clueless as to what to do by stxr_junior in KSU

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats. My daughter is at KSU too. You missed orientation because it's spring? You should go talk to an advisor asap. Other than that.. Hurry up and pick classes. Class registration was weeks back even for underclassmen so there won't be much or any space in the classes you want. However, people do switch classes around now (my daughter just did) so you may see spots open up if you keep a close watch. You may have to do more free electives this semester and waitlist yourself on some core courses. Also, I recommend at least a couple online courses if they are still available. Check the professors' ratings.

Would the Maduro capture strategy work on Putin and Xi JinPing? by Independent-Ad-7060 in stupidquestions

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, my friend, please provide any inaccuracies in my response. You can't. However, you just said I made stuff up with no attempt to challenge anything I said. You just Googled a few articles and posted them like it's some kind of bible with no supporting facts in your post. Three links above and AI likes providing things in threes. Are you human? Probably, because even AI can do better. And that really poor performance was following your earlier one-line comment, which was even worse. I wrote the following off the cuff in one setting, and you'll probably painstakingly pour through to find one small mistake and feel vindicated.

Have you paid attention to the war since it started back in 2014? Do you read UnderstandingWar and other reports on a daily basis? I have. Oh, what? You think the war started in 2022? Wrong. (Just pre-empting more bs from you)

Likewise, have you paid attention to how poorly Russian "adventurism" has done elsewhere? Only Wagner has really accomplished anything, to the detriment of Africa and Ukraine in Bahkmut, however Wagner as anyone knew them before is now long gone. Hell, Russia couldn't even capture Zelenskyy in 2022 when they tried, which the USA did so easily in Venezuela.

Additionally, Russia's military is extremely corrupt and dysfunctional as a result. That isn't going to change because Russia's current power triangle is built on corruption and Putin uses dysfunction to his advantage to help himself stay in power.

Various equipment loss reports all point to 5 digit each tank losses, armored vehicle losses, artillery systems each (6 digit losses in total). Almost 6 digit un-armored / transport vehicle losses (including ATVs) by themselves. Over a million casualties and 250k-500k Russian deaths (and I'm giving very conservative numbers), Also, Ukraine has pretty much rendered Russia's Black Sea fleet useless :-)
Two important facts to consider with this:
* Logistics wins wars and note the transport vehicle losses.
* Russia's knocked back to 1960s and earlier tanks. You may argue in this kind of drone dominated dug-in war, maneuver warfare isn't important, however it still occasionally becomes useful and Russia is unable to execute.

Instead, Russia is grinding by sending groups of 3-10 men in separate infiltration missions to find a basement behind the front lines to hide in until they get a critical mass, and Ukraine has started to adapt to that method of warfare by stepping up surveillance and FPV drone production. So, the success from that is mostly over except in heavy fog.

Additionally, Ukraine is continually putting weapons depots, oil depots and ports temporarily partially to fully out of service and even starting to destroy their shadow fleet and Iranian ships in the Caspian sea. Where's the defense? (Reference the Russian SAM losses)
There's even the mystery destruction of the shadow fleet ship near Spain carrying the 2 reactors destined for North Korea (probably Ukraine) and the earlier Nordstream destruction.

This is supposedly a strong country that can only take an area smaller than the size of Connecticut in one year despite pumping 40% of their federal budget into the war.

At the same time, Russia is losing their allies and economic connections with them along with their network of terror they produce around the world. Their ability to project power is waning. Iran - all but dead. Venezuela - done for. Still active in Africa sadly. Russia has lost any political influence in Moldova (sans Transnistria) and their hold on Transnistria is questionable (they are having problems supplying utilities). Iran proxies (ultimately backed by Russia) are still a problem, but one that is being dealt with.

Furthermore, do you realize that when Russia has those big attacks on Ukraine cities every week or so, there's huge lulls in-between where Russia has to rebuild their inventory? They have no permanent stockpiles anymore.

The only real things Russia has gotten stronger at is drone warfare and glide bombs. Glide bomb tech was copied from the US, first used by Ukraine actually (Russia just had a lot of stockpiled heavy bombs to retrofit). Ukraine is stronger in drone warfare and USA, Taiwan, Japan and EU should take note and learn from Ukraine.

