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Don't. Make use of it.

There is enough people that are comfortable compromising on quality. I decided, rather than to fight it, to find for myself a niche where being perfectionist pays off.

> I'm pretty sure we're better educated than any time in human history.

In the past public opinion would be created by a minority of affluent people. Most people were basically peasants (even middle class with nice jobs) and had no chance to affect public opinion. Today public opinion is created by the majority (or manipulated by some shadowy figures with unknown agenda -- I can't make up my mind about it). So you could have more educated people today but still responsible for much smaller fraction of actual public message.

Also in the past the information that most people received was nicely prepared, packaged and delivered by more or less mainstream media. Clear signal, low noise. For better or worse.

Today truly educated and wise people have no access to public because the signal to noise ratio is too low for most people to be able to pick up.

I worked in credit card acquiring business (implemented credit card application for the terminal).

Cards with Mastercard or Visa logo can still work without Mastercard or Visa processing the payments.

Obviously, they do work in ATMs.

For normal payments it is possible for another company to step in and process the payments. That would be massive effort but not impossible to get done in say couple of weeks.

But that would still mean that the system would be cut off from the rest of the world -- cards issued by Russian banks would not be valid outside of the new system. Cards outside of Russia would not work because it cannot communicate with Russian system. And cards issued outside of Russia would not work inside Russia for the same reason -- the transaction would not be possible to authorise across the border.

I would like to discern between personal and collective responsibility.

Yes, it is disheartening that so many people will personally pay for this regardless of the fact that they might even be vocally opposing this and other actions.

No, I don't think Russian people are absolved as a nation. I believe that nations are collectively responsible for their actions. Explanations that "I have only followed orders" have long been proven to be false defence.

Every person that continues to work, pay their taxes, follow their roles, close their eyes and ears to the atrocities without opposing the tyrant is cooperating and enabling him to do what he wants.

In the end you must recognise that Putin is only a human being and he is personally unable to do anything substantial. It is only other people that are enabling him that make this tragedy possible.

Some nations decide to pay the blood price and revolt, and some decided to not do that. Ukrainians bled for their right to be a democratic country. So many other nations paid so heavy price because they did not want go with what was easy and comfortable but rather decided to do what is right.

Swinging a hammer might be difficult but you have to understand that in those times most young men of working class would have a lot of experience swinging a hammer.

I have been raised on a farm when I would be doing a lot of various tasks like that. I observe how people who have not had that kind of experience are absolutely helpless when faced with tasks that require that require to use your hands with strength, dexterity and accuracy. I assume a hundred years ago people would have way more experience than I have.

So when we are talking about people having to be trained, I assume that most of them would already have extensive experience handling a hammer or an ax from early childhood.

It all comes down to not having/not following principles.

Once you start compromising on principles, the rest is just slippery slope that we are observing.

Riveting is not simple. There are various types of rivets and riveting procedures for different occasions. It is simple if you just need two things to stay together, but on a ship there is a lot other considerations.

But I am surprised that welding was deemed simpler. Welding seems to me even more complex than riveting.

At a risk of sounding unfriendly, the best way I know is to look at them side by side.

They are different fonts.

A lot of good looking mono fonts look very similar and there is a reason for that. As designers fine tune features for better legibility (main concern with terminal typeface) fonts converge to look roughly the same. But they still have different feel when you get a lot of text on a screen.

I think it is safe to say that most people do not have access to any expensive equipment.

I worked for Samsung for a little bit. And even there with operating system basically borrowed from Google, only very small portion of people ever needed to use any special tools. We got some prototypes but the one time we needed to do anything was to desolder and solder again a battery for a prototype watch. And that because a mistake (charging controller circuit badly designed, not powering properly from external power when battery drained). We had one guy do this for the rest of the team and everybody else was just working on software.

I am running 2 external 27" 4k HDMI displays (LG 27UK650_600) with no problem on my M1 Macbook Pro.

I am using them either with the Macbook closed or with all three screens at the same time.

One of the monitors is connected using built in HDMI and this one works super stable.

The other is connected through Belkin adapter that I bought from Apple. It sometimes experiences problems (it shows noise) and has to be disconnected and reconnected. This usually happens only after the monitor has been turned off for the night but the laptop was on (I keep it on due to various experiments I am running).

