chokolad

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by chokolad 4y ago
> The sole Russian Carrier today was built and docked in Ukraine. When the USSR collapsed Russia stole and basically destroyed it out of sheer incompetence. That's strictly due to geography. There are not too many places in USSR whe
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by chokolad 4y ago
> Just to clarify - native Russians in Ukraine or outside of it? If the former then it’s not surprising, the genocide was directed at specific territories. Outside. Specifically, Volga Region, Kazakhstan, Urals and Siberia This Wiki arti
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by chokolad 4y ago
> Don't get me wrong, I think MS SQL Server is a highly capable DB, I just don't see enough of a value add here to justify the price tag, in general. I suspect it uses what was called MSDE (MS SQL desktop engine), which is free
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by chokolad 4y ago
How is it not programming ?
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by chokolad 4y ago
If the large power transformers are hit the repairs are neither that quick nor cheap
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by chokolad 4y ago
I am not sure I follow. My point was that strikes have not really targeted civilian population, they targeted electrical grid.
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by chokolad 4y ago
Main targets of the attack were components of electirc grid, hence relatively low casualty numbers. For some reason western media mentions this only in passing, while pushing what seems to be the misses to the front page.
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Can C++ be 10x Simpler and Safer? – Herb Sutter – CppCon 2022(youtube.com)
8 points by chokolad 4y ago|1 comments
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by chokolad 4y ago
Looks like there is a talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELeZAKCN4tY
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by chokolad 4y ago
there are wonderful books, that go deep into the language, or provide bunch of solutions to practical problems. Pick your poison: Powershell in Depth [1] Powershell Cookbook [2] [1] https://www.manning.com/books/powers
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by chokolad 4y ago
This is in line with earlier findings in different countries. In a meta-analysis of hiring discrimination studies during 2000–2014, Rich [9] documented high levels of discrimination against men applying to jobs in female-dominated occupati
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by chokolad 5y ago
It could be related to recent recall by Thawte of certificates for various Russian banks and government properties.
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by chokolad 5y ago
> College entrance exams do not test for intelligence or academic competence. They test for ability to do well on the exam, which is governed primarily by a student's socioeconomic status. What is the signal Harvard uses to test for
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by chokolad 5y ago
Non-paywalled copy https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/one-target-store-o...
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by chokolad 5y ago
Maybe sporadically? I just checked and it seems to be up.
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by chokolad 5y ago
I think you got your Davids confused. Honor Harrington series are written by a David Weber.
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by chokolad 5y ago
Thank you. That was not in the tweet though, was it ?
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by chokolad 5y ago
Can you please copy a quote from that article that states "Github(company org chart) now reports to Microsoft Visual Studio"? This is not a snark, I genuinely trying to figure out what I am missing. I glanced through the article -
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by chokolad 5y ago
I wonder what the source on this. Twit above just states it as a fact but does not list any evidence.
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by chokolad 5y ago
Unless I misunderstand you those things already exist. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/
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by chokolad 5y ago
> i should be included in windows, and not having to install from the store, like wtf did they smoke? It is included in Windows 11
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by chokolad 5y ago
I bought an Ego+ leafblower in Home Depot about 7 or so years ago. It was around $500 and the best garden related purchase I made so far. It is still going strong, there is literally no maintenance to perform, it's quiet, does not smel
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by chokolad 5y ago
> Whereas books by prominent conservatives tend to have titles like "Demonic : How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America" and "Liberal Fascism : The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of C
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by chokolad 5y ago
Author of the article is most likely Jewish, judging by her last name.
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by chokolad 5y ago
> RE: powershell ... yup Russinovic gave us that too :) Nope, that was Jeffrey Snover.
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by chokolad 5y ago
1p - first party, meaning other Microsoft teams
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by chokolad 5y ago
There was this rather janky IDE for Powershell, way before VSCode even existed, called Powershell ISE, that had very similarly looking autocomplete behavior in it's terminal window.
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by chokolad 5y ago
> Seems to me it would be rather easy to detect a system with 1 Russian keyboard vs a system with a default English keyboard and and secondary Russian keyboard. It will probably take about 10 minutes to adapt to this defense. Modern comp
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by chokolad 5y ago
> Compiling on WSL2 would have terrible performance. define terrible. Compared to what ? > No one is seriously developing in WSL. A very strong statement. Do you have any proof perhaps ?
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by chokolad 5y ago
> Russian propaganda is really good and works rather effectively. Which is no surprising as they use techniques mastered during 70 years of communism. If only. Russian propaganda is hamfisted, direct and not very effective. It's mag

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