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Regarding building of power plants, I've studied the information I could find but very briefly. Including some interviews with Czech people who built those reactors.

> Czechs were last in europe to have uranium mines, some of mines were used as slave labor camps for dissidents / political prisoners (60 000 i think) under soviet occupation (pre1989). They were mining radioactive ore with bare hands and lived in buildings without heating. ( clergy was big part of political prisoner population, connection with clergy man Mendel )

Yeah, that's exactly what is called "propaganda". Just like the movie Tenet starts showing "life" in Russia/USSR where in some "typical Russian city" "typical Russian people" gather pieces of uranium on the streets with their bare hands. Yeah, this is exactly how we live and always lived. /s

What? Is that an LLM generated comment?

Czechoslovakian nuclear power plants were build with the Soviet help by USSR blueprints.

Wasn't banned by Imperial Russia either. There was a very short period of time (1799-1828) when all kind of waltzes were banned, but the ban was never enforced and it had nothing to do specifically with polonez or Poland.

You can always find a way to eliminate an undesirable candidate. E.g. declare that they're "paid by Putin". That's all you need to eliminate the undesirable politician, there are usually exactly zero proofs. Declaring that someone is "pro Putin" is enough.

Actually, the range of methods is slightly wider. E.g. there was a French politician investigating the сase of corruption of Ursula von der Leyen. That politician died from "heart attack" just a few days before the hearing. Ah, that's a "conspiracy theory" and "conspiracy theories" are explicitly forbidden now in several EU countries. Also, very convenient.

Same for comments in the Internet. E.g. if you writing something western people doesn't like on Reddit/Facebook/whatever, the only reaction you'll get will be "you're a Kremlin troll"

No need to think and analyze yourself. There's only one truth in the world and it comes from Bloomberg/CNN/BBC.

EU, where Brussels sends to jail candidates in other countries that it doesn't like?

India has no energy. It imports most of its energy. While China has lots of coal and burns it to provide energy for its industries.

US is prosperous because it produces the world currency. Need to buy steel? Just print more dollars and buy it from any other country. Need to buy food? Ditto. Need to buy brains? Ditto.

No working is required, when you can print any amount of currency and can buy anything from any part of the world with it. Yes, printing speed up inflation a bit, but unlike in any other country of the world, when US is printing dollars, they spread the effects of inflation on all of the world: US becomes richer and all other countries a bit poorer.

This is why linking dollar to the gold would kill US prosperity. Also, one reason is why US is so heavily militarized and is fighting wars all over the world: you need to constantly threaten all the world so that they can't even think of choosing any other mean for world trade other than dollar.

It's forbidden to mention anything positive about USSR/Russia in Western media. It comes to the point that the first man in space now is Alan Shepard, not Yuri Gagarin (according to the US media).

kitty is nice, but it has a problem with garbled unicode sequences (e.g. if you accidentally cat a binary file to standard output). It sometimes hangs up for a minute or two on seeing invalid unicode sequence. At least that was the case for several years, and so I switched to alacritty because it doesn't have this problem.

No matter what PHP project I worked on, it was always a mess. Unreadable mess of HTML, PHP and SQL all of them intermixed in one file. Instead of templates, there's a line of PHP, line of HTML, line of PHP again. Instead of using SQL placeholders, there's usually string interpolation. Lots of copy paste, I've seen a commercial PHP project, that was sold for around ~200 EUR, that had almost no functions: every repeating part of functionality was copy pasted 3-10 times.

All the PHP projects I've seen, eventually failed and had to be rewritten in another language. It was impossible to add new features and fix bugs in such a code. For example, if the original code uses copy paste instead of functions (and it is very often the case for PHP code), you'd have to fix every bug 3-5 times (most of the time, you fix it in one place and only after deployment realize, that the bug still manifests itself in 2-4 other places).

Yeah, maybe PHP is very easy to write and deploy, but this simplicity somehow makes bad programmer out of the person writing in PHP. I know, it's very subjective, but I had such a negative experience that I gave myself a promise to avoid PHP related jobs at all costs.

Also, maybe it was slightly more difficult to use other languages for web development 20 years ago. You'd have to use CGI, or set up some mod_python with all of its quirks, but those times are long gone. It's almost as easy now to develop/deploy Web apps in any other language.

Not much in terms of new features.

I use rcm: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

It is very simple and easy to use, has no external dependencies, and is sufficiently flexible to handle configurations for different machines and other nifty features.

I'm aware of Nix and other solutions, but you can start using rcm in 10 minutes (it's really that easy to use). If you choose Nix, for example, you'll need to spend at least several weeks of time (guessing on experience of others).

