Software Engineering is overrated.
Give Ukraine everything it needs.
The most maddening tech discourse these days is that we need AI to figure out how to solve climate change.
We've known how to completely solve climate change for more than a decade, thanks. We just don't want to.
German opposition leader of the CDU, Friedrich Merz:
„Hesitation (in regards to Ukraine) will not be viewed as prudence, but as cowardice. Free nations cannot allow this to happen. If on November 5 a US president is elected, who declares NATO obsolete, then we Europeans are on our own.“
@siracusa This simulator was run on a MicroVax computer from a combination of TK50 tape drives for data and Laserdisk for video.
The tape drives had sat in a metal vault for 20 yrs at that point, and the data recovery company we talked to said they'd take our money and try, but no guarantee of recovering anything. The MicroVax computers did not turn on.
We ended up canceling the project.
@siracusa On Storage Media, you mentioned that Laser Disks were never really used for data.
That might be true, but they were used with computer systems in some cases.
In 2005, in my first aerospace engineering job, the flight simulator company I worked for decided they were going to try and port the old Chinook helicopter simulator they had from the 80s, because management thought it had to be cheaper than a full rewrite.
I watched last year’s #Poland truckers protests with great interest since early 2023. I followed arguments of both Poland and #Ukraine, even though the latter largely ignored the protests until November 2023 when they turned into blockade.
The truckers’ protest was suspended in January, but we now have a second iteration of farmers’ protest with ongoing border blockade. The first one actually preceded the truckers’ protest in 2023, but was noticed by even less parties than the truckers’ one.
One qualitative difference to the current protest I’ve noticed was that the truckers generally avoided anti-Ukrainian slurs and often highlighted that they don’t intend to disrupt Ukraine’s war effort and they’re forced to protest by dire economy.
Right now we have a full spectrum of vicious anti-Ukrainian slurs, hate speech and flood of very aggressive fakes alleging various forms of filth accompanying Ukrainian food products. This new wave emerged very quickly and is accompanied by massive bot campaigns on commercial social media.
While I believe the original farmers’ and truckers’ protests weren’t directly inspired by Moscow, I have a very strong feeling that this one actually is. Russia noted a divisive topic that emerged organically and this time decided to fully invest its highly efficient information warfare to capitalize on it 🤷
Ukraine can receive "Gripen" aircraft from Sweden: negotiations are ongoing, — Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
Ukrainian pilots started training on them in August.
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