leisesprecher @ leisesprecher @feddit.org

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Honestly, I would advocate the exact opposite.

Yes, programs became bloated and fragile, but the solution cannot be to return to the stone age, but be professionals for once.

Our entire industry is shit at actually engineering. There's leaky abstractions everywhere, and that's exactly why everything is so complicated and brittle. There's no platform to build upon, only a scaffolding made of twigs, duct tape and three bananas for some reason. Every minor change in some minor library percolates through the entire stack.

You're a simple developer, so am I. And we both probably wrote hundreds of apps that essentially do the same crud crap again and again and again. The same basic functionality gets implemented thousands of times, because we can't get our shit together to build actually reusable components. Instead we rewrite the 12th iteration of "make stuff move in browser" and "make Java do business".

We're not engineers, we're children with hot glue guns.

You're giving them way too much credit. These companies sell the illusion of success. It's in their interest to only find just as many false positives to seem like they have it under control. They make money from these false positives, after all.

You're conflating a bunch of things here.

What exactly am I supposed to do about internal Romanian politics? Impose a medical Securitate to protect everyone's health? Invade directly? That's a tad arrogant, isn't it?

Internal politics only become relevant for people on the outside, if they affect the international politics. And even then, what is the outside supposed to do? They can only react. And realistically, you can't expect people to know enough of the internal politics of every country within 10.000km to be able to have an opinion on it.

And again: what impact does it have in reality?

How informed do you feel about the re-election here in Germany? How's your opinion on the current situation in Sweden? Could you name the head of state of, say, Belgium?

You're imposing a completely unrealistic expectation on people. Yes, a bit more interest in Eastern Europe would be nice, but it remains a fact that most of it doesn't matter to us all that much.

Are you misinterpreting me on purpose?

What exactly do you think "geopolitics" mean? Discussing paper thickness of maps?

Hungary does matter, Orban is in the news pretty much every week.

I know you're exaggerating for effect,

No, I'm not. But you seem to ignore what I wrote. As one of the dominos falling into russian hands it does matter, that's what I wrote before. For everything else, it has no impact. You can find that stupid and arrogant as much as you want, but that's the reality.

Apart from geopolitics, there is de facto no connection to Romania.

I think you're overestimating the importance of Romania.

A Russia friendly president in power has very negative implications, yes, but that's exactly why this is in the news right now.

I'll be blunt, but from a German perspective, Romania is a source of cheap labor and maybe a logistics hub towards Ukraine. That's it. Unless it falls to Russia or starts a war itself, its internal politics don't really matter here.

The reality is, that for many people in many countries (like me here in Germany) the US elections have an actual impact. Tariffs, geopolitics, economy, that will impact me, but also people in Italy, Ukraine, Taiwan and Australia.

Romania? Well, to be honest I hear about that country maybe once a month and unless an absolute catastrophe is happening over there, the impact on me is practically nil.

Sure, but what twisted kind of law is that?

Like, would any country put you in jail during peace time (yes, technically Korea is still at war, but technically the third Reich also was never dissolved) for harming yourself? That law seems like a leftover of the military dictatorship.

How is that conviction even remotely legal? He just ate a lot.

Usable quantum computers are just around the corner, just as nuclear fusion and world peace.

It would be really great to have some "Python layer" on top of Rust.

My current work is mostly data mangling web services (Java/Spring Boot) and there's simply no way I could convince anyone (including myself) that Rust is a viable alternative in terms of development speed.

So countering your argument with counterarguments why your example is flawed isn't allowed, because you'd need to reconsider?

Tell me, do you really think the UAE are willing, not capable, willing to invest in safety and lawfulness as much as any even halfway free country?

And we all know that the UAE are the international beacon of safety, worker's rights, rule of law and cost effectiveness.

That's a really bad argument. That's like saying the Soviet Union was really good at digging canals.

Depends. Did you talk them into suicidal ideation beforehand?

That's great and all, but how does any of that justify an invasion?

What you're doing here is whataboutism. You don't address the actual problem, instead you're derailing the discussion.

Are you two really naive enough to assume that Russia will respect a peace agreement?

Russia attacked several countries against international law, and Ukraine already had security guarantees from the US and UK following its voluntary surrender of their nuclear weapons.

International law and security guarantees meant fuck all when Russia invaded in 2014, and about as much in 2022.

Why do you think, Russia would respect agreements this time? They made their intentions very very clear.

....and because the older plants are simply written off already. If you already recouped the building costs, you can charge based on just the running cost.

That's a shitty argument. The alternative is a windmill, not a coal powerplant.

Batteries can be made from literal saltwater nowadays.

Otherwise, lithium mining is certainly not exactly good for the environment, but can be managed. Uranium (even the non-fissile) is pretty toxic and can contaminate the whole area.