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I'm from a generation who had to use VSS for a few years. The sticks are pretty long these days, even the ones you get from github.
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It's not the tech (or lack of it) that makes me feel morally superior. It's the choice to use that tech to defend literal facists that I would find embarassing.
- Every html document is a tree structure. And css documents have special syntax to address nodes within those trees
- If it's any good, you're routing framework probably uses some kind of tree to quickly match the request to it's handler
- The database you write to uses a tree to quickly find the location it needs to write to
Is there any fishing going on in the Black Sea at the moment? (genuine question)
Citation required. But don't bother because it's a meaningless statistic, or at least one designed to make it look like there's a lot more wastage in libraries than there actually is.
The statistic could be true, and yet still be the case that the vast majority of library books are well utilized.
Or is the idea that if they choose to work for the government, they need to work until they die.
There are powerful executives who thought they could influence the Russian gangsters. And they could. Until they couldn't. If they were lucky, they're still around to tell the tale but many are not.
Oppressed people do not make good consumers. Even Machiavelli realised that.
That's what companies thought about manufacturing in China. But that was before they found out the costs of corruption and loss of trade secrets. If you're a fantastically succesfuly European company, what's to stop Trump (or any future president) just deciding you're too big and need to be sold to "an american investor"?
It is high time for companies and banks to invest only where democracy thrives because when you invest where it doesn't, your investment simply ends up being controlled by gangsters. This might benefit you for a while. But eventually, it won't.
The last few years have seen the talking heads on right-wing news TV become actual politicians with real power.
Dunno if that same pathway to power exists in Russia but it sure does in the US.
This whole thread is a joke right? The US is the one who just elevated the modern day Hitler to world leader and is now cheering him on as he collaborates with the Russia to commit genocide in Ukraine, and the Israelis to commit genocide in Gaza.
Create things? Or destroy them? Seems in reality, the most powerful nations are the ones who have acquired the greatest potential to destroy things. Creation is worthless if the dude next door is prepared to burn your house down because you look different to him.
How much was your 286 chip worth when you bought your 486?
And when they thought they were the only game in town, they tried to corner the market in GPUs and lock out any users who can't pony up £200/mo. Reminds me of when the likes of Oracle and IBM had companies by the balls buying bigger and bigger servers and then Google came along and showed everyone how to do horizontal scaling of cheap hardware.