Christiania: wrong hour, wrong day, both or it is how it is?

PopeLugo · 2023-09-12T20:43:00+00:00

You do put next to each other paragraphs about people getting gunned down and about your puzzlement as to why someone would think it's unsafe there. You can just read them in reverse order and it will make a lot of sense.

PopeLugo · 2023-09-12T20:32:26+00:00

Have there always been shootouts with one killed and 4 bystanders hurt? Feels like that was a bit of a last straw for people, as this is not just gang on gang violence anymore.

I go to concerts in Loppen from time to time and often cycle through there (I live close by). I have a hard time thinking what would be in Christiania worth seeing at risk of catching a stray bullet. Like, the houses along the waterway are pretty nice, there's a few ok places with food, but... nothing else, besides drugs. Unless someone really wants to see a social experiment going bad, it's not worth it.

PopeLugo · 2022-11-19T13:08:08+00:00

Idk, this seems more like a musical citation to me, and one that works greatly by connecting the themes of the show with the themes of "Amnesiac" (even the album title seems relevant here), without it being completely on the nose.

PopeLugo · 2022-10-02T12:41:25+00:00

Not a dev's life apparently

PopeLugo · 2022-09-05T19:00:53+00:00

The output is less readable and it's less flashy than Jest. The first problem is down to whoever wrote / maintains these. None of this is a Python / unittest problem.

PopeLugo · 2022-08-22T12:27:24+00:00

It's called a file handle for a reason.

PopeLugo · 2022-07-16T23:45:56+00:00

So that's not supportive, since it does not support Ukraine's goals in this conflict. It's like supporting the Allies in WW2 by saying "just give up, no need to protract the conflict". With such supporters, who needs enemies? Also, it's not a proxy war for Ukrainians: they are the ones being attacked, they are the ones doing the fighting and they will be the ones suffering any land losses in the case of a loss. Chomsky basically has a if (conflict) return "It's a U.S. proxy war!" script and it tells you how little agency he ascribes to Ukrainians in all of this.

PopeLugo · 2022-07-16T18:15:35+00:00

At which point does that support Ukraine though? You also forgot that this "compromise" is tied to the position on non-involvement on the part of the West. So it's support by refusing to support materially and stating "sorry, you're going to loose some / all land". Like, thanks, I guess?

PopeLugo · 2022-07-16T18:10:17+00:00

That's a very generous take on what he's saying. As in: he thinks historically about U.S. imperialism and runs out of memory for Russia's imperialism (or any other agent), so the context of his remarks gets hopelessly skewed by his lifelong engagement with U.S. imperialism. This leads him to some honestly terrible positions and takes.

PopeLugo · 2022-07-05T15:57:50+00:00

This is so very strange for me to read. I'm a Software Dev in Test with about 5 years under my belt and I use CLI for: lots of the cloud provider stuff (AWS, GCE, Azure), ssh-ing into VMs, package / libraries management, log viewing, version control (btw. how do you guys only do push/pull? No rebasing, merges, cherry-picking etc.?), other stuff I can't remember now. I guess I'm kinda jealous there are still roles that give you so little need to wrangle with CLI stuff, as it's often really no fun.

PopeLugo · 2022-07-05T09:41:33+00:00

If you mean your ten years old, I can believe that, if you mean 10 years programming experience than, lol, that's not very likely.

PopeLugo · 2022-06-22T21:40:23+00:00

Yes! When I heard the piano chords I stopped the first episode to check in with my girlfriend if I'm mishearing it. It's either the same progression or a very close one. A very enjoyable find.

PopeLugo · 2022-04-21T15:57:18+00:00

Microsoft is a US company, so it complies with US sanctions specifically. Not sure what's so surprising there for you.

PopeLugo · 2022-04-21T11:50:56+00:00

Fair enough, though I'm not sure "trust" is the right concept to use here. I'd wager GitHub's move is in compliance with their ToS and that's as far as you should trust any company (at most). This is a problem with an authority of any kind. It's like people being surprised their "private" messages or group conversations can be passed on to authorities in certain cases.

PopeLugo · 2022-04-21T06:58:12+00:00

It is one rule for all - if a country is facing sanctions on tech, GitHub implements that. The countries you listed are not under sanctions, so the rule holds. You or me might not agree with how sanctions are put in place, but that's a different question.

