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> You can't predict the outcome.

Everyone from Henry Kissinger to Joe Biden is on record saying NATO expansion would lead to a confrontation with Russia.

As for Iraq, it takes a special kind of wilful ignorance to think that deposing a strongman, leaving a power vaccum and excluding the existing power structure would lead to anything but chaos.

> Do you think that most Iraqi people were pro-Saddam or against him?

Either the people of Iraq supported Saddam, in which case the justification of liberating Iraq was BS. Or the majority did not support Saddam, in which case there is absolutely no justification for the suffering inflicted on them.
It's the best idea. Build an EU force so that Austria and other non NATO members such as Sweden and Finland can participate.
Ahhh … sftp is a choice.

Great job!
Binary Search, Revisited
Says totally unsourced, unauthenticatable document found on internet.
It's important to keep in perspective: this is a response to the natural consequences of invading a peaceful country unprovoked.
He's probably going to run again
The vast majority of TSMC manufacturing will still be in Taiwan. The US fabs are mostly for national defense products that legally need to be completely domestically sourced from what I can tell.
People don't understand the difference between "good" and "better", or the idea of marginal/incremental improvement.

"Good" is almost never the solition to "bad -- it's usually impractical for pragmatic or political reasons. The solution is "better" aka "less bad" and iterate. Progressive ideas, and ideas that can get some semblance of consensus, work much better than Revolutionary ideas.
Unfortunately the brexit-supporting wing of the government seems to have NIH syndrome. So not only have we left the EU, but we've left a whole bunch of institutions that were never a part of the EU and did not come with the same obligations for no apparent reason.
Yes, they are a one party state, whereas we have two parties to choose from. Our guys can be trusted of course.
I would square it by looking at the rhetoric which often focuses on "big government paying cronies and the 'swamp'". It's important to distinguish what they're actually doing from what they're saying to get support.

Also see a huge amount of research that who gets part of the public goods is almost important as the fact that they're giving out public goods. Which often falls along nationalistic and racial lines.

I personally doubt that most in GOP vote along those value lines, but there are very vocal and organized segments that do which I think explains why it'd seem that way.

Source: personal experiences and anecdotal evidence (e.g. take with a grain of salt)
Think about what you are saying.

Do you really think a threat actor with those resources needs a blurred image to get his phone number?
They have already failed to stop immigration: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/31/three-times-many...

"Record-breaking 28,381 people made perilous journey across the world’s busiest shipping lane this year"
I think the question is what does "security assurances" mean. The term doesn't appear in the actual text of the memorandum (https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.or...) and so has been introduced by the Wikipedia author as a way of summarizing it.

The "Content" section of the Wikipedia article (which I referred to in my post) actually matches the memorandum pretty closely and, as I said before, it seems that the UK is complying. Can you point out which part of the memorandum the UK is not complying with?
I keep coming back to the old Reid Hoffman quote: "If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."

I also constantly remind myself that "perfect is the enemy of shipped".

A useful thing to remember is that you are the ONLY person that knows how beautiful the thing you were planning to build was going to be. What you've actually built is always going to be disappointing compared to the potential thing you had imagined.

No-one else has that context though. From someone else's perspective, you built a thing! If that thing is interesting or solves their problem, they couldn't care less what it would have been if it had matched your imagination of its full potential.

Most people never build or ship anything at all, so shipping itself is a big cause for celebration.
> The manager tells his devs to just "make it work" for the most challenged user, to abstract away all these nuances of how a browser works. They use test groups to find out how my grandma expects a website to work and they basically make a smart phone converge towards one of those gizmos you saw on Star Trek, and then you get something like the Twitter interface.

Nooooo they do not do this. If they did, modern UIs wouldn't confuse my elderly parents much worse than old ones did.

Dear all tech companies (but looking at you, Google, since they won't stop buying cheap Android phones): every time you decide to have some full-screen horseshit notification pop up on an action, instead of doing the usual thing (say, a "hey, update this for new stuff!" thing) I get a fucking phone call to help "fix it". Goddamn stop it, the rest of us hate that too (my intent was to open the app to do something, so don't get in my way) but it's usability poison for the olds.

That includes those new tabs in Firefox every time there's an update. It's confusing. Stop it. Oh, and FF, bring back normal-ass menus, because my parents (unfortunately) use Windows. Browsers have proven Apple right all along with forcing the top-of-screen "file, edit, view..." menu, since apparently even major vendors can't be trusted to do the sane thing with those instead of cramming it all in some mysterious kitchen-sink button-opened dropdown.
Banks Should Be More Worried About Security
I was a broke student. I sold first day (luckily) just because I didn't have the money to hold onto them for any length of time. Worked out, but then my school took it back by reducing my financial aid award (OUCH).
I have yet to meet someone in real life who disabled js on the browser
> But ignoring it leads to perpetuating an even more corrupt system, no?

