How deep underground is safe to protect against a modern nuclear blast?
It depends if you live in St. Petersburg or in some bunker in the Urals. If you’re in St. Petersburg, then it doesn’t matter; but you should be pretty safe in the Urals.
Can someone explain to me why this shootdown is even news instead of a statistic?
It’s a military airplane shot down in a shooting war. Does Russia now call the UN security council when Ukraine destroys a transport truck? Why is the media constantly falling for Russia’s bullshit behaviour?
This reminds me of 2016 and the massive propaganda against Hillary Clinton. It’s clear that these are attempts at manipulating left-wing voters to abstain from voting for Biden.
It’s actually pretty recognizable, but that’s because it is Part 1 of Another Brick In The Wall, not the well known Part 2.
It is “Another Brick In The Wall Part 1”, not Part 2 which everyone knows. Curious about the choice of Part 1; I guess that Part 1 doesn’t have such a strong rhythm/groove as Part 2, thus making it easier to reconstruct?
Ah yeah. I don’t know how often I’ve seen Betelgeuze turning supernova within 30 minutes in a live stream.
I so wish that D would have taken off :/
I used it at the time of the library split (there was a split in the community regarding the standard library, where Tango was the alternative). The compile time features of D were fantastic and they are still unmatched; as an example: For OpenGL (back then OpenGL 2.x) I could define the vertex attributes and had them checked at compile time when I started to fill the data with glMap! D templates and compile time code generation are on a whole new level, although it made tooling more difficult. If you know constexpr in C++, then this is nothing compared to what D has to offer.
Got it, but on the other hand (and as someone else commented): With the right settings, VB.NET can be en par with C#, for instance. They both compile to the same MCIL code, so it should really boil down to a matter of personal preference, right?
I mean, you could also use C++/CLR. Please don’t. Because at some point people like me have to maintain it and they will hate every minute of that experience.
I feel that many people don’t know that and tend to think back to C64 Basic, etc. and just laugh it off.
I don’t know if people laugh it off because of the 8bit Basics, I think it’s more because of VB6. And AFAIR VB.net was made to make it easier for VB6-developers to switch to .net. The real programming language for .net was supposed to be C# and I guess some people at Microsoft also like F#.
I also enjoy other “hated” languages like PHP and Java
But Java is not a bad language per se; I actually enjoyed programming in Java more than C#. Java is hated because of its Enterprise-stuff. C# has managed to get a foot-hold in game development and is therefore cooler than Enterprisey-Java.
I also like to play the UNO reverse card: I personally hate projects that run with Electron, for instance.
I don’t see how that is a UNO reverse card :)
Atari Basic was my very first programming language, so I grew up learning Basic. Having said that: I don’t see any reason why new software should be written in any Basic-dialect except for fun (the same kind of fun like writing a game engine in Ada) or because of legacy reasons. So programming on the C-64, or QBasic and DOS, a.s.o. all those are fun projects, kind of like reenactment of medieval knight fights.
In your case: If you feel comfortable using VB for your personal projects, then go ahead. But for me any variant of VB is awful, and this also applies to PHP. And in a perfect world we also wouldn’t use JavaScript.
Since about 6 months ago I’m doing the classical “read the official documentation and changelogs”, even if it’s as bad as Microsoft’s (their changelogs are good though). I guess we will enter a new era of RTFM while AI is maturing and we find methods for filtering AI generated noise.
When I joined Lemmy it felt so nice. It felt like the early Internet; all the bullshit I got used to on Reddit, it wasn’t here. It was like feeling at home.
Nowadays, whenever I see toxic bullshit and sedition disguised as leftism, it’s someone from lemmy.ml; my Lemmy-experience got a lot better after blocking the lemmy.ml-instance. But I will start blocking more aggressively and I hope things get better after the US-elections.