Happy new year from Kyiv :-)
00:30, air raid sirens went off, and more explosions.
Looks like a country-wide alarm is in place right now.
00:30, air raid sirens went off, and more explosions.
Looks like a country-wide alarm is in place right now.
Best wishes and Good Hunting from a Brit looking for revenge for the attack on my local town (Salisbury). Good people here are working night and day to support the fight against Russia and I hope we see continued progress in 2023.
Victory can't come soon enough!
Just posted a screenshot on Masto of per-database blocks, rows and i/o info.
https://data-folks.masto.host/@maxganz/109610845679613726
That info is going to be available for databases, nodes, slices, groups, and users, on a per-cluster and per-database basis level (with two exceptions - no blocks/rows info for cluster-level groups or users, because you can't know at the cluster level which users own which table).
Time to put the ear-plugs in and get some sleep.
Night all!
Spent the last 30 minutes watching searchlights play on the clouds and surface-to-air missiles rising into the night sky. Got a little footage, but have learned I need to set infinite focus at night (the points of light in shot are blurry, as the camera cannot focus).
I saw four shots fired in total, after the third there was a white flash in the sky, where I would think they hit their mark.
I wish you didn't have to go through all of this...
About 10 minutes after midnight, there were broad, flicking flashes of light from the north, which were in the dark lighting the clouds up, and you can see the light from pretty far away. I'm guessing it was related to the incoming volley of drones. This was about 20 minutes before the air raid warnings went off.
I think that the most impactful thing HN:ers outside of Ukraine/Russia can do is to politically push for more and better weapons to be sent to Ukraine, from whatever country you live in. Please do that. I think we often underestimate our political influence.
> Oil and gas industry, Perth, Western Australia.
Oh. Wonder why that is.
Apart from your absolutely incredible take on my character - my business area has really profited from the war:
https://www.ft.com/content/7a70cee3-2891-4012-a22d-36363fadd...
"Woodside said that its revenue increased to $5.9bn in the September quarter, up 70 per cent from the previous quarter and a significant jump from the $1.6bn that the Perth-based company reported in the same quarter last year... ...Oil and gas companies have enjoyed a streak of record profits thanks to soaring energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
I read Orwell's 1984 in high school, and I never believed that we'd go there until now.
You can quote Orwell all day long but if you don't understand that one part of his view was that not standing up to tyranny and playing along with those that will eventually plow you under then you probably should go re-read that book as well.
Apologies, insert 'is a mistake' between 'under then'.
It is a bit hard to be well informed, since there are no "approved" journalists reporting from these territories. The only Western journalists there that I know of (Anne-Laure Bonnel, Anna Lipp and the rather hack-ish Patrick Lancaster) are not given much exposure on the mainstream channels. If you have not heard what they have to say, I suggest you correct that before warmongering any further.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/world/europe/zelensky-jou...
Maybe you should see what they have to say. Even if it contradicts the story that YOU would like to be true.
You're the one engaging in Orwellian doublespeak. Enslavement is negotiation. Tyranny is peace. Sacrificing another country from the comfort of your Australian home is peacemaking.
If Orwell were alive he'd throw his gin and tonic in your face and tell you never to utter his name again.
Also, "ignorance is strength".
Yeah, OK. Bye.
"This struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live, and then their children and grandchildren." - Zelensky
Slava Ukraini!