armitron

> You can't allow an adversary to take what they want and win every battle "because they have nuclear weapons" without capitulating world domination to that adversary.

Strawman. Ukraine is not in NATO and is thus forced to keep neighboring Russia happy. That's just realpolitik. US can not and will not retaliate as that would be WW3. On the flip side, Russia will not attack NATO countries as that would also be WW3.

The only real losers here are primarily Ukraine which is being destroyed and Europe which has to keep doing what US wants since it's dependent on the latter for defense.

They are already winning (how can anyone today look at the situation objectively and come to a different conclusion?) . Not only that, but they retain escalation dominance. If it comes down to a few tactical nuclear weapons, it is highly unlikely that the US will choose to get involved.

But that is something to be avoided at all costs. It will be doom for Ukraine and horrible for the rest of Europe. Unfortunately, with every passing day it becomes more likely.

Ukraine has permanently lost huge chunks of its territory. On top of that, the entire country is being structurally wrecked and it will take decades to climb out of the bottomless pit.

It's mind boggling that one would not see this as losing or delude oneself with shifting-the-goalposts thinking ("get to Kiev")

I don't see any merit in this line of thinking as it lacks strategic depth and comes across as wishful thinking.

Ukraine is not in NATO which means that the Russians have and will maintain escalation dominance. They can detonate nuclear weapons in Ukraine without immediately triggering Article 5 guarantees. I presume that if that takes place, the US will find it very hard to retaliate.

That would be a colossal disaster for Ukraine but also horrible for Europe, and yet, this is where continuous escalation leads to.

Delayed ACKs are not the "real problem". For the last 10 years I haven't encountered a single environment where Nagle's algorithm would be a net win. No heuristics, no fancy auto-sensing. It should be off by default.

If you're working in distributed systems, fintech, mobile network optimization, broadcasting, the first thing you should do is switch off Nagle's algorithm. Animats should focus on Second Life and stop holding on to what's now a very bad default.

When I was there (admittedly, years ago) one could have fired at least 50% of the managers PLUS engineers, and Google would have been much better off. Based on what colleagues who are still there tell me, the situation has drastically deteriorated to the point where some are calling for splitting apart the entire company in combination with a massive round of additional layoffs. What's absolutely clear is that Sundar needs to go. He's been largely responsible for the rot and ossification that has absolutely devastated whatever pioneering spirit was still there when engineers called the shots.

I predict Wayland will be dead long before we stop using X.

> Bypassing ssh auth means getting a root shell

Only if you're allowed to login as root, which is definitely not the case everywhere.

I wrote 'was possible' and 'enabled', not 'created'. By paying more attention to what others write you'll avoid superficial dismissals that prevent you from improving your understanding of complex issues.

The creation of this backdoor did not take place in a vacuum. Can you imagine the same person trying to introduce build changes and binary test cases into openssh? This backdoor was crafted in this particular way _specifically_ to exploit the fact that sshd in distributions such as Debian is being indirectly linked with lzma.

The backdoor was possible because Debian introduced a dependency into sshd, libsystemd, which in turn linked to liblzma. Official sshd does not have a systemd dependency in the same way that official sshd back in 2008 did not suffer from a predictable PRNG.

Debian is also 100% at fault here and I hope this slap in the face makes them reconsider their poor security practices. Amateur package maintainers should not be overstepping their job (packaging) and enabling disastrous vulnerabilities in security-critical software.

It's not constant, most C projects don't have anywhere near the number of library dependencies seen in your typical cargo project. From a supply chain attack perspective, Rust and Node promote ecosystems that are total disasters.

You're imagining things, there is no memory corruption mechanism. The payload is delivered into the process address space by dynamic linking through a shared dependency and hijacks a function via GNU_IFUNC.

That would have certainly been a lot better for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians that went straight to an early grave.

Are you aware of the Monroe doctrine? Cuban missile crisis? Can you imagine the US reaction if Russia placed missiles in Canada or Mexico?

Mearsheimer explains the perceived threat aspect very well: it doesn't matter what YOU, the Americans or any outside observer thinks. What does matter is what the Russians think, and they've made their thinking on having Ukraine be part of NATO very clear.

Everyone that recommends nativecomp as a way to fix perceived Emacs slowness in this topic is basically parroting something that's completely and utterly wrong. Native compilation should make no difference in perceived "slowness" for the vast majority of real-world use cases.

nativecomp is pretty much a gimmick and should make absolutely no difference in perceived Emacs slowness during actual usage and not stupid microbenchmarks.