I guess it would but I said nothing about ignoring it.
> I don't know if French military involvement in Africa has been particularly helpful to France

A number of African countries continue to store their reserves in France and work with the CFA Franc, which makes it worth it.

> there have been many post-colonial interventions by european forces that have ended in the european's favour

Yeah, but they are all in the past. It's today's news that the French failed in Mali. The combination of increasingly-difficult asymmetrical warfare (with guerrilla becoming more and more effective) and practical cuts to national budgets make such interventions increasingly ineffective. If even the superpowers cannot pacify medium-sized nation-states anymore, individual states have no realistic chance to achieve anything alone.
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People forget there were two separate leave campaigns. This not only gave them double the spending cap, but also let them make wholly incompatible claims about the kind of brexit we would get. They could never have both been right so it was obvious at the time that the claims were merely aspirational.
Ask any mobile trading app and they will tell you how slow React Native is.
Laziness. Software is almost all bad and will be thrown away anyway. Get it working against happy path, solve for obvious bad paths, and move on.
A good team player would do them without complaint, with thorough communication, and a healthy positive attitude, but work with the stakeholders towards: first, documentation, then automation.
"A timely wrong decision is often better than no decision"

Looks like you found the "often".
> A Christmas Carol is also not a real story but it is a great masterpiece helping us think about life.

Sure, if your audience is literally children.

Using a series of (violent) smut novels as a guide for complex human dynamics is not something that serious people do.
I have a zero idea, too. This is currently circulated by Russian local/nationwide outlets.
That was the general idea held by some people who were following the conflict online, I knew I was one of them, turns out I (and the people thinking like me) was/were wrong.

I first thought this would play out like Czechoslovakia 1968, with the Soviet/Warsaw Pact paratroopers taking one of the big airports close to the capital, part of the local Army turning sides and the regime collapsing. Under that scenario everything would effectively have been over in 3 days, give or take.

As further proof that that was the Russians' initial tactic is that they only started bombing civilian assets about 5 days in, when it had become clear to them that the initial plan had failed.
I'd agree

but then I'd counter with the fact that a super-majority wasn't required to join the EU (EEC in 1975), so why is it fair that a supermajority would then be required to leave it?

stacking the odds in Remain's favour in this way would definitely have been seen as illegitimate

(I'm also certain that the majority of people stating that the UK leaving the EU should have required a super-majority would be against requiring a super-majority to rejoin, in the unlikely event that ever happens...)
This framing carries the kind of contempt that propels poorer people to vote Republican. They consistently feel contempt from democrats. Should it be surprising why?
I'm not sure how someone would get a well-rounded understanding of IT without doing some ops work. I've seen a lot of obvious security issues because the developer had no experience with security.
Is it the need to be perfect or the need to be seen as perfect that is the issue?

As more and more is shared, I've seen my kids not want to try things simply because they see people doing the same thing amazingly well. The same people doing things so amazingly well don't necessarily share all the work and failures that went into getting there which is a shame and probably a better lesson then the end result.
If I'm banned from a store, it's still theft if I take goods from that store without paying.
Do you really think its any different in Germany? Berlin, which right now has the most refugees arriving (edit: in Germany!), has a huge housing problem. People are just giving their spare rooms to refugees. And that is after we just "absorbed" over 1 million refugees from Syria and Afghanistan in the last 5 years. I'm sure we'll manage to do the same with 1m Ukrainian refugees. From what I hear in our city (near Frankfurt), the number of available rooms offered by private citizens are still exceeding the number of refugees by 10 to 1. That will change, but its really not that big a deal.

So, I'm pretty sure that a country with 68 million inhabitants, could easily house and feed a couple of 100k people. It does cost money, though. So...
Sounds like everyone involved would be happier just to scrap the thing and go our own way then.
I did not know submarines could carry 150 weapons. Wow, that is a lot.
Great comment. Some fresh air among a sea of armchair generals that think they could take control of Ukraine in 24 hours "if they wanted to".
The Kurds seem pretty happy about the Iraq war.

Also, in the tables of moral calculus, incompetence in pursuit of noble goals ("depose evil dictator and establish democracy") is significantly less offensive than overtly evil goals ("overthrow democracy and install kleptocracy that rules the natives at gunpoint").
I spent the past weekend reading papers of blue light effects on melatonin suppression to decided if blue light blocking glass was supperted by science, and to know and to know the parameters I should consider.