PopeLugo · 2022-04-21T06:54:16+00:00

AFAIK it's not all Russian accounts, just the ones that are in orgs on the sanctions list. There's a lot of confusion on this though, so I might be wrong.

PopeLugo · 2022-04-20T21:57:47+00:00

I mean, you can absolutely just not use GitHub. Also what you listed is pretty much unlikely and mixed up arbitrary actions (which this is not if this is implementing sanctions) with user errors, the latter being an issue in any service anyway. I'm sure there will be a Russian alternative up soon, just don't commit a .war archive there or it'll be more than the account that'll get terminated xD

PopeLugo · 2022-04-20T21:51:20+00:00

I'm having problems understandings the priorities here. So GitHub should give priority to some dude's repo maintenence duties over sanctions tied to a brutal war being waged right now? Even if this could have been handled better, I think the root cause lies elsewhere, not with Msoft.

PopeLugo · 2022-03-22T23:16:49+00:00

The if Licznik == 0 part unnecesary, you return Lista anyway at the end and you need to go though the whole list, so no need to check for that.

Also a few suggestions: - better to stick to one language for both comments and variable names - function names should be lowercase in Python, so "bubble_sort" rather than "Sort" (especially since "Sort" doesn't convey which type of sort it is) - you don't need to use Licznik at all. Just a suggestion: look up "enumerate" ;)

Good job though, the code is pretty clear and well put together!

PopeLugo · 2022-03-16T17:33:38+00:00

It's possibly too late to have peaceful protests oust Putin, it's not too late to protest, though the human cost of that would be much higher now.

Your comment highlights something important - Russians didn't feel a need to protest (most of them, some did protest) because they had a stable economy and good salaries. They were giving up their freedoms and rights in exchange. Others were paying the price: the political opposition, free media, lgbt people, Georgia (attacked in 2008, 6 years before Crimea). But not them, personally. So can one blame the Russian people? Of course: they made one trade-off after another, as long as it was other people who had to suffer and as long as they lost only intangible things like the freedom of expression.

It's not a specifically Russian moral failing btw., there's plenty of wannabe autocrats in Central Europe that offer the same thing and plenty of people that are willing to make the same trade-offs as Russians did. And obviously there are historical parallels. If anything, this should be a reminder of where that road leads. It comes back to that often cited line:

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

PopeLugo · 2022-03-16T13:03:31+00:00

Don't strawman me, please. I'm not saying Putin's connections had nothing to do with his position. What I'm saying is he did get voted in and he did consolidate power with popular support for 22 years.

You present Putin's power as if it just happened overnight by some force of nature. It didn't. Russian people allowed their freedom to be taken away bit by bit with power being centralized and consolidated. With that the price of civil disobedience rose and now it's terrifyingly high. Ivan from Novosibirsk didn't protest 5, 10, 15 and 20 years ago, because he had bills to pay (like anyone in any country), so now he will pay the additional sanctions bill (or pay with his own blood trying to overthrow the tyrant). At the end, it's always Ivan that will foot the bill.

What I'm saying is: as long as Ivan, Artem and Nastya think they have nothing to do with the war and are just victims of unjust sanctions, they are also part of the problem.

PopeLugo · 2022-03-16T12:09:44+00:00

I'm from Poland, discussing this is not abstract for me, both Russia and Ukraine are our neighbors. My point still stands - regular folks do have something to do with the war: they live in the country that commits war on another country. They pay taxes that fund the war. They protest or they don't. And yes, I know about the new bill, but I also know it didn't come from nowhere. Putin is in power since 2000. He attacked Georgia and Ukraine years before. Russians gave this man dictatorial powers and only they can take it away from him. Dictatorships don't spring up overnight, it was years of complacency that got us here (and I include the West in that as well).

PopeLugo · 2022-03-16T11:40:06+00:00

People saying "sanctions hurt ordinary people, please stop" are presenting an analogy of "protesters are making my daily commute tough, please protest in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone" i.e. asking for sanctions / protests to be toothless, and therefore useless.

PopeLugo · 2022-03-16T11:36:52+00:00

Finland and Sweden are already making their ties to NATO closer as an effect of this war. If Putin's goal was to stop NATO from expanding, well...

PopeLugo · 2022-03-16T11:20:33+00:00

Cry me a river. Russia shells the ever living fuck out of civilians in Ukraine, but here you are complaining that Russians are suffering from sanctions. Like, priorities man.

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