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I am not fan of the era when CEO is expected to be a cult leader type person.

Cook did very well in all areas as well as in not trying to create a cult.

2000 shaheds are just a regular week in Ukraine.

90% of that are destroyed far away from targets and the other 10% do cause some damage, but it is usually far from being devastating as the drone is far from being very precise.

A single F35 which could penetrate air defense and go into the country would be a real problem. If Russia has 10 of them, I think it would significantly alter the current equation of power as it may allow for air superiority.

Famous story about the plane cockpit for average pilot ended up being bad for absolutely everyone comes to mind.

Probably you cannot average humans.

Is it really identical when the receiving party can now identify every workstation at your internal network and track them separately?

For example, any website can now not only log that the traffic originated from org A, but specifically from org A, workstation N.

I wonder, is privacy implication is not important enough for people to worry about this?

If you are not a software engineer you can judge code the same way as you can judge design while not being a designer.

It is that in one case it is obvious for you that you don’t understand what you are looking at, and in another, for some reason, it is not.

There are security benefits of not having public IPs on every VM.

I assign few VMs public IPs and use them as ingress / SSL termination / load balancer for my workloads running on VMs with only internal IPs.

I personally use kvm with libvirt and manage all these with Ansible.

It is about trends and perceptions - 70s were very hopeful, now with global problems - wars, climate, AI, uncertainty, what is growing is desperation.

I definitely don’t envy kids that are born nowadays.

I don’t know why it’s CIA wet dream, while it’s mostly used against western democracies.

Are people in CIA incompetent?

It is not only about domestic manufacturing.

The trend is that roads are becoming more dangerous in the US, with the cars being bigger as a major contributor.

People in US are fine with increasing casualties for some reason, and I’m glad that in EU the general consensus is to continue with keeping roads safer.

Does anyone knows why current US administration keeps aligning with Chinese interests in their actions while proclaiming that China is their main adversary?

They even send JD Vance to support Orban in his elections. The same Orban and Hungary which Xi Jinping supports and recently visited out of all the EU.

You cannot agree with someone on so many actions and keep pretending that you are against each other.

I think your description would be perfect in describing a psychopath - i.e. someone who can rationalize and think about other beings logically, without actually being able to subconsciously empathize.

Not all people like that at all. Some people really do feel emotions of others before being able to rationalize it.

Why not? I know people who are very good at feeling other people’s emotions but very poor at analyzing them.

In kids you can see it all the time - like a kid started crying because he sees others cry, but if you ask them why they cry - the explanation is always ridiculous.

But even some adults are like that, interpreting your own or even others emotions is both a skill and a talent.

- mgimo finished? - aaaask

Nothing productive will come out of this conversation.

F15 seems to have the same cannon as f16, and there are multiple videos (like [0]) of successfully destroying Shahed drones and cruise missiles with it.

[0] - https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1970127431030985059

> That seems an odd choice.

Why? In Ukraine everything that can fly (light aircraft, helicopters, fighter jets, etc.) are shooting down drones.

You can call it whatever you like: kill zone, gray zone, dead zone - everyone usually understands what does it means.

Good article on what it is: https://texty.org.ua/projects/116021/20-kilometers-of-the-gr...

One of the most profound feelings I had was being in the middle of nowhere at night and looking at the sky.

Majority of people my generation are able to experience what once was very common only few times in their lifetime due to light pollution.

It feels dreadful to realize that even that experience will be taken away forever.

I tried to set up Bluetti solar panel on my balcony in a similar way, but the efficiency was abysmal because of the angle to the sun.

I wonder for how many people it will work in practice?

Putting panels on the roof should be much more efficient…

There is a phenomenon I observe with people being fascinated by russian/soviet things even when in reality the subject of interest is pure shit.

Being it either a low quality lenses in which people see a artistic quality of manufacturing defects or text from Dostoevsky which ruminates in extended length the inner thought process of a moronic character which some mistake for a mysterious russian soul.

I own Helios lenses with Zenit camera I inherited from my father which is of the sentimental value as it was a first significant purchase after my parents wedding, and most of my childhood photos are done with it, but even my dad will trade it for a good Nikon lenses without a second thought.

How have you came to such conclusions?

If anything it proves the opposite.

Look at how laws are passed in russia for example for comparison and let me know what similarities you see.

The alternative is a dictatorship.

While watching the second video, Futurama theme song started playing in my head :-)

Poe's law at its best!

Yes, please close it!

Ah, oh, decision makers are shareholders themselves and are benefiting from this too.

> Starlink just shut off all of Russia

What are you talking about? Starlink never worked in russia. It worked in Ukraine, and it was shutdown in Ukraine by using a white list for which any Ukrainian can easily apply.

The goal was to shutdown Starlink usage by russian drones in Ukraine and by anyone on the occupied Ukrainian territories.

Look, I would really like to mention everyone every time, but it is so tiresome to be honest, all of these guys are awful and all of them are connected if not through epstein, then through some other private club.

These are literally _the same people_.

Musk was hanging out with child sex trafficker and is allowing kids to create porn with grok on X.

No, state decides on the rules of the game any business is playing by.

Stepper motors were last used for HDDs with the capacity in megabytes.