Hmm, suspect, but okay, lets see where this goes...

So, killing 20 million people to maintain power somehow lends credibility to being both strong and stable: Stalin

Maybe it's just me, but your definition of stable and growing seems highly suspect...

Ah Ha! There you are Vlad! Glad we could finally make eye contact. We were all hoping that Russia would someday become the partner we were all longing for during WWII. Instead, we got gremlins and the cold war :( We've been waiting ever since for calmer heads to prevail.

Nice try Vlad. While 'negotiating', you had already planned and authorized the invasion of Ukraine.

Lets take a look at this again:

(emphasis mine)

And therein lies the problem: he . Vlad, you get to decide who lives, who dies, what countries, cultures and languages are allowed to exist, because of your very incorrect reading of history. Thousands of years of human history has created a word for this: Evil.

So, lets try again:

I agree with you, We are all out to kill you, from Russians citizens to Liechtenstein & Switzerland. You will die, your rule and the foundation of all things Soviet will come to an end except as a truly horrible history lesson. You may actually deploy some or all of your nuclear weapons, which will only ensure your suicidal destruction and the eradication of all that you stand for. With luck, humanity will survive, but with a little less of any him deciding the fate of them . Them gets to decide if they live or die, vote or don't vote, dance and/or sing to whatever tune they want. No more him deciding for others, because it never ends well.

What a shame. Humanity has learned this before, over and over. The world deserves better, including the Russian people.

yup, my thoughts exactly. IBM isn't supporting Linux internally - legacy product road maps used to include linux, but no longer. If they aren't supporting RedHat or Linux internally, why should they support it anywhere else?

So we now have a Jesus bird... if that bird lays an egg, and we eat that egg, wouldn't that be like communion?

If the Jesus bird lays eggs that hatch and turn into more birds, would eating those birds be like taking communion?

Or are they more like Holy Soylent Green-birds?

I'm sorry, it's been a long week.

A young aspiring physicist and inventor began modifying, then fabricating vacuum tubes specifically to perform inertial-electrostatic confinement for a fusion reactor. This young man also crafted a vacuum tube technique to help visualize the behavior of the ions in his fusion containment system, because he was having trouble reaching break-even levels of output. He was quite sure that he was actually initiating fusion because he could visually inspect the traces left by high energy neutrons in the jars of beryllium-doped wax that he placed around his fusion reactor.

This young man's name was Philo T. Farnsworth, and his fusion-inspired vacuum-tube based imaging system went on to become known as television, and was started in the 1920s.

In light of the 100 years since Mr. Farnsworth's attempt at fusion, I think I'll side with the 'Manhattan Project for fusion', rather than having some self-appointed Watchman pick and choose more worthy projects.

yeah, except now Comcast throttles vpn traffic. Torrenting anything is near pointless.

While you are pumping oxygen into the oceans to save crabs, someone else is dumping plastic and pesticides.

The rate of extinction and habitat loss suggests that we are out of time.

We keep messing with the world in discreet little parcels, little patches of our environment that we modify to suit our whim. And now we see that each little parcel is intractably connected. Dump that plastic waste into the ocean and make those cheap shoes even cheaper: damage plankton life cycles in the ocean. Spew forth tons of CO2 pulled from the ground as fossil fuels: damage the atmosphere in ways that exacerbates the damage to the oceans. Drench fields with fossil fuel derived fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides: damage countless life cycle processes everywhere, especially in the oceans where all things eventually flow. Add all this together and we get the exact opposite of the Cambrian explosion of life, we get the great extinction level event we are now witnessing, caused by human activity.

It's not that evil neighbor and his Suburban that goes back and forth to work with only 1 occupant, or those evil foreigners that slash and burn their forests to graze cattle. The problem is our very nature: we have never lived sustainably anywhere, ever. Blame wars, or economic collapse caused by environmental changes beyond our control - whatever the reason, we, as a species, consume and expand into the very fringes of every environment, until there's no environment left. We've left behind ruins everywhere that tell the same story.

It doesn't matter the economic system, religious or belief system, or the amount of hemp in our clothing. We have evolved to be what you see in the mirror, and into what you see floating in the massive piles of trash in the oceans: an unsustainable invasive species.

If we want to engineer a way out of this, then we have to engineer what we see in the mirror.

It is debt if a contract is awarded that makes use of a derivative of that code. Cut-and-paste business practices, where engineers are liabilities, not assets.

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Fixed that for you.

Simple, yes. Cheap? By what metric? The lack of moving plastic air vents and folding cup holders will stand the test of time much better than having more expensive moving parts to wear out and break. So, if you mean cheap to own, I agree. But, you clearly mean the Model 3 is insufficiently guilded for your pampered ass to be happy. You better stick with your Bentley.

After sitting in a Model 3 for about 50,000 miles, I am puzzled by your assessment of the Model 3 interior as shitty. Despite its spartan appearance, I find it quite comfortable and functional.

If you don't like it, fine, move along and drive what you like. I don't expect a single product to meet the desires of every consumer - and neither should you.

I've owned and driven a few brand new cars over 200,000 miles, and have about 50,000 miles on my Model 3. I find the Model 3 interior to be just as comfortable as a high-end luxury sedan. The spartan nature seemed like a step back from more expensive cars that I've driven at first, but over time it has proven to be at least as comfortable.

You clearly don't like anything about the Model 3. That's fine, we should all be free to choose. A lot of engineers where I work are now driving the Model 3 or Model Y. I haven't heard any of them complain about the interior, instead they all seem quite happy with the comfort, and do not see the interior as a compromise.

The batteries are full of lithium and are quite valuable. Recycling them, or the rest of the car, won't be a problem.

I recently had a catalytic converter stolen from an older Toyota. Repairing $3k of damage to an emissions system on a combustion engine vehicle makes everything about a model 3, including the interior, even more attractive.

Toyota's 'leadership' in hybrid technology was a gift from GM when GM killed their EV. This is discussed in Who Killed the Electric Car.

Code is math.

It took some very clever Arabs hundreds of years to convert a subset of Greek/Egyptian/Babylonian geometric math to Algebraic symbol manipulation. This was all to convert and preserve one form of math to another (because geometric symbolism == idolatry). In the zeal to remove the idolatrous geometry, the most interesting aspects were skipped/ forgotten/ lost (the geometric calculus of Archimedes, which itself likely stemmed from much earlier math)

And now you want to let some linear algebra manipulate the disaster of un-mathematical natural human language into the math of high-level computer programming?

It will probably auto generate something like Lisp. Hmm. On second thought, please proceed ;-p