guard-of-terra

When I bought my current PC (custom assembled for me from parts I chose) a few years ago, they installed FreeDOS on it. It booted all right from SSD and could DIR onto 37" LED TV.

There should definitely be an exception in every code for the case when you're doing it on your own land, with your own materials, for your own consumption.

I think code writers understand that, nevertheless it is too often 'conveniently' left out.

Siberia maybe? Plenty rivers, no much use for water.

Now, contamination is another question I presume.

That's very good to hear. It pains me to not being able to access archives.

Usenet archives used to be covered by Google Groups, I assume they dropped it when being good was no longer paramount.

I go to bed at 2am-3am, alarm rings 10:50, I reset it to 11:10, wake up, get dressed and walk to office without breakfast to be there at noon sharp. Not feeling well. On weekend, I would go to sleep even later, wake up after 9 hours of sleep and still feel like crap.

Only if you never commit and then do checkout -f / reset --hard. Why would you be doing that?

Otherwise it's still in reflog. Anything you ever commited is just there.

Two fun things about git: It is deterministic, and it doesn't delete anything (readily).

This means you can't really have a catastrophe.

Just git reflog your way out.

They're one referendum away from being disbanded.

Most of post-Soviet states had hyperinflation. Rouble became ten thousand times less valuable over three years, smaller republics' currencies suffered even more.

But they all stabilized without ditching the currency (they slashed a few zeroes off bills later, tho).

As Basic Income is being introduced, unions will be slowly sunsetted. They may still be useful to oversee work quality and workers' rights, but movement to BI means at-will employment and that's not something they'll get to haggle with.

The idea of BI is that you won't be able to live off it in Montreal. It might be sufficient to live off in some small remote town, but not in megapolis. They'll have to still wait tables, or move from Montreal.

Chile is culturally homogenous isn't it? Ethnic background of its population varies, but they're already all Chileans today.

There was perhaps a long list of people who could have save the day, and nobody did. As far as I am concerned, the whole society has failed. Blaming it on a handful people is pointless IMO.

Well, people smuggled those watches to Poland after the collapse of USSR to get economy going.

Post-soviet state could not arrange proper exports, imagine that.

I just fail to praise the attitude. "Let's faithfully reproduce the looks of 30 y.o. technology, pseudographic tables included, with make-believe over git".

Seems to be very narrow group. How is this relevant to HN? Flagged the story.

Don't like how it is based around merges. Cherry-pick workflow is so much simpler and provides clean history. "No merges" was the policy in every project I worked.

But why does it have to look like SQL (and not like xpath or jquery)?

Not many people enjoy writing SQL statements on the command line. It's verbose, the order of things is arbitrary...

I'm so glad somebody works in this direction.

I can try and guide you around good Russian music, drop me an email to alamar at my.com or friend ilyak on last.fm - that's me. Note that I'm a fan of all things DIY, production value doesn't mean as much to me as actual content.

Regarding movies, you can always go for a huge layer of Soviet films. They take some using to I suppose, but then the supply is endless.

As opposed to lack of reports of civians shot on the spot by anti-regime forces?

(Just a few days ago, field hospital was shelled)

Regulation is a wrong word. Regulation is something pushed to you from above, something that you did not ask for and that you'll try to evade using that programmer-brain of you.

What we need is something that clearly comes from fellow developers.

But then again, your economy will get a large boost. Construction is awesome source of growth. No construction means stagnation.

If you don't piss off homeowners today, tomorrow situation will become even more dire. Pricess will be bigger, price growth expectations would be even more insane, regular people will be more disgruntled. So it should really be "piss early, piss often". Or face downward spiral.

It's pretty obvious how this should resolve: suppose there's two nearby towns (inside metro area) - one is building up but another one doesn't. Property prices will lower in both of them but onle one will be getting economic benefits, leading to second one following the suit. It only becomes problematic when cartel forms, blocking the development of entire area. Such cartels should be fought with.

Can we try to reproduce Nuclear Winter in case of runaway global warming? Seems that we do have the emergency brake here. Won't even take nuclear weapons - introducing soot into higher layers of atmosphere doesn't seem to hard.

However, this will decrease carbon dioxide consumption by plants and might allow unsafe buildup in the atmosphere.

And the entirety of Strugatskies' XXII Century Noon.

It's weird that they had the idea of firewall just in 2012. I had this exact idea maybe ten years prior while being a school student. A fairly obvious one if you think of that - some photons will orbit the black hole.

Is it just me, or they didn't have any experiment description in the article?

They talk about LENR but don't mention under which conditions it would take place, even in layman terms.

He doesn't miss it, it's right there after the first (mail.ru) block.

There are quite a few outsource shops who would benefit from having tech people with SV experience. For starters you might land a job for one of these.

I would also recommend Sankt Petersburg over Moscow, having lived in both.

The West doesn't have to accept them.