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> At the time concepts such as infrastructure as code, cloud, and continuous deployment, were unheard of.

There existed different names and solutions for things like cloud. I worked with Grid Engine in 2000 after Sun acquired Gridware, but that project started in 1993. By 2000 we were experimenting with running Star Office on the grid and serving UI to thin clients (kind of what Google Docs or Office 365 do now, but on completely different stack).
I said allies because, although I don't personally agree, I can see all argument for why the "leader of the free world" would be taking on tyrants and dictators, whereas no such argument can hold water when they're threatening countries that rate higher than themselves on the democracy index
The only part of you post that can be steelmanned into what can be considered an argument is "NATO expansion". And that argument falls apart if you actually think and explore it for like 15 minutes. Like, what is NATO and its purpose, how does "expansion" actually work in terms of process, what events took place on the continent between 90s and new NATO members joining, what else could have compelled parties to go through the process and how durable that would be?

And then the rest of your "question" is straight up factually false.
Yes, and they are ahead of COMAC in the number of aircraft produced.

It will be interesting to see if UAC emerges as a serious competitor to Boeing and Airbus (and COMAC) in the near future.
Liberates them from…what, exactly?
Bombardier until recently was another, although it was taken over (?) by Airbus.
Interesting, so you are saying that Brazil can't make anything against inequality while other succeed better?

I've heard first hand from a business leader working decades with Brazil that they actively keep the poor people uneducated to better use them, although having those better skilled would increase the overall productivity.
Well the obvious response is then "can I conquer your land by force too?". No. Because there is a construction of "lawful property rights" that starts with the appropriation of land by force but protects the new owner from the same.
Trump did not "arm Ukraine to the teeth" in his first term.
He send a little bit of infantry weapons, and some armored cars. That's it.
It was a big break from Obama administration that essentially embargoed any weapons sales to Ukraine, but it was not in any way "arming to the teeth". Arming Ukraine in a sufficient manner would have required tens of billions each year, that did not happen.

"- There were rumblings of a peace deal in early 2022, but Boris Johnson and European delegation shot it down."

There was no such thing. The "peace deal" in question was a Russian capitulation offer, which was never signed.

"- Adding Ukraine to NATO is a line in the sand for Putin. How would we feel the US feel if China and Mexico entered a defense agreement and placed Chinese missiles on the US border? Adding Ukraine to Nato is an ESCALATION."

There was zero chance of Ukraine joining NATO simply due to the existing territorial disputes with Russia. Russian ultimatum to US in December 2021 was clear — get NATO to pre-1997 — Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Czech Republic etc should all leave NATO. That would mean dissolution of NATO effectively.

"a large US business interest in Ukraine (as opposed to backdoor dealings) is actually a way of strengthening the US's commitment and investment in Ukraine, right?"

It can work the same with Russia occupying the same territory. There is nothing there about "Ukraine" per se.
We don't need stable baseline power generation, we need a stable power line frequency. I know there are grid engineers here that could explain it better than me, but FWIW, nuclear power plants are sloooow, and thus terrible at reacting to fluctuations in the line frequency. Even if there are nuclear power plants, you use hydro-, gas-, or (hypothetically) battery-power in so called dispatch power plants to maintain the frequency.

Add on top the insane costs of building, maintaining, and waste disposal, nuclear power plants are, without subventions, just not economically viable. But keep on researching, there is interesting stuff happening in this space, and -- who knows -- maybe something moves the equation around.
The trouble with this assertion is that it discounts Russia fantasies as unimportant, when in fact fantasies are the basis for all defense planning.

And it's not that hard to see why a military alliance created to counter Russian power would be the subject of Russian nightmares.
This reminded me to post my own experience:

https://kyzer.me.uk/syncserver/

It can be done, but by golly is it a slog. The previous version (abandoned and hopelessly out of date, written in Python 2) was SOOO much better.

It doesn't require Docker though, nor does it require Python. It does require MySQL for now, but there's like one volunteer guy working on supporting sqlite, like the old version supported out of the box. Meanwhile, the main contributors are LARPing being a corporation and writing justifications for collecting metrics and introducing new metrics frameworks, rather than make it any easier to self-host.
Hasn't Mozilla gotten enough money that if they hadn't wasted it they could've been living solely off interest by now?
Because the things you're referring to didn't happen. That's why you say they "must have happened" instead of "actually did happen". I can think of some examples of similar treatment, for example the British in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland around that time, but even then we see that there are many living natives in those lands today. America is unique in that the overwhelming majority (97%) of the population is non-native and has no native ancestry.
Let's not let the best be the enemy of the good. Malicious actors who disregard CAA would first have to have gone through the process of accreditation to be added to public trust stores, and then would quickly get removed from those trust stores as soon as the imposture was detected. So while creating a malicious CA and then ignoring CAA records is entirely possible for few-shot high-value attacks, it's not a scalable approach, and it means CAA offers at least partial protection against malicious actors forging certificates as a day-to-day activity.

