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by blub 4y ago
To be fair to Germany, only there can one import Russian gas at scale, take out all the genocide and terrorism using very precise custom designed filters and export it back to Poland or Ukraine as freedom gas. Germany did end up getting a r
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by blub 4y ago
I have to admit that the ending took me by surprise. I was expecting “…but the Europeans got tired of them calling wolf”. Those pipelines were shipping gas to Europe literally for decades. Countries like Ukraine, Belarus or Poland were maki
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by blub 4y ago
Perhaps it would soften the blow if one doesn’t think of the present problems as paying for the idiocy of others, but rather as helping fellow Europeans through a potentially long, cold winter. Or helping Ukraine fight for democracy, for fr
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by blub 4y ago
Thanks. Regarding the first point, I remember that he was very adamant that functional decomposition was a catastrophe, but I didn’t reach the part where he presented the solution, which based on your comment seems to be decomposing on vola
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by blub 4y ago
Architect, developer, tester, etc. are project roles that are inherent to software development. The job title may say Staff Engineer, JavaScript Ninja, Principal Engineer, Senior Architect or any combination of the above, but in the end som
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by blub 4y ago
If the architect from your second paragraph works closely with the dev team for prototyping and iterates on their feedback I don’t see anything wrong with that approach.
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by blub 4y ago
What insights did you get out of that? I was watching the video version and gave up because it was mostly fluff and self-promotion. Couldn’t even remember what the core idea was that he kept repeating.
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by blub 4y ago
I suggest learning an architecture framework which guides you on what topics to address as part of your architecture - such as 4+1, Viewpoints and perspectives or arc42 which I’ve learned of recently and seems to resemble the former. You’ll
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by blub 4y ago
That demo video is to me further confirmation that adding computers to creative activities sucks the joy out of them and makes them bland, boring and pointless. Illustration has been reduced to dragging pictures around, using the eraser too
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by blub 4y ago
I've read about the Irish and French governments recently claiming that 5-10 years of economic "difficulties" can be expected and that the era of prosperity is likely over. I guess we'll know more come this and next wint
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by blub 4y ago
If by short term you mean about 40 years for natural gas and a few decades for everything else, I guess we can agree that it was short-term positive. Although that would make the idea of long-term superfluous :-) Put another way, if it were
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by blub 4y ago
Germany already managed to exhaust all its export surplus on buying gas.
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by blub 4y ago
You’re confusing the EU with NATO. Trade with Russia was obviously positive for the EU, as can be noticed from the economic damage and energy availability crisis.
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by blub 4y ago
Russia and Ukraine had many disagreements since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The moment that relations really took a turn for the worse was after Ukraine started flirting with NATO and to a lesser extent EU, at which point Russia to
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by blub 4y ago
If one considers applications as GUI programs running on consumer hardware like desktops, laptops or smartphones Java is in reality not at all great at this task. It’s better than Rust sure, but definitely worse than C++, C#, Swift or Objec
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by blub 4y ago
Reading your message brought flashbacks of 2006, when C and C++ programmers were politely but passionately explaining to Java programmers why the Java ecosystem was a hopeless pile of bloat. I would have thought that in 2022 the failure of
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by blub 4y ago
The EU can mostly integrate migrants from within the EU, conflicts because of East to West migration aside (see Brexit). It can also integrate migrants from other countries with shared cultural values like the US, Australia, Japan, etc. Bas
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by blub 4y ago
They didn’t give them away, they were convinced by Russia and the US to do so.
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by blub 4y ago
They screwed up a lot, but the real reason they lost is because they were sabotaged at every step by Google. Remember the “oopsies” where Google sites were breaking on Firefox and the advertising and bundling onslought for Chrome. Google wa
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by blub 4y ago
Don’t you regret wasting so much time? Or do you just suppress these thoughts :-)
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by blub 4y ago
Have you tried vaex? It is a panda-like Python library that uses C++ underneath, memory mapping and optimizes its memory access patterns. It’s very fast at least up to 1TB allegedly, I’ve used it for 10-15GB.
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by blub 4y ago
All censorship is implemented to protect X from Y. Where X is typically the local population which is not smart/strong/informed enough to understand why Y is harmful. On the one hand, X are indeed usually ignorant because that is
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by blub 4y ago
The remarkable thing about EU censorship is that the EU doesn’t seem to really censor that much. Instead, the government decides what the narrative that they want to communicate is and the press willingly and uncritically reports it. Not al
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by blub 4y ago
The newest Russian cars will allegedly not have airbags or ABS, so it's a good bet that they'll be otherwise analog :-) If they manage to install ABS/ESP, they might actually be an interesting choice, if it weren't for t
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by blub 4y ago
Objectively speaking, Rust does not "have a lot of great qualities that C++ lacks". Any new feature or improvement has its pluses, but also its minuses. * Rust has traits, but does not support OOP. Architectures where OOP is parti
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by blub 4y ago
How did we get to a point where somebody with an English sounding name is teaching lessons on racism against Asians to an Asian? You did nothing wrong. As a European I didn’t even have a clue what a wok might be for most of my life. Buying
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by blub 4y ago
Office work has obvious costs for the company (rent, etc), and obvious costs for the employee (commute, etc). All of these were known and agreed upon when the contract was signed. What many proponents of remote work are arguing for is unila
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by blub 4y ago
It sounds like you live in a dictatorship or theocracy in which case the best approach would be to apply for asylum in the US, Canada, the UK or the EU. If your life is in danger (as it seems it is), it should be reasonably straightforward
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by blub 4y ago
Thankfully nobody's likely to be reading HN for advice on breastfeeding, debunked or not. :-) They're going to look at the recommendations of the WHO, their country's equivalent or talk to their doctor or midwife. All of whic
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by blub 4y ago
Many of the restrictions that Apple added along the years were reactions to abuse by app developers (which in reality nowadays are "legal malware developers"). Everything you can think of has been tried: from reading the installed

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