GCC started using C++ in the compiler itself. I can see why some people would see that as a complexity line that must not be crossed, as it makes bootstrapping harder.
The world will look very different in 1 year. Much of the goodwill will dry up, and economics will kick in. Ideally we'd look at this as an opportunity to build massive amounts of housing across Europe.

Many Ukrainians are going to end up permanently resettling.

It's weird though, Europe is a massive place. The UK is a massive place. A push for more housing would benefit everyone.

I'd love for plans to be drawn up to build say, 1 million new housing units in Poland as a start.

Instead of saying, oh no! They're going to take our pie, let's bake a much bigger one.

As horrific as this all is, I'd love to see those who decide to resettle revitalize Europe's smaller declining towns. In 10 years we'll have fantastic Ukrainian/Italian , Ukrainian/French, etc, restaurants fusion restaurants.
Do you really want to have to worry about the US acting as an enemy? Our policy has always been "if you aren't with us, you're against us."
Russia promised to play nice and not seek for expansion again. They were lying all the time from the beginning and countries close to Russian border knew this and looked to protection.

Russia has no right whatsoever over sovereign nations. If you think otherwise, you can depart to the place the Russian warship was sent.
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I've just lost about a week of my life fighting with a bog-simple device replace on a RAID1 btrfs filesystem. I had the misfortune of receiving a replacement disk which was also bad, and somehow the process of attempting to rebuild the array hosed the filesystem on the good disk. Asked for help on the irc channel and the only advice I got was "upgrade to the latest btrfs-tools" (because apparently the "stable" version shipped with debian stable isn't really stable when a problem arises?).

I also was misled by btrfs-check which happily scanned my un-mountable filesystem with no complaints, and learned on the irc that btrfs-check is "an odd duck," in that it doesn't actually check all the things the documentation says it does.

This experience, and the fact that simple things like the "can only mount a degraded filesystem rw one time" bug remain after years of complaints, simply because the devs adopt an arrogant "you're doing it wrong if you don't fix your filesystem the first time you mount it" (despite the tools giving you no indication that's required) attitude, have convinced me to never touch btrfs again.

So keep parroting "it's stable!" all you want, my experience has shown btrfs is "stable" until you have a problem.
One day I hit 42 years old and just ran out of fucks.
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That thing isn't armored enough to survive the drone-dropped bombs the Ukrainians are using, right?
Hey! Thanks for trying the app.

I think you may have tried our original app (the original folder in the github repo). I need to clean up the Releases page. That version used a custom backup engine and allowed backups to a number of storage providers (S3, B2, SFTP, etc).

The new app uses restic as the backup engine and only supports backups to B2 right now. Sorry for the confusion.
The hackers want the Galaxy source code so they can remove all the uninstall-able bloatware from their Samsung phones :)
Some of those countries will probably diversify their reserves into a broader mix of foreign currencies and precious metals. Recent sanctions against Russia have shown that no state can really rely upon reserves stored in a foreign bank. Access to those can be blocked with the stroke of a pen.
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So far there have been only 50 visas granted. There are UK citizens that personally drove to Ukraine to get family members out that are stuck in Calais unable to return. It's not good enough.
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But that is precisely because a lack of autonomous spending in the EU!

One theory is that in Europe in the 1980s, workers became so much more empowered that the private sector lost the will to invest. Start with https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf for the basic concept here, but there are many more examples.

A VAT-funded balanced budget welfare state is a purely redistributional mechanism which, while great, is not sufficient to undo this sort of thing.

Direct government spending like the military sort is a way around this. Maybe the workers are militant, but will the democracy just allow itself to decline military because you don't feel like dealing with that?

Workers vote too, so I don't think so.
More detail: It's because different speaker construction techniques make for different frequency response curves - i.e. there's sounds a cheap speaker can't produce well, so music mastered for listening on commodity hardware of a bygone era sounds "compressed", because they squeeze all of the sound into a narrower band, so you could hear all of it.
> 1. Nobody actually believes the numbers of Russians killed coming out of Kyiv, these are for morale purposes.

That was true at first but has increasingly been changing as NATO sources have been reporting numbers closer to the Ukranian reports. That's not saying it's 100% reliable but it suggests the numbers are closer to what Ukraine is reporting rather than what Russia is reporting.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/1-million-flee-ukraine-ru...

> 2. Thousands of US soldiers were killed in the Iraqi invasion & occupation.

This is true, and it turned public opinion against both wars. Now consider what the impact is of having that happen in a week — if the U.S. figures are right, much less the Ukranian, they are rapidly closing on the _total_ number of casualties from their decade-long invasion of Afghanistan in just the current month and all signs point to a long, bitter occupation anywhere they do capture.
Sputnik, LinuxCare, GLP (fringe side), fark...

Linuxcare is close to me... but I wont go into details. The first linux unicorn and crashed and burned, personally from my perspective, getting too hyper-valued-on-paper-too-fast
Unfortunately the link is unreadable on mobile due to the sidebar taking all the space.
I think the pattern is pointing to hypocrisy and assuming that beats all other arguments.

Consistency is a component of justice and it's something people sometimes aim for, but it's not necessarily more important than other values. You have to make the case for why it's important in a particular situation.
> Last time I checked, when I was in Ukraine, they want to be westernized.

Doesn't matter what they want it the guy with bigger weapons close to them has different opinions, that's how international relations work, that's how wars start, that's why we're in here. It's nothing "irrational" about it, as in we've been doing this for millennia.

On a more general point, I can see your point, you're most probably an idealist [1], I for myself I'm a realist, I personally think that realism is closer to how things actually work when it comes to international relations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism_in_international_rela...
> I think all 3 Baltic countries get wiped out overnight if Russia decides to press the issue.

