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Euh, so Ukraine should just surrender because a bully pops up that wants to take the country?

Russia has literally trained the Ukrain army in how to respond to their actions ( 8 years), Zelensky is literally doing an insane job. I don't know anyone that could replace him at this moment.

They are doing an excellent job against Putin's Russia. Russia is making themselves look like fools, while the whole world is watching.

PS. Ukraine literally kicked Putin's proxy governement out, Zelensky is no one's "puppet" and he's doing it on his own with intell and guns of the West, yes. While Russia is asking everyone for boots on the ground ( Sudan, Syria, Chechen, Belarus, Kazachstan, ...) and still failing big time.

If Russia would have taken Ukraine in the 2 days as they expected, this all (assistance from the West) wouldn't have happened as much probably. But Russia miserably miscalculated everything here.

For everyone believing Russian propaganda. It should be obvious by now that it's Ukranians fighting against Putin's army and Ukraine they doen't want to be a part of it.

By comparison, the west hasn't had the amount of casualties in 20 years that Putin has in 2 weeks and that's all related to the desire of countries to become a democracy on their own.
They can't. An unbiasedly simple answer. Strategically this war is a lost cause for Russia, even if they win militarily in the short term.

Capture is one thing. Holding on is another. According to latest estimates, RU has already invested the lion share of its military assets (not army men) in the Ukraine invasion. And they're doing badly. There will be attrition & guerrila warfare if boots stay on Ukrainian soil. They dont have an economy like US/UK to back this up well. They're bleeding under sanctions. Economy is falling as fast as when USSR collapsed. No major foreign trade possible (except the Southern hemisphere countries, China & India) & companies are pulling out. Mass unemployment & currency devaluation will likely follow. The world opinion is not sympathetic to Russia. It is a lose-lose.

As of now the Russians are fighting for the sake of one man's inflated ego of building the 'Historic Russia'. The Ukrainians may or may not win this offensive, but they have showed remarkable heroism & solidarity to keep the country fighting.
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I think being a Hollywood writer has become a prestige job, largely devoid of merit and the talent isn’t what it used to be.
I've seen it done even in the same day.

Morning: DOW down 300 points because of Fed decision

Evening: DOW up 300 points because of (same) Fed decision

Context: most financial analysts at places like Bloomberg are literally some of the lowest paid employees. Most of them never traded any financial market in their entire life, which is quite short since they tend to be in their 20s.
Every year I age I respect good teachers more and more. I think it’s one of the hardest jobs. And at the risk of getting some blowback I think much stems from our broken and outdated public education system.

There has to be choice and freedom, both for the students and the teachers. I know I’m speaking vaguely but that’s because I myself can’t articulate a solution. But I know there’s a better way.
It’s a terrible article because, despite explaining many scenarios well, it missed one example?
Why doesn't windows have a decent dpi scaling solution?
Not really. It explains only the optimal play of intelligent, clear headed, self-interested actors. It does not explain why someone would jump into a river to save a drowning child that they do not know even at the cost of their own life. There are many other examples like this. Game theory does not encapsulate values or morality. It's fine for someone with sufficient psychopathy or cowardice, but to say it explains even a small fraction of human behaviour goes too far. Bakers and butchers are not seeking to maximize their utility. Some people just want to grow flowers, go to Church, and be good neighbours.
Interesting. I grew up in an “exams count only” system that used a 2 decimal point score precision. So if you scored 89.75 at the end, you completed the course with 89.75. It wasn’t bucketed into grades.

There were 4 exams: two quarterlies, a half, and the final.

I don’t think it ever struck any of us that if we failed to study for an exam that it was anyone’s fault but our own.

I actually really like articles like this because they have so many unnecessary assumptions:

“Things are this way because students will complain if they suck at things”

The unstated assumptions are that students in this schooling system mostly have external loci of control.

The second thing is that courses are designed in an adding-epicycles manner based on the least reasonable member of the previous class. That is, it is a cost function that aims to minimize the failure of the greatest idiot which implicitly leads to it adding cost for the smart guy.

So you have built a schooling system optimized for the greatest idiot who believes someone else is responsible for all of his failures. This actually explains why so many college students here are like they are.
So, I should give the Expanse a second try? ....

My biggest issue these days is that there isn't actual development within the world created. Superman falls for Lois lane, not because of some sort of event or circumstance that we experience on screen, but because they're 'supposed to get together'. Or it's also bad when movies rely on a wider generalized context rather than actually developing something within the world.
what you're saying is just that maybe it's not fine now as it was not fine then (as usual, this depends on the particular person).
Current Knesset coalition is supported by Arab parties... looks like Israeli Palestinian support this measure to a certain extend.
Upvote. Outstanding piece, unique collection of observations of an extremely complicated landscape.
What's the point of the third paragraph? To protect yourself from criticism?
“I find out that it’s going to take me 45 minutes to go five miles, and I’m going to get about $5 for the ride.”