PostgreSQL supports more SQL features and data types out of the box. Also, it looks like MySQL development has stalled after purchasing by Oracle. PostgreSQL has exciting new features in every release, I forgot when anything significant happened in the MySQL world. It's frozen for like a decade now. There're some new releases, but you won't find anything exciting in the change log.

Market size of USSR was tiny compared to Chinese market size. Also, USSR was a socialist country with plan economy, China is capitalist economy. It's incorrect to compare China to USSR.

No, I definitely feel that Firefox is forgetting some of my bookmarks. And the search is indeed awful.

I switched to buku and rofi-buku, which is more robust, convenient and accessible solution. And not tied to a single browser (I use several, for example, different browsers for leisure and for work).

On AMD it helps to have pretty recent kernel and amd_pstate=active string in the kernel boot params. I haven't checked the temperatures but I think I've started to hear the fan noise less after enabling it. This option was finally implemented in kernel 6.1 or 6.2. I don't remember the exact version, it happened only 1-1.5 years ago.

In 2000-2010 not only I was a fullstack developer, but also had to write CSS and HTML code for the websites I worked on often.

I remember that as an extremely painful experience. I can't remember all the details, but I remember that until flexbox and grid were implemented, everything CSS related was a pain. I vaguely remember that until 2008-2009 (maybe I'm off by 1-2 years) something trivial as rounded corners also was a pain.

I also remember that about 80% of the CSS pain was caused by Microsoft Intenet Explorer 6.0. It was complete garbage when dealing with CSS and Javascript (I was working with huge JS codebases at the time). But nobody in the web world could ignore it because it had a huge market share. I hate that browser and Microsoft with passion till this day. So many hours, days, weeks wasted to make everything work in a browser that wasn't updated by MS (why spend money when everybody is using it - they even fired the team that worked on it) and had a very "specific" implementation of Web standards.

I no longer see the point. It is difficult to explain. After many internet and real life discussions I made a single conclusion: intensive propaganda creates an impenetrable partition in minds. And we live in times of the most intensive propaganda ever. You can't hide from it anywhere. If you open video about cats on YouTube, open comments section, you'll read something like: "Cute cats, but did you know that every morning Putin eats kitten for breakfast?" (I exaggerate, but only a little). Even when I read contemporary science fiction, there's always some piece of current propaganda like if it is obligatory in order to be published.

It is difficult to gather and analyze facts and present them in easy to understand fashion. Some things are really difficult to explain, especially historical and cultural things. You waste lots of time and energy to research and to present facts in support of your point of view. But time is not limitless, I have work to do and life to live. Also, amount of facts is limitless. You can always fight one set of facts against another, with carefully constructed set of arguments you can prove almost anything. It's not math, where it's kind of possible to prove or debunk any theory without a doubt. Real life if more complex, and real life is not entirely rational or logical.

Also, it's like fighting with windmills in Don Quixote. I know, we all know, that all governments finance paid commenters. E.g. several months ago there was a leak that Washington finance troll factories managed by Russian "opposition". First they tried to deny it, but then had to admit that it is true.

And it was only one leak about one trolls factory. So here I am trying to write a few comments for free in my precious free time, while there're powerful organizations employing hundreds of paid commenters with salaries and KPI and clear guidelines on what to write. How can I fight alone against huge and well paid apparatus of propaganda and commenters employing millions of people to put everywhere version of truth contradicting to mine and to put me and my country in extremely bad light? It's a futile battle, and I give up on it.

> everyone is siloed into their own information bubbles, and can't agree on a common reality

It has already happened. I was born in USSR and live in Russia, and when I hear or read anything about USSR or Russia in Western media, it makes my hair stand on end.

But if I try to explain what it was really like or what it is like now, I only get insults in response: "Putin bot", "Kremlin shill", "as dumb as Trump's followers", etc. So I gave up and stop trying.

But it's clear that there're several "versions" of the reality, some of them are very far from "real" reality. And the divide will become only deeper. I also notice that comments on social networks and youtube became so weaponized that I simply cannot read them and stopped trying. I actively avoid reading any comments on any website with only 3 or 4 exceptions (like HN).

I don't know how faster I became at editing text after switching to vim. But it definitely has a different feeling: the text just flows from the fingers. Your mind is never interrupted to remember some shortcut e.g. to select text inside the brackets or inside the quotes. Anything you want to do with text happens effortlessly with the speed of thought.

Definitely worth it.

Power of Vi is that its keybindings are way more ergonomical compared to IBM CUA. If you're a touch typist.

It doesn't make sense to change Vi/Vim/NeoVim keybindings because they're so convenient, composable and easy to remember.

