m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@amerika @dcc @ThatCrazyDude
…but they might make "Russia coming to them" seem more legitimate in the eyes of the international community.
That is precisely why I think healthy nationalism has a more important role in deterring this than access to small firearms. Look at Finns — I've never expected them to be as hostile to Russians, but I think it's what allowed them to fend for themselves in the Winter war.

@amerika @dcc @ThatCrazyDude
And the Baltic states before that — USSR have mostly been using local communist parties as a pre-text to invade, Russia uses Russian communities, otherwise the playbook didn't change much.
Russians living in Baltic states would never give up their "non-citizen" status for Russian citizenship as it allows them to travel both to EU and to Russia…

@nyanide
> an HDMI to VGA cord
This might not be as easy to pull off as you think it is, active digital to analogue converter is a pretty complex device, a quality one might cost you more than RasPi does.
Passive one won't work if video card was never designed with DVI-I and DVI-A outputs capable of using a VGA connector, I don't think the video chip in RasPi can do that, it's too new. Nvidia dropped support in 700 series and their user base is more likely to have demand in older displays.

@bonifartius @ThatCrazyDude
There is always someone willing to put up a fight — how strong and self-conscious you are as a nation and how hostile you are to the invading one is a way more significant factor IMO than ready-access to firearms.
Even Afghanistan wasn't originally that trigger-happy hell it is today — it got there very gradually, the US and USSR were supporting different groups, which were nothing like Taliban of today and even resembled political parties at the time.

@dcc @ThatCrazyDude
Well, I'm sure Poles would be pretty good at guerilla warfare — which would be even more effective in urban areas (of which the Afghanistan does not have much). But it would still take years of that for the occupying army to bleed out enough to consider withdrawing — and damage to your nation would already be done, that is why more economically advanced nations prefer professional armies and diplomatic deterrence, I would certainly choose Poland over Afghanistan any day😅

@ThatCrazyDude
Small firearms sadly won't stop tanks, UAVs and glider bombs — to stop an army you need one too, not a militia 🤷

@splitshockvirus @newt
And wash it down with beer! 🍺

@theorytoe
I have to admit that I've still made the switch to Motion Sickness anyway 😔
Not a bad choice! By current standards it's pretty basic, but for the time IMO he was two heads above Bad Company — for the genre I mean. This isn't my genre at all — but this one I enjoy!

@theorytoe
That was a good faith question actually — not to mock anyone, I certainly have my own hierarchy of the genres, but in this here case it has nothing to do with it. I'm half-way through Tiamat — Wildhoney, and I enjoy it immensely, but if it's D'n'B — I know it would ruin it for me and I would switch to Panacea — Motion Sickness or some of the latest works of Christoph de Babalon 😅

@theorytoe
Is that D'n'B? 🤔

@r000t
No developer — even godlike, is knowledgeable enough how it would work in real-life conditions, but neither is LLM.
True — I might be wrong and a lot of DB-devs never go through such thorough trials. On the other hand, I doubt said devs ever deal with such critical infrastructure. Again, I might be wrong in general and it's all amateur bullshit at this point 🤷

@r000t
Which were supposed to introduce further performance enhancements, but not under all conditions — we did all that shit and at times we still had to resort to buying more expensive hardware — WAY more expensive! It was as far as possible from "This just won't work!" coming from some seemingly smart kid, knowledgeable about databases — we did real testing!

@r000t
I agree with you on the general principle, what I doubt is — how it works on that scale. I have to admit: I did have to deal with MS SQL — no company names of course, but it was critical. And what we did over the weekend on introducing performance enhancements is — we poured n-last-days of data from production into it and we were reproducing the most likely scenarios from production database with three most recent releases of MS SQL with different versions of our .DLL-shims…

@r000t
I don't mean you're wrong though — the company could hire less qualified developers to do the optimisations, and to a degree — they would still be successful (I doubt it would be in the 60%-90% ballpark on that scale — hundred of thousands of queries), but still — it might be not be as linear, and the final result could be less obvious.

@r000t
True, but — saving 60%-90% time on queries running hundreds of times per day? They should and would have done it even without chatGPT long time ago, that would have saved their company generous sums on hardware, especially considering lots of business processes still aren't properly scalable and can't be parallelised and distributed over as many nodes as possible — they have probably had to resort to buying more and more expensive hardware every time the load increased noticeably.

@GNUxeava @xerz
Scrolling Fedi… from a phone? And not via a Gopher interface to Plenomer on a vintage terminal? What a blasphemy!

@romin
…do as the Romans do 🤪