This is pretty good ^

The idea that println has a a good way to test a s incorrect. It requires a testing interaction which should be avoided. Test behaviour at the exposed interface primarily, use logging/telemetry to discover dynamics.

The exceptions are reserved for scripty things (bash has poor logging,) ones offs (1x migration) or personal tooling.

At this point a comete takeover of Ukraine is possible but not likely.

Is a Russian invasion of the Baltics on your card? Or do you think that is unlikely?

US standing up to China in the SCS is the only thing that I think is still at play for the US. The military positioning was already set up, and the ego harm would be too great. Maybe they negotiate it away instead.

Taiwan making any cooperative military action not coordinated by the US would likely kick off some serious shit. China’s not about to let that happen.

Make them a territory.

Coriolis?

Trump’s first term suggested that the US has a Trump problem. Trump’s second term suggest that the US has a Trump symptom.

Their x86 fabs are producing a 5 yr old Intel node, and with unknown defect rate. This is about getting down to the modern node size to (eventually) to get competitive with the two major ARM nodes.

This could be great news. RISC5 could be great for diversity in the processor space. I at will take investment on the scale that only a national investment like China can invest to get it to compete.

Does China have the Fab capability to build these, or do they need foreign production?

Yeah, that Vivek case was a highlight, wasn’t it. Having that racist nutball come on his show and tell him she’d never vote for him because of colour was nuts.

It is not unreasonable to ask why he didn’t use the filibuster to block actual legislation, instead of just I terupting procedure.

Trump has friends?

Check the article 5 requirement. I don’t see any “unless another NATO country” exceptions.

Probably moot as all the US has to do is increase presence and wait for an “or else” moment, so that they can rely with “or else what?”

I think they are much more enlightened these days. They are happy take brown & yellow if they have enough green.

Then you need to compare salary to something like CPI. What can the money buy?

Things were different in the periphral nations, than in the center. Those who read your comments with heritage from the peripheral will understand you, and the others will not.

I understood your statement, but the underlying connotation was “elections are bad”. Elections can be fair. Unfair elections can be restored, but not easily.

It wasn’t even a final peace state, so it could easily have been pushed sideways in the future, and clearly the Americans wanted the win so badly that they would have let anything happen at the finish line.

Eliminating elections would not harm dictators. Elections, like all democratic institutions need to be maintained and supported to maintain a democracy.