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protomolecule··on Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers
>Purported that Russians coerced Ukraine to take the blame.

Now that was funny.

protomolecule··on Does current AI represent a dead end?
Maybe include in a prompt a threat of legal punishment? Sure somebody has already tried that and tabulated how much it improves scores on different benchmarks)
protomolecule··on Russia warns against 'hypotheses' after Azerbaijan Airlines crash
The BBC article says:

"It was due to fly to Grozny in Chechnya but it was diverted because of fog, the airline said.

A surviving passenger told Russian TV he believed the pilot had tried twice to land in dense fog over Grozny before "the third time, something exploded... some of the aircraft skin had blown out"."

Maybe it's time to apologize for badmouthing Chechen air dispatcher?

protomolecule··on Lua Is So Underrated
It's my language of choice for letting users customize an app, but the last client wanted Python because many people are already familiar with it and 'Scriptable with Python' looks better from the marketing point of view(
protomolecule··on Russia bans crypto mining in multiple regions, citing energy concerns
It's not because of energy concerns -- if you subsidize electricity prices in certain regions where you want industry to be developing faster, you don't want crypto-miners to take advantage of that. The regions are in the North Caucasus (Chechnya, Dagestan, etc.) and the ones that used to be a part of the Ukraine (some people might disagree with the wording). [0]

Also cryptomining is banned in the winter in some parts of Siberia, where the prices are low due to abundance of hydroelectric power and cryptominers are competing with locals for electricity. [0]

[0] https://tass.ru/ekonomika/22755633

protomolecule··on A new sneaky way to track Android users in Russia (text in Russian)
>Делайте свои выводы.

And what conclusions should we make?

protomolecule··on Russia to Launch Free Cancer Vaccine in 2025
Here is a quite informative interview: https://lenta-ru.translate.goog/articles/2024/10/08/onkovakc...

Some specific bits:

"It is important to understand that this is not a panacea. After reading the headlines in the press, some people think that this is a miracle cure that can cure everything. However, this is not the case.

The vaccine will only be effective against certain types of cancer for which immunotherapy is indicated. There are currently clinical guidelines that indicate where and when immunotherapy can be used.

For now, this is a limited list of diseases, such as melanoma. In the future, it may include lung cancer, some types of gastrointestinal cancer, and possibly kidney cancer. "

"For a vaccine to be effective, a significant number of changes in the tumor genome are needed, for example, hundreds. From these, 20-30 of the most effective mutations, so-called neoantigens, can be selected, which will allow the immune system to be trained to recognize and attack the tumor.

If a patient has few changes in the tumor genome, the vaccine may not be effective. This is because there are few differences from normal tissue, and the immune system may not recognize the tumor as a threat."

"When choosing a vaccine-based therapy, we will focus on patients who are likely to respond positively to the treatment. In addition, the state of the person’s immune system and how it interacts with the tumor plays an important role. In some cases, additional methods may be needed, such as checkpoint inhibitor therapy or the use of antibodies that help the immune system recognize and attack the tumor."

"For example, in one study, the median relapse was 13 months. Many patients who responded to vaccine immunotherapy had a median of over 24 months. And that's just the observation period. It's probably longer. That's a pretty significant extension. The response to vaccine immunotherapy is about twice as strong as checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy alone."

protomolecule··on Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images
If that newspaper was Chinese or Indian, yep, that would've been extremely dumb.

You can't possibly not see the difference and yet you wrote your comment. This is the last time I've replied to you. Bye.

protomolecule··on Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images
Yeah, right, and calling the head of state that gave the most weapons in the EU "offended liver sausage" was a smart diplomatic move.
protomolecule··on UK's Online Safety Act comes into force
Well, I remember that case[0], the guy had written that there are no good cops and was calling for burning policemen alive on the city square in a crematorium "like in Auschwitz" and got one year of suspended sentence for that. I can't say that I disagree with the court, but that's the problem.

[0] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дело_Терентьева

protomolecule··on UK's Online Safety Act comes into force
>To anyone who thinks that regulating social media is some sort of prelude to a totalitarian state

Ha-ha-ha. Writing from Russia.

No, seriously, it started with completely reasonable law mandating that internet providers block pages encouraging suicide or providing information on ways to do it.

And remember, Orwell was British.

protomolecule··on Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images
Or maybe people brainwashed by western propaganda don't like cognitive dissonance caused by contradicting facts and deal with it by flagging these facts.
protomolecule··on Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images
No, it's not clear, what he was "dismissed" for, he wasn't publicly condemned by the Ukrainian president. And "dismissed" means he was made Deputy Foreign Minister and half a year later assigned to the position of the ambassador to Brazil. In fact, in the news reports the Bandera remarks weren't mentioned at all or at best mentioned after the words "also coincided".

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had dismissed several of Kyiv's senior envoys abroad, including the country's outspoken ambassador to Germany. Zelenskiy announced the sacking of Ukraine's ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary and said new candidates were being readied for the positions. "This rotation is a normal part of diplomatic practice," he said in a statement.

The 46-year-old regularly engages in outspoken social media exchanges and has branded politicians and intellectuals who oppose arming Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion as appeasers. He once accused German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of behaving like an "offended liver sausage" when Scholz did not immediately accept an invitation by Zelenskiy to visit Kyiv." [0]

"Melnyk was critical of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, accusing him of having too many close Russian connections. He also became embroiled in a dispute with Chancellor Olaf Scholz after Steinmeier was told he was not wanted on a visit to Kyiv earlier in the war. When Scholz called Ukraine's snub of the German president unfortunate, Melnyk used a German idiom to imply that he was feigning insult and was overreacting to the situation.

