It kinda happened back in 2022. They packed vans with Rosgvardiya guys and sent them towards Kyiv. After all, Russians expected they’ll be done with Kyiv in 3 days and already sent these guys in to break protests.

Result: panty boys were well done, right in their riot gear and shit.

I remember there being news earlier this year about Mitch saying sorry for shit he’s done. Probably was visited by three ghosts. 🌝

I’d say alcohol may be a contributing factor - initial release of dopamine may trick one into feeling of excitement and hyperactivity, then one spends more energy than they should’ve had and end up with delayed onset over-exertion. And then yeah - one is too tired to sleep, which is absolutely a thing.

Unfortunately Germans tend to get very dense when it gets to some political stuff. 🌝

Some simply don’t get what is so controversial about building Nordstream in the first place and how it undermines their independence (and I don’t just mean energy independence).

They have Gerhard Schröder as a clearest example of someone given a share in Russian gas sales, but Nordstream is just “two countries doing business, is buying energy from France also undermining our independence?”.

Well, you’re really out of luck with any content that even mentions him - as Sam Altman is just one big walking talking butt crack. 🗿

Chewbacca fallacy. It makes no sense!

Yeah, fuck off Sammy. I was playing with Markov chains on my Core 2 Duo PC before OpenAI was even a thing, it’s my God given right to keep stochastic parrots at home, and weird cryptofascists won’t take it off me!

I’m so tired of people talking about “provoking Russia”. That is such a disgusting rhetorical maneuver to lift any responsibility from Russia, making it seem like Russia just reacts to actions of neighbours rather than contemplates invading neighbours for the crime of being neighbours of Russia. The only way to not provoke Russia is to be far enough from it, otherwise one will be living in “primordially Russian land”.

If one wants to see Gen Z in action - there’s Nepal. They burned parliament down, and waved fucking One Piece flags while at it.

Not exactly academia example, but I sometimes think about how Pol Pot’s former pupils later described him as rather chill teacher, and of similar anecdotal accounts on Mussolini as a teacher.

I work part-time with kids (and full-time in academia 🗿), teaching them robotics, and what I can say - little shits can drain your soul.

My place has this thing where most phishing test emails are obvious but every once in a while they’ll drop a really good one, sometimes these even pose as our managers.

I teached embedded programming for a while and students were to find out that AI often failed miserably at our tasks.

And the funny thing is that when I tried it myself to see if it’s that bad at given tasks - I explained the task like I would explain to a student, and actually got a decent result - readable comprehensive code with meaningful comments. It all simply comes down to the fact that AI won’t really help you if you can’t do without it. So I double that making the guy pass some guidelines on styling the code to Claude should at least make the code less shit to debug.

My friend had an old colleague that was maintaining one project for decades. Grandpa sadly kicked the bucket at some point and friend inherited that project - tens of thousands of lines of Assembly. 🌝

TF2 source code comments are just beautiful.

I mean, I’m certainly guilty of having to tidy up codebases before shipping, to remove all the goofy stuff and swear words, so these comments just make those Valve employees very relatable for me.

Would be funny to get a big bunch of theatre lightbulbs that consume energy in kilowatts and light them up around Google HQ. 🌝

I like band idea, but I’d make it a big band of Voronoy pattern shaped islands, with just enough water in between for civilisations to ensure communication, but make invading each other a pain in the ass. Would probably also make some water regions shallow to act like some sort of water speed bump and limit seafaring capacity and force humans to eventually be building big ass bridges.

Would probably also make some outlier islands with difficult inhospitable terrain or climate to act as nature’s reserves.

I’ve seen really rough “analogue” and hybrid control designs. Like, an oven with knobs and touch buttons, so you can set temperature more easily with a knob, but some more specific settings are set through touch input. Overall idea sounds good, until you try do something with it - then it quickly becomes a convoluted mess, because rather than separately choosing which directions to heat or whether to turn on the fan, manufacturers decided to make a list of all possible combinations to scroll through. 🌝

I talked with some Russians about that years ago, and got an answer that they just justify it with something like “if I don’t do that - they will find some who will”.

Actually how some some small governments work - “okay, the discussion today has gone too heated now so we all have to go cool down and continue tomorrow.

Well, we here have a situation, where giving soapy baths to pigs (yes, that’s the job) at local farm may earn one 3 times the salary of entry IT job. Simply because it’s that hard to find workers these days, and don’t get me started on actual technical jobs - it’s near impossible to find a lathe machinist today.

So yeah, it all… depends… And yeah, there is one local business that I avoid, because it’s run by a guy associated with local conspiracy theorist clown. So yeah, I do little investigations to make sure I don’t give money to people who will then use it to make world a worse place.