

Ah. OK. Not immediately recognizable, but clear now.
Ah. OK. Not immediately recognizable, but clear now.
Doesn’t seem avoidable.
There’s a double entendre there if you’re familiar with the Russian language
As a Russian speaker, I don’t understand this. Could you elaborate?
So you are telling me Musk has been touching techy things since about 1995 till now, and thinks there’s an organization without any SQL at least someplace? I wouldn’t dare suggest that about ISIS.
Any website - OK, web is inefficient and shouldn’t be used. But their operations planning just wouldn’t work so well without proper business analytics infrastructure.
emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft
Let’s stop right here for a bit. With redstone in Minecraft you can make the same logical constructs that in real world lead from a bipolar transistor to a machine capable of decoding your porn in real time. And people, including kids, do design those.
Please show some respect.
Those who make calculators in Minecraft are not the dumb kind.
Literally no other dimenstions of values to add, shit I would be fucking surprised if a single one of the people writing the goddamn have ever heard of OLAP.
But yes, weird to expect almost college kids to have the experience needed. I can imagine some of them having the necessary education, but for a data analyst the mathematical basis is simple and the rest is experience.
Looking tanned can be a stereotype about being rich and successful (“from the elite”), can be about being hardworking (“from the people”), can be about being energetic and decisive (strength, efficiency).
Anyway, their cosmetics don’t yet look uglier than those from Russian “council of the federation” photos.
Seems not the most important thing. Having bad taste is not a crime.
XP was hated when it came out, but it wasn’t that bad. Then Vista and 7 happened. Then it got worse.
XP was like 2K, but with fancy plastic appearance and some unneeded things.
I have fond memories of reading Star Wars books in Notepad, in plain text (or RTF containing only text), in some font like Fixedsys, I think, black on white, at night. Ironically my eyesight didn’t get much worse then.
XP was nice enough.
That, and either getting Linux versions of industry standard software (Microsoft 365, Adobe CS, 3DS Max, etc) or decent support through Wine/Proton.
You won’t. Industry doesn’t want to waste money to port such enormous legacy codebases to Linux, when most people still run Windows.
Windows has to become a minority OS first.
And anti-cheat - I don’t like it, but it seems there will be working kernel-level anticheats for Linux.
You forgot hardware support, nice that it seems not an issue for some people today, but Linux hardware support is still not there. Drivers for Windows are made by manufacturers, drivers for Linux are often made by Linux developers.
Burn it. I’d like a Life Note though. To write a few names there just in case. Not decided if mine will be among them.
No, I don’t think it’s any particular election. I also don’t think those companies were somehow more liberal when Democrats were in power. But it’s a really bad tendency that they gradually lick the boot more and more. It means they are big enough to be controlled and threatened, and it means governmental overreach is strong enough.
Well, that would at least somewhat resonate with what a palantir is.
With the wrong part, the kind that Denethor thought he could use and that Sauron and Saruman used, and I really like more the implication of that from Frodo’s dream where he stands at one of the towers in the north looking far away.
That broken thing nobody remembered, until it was reforged.
I can name a few other such things, but at this point in my existence I’m just afraid to do so. Murphy’s laws and such.
How in the world would a LOTR fan make such life choices?
I just don’t like something intended for war being called Anduril. They’ve missed JRRT’s point completely.
I might be fearing something unrealistic, but hope this at least doesn’t depend on network connectivity at all times.
That fashion started, if anyone remembers, with Google Glass. And those for me appear very nice.
But if most people won’t read text on transparent background (even transparent terminal emulator windows), then trying to process information with real world in the background is harder.
Successful applications and OK ideas can sometimes be false positives, because it’s, #1, safe to approve of something that won’t be implemented anyway, #2, the initiative to try something often comes from superiors who only want to hear disapproval or approval of specific things about the initiative, and about the initiative itself only approval, #3, I like some things for short periods, but I wouldn’t ever be able to use something like Hearthstone’s UI at work.
When you have a lot of money, you might try that and even succeed part of the time.
Anyone insane enough to start a nuclear war may decide that absorbing a hundred or so nukes isn’t so bad when they have hundreds of Cold War era bunkers and thousands of their own nukes.
Russian bureaucrats may think that about the rest of the population, but fortunately even they are not dumb enough to believe in having safety in those bunkers (time passes, things rot, materials decay).
So Russia really using nukes is for a situation where somebody making decisions believes there will be no retaliation.
Considering that throwing your friends and allies to the wolves has become a really common thing in modern world, just like plainly disregarding any kind of agreements or international laws or moral principles, I think such a situation is possible.
And with the cucked way France’s foreign policy seems to work recently, and with the too realpolitik-style UK foreign policy, one might imagine a situation where both are not very active.
Also bureaucrats of various countries are class brothers. A bureaucrat, even a German or a French one, understands Putin and Xi better than somebody democratically elected. And Germany is traditionally (last 30 years I mean) friendly with Russia.
No conclusion.
That’s fine, people with dignity don’t have “leaders”. That’s about JD too.
And there are feedbacks in human societies, meaning that AfD and such would have much less popularity if, first, they had a less stinky alternative as “counter-system” parties, second, were not given publicity as a scarecrow, third, were not given media pressure.
It’s natural that in some conditions people run from the political mainstream and want something not associated with that swamp. It’s also natural that “black PR” is still PR, it puts AfD (or someone else) on a list of associations in one’s mind as being against that mainstream (no matter how fascist or populist). And it’s also natural that when you see media pressure, you want to push back.
People making decisions love to think in directions, but in fact thinking in categories and weights between them is better. Like with diversifying investments. If you invest a lot in the left-vs-right dynamic, no matter which side, the results are unpredictable, but you affect their possible magnitude, the more you invest, the more it is. So if someone puts a lot of pressure “to fight fascism”, they might cause a rebirth of fascism that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
For the same reason I’m still not sure Trump is worse for Ukraine than someone else. You have to end the war at some point. If there’s no military way to restore Ukraine’s sovereignty over all of its territory, that may realistically be attempted, then that won’t happen anyway. They are not suggesting Ukraine to recognize annexation, but even if they were, the old world order is dying, and formal sovereignty in the UN might do little good in future. Some things they say suggest they may do for Ukraine a lot of what Ukrainians love to dream about in terms of restoration and armaments. Just - also controlling Russia by allowing it to sell its resources again. Probably with a deal worse for Russia than before, and the resulting prices might be less competitive than before.