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> I fail to see why it matters that your PR isn't accepted.

Making their code useful to other people is a strong motivator for many altruistic open source developers.

The purpose of getting PRs accepted upstream is so that your changes are useful in concert with other people's changes, especially their later changes.

Your private change is of little use to others when it's only in your private fork, which hardly anyone knows about, and if they do know, your change is incompatible with later work and maintenance by other people anyway.

If you don't care whether anyone else uses your work, especially in future, that's fine. But if you want it to be more useful to others, getting it merged upstream makes a huge difference to that.

(Merging upstream or just submitting PRs that don't get merged also helps personal visibility and reputation, which is undoubtedly a motivator for many. That's a burden on upstream maintainers when someone is pushing low quality work and doesn't care to ensure it's useful to the project.)
Details:

> Since Russia’s illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of the world’s leading companies (from investment banks to consumer goods) have shuttered their Russian operations and undone decades of investments in a matter of days. These firms are incurring large costs and taking real risks to avoid aiding the Russian war effort.[0]

EuromaidanPress media tweeted this link with the next description:

> Law Schools of Harvard, Stanford, Yale jointly created a shame list of law firms that have remained in the Russian market and keep making blood money[1]

[0] https://law.stanford.edu/law-firms-and-russian-profits/

[1] https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/15044122289293025...
Here's the original sentence (NYT article) this was butchered from:

> The conservative side of the estimate, at more than 7,000 Russian troop deaths, is greater than the number of American troops killed over 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

They managed to change which military, the current war and the comparison wars in one bad edit.
Also don't forget that it's easier to never finish the story. To never go actually anywhere with your one idea. You don't have to explain plot holes, backgrounds, conclusions etc. Because "that's to be done in the next book" which never comes out. Fair, but then we simply can't judge anything until you're actually done - and then we may buy your stuff.

- Somebody who has never read GoT so isn't part of the fandom.
> I have yet to see a Ukrainian national [care whether it's "Ukraine" or "the Ukraine"]. I think they all have bigger fish to fry at the moment.

Which seems to imply that if they hadn't, perhaps they would.
Afaik Steve Jobs was left handed.

So everything build for him (as NextStep and macOS) has every GUI element on "the wrong side"… ;-)
Yeah same applies to drugs, smoking, gambling and drinking too.

They might be potentially harmful, people should be informed about how they work and possible consequences, but going beyond and restricting/regulating is no-no.

And BTW I'm saying this as a person who know and have experienced their effects, don't really like to do them, and who has no interest or connections to any company in those fields.
In some park in Santa Cruz, I don't remember the name as I was there only for 1 day.
For some historical perspective -

"World War II losses of the Soviet Union from all related causes were about 27,000,000 both civilian and military...this includes 8,668,400 military deaths as calculated by..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the...

Obviously, people's willingness to make sacrifices and fight are rather different, when real Nazi are really invading their country.
"major trustworthy", I don't think this means what you think it means.
What, all the US Military?
"Why do some US cities struggle more with homelessness? A new book explores a key component of the issue: housing supply."

It's a Captain Obvious class of article, hopefully the next one will explore the correlation between thirst and water deprivation
How entitled one has to be to consider not finishing up a complex creative work "a certain contempt for the fans"? Haven't you ever struggle to finish a creative endeavor? I have tons of unfinished works in my portfolio, there's certainly some truth in that saying about the last 20% of work taking 80% of time - and finishing things up feels much less rewarding than starting something new.
I like the more general form of this: simply nominate a single activity as "critically important", and then feel sudden surging motivation to do anything and everything else. Sure, that nominated project doesn't get done, but it's a worthy sacrifice to ensure productivity.
If you don't have a vaccine passport you need to go pay a private company for a test to ensure you don't have a virus the vaccine doesn't even prevent you from contracting. How is that not a dangerous and persistent normalisation of government overreach?
I don't like how you're blaming the author of the article here. My experience is that people, be it from the business or from the Product team or Sales or wherever, are happy to ignore documentation and come directly to the person they see as the knower. You can document all you like, they will still come to you and you are the bad guy if you don't answer them and point them to the wiki.

Do some people exist who don't share their knowledge? Definitely. In fact they are rewarded in many cases because they get whatever they want (usually outside of a higher salary)

However, author wouldn't be writing an article like this if he was happy in that position.
Great, so my paid services are going to start harassing me when I get sick or go on vacation and my usage patterns change significantly?
I don't advocate or support such malware instalation. Just saying that "Russian citizens have nothing to do with this war" is false. There are better ways to express your support for Ukraine, for example, make malware targeting only military or govermental institutions that are directly involved.
I have the sense that being a "captive" customer to a single carrier, or two carriers at most, is a predominately American problem.

Here in Houston -- a huge city in the middle of the country -- it is far, far easier to fly United than any other carrier for any long-haul route. Southwest is an option for close US locations, and that's great, but United is what you're using to go to either coast.