Overall I am super happy.

Twitter was a conscious decision to limit length of the message (to something like 140 characters). Now people are trying to push longer content into it -- seems completely illogical to me.

Nuclear reactors require active cooling after shutdown, containment buildings are only temporary.

Ever heard of Fukushima?

Super interesting but why the hell do this over Twitter?

I am Polish. When Polish people revolted against Soviets it was because we have seen better life was possible. It was exactly because we had access to alternate message.

I don't think cutting off a country in a situation like that is helpful at all. If anything, it is making it easier for pro-Putin propaganda.

I would also remind that Russia itself build capability to cut itself off from the Internet. Yes, we would be doing them a favour because right now they might hesitate to do it by themselves fearing backlash from people who do not care about politics or anybody else at all but do care about having Internet access.

Have you actually looked at the rules? Which one do you find objectionable?

I red the article with the idea that I am going to snap at Apple for starting with "Express yourself" and then placing a bunch of restrictions, but then I red the restrictions and I can't find anything that I could object to. Even when they say "No blurry, pixelated, tilted, or cropped images" they clarify "unless intended".

There is infinite freedom within the rules. There is no need for you to spam my phone screen with additional hashtags, handles or copies of information that I already have on my screen.

Most people living in places where wet bulb can get 35C have very little insulation from environment in their houses and very few people have means to afford AC.

I love SPAs. When used correctly.

SPA stands for Single Page Application.

It makes sense when what you expect is an actual application. Tools that just happen to be running within a browser for convenience. The browser just happens to be delivery mechanism.

On the other hand if the user expects navigable, hyperlinked content, SPAs just get in the way of navigation and make users' lives miserable for no good reason.

I want to move forward, move backwards, make a bookmark, open multiple tabs. It is frustrating when the application makes it impossible when those would be completely reasonable operations on, say, news site.

Not only that. More importantly, standing there for weeks made all subsequent explanations and provocations completely unbelievable. The troops tired and demotivated. Provisions (if they had any) depleted. And Ukrainians better prepared.

Frozen ground could have made it easier to move around but on the other hand, troops are generally much more miserable when it is cold outside. Don't think that just because they are Russians they don't get cold.

From what I am seeing Russian soldiers do not seem to be prepared well for cold. It seems they thought they will only go for some military maneuvers and then back home, not into full scale winter war.

And another thing I am seeing is that they seem to be trying to find pretext to abandon their equipment. Those tanks stuck in mud -- there are ways to extract them. Russians regularly train in muddy conditions so I can't imagine they are surprised by conditions in March.

It is your choice whether you use these services or not.

On the other hand, if I decided to use them, I would like rules to make my account safer.

It is not going to make it more difficult to get into your account -- companies that implemented insecure login method will basically have to adjust and that's it.

You meant NOSMOKE.COM?

http://www.lachances.com/Humor/NoSmoke.html

That one could be implemented with sentiment analysis!

And now we succeeded using AI and manual intervention for yet another problem that could be implemented with a simple classical algorithm.

Algorithm #2 is also an algorithm that solves any problem as long as the solution is at all possible.

Want to pass an exam tomorrow? Set the machine to destroy the universe two days from now if you haven't passed the exam.

Stalin Sort definitely sorts the list correctly.

I hope I don't need to report you, comrade, for saying what is obviously a capitalist lie.

If you are fighting against the regime then this is only helping.

If enough people get inconvenienced that would normally not think twice, maybe there is a chance it will turn their heads to think for a second about what is happening around them.

The trouble is, if you post salary range from X to Y, most candidates will expect getting Y and will be permanently unhappy with their new position if they get closer to X. It is simple psychology.

Then what about the candidates that are so good that you want to pay them more?

I fully expect that best candidates will still be able to negotiate better than the official salary range.

I think larger interesting problem here is possibility of those huge corporations taking sides in wars.

Yeah, but it does not require impressive engineering (as in requiring super brilliant devs to get it done). It is mostly a good idea followed with a reasonable execution.

There isn't anything super special about Bootstrap. I don't know the people so I don't want this to be construed as opinion about the people who develop this, but it is my opinion that Bootstrap does not require top talent.

Power loss is not the only way things can stop working.

And that kids is how you bullshit your customers your product has more performance than in reality.