I’m allergic to YouTube videos, so I’ll rely on your text, instead.

I do believe it goes back to the Mongols where the Russian “ingenuity” was to embrace being slaves. They realised that at any moment the “guard” can come and take everything away.

Which means that stealing is not wrong.

And it also means that the best way of protecting yourself is by making the guard look at somebody else. Thus insatiable need for expansion.

Which is ironic since the guards left more than a millennium ago, but the system kept going.

It’s fairly simple, actually. Both US and USSR were doing all they can to expand their sphere of influence. This, rather symmetrically, involved invasions, providing military “consultancy” and weapons, coups, etc. Both sides couldn’t attack each other directly because of the atomic bombs, so they fought via proxies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_Soviet_Union

I’m sure there’s a similar page about the states. The point is that neither side in the cold war was a good one. It was too bullies fighting for control.

And the ironic “just a moment…” preview of the link here

And they are

• relatively healthy (enough to be sent to die)
• men
• of working age

And given that those that are enough wounded to be discharged also can’t really work as before, we’re looking at something like 5-10% of the male workforce.

That’s a lot a lot.

The full channel’s name is “huyevuy dnepr” (fucking dnipro, some sort of self deprecating trend of naming channels like that). While Slavic X is read as Latin H.

I’ve not used speckit and likely reinventing the bicycle, but here’s my process.

Idea.md in the root with a pitch of the system Readme.md in the root with technical information

Then I’m using moth (https://github.com/tailoredshapes/moth) to file ideas and track tasks. Those files are definitely not full specs, just several lines of the core of the issue.

Then I have a command /moth that instructs to read current moth, brainstorm design with me and when agreed, implement. Also as the agent works it should keep an up to date spec under ./spec describing the scope (explicitly no code details) as it evolves, decisions taken and rejected (adr like). It underscores that the task is only done when I say so. Superpowers skill is essential here.

Then there’s the back and forth on development and testing.

Eventually another command /moth-done that instructs to run the full test suite and mark moth as done.

So the essence is that I don’t expect to know the full specification beforehand, but I keep track of decisions and expect to refactor often and aggressively. Conveniently writing tests is now easy and I have plenty of both unit and e2e.

You noticed and we love you for that.

Don’t forget crazy number of people and artillery. That was one hell of a day!

Very true. Money was and will remain essential with a difference that producing one’s own ammunition is cheaper than buying it, plus one can sell the surplus and the expertise.

I’m just hoping the swamp puppet nazis will not win fast enough and Ukraine will manage to reach selfsustainable production. I mean I hope they will not win at all, but it’s a thin one.

Definitely, with a nuance. Last year Ukraine claimed to have produced 30% of it’s weapon needs, this year it’s at 50%. The tables are turning.

Шановні. Глибокий вдих і видих. До перемоги ще далеко і багато роботи. Дуже багато. Але шанс є і він вимагає працювати гуртом.

Soviet Union was never a communist or even a socialist state. Tyrannical oligarchy with slaves, casts, kings, you name it. Disregard for human life is cultural for them. Traditional values.

The irony. Before llamacpp the only way to run llama was using other and on Nvidia GPUs. Then llamacpp expanded to other models, introduced gguf, added backends to run on GPUs and now we’re taking about running qwen using just python on a single Nvidia. Ouroboros is complete.

From what I understand, this is the next best thing. If the refineries cannot accept the raw because of the damage, the pumps cannot just keep pumping, they have to be stopped and reactivating them is expensive both in time and money.

The title is factually incorrect. Instead of

Zelensky denounces the UNSC for not launching a military operation against Iran

It should have been something like

Zelensky denounces the UNSC for failing to pass a resolution about Hormuz and for having no means to enforce international safety.

Please change the title to reflect what he actually said. Otherwise this post will be deleted.

It really depends what the propaganda machine needs at that particular moment. See, she’s not critical of the war (and likely she isn’t, not just phrasing smart), she’s just worried that the guys are uncomfortable at the front.

TIL

Beltalowda, baratna!

I think it’s the literal of “crosses” as Ukraine is using those on equipment.

Sure, here’s the proposal:

1. Definitive military defeat of the ruzzian invaders and restoration of Ukraine borders
2. Allow them to sell stuff again, but as part of their capitulation agreement, make them keep 10% of profits, and use the other 90% for the restoration of the damage caused by them in Ukraine. Keep that in place until an agreed amount is paid off