The_Colonel

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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> Not an issue, and wasn't for like last 10 years. I honestly don't remember when I had cash on me. I'm not talking about normal day-to-day life. I'm thinking of massive hacker / DDOS attack, radio interference,
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
What happens when there's an internet outage? A cashless society works fine in the sunshine case, but it's not inconceivable that the network could go down in various crisis scenarios for an extended period of time (days). Economi
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Which also makes it usable for left-handers.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> but a single person eating less meat That's the same old Tragedy of the Commons argument, which is valid no matter if we're screwed or have a decent chance at solving the crisis. Using this logic, it's irrational to even
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Ok, so now I understand what you meant. Technically, you're right. May be there's no chance to fix it. But may be false vacuum will decay tomorrow. "may be" is not very useful here. Is it probable that we're beyond
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> Is it? I've never played volleyball See, I've never played basketball or golf. > Fair, but that's a little different from "regional". "regional" is very vague. The point is that these sports are fa
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> Most people ... from your social / regional bubble. I know Tennis tournaments since tennis is somewhat popular here. Golf? Nope. > Everyone knows the NBA basketball league I don't, apart from those 3 letters. And not becau
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> we're still more or less screwed "less screwed" here means "fewer dead people". I think it matters how much screwed are we. BTW this is the exact switcheroo I expect from the climate deniers - first it was &quo
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> there may be a near-zero chance You have two probability qualifiers next to each other. What is "may be" in this case? How should a reader read it?
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> Basketball is pretty much worldwide Is it played worldwide? Sure, but so is volleyball. It's certainly not a culturally significant sport everywhere. I think my country has a basketball league, but I don't know literally anyt
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> I know telling them they shouldn’t have chosen to be athletes is missing the point you yourself bring up They can't alter the past, but they can cut their losses now. It will also hopefully help the next generation of potentially
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
The idea is exactly about channelling the competitive spirit to peaceful sport rather than war. Athletes are not like diplomats, they're like warriors, except there's no killing.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Pretty much all sports (soccer might be a singular exception) are "regional" in this sense.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
I agree, but this presupposes a large comprehensive test suite giving you enough confidence to do such sweeping changes. I don't doubt Firefox has it, but most (even large, established projects) will not. A common case I've seen i
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Thanks again for a nice demonstration of having to reinvent the wheel to produce a poor-man's buggy reimplementation of jQuery.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> If you don't, the only thing you know with a truncating clock is that the fireworks started 0 to 59 seconds ago. More importantly, I know whether the designated point in time passed or not. If you have a submission deadline set at
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
If you have IQ 50, it's not just that you do things slower than other people, you can't do many things at all.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
But not every clock would be like that - only those clocks which don't show the seconds precision would use this rounding. The consequence of that would be that statements like "fireworks start at 12 AM" would mean two differ
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
That website is (inadverently) one of the most effective marketing campaigns for jQuery. Some of the vanilla JS examples are atrocious. What it doesn't show is that vanilla JS is not chainable (jQuery is).
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
I don't disagree, but this is not relevant for the vanilla JS vs. jQuery discussion, since vanilla JS has exactly the same problems you mention as jQuery.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
That honestly sounds like a downside. Having to verify HTML as an output (in comparison to e.g. JSON) is brittle since it will often change just for presentation reasons. Having a clear and somewhat stable API (which is a boon for testing)
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> Modern React is too simple. A component is just a pure function React is simple only in some mathematical theoretical sense, but not for understanding by human minds which fundamentally operate imperatively ("if I click on this, l
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
There might be a power struggle, but a civil war? Nope. For that, you'd need (at least two) roughly equally matched adversaries controlling the armed forces. You don't see anything like that and such division doesn't spring u
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> The brief period of liberal democracy didn't work out. (Very like the Kerensky period in 1917). Trying to transition to postmodern capitalism did not work out well at all. Note that this happened to most post-communist countries.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> The realist argument would probably be that reforming to a justice system with some integrity and adopting some policies to score consecutive years of 10% growth was all they needed to keep treading water. "all they needed" -
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> especially if they coupled that with a de facto return to a market economy, the course that worked so well in China I think it would be much harder to do in the Soviet Union - it was much more ideologically committed to communism than
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
> The 'nationalist units' and at least some regular forces would resist While a great talking point in Russian circles, nationalist units did not represent a significant chunk of Ukrainian forces in 2022. They played a role in
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
You disputed the fact Russia is imperialistic.
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
My original comment was mainly about the western agencies / think tanks making such predictions. Russians were denying the invasion till it actually began, so there aren't any public statements, of course. But what Russians expect
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by The_Colonel 2y ago
Yeah, cumulatively less than 5%.

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