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throw-ru-938on Abandoned and little-known airfields

Tangentially related: after Izhma Airfield (in Komi Republic, Russia) was closed to fixed-wing aircraft, its supervisor still continued to do maintenance on the airstrip, even through it was no longer needed.

Then, 7 years later, an airliner lost power in that area, and the pilots were surprised to find a perfectly functional runway. The plane landed with no injuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alrosa_Flight_514

throw-ru-938on LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

Didn't they only get funding to horse around with that material several years ago?

throw-ru-938on Navigating the timezone nightmare in product development

And when you interact with people 8 time zones away, concepts like "today" or "tomorrow" break down completely. It's a very uncanny feeling.

throw-ru-938on Navigating the timezone nightmare in product development

You use local time + location, because tzdata timezones can and do get split.

throw-ru-938on Linda Yaccarino pressed about the chaos on X. She seems detached from reality

She'll probably get more money than you and me have ever seen, then fail upwards into another cushy C-level position. There's no need to be sorry for her.

throw-ru-938on The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

Many Russians do believe exactly that. While "getting to define Russia's development" is a stretch, there has been some US involvement: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russ...

throw-ru-938on The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

While I was still living in Russia, llvm.org was blocked for several years because fuck you we balling.

throw-ru-938on The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

Google properties are still unblocked, for now. But, yes, Internet censorship in Russia went into overdrive with the invasion.

throw-ru-938on The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

There are people living on that land, it's not a "thing".

throw-ru-938on The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

Hmm, on second thought, you may be right and I probably overreacted. I still don't really believe Putin would exact revenge on Volozh — Oleg Tinkoff defected back in spring 2022, and I think his family is quite fine — but relying on Russia not being stupid doesn't sound wise right now.

throw-ru-938on The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

There's probably no hard proof, but Russia is allegedly funding far-right movements like AfD and whatever Le Pen's party in France is now called. Also, see the career of Gerhard Schroeder, first German chancellor and then a top Gazprom official.

throw-ru-938on The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

I'm sorry but having observed this since 24/02, collective punishment is very much part of the actual Western values.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Russian émigré, not in the West myself but have friends there.)

throw-ru-938on The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

His family has left Russia back in 2014.

throw-ru-938on The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

Context: Yandex is in the news right now because a couple of days ago its cofounder and former CEO Arkady Volozh was caught trying to hide his Russian past [0], and today he finally issued a public statement condemning the war [1], almost 1.5 years after the full-scale invasion began.

[0] https://kz.kursiv.media/en/2023-08-07/co-founder-of-yandex-e...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-yandex-volozh...

throw-ru-938on Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust

Yes, back then there was an Armenian bank that could get you a card for a crapload of money but no supporting documents. Since then, they've fallen in line with the others, and now they want a rent agreement and a local job.

throw-ru-938on Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust

2003 was twenty years ago, we didn't have Flightradar24 yet.

throw-ru-938on Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust

To be fair, Western _institutions_ do seem to dislike us, cf. the Czech president's infamous "WW2 Japanese Americans" comment [https://www.janm.org/press/release/janm-decries-remarks-czec...].

throw-ru-938on Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust

Georgia is also a good choice, but you need to be physically present in the country. (It's a nice place though, but maybe not in August.) I don't recommend Armenia, the banks here have cracked down on tourists opening cards, and if you see someone offering you an Armenian card it's 100% a scam.

throw-ru-938on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

Hmm, which advantages does ADHD give you in the workplace?

throw-ru-938on Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

But, conveniently, Russians cannot use paid VPNs anyway unless they accept Bitcoin.

throw-ru-938on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

Elon's acquisition of Twitter is a gift that just keeps on giving. At this point, considering the social polarization it brought, destroying Twitter for good would be an immense service to humanity, and Musk is doing exactly that, even if unwillingly.

throw-ru-938on Coroutines for Go

Isn't this literally the entire point of Golang?

throw-ru-938on Cree Syllabics (2002)

Armenian is absolutely full of these. There's ս, ո, մ, and ն (one word that has three of them is տոմս, pronounced as "toms"). Also Գ and Ժ. And Ի and Կ, also looking similar enough.

throw-ru-938on How Russia Went from Ally to Adversary

> It might surprise you that Russia and especially the USSR did none of those things.

I can remember no less than five different genocides in Russia just off the top of my head. As for civil rights, these are being rolled back at an amazing speed.

throw-ru-938on How Russia Went from Ally to Adversary

> what makes Russia objectively powerful in the international arena?

Could it just be inertia of thinking from the Cold War? The USSR was known to be powerful, and Russia is kinda the USSR, so it's assumed Russia has to be kinda powerful.

It's going to be interesting to observe how will Russian standing in the world change, now that the war is revealing that the Tsar has no clothes.

throw-ru-938on Dating, education, and sex ratios

Then again, it's not guaranteed she would appreciate you-but-five-years-earlier, and vice versa. A person probably undergoes a bit more character development than a VC firm does.

throw-ru-938on Dating, education, and sex ratios

Yeah, that's possibly me in five years.

throw-ru-938on Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

What would you do to make it clear you are not one of a shitty group of people?

throw-ru-938on Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

Being a Russian post-invasion, I feel this is awfully familiar.

throw-ru-938on The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point

But that's exactly what Cory says here.

> The COVID crisis is very, very real.

> But that doesn’t mean that it’s not also a pretext.

> ...

> This didn’t have to happen, but powerful people know better than to let a good crisis go to waste.