This is a lie. Drivers get paid for distance and time. They will be making more like $20-25 dollars.
> Leveling cities into rubble does not necessarily help the attacker, see Stalingrad.

Yes. It wasn't a city, but when the Allies bombed the Italian hillside monastery of Monte Cassino [0] in 1944, it left a pile of rubble that the Germans managed to hold for another three months.

If you don't rubbleise a city, they are horrendous to assault. Most battle tanks (western and Russian) can't elevate their main guns high enough to take out attackers in a nearby multi-story towerblock (the 'urban canyon'), some military comms systems and GPS lose signals, defenders can use subways to transit, etc etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino
> if you're so inclined: you can remove unneeded modules from your UEFI firmware

this is so disingenuous as to be offensive.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but the practical options for replacing a UEFI BIOS are vanishingly small.

Also: booting over the network is a feature of a smaller ROM on a network card, that ROM usually had a much smaller surface area and had to be explicitly called as a boot option.

Given the people who care most about network boot are people running servers: IPMI/iDRAC/iLO are much stronger options for initiating network boot.
> Due to its emplacement on SPI flash which is located on the motherboard instead of the hard disk, the implant is capable of persisting in the system across disk formatting or replacement

Lovely, so you’d have to reflash the firmware to fix it.
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I don’t think loosening requirements necessarily leads to bad hires. If anything, it may lead to access to better hires. Think about an old tech stack that’s kind of boring. Likely no good engineer is sitting around actively learning Java 6 on nights and weekends, at least not with the intent to seek a Java 6 position. If you limit yourself to people who actively work in your anachronistic tech stack, you may be limiting yourself to only the people you don’t want to hire.
When will someone finally have the courage to step up and put a bullet in this deranged psychopath’s head?
I was a physics undergrad who hopped into a few grad classes, and to be honest I was terrible at homework and great at exams (mostly due to some youthful obstinance on putting the time in on homework). At the time I believed that the exams showed who really knew the material and who applied time to solve the problem. With some time past I see that the larger/tougher problem sets were where the real challenge was.

I recall a few unique problem sets from Graduate QM such as

- Derive from first principles the color of the sky.

- Prove that charge must be Quantized if there is one magnetic mono-pole in the universe.

The exam questions were far simpler than the theory questions asked in the problem sets. The work for the first question easily totals > 20 hours of pen and paper time.
I bet a San Junipero-style mind upload startup will happen here well before 256 years have passed
I'm racking my brains, but in the #lisp channel I read a discussion about dealing with parentheses before paredit, and it was really interesting. I entirely forget the key-chords that were mentioned though...
Easy solution to the regrade. Never do one off regrades. Always say that a regrade of one question will require the entire exam be regraded. This will be done by someone else or the prof who may grade it worse than a rushing grad student who is just saying “yeah, yeah, fine, ok”. Most students fear this, especially when it’s the professor doing it. Almost never had to do regrades with this policy.
The story here is that polluters look for cheap land (and probably proximity to cheap labor) to set up shop. I'm sure racism plays a part in it too though.
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>"Like Russia, China has built up seemingly high-tech military forces in the past decade, but they have no combat experience. The miserable performance of the Russian air force would likely be replicated by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, which similarly has no experience managing complex air operations."

General attitude of in Russian army except maybe some strategic stuff is fuck everything coupled with rampant corruption, theft and all encompassing decay. I am not sure China has the same problem and would not count on them being incompetent.

>"Putin will not survive the defeat of his army. He gets support because he is perceived to be a strongman; what does he have to offer once he demonstrates incompetence and is stripped of his coercive power"

I think he knows this well and am I afraid that if he sees the end this abomination of human would engineer something that would lead to a WWIII with all the consequences. I hope he gets eliminated before reaching this stage.
> Doesn't really sound like an application, but a website.

Yeah, well, from the name of it, doesn't that sound like what the Web is for?

I mean, we already have systems to run applications on; they're called operating systems.

Not only SPAs but "web applications" as a whole are a mistake IMO.
Be My Guest by Conrad Hilton.
It may sound like nonsense, but in comparison to many other languages, English is super flexible with how vowels are pronounced and toned (entoned?). If you've ever tried to learn a tonal language, or one with more specific vowels like Khmer (which has 33 consonants and 22 vowels) you'd realize how relaxed English can be.

Generally this is in English's favor, I pronounce button differently than my NZ friends, but they still understand me.
He was gifted at birth, true. However, this hero does fail. In fact, he fails so spectacularly, he becomes the villain.
Frontpage headlines are not written by interns. Those are analysts and developers you're talking about.