Transparency logs are of course better because they make it much easier for rogue CAs to be caught rapidly, but it's not a reason to abandon CAA until transparency log checking is universal, not just in browsers, but across the whole PKI ecosystem.
Yes, this is a good idea. I've done this before with binary search and tree structures. I avoid unbounded loops wherever possible and the unavoidable cases are rather rare.

It's not a fix but it is a good mitigation strategy.

Infinite loops are one of the nastiest kind of bugs. Although they are easy to spot in a debugger they can have really unfriendly consequences like OP's "can barely ssh in" situation.

Infinite loops in library code are particularly unpleasant.
Yes this episode about Putin and Biden was bizarre. The world was watching how Trump was arguing for sympathy for Putin, e.g. quoting Trump: 'Putin went through a hell of a lot with me ... it was a Democrat scam ... and he had to go through that, and he did go through that'.
about as sound of a bet as joe biden winning a gold medal in decathlon in the next summer olympics :)
I obviously meant the code that you own and are responsible for.
Also no sheep, no dogs, no cows, no chicken.
> I mean, everything you do on the computer is also in RAM - is that tracking too?

Uh... what do you mean? It's not like every programs has free access to the RAM and can just whatever that's in it, there are boundaries. Just because something exists in RAM doesn't mean it can be read, collected and analysed by someone else.

Also, data existing in "encrypted form" and being executed in a "trusted execution environment" mean nothing either. People whose goal is to collect the data can still decrypt it and read it, and a "trusted execution environment" basically means nothing if they whatever they get by analysing that data in that "trusted execution environment" is going to be disseminated to third parties who may or may not have the capability to use that data to identify you.

It's not nice to accuse people of freaking out over "maybe some bad acid". Even if it's "freaking out", in this case it's actually safer to "freak out" and avoid it than taking your ill-reasoned advice.
I agree for small systems. But as they get larger you often can't keep track of every last piece simultaneously. It can also become quite involved to figure out why a relatively obscure thing happened in a particular case.

Consider something like Unreal Engine for example. It's not realistic to expect to have a full mental image of the entire system in such a case.

At least in theory the tests are supposed to cover the observable behavior that matters. So I figure if the tests pass all is well. If I still find something broken then I need to add a test case for it.
You guys need to fix your homepage, put a video or a page which walks the user through a sample API and what the tests for that API look like.

Right now you just have doc which tells the user you need to install it first.

Show the user why they should care.
Good luck with that. ;)
Merkel might have followed his idea but she made the final decision. It was Merkel (after Fukushima) who declared an end to nuclear power in Germany - pandering to Green voters.

The idea might well have come from the Schroeder Government but he did not make the final decision. In fact, the idea of nuclear exit is an idea of the Greens, Schroeder was pandering to the Greens in his coalition government back in the day. (Schroeder being SPD ("socialist"), Merkel being CDU ("conservative") and the Greens being the king makers back in the day - 2002 elections).

One has to remember that it was different times: the Greens were a serious alternative to SPD and CDU, one of their main ideals (since their foundation) has been an exit from nuclear (generally). So once they came into power with the SPD and Schroeder, they were naturally keen on asserting their influence.

Schroeder needed an alternative power source so he started looking to Russia. Russia was a serious partner in Europe, not only for Germany but all of Europe. After the fall of the wall, the policy of Europe was Russian integration into Europe. Why? Because this policy of interdependence of nations within Europe brought peace to Europe. Interdependence is - within capitalism - best achieved via trade amongst nations. Hence Germanys (not only Schroeder but german industry too) decision to accept (more) cheap gas and oil from Russia. The Russians were keen to bypass Ukraine and deliver gas directly to Germany, hence the idea of building the Nordstream 2 pipeline - an idea supported by the Schroeder Government and most probably german industry.

The Nordstream 2 pipeline was completed in Merkels times but it was never brought online. Olaf Scholz (SPD) made the final decision not to take the pipeline online because of Russias official recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as Russian. It was bombed - destroyed? - by unknown persons during the current war in 2022.

The result of these events has been raising energy costs in Germany. Which has lead to disenchantment in the political system, which in turn has lead to a shift to the right in Germany and a raise in the AFD. Ironically, it has now come full circle with a CDU suggesting an easing (if not removal) of the "Schuldenbremse"[1] ("brake on debt") - meaning that Germany is not allowed to borrow money above a certain limit. A policy that has destroyed investment in the country and lead to an evasion to risk-taking. A policy introduced by the CDU back in 2009.

In the end, it is all rather academic since we're now here and pointing fingers at the past is pointless. We're now facing a populist president in the USA, a populist Kanzler (prime minister) in German and chaos in Europe and the World.