Run 'emacs -q' (no add-ons loaded) and it should be a lot faster than VS Code. Which means that a library you loaded is the culprit. Things like Doom Emacs are notorious for unexpected slowness since they're not very well put together and load questionable libraries.

In the unlikely case where emacs -q is still slow, use Emacs Mac Port (https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/releases...).

This is at least 2x perceivably faster than VS Code on Mac.

It's supremely naive to think that Russia wants to fully subjugate Ukraine and instead of allowing one to observe clearly how this war is unfolding, such thinking creates a false reality that is ripe for exploitation and susceptible to propaganda.

The Russians will simply grab and keep the oblasts with large ethnic Russian populations and ensure that the rest of Ukraine remains a broken state. They've already captured 20% of Ukraine and if this war continues, this will certainly increase, but will not reach even 50%. One would be stupid to think that Putin is interested in another Afghanistan.

You are, his explanations are clear and logical. Yours are touching mysticism.

Plausible deniability works, in the real world, today. There's nothing contrived about it.

Do you realize how many security issues exist in applications written in memory-safe Java/PHP/JS/Python ? Memory corruption is but the tip of the iceberg.

Universal healthcare is a disaster in every country similar to the US (UK, Canada). The Scandinavian model is an exception, and would never work here given social factors such as population makeup and numbers.

I'll keep my reasonable tax rates and absolutely top notch health care I receive through my employer, thank you very much.

> What a weird definition of failing.

> I wonder if you call Russia's invasion of Ukraine a success.

Ukraine already lost 20% of its territory, territory it won't get back and hundreds of thousands of its men with nothing to show for it other than wreckage and devastation. More territorial losses are possible in the coming year. The after-effects will be present for decades to come turning Ukraine into a failed state.

What do you call that other than an epic fail?

That's all well and good if you're willing to leave a lot of money on the table. All the companies that hand out half-a-million to a million-dollars/yr total compensation packages operate using similar hiring processes.

That's a lot of money over the span of even a few years to miss out on.

It was a "sequel" in name only. In reality, a kickstarter cash-grab with neither attention to detail nor significant effort put into it. Not as bad as the utter fiasco that turned out to be "shroud of the avatar" [0] but still a solid FU to those who backed it.

It's more than clear that old school gaming pioneers have completely ran out of ideas and are taking advantage of a nostalgic playerbase in order to keep the cash rolling in (I hear Garriott's latest NFT game has vanished), cratering their reputation in the process.

They are not the ones to push the medium further. Fresh ideas will require fresh, young, unknown visionaries.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxjwtxn6NI

I have lived in the US for nearly 20 years (originally from Europe), SF for ~10 but I've since moved to a less progressive state in order to raise my kids in a better environment.

I don't tip, ever. I've been pestered with why questions even after I calmly and clearly explained myself, chased down the street by angry waiters, cursed at and even threatened with violence. Still, I don't tip.

Sounds like fun. To founders: Any plans to open source it so that it’s not lost in the sands of time?

How has that worked out so far? A legacy of ashes as the CIA book goes. US foreign intervetionist policy of the last 20 years has been nothing but one colossal disaster after another.

Ukraine is a broken country and the more this war goes on the worse it's going to get. So I'd say it certainly benefits a lot of Ukrainian men who are destined for an early grave "that there should be peace".

Every realist out there can see that -absent WW3- Ukraine will lose this war, the only question being the scale of destruction and the number of the dead.

Singapore has strict immigration policies based on what some see as borderline eugenic criteria. The immigrants that fuel criminal gangs in Sweden would never be allowed to live there.

> Blue-collar/lower income workers might take offense in that, as they'd look at someone making US$200-400k/year as part of the elite, it does not mean that workers earning that shouldn't look at themselves as they are: workers, subjected to an elite class controlling the means of production and hence, their lives.

I was making 400k/year at one time, I also had a few million dollars (that I earned by being "working class" in SV) invested in the S&P500. Which is why your argument has no merit. I could have stopped being "working class" with a 400k/year salary any time I wanted and lived from my investments but I didn't.

I kept being "working class" in SV and I ended up growing my compensation package to nearly 1 million dollars a year. That's what being "working class" in SV can amount to. But please try to convince me that I should take to the streets with my working-class brethren that work at Starbucks because I'm being exploited by the elites.