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by rmk 5y ago
Welcome to General Aviation, where you can still experience vintage technology from the sixties and seventies! But also proof that a wimpy 180-HP thing is way more fun than a 500-HP BMW M3, simply because of the fact that it flies :)
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by rmk 5y ago
Ha! Nice piece of writing. What's the software equivalent of this car? I've heard loads of complaints from Oracle software users (database excepted; it appears to be a genuinely great product).
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by rmk 5y ago
Sure, I can see notes being very important for lawyers. But I don’t see that for software engineers and programmers. For a programmer, the facts are the code. The end. The code is what gets executed. Anything outside of it is secondary. Thi
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by rmk 5y ago
The Go programming language is pretty much backed by Google. It really did not have a life outside of google AFAIK, when it burst onto the scene. It's now become the de-facto systems programming language. C is pretty much not used at t
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by rmk 5y ago
Is this feasible for people who have families and things to attend to outside of a life in technology? It seems to me that there is a lot of time and effort that is expended into note-taking and note-keeping. This is generally something onl
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by rmk 5y ago
I agree that a job is not a place for making friends. But collegiality and good relationships with colleagues is still better than a complete disconnect from them. After all, a huge percentage of waking hours are spent at work.
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by rmk 5y ago
I think human connection and doing things as a community has fallen by the wayside in the modern world. It will be particularly bad with fully remote work: most people do better cognitively and emotionally when they have contact with a vari
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by rmk 5y ago
India empathizes with Ukraine, and is sending humanitarian assistance. But it buys 85% of its military hardware from Russia. Russia has supported it on many occasions in the past, whereas the USA once sent the USS Enterprise into Indian wat
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by rmk 5y ago
If this person is habitually rude, then you are not telling the manager anything he doesn't know. If the person was having a bad day, then you should probably have given him a wide berth and let it be. If the person is a jerk behind th
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by rmk 5y ago
It's not a strange definition of "win". Winning means not getting into unnecessary fights where national interest isn't involved (for the US and many EU neighbors of Ukraine; Ukraine itself too, considering that they can
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by rmk 5y ago
Thank you for posting this every informative talk. What I've written essentially reflects this. The conclusion that Prof. Mearsheimer draws, that Ukraine will be forced to break up by Putin, seems to be the end game here.
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by rmk 5y ago
I'm not saying Russia's actions are legal, morally right, or justified. Russia (or, for that matter, any authoritarian nation-state that's barely accountable to its own people) is a threat to all its neighbors. I'm only
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by rmk 5y ago
Lol. Taking out mob hits on Castro, that's just epic! I totally forgot the "Communist Stooges" category that America had a special loathing for. I'm sure they were a no-holds-barred category!
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by rmk 5y ago
Don't worry, until now EU member states were blissfully ignoring or putting their NATO obligations on the back burner. Hence the prodigious dependency on Russian gas. Also, the greens hold considerable sway in large parts of Western Eu
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by rmk 5y ago
It is my understanding that TSMC has made arrangements to scuttle their facilities in this eventuality, denying invaders the technology.
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by rmk 5y ago
Being comfortable in your neighborhood is not a delusion, it's a core priority most nation states will be willing to go to war over. If you are American, then you will likely not understand this because America is blessed with wonderfu
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by rmk 5y ago
After decades of cheerfully deindustrializing and giving up the source of ordinary people's prosperity, the US is waking up to the stupidity of doing this. It's very visible in the chip industry because it's very visibly domi
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by rmk 5y ago
You are talking about the military aspects. The political aspects matter too, and sometimes much more than the military aspects. Do you think the US would be content to let Russia place missiles on Cuban soil today? Why is China cagey about
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by rmk 5y ago
Of course according to the repeated pronouncements of everyone ranging from their President to Foreign Minister to Defense Minister to the ambassadors. See this report for a brief example: https://researchbriefings.files.parliame
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by rmk 5y ago
Yes, Russia has a finite window in which it can bring in its tanks and heavy artillery, which are its strengths, before the spring thaws mire them in the mud. It's not entirely clear what the endgame is here, though. They can not susta
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by rmk 5y ago
I do not think the US does political assassinations (I may be utterly wrong here, if so, please post examples!) It does use assassinations against terrorists or quasi-political figures such as Qasem Soleimani, but I doubt that eliminating P
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by rmk 5y ago
NATO is a defensive alliance, so there has to be a provocation for them to act.
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by rmk 5y ago
That's correct. You don't put missiles in range of a nuclear superpower's population centers and expect them to ignore it. But I feel that the timing of this is more related to Putin's political situation at home.
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by rmk 5y ago
Interesting. I suppose a resolute response to the first violation by Russia might have helped.
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by rmk 5y ago
NATO is just one of the several defense alliances the US has. The US is basically the guarantor of security for a number of East Asian countries, Middle Eastern countries, you name it... We are not called the World's Policeman for noth
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by rmk 5y ago
Yes, I think this will galvanize fence-sitters into accelerating the process of joining NATO, which is counterproductive for Russia.
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by rmk 5y ago
Sorry, I meant that it's a possible consequence. It has not actually occurred.
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by rmk 5y ago
Absolutely. But if a NATO member is attacked, then member states are obligated to come to the member's aid. It's essentially tantamount to saying, if you are at war with a NATO member, you are at war with the whole bloc, which inc
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by rmk 5y ago
Ukraine is not a member of NATO, so options are somewhat limited. Russia intends to use Chernobyl as a deterrent to NATO, according to the report (how, I do not know). It is also not straightforward to put a NATO ally right on Russia's
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by rmk 5y ago
Unit Tests are accepted as a standard thing in the industry. TDD not so much. Is it great? I don't think so. It does not matter whether you wrote the tests first and then developed the feature, or the other way round. Literally no peop

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