>Zelenskyy famously stopped wearing civilian suits, and is always wearing military-style clothes in public appearances to symbolise how he's defending his nation in a time of war. It's a reminder to other leaders that it's not just another trade deal, that this is a real shooting war and people are dying.
>Trump hates this, and thinks it's disrespectful that Zelenskyy doesn't wear a suit when he comes to the US on official visits.
That's why they invited dress uniforms...the ones with the jackets and ties.
The Falklands conflict was almost half a century ago. It is doubtful that the UK could respond today like they did in 1982.
The video "The Navy With More Admirals Than Warships"[1] addresses that exact scenario, and talks about the current woeful state of the British Navy today.
I think that’s somewhat unclear. In principle, the new carriers with F-35s should have a much bigger advantage over the Argentinian navy and air force than the tiny carriers we sent to the Falkland’s with Harrier jump jets. But of course it is impossible to know until such a thing actually happens. (Even in the case of a far more antecedently plausible conflict such as Russia/Ukraine, expert predictions were all over the place, and mostly wrong.)
I mean...c'mon..they could have at least picked a "worst song of all time" that wasn't a Billboard Top 100 #1 hit. Ditto for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"...
>I get so tired of seeing content saying, 'Oh, if you just saved a little more, if you just invested a little more…' Like, no – people are on the edge. People cannot afford to live, to eat, to put gas in their cars," Brama says.
>That's partly why Brama now splits her time between the United States and Europe
I wish I was broke enough to split time between two continents.
"There is a leisure class at both ends of the economic spectrum."
But even setting that aside, the article goes on to mention Albania (low CoL) and access to healthcare. The latter, in particular, checks out. I have great insurance, but my out-of-pocket max equals somewhere between 5 and 10 round-trips to Europe. It's not hard to imagine there exist people who can setup the circumstances such that working in the USA part of the year and living somewhere else part of the year is massively more economical than staying in the USA.
Actually, doesn't that exact situation describe a huge fraction of the US agricultural labor force?
For reference, I calculated that for the same per-day cost as I have in the US I could live in a five star hotel in Thailand. And when you factor in the cost of rent, international flights aren’t as expensive as you might think.
I see this less as how inexpensive things are elsewhere and more how excessively expensive they are in the US. In the Bay Area for example the housing stock is incredibly expensive but relatively low quality even compared with other US cities.
Travel is cheap if you don't have to pay for accommodation. Flying a few times a year between Europe and the US is definitely cheaper than renting in the US.
Maybe the quality of life is better elsewhere. Maybe the differences in daily costs of living are enough to offset the flights. The article mentions Albania, where the nominal/PPP GDP figures suggest that prices are almost 3x lower than in the US.
> Boeing received orders for only four new planes in May
> The results released Tuesday compared unfavorably with Europe's Airbus, which reported net orders for 15 planes in May — 27 sales but 12 cancellations.
Serious Eats has articles before the recipe that are usually full of technical information from the development of the recipe.
Sometimes there's a bit of the "touching personal story" but I'm a lot more used to seeing failures and tests in the before-recipe section there. As a random example, check out this page on poached chicken:
Most of the cookbooks I’ve read were relatively straightforward, but those were mostly older books not written in English. That may be just me not reading a lot of recipes in general.
On topic — I would say that this article not being a recipe is important in that case. The story is not something detracting from the main point, it is the point.
Also when I was saying that I’d like to see more of this type of promotional content, I meant that just mentioning you are writing the book on the topic at the end of the article (without even linking to it) is vastly superior to pop-up videos tracking you across websites. I did not mean that the Internet somehow needs even more advertising in it.
It's a very common psychological trap to fall into, so all recipe sites have turned into "fake touching personal story" content mills over the past decade or so, yes.
LLM generates stories aren't copyrightable either, and I doubt ad-financed clickbait farms would care about suing each other anyway, this is just SEO and audience manipulation.
Niklaus Wirth could afford to be simple, he lived in simpler times where demand was much lower than today, being chased by much less investment.
Change was measured in years, compute and storage options were limited. I wonder how many of his OSes / programming languages spanned multiple heterogeneous compute architectures.
Don't get me wrong, love the guy...but wonder what kind of impact he would have if in his prime today...
Don't need to "wonder".
Just use a Wirthian-inspired language and see where it takes you.
For me, been coding C++ for nearly 30 years and last few months have been taking Modula-3 (M3) for a "test drive".
M3 is "complete" and early on it was very obvious to me that the "C++ experiment" has gone on for too many decades.
The amazing thing is that M3 was "complete" since the late 1980's, thanks to the programming-language gurus at DEC/Olivetti/etc. You can sense in the M3 literature that these/other gurus were aware of the "issues" that C++ would develop in the future.
As Wirth would imply, all you need is a lightweight/simple language-core that can be used to create great libraries.
