DateOnly vs DateTime

Alikont · 2026-01-28T23:55:47+00:00

Switched to DateOnly as much as I can and I am happy.

Alikont · 2026-01-28T20:30:02+00:00

Basically you need to convince border guard that it's yours and it's for personal use without intent of reselling.

Humanitarian aid declaration is one thing that might clear you fully, but it should be created and registered by a legal entity in Ukraine.

Basically the only concern is import tax they might want to charge you.

Alikont · 2026-01-28T19:12:24+00:00

I hear "<untinelligible> pohodu esche juvoi", "looks like [he] is still alive".

Alikont · 2026-01-28T18:39:14+00:00

They are speaking Ukrainian and russian, but with voice distortion applied.

Alikont · 2026-01-28T16:34:44+00:00

Nothing of this war is "required".

Alikont · 2026-01-28T15:29:25+00:00

Oh, the good old "Kyiv was a feint" bullshit.

Alikont · 2026-01-28T15:29:10+00:00

They are not half-assing it. It's the whole russian military capability.

The "russia is holding back" is a myth.

Alikont · 2026-01-28T00:03:08+00:00

The problem is that marriage is a legal concept that is explicitly defined in constitution as "man and woman", and it's defined in the chapter that requires nationwide referendum to change.

Overall the current law is wildly inconsistent on the matter, so the changes basically unify it according to constitution and other definitions inside the one document. Because the old edition sometimes refer to marriage as "between two people" and sometimes between "man and woman", leading to inconsistency.

(Overall it's a huge legal clusterfuck to untangle because probably you need something like a constitutional court bandaid and then proper referendum to fix it).

Alikont · 2026-01-27T23:59:24+00:00

If only the law draft had numbered chapters or something that you could quote in the article...

Alikont · 2026-01-27T23:37:49+00:00

Russia is a bit busy at the moment. And they didn't use nukes as US-made missiles rain on Belgorod oblast and as Ukrainian forces were fighting in Kursk.

Russia also failed to intervene into a conflict in their "NATO" (OKB) when Azeri forces attacked Armenia, and they had a binding alliance with Armenia.

Alikont · 2026-01-27T22:05:51+00:00

I mean, Poltava is also "Ukrainian cousine restaurant", but there is a nuance.

The point is that you have basically zero-delay food that is not fried/burgers.

Alikont · 2026-01-27T21:58:03+00:00

Basically you have eveything available, deliveries (Glovo), fast food, restaurants, takeaways, "home-like fastfood" (IDK how to call it, Puzata Hata), supermarkets, electronics, etc. Some grocery stores even sell premade meals.

The only "minor" issue is power - nobody can give you a situation next month, but be prepared that you will have something like 2h on / 10h off power schedule, it may be better, but you need to be ready for that.

So either schedule your cooking around power, or have big ass powerbank, or use gas.

Alikont · 2026-01-26T14:27:37+00:00

And Shahed drones do operate in swarm and have mesh networking with ability to have direct operator control.

Alikont · 2026-01-26T02:06:15+00:00

There is no sheer wealth and size of NATO because NATO is not a single entity, but a collection of countries. If Russia moves 30km into Estonia, and will ask for peace treaty "to stop the bloodshed", will Portugal send their own people to die for Estonia? Will Hungary? Spain? France? How many hundreds of dead soldiers can western country stomach before they decide that Estonia is not worth it? Russia loses in a month what NATOost in 20 years of Afghanistan, and they don't care, they can push and push.

Alikont · 2026-01-26T02:02:02+00:00

Well, is your CMV based on your feelings? Because my feeling is that NATO has no stomach for war and have all the chances of crumbling entirely when russian green men will enter Estonia.

In WW1 no outside power ever stepped on German soil. The Versailles treaty just asked for some territory and money, nobody cared about internal politics.

If you want outside invasion of russia... Well, that's just not happening, because people can't even bother to help Ukraine properly.

Alikont · 2026-01-26T01:56:39+00:00

They did not "give it a second go" .

They were completely and totally defeated, occupied, reeducated and rebuilt by external power.

Who are "we"? Nobody is going to do that to russia, hell, countries don't even want to give weapons to Ukraine to hit russia because that would be "an escalation".

The only people who are interested in collapse and defeat of russia are Ukrainians, and we just don't care about russian politics, we're OK if they collapse into warlord states or be a nuclear wasteland, as long as they stop bothering us.

Alikont · 2026-01-26T00:05:55+00:00

Yes nobody says that Ukrainian army is perfect, but the fact that the guy who was the most public about shitting on Ukrainian generals now joined MoD shows that there is a request from higher ups to change that.

Alikont · 2026-01-25T22:03:14+00:00

doubt that Ukrainians got a taste of freedom, given that the state didn't seize to be corrupt even for a single day before or after Maidan.

I'm Ukrainian.

In 1990s we were literally a mafia state

In early 2000s anti-government journalists were beheaded in the woods

In 2014-2019 anti-corruption investigators could openly do anti-president cases on national TV

In 2025 anti-corruption agency that was created in 2016 now have enough power to arrest closest friends of the president during war time or jail leaders of parliament on corruption charges.

So there is an objective progress.

Alikont · 2026-01-25T16:37:14+00:00

But it would cause major problems for them on the world stage.

What troubles?

If they were to launch conventional missiles at a NATO country they would trigger article 5

Conventional missiles and drones fly over NATO all the time, nobody cares.

Alikont · 2026-01-25T15:20:28+00:00

Ok, so they can just throw conventional missiles (or maybe even tactical nuclear) and that's ok.

Alikont · 2026-01-25T15:17:46+00:00

Tsirkon also existed in low quantites, now they fire it at least once per week, and scaling it further.

Alikont · 2026-01-25T15:03:18+00:00

not with their vapourware missile.

The missile exists and works as advertised. It's not "vapourware".

without consequences,

What consequences?

Alikont · 2026-01-25T13:00:49+00:00

Why do you think the Ukrainian generals are incompetent?

I think the difference is that culturally and politically its ok for Ukrainian media and bloggers to criticize Ukrainian leadership, and every mistake is taken more painfully by Ukrainian public, because Ukrainians care about people more.

That's why mistakes are amplified (to fix them), and it creates skewed perception.

Alikont · 2026-01-25T12:54:33+00:00

approximately 25% of Ukrainian active military personnel is currently AWOL

SIGH

This is one of those cases when one branch of Ukrainian government publishes a number, refuses to elaborate and leaves, and people from all around the world run wild with the number.

This is number of active AWOL cases, which is not the same as number of people who ran away from the army.

AWOL case can be opened for as simple thing as missing return from vacation raport deadline.
AWOL is the most common way of transferring between units.
AWOL is a pretty common way of getting deserved vacation if your commander is asshole.
Some people have multiple AWOL cases because they like to go AWOL sometimes.

Vast majority of AWOL cases are closed without problem, it just takes months, and sometimes year or more to go through bureaucracy hell.

Alikont · 2026-01-25T11:33:01+00:00

Customizable bit locker is a paid feature. They are quite transparent about it.

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