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by maratc 4y ago
bash is great for scripting and zsh can be made great for interactivity. I use zsh with prezto and history-substring on and auto-suggestions on, it's great.
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> China has been repeatedly affirming that the country of Taiwan is not a country There are two countries claiming the title of "country of China", the PRC (holding the power on the mainland) and the ROC (holding the power on t
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> major NATO naval powers (US, UK, France) were never likely to send ships near Ukraine Not only they were likely, they actually did that in 2020 and 2021, as a part of joint war games with Ukraine. According to what I read, some 30 ship
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by maratc 4y ago
> I don't think Finland had much better options The Norwegians were occupied — for some time, but regained their independence. The Swedes stayed neutral. Why do you think aligning with Germany (and losing territories as a result) wa
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by maratc 4y ago
> In my opinion Russia is running out of men willing to fight First of all, let me assume you didn't poll Russians yourself. Consuming media's opinion is fine, provided we take it critically — this helps us distinguish between
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by maratc 4y ago
I can’t “repeat Russia’s propaganda” because I never listen to it. I stick to the facts. If Russian propaganda machine says that E=mc2, we can’t dismiss that because “Russian propaganda said so” and hence it must be a lie.
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I do not condone what Russia did. I just answered the question of how Ukraine doubled down on NATO.
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Considering that each nuclear sub has 80-100 warheads that are enough to destroy an entire continent, and considering it takes about an hour to fire them while underwater, do you suggest to attack the subs before they fire or after? How do
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by maratc 4y ago
> It sounds like Ukraine training their army I might agree, but in the end, what I think — or what you think — does not matter. The only thing that matters is what Russians think . What do you think they think this sounds like? > Nat
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by maratc 4y ago
Ukraine has done joint "war games" with NATO ships in 2020 and 2021 (see HMS Dragon and HMS Defender for example). On November 11, 2021 Russian jets were scrambled to intercept "British spy plane". On November 29, 2021,
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by maratc 4y ago
Interesting. And what would be your suggestions on the nuclear missiles that are based on Russian submarines that are wandering somewhere in the ocean?
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As a Finn, do you think it was smart of Mannerheim to join Nazi Germany against Russia? [EDIT] Appreciate the downvoting, but would appreciate an answer even more.
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> the removal of Russia from the planet The smartest people on the planet, since the 60's, have worked on this problem, and that's how we got to the concept of "mutually assured destruction" (triad and all that). That
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> "Keep the status quo and we won't attack," they say but now they are attacking Ukraine anyways. This does not fit my understanding. In my understanding, Ukraine doubles down on NATO membership, and Russia attacks. Am I
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> We rely on huge conscription army of 900 000 This is about what the Soviets lost in the first two months of WW2. Considering Russian population of 144 million, half of which are women and half of the rest either too old or too young to
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by maratc 4y ago
Warning: hot take. While it is unlikely that Putin would care a bit about Sweden, this is a huge gamble on Finland's side. HUGE. This can go in one of the two directions: either Putin dislikes but somehow swallows it (the way he did wi
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by maratc 4y ago
Whether we should have that record or not is completely orthogonal to the conversation about how remote workers force (or not) the others to behave in a certain way to accommodate the remoteness of these workers.
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Much is still being said in person or calls, because talking is much more efficient than writing, so ... no, we don't "have proper record of everything said and done."
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Remote fans force everyone to use tools to accommodate their remoteness. We used to have a stand-up meeting each morning at a time "when everyopne's arrived" and we used to have a whiteboard on the wall with the most current
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by maratc 5y ago
Israel has successfully reused its wastewater for agriculture. Turns out crops like the recycled wastewater just as much as drinking water. More than 90% of wastewater is reused in Israel. The second-place holder reuses less than 25%. Unite
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by maratc 5y ago
A huge part of the web is Facebook, and it has videos. Lots of them. Even if we confine ourselves to “hypertext” (HN for example), it needs scrolling, and that’s not smooth enough on e-Ink, because slow refresh rates again. Documents are so
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I’ve certainly seen some combination of eInk and paper, but never a 100% eInk.
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You don’t have to convince me (I bought the first commercially available reader, Sony PRS-500, for $350 the day it went on sale, and several others since), but for great many people their laptop does the job just fine, while many others enj
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by maratc 5y ago
I haven’t seen any chain that went fully eink, but I’m not from the US and the labor is not so expensive here, so the alternative (paying people to print labels and attach them) looks cheaper here.
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Aircraft displays need to work in full darkness too. e-Ink might make sense but its price, compared to some LCD screen, might not. Otherwise, I take from your comment that we're in agreement that "e-Ink is a solution looking for a
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by maratc 5y ago
I would not assume any malicious intent. e-Ink is a wonderful solution looking for a problem. Anything with a mouse pointer can't use e-Ink because of slow refresh rates. Anything looking at a web page can't use e-Ink because of s
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by maratc 5y ago
It wasn't a question per se, but rather a lazy joke at people sometimes misspelling "principles" as "principals" :)
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by maratc 5y ago
I understand, thanks. Just wanted to be sure: did he have to necessarily fill out these forms before he said "I control x% of Twitter", or could it be that he didn't have to fill them out, and in practice didn't fill t
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Was it because of the principals of your school?
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In my hypothesis, which is of course entirely hypothetical, he didn't lie when he said " I control 12% of Twitter".

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