For me, it seems that good ideas are always the success of those that commit to those ideas, never those that actually had the ideas. Bad ideas, on the other hand, are always the fault of those that had the ideas, never those that committed to those ideas. Unfortunately hindsight decides between good and bad ideas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_balanced_budget_amendme...
No, the necessary changes are cultural; the government can’t and shouldn’t do anything about it. What they really shouldn’t do is give handouts, since that’s sure to perpetuate the inequality. Necessity is the mother of invention, teaching a man to fish, yada yada yada.
No, they are not. They are a cheap way of verifying that something hasn't gone wrong, not a proof of correctness.

Tests failing implies the code is incorrect. Tests not failing does not imply that the code is correct.
Yes they did, even if they were present in the continent before humans, they died out at least 10ky ago.
This isn't a hot take lol.
They believed we misunderstood and they were very much wrong. We know what you're trying to achieve and we're telling you not to do it. I have already cancelled my existing Mozilla subscriptions and am actively looking towards alternatives that either respect my privacy better (seems like Waterfox or Ladybird are the candidates), or remain as bad for privacy as Mozilla but provide more functionality than Firefox (Vivaldi, Brave).
Great old school content site. I bet they didn't even need a JavaScript framework.

I didn't see the rare English infix listed here: https://www.affixes.org/alpha/f/index.html
Yeah, waiting to see if the current iteration of PD-14 engine[0] is finally up to the task. Two years ago UAC tested them and found to be in the need of improvement.

[0] https://rostec.ru/media/news/rostekh-peredal-partiyu-seriyny...
Thanks for the corrections, that’s what I wanted to say!
I think we’re seeing his spilt economic system coming into play with computer hardware. Less and less B2C sales over time. It’s just not as profitable to sell to poor people.
If only he searched "mens rea" first.
Absolutely. Or put another way, if you can imagine a map of a metro area distorted in terms of commute times between places rather than physical distance, the goal is to maximize the density of the city, putting as many people as possible within reasonable commute times.

This is possible via either dense housing or efficient transportation or both.
Study finds contaminants in U.S. drinking water [video]
You're saying "will" but what are you waiting for? How many data points do you need to leave FF now they're admitting to collect data and willing to display their own targetted ads, that they make deals with Facebook in addition to making deals with Google, that they're green-washing and pushing Google's efforts to take over the web as a targetted ad medium which has resulted in abandonment of almost all browser development and their own browser share drop to low single-digit figures, with funds directed towards nebulous virtual signalling campaigns but mostly to their management and certainly not towards development or the better of the web?
They meant 10ms is slow.
As soon as all hope of ever achieving Communism was lost - and that was clear by XXVth Party congress in 1976 when it got all but replaced with so-called "advanced Socialism" - Soviet Union was done: keeping the system of thorough socioeconomic absurdity and repression in all spheres of life was impossible without giving people a greater goal to strive for. Without that, the question of "what are we suffering for" had no answer.

In addition, the elites realised how poorly they were treated compared not just to the leading, but even to the capitalist nations of similar per capita GDP - that is, mediocre ones - and wanted to change that. Seriously, speaking of economic grievances, no one had more to complain about but the Soviet elites. Those who in America, had Learjets and beachside villas, had to make do with bugged apartments and black Volgas in the Soviet Union and they rightly saw it as unfair.

Both problems could be "fixed" with 1937-style repression IN ADDITION to 1933-style famine (because Soviet Union depended on food imports and the West won't give them in case of a new Purge), but Gorby had no balls for that sort of thing in 1987, and thank God he didn't.

Simply put, there was no way to fool too many people, increasingly well-educated and capable of critical thinking, for too long a time. Communism ended because it's time was up.
Also Europe took millions of Ukrainian refugees, and it took the hardest blows from the sanctions against Russia.
They seems to trade off privacy protections to gain performance, which I think is a very odd choice.

Did they publicly establish that that the scoped storage is hurting their performance to an unacceptable degree, before making that choice?

What if users are not fine with that choice of giving a blanket approval to a closed source system.

There is no good reason why Obsidian needs to see more than its own files and the specific documents that the user wants it to see.
"America first, you don't like it get out" is not typically what one says when they have a nuanced understanding of geopolitics.
You don't need to go far. Just look at the Thunderbird. People are donating to support it.
If the people of Taiwan still don't see that they're being used as a sacrificial lamb to slow down China's economic rise, maybe they'll see it now.
And it'll call you out for the silence on the line...
The thing that crypto correlated the most with so far has been tech stocks, the most exposed ones. So I don't think crypto will hold much longer than those and will crash earlier than the rest if your scenario was to be true.

