KingOfCoders

Why are boys green and girls red?

Nothing wrong with a 9-5 coder IMHO by itself.

This is the way.

Probably "I miss coding by hand and being paid for that".

Might be a 9-5 coder.

With Woz at the helm he would have worked on the Apple II architecture until the company went down, same fate as Commodore which didn't drop the Amiga and Atari which didn't drop the ST.

"The world got more benefit from c64s and vic20s"

I started coding in 1981 on an VC20 and wonder how did the world benefit more from vic20s?

As a happy smartphone user, I think the world did benefit a lot e.g. from the Newton (loved mine, dropped a Palm for it, sad it died, but it was too heavy).

Not another Steve good, Woz bad myth.

With Woz at the helm, Apple would have gone the way of Commodore and Atari, it's a good thing he got out.

Sounds like a disassembler.

"Writing secure C code requires discipline"

Ah the old, you're using the tool wrong.

Yes, perhaps, although a tool that no one seems to be able to use correctly, see kernel bugs, zero days everywhere, bugs in cURL by people who seem very rigorous and thorough, in google and microsoft products, etc. I'm not sure the tool is innocent in this. If the highest paid C developers in the world can't use it, who can?

Or the sales rep needs to make their quarterly numbers.

The situation is Russians invaded Ukraine, murdered, plundered, tortured and raped Ukrainians, and then Ukrainians, instead of dropping dead like everyone expected, fought back.

What led to it? Putin wanting to re-establish the Russian empire as he said and wrote many times about.

It's a mystery to me, Hitler wrote exactly what he wanted to do, he did it and people were surprised. Putin wrote exactly what he wanted to do, he did it and people were surprised. A mystery.

"Ukranians were murdering Russian people in Donbass"

Russia settled Russians in Ukraine to control/destroy it for decades (like in the Baltics, Georgia and in many different place, usual Russian tactic). Then Russia instigated a civil war in Ukraine and finally invaded Ukraine in 2014, of course there were fights in Donbass then (Russia also shot down a Malaysian plane in 2014 from Donbass).

"Your weapons are murdering Russian civilians right now, but you don't care, why?"

Because those Russian civilians voted and supported a dictator who wanted and wants to invade Europe and re-enslave the population. And Russians loved it, they loved it plundering and murdering and torturing people in Europe before and they will again.

Russia encouraged Serbs to start WW1 because Russians wanted to invade Europe through their puppets on the Balkans, later invaded Europe in 1939 in a joint military operation with the Nazis/Germans and will do so again whenever Russians see the chance to do so.

I would prefer no war but a big wall, mile deep minefields and drone/ballistic/SDI defenses instead to keep Russians from invading Europe again, but I guess Russia needs to first lose this war to make this a reality.

"the causes of war"

Simple, Putin talked about this for decades, you can read about it:

The goal is the re-establishment of the Russian empire in it's largest borders, beginning with his massacres in Chechnya and the invasion of Georgia.

For now.

80% - 90% of Russians approved the invasion of Ukraine in 2014 according to different pollsters. The assumption is they voted accordingly to make the second wave of the invasion in 2022 possible.

If - I assume there is - there is a post shared on HN about Israel and Gaza we can discuss that genocide there.

"Russian civilians are killed daily by the Ukranian drones"

Looks like Ukrainians don't believe in "turn to him the other cheek".

Thanks!

How could Ukraine stop the Russian invasion?

No according to different pollsters.

Lewada, the pollster which got sacked later as a "foreign agent", got 86%

Families of people who signed up for the war got large amounts of money. The transfer of money from the Russian national wealth fund into the economy, together with the shortage of workers, increased salaries.

[Edit] People didn't keep that money but spent it so others profited from that money too.

This is what happens in wars - beside war racketeers - salaries go up. There is a lot of research on how German profited from WW2 (and before) for example for most of the war. WW2 too seems most researched from what I see on how everyone profits until things get worse and end.

Surveys on the approval of Putin and the invasion of Ukraine in 2014 showed numbers between 80% - 90% of people approving the war.

I assume - one would need to check - that the majority of people who left Russia after 2022 did not support the war, so those left should be on the lower end.

"20% of Russians were ready to vote for an anti-war party in the last elections"

Yes, as I've said, approval dropped when Ukraine hit oil infra and gas prices went up, I can see 20% as a number. Nevertheless as show by approval ratings after 2014, that number was lower until people got hit by the impact of the war themselves.

"Russians have withdrawn back across the border, the strikes on datacenters will stop."

I'm also surprised that people can't see this simple solution to the situation.

I never understood whataboutism.

"What is this number referring to?"

Does not sound like looking for a source, but I'm not a native speaker.

1) The invasion started at least in 2014 (you could argue before that)

2) The UN estimate is considered on the low end because it looks into confirmed deaths while many civilians were killed in cities that became occupied and we have no numbers from there.

"harms random people who happen to live in a war criminal dictatorship."

The vast majority of Russians loved the war mostly because they made lots of money from it. Just when Ukraine started hitting oil infra people no longer liked the war. I am sorry for those 10% of Russians who didn't want the war and can't move abroad.

I'm sorry for those of the 11 percent innocent (1) that are left there, happy that many fled the dictatorship.

(1) 89% of Russians approved Putin and the 2014 Crimean invasion

The number is referring to the post I replied to:

"innocent civilians every day in Kyiv is not good".

Estimations for how many civilians Russians killed in Chechnya range from 45,000 to 80,000.

Innocent users who voted for killing tens of thousands of civilians in Ukraine.

I guess for some definition of "innocent".

40.000 - 100.000 dead civilians.

Estimate range is big because lots of civilians died in cities that ended up occupied.