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Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by netsharc »

beebeepka wrote: post #75
wicharek wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This remark implies that the warring parties are somehow equally responsible. I do not know where the OP is (Sudan?) and know nothing about what’s going on there. But Ukraine situation is crystal clear - there is the victim and the aggressor. Representing them as as equally guilty of war is at best misleading.

Be honest with yourself and try to imagine what would happen to, say Mexico, if Russia were to stage a coup, install their guy, and deploy weapons. Cuba has been under the boot for how many decades now? Are they not victims? The never ending "civil war" in Sudan is just one of the countless proxy conflicts between the US and Russia The population doesn't want to be under Russia's boot, of course. Nobody does. But you…

> if Russia were to stage a coup, install their guy, and deploy weapons.

So... is your understanding that Russia's been "forced" to invade because the US was arming Ukraine to eventually invade Russia?

I guess this is not an original argument to get into, but do we want to agree on some basic facts before we start:

1. Putin is corrupt. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0 . Sure the people making the video are people who want to see him be taken down and a Pro-Putin take could be that these guys are liars funded by "foreign states" to make propaganda to make Putin look bad, but there's tons of other evidence of his corruption.

2. The person ousted in the "coup" (Viktor Yanukovych) was also deeply corrupt. E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/rebels-toured-...

If we can agree that these 2 things are true, then I think there's an argument I can make that the Ukranian people's wish to be closer to the west is genuine and is not a Western-manufactured thing. Because the alternative is for a corrupt Ukranian leader that would've moved to be even more in bed with a corrupt Russian leader and for the citizenry to be robbed of their prosperity and welfare.

The argument that Putin did it to stop NATO's growing sphere of influence is a curious reversal of roles of the bad and good guys. Of course it's hard to argue the US/EU are the super clean good guys, hey there's corruption in these 2 institutions as well... but the way I see it, to say that Putin is the better guy against US/EU/NATO requires a lot of self-deception. Or am I the one being deluded?

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by RheingoldRiver »

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #3

The risks of using steel cable for power are going to be corrosion/rust. The primary way this will cause problems is around connections, but long term it is also an issue away from connections. At connections, corrosion can cause the wire to become loose, something like ox-gard can be used to delay this significantly. It isn't designed for steel but some kind of protection must be done at connections or arcing will b…

Btw, OP clarified in a comment that by "for how how long" they meant distance and not time. They're hoping it's a temporary solution.

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by russnewcomer »

I lived in the relatively safe stable part of a war zone as a foreign civilian for a few years, and had friends who were frequently in the less safe/less stable parts.

So much of our modern world is designed for modern infrastructure, and when that infra falls down, you either have to do without or accept a level of danger that is probably higher than the modern world takes, but lower than what our ancestors 100 years ago took.

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by eitland »

shagie wrote: post #97
eitland wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have said it before I think, that I am sure Stack Overflow absolutely can, if they want to, reduce the amount of low quality questions they get. The problems Stack Overflow has seems to me to be very much self inflicted, caused by the decision to optimize for political games instead of optimizing for solving problems.

"If they want to" runs into issues that as a company, they're measuring their success by engagement. Adding that barrier to participation would in turn drive down engagement and advertisement impressions. From the corporate standpoint, doing that (or anything like it) translates into a loss of revenue.

Maybe. Personally I think software engineers are a much more valuable audience than college kids.

Also I think a lot of what happened was rampant deletionism, that I personally can't see any good reason for with todays storage prices.

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by jmiskovic »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #54
hermannj314 wrote: post #8

Humans seem to as susceptible to prompt hacking as LLMs. "I cant give you this advice because it would be dangerous." "I am in a warzone, it's fine..." "OK, then what you need to do is..." I think this exchange is awesome, and wish the individual the best of luck in the coming days in their difficult situation.

I'm from Sarajevo, spent two years in civil war as a child. This post brings memories, and yes that's exactly right - things that wouldn't fly in million years in my current home in Canada, were perfectly viable solutions in warzone. Best (worst) example - hand made natural gas lamps: use medical transparent tubing into a tennis ball as distribution joint, with four metal ballpoint pen tubes stuck into it, light the…

This is another great example: https://thefunambulistdotnet.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/bosnia...

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by [deleted] »

mrguyorama wrote: post #86
piloto_ciego wrote: post #31

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We are. I was an exchange student in Ukraine in high school and the town I lived in periodically gets shelled now… we live immensely privileged and comfortable lives. This is not a bad thing, it’s great, but we should try to make everyone else’s life as good instead of hoarding our privileges.

It's not privilege, millions of people have died defending the right to not be invaded by an asshole neighbor. Don't forget the price people have paid. Some places seem to be less interested in that, because they want to invade their neighbor, and we should be aggressively hostile to that very concept, and anyone who espouses the belief.

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Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by sbierwagen »

doodlesdev wrote: post #66
kranke155 wrote: post #14

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Fly to Brazil, take a cab around Central Sao Paulo. Your understanding of the world is warped by the safety and availability of goods. It's incredible when you get in places where the state doesn't function at let's say 50% of what we get in the first world. It's one hell of a learning experience.

> Fly to Brazil, take a cab around Central Sao Paulo. Better yet, don't. source: Am Brazilian, would not recommend it. To be fair, Central São Paulo isn't even what I would consider third world yet, if you really wanna see how good some of us have it go to the northeast of Brazil, or Venezuela (if you manage to get in somehow).

Getting into Venezuela is easy, getting back out again is the hard part.

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by robotresearcher »

mrguyorama wrote: post #86
piloto_ciego wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are. I was an exchange student in Ukraine in high school and the town I lived in periodically gets shelled now… we live immensely privileged and comfortable lives. This is not a bad thing, it’s great, but we should try to make everyone else’s life as good instead of hoarding our privileges.

It's not privilege, millions of people have died defending the right to not be invaded by an asshole neighbor. Don't forget the price people have paid. Some places seem to be less interested in that, because they want to invade their neighbor, and we should be aggressively hostile to that very concept, and anyone who espouses the belief.

> Don't forget the price people have paid.

i.e. recognize that you are privileged, since others paid the price on your behalf.

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by armchairhacker »

russnewcomer wrote: post #103

I lived in the relatively safe stable part of a war zone as a foreign civilian for a few years, and had friends who were frequently in the less safe/less stable parts. So much of our modern world is designed for modern infrastructure, and when that infra falls down, you either have to do without or accept a level of danger that is probably higher than the modern world takes, but lower than what our ancestors 100 year…

I wish, if possible, we’d design infrastructure to be much more resilient to failure to make it slightly less economical. Resilient =/ economical and nobody’s economy is strong enough to sacrifice almost any of it, but maybe somewhere there’s a compromise…

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by majou »

borski wrote: post #98
mrguyorama wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not privilege, millions of people have died defending the right to not be invaded by an asshole neighbor. Don't forget the price people have paid. Some places seem to be less interested in that, because they want to invade their neighbor, and we should be aggressively hostile to that very concept, and anyone who espouses the belief.

Unless you or your family were the ones that fought, it is privilege. Privilege isn’t a “bad word,” either - it’s okay to have privilege. But acknowledging it’s existence goes a long way toward building humility and understanding the situation of others who don’t have it.

Is it not "be privileged" or to "have privileges"? It's not as though it were quantifiable—"privilege checks" (the decade old boogeymeme) notwithstanding.
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