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Yeah, the centralized nature of Rust's dependency management always bugged me a bit. Of course there's nothing stopping you from just pointing directly to the source code of crates in your Cargo.toml, and I think I will start doing that from now on. Adding better tooling for this would be great.

Windows disappearing is a hiccup while things adapt

I would argue it's not. There's still a lot of professional and industrial software that doesn't run on Linux at all, even through Wine. I've had a glimpse into the world of industrial automation, there's a bunch of devices that simply don't have the drivers to run on anything but a specific (old) version of Windows. Supply chain issues would persist for decades.

I'm pretty sure the model of train is a proper name and it's named after the satellite. I don't think I would describe any train as a literal "sputnik" of the rails.

Also Russian is full of composite words like that. "Explorer" in russian would be "исследователь" (issledovatel') - ис (completely) + след (trace/footstep) + оват (make, imbue) + ель (he who). Literally it would be "he who makes (places) completely (covered in) footsteps"

If the “pa” part of “companion” comes from path

It doesn't though, it comes from French compagnon/compaignon and then Latin com (with) + panis (bread). It probably originally meant "someone with whom you share bread (eat together)".

And actually, looking at wiktionary, Old English had a word "ġefēra" (with the same meaning) which is constructed very similarly to "спутник": ge ('with', still the same prefix in german e.g. ‎Gebrüder) + fera ('to go'/'to fare', e.g. in seafaring)

Great assessment TBH. Iran is clearly posturing here, they haven't won yet, even though the US did lose already.

US plutocrats don't actually care that much whether the stock market is red or green in the short term, they will make money from it either way. I think the existing strategy of jacking up oil prices (which will impact the economy long-term) and also hitting their assets directly where possible (e.g. datacenters and oil refineries) will have more impact.

However, it is also possible that with some reshuffling of the demands the ceasefire might actually hold. If they allow Trump to not lose face, they could get most of their demands practically met and be the ultimate victors in this. I hope this is how it goes, otherwise we might see a worldwide famine due to fertilizer shortages by the end of this year.

That's just not true. Most ATMs still run on Windows. There is a lot of industrial machinery running Windows 98 or XP to this day. A lot of POS devices too. Almost all accounting is done on Windows. The amount of chaos if it disappeared would be immense, it would probably be on the same order of magnitude as the last pandemic in terms of immediate economic impact as businesses have to manically switch to alternatives, and hundreds or thousands of people would die from financial chaos alone.

Linux is probably still worse because it would mean that more than half of smartphones are suddenly bricked, literally all of the internet just stops working, and a shitton of industrial automation stuff is gone.

It's still super fucked up that you're basically gifting some other person a sizeable chunk of your income just because they were able to put up a down payment and secure a mortgage. Landlords are middlemen leaches that should not exist even by capitalist standards, see Adam Smith.

It is still presenting it as a point of discussion rather than a foregone conclusion, which it should be.

I really think we’re gonna lose a carrier to swarm drones before this is over.

Paraphrasing donald trump, "inshallah"

Plenty of propaganda outlets would cast doubt on it. AP is preemptively doing it right now. If you read the article it is not talking about the threats, it is specifically discussing whether bombing power plants would be a war crime. Shameful

Actual plan and report are here: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/04/mayor-mamdani-releases-preliminary-citywide-racial-equity-plan-a

The plan seems pretty toothless but at least it's good that the inequality and racism is brought to public attention

Yesterday I was thinking that trump might get angry that Iran is letting through some ships and try enforcing a complete blockade... this seems like the first step towards that