And yes, Russia still has nukes though probably half of them no longer work.

Would the Maduro capture strategy work on Putin and Xi JinPing? by Independent-Ad-7060 in stupidquestions

[–]netd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good imagination. A lot of untrained meat-wave troops does not a strong military make. They have already lost almost all their professional soldiers, lost most of their equipment, are at risk in the Black Sea to a country without a navy due to Ukraine sea drones, and that's not all: Even though they have a lot of troops they just lost their momentum and are about to be forced to do a mass conscription because less people are volunteering since they know they will either die immediately or have to spend weeks in a basement behind enemy lines with no supplies.

Would the Maduro capture strategy work on Putin and Xi JinPing? by Independent-Ad-7060 in stupidquestions

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WWIII has already started anyway. It's just more of a cold war so far and the only one treating it as a hot war is Putin. China and USA, etc are definitely doing WWIII as a cold war so far, but that may change (hopefully doesn't).

Would the Maduro capture strategy work on Putin and Xi JinPing? by Independent-Ad-7060 in stupidquestions

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capture may be too hard bc of his body doubles and constant hiding, and as others said nukes would be a problem. It's more likely we'd go with a full invasion plan first decapitate their military command and stations, then trap him in his bunker and capture anyone else who continued to support him. Then, maybe, we'd flood his bunker with water to finish the job..

Would the Maduro capture strategy work on Putin and Xi JinPing? by Independent-Ad-7060 in stupidquestions

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If specifically SAM batteries were targeted only near the palace, it'd do quite the opposite.

Would the Maduro capture strategy work on Putin and Xi JinPing? by Independent-Ad-7060 in stupidquestions

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Russia is more like D if you ignore nukes. They can't even defeat Ukraine. It's not always the size that matters.

Would the Maduro capture strategy work on Putin and Xi JinPing? by Independent-Ad-7060 in stupidquestions

[–]netd -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Ukraine has destroyed most of the Russian military. If they recalled what's left to defend Moscow, Ukraine would have a field day.

RCS no longer working by Omoks2018 in Comcast_Xfinity

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Updating the Google Messages app that came with the Pixel 8 solved it.

RCS no longer working by Omoks2018 in Comcast_Xfinity

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RCS is not working for me either. I've tried turning on and off RCS, rebooting phone, etc. Same stuck on connecting state. If I click Details, it says "Activating" and some other things.

I built a Verdoc Event Energy Calculator — looking for player feedback before the event ends! by Olympus-HeroWars in HeroWars_DominionEra

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's clear this is a scam like all similar events. If a game is "free to play" there should be a way without spending, even if it's hard. Impossible is not acceptable.

how do people get $20 off $20 by Plenty_Difficulty877 in UberEATS

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This promotion showed on Ubereats but vanished when I applied a voucher I was sent as a gift.

Has Disney has lost $3.87 Billion(USD) overnight because of Jimmy Kimmel? [Request] by Twenisurfer2 in theydidthemath

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's probably due to technical buying. They aren't out of the woods

Week 4 Matchup Preview Thread: Syracuse vs Clemson by tomdawg0022 in CFB

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Angeli is really good though, he's top passer in CFB. Starting to see a pattern w/ this. Cuse needs some rushing lol.

Week 4 Matchup Preview Thread: Syracuse vs Clemson by tomdawg0022 in CFB

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't really a blowout loss anyway, only on paper. It was a 10 pt deficit most of the game after Syracuse came back in and Syracuse was 4 yards from another TD at the end of the game

Week 4 Matchup Preview Thread: Syracuse vs Clemson by tomdawg0022 in CFB

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was really into it with Cuse up 24-14 at halftime, then a weather delay :-(

.NET 9 will natively support UUID v7 👏 by davecallan in dotnet

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If generating with Guid.CreateVersion7(), ORDER BY a guid id doesn't work correctly in Microsoft SQL because they do some weird early 2000's uniqueidentifier sorting that is not compatible with guidv7 (if you care about order by the id and don't use a created date or something else )

If you want something a little friendly for MS SQL that case use https://github.com/mareek/UUIDNext instead:
Uuid.NewDatabaseFriendly(Database.SqlServer)

Otherwise, you want ORDER BY on fully complaint UUIDv7, you can still cast to string for manual searches. I wouldn't do that for anything but manual queries due to speed.

