SanjayMehta

Why's he posting on X and not bluesky?

There was a documentary where a Ukrainian said the life expectancy of their own recruits was 4 hours on the front lines.

Sounds like ratcliffe was inspired by that comment and is now exaggerating.

It's not my article.

As for the NYT, read Ashley Rindsberg's "The Gray Lady Winked."

And British intelligence? Okay then. Let me chortle into my single malt.

https://sonar21.com/the-ny-times-lies-about-russian-and-ukra...

Says RUSI. A British agency.

"U.S. energy company Enron, though fundamentally different from tech giants, collapsed in 2001 due to off-balance-sheet debt hidden behind multiple shell companies. Even with proper accounting practices, an increase in joint ventures with low transparency could raise concerns in the market."

Remember the vendor financing model which got a lot of technology companies into trouble at the same time? It took some years, almost all those companies disappeared. Motorola, Nortel, Lucent ...

Mediazona is a British intelligence asset and even they can't find the Russian bodies that western propaganda hallucinates.

While YouTube is full of videos of miles and miles of Ukrainian graveyards.

No need to use the Wikipedia excuse.

Look at the body exchange ratios between The Ukraine and Russia.

Jan 29th: 1000 - 38 Feb 26th: 1000 - 35 Apr 9th: 1000 - 41 May 15th: 526 - 41 Jun 18th: 522 - 33 Jul 16th: 501 - 31

Total: 4549 - 219

When did Russia ever state they would accomplish all this in 3 days?

Venezuela was purchased. Delcy. The rest was performative.

This comment epitomises one of the reasons why the US does not and cannot win any war against a peer adversary.

Flawed data.

Wikipedia will suffer the same fate if they don't reform soon. Their "editors" are worse than SO's.

My iPhones' batteries have all lasted a minimum of 5 years.

Having said that, my Nokia E71 and Communicator batteries are still usable after 20+ years.

5 years ago there was a req on the Apple job site for engineers familiar with RISC-V.

https://riscv.org/blog/apple-exploring-risc-v-hiring-risc-v-...

Played with the old Tensilica versions, haven't seen the RISCV one yet but you're right. ESP32 is probably a better option today than Arduino.

The legacy apps have been receiving minor updates along with the new Affinity app.

"Everything is working" was meant to imply my legacy flow as well as the new flow haven't broken at all.

I'm sure that in a year or so Canva will move to a subscription model. Then we'll see.

FPGAs are a good way to get into Verilog. The Arty-7 series from Xilinx/AMD is affordable.

Another option is the BeagleV-Fire which uses a Microchip RISC-V plus FPGA.

You could also take the Arduino route which has dozens of options.

I paid for the entire Affinity suite in one shot, was worried when Canva took over, but glad to say everything's working together just fine.

You must be British.

Once the epidemic was over, stakeholders forgot about the original motives.

I never heard that when I lived in the UK in the 70s, but only in Ireland in the late 90s.

That's because one doesn't usually look at their watch to find out what the time is: most of the time (pun unintended) we want to how much time is left for an activity, or for an activity to start.

As in, how many more minutes before my flight takes off, or how much time left for this exam?

Just take their cover pages on China over the last decade. Every prediction has been wrong. The same story for India or any of the BRICS nations.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2015/08/29/the-great-fall-...

https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2023-04-01

https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2023-05-13

https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2024-04-06

I missed that as my subscription ran out in 2017. Hilarious. Would have framed that cover.

Yes.

The pink is also wrong more often than not when they're talking about non-European issues.

When they talk about Europe they lie.

Subtle difference.

Most of the time, especially when it comes to China. Every front page article on China has been wrong for at least the last decade.

Ever heard of rage-baiting? Look it up. On Wikipedia.

Re: ghosting - this was the single biggest annoyance when I was hiring en masse.

The HR executives would ghost both potential hires and no hires, because they couldn't be bothered to keep track (or they didn't understand the nuances.)

Our successful hiring rate went up when we cut HR out of the hiring loop, contained them in salary fit and background checks. The hiring manager was responsible for keeping candidates informed.

We kept diaries to keep track of potential hires and periodically went through them before starting a new search, something which recruiting agencies would charge us to do, but never did.

It's usable if you judiciously use lists.

I found mastodon inconsistent in timely information and Bluesky is Dorsey's loonies on crack.

Musk renamed Twitter. It's still around so that book title needs an update.