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drysine
4mo ago
>Expats are usually right about their home countries - they're the ones with the most data points. How so? They don't live in the country and don't have a clue about what life is like there now. They read Western media and
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4mo ago
>Kadyrov and his son Adam with pigs' snouts My money are on the president of Chechen republic.
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4mo ago
Thanks! How do CompactString/ColdString compare to std::string implementations performance-wise? From the looks of it, they must be somewhat slower than C++ strings
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4mo ago
>got to talk to a lot of Russians. It's clear the country has collapsed already These are all emigrants, they tell each other (and you) these stories to make themselves feel better. >The best knowledge workers left. To Armenia? )
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4mo ago
Yep, the West should think what will happen if Russia supplies the West's enemies with millions of drones. The "childish delusion" that they could ship drones to the Ukraine unpunished will end one day.
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4mo ago
>ColdString and CompactString, which are way better than what's provided in C++ Could you elaborate on that?
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4mo ago
Thanks, so it's about the same considering the difference in personal income Yep, it's online in Russia too
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>Russia ... have been at the "worse and worse" stages for decades and there is no "better" in sight What do you mean? In the last 25 years life expectancy in Russia has risen by almost 10 years [0] https://
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4mo ago
You are right, I apologize What's the fine for not registering your move? What time do you have to update your location? In Russia in the 90s we had 5 days and now it's three months. The fine is 3000 rubles (~40 euro) and zero if
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4mo ago
Yeah, he is nuts. Or evil. >(for example, his catchphrases "So it goes, Misha"[13] and "Kill, Kill, Kill" have been plagiarised all over the Russian web) I remember him more than 20 years ago colorfully expressing his
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Yep, wouldn't want to be cut off from logging into Russian services when 30th round of sanctions nukes all gmail accounts associated with Russia.
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4mo ago
In Russia people who warned about it were mocked as paranoid boomers. Today I wonder how many of them were paid or just encouraged to do the mocking.
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4mo ago
>Jeroen van den Hoven, a professor of ethics and technology at TU Delft >Van den Hoven did not condemn battlefield VPS outright. If it helps Ukraine win a just war against an aggressor, he said, that is a good development. His worry i
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4mo ago
>a function that hashes some input data (using SHA-256, or whatever hash algorithm) Along with padding bytes. > Why should people complexify and uglify their C++ code with the uint8_t pointer (or std::byte), when void* works just fine
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4mo ago
>and to select pickup spot manually. It's just assumed to be fucked as a given even at an app development level No, it's a feature that was there from the beginning - you don't always choose the location you are currently
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4mo ago
>Russia was fairly isolated Quite the opposite, the West welcomed weak and crumbling Russia. To a limited extend, of course, but still Russia joined G7 and many European organizations. Western companies were busy buying privatized Sovie
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>but obviously the Russians did no such thing on their side Why obviously? The USSR invited cosmonauts from all over the world to fly and work at the Salut-6, Salit-7 and Mir stations.[0] That's France, Britain, Austria, Japan, Indi
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4mo ago
>Otherwise this seems like a non-issue. Except you forgot to mention an epic leak in Destiny just three years after it was attached to the ISS: "At its highest rate, the station was leaking about 5 pounds of air per day overboard.&q
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4mo ago
>I'm anxious for Herb Sutter's CPP2/CPPFront to become a standard. Why? It doesn't remove complexity, it (partially) hides it and makes the whole thing even more complex.
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Just look at the ending of the article: "Russia remains marked by some of the developed world’s harshest mortality rates. Average male life expectancy in Russia today is about 68 years, according to official statistics, compared with r
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5mo ago
$26B is the total budget of one of many Putin's national projects - "New Health Preservation Technologies"[0] which intends to raise the life expectancy of Russian citizens and support Russian biotech research and local produ
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5mo ago
Yeah, maybe. Or Putin will just use tactical nukes. The West didn't think Putin would escalate in 2008. The West didn't think Putin would escalate in 2014. The West didn't think Putin would escalate in 2022. The West thinks P
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5mo ago
>to convince a majority of Ukrainians to revolt Even if you accept the most charitable estimation of the number of people on Maidan in 2014, it's less than 2% of Ukrainian population. Hardly a majority. >against their Russian dom
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5mo ago
>If you go through life believing that your value depends on your practical utility My value definitely depends on my practical utility. Everyone is capable of joy and suffering. A chicken is capable of joy and suffering. Tell me this: i
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The issue at hand is that the US "mid-wifed" a nationalistic coup in the Ukraine in 2014. The first thing the Ukrainian parliament did after the coup was passing the bill that repelled the law protecting the Russian language in th
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5mo ago
Same as Russian. The state provides all needed software for filling documents related to taxes. It's been so for at least 15 years, most likely longer.
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5mo ago
What's weird about it? If you are using volatile you are reading from a device port mapped to that address. Since C doesn't mandate in which order function arguments are evaluated, you don't know which argument will be read f
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5mo ago
I was asking about the child. As for the UN vehicle, I was wrong, looks like some Russians did it. Funny, though, that you ignored the crucial detail about Ukrainians repeatedly committing war crimes by masquerading troop supplies for huma
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That would be a good proof and there is no excuse for trying to kill unarmed child. Could you give me the link?
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>dude that was actually in the droned car is on video stating "I dont know who did the attack". >UN asses had to be rescued by Ukrainian military. Or maybe Ukrainian military first attacked the UN car and then rescued them.
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