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by brabel 9mo ago
> You can point to George W. Bush opening the door to NATO membership in 2006 [1] as a turning point but NATO had been gobbling up former Communist bloc countries for more than a decade. The 1990's Russia was a hugely struggling nat
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by brabel 9mo ago
Is this really true? College kids are not making drinking parties anymore?? I can’t even fathom that.
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by brabel 9mo ago
> Europe created the Russia-Ukraine problem by giving their energy security to Russia. > This warning has been completely vindicated. That's funny. The US warned Europe of dependence on Russia all the while promoting policies tha
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by brabel 9mo ago
I think it's not that they lose their mental faculties... it's that they lived most of their lives in a world without computers (at least home computers - which only became a common occurrence in the 90's, when today's o
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by brabel 9mo ago
I had a 75-inch TV I inherited, it was on the higher end and the TV UI was supper snappy. Then, I broke it accidentally and got only 1/4 of the money from insurance. Because I barely watch TV, I thought I would just buy a TV of the sam
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by brabel 9mo ago
You’re focusing on the US. In Europe, worker protections are great. However, Europe has been lagging behind the US for a couple of decades and the gap has been growing. All tech giants are based in the US or China. Maybe things will collaps
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by brabel 9mo ago
The leather on those shoes are in nearly perfect condition! How can that be possible??
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by brabel 9mo ago
That’s very interesting. Most systems I know would pick the highest versions allowed by the ranges. In maven and gradle, for example, at least by default they choose the highest versions allowed. Even if no version range is used, it picks t
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by brabel 9mo ago
Javalin was inspired by https://sparkjava.com/ which was inspired by Sinatra (which I think also inspired Express?). Anyway, libraries like this were only really feasible after Java 8 because of the reliance on lambdas. Hav
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by brabel 9mo ago
Saying that the new Java features are half baked, to me, shows you're just feeling hurt because people prefer Java over your favourite language. Java may not be the pinnacle of programming languages, but since Java 8, pretty much every
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by brabel 9mo ago
If you want to see what it looks like when you actually embed Datalog in your language, have a look at Flix: https://flix.dev/ (Select the "Usinag Datalog..." example in the code sample dropdown) The Rust code loo
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by brabel 9mo ago
> We don't know that humanity's future will continue to be better off indefinitely. Right. We don't. And we never did. What I was saying is that when I was young, there was plenty of reason to believe everything would go t
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by brabel 10mo ago
Young people are always the ones protesting against whatever they consider the currently big injustices. They rarely achieve something, but I think it’s great that they do anyway. It shapes their priorities and experiences. In just 20 years
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by brabel 10mo ago
Funny how managers get blamed for both wanting new things and for not wanting new things. In the Java 6 days every dev wanted to upgrade to 7 and later 8… but the meme was that their manager wouldn’t ever let them.
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by brabel 10mo ago
I did the same thing, but implemented my site generator in Go. My site has grown by a lot over the years, but I can still build it from scratch (from MD files, HTML snippets and static files) in less than one second! Also have a RSS feed ge
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by brabel 10mo ago
I love that all this “library” is doing is basically allowing to write code that in C is perfectly acceptable!
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by brabel 10mo ago
Hostilities and fear of Russia. Whether that was well founded or not, hostility can only spread more hostility.
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by brabel 10mo ago
The question is whether NATO would attack Russia through Ukraine. And if you don’t think that’s absolutely possible you need to read history books. I think it’s actually very possible it will happen within the next few years, in fact, given
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by brabel 10mo ago
Hm… as the person was new to SO it’s very possible they don’t understand what a good question looks like and I thought it may be helpful to give feedback on what may have gone wrong… but if you see that as “begging” and you don’t think you
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by brabel 10mo ago
They probably meant F#
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by brabel 10mo ago
There is lots of languages that already do that: Kotlin, Dart, typescript, OCaml, D, Haskell and the list goes on! Non GC languages OTOH are rare and we absolutely need more of them!
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by brabel 10mo ago
c3 has a @pool annotation that makes a block use an arena to allocate, that should help since all memory is freed upon exiting the block.
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by brabel 10mo ago
Questions are never really deleted , post a link so people with enough reputation may have a look and maybe resurrect it if the question is really good.
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by brabel 10mo ago
Yes it is if it was the case that the whole purpose of the neighborhood watch was to contain me, and breaking into your house was in my view the best defense against allowing you to contain me.
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by brabel 10mo ago
When you say eventually, clearly the other side should take it seriously , wouldn’t you? Or again are we going into “they should believe us, but only sometimes” ??
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by brabel 10mo ago
Before the 2014 conflict in Donbas and annexation of Krimea, things were going in the right direction with Europe and Russia being big commercial partners. The Ukrainian revolution is seen as good by most Westerners, but that was really wha
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by brabel 10mo ago
For the same reason no one in the West believed Putin when he said expanding NATO was not necessary since Russia was not the enemy anymore. The West still wanted to allow ex Soviet countries to join NATO even if that would cause hostility f
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by brabel 10mo ago
OP said it started in 2007. At that time, something like this would be seen as funny, not toxic like today.
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by brabel 10mo ago
Sometimes I feel the same, though I did get married, which just happened because I took desperate measures and started using Russian Brides style websites! I was lucky and can’t really recommend these days as it’s mostly scam, but it did wo
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by brabel 10mo ago
I am not a Kiwi but was in Rotorua once, just wanted to say it is a lovely town (there was a sign claiming it was the nicest town in NZ!) and I loved the geyser and boiling mud! Must be funny to live with the sulphur smell and not even noti

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