I just wanted to confirm from our meeting just now, did you want me to (some crazy shit that could cause problems)?
The amounts of energy we use is never ever going to go down. It just isn’t.
Not voluntarily maybe. But that’s not the only way. The only outcomes of any “realistic” course correction to the current state of the world and human behavior include widespread death and societal collapse once uncontrolled climate change takes hold for real, and at that point, it’ll go down quite a bit.
Yeah. People already sell laptops; this is basically a super expensive laptop with a fancy screen and a janky custom OS. But having this as an app for your phone, that let you pop other apps up into the heads-up virtual display or have “full screen” access to certain functionality while still supporting all your regular stuff, would be pretty different. So it can make your phone “laptop like” any time you wanted to pop the glasses on, or pop little notifications into the corner of your vision, maybe with a couple of little buttons on the glasses for “expand notification” “clear notification” “clear all” “up” “down” “minimize” “maximize”, something like that, would be super neat. And then any time you want to break out the keyboard you can use it like a computer.
(I know the permissions and app compatibility and battery life etc would make that not necessarily trivial to do)
It’s incredibly useful for learning. ChatGPT was what taught me to unlearn, essentially, writing C in every language, and how to write idiomatic Python and JavaScript.
It is very good for boilerplate code or fleshing out a big module without you having to do the typing. My experience was just like yours; once you’re past a certain (not real high) level of complexity you’re looking at multiple rounds of improvement or else just doing it yourself.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
Stop, stop. It hurts, it’s too real.
They took the guy who led the legendary team that made the search not only work instantly at a previously unimaginable scale, but also freakishly well from a “finding exactly what you wanted based on almost any query,” back in the late 2000s, if you remember… that guy, when he started pushing back against the people who wanted to fuck up search results to boost imaginary metrics that were theoretically (and, probably, not really) going to make more money from ads, they pushed him out.
This absolutely excellent article goes into detail about the exact moment, if you had to pick one, when Google stopped being a legendary tech company and simply became yet another behemoth coasting on its past successes until the market changes under it and it can’t adapt, fades, and takes its place with all the others, all the way back to IBM and DEC. Nothing’s changed in a big enough way for it to get knocked back into that obscurity yet, but it clearly will at some point.
So, I saw this story and I typed a comment about how it was pretty much guaranteed (given Musk’s cutting of the engineering department and the scale of Twitter’s operation) that this would cause some slight amount of breakage for the forseeable future, and the unfixable and unflattering nature of the ensuing jank would be the nail in the coffin for Twitter (which for some reason still is home to a lot of journalists and primary sources and etc even to this day in its wrecked-up form).
Then I thought, you know what, I don’t actually know that that’s how it’ll happen, and deleted the comment and moved on with my day.
And then just now I just tried to click on a Twitter link, and saw a black page with this:
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
(Button: “Try Again”)
⚠️ Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com
Oh shit, it must be Firefox’s fault! Yeah, must be causing issues. My bad man, you’re right; I guess I will need to switch browsers now so I can have the privilege of using Twitter.
Almost all the bombs Israel drops are US made
Some are from Germany, but it’s America booms most of the time
You need to be logged in – for me it shows all the posts / comments that I’ve liked. See the fix that the other person posted though; the comment link should be https://lemm.ee/api/v3/comment/list?liked_only=true
Oh, true dat - yeah that is much more convenient.
API docs are at https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_post-list - I haven’t tested this, but to me it looks like you can get raw results for what you’ve liked by doing this (for $server set to whatever server address):
--request GET --url "https://$server/api/v3/post/list?liked_only=true" --header 'accept: application/json' to get liked posts as JSON--request GET --url "https://$server/api/v3/comment/list?liked_only=true" --header 'accept: application/json' to get liked comments as JSONEdit: Fixed comment link
It’s actually preferable for Putin for a few different reasons if it’s simply a slow death because of unlivable conditions, than to have someone take him out back and shoot him quickly or something like that.
But yes, the system is working 100% as intended; this is a feature.
100% accurate. We could say that the PPP is 2:1 and so the military economies they can bring to bear are roughly equal.
I.e. despite their overwhelming size and population advantage, Russia somehow winds up exactly evenly matched for a fight against Germany and Ukraine and nobody else involved.
USA economic shock therapy
Dude
You don’t get to say simultaneously “Russia so strong that the West will tremble before me” and “hey that’s not fair, you stole my wallet when I got drunk and fell down and shit myself”
I won’t say what you’re saying is completely wrong, but Russia also had quite a large hand in the downfall of Russia, both before and after privatization
literally growing faster than every country in the G7
Sure. In 2023, Russia’s GDP grew by 2.2%. But also, Libya’s grew by 12.5%, and Guyana’s grew by 38.4%.
