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I'm not saying that it's not catching bugs. Sometimes it does. But most of the rules are nonsense and the number of rules that makes no sense is growing. Also, mutable default argu…

You know how many bugs I've met working on large Python codebases over 20 years, caused by unsorted imports or `except Exception`? Yeah, you've guessed it: exactly 0 bugs. It's rea…

What? In other words, you're saying: "Russia is losing war with Ukraine, so it wants to start a second front with bigger enemy". Also, how's Ukraine war is sustainable for Ukraine?…

West is living in its own bubble of misinformation. Including the government. On many occasions I've read self-soothing wishful thinking messages about my country. In 2022 it was t…

> Would we still get web browsers? There was Lynx text browser that was ported even to MS-DOS. I was using it until about 2010. It was a great browser until websites become unusabl…

Crypto was and is inconvenient to use. So many years passed and almost nobody uses crypto daily. It's too inconvenient. And it's not secure or anonymous at all. At some point you n…

> Of course, right now nothing can dethrone Visa/MC for international payments UnionPay can. They are accepted in many parts of the world, and they are free from US restrictions.

Russia had roughly ten years to prepare. First talks about building national payment system started around 2010-2012. And it was meeting notable opposition: "why should we care? MC…

What really do Americans know about Ukraine or Taiwan? E.g. can even 1% of US population show Ukraine on the world map (without using Google Maps)? Could they do it before 2022? Be…

In 2023 there was record harvest of potatoes in Russia. Prices dropped, so farmers stopped planting potatoes in 2024 and 2025. Wouldn't be surprised if they plant more this year du…

shell_plus is still superior because it also imports other useful stuff and allows adding custom list of additional imports. Also, shell_plus has --print-sql option for easy constr…

I was 2000 km from home (1242 miles) and I was in panic because it was pretty uninhabited place. My bike is 12 years old but I used it in very harsh conditions (dirt, mountains). P…

EU is a colony of USA. If it would be necessary, US can simply force EU to buy US technology. If you check the EU politics, they never do or say anything that can be interpreted ne…

Had the same problem with my moto (key not turning the lock). Fortunately, there was a car nearby and owner had a spare jug of oil. I put some oil on the key, put it in the ignitio…

I've used Redpanda for local development and testing stands. It is super easy to setup in docker, starts really fast and consumes less resources than Java version. Haven't really c…

I have information from the first hands because half of my family lives in Ukraine. Where do you get your information? From CNN? Can you show an Ukrainian law that allows men to fr…

I don't follow Ukrainian laws closely. I remember they allowed young men of ages 18-22 to cross the border in August 2025 (!). That caused enormous lines on the borders as the firs…

Very unlikely. Men of ages 18-60 are forbidden to leave Ukraine since February 27 or 28 of 2022. Women cannot cross the border since 2023. Of course, there should be some exception…

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Which exactly weapons are supplied by China? Even ever lying news sources like Bloomberg and CNN never made such unfounded accusations. Also, how and why some "spy" would work both…

What Russia and China has in common? Why would somebody work for both countries? Do you know, for example, that China willingly sells huge amounts of drones to Ukraine?

Russia is anti-west because traitors Gorbachev and Yeltsin (who was indeed an alcoholic) sold the country to the West for nothing, for promises that we would be treated as equals t…

Crimea is a Russian territory that was given to Ukraine by totalitarian non-elected leader Nikita Khrushev. It was a crime done by totalitarian government and Russia restored histo…

People living in Ukraine now clearly don't like that Zelenskiy cancelled the elections and don't want to sign peace agreement. Why they don't go to the streets and protest?

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