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by yyyk 5y ago
Unlike Iran, Russian banks has not been all disconnected from SWIFT. Only a few banks were. So effect is much smaller. In general, the sanctions on Russia are limited and not strict, the US hasn't gone anywhere as far as it could[0]. [
902.
by yyyk 5y ago
x86_64 support didn't exist due to Intel patents. That issue was resolved: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/introdu...
903.
by yyyk 5y ago
I've had the opposite experience with wine and C&C:TD. Maybe I should give it another whirl...
904.
by yyyk 5y ago
SIQ was eventually fixed but way too late for the fix to matter.
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Medical oxygen running out in Ukraine as war rages, WHO warns(news.yahoo.com)
9 points by yyyk 5y ago|0 comments
906.
by yyyk 5y ago
>For example, UK's and Germany's spending alone was almost as much as Russia A lot of it goes to salaries, so in practice UK and Germany militaries have much less effective spend.
907.
by yyyk 5y ago
>NATO should have enough guns already NATO may or may not have enough guns, but some members aren't paying their share, and this has (as we've seen) bad consequences for everyone.
908.
by yyyk 5y ago
Most countries expected Putin to overrun Ukraine by now - not being close to do it is big news. The biggest news though is just how incredibly low Russian morale is. The Russian army should still be able to win, but I'm not sure it rea
909.
by yyyk 5y ago
I'm certain all these organizations can act without their poster^W websites, even if these were permanently downed, which they were not.
910.
by yyyk 5y ago
>when the "poster" is a weapon unto itself, in the theatre of information warfare. So exactly like a real poster. >like "CIA mind control device" These sites don't have that kind of power.
911.
by yyyk 5y ago
See xkcd 932 on this type of reporting: https://xkcd.com/932/
912.
by yyyk 5y ago
Apple and AMD aren't even in the same scale? Apple truly has more money than it can count. AMD should have had something useful to invest it to slightly match Intel's recent investments. I find it bewildering AMD could not find an
913.
by yyyk 5y ago
It's as if AMD has nowhere better to invest it in, or they making a financial engineering play.
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Chernobyl radiation spike probably from Russian tanks disturbing dust(newscientist.com)
3 points by yyyk 5y ago|0 comments
915.
by yyyk 5y ago
I intentionally separated extracting fossils from fossil demand reduction. We should definitely reduce fossil demand for too many reasons, and investing in renewables can help by switching demand. However, the attempts to reduce fossil extr
916.
by yyyk 5y ago
>Wind and solar are the cheapest sources of power. A decades long propaganda campaign has tried, but failed, to cover that up. Even if Wind and Solar could supply 100% of demand tomorrow, we cannot convert all uses of oil and gas quickly
917.
by yyyk 5y ago
"Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT" Because Europe is dependent on Russian gas (thanks to an ill thought out denuclearization drive), and both Europe and US governments prefer their economic and elect
918.
by yyyk 5y ago
SQL Server is good, but note the system is oriented differently than Postgres - Postgres is very friendly towards programming directly in the DB. In SQL Server world, you can do that, but you'd be much better off with a solution where
919.
by yyyk 5y ago
C99 added support for VLAs which are a mistake. Fortunately, Linux stopped using VLAs a while ago.
920.
Biden Administration Debates Legality of Arming Ukrainian Resistance(foreignpolicy.com)
11 points by yyyk 5y ago|1 comments
921.
by yyyk 5y ago
>Windows 7/8 are the last good versions of Windows IMHO. Yeah they have security issues Windows 8 is still supported upto 2023. As for Windows 7, ESU and turning off a lot of unnecessary stuff (ATMFD, Windows Installer unless you&#x
922.
by yyyk 5y ago
How could any normal person possibly afford challenging Microsoft in court?
923.
by yyyk 5y ago
The mere act of having to ask for a licence already has a chilling effect, and the legal uncertainty just makes it worse. For example, if Google ever gets into a patent war with Microsoft, would their 'free' licence be revoked? Do
924.
by yyyk 5y ago
Arithmetic coding is generally superiour to Huffman coding, but was very underused because of the patent situation. Will we see a rerun? If so, it would be another case a software patent set back the industry.
925.
by yyyk 5y ago
I didn't like the RTS part all that much. There's very little challenge there apart from making sure to send many Fremen and equipping them with the best weapons you can capture. I recall deliberately trying to lose in the RTS sec
926.
by yyyk 5y ago
More accurately, it meant 'Syria wouldn't be able to deprive Israel of its single biggest water source'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headwater_Diversion_Plan_(Jord...
927.
by yyyk 5y ago
Note that ImageMagick isn't always the best tool, since ImageMagick always reconverts the image, often with lower quality. Often it's useful to have the image to go in as is, or use a loseless resizing. I use img2pdf for that with
928.
by yyyk 5y ago
>Well, there's a lot of history in that relationship. The Israel branch basically saved Intel when NetBurst failed completely - at the time Intel was behind as much as today.
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by yyyk 5y ago
A NFT isn't art or currency. At most, it's a record of ownership. When two ownership records exists, the value of the original drop steeply when the copy is accepted widely-enough.
930.
by yyyk 5y ago
>They can’t maintain a regime that sacrifices the majority of the population. If they do so, they’ll be kings of… nothing. Judging by excess deaths, Russia lost 1 million people to Corona[0]. The government's response is either noth

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