Well, yeah, but I was kind of hoping you’d explain why.

I don’t think there’s any weaseling here. Clinton wasn’t about to start a nuclear war over Ukraine, and very deliberately didn’t enter a treaty that said that. Diplomats are famous for arguing endlessly over exact choice of words, even.

Nobody ever claimed international law was strong and inviolable.

It doesn’t say the signatories will help, though, it just says they won’t hurt. To “respect” is a passive activity.

Is there something more specific in CSCE?

Yeah, Russia definitely broke their word here. I just don’t see anything that says the US has to intervene.

Thats not anti-facism, socialism, or anti-imperialism, thats just anti-US.

Their entire thing in a nutshell. It’s flat Earth theory with geopolitics, they believe the opposite of what everyone else does for the sake of it; the communist stuff is just decoration.

Man, I wonder if those Russian propaganda guys ever wish they had more non-bullshit to spew. Like, they have to keep up appearances, but it’s usually easy to tell which statements are for the public, and which ones they might actually mean (like the threat to do proxy wars of their own), so it’s just a lot of wasted words.

And this time people know to get mad and deliberately cough on each other for freedom in advance, instead of just buying TP.

Eaglestan has been known to start weird unnecessary wars, but this is not one of them.

(I personally can’t really comment on surplus vs. new in detail, though)

If they browse NCD they’ll be mad a lot. People on here have the normal take on whether the North Koreans are secret Wakanda good guys, and it comes up constantly.

Can’t you just add the wrapper to the test as well, if it’s easy to do in the actual code?

Well, if it violates the Budapest memorandum of 1994, of course Trump will change his mind. /s

That aside, it only would kick in if Russia used nuclear weapons, anyway. Link to the text. The present effort is all about trying to keep Europe safe through deterrence, and to a lesser degree supporting a democracy that’s under attack.

That’s sure not how I think about my own investing. I don’t really care what happens inside an index fund, all I care about is how much money I can get out when I reach my horizon.

Yeah, you definitely run fixed tests on the whole thing. But when it returns indecipherable garbage, you’ve got to dive in in more detail, and at that point you’re just doing breakpoints and watchpoints and looking at walls of floating point values.

I suppose Strassen’s is recursive, so you could tackle it that way, but for other numerical-type things there is no such option.

If I actually did have that kind of job, the tests-first philosophy would sound very appealing. Actually, build the stack so you don’t have a choice - the real code should just be an instantiation of plumbing on generic variables with certain expected statistical properties. You can do that when correctly processing unpredictable but repetitive stuff is the name of the game, and I expect someone does.

At a certain level of detail, tests just become a debugger, right?

I’m thinking of something like an implementation of Strassen’s algorithm. It’s all arithmetic; you can’t really check for macro correctness without doing a similar kind of arithmetic yourself, which is basically just writing the same code again. It resembles nothing other than itself.

Yeah, this has real “history is over” vibes to it. Or at least “history is over, here”.

Yeah, but like, the value of the stock (for a billionaire) itself drops if you can’t get dividends out of it as easily, so he’s actually choosing between investing an effective $900 or getting $900 after tax.

Taxing billionares is the same as subsidising all non-billionares, from an investment viewpoint. Money isn’t real, you can’t make “the fundamentals” work better than optimally by moving it around like that.

Depending on what kind of coding you’re doing, there might not be an obvious, really atomic unit to test. Most people here seem to do the data-plumbing-for-corporations kind, though.

Huh, so it does. It looks like it shouldn’t at first, my bad.

Have you had any luck with the urban sprawl? We’ve brought in a bunch of urban densification stuff recently in Canada, and NZ was cited as an example to follow.

These days, a shallow folder system. I have an electronica folder, and a Blanck Mass folder that definitely would go in there but that is full enough to stand on it’s own. Actual taxonomic organisation would take way too many clicks, but flat organisation can result in trouble finding things, and just looks like you’re a slob. (Although I’m guilty of having unsorted hoarder folders for things I only needed once, too)

There’s probably a rule of thumb for optimal fanout on each GUI folder, related to our visual processing. Hmm. I wonder if there’s a way to make the tree self-balancing as well.