The west always acts like they’re they’re the protagonist, escalating then backtracking when it gets messy, assuming everyone else just goes along. They’ve been treating Russia just an idle NPC for the past three years, why would they stop now…

Yeah, it’s going to be a long process realistically, and hopefully there’s actual sustained state level commitment to getting that done from the European countries. Frankly, it should’ve been obvious why it’s a bad idea to become so dependent on foreign tech, but better late than never.

Russia already stated clearly and repeatedly that they’re not interested in a freeze. I honestly have no idea why this is still being discussed in the west.

Open source is the only realistic way forward for Europe, since reimplementing popular US platforms from scratch would be a herculean effort. Hopefully there will be a lot more funding and polish for popular projects as a result. Maybe Europe will get serious about using Linux instead of Windows finally.

It could be that it did happen before, but it was just individual cases and if the outage wasn’t long then probably wasn’t noteworthy. This time it was a whole bunch of people affected all at once for a prolonged period. And you’re likely right that there’s probably a series of states the device can be in, and it does calls to AWS as it moves through them, so probably got stuck at a particular stage and couldn’t move forward cause it couldn’t talk to the mothership.

Yeah, it’s almost certain everybody would just end up using the same library.

that’s true

yeah sounds vaguely familiar

I very much agree that the whole dynamic is absurd. In fact, I can’t think of any other industry where this sort of bullshit has been normalized. In most professions, you just list your experience, projects you’ve worked on, and talk about your skills. You don’t have to perform like a circus animal to prove that you do in fact know the profession you’ve been working in for years.

I mean here’s what top British military people are saying https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-defeat-david-richards-world-of-trouble-podcast-b2844349.html

Meanwhile, you don’t seem to understand how wars of attrition work. The goal of the Russian army is to destroy the fighting capacity of the AFU. They’re not aiming for territorial gains, they’re destroying the army, and that necessarily takes time. When the army collapses, they’re going to be able to take whatever territory they want and dictate their terms. Go read up on how things went in WW2, the front was largely static for most of the war, and then the Red Army marched to Berlin in a matter of months.

It’s kind of amazing to think about how none of these products are designed to have a fallback functionality during an outage.

I love how you trolls all read from the same script 🤣

The same source that’s been telling you that Ukraine is winning the war. But hey if you still believe that, what else is there to tell you.

Personally, I far prefer take home projects to doing random puzzles in an interview like a performing animal at a circus. I’ve found take home projects I’ve had before took around 2-3 hours to finish, and they’re actually be somewhat representative of the actual work I’d be doing. I’d much rather spend a few hours to do a small project using my own computer without anybody looking over my shoulder than cram for interview puzzles and hope I studied the right ones.

Yeah, I’m mostly excited about LLMs that can be run locally. And it really does look like there’s a lot more optimizing that can happen going forward. Stuff like this is also really exciting. It’d be pretty amazing if we get to the point where models that perform as well as current 600+ billion parameter ones could run on a phone.

They have no large scale manufacturing at this point because Russia can hit anywhere in Ukraine with impunity, and does large strikes on daily basis now. On top of that, Ukrainian energy grid is on its last legs now. https://archive.ph/vRYOO

If you actually believe these stories of Ukraine working on their own missiles then you’re a highly credulous individual. The article you linked is from August, and we’ve seen zero evidence for any of what it says being true. I guess some people still can’t learn to spot bullshit after having been lied to by western media for the past three years.

What’s happening is that, unlike the Europeans, the US is trying to find an off ramp because they understand that they lost their proxy war.

wait till you find out that you need things like factories and electricity to produce missiles

I live in a shithole western country too. The fact that my country is going to shit doesn’t preclude me from understanding why. Meanwhile, if you want to see a country that’s not going to shit just go look at China or Vietnam.

If y’all actually did meaningful political action then you wouldn’t be living under a fascist regime today lmfao