Sure, there ARE other airlines here. There are LOTS of them. But if you want to go to the UK on something other than United, you better be going to wherever that other carrier goes, because you won't have a lot of options. (EG, Singapore flies direct to Manchester, but that's it. Emirates flies to Dubai nonstop every day, but has no other legs in Houston.)

In smaller places, the choices are often starker.
> And is this the same US intelligence that said Iraq has WMDs?

I heard an interesting explanation for that - intelligence agencies don't deal well with adversaries that lie to themselves. Allegedly they had captured communication of Saddam bragging to his inner circle that his WMDs are ready and will be used soon ... but he didn't actually have any. Oops.

Same with overestimating Russian ability to wage war - when you capture communication that says "we have 30 planes ready" it is hard to know that 10 of those are fictional and 10 are broken because people routinely lie to their bosses.

But it might be bunch of excuses, who knows.
I agree. I also suspect this path only leads to more restrictions and higher costs for everyone as companies will have to compensate somehow.
see my edit - the ARMv8 ABI even specifies x18 to be possibly platform-defined. So those aren't unreasonable, and I'm probably overestimating how many things misuse it. But apparently that list includes GNU MP[0], and it's easy to view this problem as stemming from there not being a concrete ABI. (though, restricting the use of x18 on platforms that don't need it reserved could be pretty wasteful)

[0]: https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/rev/5f32dbc41afc
Indeed, I have fond memories of the Turbo C IDE.

I wish conio.h would have been something under Unix, free from the VT100 cruft. ncurses is lacking and awkward to use.

Apparently conio.h was ported to Linux (https://github.com/nowres/conio-for-linux) but I don't think it ever was a popular option.
>If you are never satisfied

That is the human condition though. No matter how much we have we soon get used to it, take it for granted and start looking for more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
After almost 20 years we can assume it's not the same intelligence.
The "Content-Type" HTTP header is "text/html; charset=utf-8", you could make it "text/plain; charset=utf-8" to prevent HTML from being parsed.
I think the targeted market is just different. I don't expect cloudflare to ever offer some kind of self-hosted paywalled pages or something similar like vimeo.
The carbon footprint of large-scale computing
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The list of open source software that targets Russians
It's like voxel based games VS AAA titles. Everyone is forced to used the same set of building blocks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character

And since there are obvious limitations, developers must focus on core functionality rather than getting paddings and margins right and be more creative in the process.
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I dont remember the exact schools. He was looking for academic teaching/research position. But, he could not find the one. He got the patent job through his friend's father.
If you do it that way very wealthy people can appear to have average income.

"Yeah I make 2 million a year, but my mortgage is 25 thousand and my Aston Martin costs 4 grand!"

Truth is places are expensive beacuse they are desirable. Living in a tin shack in Africa without indoor plumbing isn't comparable to living in a posh flat in central London. We like to pretend that it is and call it cost of living, but it's really the standard of living that is different

With globalization this is even more true, with the rise of remote work doubly so.
> GP's request for allows fuzzy search of program names, tags and a short description is highly doable in dmenu/slmenu if not already done

May also use i3-dmenu with fzf:

urxvt -title "fzf-menu" -e bash -c 'i3-dmenu-desktop --dmenu=fzf'
Imagine sitting around a campfire being told a story. Everyone is loving it and throws a few coins at the storyteller. The storyteller then gets up near the climax of the story and says "thanks for the money, I'm going to stop telling stories and enjoy this money until I die". Everyone feels betrayed. The one person who sees clearly claims the storyteller is not the audience's bitch.

Which sentence sticks out?
There's hacking and there is _hacking_.

My sister is training to be a doctor and she has come to dislike the heavily regulated environment we have here in which doctors are not allowed to do anything of this sort. Now, they also don't usually need to, which is a good think, but after she returned from a year in South America, she misses the on-your-feet thinking, creativity and flexibility she could and had to employ to give her patients the care they needed.

I can imagine pulling this off is a great source of satisfaction and validation.
> How?

Lower risks should mean fewer NIMBY issues, which means wider adoption. Nuclear advocates miss that if fission played a larger role in energy generation it would also see more major incidents. Which then risks a backlash etc.
Game concepts generally can't be copyrighted, in the US at least.
From Wikipedia [1]:
> gameplay elements of a video game are generally ineligible for copyright

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
Exactly my thoughts. My conclusion was that the idea of cause and effect is something that only applies inside our universe, and not in the system our universe is embedded in (whatever that is). In other words, to us time is a basic feature of existence, while on some most basic level it's not. That's why existence itself seems to counteract our most basic intuitions.
Org-mode alone is worth learning it’s pretty great!
>Page views

Why are people using client side (even more, 3rd party) code for this? The server knows it, you can get it from the logs.
I don't think that they stuffed an additional 150k of support staff right next to the soldiers, so I guess they include them in the soldier count usually.

As far as I know, the distinction of who is "fighting" and who isn't, is dubious at best. Also, all the air force pilots and personnel aren't accounted for in that count because they are stationed elsewhere.
Years ago I did some process and project management consulting for a big powertrain manufacturer in Maryland. They used to be (part of) an American company, but as time passed the became a unit of a Swedish one.