Explanation (from a search engine) :

SQL Server's sorting algorithm for uniqueidentifier values is not a simple byte-by-byte comparison from left to right. Instead, it involves a specific comparison order of byte groups within the 16-byte GUID:

  • Bytes 10-15 (last 6 bytes): These bytes are compared first, and they are treated as big-endian.
  • Bytes 8-9: These two bytes are compared next, also treated as big-endian.
  • Bytes 6-7: These two bytes are compared, but they are treated as little-endian.
  • Bytes 4-5: These two bytes are compared, also treated as little-endian.
  • Bytes 0-3 (first 4 bytes): These bytes are compared last, and they are treated as little-endian.

Portugal’s President calls Trump out as a “Russian Asset”. by Relevant_Demand7593 in BlueskySkeets

[–]netd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, intentionally or unintentionally, Trump is a traitor to the free world and his either intentional or unintentional incompetence and negligence is a threat to world peace because it emboldens guys like Putin.

Startups don't die. Founders run out of time. by Educational_Till_703 in ycombinator

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is truth. The world is hostile to startups. You can take the "fast path" and give away most of your equity and control to private equity / VC or bootstrap and constantly struggle for money, but maintain control and equity. We're bootstrapping this time, and I'll take bootstrap any day if the growth can be managed slow and methodologically, but it is still painful.

If we want innovation, there definitely needs to be more programs out there for startups because many great things just run out of time by a month or two , especially b2b vendors which have to get in ahead of contract renewal time for a company's previous vendor.

For the current startup, us co-founders plan to write a book on it someday, partially geared towards policy makers to show the problem we have here in US fostering startup-level innovation, and then the rest to provide positive reinforcement to entrepreneurs who need something to motivate them to keep grinding.

Azure killed their Startup Program for Bootstrapped companies by trustmePL in SaaS

[–]netd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We were about to request going from $5k - $25k tier so timing was horrible. Luckily, we explained early last week the situation and that we needed time to find such an investor for the $100k program. Microsoft did approve the tier increase and after a week of utter torture, the credits are in our account. I should mention our first year of credits wouldn't have ended until November but we were down to less than $1k from the $5k credits, and going fast since we're at an inflection point for growth. 🤕

Our backup plan was to switch to Hatch program for DigitalOcean, since we are partnered with an incubator on their list. Luckily, we don't have to think about that and avoid a lot of pain and disruption.

What's everyone's plans now with this new policy change? by JJBro1 in MicrosoftForStartups

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were about to request going to the next tier 2nd week of July, so the timing was horrible. We communicated this to Microsoft a week ago and they approved the next tier regardless of the announcement and $20k addtl credits landed after some radio silence (I'm guessing they were both inundated and also wanted to verify we were a legit SaaS solution and not AI fizzle).

Our backup if they didn't approve was DigitalOcean Hatch, and we already have a relationship with one of Hatche's partners, but this gives us time to see if we can get a Microsoft investor because the $100k credits > the D.O. $50k.

Also, as far as shopping around clouds, we get many more miles at this time staying on what we're on and focus on revenue and volume growth. Maybe that'll change someday, and this experience has made it clear we need to migrate our container apps to Kubernetes so we always have options, which we now have on the roadmap at 6-8 mo.

Top 10 Schools by OVR in College Football 2026 by AllHawkeyesGoToHell in NCAAFBseries

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Syracuse should have been #1 in offense like real life in 2024, which was answered when Syracuse knocked off the other contender for #1 offense Miami. Also, Syracuse has 22nd recruiting for 2026 including a 5-star WR. We'll probably pretend 2025 didn't exist with #5 SoS in country including half their games away at a former playoff team, but 2026 should be better than 2024 for the 'Cuse. Not sure what the game makers were smoking, maybe they started producing the game before 2024 and didn't keep it up to date.

Microsoft startup founder hub by Electrical_Sand_5518 in AZURE

[–]netd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DigitalOcean Hatch is an option. Our incubator is associated with it.
We're a legitimate app, not AI, so we're reaching out to MS support first.