As today, the academic consensus is that Melatonin suppression, on the lower part of the spectrum, is regulated by melanopsin produced by the Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) -- not blue rods. The photosensitivity of ipRGCs has λ_peek = ~460 (nm).

They've done experiments with rats without cones and rods (but with ipRCS), and they displayed circadian cycles.

Melatonin is also suppressed by lights on higher part of the spectrum, but haven't papers on it.

I've decided in getting this safety glass:
https://www.thorlabs.com/thorproduct.cfm?partnumber=LG3A

The dark amber glass from swanwick have similar optical density curve:
https://www.swanwicksleep.com/

I choose the safety glass instead of the swanwick glass because I have more confidence that a safety glass in conforming with the provided specification. Since I intend to use it home, I don't care about how it looks.

It you want to customize your own glass, this company sells lens blank of filter that block a somewhat similar wavelength to the other products:
https://laserprotection.com/product/laser-pointer-protective...

Zeiss also sells special lens for colorblind that blocks similar spectrum. But it is very hard to find information on how to get them online.
i don't believe it would go from zero to nuclear instantly. However, the thought is in a NATO vs Russia fight either side will resort to nuclear weapons before surrender. The thinking is it would be hard to stop a fight from escalating to an eventual nuclear war.
"thought to be by an analyst in the FSB"

pretty bulletproof, good enough for me
I love my note-taking and drawing on my iPad, but have found significant benefits from switching over to an old 3rd gen kindle for any kind of extended reading.
I got 1.7M views on Unsplash by nourishing the souls of office workers
Moral deterrents have never worked for long.

Which "stuff" is even nastier than nuclear? Chemical weapons aren't very effective against modern militaries. Biological weapons are nearly as dangerous to the user as to the target.
DeepMind claims its new code-generating system is competitive with human coders
We have a severe shortage or workers. We could definitely use them. They might have to accept poor housing but that's due to housing policy.
If it is cheap on the resources (less cpu and ram) it is probably more expensive on manpower. If it is cheaper on manpower it is probably less resource efficient.

You can take a look at the Web Framework Benchmarks [1] the fastest frameworks aren’t going to be in anything halfway common and even if the programming language is mainstream, the framework is probably not.

Virtual servers are affordable enough and scalability is unlikely to become hardware project for you. Most companies try to go with a “popular” programming language and framework during the time they form because they are more concerned about scaling their teams rather than their tech stack. Even then it might be worth paying a programmer a bit more when you have less competition finding programmers and the language/framework is productive.

Unless you have very specific needs the tech stack probably doesn’t matter much anymore.

[1]: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Well, we have table service at McDonald's in France. Still no tips :D
This trend has been changing over time, though. Democrats are losing poorer voters and gaining among highly educated, and higher earning voters.
Canadian economy is less diversified and overly reliant on housing as a component of GDP, so policy has been distorted by the housing market and the corruption/money laundering that goes along with it.
> The point [of an EU army] is to give Europe some real sovereignty (...)

Who would one put in charge, though?

I'm not sure getting the 27 member states (who are already very much individually sovereign) to pool their sovereignty is going to be quite as easy as some think.

The EU can't even agree on how to pick the President of the European Commission - see the statements in February 2018 by the EU Parliament on how this should be done, followed by nomination of the 'Spitzenkandidaten' and debates between candidates in early May 2019, followed by the elections at the end of May 2019, followed by ... Ursula von der Leyen getting the job in July 2019. Not exactly democracy at its finest.
I think this is the report they are talking about. Don't know if there are better sources. http://www.igorsushko.com/2022/03/translation-of-alleged-ana...
I suppose it depends on which part of perfectionism is hurting you.

I struggle with starting. I think I can't accomplish the perfect result I envision so I find myself paralyzed and unable to begin.

To help with that I remind myself of the Pareto principle. If I can accept that I may get MOST of the way to my goal on the smaller portion of my effort, I can usually get started.

The next struggle is finishing things, running into barriers and deciding to start over instead of overcoming them, or moving on to a different project. I don't currently have strategies for that unfortunately.

It's hard to break these mindsets and habits.
Isn't that how democracy literally works?

Giving a random person off the street the ability to vote leads you to these results. No surprises honestly.
I think this is an important topic to discuss, but not right now, if only because whataboutism and deflecting criticism of Russia's aggression to aggression by the US has been part of Putin's rhetoric for a long time now.

Releasing such an article at this time is a good way to get people to roll their eyes and dismiss it as yet another mouthpiece of Putin's trolls. It's also borderline insensitive. At this moment, the western world doesn't want to hear these complaints, there's something more pressing to deal with.
We need to clarify what is meant by constructive.

