My bad, I meant whatever flavour of religion is popular over there has plenty of power (at least as long it aligns with Putin and friends).

I’m going to guess that it does, at least in Russia. Catholic church has plenty of power there and they can pretty heavily push agenda for getting children as soon as you’re married. And, I’d guess, at the same time government can pinky promise all kinds of support for young families (financial, daycare, healthcare…).

So, assuming they push this trough, it might have some kind of effect for the population decline. Obviously it’ll take quite some time until effects are seen on workforce, but in statistics that can show up (at least in theory) pretty quickly.

Outlook (new) classic new new final (7). Teams (personal). Multiple products with wildly different appreance and somewhat different functionality. And then the whole 365-environment naming, starting from the platform itself.

Maybe not replace, but some flavour of AI is already pretty good at analyzing patterns on x-ray images and stuff like that which might be significant help to doctors in the future. Obviously not the glorified autocorrect Altman is running with hype-money, but actually useful neural network things (or whatever they really are, I’m not one building them).

Our opsec is pretty well managed, but I try to squeeze anything I’d need at home to work tasks. I get paid to learn the stuff at work and then I can just implement it on my own environment.

My very much armchair-general -level understanding is that they do work against simple detonation-on-impact -drones, as long as there’s only few. The tank armor can brush off the shrapnel from explosion (crew might need new boxers and/or pants) but once there’s a hole in that afro the second (or third or…) drone can use that hole and get to the meaty bits. Or a skilled FPV operator can find a existing gap and use that.

So that does more than nothing, but ideally tank should have infantry support to keep drones and individual enemies with a bazooka away from it.

But we’ve seen so many “tomorrow guys, it’ll all come crashing down tomorrow” that we’ve become quite numb to them.

This kind of thing goes on very slowly until it doesn’t. Collapse of Soviet Union back in the day had various events for several years contributing to the eventual total collapse but the final stage (or whatever you want to call it) took only few months. Obviously situation today is very different than back in the 90’s, but it gives at least some perspective on what might be expected.

I don’t have any idea how close the total collapse is today and I’m not sure anyone really has, but cracks are starting to show and assuming things progress like they’ve been for the last couple of years it seems like pace is definetly increasing.

They also have pretty sophisticated dampeners and counterweights so that their running doesn’t cause vibrations or other issues with the spacecraft. So keep that in mind when planning for space quilliotine too or you’ll risk change of course when using it.

Nice to see that it can actually help when applied intelligently

For the first couple of drones which detonate on impact. And not even those if you happen to encounter an FPV drone with a skilled operator who can just fly around that umbrella. However, traditionally tanks should be backed up by infantry and they can carry shotguns or whatever is the current best tool against drones, and in that case that Dragon Shield might actually be useful. But for a lone tank on recon mission or something similar it doesn’t do much.

Our team has office days once or twice per month and fuck all gets done on those days. Time is spent on social chitchat, longer coffee breaks and lunch with more small talk, discussing random ideas and almost anything else than actual work. And those are really nice to have, when we’re mostly scattered across few cities and limited to text chat or calls they tend to be strictly about the task at hand. The office days give a sort of a break on normal schedule and while very little gets actually done the discussions often include planning future stuff, going trough previous changes, current situation and workload more broadly and so on. After those days, even if nothing got done, we’re all a bit more on board on almost everything and it’s nice to actually meet the people we interact with every day.

But for actual work, for the stuff we do, the office doesn’t offer anything we couldn’t do remotely. I have more comfortable setup at home than at my cubicle at office, I can listen to whatever I want at how loud I want without disturbing others, no hassle with commute (even if mine is pretty much as short as it can be) and so on.

Unfortunately that’s not valid.

$ tar -h
tar: You must specify one of the '-Acdtrux', '--delete' or '--test-label' options
Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.

From man-page:

-h, --dereference follow symlinks; archive and dump the files they point to

Meaning that if you could travel at the speed of light (which is impossible), it would still take you 100,000 years to cross the galaxy from edge to edge.

It’s just highly improbable to cross the galaxy in less than 100 000 years. You just need a device which generates infinite improbability and that’ll pass you trough every single point in the universe simultaneously and you can just stop where needed. Side effects may apply.

You can run your own and even select from multiple different servers you can use, or if you really want to you can write your own, the specs are out in the open. Check XMPP software selection for a start.

The brand is originally founded by an russian (1920ish) who fled to Poland after revolution and the brand is currently UK owned. So the current bottles you get doesn’t have anything else from Russia than the 100 year old brand name.

But Ukraine makes some damn good vodka too.

Docker spesifically creates rules for itself which are by default open to everyone. UFW (and underlying eftables/iptables) just does as it’s told by the system root (via docker). I can’t really blame the system when it does what it’s told to do and it’s been administrators job to manage that in a reasonable way since forever.

And (not related to linux or docker in any way) there’s still big commercial software which highly paid consultants install and the very first thing they do is to turn the firewall off…

I need goatse.

It’s in wayback machine under original URL. Just scroll to oldest copy of the site.

Ours is Braun, but apparently that’s owned by US company too today. I don’t know about Bosch other than their power tools are a bit hit-or-miss today. Wilfa has pretty good reputation, but I don’t have personal experience and as far as I know they have pretty limited availability outside scandinavia + Finland.

Nothing has these ‘glyph’ lights, but software support for them seems to be pretty limited (not that I’ve looked too deep, all these modern phones are just boring). I hope they can come up with more controls for them, hardware seems to support quite complex patterns.

Based on quick seach on the internet, Ukraine currently has 6 active Patriot systems. If this shipment actually happens and, as the article suggests, includes also missiles and other consumables, it’ll be quite a big deal for Ukraine. My very much not professional guess would be that it doesn’t change the front lines too much, but it should help on shielding their civilians from missile/drone attacks quite a bit.

My understanding is that they are producing a tank once per day or two days. Or?

Very brief search around the internet gives estimations around 250-300 tanks per year but the numbers seems to go down as they struggle to gather parts and resources, specially during 2025, but who knows what kind of supply lines they can arrange with China and other allies in the long run.