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by blub 4y ago
Please lead by example. And when the US crucifies you, you may ask Snowden to do the same and come back to the US. I think your sacrifice would have a good chance of motivating him. Or depending on the exact outcome, mentally scarring him.
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by blub 4y ago
Yes, the amount of hate for Snowden and Assange is dismaying. These men sacrificed their lives to expose the crimes of one of - if not the most -powerful organizations on Earth. And people nitpick that they’re not criticizing the other most
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by blub 4y ago
Mission critical is almost meaningless when applied to the entire software industry. It’s whatever each company wrote their core software in. For twitter Ruby was mission critical, for Facebook it was PHP. Security critical is also rather m
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by blub 4y ago
You seem to be quite well versed in the persona of Mark Russinovich. Does he still develop the sysinternals tools? Does he program any more or has he settled into the life of an xTO? Rust, C++, what is he using? Did he port all his tools to
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by blub 4y ago
It’s jarring to see how somebody’s fame in a specific domain makes them believe they can dictate what other companies and entire industries can use. Read his internals book - much appreciated back when I was doing Windows programming. Used
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by blub 4y ago
This is probably good for Figma competitors, because Adobe will crapify it just like they did a long time ago with their own products. Well deserved lesson for those that decided to support a cloud product instead of an offline tool.
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by blub 4y ago
Your comment is a good summary of the kind of arrogance anyone pointing out problems with the vaccines was facing. When the AZ brain blood clots were discovered, when the Biontech and Moderna heart issues were discovered, etc. IMO, your att
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by blub 4y ago
Back when Germany was considering making vaccination mandatory it was already clear that they only protect against infection for a brief time and that they’re not that effective against Omicron in the first place. I don’t have any citations
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by blub 4y ago
From your link: “ As a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the use of the term anti-vaxxer has both increased and broadened.” It used to refer to parents which completely refused to vaccinate their children. It has transformed into a we
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by blub 4y ago
You seem to be assuming that countries may decide on their own freely who they associate with. This is the case in international law, but not in reality, as can be seen in many examples concerning Russia or the US or China. Realpolitik vs i
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by blub 4y ago
Now you’ve scaled back from hundreds of years to a just as arbitrary 100 years. I assume you’ve led with Germany to address the very obvious WW2, when Germany turned the entire continent into a bloodbath. Ok, let’s skip that one :-) There w
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by blub 4y ago
If the goal was to avoid war in Europe, then keeping a buffer of neutral countries between Russia and the EU/NATO would have been the logical course of action, when failing to integrate Russia in the European family. It seems to me tha
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by blub 4y ago
Turkey are an important member of NATO and they know it. They’re also hosting US nuclear missiles.
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by blub 4y ago
First you said they were neutral, then I pointed out that they were courted by the US. 2014 was when Ukraine clearly changed its alignment to the West, which triggered Crimea. It’s about several things, agreed.
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by blub 4y ago
AFAIK the reason why Ukraine wasn’t invited to join back then were objections from France and Germany. The US were courting them and lobbying for them to join. This is a classic escalation spiral, where flirtations between Ukraine and NATO
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by blub 4y ago
Such agreements are based on trust and if that’s gone both parties stand to lose a lot. The kind of global challenges we will meet can only be tackled by having the US, Russia, China, India, the EU work together. Pointing out that it was a
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by blub 4y ago
Afaik the NATO mission in Yugoslavia and Libya were the two big ones. Both misused NATO and were not defensive in nature.
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by blub 4y ago
Nearly every country in Europe has been invading its neighbors for centuries, that’s what normal looks like in Europe. In fact some countries liked invasions so much, that they invaded countries all over the world. Joining NATO is not at al
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by blub 4y ago
There is no redemption for Russia, this is by now probably etched into their brains after Yugoslavia, two NATO expansions, Georgia and Ukraine. The sanctions are also here to stay, so claiming that “getting out of Ukraine now” would make an
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by blub 4y ago
Yes, proper ones are super-expensive. I’ve seen people also use ammo cases with vents cut out, but those won’t stop gases and might actually inadvertently function as a flame thrower.
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by blub 4y ago
It’s a complicated language, just like C++. A lot of that seems like accidental complexity from wanting to encode various attributes of algorithms and data in the type system. If one wants to use a straightforward low-level language, Rust i
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by blub 4y ago
It’s not gone, it’s out there waiting for unsuspecting developers to pounce on. And what are you going to do, ask during the interview if the company uses UML? I mean who doesn’t use a little UML in a mid to big software company? Seems safe
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by blub 4y ago
No, why would you think that? One can model in UML anything between a bunch of classes, to a state machine to subsystems and entire systems. One can model architectures in advance or after the fact. One can model while brainstorming or when
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by blub 4y ago
1 may be true at some companies, but it’s by far not the case for the great majority of software companies. Furthermore, while it’s nice if managers are broadly familiar with software engineering, it doesn’t bring any benefits for them to c
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by blub 4y ago
Nobody knows when the war will be over. Most of us didn't even know there would be a war, even while Russia was amassing troops at the border. While I'm not sure about Europe, Ukraine seems lost: they're at the mercy of the I
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by blub 4y ago
Didn't the EU leaders botch the most recent global crisis, the Covid pandemic? Downplaying the virus at the beginning, then failing to secure masks and lying about their benefits and discouraging their use, failing to secure enough vac
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by blub 4y ago
What does it mean to "afford" the burden and be "fine"? Yes, a collapse of the EU economy and the EUR is unlikely, but other things are already happening: massive heating and electricity bills for businesses and individu
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by blub 4y ago
There are many unpleasant steps to go until reaching the collapse of the German economy and while the EU has certainly overplayed its hand, giving up too early is (geo)political suicide. Outcomes that are likely this winter are blackouts, b
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by blub 4y ago
How did turning off the engine almost cause an accident, were you overtaking?
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by blub 4y ago
In my area of Germany new 3-4 room apartments(!) sell for 500-700k€. Waiting lists for parcels of land which must be allocated by the city stretch out for years. Old houses even in poor condition and needing major work start around 300k€. T

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