Melnyk had defended himself in the past, when charged with being undiplomatic in his tone, by saying the time for unflinchingly deferential diplomacy had passed for a Ukraine fighting a defensive war for its survival as a state.

His departure from Berlin also coincided quite closely with comments of his defending wartime nationalist Ukrainian leader Stepan Bandera, who still divides opinion in Ukraine and abroad. " [1]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-sacks-ukraine...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/kyivs-ex-envoy-to-berlin-takes-deputy-...

protomolecule··on Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images
Funny. And in which case kids were sent to prison?
protomolecule··on Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images
>It's not like they want to send the kids who did it to prison.

You have a very weird impression of Russia.

protomolecule··on Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images
That's an international problem)

Su-27: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/pr6ppb/us_air_for...

Typhoon submarine: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/04/01/april-...

protomolecule··on C++ exception performance three years later
Thanks, that's an interesting idea, even though I'm not sure that extra instructions to put these return addresses into registers and reduced number of registers available for the codegen is better than cmp and jmp. Also I'm not sure if that will play well with cpu's branch predictor.
protomolecule··on C++ exception performance three years later
Not at all.

Basically, a naive implementation of exceptions uses a lock to guard unwind tables, and this scales poorly. The lock is needed only because .so libraries can be loaded and unloaded dynamically. One solution is to say that after a certain moment, the program doesn't load/unload dynamic libraries and doesn't use the lock after that. That's what ScyllaDB and Yandex[0] do, for example. Another solution is to just use the new glibc which fixes this issue.

That aside, both exceptions and error codes introduce overhead, but they do it differently: exceptions add most[1] of their overhead when an error happens, while checking error codes adds overhead when an error doesn't happen[2]. One might conclude that exceptions should be used when errors are exceptionally rare; otherwise, use error codes. Or, just reclassify errors that happen too often as something you expect to happen, return them as a case of valid data and keep using exceptions.

[0] https://habr.com/en/companies/yandex/articles/852244/

[1] https://habr.com/en/companies/jugru/articles/494986/

[2] https://archive.is/bIU23

protomolecule··on Kh-69 missile engineer killed in Moscow region as part of Ukrainian operation
One day the US too may be at war.
protomolecule··on Kh-69 missile engineer killed in Moscow region as part of Ukrainian operation
I wonder what Palmer Luckey[0] from Anduril[1], which makes drones for Ukraine, thinks about this precedent.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries

protomolecule··on Kh-69 missile engineer killed in Moscow region as part of Ukrainian operation
Software Engineer.
protomolecule··on OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs
>None of your interactions except the ones with your friends and family are authentic

Please speak for yourself only.

protomolecule··on Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production
Gliding bomb hitting an apartment building must have been mentioned in the news, care to provide a link?

I googled a bit, but all I found was gliding bombs falling nearby and doing some damage to the buildings, but not direct hits.

After seeing reports like this one[0], saying that those inhuman Russians hit Kharkov residential area destroying a shopping mall and then seeing true picture where two Ukrainian MLRS launchers were parked nearby and were hit by Russian missiles during the night when mall was closed[1][2], I'm a bit skeptical.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/world/europe/russia-ukrai...

[1] https://t.me/ASupersharij/28133

[2] https://t.me/aleksandr_skif/3150

protomolecule··on Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production
What a fool is firing a missile worth millions of dollars to destroy a building with no soldiers at all?
protomolecule··on Russia uses civilians as 'target practice' for killer drones
You may have noticed that, as I said, there are names and photos. One can google a different source, some medical news site[0] or a medical channel in telegram[1] or news from the doctor's home region[2].

[0] https://medrussia.org/56335-stalo-izvestno-imya-vracha-vizhi...

[1] https://t.me/mediamedics/9636

[2] https://lipetskmedia.ru/news/society/lipchanka-edinstvennaya...

protomolecule··on Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production
Are there Amnesty's reports or at least eyewitness accounts of Russians stationing healthy soldiers at hospitals?
protomolecule··on Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production
Russian representative at UN SC two days before that mentioned in his statement that Ukrainian military forced inhabitants out of a different maternity ward in Mariupol and made fire points there. [0]

Now look at the woman at 1:10 in your video. Here is a BBC's interview with her[1]:

"But Marianna told me there were no Ukrainian military stationed in the building where she was. She says she saw Ukrainian soldiers in the oncology unit in the building opposite the maternity unit."

My take is that at worst it was a strike made by mistake by people who were unaware that the hospital wasn't evacuated.

[0] https://russiaun.ru/ru/news/070322n

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61412773

protomolecule··on Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production
My point is that saying that Russia deliberately target hospitals is a lie.

>The "legality" of their strikes on civilian infrastructure is an idiotic thing to discuss when they shouldn't be doing any strikes in the first place.

And yet people are busy spreading atrocity propaganda. Why is that?

protomolecule··on Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Brigade
protomolecule··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
Yeah, right. Holding hands.

Excerpts From Pentagon's Plan: 'Prevent the Re-Emergence of a New Rival' [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/excerpts-from-penta...

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