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This must be how the allies felt in 1939 wondering what Germany’s master plan could possibly have been. Of course, they couldn’t have foreseen Hitler being a bumbling buffoon all along.
So it's not fake news then.
The scale of today's sanctions against Russia is unprecedented. I don't think this study applies here in the slightest.

We (the West) can't just invade Russia and enforce peace that way. Political, economical and cultural isolation is the next best thing we have.

I fully support sanctions against them.
All the nationals banks where I'm from have banned transactions to/from a hundred countries, more than half of the world's countries, yes. Why? Because they themselves got busted for money laundering, fined billions of dollars multiple times.

Now they're squeezing their won retail customers to look like they're doing something.
> Should I be worried?

Oh yes, definitely! Better report him to the Authorities just to be safe.
I imagine it’s been a pretty tough few years for the people there, and they still have to go through the full waves when their vaccines wane in effectiveness and the rest of the world gets back to normal.

I didn’t envy the likes of New Zealand or China throughout because they really have no exit strategy other than eventually losing the war after multiple years of damage and hardship.
The "problem" being solved is that the manufacturers of the products sold at Walgreens (presumably) profit from their sale, which means there is room for Walgreens (and an accomplice) to shake them down for a fee and still leave everyone willing to continue the relationship.

This is already done through methods like selling prime shelf space (e.g. eye level) but this only works to a certain extent. Cooler Screens and Walgreens are pioneering a new system where video screens and advertisements are used to further manipulate shoppers towards certain products. Manufacturers who play the game are able to maintain their existing level of sales or even slightly grow them, minus the additional rent they are paying Walgreens and Cooler Screens, at the expense of manufacturers who don't play the game.

This could backfire if the video screens both increase store costs (for the reasons you described) and reduce store revenues from upset customers who no longer wish to shop in such a hostile environment. On the other hand, Walgreens is apparently betting that they have capacity to harass their customers without losing too many of them.
I share this experience and I'm also moving from induction back to gas after around 6 years of use.

I've experienced the uneven heat (liquid boiling right over the coil, cold next to it), shitty duty-cycle pulsing (no way of getting a proper low flame) and actually insuficient power when e.g. deep frying (it would throttle back when too hot and temperature actually dropped).

And terrible capacitive controls.

I've moved places and my kitchen now vents straight outside, so the choice is clear for me: gas.
I have an extension to override the locale per-site.
Why use CPC instead of CCP?
You seem very arrogant discussing things that are purely theoretical (absolute zero objects). A healthy debate includes space for speculation, and you are shooting this speculation down with arguments like ”it just doesn’t work like that”, which does not bring anything to the discussion.
I watched that evaluation yesterday and I think it is spot on and I second your recommendation. Many western officials (as most people) seem to be unable to put themselves into this different environment and framework of values. Knowing a lot about a country helps, but judging them by the values you'd have doesn't help you a bit.

Edit: Take the below with a grain of salt, this is one personal experience which can/should not be extrapolated from. There are good/bad people in all nations.

When I was 16 we were on vacation and played waterball in a pool against a russian family. When they realized we were winning (all members of my family were playing handball for life, so this was no wonder) they started to do things like pulling pants and punching underneath the water surface, scratching with the fingernails etc. They still lost.

Back then I could not understand why anyone would deploy such methods in a game during their vacation. For me personally, it would be entirely unpleasant and unenjoyable to envolve myself that much in a non-serious game. But maybe the answer is contained in that video: Maybe it is just much more normal to deploy the whole arsenal of what you can do in russian culture. I guess if you don't try everything and then loose you are seen as an idiot or as a weak person. I grew up in a culture where the rules of society are taken comparedly serious, so for me playing unfair is a sign of weakness (proof you cannot win by the rules).
It already bled into reality. Look at this pic: https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/2g8fn09/an-mta-digital-advertis... It's an MTA customer information billboard in NY: 5% information, 95% advertisement. On this %5 useful space, they have to roll different arrivals, because it is too small to show them all at once. I really wish to the ones, who designed this, to have a lot of money they have to spend on medications.
The invoices and the "order details" page (one that looks like it's from 2000's internet) should retain the item description at the time you bought the item. That's how I successfully claimed a refund on the item that claimed "2 of item" and shipped me only one.
Both. Definitely one of the best options for (windows) desktop apps.

And asp.net is fantastic for webapps, especially now that Blazor has become so capable.

The upcoming MAUI framework is also encouraging and should make cross platform native UI development much nicer.
Tbh I don't care so much whether they're working or not, it's about public and private money from my country not financing war crimes that I do care about.

A good chunk of euros Germany spent on Russian gas entered into the war machine killing people in Ukraine

Economic isolation at least makes sure we're not paying for their bombs, and even for that goal alone they make sense.

