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drysine··on Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland
>Kadyrov and his son Adam with pigs' snouts

My money are on the president of Chechen republic.

drysine··on How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
Thanks!

How do CompactString/ColdString compare to std::string implementations performance-wise? From the looks of it, they must be somewhat slower than C++ strings

drysine··on Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer
>got to talk to a lot of Russians. It's clear the country has collapsed already

These are all emigrants, they tell each other (and you) these stories to make themselves feel better.

>The best knowledge workers left.

To Armenia? ))

drysine··on Ukraine targets specialized components to keep Russian refineries shut longer
Yep, the West should think what will happen if Russia supplies the West's enemies with millions of drones.

The "childish delusion" that they could ship drones to the Ukraine unpunished will end one day.

drysine··on How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
>ColdString and CompactString, which are way better than what's provided in C++

Could you elaborate on that?

drysine··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
Thanks, so it's about the same considering the difference in personal income

Yep, it's online in Russia too

drysine··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
>Russia ... have been at the "worse and worse" stages for decades and there is no "better" in sight

What do you mean? In the last 25 years life expectancy in Russia has risen by almost 10 years

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN?locat...

drysine··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
You are right, I apologize

What's the fine for not registering your move? What time do you have to update your location?

In Russia in the 90s we had 5 days and now it's three months. The fine is 3000 rubles (~40 euro) and zero if you moved in the same region (most of them are bigger than Switzerland:) or live at relative's or spouse's place

I used to think that what we have in Russia is Soviet legacy (albeit relaxed) and it's something people in Europe are not burdened with

drysine··on Russian mathematician wanted on terrorism charges detained in Armenia
Yeah, he is nuts. Or evil.

>(for example, his catchphrases "So it goes, Misha"[13] and "Kill, Kill, Kill" have been plagiarised all over the Russian web)

I remember him more than 20 years ago colorfully expressing his disgust for the hygiene standards of gypsy women and girls, ending the post with that cute "catchphrase" of his.

I'm no fun of stereotypical gypsy lifestyle, but that "Kill, Kill, Kill" was enough for me to form an opinion about him.

drysine··on Authorization via Gmail and Apple ID Banned in Russia
Yep, wouldn't want to be cut off from logging into Russian services when 30th round of sanctions nukes all gmail accounts associated with Russia.
drysine··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
In Russia people who warned about it were mocked as paranoid boomers. Today I wonder how many of them were paid or just encouraged to do the mocking.
drysine··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
>Jeroen van den Hoven, a professor of ethics and technology at TU Delft

>Van den Hoven did not condemn battlefield VPS outright. If it helps Ukraine win a just war against an aggressor, he said, that is a good development. His worry is the system falling into the wrong hands

The professor is quite flexible with his "ethics"

drysine··on The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++
>a function that hashes some input data (using SHA-256, or whatever hash algorithm)

Along with padding bytes.

> Why should people complexify and uglify their C++ code with the uint8_t pointer (or std::byte), when void* works just fine??

That was the intention of reinterpret_cast - make ugly code look ugly.

drysine··on Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
>and to select pickup spot manually. It's just assumed to be fucked as a given even at an app development level

No, it's a feature that was there from the beginning - you don't always choose the location you are currently at.

>They don't give a fuck.

But yes, we don't give a fuck

drysine··on Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
>Russia was fairly isolated

Quite the opposite, the West welcomed weak and crumbling Russia. To a limited extend, of course, but still Russia joined G7 and many European organizations. Western companies were busy buying privatized Soviet assets pennies on the dollar.

drysine··on Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
>but obviously the Russians did no such thing on their side

Why obviously?

The USSR invited cosmonauts from all over the world to fly and work at the Salut-6, Salit-7 and Mir stations.[0]

That's France, Britain, Austria, Japan, India, Soviet block countries, Mongolia, Vietnam, Syria and Afghanistan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interkosmos

drysine··on Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
>Otherwise this seems like a non-issue.

Except you forgot to mention an epic leak in Destiny just three years after it was attached to the ISS: "At its highest rate, the station was leaking about 5 pounds of air per day overboard." [0] Imagine that happening on the 4th year of American Mars mission.

Also, if you on American mission to Mars, it would be reasonable to worry about cooling system dying mid-flight requiring three spacewalks to fix it: "We'd lose cooling capability to half of the electronics on the U.S., European and Japanese part of the space station." [1]

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3882962

[1] https://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/31station/

drysine··on C++: The Documentary
>I'm anxious for Herb Sutter's CPP2/CPPFront to become a standard.

