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  • It seems a move that’s not only intended to help Ukraine repel Russia, but end defense dependence on the US, on the premise that the partner no longer is reliable.

    Which is a good thing IMO. From this side of the large pond the USA looks more and more like a bully on par with Russia and China.

    East of UA is fucked for decades but Russia is fucked too. Both countries burnt through quite a lot of their arsenal from Soviet times and struggle to keep their troops supplied. UA has it easier because the European countries help with weapons, munitions and other equipment.

    Unfortunately Russia can sustain the current attrition rate by another 5-10 years before the situation becomes truly unbearable for them. My fear is that by then the UA might have collapsed.

    The best case scenario is that Putin dies shortly and his successor ends this stupid war.



  • In university we were taught C programming. We started with simple things like loops and stuff. After a while the topic processes, threads & stuff came up and of course we were instructed to use that.

    In the computer lab there where only thin clients so everything actually ran on the server.

    A good friend of mine - not know what was about to happen - entered:

    while (true) {
        fork();
    }
    

    Astoundingly it took a whole minute until the server froze. 🤣
    That was the same server most of the school stuff ran on. So nearly everything went down. 😂
    He got scolded by the sysadmin the next day but nothing serious happened.