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BTW, calling that an epic novel is a stretch. Actually great Russian writers like Gogol (surprisingly, Dead Souls is a poem, in prose) and Pushkin (Captain's Daughter is neither novella or novel) had difficulties fitting into Western genres of fiction. I'm sure there are more examples.

Yeah, Dick for Richard is my favorite!

A good read on the subject https://jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-the-future

There's still no such standard. You either provide a terminal API or build a custom client-server app (GUI + backend). The later means there's no place in your setup for terminal apps which expect a TTY interface (emulated by your terminal app). What are you gonna do about that?

Take a look at headless project management in Zed or JetBrains. They do exactly that -- bring clear separation of concerns in a high-level API so that you don't have to mux/demux everything into/from byte stream like terminal applications do.

Surgery is when you're making a change live on a running system. Before that the source is more like a blueprint.

While reading the Fundamentals of Data-Engineering I noticed that one of the most practically interesting parts, data extraction/acquisition, is essentially skipped. The author just noted its 'grayness'.

That is web scraping is the SaaS form of 'piracy'.

It's the Westphalian system which includes not only (protestant) capitalism, but also scientific positivism, liberal humanism and everything else. Which we now call (post-/meta-)modern.

There's nothing we can do about all that and for practical reasons we just accept the world as is and tend to forget/ignore the reasons it is so. But for retaining cognitive sovereignty if think it's good to remember that.

Lawrence J. Dickson anticipated this almost 2 decades ago in a research he did for DARPA in 2007[1]. Just look at the software development viscosity graph.

[1] http://pros.to/wide.pdf#figure.caption.11

I always thought the best automation is delegating to a specially trained person :) Still true, apparently.

Looks like a last-ditch effort to salvage its crumbling technological sovereignty amid the EU's systemic crisis. Even if they invent something, production will happen in China or the US.

Germany wants to preserve Airbus and stay relevant in European space programs, but without cheap energy and raw materials this is a pipe dream. Quantum computing/hydrogen is theoretically promising, but they're already behind China and the US. Trying to catch up to Russia in drones and EW, but without energy independence or microelectronics it won't work.

Without Russian gas or nuclear power, high-tech manufacturing is unprofitable. Germany's best engineers are already in Shanghai and Silicon Valley. Russia/China/the US are sprinting ahead in hypersonics, AI, and 6G, while Germany is just forming a ministry.

Germany's move isn't a breakthrough, it's desperation. They're trying to save face, but they lack energy for advanced tech w/o Russia, have no military shield w/o the US, can’t manufacture at scale w/o China.

Trying to make economic sense of a political action makes no sense. Trumps's goal is to disrupt global trade.

Britain was never rich in natural resources (coal was an exception, but its importance faded). Its strength always lay in:

    * Naval and trade dominance (a legacy of Venetian methods, transferred through the Netherlands).
    * Financial systems (London as the hub of insurance, lending, and later offshore banking).
    * Intelligence networks and manipulation (from the East India Company to MI6).
    * Colonial exploitation (enclosures, the Opium Wars, the Bengal famine of 1943, suppression of the Sepoy Rebellion, the exploitation of Ireland, etc.).

This wasn’t "honest" wealth but the result of systemic plunder and control over global flows. And the British elite has never prioritized the well-being of its people:

    * Enclosures (16th–18th centuries) – Peasants driven off the land for landlord profits.
    * The Irish Famine (1845–1849) – Grain was exported to England while millions starved.
    * "Divide and rule" policies – From India to Northern Ireland, preventing unity among the oppressed.
    * Austerity – Post-2008 budget cuts

Some may say this is in "distant path" but I think this is the root cause while the author focuses just on modern symptoms. The current crisis is the inevitable result of a model where wealth was built not on labor and innovation, but on exploitation and manipulation.

And another one:

The Russia-Ukraine War makes it clear that the electromagnetic signature emitted from the command posts of the past 20 years cannot survive against the pace and precision of an adversary who possesses sensor-based technologies, electronic warfare, and unmanned aerial systems or has access to satellite imagery; this includes nearly every state or nonstate actor the United States might find itself fighting in the near future. The Army must focus on developing command-and-control systems and mobile command posts that enable continuous movement, allow distributed collaboration, and synchronize across all warfighting functions to minimize electronic signature. Ukrainian battalion command posts reportedly consist of seven soldiers who dig in and jump twice daily; while that standard will be hard for the US Army to achieve, it points in a very different direction than the one we have been following for two decades of hardened command posts

Here's an excerpt from The The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters Volume 53, Number 3 (2023) Autumn [1]

The Russia-Ukraine War is exposing significant vulnerabilities in the Army’s strategic personnel depth and ability to withstand and replace casualties. Army theater medical planners may anticipate a sustained rate of roughly 3,600 casualties per day, ranging from those killed in action to those wounded in action or suffering disease or other non-battle injuries. With a 25 percent predicted replacement rate, the personnel system will require 800 new personnel each day. For context, the United States sustained about 50,000 casualties in two decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. In large-scale combat operations, the United States could experience that same number of casualties in two weeks.