When I first heard that Russia had launched an attack on Ukraine, I thought it would be over in a few days and that Russia would steamroll them completely.

But I couldn't have been more wrong, and if Russia attacks a NATO state I don't see how they can stand a chance.
I don't know why you wrote this wall of text as an opposing argument, I don't recall claiming that politics don't exists somewhere. Sure politics exists, let's just say individuals exists too.

What I say is that the problems caused by politics emerge when politicians forget that other people are individuals. That doesn't mean that there are no politics in science, in music, in work or even in intimate relationships.

Are you suggesting that the only way to be a politician is to be sociopath? It is a cliche that I find too simplistic, honestly.
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Not content with mass-scale death, little emperor Putin is also tainting all the cool letters. First Q, now Z and V.
Not that high compared to where? The whole of England itself is statistically one of the most densely populated countries on earth.

Interesting that you mention Oxford - Oxfordshire's towns and villages are being transformed by soulless new housing estates with no corresponding increase in public service provision; you can drive for miles from here and into neighbouring counties and not stop seeing them. I don't recognise this area at all compared to growing up.

Genuinely can't speak to the xenophobia, rarely encounter it and don't let it go unchallenged when I do.
What's my budget and staffing? My solution would entirely depend on that.
I would call it a duty more than a debt. I feel that I have a duty to look after my elders, but I do not think my children owe me a debt for conceiving them or for performing my own duty to take care of them.
Ukraine Slams Moscow's Offer to Evacuate Civilians to Russia/Belarus as Immoral
Well, by all accounts (and I'd love to read others that diverge from this) this was actually Russia's exact strategy. Move to Kyiv quickly, destroy the existing government, install a new puppet government, and announce it to the world quickly before the west could react. Russia doesn't have the manpower deployed to actually occupy Ukraine. 200,000 soldiers is not enough when the Ukrainian state is actively resisting. This is why they tried some absolutely suicidal paratrooper missions and they are having all of these apparent logistical issues (again if there are other sources I'd like to learn more please share).

I think if I were to summarize the "Russia is failing" narrative it's that Russia expectations of a quick, easy victory were completely unmet, and now even if Russia does want to occupy Ukraine it's not going to be the quick and easy decapitation strike that they thought it would.
Here's what the Xbox cloud hardware looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5g4Xqy8kG4&t=18s
General elections don't affect the people who were not allowed to vote nearly as much.

The Brexit outcome (not just the vote but political decisions afterwards rejecting all "soft" versions) has literally stripped citizenship rights and rights akin to citizenship from millions of people who were not allowed to vote on their own future.

My take on democracy is that the people most affected by a major decision must be allowed to contribute to the decision. If they are excluded at scale, then it's not democracy, it's just a vote by one group of people to control another.
This is the law in countries that base their territorial protection on reservist army. Total war is their only option against aggressive and larger enemy.
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Thank you for coming clear about Russian aggression Which is why we need to up our defense spending, as I said. In your last comment you drop all pretenses. "We can do whatever we want, no arguments necessary".

I'm not sure what you are proud of though, you forced many neutrals or even friends - like me - into an antagonistic position.

> On a more general point, I can see your point, you're most probably an idealist [1], I for myself I'm a realist, I personally think that realism is closer to how things actually work when it comes to international relations.

You start with an attempt of arguments, laudable, but when you find they are easily defeated you jump to in the context meaningless generalities that don't even fit the previous comments in any way.

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However, your comments do show one thing. There is little room for optimism that sanity and arguments are going to win anything here. I heard even on a German city's market square a German woman selling sausages argue about poor, poor Putin and how the West mistreated him so that he had no choice now but to fight back.

Or just read the comments under a LinkedIn post of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who is a friend of Putin. There were quite a few comments there urging Schröder to continue to support Putin, and a lot of insane stuff in support of Putin and against the West. No idea if it was from real Germans, but there is no reason to suspect "bots", there really are plenty of people supporting Putin.

Read the comments and despair: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gerhard-schroeder_der-krieg-u...

> Dear Mr. Schröder, I think you being a close friend of Putin you understand that sometimes a man has got to do what a man got to do. I believe in putin and his insight on the security of Europe as a whole.

Etc etc... not all comments are like this, but many (many are in German) - not least of which are the comments by the Ex-Chancellor himself.
I agree that the US military is huge and expensive, but that doesn't address 'military need,' which is a question of which missions are worth funding and what the requirements are for each.

If your goals are just coastal defense and prevention of invasion from Canada and Mexico, then that's significantly easier. Those aren't the US goals and haven't been for a long time. And it seems to be overwhelmingly the case that any potential defense partner for the US (aligned interests, not judged to be themselves a threat) can successfully pass off military spending to the US.
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Could you explain this in more detail? I am not very familiar with analog hybrid circuits for ML.
>At that point you'd have to ask yourselves: who would risk nuclear escalation to retaliate for Latvia or Estonia? not the US.

That is the point behind asking for US soldiers to be permanently based. They are a sign of commitment. An "engagement ring" if you will. Without the US soldiers there it becomes much easier to ignore an attack.
Why US only? Aren't you shrinking the talent pool 10% for no good reason by excluding Canada?

I just see this with a lot of job postings, and as a Canadian I just skip on past them and they potentially miss out on a great hire.
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Only someone who assumes they have the right-of-way through an intersection when they don't see a sign, and can just blow through without looking if anything is coming.

Even in stop-sign-happy North America there aren't stop signs everywhere there could be stop signs; every licensed driver must know what to do at an uncontrolled intersection.
Polars+DuckDB beats Pandas.

Tidyverse (R) is superior for data exploration but R is not fun to deploy and make complex multi job data pipelines.
So I might be able to use a PiDP-11 microcomputer, presuming it is compatible with thd PDP-10, to run an 8088 emulator, on which I could run early DOS programs?