Also, if crypto would be to become any money, then it would not produce any yield in average. So it would not be interesting to hold, the whole scenario makes no sense.
Grifters gunna grift. He is just another lippy barrow boy that claims to be the "best trader in the world" - actually surprisingly common in London bank dealing rooms.

The oddity is that it has taken so long for them to find YouTube.
You make no sense: why would Russia do it then?

It does now for the very clear reasons:

1. NATO, while being openly hostile towards Russia (you may read the current NATO's doctrine where Russia is named as the #1 probable enemy of NATO), attempted to expand to Ukraine, which is just not acceptable (to Russia) at all.

2. Russian nationals (and Russian speaking Ukrainian nationals) got oppressed in Ukraine, but that happened mostly as a result of the division of country into two parts where one was pro-Russian and the other was pro-West (EU, NATO).

I don't think the 2nd reason would even occur, since if Russia was in NATO - it would rather even seek Ukraine then joining it too. There would be no 'maidans' (coups) in Ukraine, there would be no division of the country and thus the oppression of Russian nationals (and Russian speaking Ukrainian nationals) just wouldn't have taken place then.

I think the conflicts concerning Russia then would rather shift towards Middle East (like Turkey having some beef with Russia over who supports whom in Iran, Palestine, Israel and so on) and maybe towards China/India.
In 1995 my parents, both factory workers, bought me a $2500 Packard Bell PC with 100MHz Pentium, 8MB of RAM, and a 1GB hard drive. Adjusted for inflation that would be a $5,283.95 computer today.
A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
I feel, What's more harder are the jet engines on fighter planes. These are usually a decade or two ahead in terms of advancements. The technology here trickles down to commercial jet engines slowly. Things like Metullargy for blades etc are a closely guarded secret. China and India are pouring billions into research just to get theirs close to even the lower end of what GE has to offer.
> People on welfare are taking from the system and people who cross our borders and enter and stay in our country without visas are illegal.

They are taking from the system, yes. They are people who receive welfare, not parasites. People who emigrate illegally have committed a crime, they are not themselves a crime , they are not themselves illegal. The most we could stretch to would be "illegally present people." But going further and calling a group of people "illegals" removes the human aspect from the conversation and is therefore quite literally dehumanising.

> People who look at such things with "horror" dehumanize the conversation

A conversation is not a human so this point comes across as absurd. Could you rephrase it?

> It is like they bathe themselves in weakness and virtue signaling.

This point comes across as a vaccuous ad hominem, could you rephrase it?

> They hide from how cruel the world is

I can speak for myself and say that I am very much not doing that. I couldn't be more conscious of the fact that the last time language like this was normalised it lead to the deaths of millions of innocent people. This cannot happen again. It is purely the incredible cruelty of this world that drives me to say what I am saying.
Longer compile times prolong iterative programming processes and having to take care of memory management through linear types adds restrictions on how you can express code and leads to additional mental burden. This can be part of a trade-off, where you get things in return (no runtime/gc), but your typical web app I don't see much advantages.
You could say this explicitly shows how little it has improved.
I see it the precise other way around, essentially the position parodied by Yes Prime Minister with Hacker's Grand Design.

Basically, there's never a sensible reason to use the nukes. Let's suppose the EU invades Russia. We seize Pskov, should Russia use its nukes? Of course not, we will nuke them in turn. If we take Novgorod, should they use them? Of course not, it'll be nuclear annihilation. St Petersburg, Pskov, Novgorod? No. Moscow? No.

There's never any reason to fire the missiles, and if they respond with a limited nuclear strike, we just match it with one causing, let's say, 10% more damage and keep pushing.

As long as you have nukes yourself nukes are irrelevant and won't be used other than in a limited way even as your conventional forces march through your enemy's capital.
Keep in mind article 5 says "react as it deems necessary".

> will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary

https://www.nato.int/cps/ie/natohq/topics_110496.htm

If Poland triggers Article 5, just because fallout came to its borders, other members are free to send them iodine tablets and lead tents, rather than starting WW3.

It's not a start nuclear Armageddon article.
Fun, I did a similar project some years ago , I always like it when multiple people arrive at the same approach without ever communicating :)

https://github.com/dm03514/test-engine/blob/master/tutorials...

https://github.com/dm03514/func-y-task-engine
Skype was founded 2003, wholly bought by eBay in 2005. MS bought it from eBay in 2011, when Skype had 30m users, which was and is tiny compared to relevant markets for videoconferencing. Even now Teams has around 30% of the market. In the 14 years since the purchase MS increased Skype usage significantly and brought the tech to a vastly bigger audience.

So no, there was never a monopoly, the market share was vastly too low to “price fix an entire market,” and “the hug of death” certainly doesn’t mean making a product better and more used and only shuttering it after 14 years when it’s been vastly outclassed (Skype usage sits at around 1%, and Zoom completely slaughtered it). Most tech fails much quicker.