Seems unlikely given that western Ukraine has a lot of anti-Russian sentiment. The most plausible scenario is that Russia will absorb parts of Ukraine that are pro Russian or neutral, and the rest will be gobbled up by Poland and Romania.

think you misspelled occupying there

It’s no more confusing than using email, and everybody managed to figure that out. You don’t need to know how the nitty gritty of it works. The network effects is a far bigger issue, as you point out, centralized platforms simply have far more content on them.

The betrayal narrative is very much gaining ground in Ukraine right now. Also worth noting how huge amounts of weapons have gone to the black market. One investigation found that only 30-40% of the supplies coming across the border reached its final destination. The nazis in Ukraine have established lots of connections with far right cells across Europe, and that’s likely where a lot of these weapons ended up now.

The territory Russia occupies has been trying to separate from Ukraine for the past 8 years now, there isn’t going to be any insurgency there.

You’re right, the chip they leveraged isn’t actually that old. The key part is that we’re seeing a lot of optimizations happening in software space now that allows to use existing chips more efficiently.

Last I checked Rutte isn’t American, but I guess you’re admitting here that NATO is really just American protection racket and that Europe never actually had any sovereignty.

https://thebulletin.org/2024/03/germany-debates-nuclear-weapons-again-but-now-its-different/

oh yeah oops

it looks like the Russians have even infiltrated Mark Rutte now https://peertube.mesnumeriques.fr/w/fDpz3pzuboYRxKWnFxP6AA

I’m hoping this will go beyond AI stuff as well. Operating systems and a lot of general purpose software is also incredibly bloated. If Chinese companies start optimizing the software stack due to having slower chips, that would be a huge win.

Thanks for clarifying that you don’t understand what slippery slope fallacy is.

Again, I’m perfectly aware of how the process is supposed to work and what purpose comments serve. This is the exact same argument people make when complaining that everybody is doing Agile wrong. What I’m explaining to you, as another senior dev in the industry, is that a lot of the time people start cutting corners because they have deadlines, or they don’t understand the code because it was written a long time ago by somebody who doesn’t work at the company anymore, or a myriad other reasons. Keeping comments in sync with the code is not trivial in practice, and it’s often done poorly.

Sure, yet the fact that this happens regularly is the reality of the situation. Simply wagging your finger and saying it’s the fault of people who don’t update the comments isn’t really solving anything. Not to mention the fact that people might accidentally update the comments in a wrong way while being well intentioned. Since there’s no way to validate that the comments are correct, it’s very easy for mistakes to creep in. Anybody who’s done actual software development would understand this problem.

Somebody has to maintain the ungodly large amount of comments as the code gets updated over time, and if people screw that up then the comments become less than useless.

Ah the liberal mind, a boundless reservoir of intellectual mediocrity, where every uttered opinion is a masterclass in breathtaking inanity.

Imagine not being able to understand that new software optimization techniques are continuously being discovered. 🤦

Indeed, most people don’t realize what a monumental challenge it is to reindustrialize an economy.

The term authoritarianism is utterly meaningless because all governments rely on coercion to maintain their authority. The state is fundamentally an instrument that’s used by the ruling class to maintain its dominance. The whole notion that political systems can be neatly categorized into authoritarian or democratic binaries is deeply infantile.

The reality is that every government derives its authority from its monopoly on legal violence. The ability to enforce laws, suppress dissent, and maintain order is derived from control over police, military, and judicial systems. Whether a government is labelled authoritarian or democratic, the fundamental basis of its power lies here. Therefore, the only meaningful questions to ask are which class interests it represents, and to what extent can it be held accountable to them.

What ultimately matters is which class controls the institutions of state violence. In capitalist democracies, the government represent the interests of the economic elites who fund political campaigns, own media outlets, and control key industries. Western public lacks the mechanisms necessary to hold the government to account, and the ruling class is disconnected from the broader population. That’s precisely what’s driving political discontent all across western sphere today. Meanwhile, in so-called authoritarian regimes, the ruling party serves the working class as seen in countries like China, Cuba, or Vietnam. Hence why there is widespread public trust in these government and they enjoy broad support from the masses.

Anybody who uses the term authoritarian can be safely dismissed.

Nah, it’s not a slippery slope to suggest that people who want wars should fight in them. It’s funny how brave y’all are when it’s other people dying for your ideology.