It's not about punishing, duh.
makes sense as a psyop attack against putin to try and make him paranoid. But do you seriously think putins security is so lax during war time as to leave surface for someone to assassin him in russia? do you think for example a sufficient number of people in his close network are conspiring without him knowing ? to me it does not seem plausible
I read the whole piece and my take-away was - China, being very self-interested, will drop
Putin at the first sign he's really losing. They need to decide fast and are
very split, but it will happen sometime within the next two weeks.
How is the vaccination situation in China?
can you please be specific on "necessary Math"? trying to apply pareto principle and cut down amount of time needed to brush up what seemingly all of lower division math courses.
In my opinion china's policies have been the best, maybe together with New Zealand. We've basically been living as normal, much more so than any other country, except for some local cases here and there when there was a month of tightening.

That's why I think it's ironic that once the virus basically becomes non-threatening, China has to enter the same type of lockdown as other countries did two years before. And that's why I'm sharing this.
Hold on. You've gone from saying "LOL" to the claim that Russia might lose, to providing justification for Russia's war. Not staying on topic. +15 RUB.
1. It's all their feeble minds can understand. (This is the answer you were fishing for, yes?)

2. Too many MIT grads were brainwashed by SICP until MIT sensibly switched to Python in 2009. (Unfortunately they probably still secretly teach SICP somewhere.)

3. Lisp/Scheme readily implements "Maxwell's equations of software" which are believed to be important or useful for some reason.

/s
I don’t think you should be signing indemnification clauses at all. Think what you’re agreeing to - you’re going to defend the company in court on your own dime when they get sued?
90%+ have had two shots. Probably more like 95-99%. You can get third shots now.
Off-topic, but another area where it seems hard to get good answers is what cooking oil is actually best. E.g., palm oil / coconut oil gets hyped lately, but is it really healthy (in a meaningful way)? Is it gentle on the environment (very likely not).

The industries (merchants of doubt) are so active, it's absolutely nontrivial for a well meaning layman not wanting to invest oddles of time to get to good conclusions.
i imagine that 0-covid is a point of pride for politicians and government officials. do you think there will be no issue in having the agility to completely reverse course?
If yoh can live with a ~40" TV buying a monitor might be an Option.
For example the Philips P-line 439P1 has 42", 4k, HDR400 and supports HDCP 2.2
I recommend to use Colab for learning because so many research papers publish their own examples as a Colab link nowadays, so you'll have plenty of stuff to try out and explore.

For the actual deployment in production, the only thing that's really affordable is if you send your own GPU workstations to a colocation hosting company. But that's a lot of work.
The video shows the color waveform, automatic RAW development, 14-bit image analysis, focus loupe, focus peaking, and more. I suspect you are not the target audience.
A big part of the general population of Ukraine never wanted to do anything with NATO, even at the peak of the crisis western backed poll found the support for NATO only around 54%. Your count of history of Ukraine being raped and ravaged by Russia is generally not supported by large part of Ukrainian population, as supported even the western polls.

> Do you think Russia's funding of terrorist groups in the eastern portions of Ukraine known for atrocities against civilians could've influenced that decision?

What? Eastern Ukraine including Donbass and Crimea has a large majority of Russian speakers with ties with Russia. Ukrainian parliament decided to deny minority languages meant to provoke Russia http://www.iconnectblog.com/2021/04/minority-rights-ukraines...
Any iranians or north Koreans here to confirm?
OK. My comment expresses scepticism that something made from sweetcorn tastes like something made from Old World wheat. It quoted a claim from the article that I didn't think likely to be true.
Yes the sanctions against Russia feels almost nuclear in comparison to what we have seen kn the past. But still they can be tuned up higher, so I think they are not yet in nuclear territory
Coming soon: Caribbean Walled City
> There must be reason that this condition has been put into place.

It's because it's a democracy. That's the reason. And the majority of people don't like the idea of potentially being stranded in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. Now, I can appreciate that reason. And I totally understand it myself. And I also understand that drivers can be shit.

But as a former Uber driver myself (not in India, but in California), please try understand it from my perspective as well. Uber doesn't pay for elevation changes. If your car gets damaged on a windy rocky dirt road, or on a road with no lighting whatsoever (Santa Cruz hills, I'm talking to you). Uber won't pay for damages or loss of income. Or if Uber calls you to a neighborhood where drivers get carjacked and pistol-whipped, as a driver, you're the one who has to bear most of those consequences, not Uber (we're not cops, we don't get paid leave, workers comp, or even medical benefits). The same goes if you get called to an area notorious for handing out traffic tickets or parking tickets. Uber pays for none of that, but it will penalize you for refusing the ride (and in San Francisco, it took them almost 10 years from finally blacklisting Market St for pickups, the part that's downtown).

