geoka9 (u/geoka9) - Readit News

geoka9 commented on Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy

That's foolish. If Russia wins in Ukraine, they would have the two strongest armies in Europe. European states simply don't have enough ordinances and gear to survive a long war.

geoka9 · 8 days ago

So true; Russian MO is to use ~18-60 year old males from occupied territories as cannon fodder. Europeans should be flooding Ukraine with weapons (and other kinds of support) and thanking their luck that somebody else is willing to risk their lives and use them against the onslaught that would otherwise be directed at the EU countries.

geoka9 commented on Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/petermcneeley

anonym29 · 11 days ago

You must have missed my comment about opposing the war. But this kind of bad faith accusation is really disappointing to see on HN. The caliber of discourse here is usually much higher - people engaging with the actual merits of the points being raised, not reverting to attacking strawmen that only exist in their head as if this was Facebook.

Ordinary Russian and Ukranian people are both victims of this war. It is being waged for reasons neither of them chose, that neither of them asked for, that neither of them wanted. Civilians are being killed on both sides, and the people most vested in the continuation of the conflict are those that reap all of the profits from the war while paying none of the human costs. This is a classic principal-agent problem.

If you can't see the inhumanity in the structural forces at play and want to play a game of "attack the strawman" to score meaningless internet points while millions die needlessly over a pointless war, I can't force you to stop, but I'd at least hope you can grow up and take the tragedy and human suffering seriously enough at some point to care more about that than you do about your HN rep.

geoka9 · 11 days ago

> You must have missed my comment about opposing the war.

You're opposing the war in the same way Russian propaganda "opposes" it: if only Ukraine stopped fighting, so many lives would have been saved!

But Ukrainians don't have that choice; if they stop fighting against the Russian aggression, they will be fighting as part of it in a few years when Russia invades the next country over. Not to mention losing their culture in the cultural genocide that Russia is committing in the occupied territories.

On the other hand, Russians can stop fighting and go home any time you guys feel sufficiently "opposing the war". But that option is clearly not what you're advocating here with your posts.

geoka9 commented on Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/petermcneeley

anonym29 · 12 days ago

Because both sides are funded and armed by much larger players using their respective proxies to deplete the resources of the other side. NATO is using Ukraine like a bullet sponge to deplete Russian resources, China is using Russia as a bullet sponge to deplete NATO resources. NATO sends Ukraine equipment, happy to send hundreds of thousands of Ukranians who have no say in the matter to their deaths. China sends Russia raw materials and manufacturing equipment for weapon systems, happy to send hundreds of thousands of Russians who have no say in the matter to their deaths.

Western defense contractors and Chinese industrial suppliers profit. Russians and Ukranians alike die.

geoka9 · 11 days ago

Of course, it's just a question of Ukraine knowing what's good for it (and the poor Russians) and folding so that all of the dying stops!

Nice one, аноним29; I hope you made your day's quota!

geoka9 commented on Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/petermcneeley

appreciatorBus · 12 days ago

> "We don't want to spend half a year of our lives locked up in barracks, being trained in drill and obedience and learning to kill," the organisers of the protests wrote in a statement posted on social media. "War offers no prospects for the future and destroys our livelihoods."

Is the idea that it’s better for your livelihood to just start learning how speak Russian now?

geoka9 · 11 days ago

That wouldn't be half as bad, by comparison. But it's more like learning how to survive in the Russian "meat wave" corps a bit longer than your peers.

Looking at the parts of Eastern Ukraine that were under Russian occupation since 2014 and are now almost devoid of male population, that's what happens if you're not willing to fight in your own (European) army: sooner or later you end up fighting in the Russian one.

geoka9 commented on Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes theconversation.com/arthu... · Posted by u/PikelEmi

sireat · 21 days ago

As I recall Holmes did in fact do a lot of walking. He vacillated between periods of inactivity(cocaine, violin, shooting V in wall with a revolver) and intense activity (taking up disguises and doing various physical activities including walking all across London and elsewhere.

Just because your logical mind says one thing is good to do and you know you should do it you are not going to always obey your rider, the inertia of the elephant takes over.

So you need a trigger to snap out of it, for Holmes it was a new case.

geoka9 · 21 days ago

> and intense activity

AFAIR those had a specific purpose (chasing a perp, tracking down evidence, etc.). Most of his thinking he did sitting in a chair and smoking his pipe for hours on end (sometimes the whole night).

geoka9 commented on Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/darkwater

Kinrany · a month ago

Why'd you use profiles and containers together?

geoka9 · a month ago

One scenario: have a profile for each client so that you can open any website in the context of your work for that client.

Containers then can be used to separate multiple logins into the same website: e.g. you're testing a multi-user app and want to login as admin and user at the same time - containers make that easy without having to mess with incognito/private modes (those will forget your login as soon as you close them).

geoka9 commented on Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/darkwater

droningparrot · a month ago

The confusing part of this is there are now two distinct kinds of profiles: the old profiles that you create through about:profiles and the new profiles that you create in this profile switcher, which appear to be nested within the old profile

geoka9 · a month ago

Not only confusing, but also kinda powerful: we now have three(!) levels of indirection: old profiles -> new profiles -> containers :)

geoka9 commented on Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/darkwater

sorcercode · 2 months ago

for the most part I've been using Firefox containers and loving that life of getting the same benefits without having to create separate profiles.

but it's nice to see this finally get into Firefox because there are still a lot of folks who also want to maintain things like browser bookmarks, passwords etc in a separate profile. that's the only conceivable useful difference over Containers (which IMHO is slightly better than having to manage multiple profiles)

geoka9 · a month ago

Containers are nice, but they are, as you said, not as powerful as the new profiles system (which is, incidentally, almost as easy to use as containers now that we can switch between them right in the UI).

At this time there are essentially three levels of indirection: "legacy" profiles -> new profiles -> containers, that is we can have multiple legacy profiles with each having multiple new profiles, each with an independent group of containers in them.

To choose a legacy profile, use the -P CLI option (with or without a profile name). Once firefox starts, you can switch between the new profiles stored inside the current legacy one using the new UI.

geoka9 commented on Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow bbc.com/news/articles/cy7... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

pseudo0 · a month ago

Mass immigration from countries where measles is endemic? India has over 10,000 cases per year and makes up the plurality of Canada's immigration intake. Canada has a very high two-shot vaccination rate, but there are pockets like the Mennonite communities that are vulnerable.

geoka9 · a month ago

Up-to-date vaccination list is a requirement for immigrant visa in Canada.

geoka9 commented on Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir sherwood.news/markets/mic... · Posted by u/selim17

embedding-shape · a month ago

Overall for the common person I'd agree, but I assume we're all more or less hackers here and for us, I'd say "If you have to ask, ask and learn, then do it".

If everyone followed your advice no one would ever do anything, as we all begin somewhere, something that should OK.

Of course, don't do million dollar trades when you begin, but we shouldn't push back on people wanting to learn, feels very backwards compared to hacker ethos.

geoka9 · a month ago

> "If you have to ask, ask and learn..."

Totally! But also keep in mind this :)

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1570:_Engineer_Sy...