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Also it is not illegal to speak Russian, how ridiculous. Please stop watching whatever garbage TV propaganda you are doing.

These are mostly rehashed Soviet propaganda talking points. The Baltics cannot be compared to Central Asian republics, and Soviet occupation was greatly detrimental to the Baltic nations, not to mention unwanted. Much more economic wealth was taken by the Soviet Union than ever received. The Baltics were more than capable of building hospitals, schools, etc and had fine examples of all of these. Many atrocities were committed in the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union (as indeed many atrocities occurred in all parts of the Soviet Union) Indeed, today the 14th of June is the memorial day for the mass deportations from Latvia to the Soviet Union https://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/policy/society-integration/history...

The USSR was quite literally an evil empire which rightfully belongs in the trash bin of history

Nothing in "capitalism" watches the scale of stalin's purges and dead camps. Or Mao's They followed an impossible dream straight into hell.

That all looks horrifying to me. Why do SF tech companies so love to treat their employees like children? I would not like to commute two hours a day to sit in a balloon pod or go to team camp "s'mores". I just want to focus on my work please.

AT&M0 was the control code for muting the modem, yes very useful for not waking the parents up after midnight.

Can someone explain to me where Twitter and Facebook get the nerve to censor news stories from major publications? What exactly is going on here?

Smoke a fat joint

Sharing a land border with Russia also tends to concentrate minds

A company I worked for decided one day to purchase budget fingerprint readers for door access. They were installed with much fanfare.

Unfortunately it turned out that the fingerprint readers were racist, and refused to allow black people into the building.

They were swiftly removed.

Twitter is cancer

As a teenager at the time it was impressed on us how important it was to not use our real name on the internet. I didn't use my real name for anything on the internet for at least 10 years after I started using it.

These news organisations should pay twitter every time they source a story from there.

Hopefully it would stop journos from writting such gripping stories as "According to some blowhard on twitter...", "These is my opinions, and to back it up here are three people on twitter who agree with me,...", "Twitter was OUTRAGED by... (several posts with five likes and one reshare)" etc, etc, etc

Powershell is the ultimate expression of the Unix pipeline imo.

Passing objects through the pipeline and being able to access this data without awk/sed incantations is a blessing for me.

I think anyone who appreciates shell pipelines and python can grok the advantages of the approach taken by Powershell, in a large way it is directly built upon existing an Unix heritage.

I'm not so good at explaining why, but for anyone curious please have a look at the Monad manifesto by Jeffrey Snover

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/monad-manifesto-th...

You may not agree with the implementation, but the ideas being it, I think, are worth considering.

That's been a recurring issue with the UK South region ever since they introduced it.

Theregister even reported on it a couple of years ago

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/04/microsoft_azure_cap...

I usually cheat and use parboiled rice, it won't become a sad mush.

that sounds terrible

that's what tab complete is for

Everyone has been saying nothing of the type. A lot of people seem content in thinking it is only as bad as a mild cold. Other people prefer such platitudes as "if it happens it happens", while not even having more than a couple of days of food at home. As if taking some basic measures is a ridiculous idea. Still others believe this is a bioweapon, and the chinese government is burning hundreds of thousands of bodies and doom is upon us all.

I don't see the media trying to scare anyone, for the most part they are downplaying things.

Cheap beer and cigarettes are not provided for by tax dollars though.

BP and Facebook probably don't pay much tax in Australia either, where beer and cigarettes are not particularly cheap (mostly due to sin taxes)

Why does Qatari-state funded media fund so much woke propaganda in Western countries?

Wow, sexist and racist.

As Microsoft is proud to boast, the majority on instances on Azure are Linux based.

The tooling that matters to me (az cli, terraform, vscode, kubectl et all) runs absolutely fine on Azure. I use Linux to create and manage Linux and open source infra on azure every day.

The majority of complaints I hear about azure tend to revolve around their AzureRM templating, which is admittedly terrible, but irrelevant since terraform exists (and cloudformation is not much better imo).

Also a lot of people dont/didn't like their portal. I don't frequently use the portal, and besides have you seen the aws portal? It's woeful.

One benefit of azure is they name their products logically, like "azure virtual machine" instead of "magic beanstalk" or w/e

Isn't nytimes behind a paywall already?

No matter how much joy people get from driving, it is not worth 37,000 deaths per year. There are proven ways to reduce road fatalities (busses). The government should not be in the business of wasting taxpayer money regulating private pleasure cars.

Azure has a pretty nice tech stack in my experience, what issues are you experiencing with it?

*for the legacy media

I do not think totalitarian dictatorship is the solution to ads on facebook.

I don't agree. 'Yellow journalism' has been around for almost 150 years. The major differentiator was who had the money to print, and an audience to read.

It would be nice to think that a news organisation's respectability would translate into a greater audience, but you only have to look at the Sun, Fox, et all to see that is not the case.

An interesting story is more appealing than one that is not, even if it is not true. And the cost of reporting false information is a small retraction printed weeks later on page 10.

The decline of news media profitability has led to the state of journalism today, which mainly consists of twitter gossip mongers, producing content not much better than the crazies at speakers corner (and often worse).

The emotions are being triggered by you making racist comments

I used to ride the central line from zone 4 through to tower hill and back every day

Really glad to be out of London now.