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> This seems a bit of a stretch of a claim to make. In what ways would you say that Russia is a decade behind? Every country had it's own facebook. The differe
by ajuc 1y ago
> This seems a bit of a stretch of a claim to make. In what ways would you say that Russia is a decade behind?
Every country had it's own facebook. The difference was not features but scale.
Russia scales to million of users. Facebook/Google etc. scale to billions of users.
Everybody use Office, Chrome, commercial CADs, etc. Russia has no alternatives in most of these categories, and where it has alternatives - it's usually global (i.e. mostly made by programmers paid by western corporations) open source project they fork and add a russian skin over it.
> And when it comes to hardware, none of us are particularly strong with that.
USA and EU design the top-end chips and make crucial parts of the machines that produce chips (see ASML).
Russia was left behind in 90s and tries to catch up using some open-source alternatives around RISC-V. But they have no capability of designing nor producing chips anywhere near modern desktop CPUs.
Russian Lancet drones use smuggled Nvidia AI chips for example. We do not use smuggled Russian chips :)
- torginus 1y agoI have no love (or even reason) to support modern Russia, but this is just wrong. Russia has multiple home-grown office suites. Besides MS Office, the market leader still is full of bugs that harken back decades. They also have multiple commercial CAD programs (KOMPAS, T-FLEX) that scale up to everything including airliners. As for those 'western' top programmers, especially good ones, you'd be surprised how many of them are from post-USSR countries, including Russia (and Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan etc.). As for chips they are behind (for reasons beyond the scope of my post), but the post mainly extended to software, in which, many of the supposed crown jewels of the West (aka US) have been replicated quite successfully in other parts of the world including Russia.