Why? It doesn't remove complexity, it (partially) hides it and makes the whole thing even more complex.

drysine··on Putin's $26B Quest for Longevity
Just look at the ending of the article:

"Russia remains marked by some of the developed world’s harshest mortality rates. Average male life expectancy in Russia today is about 68 years, according to official statistics, compared with roughly 76 in the U.S. and over 80 across much of Western Europe. Death, unlike elections, remains difficult to manage even for the Kremlin."

Now look at the World Bank data [0]: Russian male life expectancy has risen during Putin time from 59 to 68 years.

Why would free, independent and objective Western media fail to mention that?

Male life expectancy used to be 65 in the USSR but dropped to 58 during "democratic" 90s when Russia was ruled by sick and drunk Eltsin beloved by the West.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN?locat...

drysine··on Putin's $26B Quest for Longevity
$26B is the total budget of one of many Putin's national projects - "New Health Preservation Technologies"[0] which intends to raise the life expectancy of Russian citizens and support Russian biotech research and local production of medicines.

Implying it is Putin's personal multi-billion quest for longevity is just disgusting.

Why are you trying to spread such crude propaganda?

[0] http://government.ru/rugovclassifier/926/about/

drysine··on Putin Can No Longer Hide His Catastrophe
Yeah, maybe. Or Putin will just use tactical nukes.

The West didn't think Putin would escalate in 2008.

The West didn't think Putin would escalate in 2014.

The West didn't think Putin would escalate in 2022.

The West thinks Putin won't escalate in 2026.

Do you see the pattern?

drysine··on Why Russian Propaganda Works – and How to Stop Falling for It
>to convince a majority of Ukrainians to revolt

Even if you accept the most charitable estimation of the number of people on Maidan in 2014, it's less than 2% of Ukrainian population. Hardly a majority.

>against their Russian dominated government

It is the government that the Ukrainian people democratically elected not a long time before the coup.

>it's a hard sell for me to believe it was not inevitable

The Ukraine was evenly split between pro-Russian South-East and pro-Western, well, West. The only chance they had for stability is respecting the democratic principles when people respect the authority of the president who won an election even if they voted for a different candidate.

The US supported the coup and broke that system. Despite famous Bush Sr.'s speech in Kiev in 1991[0] that warned of 'suicidal nationalism', the successive American administrations nurtured Ukrainian nationalism, supported and fed it.

>its existence as a buffer state controlled by Russia

Ukraine being neutral was enough for Russia, but not for the West.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkjxf76xRTw

drysine··on Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
>If you go through life believing that your value depends on your practical utility

My value definitely depends on my practical utility. Everyone is capable of joy and suffering. A chicken is capable of joy and suffering.

Tell me this: in a hypothetical situation where you are going to end up on an uninhabited island and you can choose one person to go with you, who would you peek? An elderly disabled one or a person that has necessary skills to survive? Maybe utility matters?

drysine··on Why Russian Propaganda Works – and How to Stop Falling for It
The issue at hand is that the US "mid-wifed" a nationalistic coup in the Ukraine in 2014.

The first thing the Ukrainian parliament did after the coup was passing the bill that repelled the law protecting the Russian language in the Ukraine. [1]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine#Att...

drysine··on Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
Same as Russian. The state provides all needed software for filling documents related to taxes. It's been so for at least 15 years, most likely longer.
drysine··on Everything in C is undefined behavior
What's weird about it?

If you are using volatile you are reading from a device port mapped to that address.

Since C doesn't mandate in which order function arguments are evaluated, you don't know which argument will be read from port first.

How can that be anything but UB?

drysine··on As Russian drones hunt Ukrainians in 'human Safari,' a boy fought back
I was asking about the child.

As for the UN vehicle, I was wrong, looks like some Russians did it.

Funny, though, that you ignored the crucial detail about Ukrainians repeatedly committing war crimes by masquerading troop supplies for humanitarian vehicles. Also Security Service of Ukraine are notorious for employing this trick.

It's a war crime for exactly this reason - one day real humanitarian vehicle gets hit.

drysine··on As Russian drones hunt Ukrainians in 'human Safari,' a boy fought back
That would be a good proof and there is no excuse for trying to kill unarmed child. Could you give me the link?
drysine··on As Russian drones hunt Ukrainians in 'human Safari,' a boy fought back
>dude that was actually in the droned car is on video stating "I dont know who did the attack".

>UN asses had to be rescued by Ukrainian military.

Or maybe Ukrainian military first attacked the UN car and then rescued them. It's good that the guy didn't buy this show.

drysine··on C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
>The committee was apathetic about the proposal and kept bringing up various trivial issues, in a clear attempt to stall him, but he refused to take the hint.

That's a mean interpretation, mean both towards the committee and towards the author.

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