Power train manufacturers have, by necessity, something they called test cells. They're rooms where an engine can be attached to a dummy shaft and run to evaluate changes to design, or test assumptions, or any of a million other things.

In Maryland, no attempt was made to capture the work done by these engines, nor was any attempt made to get value from the (hot!) exhaust.

At a similar facility in Sweden, though, the test cell engine output was tied to a power generation and storage setup, and the exhaust was captured to heat the building.

They were built at the same time. It's always baffled me.
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I had seen it even before Instagram took hold. People, especially younger people, are shifting to a bimodal distribution where they are either extremely in-shape and enthusiastic about the gym lifestyle, or very out-of-shape. It seems the bell curve is flattening a bit. That's my personal observation from observing life in a couple of coastal cities in the US.
I like how people who talk about personal responsebility always talk about someone else's responsebility to avoid themselves taking on responsebility for the state of the world/society/their neighbourhood and no-one ever calls them out on it!
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Absolutely this.
Minimal setup debugging using gdb in TUI/sourcecode mode, optionally over ssh.
Good points. Employee protection in this space is desperately needed.

At this point, employee stock options should just be called as NFTs probably as they probably carry similar risks /s
> Name one thing that the US government has “banned” that people wanted where it has been effective?

The world is more than the US.

> And why would you want government control over what you can see and say?

Because this is not just about me, it's about society as a whole.

And humans can be horrible:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
And MS-RPC and MIDL are derived from DCE's RPC and IDL.

DCE's RPC and IDL were derived from Apollo's NCS RPC and IDL.

I'm unaware of a direct link between NCS and Mach, but Mach's RPC and Matchmaker IDL (and the 'mig' tool) I think pre-dated NCS? Ironically, they're the basis for Apple's XPC today.
This guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igq2fqa7RY4

A former soldier he tries to give a balanced view of what is happening.

For example we hear a lot that Russian soldiers have low moral, he says that typically all soldiers in all wars have something to complain about. That seems more balanced to me.

The more mainstream sources tend to repeat the same things over and over without any kind of proof.
> and HBO probably wouldn't have spent millions of dollars producing a TV show about it

But they did. I don't think HBO had any confusion about what they bought, and the series being unfinished was either not a problem for them, or possibly a plus.
Not to be confused with `"ruby".class #=> String` :)
> When someone asks me something and I want him to learn something, I'm trying to answer enough for him to be able to continue learning on his own. He's supposed to go on his own research after that.

This can be done so many ways. I had "mentor" who used to point out a line in the log or a file and just say "This shoud give you a hint." No, it did not. I know it's there, I need you to tell me why it's significant so that I can go from there. Just playing "guess what I'm thinking" wastes time for both of us. If I'm too dumb for you then come down to my level or ask someone else to mentor me. Just being wise mysterious office Yoda just isn't helpful.
I read somewhere that the BTGs in Transnistria have 1500 men and out of that 400 support. Seems reasonable to extrapolate that.
SPACs may be better for the companies, but the SPAC bear market of 2021 also shows that they can be horrible for retail.
I don't think this is about content at all. We are not asking them to do more, we are asking them to do less. Less dark UX patterns, less addictive habit forming UI, less AI to maximize engagement.
COM can also be seen as a mapping of C++ APIs (with some extras like interface versioning) onto C APIs, mainly as workaround for C++'s missing ABI stability (so that C++ APIs can be exposed via DLLs in a (C++) compiler-agnostic way).
You are thinking about `[].present?` I think
From what I understand it’s 150,000 troops which will include combat infantry and support personnel. You need a lot of support personnel to supply infantry effectively. We’re talking cooks, field hospital staff, people trained to be truck drivers, armorers, operations personnel, radio operators, you name it. It’s noteworthy that it appears (smartly) that the Ukrainians are ambushing and taking out supply convoys and units which are way less capable of fighting, but are nonetheless critical.

What I’ve seen is Russia lacking in the ability to conduct combined arms operations. Like say you want to take some piece of geography. You’d want to have close air support, artillery being directed toward enemy positions, etc. and it seems that this is just not happening.

When the United States invaded Iraq, according to Wikipedia it was with 177,000 with 45,000 from the United Kingdom [1].

And this was for a country that was all but inept against American forces, and a local population that certainly didn’t care for Saddam.

You could also probably draw up comparisons equipment-wise with the US and Russia now, except give the Iraqis missiles used in war in 2022, take away combined arms, and instead of having an at least somewhat welcoming population you have one that’s armed to the teeth and hates you and is getting fed intel on your every position.

Russia assumed they’d be able to decapitate the country before anyone knew what to do, but then that didn’t happen, and now they don’t have enough troops without conscripting Russians and sending them to Ukraine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq?wprov=sf...
Almost certainly due to different regulatory regimes.

One would have accounted for the pollution and costs and the other wouldn't basically instructing the corporation to be wasteful and pollute unless it wanted to lose money by doing so.
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