I have never benchmarked Java vs other languages, but from experience java applications always have horrible startup time. So, there might be some contexts in which long running Java application can beat Rust or other language, but if you need something that starts instantly (like CLI utilities) Java is a no-go.

Another wart is that there are some written and non-written standards on CLI arguments (e.g. long option names should start with double hyphens) that 99% of Java CLI apps violate for some reason. Maybe I'm a perfectionist but it makes me uncomfortable to use Java CLI apps.

I asked you to defined what is genocide and how you can call what's going on in Ukraine a "genocide".

You failed to reply to either question. Because it's clearly not a genocide. Even UN acknowledged that.

So, instead you're repeating propaganda lines you've read yesterday in WaPo or Bloomberg or BBC, in order to deflect the direct question. And call me "brainwashed".

I'm not sure who's really brainwashed here.

BTW, I can't reply to the other two comments, I guess the authors banned me.

But my grand-grandparents are from Ukraine. Am I Russian or Ukrainian? I guess there are hundreds of thousands of people like me fighting on Russian side (as I said, we were one country for centuries). This is more a civil war, nothing like a genocide. Here many people consider it a civil war for sure. In Ukraine also, but they have no voice.

Also, if it is a genocide, why "bloodthirsty" Russians haven't killed all population of Crimea since 2014 - it would be so much easier. On the contrary, nobody was killed in Crimea.

It's a weird genocide. But only a "Russian troll" would understand.

> Russia planned it to take 596 days so far! You sneaky, brilliant strategist, Putin!

And why not? The money-printing empire of US is clearly suffering the longer this conflict takes. EU is suffering even more.

> The objective has been genocide and this is what has been happening in some places.

Can you define genocide? Can you pinpoint a difference between Russian and Ukrainian? Considering that it was historically one country for centuries, Ukraine exists only for the last 30 years.

How comes that Russia wants to "genocide" Ukrainians, but most of the refugees from the war fled to Russia and live happily here?

> what the Russians planned a few weeks to take.

Who ever said this was a plan? Please, point us to an exact quote from Putin or Shoigu or any other Russian official saying that it was the plan.

You won't, because this is official Western propaganda. Nothing like that was ever announced by Russian government, officially or unofficially.

> This is clearly going fine.

Exactly what is fine? Ukraine lost half of its population officially (people that fled to other countries, including Russia), lost around 250,000-300,000 soldiers (unofficially, nobody knows exact count but it's certainly would be astounding), lost immense amount of Western military equipment. And continue to loose more and more every day. Including loosing more territories (Russia is advancing right now, although probably you won't find anything about that in Western media).

Yeah, it is fine. For Russia.

> Also tue, the Nazis basically started WW2 to murder all the jews.

I don't think that's true. It's a stupid point to start a war. Where's the profit for Germany in that?

While it's also true that Nazi Germany explicitly set to murder all Russians. There're numerous official Nazi documents confirming that. Most of the population was determined to be killed directly or by causing hunger (by capturing the only lands suitable for agriculture in the South-West of USSR).

But since the West in general always considered and continue to consider Russians as subhumans, there's no mention of this fact in western books, movies and articles.

> Yes, but you'll note that the article you've shared doesn't unequivocally and unambiguously state that only some of the brakes are being disabled: they imply it, with some handwavey talk about redundancy of systems, but they don't specifically say that that's what's actually happening in this specific situation. Whereas when I look at specialist aviation sites, rather than mainstream news, it's clearly stated that what's being talked about is complete disabling of all wheel braking systems.

Original article refers to "leaked memo". There's not a single proof that such memo exists, that it was circulating inside Aeroflot, that it was translated correctly either by the original site or Moscow Times. It could be created for propaganda reasons ("Ukraine has lost counteroffensive, but Russian airplanes will start falling out of the skies!") out of thin air.

> And, yes, aircraft can safely land without brakes (although they might be hard-pressed to safely abort a takeoff). But what happens after that 10-day permitted period the article discusses?

Brake pads would be replaced or the plane wouldn't be allowed to fly. It's not a big problem to buy replacements in China or UAE or some other country. We have no problems buying anything produced in US and EU, although for somewhat higher price than before.

Also, I'm pretty sure that we can produce brake pads domestically. We still have some remnants of the aircraft industry although West fought hard to kill it in the last 30 yars. And making brake pads is not a rocket science. It's pretty simple part even for an airplane.

> and I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of Russian industrial espionage to gain plans, or reverse-engineer (especially with the help of China), and manufacture locally sourced replacement parts

We are talking about brake pads here. It's not like you need to steal some plans to make them. It's basically a metal plate with some abrasive material attached to it. Probably the simplest part of the airplane.

Any proof? How many civil plane catastrophes happened in Russia in the last 1.5 years?