It was one of the reasons, as it required huge spending on extinguishing the reactor, draft up to a million personnel, dosimetry equipment, helicopters, thousands of trucks, then cleaning the zone around the reactor, building the sarcophagus on rush, evacuating people from the exclusion zone, digging up upper layer of dirt in a radius of several kilometers, patient treatment, and keeping everything in secret.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration that the costs of the liquidation compare to costs of a small war. Besides, the Soviets were involved in a harsh Afghanistan war.
Most people mentioned social media here, but I think it’s the software that adjusts and auto-personalizes the content according to the live user’s interactions. Good software was never meant to have that. Good software is meant to have good UX and UI, but not auto-tailoring to user’s needs.
I follow the principles of ‘if I need to change the design, I do it myself’. The best practice would be the special options where I could customize my software, like ‘Customize Firefox’. Some IDEs also have a field to play around. No A/B testing to individual groups, no personalized feeds, ability to disable or adjust the settings.
Ukrainian, it’s so soft it sounds like a water droplets dropping. п’ять
Let’s be a bit more realistic, I won 1 000 000 €. I would donate most of the stuff:
- Transfer 500k € to the National Bank of Ukraine;
- Transfer 70k € to nonprofits in my city;
- 30k € goes to spread the message of FOSS and Linux to Lithuania. That includes:
- Establishing and maintaining a nation-wide open-source social network, primarily targeted for IT
- Funding to FOSS projects in Lithuania (I don’t know any ATM, though)
- 100k € goes to global IT non-profits, such as:
- Wikipedia;
- Lemmy and the Fediverse;
- The Linux Foundation;
- et cetera.
I am left with around 300k € that I’d use for myself.
Non-capital (leisure and hobby) (40k €):
- I’d like to have some free time/make my close friends happy, so ~10k € for that.
- Also, I’d like to travel to Japan, meet ZUN, have some alcohol-free beer with him. 10k € for that.
- 10k € for travelling (leisure) across Europe (incl. attending FOSDEM).
- Knowing myself, I’d really have some mad and stupid ideas appearing in my head, 10k € for that.
Capital/investing (260k €):
- I’d definitely have to buy an accomodation in Kaunas or Vilnius (I hope it’s not Vilnius) if I’d like to continue my career in IT, so 100k € for that.
- Education (in a period of 3 years) (10k €):
- LFCS/LFCE courses
- Advanced mathematics and algorithms courses
- Professional soft skills training
- 10k € is reserved for a black day, unused.
- 15k € of non-profit network infrastructure (hosting FOSS projects) (incl. maintenance for 4 years)
- 15k to have an individual for-profit business.
- Distributed investing (90k €, incl. investor costs)
- 20k is another buffer money for household expenses.
She is hated mostly by the traditionalists. She proposes decriminalisation (NB: not legalisation) of soft drugs and same-sex partnerships for LGBT. Some have become angry as much that I know people who put all the blame from their life into her party.
I would be happy if I could describe the detailed info but I don’t want to break Rule 2 of this community and put Lemmy on fire.
Certainly true. My point was that right now you and I, are using an electronic computing machine that is able to compute from billions to tens of billions instructions per second. In addition (if it was too weak for you), it also has another computing chip dedicated for parallel computing that is able to run TRILLIONS of parallel instructions per second (a.k.a. the GPU).
This is probably one reason why I like programming.
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