IIRC the goal wasn’t to have a loyal workforce, but to have an army that isn’t dependent on a small number of elites.

Basically “we won’t stop with the death of our officers, our soldiers can step up to the occasion”.

«гр.» is for grams

Senior backend engineering definitely doesn’t see 99% windows adoption rate.

Well, they do it Japanese style - by forcing developers to leave due to burnout.

I’m working with a legacy codebase for the last few months, where a simple PR often ends up crossing a 1000 lines count due to testing and commenting, and I can’t stop apologizing for those.

Yet there are people out there bragging about 10x changesets.

Kids the days… are entirely relatable.

I made my statement as a BDD/TDD practitioner.

The code goal of software engineering is not to deliver said code, but to deliver it in a framework that lets others—and consequently me in a week’s time—to contribute easily. This makes both future improvements and bug fixes easier.

Dumping a ~25000 lines changeset with a git history that’s almost designed to confuse is antithetical to both engineering and open source.

The size of that changeset means that it’s inherently unreviewable.

The commit history is something I’ve seen only in the PRs that even the most dysfunctional companies would demand a rewrite for.

Also, 2-3 weeks review? PostgreSQL support could be added in that time without the need for a damn „vibe check”. Hell, it would probably take less time than that.

we age due to our telemere buffer shortening

Telomere shortening is a marker and there is a correlation, but aging is a process that happens on multiple levels and many of those aren’t fixable by DNA restoration.

We experience wear and tear, we accumulate damage, we accumulate waste, we lose body parts, we constantly fuse our bones together, we have body parts that grow surrounded by tissues capable of maintaining them but then operate outside of them, the list goes on.

But most importantly, death is such a beneficial feature, that it outcompeted everything else. Producing new generation of individuals regularly is a simple and terrifyingly effective solution to a vast array of problems. Many aspects of aging can be seen as adaptations to inevitability of procreation and death.

That aside, I like pointing people at professor Michael Levin’s work. Be very skeptical, as it’s a small field in a world that goes through reproducibility crisis, but it does fill me with a cautious hope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky

His death was the moment when Russian state dropped any pretense of being civilized.

It’s also roughly the time when Russia has pivoted from “let’s trade” narrative towards “don’t encroach on our turf” threats. Prior to that there was at least an effort to put on makeup on the Europe facing ass cheek.

You spelled November 16, 2009 wrong.

Heracleum sosnowskyi in Ukraine. Fucking commies decided to start seeding it en-masse for cow feed without even checking whether it would work.

It bitters the milk, making it unusable as feed. It is poisonous and hybridizes with native edible species. Skin contact results in horrible blisters that tend to not heal cleanly. Its juice is toxic and mutagenic.

A war crime in plant wrapping.

Soviet development that was driven purely by economic considerations tends to have all the issues of modern development. Well, except car centric planning, but we know why that wasn’t a consideration ever.

Apartment complexes that didn’t focus just on economy, tended to be way better. And that is missing from modern considerations almost always.

Still, there’s a reason pre-Soviet areas to this day remain some of the most sought out ones.

Men: ^

Beetroot salad. You will panic, though.

The windows have all the modern anti-burglary features and the plumbing is immaculate

— excerpt from a sale advert for a house with its front wall missing and the living room exposed to the elements

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Injecting chemicals just so you can have sweet things power your muscle performance without buildup of acetone doesn’t seem insane to you?

Sugar is a chemical, you dumb fuck.

The market can stay irrational far longer than you can stay solvent.

How exactly does discussion of failures of a society help those who struggle right here right now?

When you see a burning building, it’s not a good time to start a discussion on merits of various building materials. Here’s a bucket, start hauling.