Almost like he’s starting to realise that Russia might lose.

Ah the bubble is the expansion volume. Not the storage volume… got it. I had it backwards.

So yes, very similar then.

It’s not like they’ve been bringing home the bacon. Would not surprise me if they’ve been telling lies about how well the campaign is going.

We had these things called Gasometers in the UK for a long time. They expanded with the amount of gas stored in them, and they kept the pressure of the local gas supply up. A local gas reservoir, or “gas battery” if you like.

These bubbles are basically the same idea but at higher pressure.

The Kremlin blamed Ukraine

…so it was probably the Kremlin.

What a nobel concept.

“Breed the children before we kill them in the battlefield”.

I hoping for the old “it looks black until you select the text in the PDF” snafu.

Good. All US tech does is plunder whatever we’ve developed. We’d be better off without them.

It probably has by now. These are 3 months out of date, and mostly over a period when things were only bonkers, not psychotic.

It’s the first 3 quarter of 2025. 1st quarter I expect there’d have been no appreciable drop (Gulf of America time). 2nd quarter a bit but still probably not much (Tariffs). Things went progressively worse over the year and I expect it will have been the deportations and ICE that will have stopped people.

The article also calls out copper which will be in PCBs and wiring looms.

No country should have nukes, and more countries acquiring them makes that goal even harder to achieve.

I recognise that different languages have different styles, strengths and idioms. One of my pain points is when people write every language as if it’s naughties java. Enough with the enterprise OoP crap.

I’ve also learnt languages like Haskell to expand and challenge the way I think about software problems. I learnt a lot doing it. That doesn’t stop a lot of Haskell code looking like line noise to me because it over-uses symbols and it being close to impenetrable in a lot of cases when you read somebody else’s code.

I think the aesthetics of Rust are the wrong side of the line. Not as bad as something like Haskell (or Perl), but still objectionable. Some things seem to be different even though there’s pre-existing notation. Things seem to be dense, magical, and for the compilers benefit over the readers (as an outsider).

I’ve been learning Zig recently and the only notational aspect I struggled with was the pointer/slice notation as there’s 5 or 6 similar forms that mean fairly different things. It has other new concepts and idioms to learn, but on the whole it’s notation is fairly traditional. That has made reading code a lot more approachable (…which is a good thing because the documentation for some aspects sucks).

So in Europe there was a desire to send F35s into conflict in Ukraine. US said no by saying that servicing supplies would not be made available.

Sovereign nations are unable to use their planes how they want to.

Now with Gripen it might be a similar situation, but Sweden has been trustworthy thus far.

It’s not about money. It’s about which country you trust to keep supplying you and not use your dependency to control how and when you use your planes.

i work at cloudflare

I shouldn’t worry about it.

Dynamic typing is a great feature at times. It’s a pain in the butt other times. One of the things I like about Zig is being able to have opt-in comptime dynamic typing. For a certain class of problem it’s really nice.

I think that’s a great set of criticisms.

None of these are sins of Rust, …

They might not be strictly language issues, but if they are symptomatic of idiomatic rust then they are “sins of rust”. Something about the language promotes writing it using these kinds of idioms.

Just like French speakers don’t pronounce 80% of the written syllables because it’s impractical to speak fast with all of them…language features (or lack of them) drive how the language is used.

(BTW the implicit return behaviour on a missing semicolon sounds like Chekhov’s footgun)

What language are they then? They’re not Python, JS, <insert any other language here>