Readit Newsbiomene commented on Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage' barrons.com/news/sweden-s... · Posted by u/Sontho
How are there suddenly lots of these kind of accidents out of nowhere?
I understand pro-Russian outlets want people to believe that, but I find it very hard to believe that intelligence agencies would honestly believe that.
Personally I think nations on the Baltic should simply ban Russian or Russian-originating ships from their waters. And if they really want to pretend these "accidents" are caused by a sudden use of inexperienced crews, set some standards for crew training and expertise for ships sailing through their waters. Require them to hire experienced crew that know these waters well. Inspect them at the very least.
Just allowing the sabotage to continue is a bad idea.
The reason for these accidents to happen more frequently is explained in the WaPo article linked by the parent: Russia is smuggling oil out via the Baltic to fund the war, and it's hard to find experienced crews for these smuggling operations:
> A Nordic official briefed on the investigation said conditions on the tanker were abysmal. “We’ve always gone out with the assumption that shadow fleet vessels are in bad shape,” the official said. “But this was even worse than we thought.”
The last thing Russia wants is to draw attention to the boats it's using to keep its economy afloat. These seamen really didn't know what they were doing.
biomene commented on Where is London's most central sheep? diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/GeoAtreides
No sheep in Canary Wharf? They have a farm there, don't they?
That would be mudchute farm. But Canary Wharf is not considered part of central London, which is what the author is concerned with.
biomene commented on Europe’s Longest Bicycling Tunnel Opens in Norway reasonstobecheerful.world... · Posted by u/imartin2k
It's the escape tunnel for a tram tunnel with an extra coat of paint: https://www.lifeinnorway.net/bergen-cycle-tunnel/
biomene commented on Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys jesseduffield.com/Type-Ke... · Posted by u/jesseduffield
It’s a more generalized solution, that’s for sure, but it feels like it adds a lot of complexity and indirection in the process. The “flow of code execution” is all around with the callbacks, and it took me a few back and forths to actually understand how it was working.
Now, if you have a large system and many more of these “type keys”, by all means, this is an appropriate solution. But in the example of user type / creation, I beg to differ: the earlier example is much simpler to understand and reason about.
This article also inadvertently shows what I think is a big drawback of the inversion of control pattern.
Imagine you are trying to debug an issue with user creation.
In the last example, you would have to look up everywhere `createUser` is being called, and follow the code path through several different scattered files until you find your issue.
In the original code, you can simply look up `createUser` and you have the complete code flow in front of you.
biomene commented on I can't stand developing for Safari anymore old.reddit.com/r/webdev/c... · Posted by u/thunderbong
The way the address bar appears and vanishes breaks calculations based on viewport height and just drives me crazy. You work around it with hacks in javascript. It’s marked as “wontfix” according to stack overflow
There’s a proposal for new units to solve this problem: https://twitter.com/argyleink/status/1407026742460440577
If the amount electricity available is dropping, are people really going to be adding large new energy-hungry appliances like electric vehicles? I'd suggest not. Shutting off all the nuclear plants still looks pretty dumb, even in hindsight.
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s...
> Tesla’s drop came as the German EV market in January grew more than 50 per cent year on year, pushing its market share down from 14 to 4 per cent.
So to answer your question, it seems like people don't mind buying new electric vehicles. They just have a problem with Tesla in particular.