And people can be shit. They'll call you just for getting down a windy dirt road that they don't want to walk down themselves because it's too steep. Or they'll call you just to dump their semi-conscious intoxicated friend into your car. I could tell you a thousand stories.

But my point is, the situation is more nuanced than you think.
It's been perfectly fine except you haven't been able to leave the country and come back, except for some exceptions. I mean I know people who left for Christmas and came back but that's a lot of work and risking policy change while you're gone.
Why do you say appointments are a time stamp? They are made with humans in mind, people dealing with a local time zone.

In the example in the post you’re replying to, the time zone change means the time stamp would be wrong by an hour. This doesn’t mean that people should show up an hour earlier or later than initially intended!
china has been doing hard lockdowns for 2 years. just very very targeted very very HARD lockdowns.
More like API guides, a complete reference of the parameters, etc. :-)
> whenever there is excess generating ability coming from the grid

That would be nighttime.
> Now polenta is made with maize, because it is more tasteful.

Which means that the article's claim that it was "probably identical in taste and texture" is wrong. Which was my point.
The counterpoint.. The day you cancel your subscription to a streaming service and you have absolutely nothing to show for it.

Without the physical media, I lose the journal of what I enjoyed, why and when (as well as the guarantee I can listen to it)
Hofstadter's amazing, mind-boggling satirical essay/alternate history A Person Paper on Purity in Language from Metamagical Themas. Much more fun than the title suggests!

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.htm...
> It also doesn’t make much sense to pay prevailing US wages to produce masks that sell for $0.50 per unit

One could argue that there's an inherent ethical issue at play if the country needs masks priced at $0.50 per unit, but can't manufacture them itself while paying wages that it considers fair.
yeah but the effectiveness of the sinovax is hardly reliable information imho
I think the public will agree with softer measures a few months from now as it becomes clear that getting locked down is worse than getting this strain. There are already mentions in the media about this.
I agree that the scope and scale of these sanctions are beyond anything I think we've seen before. However, I don't think that invalidates the question 'how effective are they really?' Let's not fool ourselves into thinking they will act as a short-term deterrent as current events are showing. Sure, they may very well cripple and/or even lead to the collapse of Putin's regime given enough time. (i.e. likely years or more) That's not much help to Ukraine in the time frame they have to operate in.
A big part of the point of these sanctions is effectively communicating to the Russian people the scale of the rest of the world's disapproval of their government's actions. The Kremlin can propagandize all they like, but it's pretty tough to explain McDonald's and Coca Cola, both profit seeking companies, voluntarily choosing to withdraw operations from their country. It's a message that can cut through the propaganda and can't be ignored.

The sanctions have already had a profound impact on the market valuations of Russian companies (they're not trading, but we know that impact is going to be enormous), and the Russian ruble. These things cause real tangible pain to Russian citizens and their government. Their ability to conduct a military campaign is going to be severely limited by the lack of available inputs and capital as well, in a mechanical way. These sanctions may not get Russia to change its course, but they will significantly impede their ability to operate.
I absolutely hate my induction jobs. Touch interface does not work unless your fingers are completely clean and dry. Therefore it does not respond to touch while I’m cooking.

It turns itself off and I cannot turn it back on again. This happens on a daily basis.

Worst product I own.
In job? Nôt quite fuň, but sometimes... Especially solving interesting problems

I do enjoy working on my side projects. But its more about what i build than programing itself.
> If they stole $2M in gold from my home safe, whom should I legally sue? Or do I even have a case?

What are you talking about? This is a standard theft/robbery case, the police absolutely file, investigate, and solve such cases regularly.
If there is no case in your region, then strict measures means life as usual. If you have a case, then you and your contacts need to quarantine. Contact tracing is extremely effective for Corona. Also remember that most people don't infect anybody, but few people are very contagious. This is to an extent still true for Omicron.

The calculation for China is: inconvenience a small fraction of people, save thousands of lives - even though Omicron is mild, you can still have complications. And China is huge, so a small probability multiplies. They likely prevent millions of cases of long covid. And keep their economy going, where western countries had losses.