I’m saying that the metric you and the BBC have chosen is relevant, sure, but it’s also not the whole story.
Russia’s military is literally larger than it was when they started the SMO but nearly all measures. They haven’t mobilized even half of their military might in this SMO. And they fought not only Ukraine’s entire military but also military aid from the US that literally is equivalent to Russia’s entire military budget. So they fought, dollar-for-dollar, a military that was larger than it and it came out bigger. How’s that math for you?
Let me make sure I am understanding what you’re saying: Russia fought a country that is 4% its size, and directly on its border, and spent an equal amount of money (which because of PPP means they had something like twice as much materiel), outproduced the West massively on artillery / ammunition / what have you, and they spent two years stuck on the border, which means their military’s doing good.
Do I have all of that right?
(Actually it’s more like 10 years, if you count the initial seizure of Crimea and Donbas, but they really started invading in earnest in 2022.)
(Also – they’re not guaranteed to stay stuck on the border. I do agree with you that the Ukrainians are nearing a collapse of their ability to defend if their aid doesn’t come through in which case it’ll be a very different situation.)
I said their objective was to make the West overextend itself, because that’s how the USA lost Vietnam and Afghanistan
I’m just gonna let the analogy of Ukraine as Vietnam, with a massive country invading a much smaller country that never did anything to it, and then bleeding itself for years and years without achieving anything of value while the small country gets military support from geopolitical adversaries of the original massive country and hangs on giving stubborn resistance, just hang in the air for a while without saying anything else.
There has been no point in this conflict where Ukraine had the upper hand on the war writ large. Every thing that made any gains got swallowed up quite quickly afterward.
Jesus Christ, you guys took back the North? When did this happen? You gotta tell the people in Belgorod, they’ll be thrilled.
If the West goes through a recession, or worse, while Russia goes through a boom cycle, you’ll quickly see that absolute dollar values don’t matter.
War’s a hell of a lot more complex than just whoever has more economic might is going to win, yes. That I will definitely agree with you on.
And yet, if I remember right that was exactly the argument.
I do think there were some legit things in what they were saying yeah – Russia’s surviving the sanctions quite well, and they’ve been producing a fuck of a lot of artillery whereas individual countries in the West have sometimes had problems as they ramp up production again for a variety of reasons. But using that all to extrapolate out to, Russia’s going to outproduce the whole of the West and that’s exactly the plan and why they’re still (for now at least) stuck at the border, that doesn’t make a ton of sense to me no.
Sure. Here’s what I think:
I think the Russian GDP is roughly half of Germany’s GDP alone, even though Russia is 50 times larger and came with some natural advantages as of a few decades ago (good education system, good fossil fuel reserves, things like that). Russia’s entire GDP is quite a bit smaller than just the US yearly defense budget. I don’t think single digit percentage swings up or down year by year mean all that much to that one way or another.
I do think it’s accurate that Russia’s surviving the sanctions overall surprisingly well. I think it’s also true that they are close to a breakthrough in Ukraine if the US aid doesn’t come through; Ukraine is getting drips of aid from various countries, but a quite successful Russian foreign influence operation has been holding up the Ukraine aid in the American congress for 6 months now, and without it, I think Russia’s likely to actually start winning the war within a matter of months or weeks.
I don’t think it’s a strong advertisement for Russia that they have managed, by mobilizing their entire economic and military might, to penetrate a hundred miles or so across the border of a fairly tiny neighbor of theirs and then get stalled there for 2 years. I remember you saying that that was exactly the plan, so that they could bleed the western economies to death right there at the eastern border of Ukraine, but that doesn’t seem believable to me.
I would expect that if the US aid comes through, then Ukraine will either slowly or quickly start winning the war again (although that’s a long way away from saying I think they’ll win completely if that happens). I think if the aid doesn’t come through (or if another massive package gets held up in the future in the same way), then Russia stands a pretty good chance of starting to make some gains, maybe quite significant ones. I don’t think that’s a good statement about the relative economic / military prowess of Russia as compared with the whole West as a whole though.
Personally I like upvotes/downvotes. Both are pretty useful information to have and those are the two numbers that my brain translates most cleanly into seeing what’s going on.
Also I want to put in my perennial pitch for the software to display a popup or something the first time you vote, saying hey warning your votes are not private on any federated software! Don’t vote with an expectation of privacy.
It’s just looting the corpse at this point.
Mining the goodness that used to be there happened long ago; it got so bad that they killed the patient about a decade ago, and now his decay is getting advanced enough that they know they need to start grabbing his jewelry and hunting through his wallet for any credit cards that haven’t been maxed yet, because it won’t fool anyone to keep toting him around town pretending he’s still the mayor. It was fun while it lasted though.