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There's no Russian state anymore, there's a mafia that runs the country, whose only goal is to stay in power at any cost. Hence Putin looks for an ally/protector in China because it will never insist on pushing Russia towards democracy the way other centers of power would (or would have, in case of the pre-Trump US). China will keep extracting big concessions from that vulnerability in exchange for their providing life support to the Russian regime.

It's a curious symbiosis that is very much against the interests of Russia, but that's what you get when a mafia takes over your country.

if you just want to return results from a couple of goroutines, shouldn't be a problem I think?

Probably 100% of them. Only they don't realize it won't stop with the Baltic countries either - so no cheap gas even in that case.

It seems to be the way they want Ukraine to win: Putin withdraws but keeps his power in Russia at all costs. But this goal is akin to threading a needle.

Ukraine wasn't getting closer to NATO until Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Both its Constitution and popular polls were against joining NATO (i.e. remain a neutral country).

Regardless of Putin's obsession with Ukraine, the problem is that his clan views this war (and future wars like this) as a campaign to create a new world order where the EU and the US withdraw from supporting countries in what they consider their sphere of influence, and, ultimately, give up any ideas of affecting change inside Russia.

It's an age-old story of a crime family holding on to its mafia state.

Very good points in your replies!

> Imagine if tomorrow, Russia went on the defensive and froze its lines in Ukraine, setting up Surovikin lines everywhere,then withdrew half the forces it has currently committed.

They'd have to give up a big chunk of the occupied land to do that, since creating that line within 50 km of the front line would now be much harder than it was 3 years ago. Who knows, maybe that's what's stopping them from attacking another country as you described.

> This is one of those cases where the only winning move is not to play, and both belligerents have proven stupendously bad at not playing.

It remains to be seen for Iran. I wouldn't be surprised if Iran gets out of this with the sanctions removed (to say the least).

> Israel was wiling to roll the dice on regime change in Iran

Why would they want to change the regime in Iran? If the goal is to hold on to power in Israel.

> turning the global economic outlook less positive

Specifically, mounting inflation expectations, no? Investors wouldn't want to park their money at 4% if they expect inflation that is close or higher than that.

I don't know, you guys yourself like saying "Russia's only friends are its army and its navy".

Your post sounds like concern trolling to me. I'm not a European and I watched the whole speech in real time and it was clear to me that he was attempting a coup.

I would (probably) not bother with jj if I only had to work on my own codebases. As a developer on an active repo with lots of contributors and ceremony around PR reviews (~500 lines per PR, stacks, etc.) it's invaluable.

Banks are actually pretty good at valuing assets. They don't want to overvalue because that's their collateral. And lowballing will make the borrower choose another bank.

Learn emacs once and use ratpoison, readline and rlwrap everywhere.

You don't even have to use this one in a pinch - just use a plain bottle.

I think you're overthinking this :)

Donald wants to bully anyone he can into submission; the requirements are designed to be obscene so that agreeing to them is akin to kissing the ring.

That and trying to get more willing sycophants installed in power whenever possible (a little gem hidden in the latest batch of requirements: Canada should stop protecting the French language status. If you know anything about Canada, you know that agreeing to this would be a political suicide for the party in power).

That's a valid theory.

> He can't be both: these two don't align.

They could be both pulling at the strings, often in different directions with varying success. It could even be tracked by the people going in and out of favor with the admin: MTG, Carlson, Gubbard riding high? Russia's pull is stronger. Them becoming pariahs reduced to criticizing the Iran war from the peanut gallery? Israel has taken over.

Maybe because they are not that smart? :)

"Fiduciary duty" of TSMC execs? And can Taiwan government compel them not to build out in the US?

My understanding is that the OP is not running any heavy tools/chains inside the sandbox? I use a similar setup, but using Incus and cli agents which I drive via ssh. I make sure I can (and do) rebuild the VM from scratch after every session or so.

Currently considering using ACP for codex so that I can do more of the driving from my editor (emacs, over ssh) and something similar for claude code (it doesn't seem to be as good as codex at supporting re-attachable sessions).

One concern is making sure my editor's ACP client doesn't enable/support fancy terminal stuff, because that would basically void all the benefits of using a VM sandbox.

I realize that mathematically speaking a singleton set is still a set, but as a programmer who is used to map operations in other mainstream languages, I was expecting some kind of loop in the implementation. It took a few page faults in my brain to realize what's going on.

Only they are not using a collection and therefore "Map" was a confusing choice for the method name (maybe "To" would have been a better name?).

A rifle most likely - you probably don't want to be within the shotgun range when the drone explodes.

If you already run k8s, why not just use cnpg?

https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg

> serfs became indebted to the landowners in a form of financial bondage that pretty much lasted until the Russian revolution, where...well things didn't get much better for them.

Exactly. Bolsheviks just changed the name from "serfdom" to "collective farms". Mandatory membership where members were not allowed an ID that enabled them to move inside the country and therefore were bound to the farm. The practice continued until the late 1970s.

Removable cushions in a couch are pretty rare. As a counter example, both of my couches still have perfect cushions. One bought for C$800 15 years ago and another for C$1500 5 years ago.

Natuzzi (an Italian brand) has its "Editions" line that's cheaper because it's made in China. From my experience, the quality is good.

Also, brands like CB2 and Crate & Barrel are American and popular in Canada - especially CB2 because of its good designs and quality at cheaper prices (which are even cheaper in the US).

We end up having to review the copious tests. In addition to the code (we still review it, right)?