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by raducu 4y ago
> Ukraine must be divided and de-militarized Ukraine first, then Poland then the baltics, then all the way to Berlin, and when we're there, all the way to the Atlantic ocean. Russian shills, do you think we're that stupid? Russ
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by raducu 4y ago
> sanctions on Russia were colossally stupid Declaring war to Hitler over invading Poland was colossally stupid. No, relying on oil and natural gas was stupid. We had so many warnings -- Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine in 2014 and U
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by raducu 4y ago
> it turns out I have adult ADHD. The same for me and I'm under medication. I still zone out in meetings, but maybe not as much during meetings that actually convern me.
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by raducu 4y ago
Those are good points. I know xanax/benzodiazepines/anything that messes with GABA is very dangerous long term because withdrawals can kill you. I would not go as far as saying drugs should be free for all, because I have a sam
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by raducu 4y ago
> Nothing explains the lack of development the previous few millemnia. But it also took many, many thousands of years for us to get to the industrial revolution. And we did not have magic, we did not outsource stuff to elves and dwarv
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by raducu 4y ago
> I doubt Sauron or Saruman care at all about their lives. Also, orcs were twisted elves, so perhaps they also had slow reproduction cycles?
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> hope of pain relief is just about the most powerful psychological force I was diagnosed with BPD about 10 years ago, and I think I'm mostly "cured". Two key turning points for me were: 1) drugs -- a great realization t
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by raducu 4y ago
I'm quite content with minimal human contact. I only really miss my daughter and wife and once in a blue moon some close friends or family. But I absolutely can notice that I get kind of feral after long isolation periods, even in te
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by raducu 4y ago
> If you, for some reason, have a few hundred GPU lying around Not to nitpick, but that is like saying that if you have a Lamborghini lying around, a Sunday trip in one is not so expensive.
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Nobody mentioned Schema Therapy, so I will. Schema Therapy is such a beautiful thing and Jeffrey Young seems such a great human being and therapist (unlike the narcissistic freudian type of self important psychotherapist). I only did a
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by raducu 4y ago
> well, they absolutely know what they are doing My grandfather had neighbours whom he routinely looked down upon because of their alcohol problem. Very late in the life of one of their children I talked with him and found out he was a r
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by raducu 4y ago
This reminds me of the debate of the origins of the Universe. Some religions maintained that the Universe at some point did not exist. Some scientists up to very recently maintained (perhaps in opposition to religious views) that the U
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by raducu 4y ago
Wasn't it at some point that the greatest risk factor for a heart attack was if you got the flu in the past? Why wouldn't a virus that's 10-100 times more deadly not have serious long term effects?
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by raducu 4y ago
I got the original COVID and it felt very mild. Except I nearly passed out when I helped another patient in the hospital (the poor guy was obese, was on oxigen and they placed him near a window with no blinds and no AC, I had to improvise
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by raducu 4y ago
> Am I the only one who thinks this is super scary stuff? I want to play certain VR games that I can't without a powerful PC. I don't have the physical space for a PC and it seems such a waste to buy such a PC for a few tens
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by raducu 4y ago
> But does Loom reclaim allocated stack space once the thread's stack shrinks? Could you elaborate why you asked this? Is it because it's not done already? I'm genuinely curious.
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by raducu 4y ago
The golden ratio is something you can measure. I'm talking about stuff like: reality has fractal shapes -- eeehhh... it kind of doesn't Circuit boards look like cities for electrons -- they look like cities for ants for me. But no
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by raducu 4y ago
I've got a dozen tronclub kits completely unopened. A 200mhz osciloscope I've only used to test the onboard signal generator. A decent electronic microscope. Solder paste in my fridge, never opened. A broken cheap chinese
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by raducu 4y ago
Hibernate brings incredible flexibility and power but also the temptation to overuse it. Funny how time and time again I've had the same problems of making collections lazy, deciding when changes need to propagate and so on. Nowadays I
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by raducu 4y ago
Those look nothing alike, imho. The only thing those things have in common is the human mind percieving them.
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by raducu 4y ago
Also a very old idea of mine :) But in part that's what reddit does. Also a general-purpose geographic forum, where you can leave notes to people in a certain area ("I lost/found this item around here"/"be
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by raducu 4y ago
Don't turn HN into reddit, please.
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Yes, I meant guns-only type of dogfights, there will still be a few dogfights, but fought with close-range missiles.
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Also remote controlled ATGMs and I'm sure remote controlled machine guns and other stuff (the israelis already have a lot of remote controlled machine guns afik). The tank may not be completely obsolete and indeed properly used like th
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by raducu 5y ago
The question is also why? Ukraine got what it wanted from the news. There's no point rubbing it in Russia's face any more, enraging the russians even more. The same for US.
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by raducu 5y ago
> European countries are ramping up expenditure simply because Russia has increased instability Russia was/is spending something like 17% on military. Obviously they planned to use it at some point, I can't believe we were this
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by raducu 5y ago
> We can clearly see that the current generation of tank the Russians have are useless. You deeply underestimate how much worse things could get. After receiving tens of thousands of ATGMs, Ukraine still only destroyed a fraction of the
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> Russia seems to be much weaker than expected but definitely they are not harmless. I mean, who want to test how harmful a slingshot is if they can't retaliate? Russia has an artillery based army and Ukraine doesn't have the l
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by raducu 5y ago
> I've been reading HN for years and I would assume 90% of the comment section or more is people who only want to be employees. That is correct, I've also noticed over the years. I'm sure the public of HN broadened over th
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by raducu 5y ago
Justice means sending Ukraine all the equipment it needs, handing Ukraine all the frozen assets of the Russian Central Bank, stopping all russian imports and banning travel to Russia, banning sending any medicine for as long as the war crim

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