Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
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Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
Time is relative: the more relatives are visiting, the slower it passes.
Flow battery breakthroughs appear to solve just about every problem with lithium-ion batteries. https://spectrum.ieee.org/flow-battery-2666672335
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Santa is just the fruiting body the real Christmas stretches for miles under the permafrost
The National Weather Service's grid forecast API has been down since the 22nd, and when I reported it, they simply responded that this was a known software problem and it'd remain offline until Jan 1.
This suggests to me that they don't regard the service as critical and that users shouldn't regard it as reliable; something I think they should have an open statement about on their documentation site; this is a government information service.
I just hope no applications that have a bearing on safety are using it. #NWS
Fun fact: every year hundreds of Australian visitors to the US are treated for pulled muscles in their eyeballs when they encounter an Outback Steakhouse.
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I have boosted it, but I will additionally advertise this article - this is a response to a NYT article that recently claimed that sanctions don’t work and Western companies leaving Russia are actually pleasing Putin (but they are pleasing him equally well, if they stay, so whatever they do, Putin wins). The authors of the Fortune article demonstrate on facts that sanctions do work and #Russia economy is actually going through all the turbulent processes (inflation, price increases, drop in production) that everyone predicted in 2022.
In fact, the total enterprise value of leading Russian state-owned companies has plummeted even lower. For example, Gazprom’s enterprise value shrank by 75%, far in excess of the valuation markdowns incurred by most foreign companies. The Times characterizes the Russian asset divestitures of global multinationals as a “huge transfer of wealth” to Putin’s cronies, but with valuations of even Russia’s top state-owned companies down so much, the real story is one of massive, unprecedented wealth destruction as Russian assets plummet, whether they’re owned by Russians or foreigners.
As usual, those who in 2022 claimed Russia is going to collapse immediately after sanctions are introduced, were taken as the benchmark and then promptly “proven wrong”.
But I very well remember more evidence-based prognoses that Russian economy will able to support the war for “2-3 years”, which means 2024-2025 as the expected forecast of Russian economy collapse if they continue the existing policy.
The experience of a faultlessly operating device spontaneously updating itself with new firmware that introduces bugs and breaks functionality is almost uniquely frustrating, but also weirdly familiar on some deep archetypal level.
It's entirely as if human civilization, having grown up believing for most of its history in entirely imaginary demons, afrits and malevolent spirits, had to go and invent them the first chance it got.
When visiting the Acropolis, don't forget to ask a local where the four horsemen are. This is insider knowledge that they don't put in the guidebooks.
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@randahl In Finland we also have joulu , kristusmessu is not even a real word.
Our traditions still echo kekri (Fennopagan's big feast of the year, basically New Year, Ancestor's Remembrance Day, Harvest feast & Feast of domestic animals rolled in one). Most people would probably think that joulu is Christian feast, but actually today's joulu is a blend of pagan traditions, Christian traditions and western commercialism.
Only a handful of people celebrates the "original" Finnish feast of Pesäpäivät ("nest days") that celebrates the days where Sun "rests in its nest", though.
I think we should all start wearing T-Shirts that say "I do not consent to be in your video."
If Charles was serious about being King he'd leave medicine to doctors and insteadd propose homeopathic solutions in areas more in line with his brief: the social and political problems of ruling the country. For example, he could introduce minute traces of knifecrime, or illegal migration, in order to cure those problems.
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@randahl
I’d like to see Zelenskyy describe to US lawmakers what a real border problem is like.
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@EugeneMcParland
Incredible, isn't it. Anton Geraschenko has reported extensively on this (forgive the Xwitter link). The word that really jumped out at me is "artisanal" -- which in this case appears to mean unqualified mechanical service using parts that are uncertified, worn, and/or maybe even adapted from incorrect.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1727698972767089109
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russia records 11 incidents involving civilian airplanes in first 8 days of December
All of the planes that experienced serious incidents, including cabin depressurization, fires, engine and rudder failure, among other issues, eventually landed safely, although several were forced to make emergency landings.
The incidents highlighted the increasingly apparent impact of Western #sanctions on russia's airlines
Read more here🔗 https://kyivindependent.com/russia-records-11-incidents-involving-civilian-airplanes-in-first-8-days-of-december/
Imagine calling something the CyberTruck in 2023. That's some cringy late '90s bollocks right there. First, every car made in living memory is already jammed with computers, and second, absolutely nobody says "cyber" anything anymore.
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@rodhilton
"Of all the people in foreign policy he was definitely one of them. He was wrong about everything he said, but he never shut up, even long after he should have been dead."
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People who don't understand the difference between etymology and entomology bug me in ways I can't put into words.
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#Russia soldiers have destroyed the memorial plaque on a #Holodomor monument in occupied Alchevsk already in 2014. They didn't care to destroy the whole monument and year by year someone continues to bring flowers on the #Ukraine Holodomor memorial day.
P.S. Russia has been for decades raising shitstorm each time anyone in Eastern Europe dared to remove monuments of communist generals established during Soviet occupation. They argued these are sacred elements of history and it's barbarian to remove any monuments. This argument didn't play well when they rushes to demolish monuments on the occupied territories of #Ukraine...
Photos posted by Denis Kazansky: https://t.me/kazansky2017/9228
P.S. Russia has been for decades raising shitstorm each time anyone in Eastern Europe dared to remove monuments of communist generals established during Soviet occupation. They argued these are sacred elements of history and it's barbarian to remove any monuments. This argument didn't play well when they rushes to demolish monuments on the occupied territories of #Ukraine...
Photos posted by Denis Kazansky: https://t.me/kazansky2017/9228
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
