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New comment by nec4b in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

nec4b — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:30:26 +0000

There was no rigging or any manipulation of votes. Current and previous government officials were caught bragging about their previous corrupt adventures. The government after some initial shock came up with a story about foreign intervention. Slovenian newspapers and journalist activist carried it all the way to Brussels in order bank on negative emotions about Israel and hopped people will think about that. There was no institutional response, because the current government has cleaned institutions of people not loyal to them. It's a rather sad situation. The society is deeply divided. When similar thing happened in Belgium, the corrupt people were immediately punished and nobody cared who exposed them.

New comment by nec4b in "White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward"

nec4b — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:08:52 +0000

Trump doesn't pretend to be whatever he is. That is literally what sets him apart. The Democrats accuse the opponents of being undemocratic while they themself don't have primary and have a candidate selected by their elite. There are plenty of "criminal/fabulist/sex" pests on the other side too.

New comment by nec4b in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"

nec4b — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:49:11 +0000

Assumption are already well examined. You just don't like the conclusions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden#Birthplace_of_p...

New comment by nec4b in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"

nec4b — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:39:55 +0000

>>"Islam's objective is to grow and convert as many people as possible" is it? says who?

Do you not learn anything about Islam in schools where you live? I'm sure you must have spent at least few hours at History class covering Islam expansion starting with Mohamed.

>> What do you even mean by "family values", send woman back to the kitchen and that'll make people have kids? I doubt that's what you mean so what is your solution?

You want more people from cultures who think exactly like that. You believe Muslim women should be baby factories for the West.

New comment by nec4b in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

nec4b — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:22:29 +0000

Here you go: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/voluntary-payments-donations-to-...

New comment by nec4b in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

nec4b — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:45:14 +0000

China has literally has been an empire most of it's history. It's like the 3rd biggest country on the planet. Just Tibet itself is huge and was absorbed into China not so long ago.

New comment by nec4b in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

nec4b — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:37:07 +0000

The irony is that you are posting your comment on an American forum.

New comment by nec4b in "US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates"

nec4b — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:32:26 +0000

USA was already the richest nation before both world wars and way before NATO was established. Europe can't align with Russia, because Russian Empire wants pieces of Europe. It can't align with China, because trading with China is more or less one way and that can be taken away anytime China feels like it.

New comment by nec4b in "US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates"

nec4b — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:20:05 +0000

>> It's flabbergasting to watch this kind of opinion appear even here.

I don't agree with rayiner's opinion, but it's a completely rational point of view. Every empire thinks like that. Which part of it is so flabbergasting that is has no precedent many times over in our human history?

New comment by nec4b in "San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k"

nec4b — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Could you expand more on how bread lines in Soviet Union were a failure of the market?

New comment by nec4b in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

nec4b — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:32:08 +0000

If the plan is to sow division, it would be really weird to always only try to play one side. If I was trying to stir division, I would make sure to play all sides for maximum effect. But apparently other commentators here think only one side is being played and its always the same one.

New comment by nec4b in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

nec4b — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:42:40 +0000

Is there also a progressive woke version of Ivan or is there always only a far right version of him?

New comment by nec4b in "C Is Best (2025)"

nec4b — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:11:11 +0000

The toy one can still be as highly concurrent as the the real one. The amount of drivers written for it doesn't matter.

The point is if it were much easier, then they would overtake existing ones easily, just by adding features and iterating so much faster and that is clearly not the case.

>>difficulty of building safe, fast and highly-concurrent C

This was the original claim. The answer is, there is a tonne of C code out there that is safe, fast and concurrent. Isn't it logical? We have been using C for the last 50 years to build stuff with it and there is a lot of it. There doesn't seem to be a big jump in productivity with the newer generation of low level languages, even though they have many improvements over C.

This is anecdotal, I used to do a lot of low level C and C++ development. And C++ is a much bigger language then C. And honestly I don't think I was ever more productive with it. Maybe the code looked more organized and extendable, but it took the same or larger amount of time to write it. On the other hand when I develop with Javascript or C#, I'm easily 10 times more productive then I would be with either C or C++. This is a bit of apples and oranges comparison, but what I'm trying to say is that new low level languages don't bring huge gains in productivity.

New comment by nec4b in "C Is Best (2025)"

nec4b — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:58:31 +0000

OS can be actually pretty simple to make. Sometimes it's a part of a CS curriculum to make one. If it were so much easier to do it in other languages (e.g. in Rust), don't you think we would already be using them?

New comment by nec4b in "C Is Best (2025)"

nec4b — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:47:08 +0000

I don't care if there can be a bug in Rust code. It doesn't diminish the language for me. I don't appreciate mental gymnastics when evidence is readily available and your comments come out as compulsive defense of something nobody was really is attacking. I'm sorry for the jest in the comments.

New comment by nec4b in "The Post-American Internet"

nec4b — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:59:43 +0000

You have a weird sense of humanity if any of the attached links make you feel they were overblown. Why should Germans import all that necessary extra death and trauma when they have enough of their own?

>> Are you this retarded?

You win!

New comment by nec4b in "C Is Best (2025)"

nec4b — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:12:12 +0000

Why is glue code not normal code in Rust? I don't think anyone else would say that for any other language out there. Does it physically pain you to admit it's a bug in Rust code? I write bugs in all kind of languages and never feel the need for adjectives like "technical", "normal", "everyday" or words like "outlier" to make me feel not let down by the language of choice.

New comment by nec4b in "The Post-American Internet"

nec4b — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:24:18 +0000

Oh, should we tell the BBC and Wikipedia to remove all these entries then:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dz7r708dxo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Berlin_truck_attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Magdeburg_car_attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_New_Year%27s_E...

New comment by nec4b in "C Is Best (2025)"

nec4b — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:42:46 +0000

>>Of course if one writes unsafe Rust and it leads to a CVE then that's on them. >>Who's denying that?

>>The recent bug in the Linux kernel Rust code, based on my understanding, was >>in unsafe code, and related to interop with C. So I wouldn't really classify >>it as a Rust bug.

Sometimes it's good to read the whole thread.

New comment by nec4b in "C Is Best (2025)"

nec4b — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:38:50 +0000

>> I guess that's at least in part because of the difficulty of building safe, fast and highly-concurrent C applications (please correct me if I'm wrong).

You wrote that question in a browser mostly written in C++ language, running on an OS most likely written in C language.