I take the contrarian stance - these headlines are for people that are busy on Wall Street. They just need to know quickly what+context, not what+how. what+how is the holygrail and no one is stupid enough to even complain about these headlines in the Financial world. It is a tidbit that is extremely useful.
Agreed. Either full socialism or an actual market in health care would be better than the idiocy we've gotten ourselves stuck with.
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The "Single Point of Failure" is Putin.

If he's deposed or killed, we probably have a very different Russia the next day.
I tend to think the iron man movie are all trash. However I don't think they follow this pattern as you say.

By the third movie he's literally having anxiety panic attacks. He's fearful that spidey, whom he brought to the big leagues, will get hurt and it'll be on his conscious. He's afraid and guilty of the collateral damage he's spawned into the world but intializing super hero culture.

Execution of those movies aside I thought his character development arc was pretty good.
I personally recorded hours of walkthroughs for my students (very basic react, svg drawing, etc).

It is such an immense amount of labor. Now i know why people regurgitate the same content everywhere or dont bother
> go bankrupt /../ the wrong doctor at the right hospital

This is the real problem. If we could solve that, none of the rest would be an issue.
You said:

> Are you referring to the Ukrainian Azov Battalion with their Nazi ideology, or the Russians who have invaded a sovereign country?
> The choice may seem simple to you, but it's not as easy as you might think for many to side with avowed Nazi's either..

What you're implying is that there is some moral justification to invading Ukraine if the goal is to eliminate the Nazi Azov battalion. That is false -- there is no justification at all. The reason is that if you applied this standard equally to all countries (i.e. "if x% of population is Nazi, then invade"), then you could invade 90%+(just to be conservative) of the countries in the world: how many people are there in the Azov battalion? 2k? 3k? 5k? Ukraine has a population of 44 million. How many Nazis are there in the United States? How many Nazis are there in Germany? How many Nazis are there in Mongolia? And how many Nazis are there in Russia itself? If you're not planning to "de-naizify" all of them, then "de-nazification" is but a meaningless excuse to your invasion, aka -- propaganda.
Fair enough. I still use my credit card for most purchases also and I too appreciate the ability to chargeback if needed.

Still, it is important to appreciate that consumers do pay a premium for this feature on all transactions built into the price because merchant account for the risk of chargebacks when setting their prices. I can’t estimate the amount of premium but I would guess it adds up to a few percent.
I never rued the day when I switched off the last "appliance" router after switching to a virtual router - OpenWRT running in a container on a Proxmox-managed host. I use a number of repurposed "appliance" routers (also running OpenWRT) as access points, some of them connected to additional "dumb" PoE-switches for IP-camera's. Those camera's run over their own VLAN and never get to touch the 'net, the same goes for "IoT" things (heat pump, PV-inverter etc). Xi and friends will be disappointed, even if they built backdoors in their equipment these only lead to a dead-end street.
I highly recommend Quod Libet, open source and under active development. It's specialty is in large libraries:
https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Anybody got a link to that github repo that the article alluded to? ... asking for a friend :)
On 2, the diplomatic option has been on the table since the civil war started in 2014 (Minsk agreements). However, it is critical to understand that it is not merely "the Ukrainians" (i.e. the current Zelensky-Klitschko-Pinchuk oligarchy) that are opposed to it, it is also Washington.

After all, the latter spent billions of dollars and decades of effort tearing down the Budapest Memo, and they weren't going to easily return to that status quo.

This is also blindingly obvious in the fact that the Overton window here in USA ranges from "no fly zone! WW3! Hoo-rah!" to "we will merely arm the Ukrainian civilians with Javelins" -- surrender and life-saving compromise isn't even on the table. What would the Kagans get out of that?!
It's because 95% of people do not care or don't like playing around with their computers or accessing the UEFI menu for sys-admin, netbooting, recovery, ransomware development or building their PCs.

Apple does the same thing without the spooky UEFI menus on PCs, called 'Internet Recovery' which is still using EFI and is just like how netbooting works; and that 'just works'.
If QUERY is too new, I was always a fan of base62 for URLs, but base64 and straight binary encoding could do well for compacting UUID lists, they are essentially just giant verbosely written integers.
Wasn't it always possible? If it can boot a full-blown OS that can access the internet, it has to be able to access the internet on its own.
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Say Ukraine surrenders and Putin gets what he wants, and the shooting stops, new borders are drawn and soldiers from both sides retreat. I can't see how Putin gets out of the economic war, though. EU and US voters will never accept their governments cancelling sanctions, and they'll boycott businesses who announce they're returning to Russia (they won't anyway, if SWIFT doesn't work and money can't flow easily). What will Putin do? Be a North Korea? I guess he can try increasing trade with China.
There are plenty of good books, but IMO the problem with Bob (and the thing to keep in mind not to become one) is that when the company tried to help him, he not only resisted, but effectively sabotaged this.