Imagine the opposite question: Should they sacrifice thousands of people, and billions of dollars, so a fraction of a percent don't have to spend two weeks in lockdown? Popular support seems to be completely for the lockdown measures. In fact, I think some of it is really over the top (the hazmat suites, the lockdown hotels, stopping a train mid-route because of a suspected contact...) but they do it because the people demand it, not because it is strictly neccessary.
I think it's the opposite. Chinas economy was quickly back to normal in 2020 while other countries suffered. But it's going to be costly this time, for little return.
Great, so now I have to drop everything to appease a flawed bureaucratic practice?
Crushed and boiled sweetcorn tastes like something made from wheat? If true, TIL.
The fines aren't the same. They scale with damage entity and company turnover. See art. 83 of GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/
I think the point is that the only way to reduce crypto profitability is to impose a soft limit on electricity by massively increase the cost of electricity if you exceed a certain allotment. Otherwise, there's no real way to tell if someone is mining crypto or if they just using a lot of electricity unless it's a massive mining operation.
Came to say the same thing. This feels like a weird blast from the past, which given that Covid first appeared in China, seems just odd really.
> slept for only 4 hours a day

I've only really seen this mentioned in comments. All references I could find state that he often slept until late (for example, he liked to sleep until after 10AM).

I would be wary of glorifying extremely short sleep patterns, they are unhealthy for 90% of the population.
No, they might not help Ukraine, but they might stop the next one from happening.
There are. Like you said, you just have to know that's a feature you want and look out for it.
How about a large part of taxpayers money being used for buying oil and gas from Saudi? Or war in Afghanistan? Or the dire conditions of the factories where the fifth iphone upgrade was made? If you decide to wage a moral victory then at least do it at your own cost.
Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)
Yeah, but that’s all worthless now. The US has lost the number of GPS satellites in the sky. It’s all Russian and EU sats now.
Your last point is not how threading or async works in .NET. It’s a single process that has a thread pool that runs async Tasks. The rest of the comment indicates that the team didn’t have much or any experience with .NET.

I’m sure there are issues with learning curve but the ecosystem is very capable (the corollary to being very productive) but you need to know how to properly use it.
And you can run your own github/gitlab runner on the GPU box and set up CI in your projects. It's good practice (and good practise). And it's free. This unchains you from your PC so you can push code from anywhere and it'll crunch the numbers for you. You just need to install docker, run the runner and make sure you're using a runner container with the NVIDIA stuff installed and you pass through the GPU to the container.
Yeah, it is really ironic. I've heard a story that one of the reasons Sinovac is not as effective as other vaccinations is that they didn't have enough infected people for the trials.
soon i will move from blocklist to allowlist

this garbage with "smart" electronics is getting on my nerves
AI predicts the effectiveness and evolution of gene promoter sequences
They don't work but in this case it may have some effect.
Cubans moan about US embargo and how unfair it is to them and how it only makes their lives harder while the elite doesn't care. And yet most Cubans clearly know that it is their socialistic government that is against them and not the west.

In Russia the situation is that most people actually support Putin and his insane policies including the war. There is a minority which actually understands what is going on but it is not enough.

The sanctions and economic hardships may help for others to come to their senses that when the whole world condemns this war with the exception of North Korea and Syria, then their must be something wrong with their leader and not the world.
Oh, they work, alright. Depends on how severe things are.
I created something that lets you get free GPU on VS Code with Google Colab with just 1-click. Have a look at https://github.com/DerekChia/colab-vscode

This is my default go-to as a poor man ML setup, with environment and dependencies set up automatically via bash script on start up.
You start by "suggesting Russians are playing a rational game..." but literally the next sentence is condescending western rhetoric.

We don't know the strategy and the plan. We might, even maybe reasonably, deduce that Russian leadership thought that Ucrain would fall more quickly. And that some form of stable solution would be the result.

But most people don't only have one plan to reach a longer term strategic goal. So thinking of "the Russians" as rational players (and taking a lot of potentially missing information into account due to every body only hearing their own side's propaganda) we could at least ask ourselves, if the plan was to overthrow the Ucrain quickly, to probably secure the Donbas and also probably secure the water resources for the Crimean peninsula as a strategic necessity, what course of action remains for Putin now that at least the quickness of the action failed. While there are already people reporting that Russia secured most of the Donbas and the water resources for the Crimean. But how much is propaganda there, I don't know.

So Putin needs to appear as the winner in the end. At least internally. He needs to sell this to his power base and his own ego as well probably.

The west wants/needs to see the Ucrain at least as partial winner. And the sanctions to have worked (because that was sold as solution to the voters).

Can there be a way to end the killing, save thousands of lives and reach these goals? I don't know. But I would be at least hesitant to call Putin irrational. Maybe that is valid if one defines the criteria of evaluation up front. What defines 'rational'. Because I suggest that within Putin's worldview these actions make some forms of sense to him and. As said. From the outside perspective it might be reasonable to call it irrational. But that might not help the world in finding a way out. For that one needs to understand why it makes sense to Putin to act the way he does right now.
No that will not work. In fact, it makes it look like you’re trying to give them the run around.

The best thing you could do to protect IP for your side project is to talk to your employer and tell them what you want to work on and get a written exception for it.