John Ky

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

If the United States truly thinks about withdrawing from NATO, then European security will be based solely on the European Union. But not in its current form. I think that the EU is in a situation where it needs more countries.

The UK, Ukraine, Türkiye, and Norway. These are four strong countries, which are part of Europe. Together, the UK, Ukraine, and Türkiye have armies that are stronger than Russia's army. Without Ukraine and Türkiye, Europe can’t match Russia. With the four countries on board you can wrest control of the seas, have secure skies and the largest land forces.

It’s not about offense, because when Russia makes the decision to have an army of 2.5 million people by 2030, Europe has to think about security and how to preserve its independence. The UK once was a member of the EU. There are concerns about agriculture when it comes to Türkiye. But you can manage all of this if you have a really great economy. But security comes first, economy second. Not vice versa.

From an interview on The Rest Is Politics podcast (5/5).

[John Ky @newhoggy]

Announcing omni-dev 0.18.0 with lots of bug fixes around configuration and large commits.

https://t.co/UgmddI2TfT

[rustworks @rustworks_rs]

What it does:
* Bitvector with O(1) rank and O(log n) select (~3% overhead)
* Balanced parentheses for tree navigation (~6% overhead)
* JSON semi-indexing at 950 MiB/s - navigate JSON without parsing the whole thing
* jq-style queries built in

[rustworks @rustworks_rs]

Get it here: https://t.co/yL5KPIBNxy

[rustworks @rustworks_rs]

Why it matters:
* Uses 18-46x less memory than traditional JSON parsers
* 1.2-6x faster than system jq
* SIMD accelerated on x86_64 (AVX2/AVX-512) and ARM (NEON)
* no_std compatible

[rustworks @rustworks_rs]

Announcing succinctly v0.1.0 - High-Performance Succinct Data Structures for Rust

succinctly provides space-efficient data structures with blazing-fast operations, perfect for working with large datasets without blowing up your memory.

[John Ky @newhoggy]

And also a CircleCI orb: https://t.co/KsB6lFq9Ob

[John Ky @newhoggy]

omni-dev now has a new `check` command that can be used to check the quality of commit messages.

https://t.co/UgmddI2TfT

[John Ky @newhoggy]

There is a Github Action to invoke the check command in CI: https://t.co/ecFWABPqSU

[John Ky @newhoggy]

Some people have switched their retirement savings to cash to protect against the ongoing economic downturn caused by Trump.

This is an observation and is not financial advice.

[ Q-Cap  @qcapital2020]

LOL

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.

Zelensky is not.

Vladimir Putin started this war.

Ukraine did not.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are on the side of Putin, his war crimes, his invasion, and his wholesale murder of civilians.

America is not.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

If Zelensky were half as corrupt as Trump and Musk say, they’d be happy to do business with him just like they do with Russia and China. But Trump tried before and Zelensky turned him down, indirectly leading to Trump's impeachment.

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

This is demonic. It’s the purest distillation of evil.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

I don't know why so many Americans have this idea that Germans all feel guilty about WWII. I don't know anyone my generation or even my parents' generation who feels this way. I think this is a story that Americans are telling themselves.

What is true is that at least the Germans I know feel a responsibility to make sure what happened in Nazi Germany doesn't happen again, not here, and not anywhere else. I certainly do.

This is why we are scared by what we see happening in the United States. The concentration of power, the streamlining of opinions, the normalization of evil, and the populism to excuse it. These are all warning signs we were taught to recognize.

Americans have this idea that the Holocaust happened in Germany because something is especially wrong with Germans. We're just somehow especially evil. This is why the bad guys in Hollywood movies are always Germans. This is why they make jokes about our supposedly military sounding language.

I strongly disagree. What happened in Germany could have happened anywhere. It's just that Hitler was the first to exploit this weakness. He was a master of mass manipulation (probably strongly influenced by Le Bon's "The Crowd" -- worth a read if you don't know it).

Now we have new masters of mass manipulation. And of course Germans worry about it.

Don't confuse what we feel is our responsibility with guilt.

Yes, ugh, "responsibility". That sounds terribly German, doesn't it. I'm sure you read this wiz a Schermen eksent.

No, I'm not proud to be German. Why would I? I didn't do anything for it, I just happen to have been born to two Germans. But I am glad I am German because all things considered it's a good country.

But if it was possible to just identify as Earthling and not belong to any country, that's what I'd want to be.

[John Ky @newhoggy]

https://t.co/owoFeKrvaG

[John Ky @newhoggy]

If only English had more letters so I could have more single letter variable names to choose from.

[John Ky @newhoggy]

@ChShersh @vamchale Yes, but unsafeCoerce is not a function in the strict sense of the word.

[John Ky @newhoggy]

@ChShersh They can grow and also get poached. 🫠