[1] https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

Well, it's the WSJ. In fact, we do not yet have the final official conclusion of the commission with the participation of Russia and Azerbaijan, which is working on this case. Let's wait and refrain from empty speculation in an already tense international situation.

"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"

You say beginner friendly. How does rwf look like compared to Pavex[1] in this regard?

[1] https://github.com/LukeMathWalker/pavex

I think JetBrains is a virus. My folks can't do anything w/o it. They tend to just use what works out of the box and don't want to learn standard open source tools. No wonder after so man years they still suck at command line.

Their IDE still can't do basic things like direnv and nix shell [1]. And when I rant about them being merging master into their feature branches instead of rebasing they say it doesn't matter since JetBrains paints such merges in gray.

https://github.com/Fapiko/intellij-better-direnv/issues/27

It's called United Nations Organization. Although it hasn't been fully implemented. It was planned to have nuclear weapon monopoly and strong joint military forces to stop any aggression. Why didn't that happen? Because it's the US that gained the benefits out of both world wars. And its allies aren't allies but minions. Remember what happened to Charles de Gaulle?

Also note that no one has ever declared a war legally since WW II. Because of the UN and international conventions.

I'd also add that it's not entirely correct to consider countries equal top level actors in the historical process now and in the past. Nowadays so called political nations are technically subjects of international right, of course. But, for instance, in pre-Westphalian world that wasn't the case and these days there is plenty of evidence of transnational actors' influence. For example, Vatican dates back to that era I mentioned. And also who owns most the land in Europe? And how come these von Something German nazis avoided The Nuremberg Trials and ended up as board members in big industrial companies?

So no, the world doesn't need a hegemon in your sense. Taking into account the paralysis of the UN since 1991 it's more likely there will be another take on the ruins that.

Hm, I wonder if a ultrasonic nebulizer can be used for that.

Somehow we got to the point when we need something like FreeBSD key signing parties but we surely can't have these for everything actually.

Dude has to wake up. Europe is done, it's a museum. He's thinking about tech but the real problem is lacking economical basis in Europe. Germany introduced spot natural gas prices and it skyrocketed. Next someone blew up the Nord Stream. Now Europe can't produce reasonably priced fertilizers. And all that green energy is a joke.

A economic decline has been happening in the US since fall 2021 and there's no good way out of it. Reducing the key rate would worsen the inflation that is already high. Increasing the key rate would accelerate the decline in production that is already bad enough. That means the overall demand in the economy will keep falling and thus at some point the costs of running the existing grid at such a low level of congestion will put it way bellow its point of profitability. This whole situation would require building a completely different infrastructure for this new structure of economy.

I've just talked to a guy who started a recruiting agency in Moscow last November just b/c the industry is thriving. The salaries are high. According to his assessments this market will be high during the next 2+ years.

Also he's been interviewing some Russian-speaking candidates willing to relocate from the US, Israel and Germany. Among the candidates are Russians who have been living there for 15 years. Their reasons to leave: bad attitude towards Russians at all levels, unwillingness to pay taxes that are used for war against Russia, lack of actual freedom of speech, and LGBT propaganda starting from 1st grade elementary.

Regarding quality of life here, for instance, even a PHP mid can get around 280-320k RUB/month net. Head of arch can get 1200k. And 300-400k RUB/month even in Moscow has greater purchasing power than 5-7k EUR/month net in, say, Munich. Plus, long-term prospects, stable economy, healthy food, high-quality affordable internet, good and cheap public transit, instant person to person money transfers, great digital government services, strong combat-proven army with best in the world air defense etc and beautiful women…

Any 50+ Europeans here?

Isn't the very concept of "open market" meaningless in the context of free (libre) software?

I mean people keep comparing GIMP with Photoshop and that's obviously incorrect. I'd more or less agree that the "market" of free software image editors is an "open market" and GIMP is a big player there so to say.

Is it any better than magnesium citrate?

I think the AI bubble will blow up for purely economic reasons sooner that many of us think. Don't let the AI believers fool you. The time will show.

The rise of IT in 80s was so to say prepared in 70s. But the economy has changed drastically since then. There's just no real base for such rise of AI. Just the market cap.

For instance, the financial sector somewhere after the 1945 was about 5% of GDP. Now it's 70-75%.

It's connected to how our attention works. Attention is very much tied to vision and, for instance, if you are rotating around your central axis (like a Sufi) and can manage not to focus visually on anything around you and do some "proprioceptive attention adjustments", you can keep spinning for quite a long time w/o getting dizzy. Of course you'll have to slow down slowly rather than just abruptly stop the rotation.