Books are good, but if you are new at the company or do not know how it works, find a few more senior folks who are doing well and ask them for advice. Run your architecture / solutions past them, ask for opinions, etc.

I think a vast majority of folks fired like Bob just did not listen to strong, non-subtle signals from the company trying to prevent the firing. My 2c.
Just wanted to thank the author for his project of translating the Lessons In Electronic Circuits in romanian. It was so useful to me when I was a student at UT Cluj. I remember recommending that website to all my peers.

Thanks for your amazing effort!
It’s also because producers and directors make more use of the “dynamic range” that theatre sounds systems are capable of today. They paid a ton of money for that music and they’re going to make sure you hear it. In surround setups, most of the dialogue is mixed into the center channel, which is behind the screen in theaters. At home, if you don’t have a center channel, you’re either relying on the stereo mix and however they decided to balance the speech on that, or if you play the surround version on a nice processor, it’ll probably let you adjust the center channel.

An audio compressor would also help here on consumer devices, as that would allow a variable degree and ratio of dynamic range flattening. Basically, it can form a band of volume and ensure that quiet sounds and loud sounds both fit into that. Sadly, most consumer gear, although already equipped with all the DSP they need to implement this in software, thinks consumers are absolute morons and/or that this wouldn’t be a selling point, so we get watered-down poorly-implemented dialogue boost features or largely no option at all except for the consumer to “ride the fader” and constantly adjust the volume. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/soundbar-can-help-he... has some info on what’s out there today to address this, but yeah: it’s mostly fixable if consumers had control of the center channel mix + a configurable compressor + configurable EQ. There are ways to do this in consumer-friendly ways for folks who don’t know of care to learn about mastering audio for film, but the current situation is pretty bad and it really makes me wonder why so much mixing targets home theater setups vs built-in crap TV speakers. At very least, streaming companies could provide an alternate audio track [algorithmically] mixed specifically for built-in audio devices that has more clear dialogue.

I personally watch with subtitles because I don’t want to miss a word.
Did you mean "tweening" rather than "tweeting"?
> For a while I was pushing the no-fly zone as well

Enforcing a "no fly zone" means that NATO would have to get involved in order to gain air supremacy, potentially supported by boots on the ground . It would be the Libyan playbook, which hasn't worked all that well for NATO.
SMM is also part of the firmware, it is set up by UEFI.
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The motivation for the war is that Ukrainians are really Russians who happened to be trapped in a separate country under a Nazi government.

Killing all the people you came to liberate is a tough PR sell.
Luckily some of those people might have recognized themselves doing the same thing when they were younger and accepted your behaviour for nothing more than youth.
But credibility is also obviously a quality issue for information based search. You give people relevancy without credibility and that's just what we have today with the state of SEO. We might say that Amazon has such an issue with the lack of curation.
In referencie to that and butcher of other things. So, no.
Perhaps you missed my other comments on this thread where I explained multiple ways to earn savings rates on stablecoins that significantly exceed the inflation rate. No traditional bank offers similar options.
So, I don't know where I read this (might have been here on HN) something like:

If you create the rules for the pathological cases, then you're "optimizing" for those. Not for the majority.

Whereas the pathological cases should be dealt exactly like those.

Though sure, sometimes explanations can be better, but you can only play the game up to a point
> seems very quick, easy and native to render html using js.

Seems even quicker, easier and "more native" to render HTML as, you know... HTML.
I agree.

One thing to add, is that there's nothing preventing you to invent a new noun for a particular rest resource that returns bundles of content. eg. /user/:id/dashboard - it makes it so this endpoint is not tied to eg. user/:id .. making that endpoint harder to change in the future, but also solves the issue mentioned by the rude comment above re: needing to perform a lot of separate rest calls.
These are all pointless questions dragging the conversation back towards healthcare tied to some arbitrary other function.

Your caveats and “details” also move the administrative and management burden into some weird place based on factors that are difficult to manage and track (need, quota, citizenship etc).

The answer is simple: everyone in the administrative region gets covered for everything. Anything else is discriminatory. Planning of care services can then respond to the medical and health need of the population at large rather than arbitrary permissions banding.
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> this is so disingenuous as to be offensive.

> I'm not saying you're wrong, but the practical options for replacing a UEFI BIOS are vanishingly small.

what? you can download a GUI editor, click remove on the modules you don't want and then save it

https://www.trishtech.com/2017/12/uefitool-view-and-edit-uef...

I've done it
UEFI is like the ugly son of MS-DOS and Windows. Anything that can run under MS-DOS with a DOS extender can run under UEFI.

A friend of mine ported QEMU in order to run x86 boot ROMs on ARM systems.
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I think the new Mulan fail was due to some social media shitstorm about the lead actress or something; the spastic Chinese internet trolls had a feeding frenzy on something she said. At the same time, the movie got trashed in the West for being, well, shit.