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  • The NATO wargamed expectation for the Baltic’s is that Russia invades very quickly ( faster than the planned ukraine 3 day operation as they’re smaller), overthrowing the government before NATO can react in the expectation that NATO would struggle to invade a deafeated nation, and so fragmenting the alliance.

    If this sounds insanely risky, well Putin never did it. But as a plan it’s not too bad. I think you know better than me the state of Europe’s readiness to counter this, they are extremely aware of the possibility.

    The other point is that for Ukraine support this isn’t just a generic issue with size of military in the abstract, Europe as a whole does not have enough factories producing specifically artillery shells to support the artillery dominated land war in Ukraine. Ramping those up would take time, so even if Europe tries to help the forms it can take will differ to the USA and force different (worse? I can’t judge) choices on the ground.






  • I think there’s a fairly serious problem for large accounts on mastodon but I will never have one so I can’t quite understand it myself.

    Something like dealing with replies / scolds without spending all day blocking is too hard. It doesn’t help that “no algorithm” means “show first reply at the top” so quick replies can dominate comments.

    The bit I don’t understand is why this is fine on blue sky. Is it just different users? I can’t quite believe that but I can’t see why blue sky would be less annoying.




  • Despite my drive-by shitposts in the rest of this thread I want to make a serious point here.

    There’s a large part of software engineering that thinks languages are chosen based on the problem, as a tool for a job.

    They aren’t. They’re chosen based on the team, on how well the team knows and can use the tool. On how many people can be hired with the knowledge of the tool to work immediately.

    Sometimes, even if the team knows C well, there can be a problem so different it’s worth using another tool. say python for some testing scripts on a C project.

    But rust and C are too similar for this to apply. If you want rust to be used for the kernel you have to push for it to be more well known and used, so more Devs come into teams already knowing it well. Anyone agreeing to work on a team using rust is making a career decision that will be stay on their CV forever and you need them to feel good about this, that it will give them more opportunity in future.

    It’ll take 20+ years because that’s how long legacy code is often maintained for and we already have 20+ years of future legacy code for C teams to deal with. We’re all making more future legacy C code than future legacy rust code too.

    I’m trapped in C++ so I’m doomed but good luck C and Rust coders.




  • It wasn’t quite so much what she did as the way it was done.

    The spending plan looked bad and lack of confidence in it caused a technical issue where pension funds had to make it worse to protect themselves from the consequences, which made it even worse and they had to protect themselves from bigger consequences. But this is boring and not why she had to go imho.

    The real problem and cause of the whole lack of confidence was that she got rid of senior people and refused to talk to independent government orgs who are there to check the plan isn’t shit.

    She removed all the arse covering checks the British government has for budgets thinking she knew better, and as is clear with every mad interview she knows nothing.





  • FarceOfWill@infosec.pubtoScience Memes@mander.xyzEntropy? Never heard of it.
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    The wider issue is you have to generate that energy, and you have to be able to capture more carbon than that generation released.

    As I understand it doesn’t at all. This is why it’s seen as analagous to a perpetual motion machine, it’s an endless chain of power plants capturing each others carbon to no end.

    You could use solar of course, but then why generate anything with fossil fuels just to capture the carbon with solar? Just use solar.