There is the theory that the mind is a construction of culture. Essentially we use tools (such as maps or fingers to count) which are external to us, later become internalized. It´s an oversimplification but the point being is that you need other people for minds to develop, and this development happens through culture. [1]

The thing that we talk about here is the property of Emergence. [2]

"In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors which emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. "

[1] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
Thinking about it more, I suspect the pattern I've noticed is "C programmers who switched to Python along the way" and less "Python programmers who happened to dabble in C". I'm of a certain age where most everyone started as a C programmer, so there's a bias towards that background in my circle.
Mass adoption of centrally controlled devices doesn't change the paradigm of reasoning about computing freedom, though. This trend just means that the majority of computing devices aren't under the control of their owners, not that the idea of computational freedom is irrelevant.

In fact I would say barring some very strong laws that make de facto locked down devices outright illegal, there will always be more proprietary devices than libre ones. One of the chief goals of locking down computers is decommodification, meaning taking what could be a general purpose device and restricting it to one specific purpose. Even caring heavily about software freedom - I've got two librebooted desktops, two me_cleaned laptops, one microG phone, but still countless purpose-tailored devices that perform some proprietary function. If those proprietary functions (eg Google Voice SIP integration) could be straightforwardly done with libre software, then I could just consolidate those functions into the libre infrastructure.
> Ukraine didn't have modern weapons in 2014, but they do now.

And the Ukrainians don't even have a full complement of modern weapons. IIRC, they're mainly getting sent infantry heavy-weapons at the very last minute. Even the US was pretty stingy with things like Javelins until very recently, out of fear of "provoking" the Putin.

Since the Baltics are in NATO, I doubt they'll have as many issues with getting more/better weapons. Hopefully they'll also take some lessons from Ukraine (e.g. really, really beef up their reserve forces and military training for their civilian population).

Also, since they're actually in NATO, they can hopefully count on better support from their allies than what the Ukrainians have gotten.
> Europe needs an EU Army

No. What we need is nukes. As we've seen many times so far, no country can be truly sovereign without nukes.
With a couple of code changes I'm successfully able to build and run the project again!! Thanks everyone for thoughts and suggestions.
I hate to be the cynical arm chair commenter but you have to understand that most of the world is not at war with Russia at the moment.

I can understand if the Ukrainian government wants their "airwaves" clear of russian propaganda, but asking the whole world to censor them brings no benefit in my opinion. More so, Ukrainians probably can tell from their own experiences how much bullshit there's on RT, so it serves no actual purpose to do so even for them.
Switched my family to Mint a while ago. It is genuinely seamless. They didn't notice, other than the background changed (and I slowed my haranguing them about virus safety).

Not all Steam games are available, but enough are to keep you busy.
Oh I've seen a lot of loops and asked a lot of questions about them.

In one particular instance I had logically concluded myself into an extratemporal nihilism, where I forgot that time exists, therefore everything was meaningless. It ended when my friends reminded me that time indeed exists and everything will pass, including this momentary infinity.

Your mind is, literally at the biological level, a bunch of loops for electricity to flow through. It's not like your mind channels energy to get rid of it? It's more efficient to hold onto energy, and you need a loop for that to maintain continuous function.

Don't mistake the spiral for a loop. It only appears to go around in circles because you're a lesser-dimensional being looking at it from a flat plane. Stars don't have stable orbits, they follow a straight line through warped spacetime. We also travel forwards in time. Everywhere is a point of no return because no place is exactly the same when returned to. Time is change. Evolution is an inevitable phenomena of some law of physics we might as well call God.

Nature, like God, is mysterious. The more we learn, the less we know we know. Knowing anything, even a load of nothing, calms the mind. Asking questions is the surest way to engage a brain. Asking difficult questions is like discovering labyrinths. Yes, they're confusing to navigate. Yes, there be monsters. But also, loot and enlightenment.

It turns out there's a bit of truth in everything and a byte of lies to chew through to get to the good stuff. Nature protects its bounty. You have teeth for a reason. Brush them and smile. You're God.

love expands life
life expands consciousness
consciousness is vital to space travel
travel, without moving.
> That is not the same thing as the US and UK invading and overthrowing totalitarian dictator Saddam Hussein.

Either violation of a nation's sovereignty is a crime or it isn't. If being an authoritariann dictatorship is the criteria when is Saudi Arabia getting invaded?

> Should the West not stand up for Ukraine now? Don't be absurd.

Can you point to where TFA makes this argument?