ossobuco

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by ossobuco 1y ago
I don't know, socket.io already feels like an unnecessary abstraction to me, and this is another abstraction on top of it. I generally dislike APIs that hide what's happening under "magic" abstractions, plus this seems l
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by ossobuco 1y ago
I've been using Odin for the last ~6 months, wrote a 15k loc project and it's been an absolute pleasure. This is my first low level language after 10 years of web dev, and it feels much higher level than it is, while giving you th
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by ossobuco 1y ago
It does bounds checking for you but there's not memory safety feature a-la Rust. That's not the point of Odin anyway.
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> I wonder what do you think is the solution to this? Hard to tell, to be honest. Maybe the solution is a presidential republic with a federal government like the USA. Maybe it's to give more control to the EU parlament. IMO the EU
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by ossobuco 1y ago
Of course not. The average citizen can't wait to sacrifice their livelihood to show it to Putin. People LOVE to take cold showers while feeling morally superior to the evil Russians.
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by ossobuco 1y ago
I know the EU council appoints a commissioner. Sorry if I don't go on and explain every aspect of how the EU works everytime I write about it. The point is that we have 2 levels of indirection before we get to the commissioners: nation
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by ossobuco 1y ago
Not that voters have any mechanism to punish them. EU elections have very little consequence on the appointment of the comission.
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by ossobuco 1y ago
The same leadership that at the start of the sanctions regime claimed Russia's economy was about to collapse is still in power, mostly uncontested. I remember Mario Draghi's condescending and moralizing rhetoric: "Do you want
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by ossobuco 1y ago
I keep telling you this system is broken, you keep replying that this is how things are supposed to work in this system. I agree that this isn't going anywhere.
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> The main problem I see is not the "accountability", as the commissioner is accountable to the council that picked them. You realize that cannot work when both the council and the commissioner play on the same political agenda
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> The allies actually did create a just peace through strength They won the war, the goal was clearly defeating the axis. Did you have a shower today or did you achieve a just and long lasting personal hygiene through water? You should a
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> So what's the deterrent but for Europe to buy its own umbrella? We already have an umbrella and it costs 3 times as much as Russia's umbrella, while being much less effective. So before burning another €800 billions Iwish we&
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by ossobuco 1y ago
Nothing of what I said is incorrect, yet you chose to provide a condescending and pointless explainer instead of addressing my arguments. Why is VDL ruling the commission if her previous performance was terrible and she isn't viewed fa
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by ossobuco 1y ago
A "just peace through strength", right? Orwell would be so proud, Newspeak has become the official European language.
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by ossobuco 1y ago
There are many experts saying that tomorrow won't rain, unless we make it rain ourselves. Don't make it sound like there's a clear consensus. > What data do you have that Russia will stop? I’m not the one suggesting we thr
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> The EU is a democratic institution I don't understand how Von Der Leyen got "elected" again then, given her horrible performance, and that only a 37% of Europeans views her favourably[0]. The catastrophic situation we fi
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by ossobuco 1y ago
Exactly where we drew it with the USA and Israel I'd say.
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by ossobuco 1y ago
People claimed that Russians were stripping stolen washing machines for chips, that sanctions would have collapsed their economy, etc. Lots of people claim lots of things, sometime they are right.
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by ossobuco 1y ago
As far as I know, invading other countries and bombing civilians is an informal requirement for friendship with the EU. We've been friends for decades with the US, Israel, Turkey, and more, after all. I understand Russia is a bit low i
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> The only language bullies understand are consequences. Putin annexed part of another sovereign country in 2014 and faced no consequences. He therefore launched a full on occupation of the same country in 2022. So yesterday and the day
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by ossobuco 1y ago
Basically making more debt that the future generations will have to pay? The end result will be the same. These are just financial tricks, money can be created out of thin air but not resources, energy, etc.
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by ossobuco 1y ago
I would even agree on this, but I wonder why do I never hear anyone requesting for the EU leadership to be held accountable for pursuing a policy of blind dependence on the US? We've cut ties with anyone the US disliked, only to be lef
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> Russia can attack with ten million men armed with knifes and clubs. This is just baseless propaganda and you know it. What a shame would it be for the west and Ukraine if an army of men armed with clubs was able to stand its ground aga
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> There's a saying if you want peace prepare for war. Sure, EU combined already spends three times as much as Russia in "showing strength". I'm sure there must be a way to use what we have without tripling the expense
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> At some point you have to show strength. And earlier is probably better if you want to prevent WWIII Sure, EU combined already spends three times as much as Russia in "showing strength". I'm sure there must be a way to u
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by ossobuco 1y ago
I need logic. Everything else is just speculation, the equivalent of believing that since for the past few days it rained then we're certain that tomorrow will rain as well. It all sounds perfectly reasonable, if you are an ignorant.
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by ossobuco 1y ago
There's plenty of other experts saying that peaceful cooperation with Russia is possible. Wouldn't that be preferable to war to the last man, or a new decades long cold war? I don't understand why don't we talk more abou
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by ossobuco 1y ago
> much more likely and concerning scenario Based on what data? Or is this just speculation as usual?
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by ossobuco 1y ago
The funny thing is that EU already spends 3 times as much as Russia in defence. Rearm EU is clearly a huge gift to weapon manufacturers and not much else. If we really cared about our defence we'd focus first on making what we have mor
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by ossobuco 1y ago
I don’t have the exact numbers, but for every billion not invested in healthcare, infrastructure, or clean energy, countless people will end up suffering or dying unnecessarily. Take this study[0] as an example: austerity measures in Greece

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