Some, like tschüß, servus or ciao are informally used by some Czechs, others like guten tag, bon jour, dobro došli are understood, but not used unless in some joke way. It would be pretty weird to encounter any of them when talking to e. g. hotel staff, though, unless there’s an expectation you speak that language.

Everything was simple and straightforward except for updating an app after new release before the distro maintainers updated it in repos (which often took months).

Far right gonna naziing and far left gonna tanking. Does not say much about political stability…

Have you thought about why Switch is the best selling console in the current generation even though it’s by far the weakest in performance?

Who cares what OS the AWS machines are running? I can’t touch it, it’s completely inaccessible for me and other clients. I can only touch the services which AWS provides. I wouldn’t know the difference if it was running windows, since the OS is completely transparent, basically a hidden implementation detail.

You keep making the assumption that AWS == EC2, meanwhile it is just one of many services AWS provides.

Abstracting away is costly. You can target only the lowest common denominator. The abstractions are going to leak. It’s like the criticism of ORMs, only worse since SQL is at least standardized.

That must be why SMIC just showed 7nm capability years ahead of when people expected it.

Nah, it was expected all the way since SMIC bought 7nm lithography machines from ASML. It will be more interesting to watch when they start building their own lithography machines since their current stock will not scale (and will eventually break down without spare parts).

That must be why Russia is projecting GDP growth this year and Russia’s manufacturing

Yeah, according to Rosstat :-)

Who do you think you’re convincing with this?

I’m not trying to convince anybody, I’m fine with the current sanction course. But it’s kinda funny to watch the Russian / tankie desperate “sanctions don’t work, so … you know there’s no sense in continuing them, so … you should lift them.”

They are working, but they can still be improved, hence this.

Post-scarcity society still has to be backed by something. In the novel, it’s 3d printers. If you have more 3d printers than others, you can use it to produce weapons to capture even more 3d printers from other people, making them scarce, and thus introducing scarcity again.

Too bad that Purism’s stated values are the opposite of their real business practices.

In a post scarcity society, you walk away. Let them have your shit. You can build new shit, better shit

How do you do that if they take all your 3d printers (the technology which sustains the post-scarcity world in this novel)?

I don’t know iMessage, but some of the more advanced features in WhatsApp/Messenger are great. I use shared location almost daily, voice messages are great too.

Does anyone know what level of interoperability is required? Like basic text, pictures, emoji… or every feature including things like location sharing?

Looking at your other comments it’s clear you are taking comments like boomers personally against your parents. You shouldn’t.

They were boomers, and boomers are all these negative stereotypes, so how not to take it personally?

You say something like “women can’t drive, but don’t take it personally if you’re a good female driver”. Honestly I can’t fathom how people can’t see that it might be wrong to negatively stereotype groups of the population by something they did not choose. We’ve grown to recognise sexism, racism etc. but apparently we’re still in the 1950s of ageism.

She’s a huge proponent of these systems being continued for the next generation.

Too bad she’s a boomer, though.

Rewrite this with “black” instead of “boomer” and see how it looks like.

If no, they aren’t the problem and shouldn’t feel it’s directed to them.

“boomers” is a name of a generation, not of political affiliation or attitude to youngsters. People don’t choose their year of birth.

It’s not much different from e.g. gender or racial stereotyping and what you’re saying is pretty similar to “if you’re not lazy, don’t feel offended, you can think of yourself as honorary white”.

boomers have been blaming us millennials

Which boomers? All of them? I don’t think so…

They grew up with the countries best safety net and support and then proceeded to pull up the ladder after them.

Well, my parents didn’t have any such benefits (and generally had much harder life than my generation), and didn’t pull any ladder, yet they are “guilty” by the virtue of being born in the wrong years.

Doesn’t seem right to me.

And it’s only when they complain about younger people when it really comes up.

Nah, it comes up all the time on social media on its own.

Not sure what your point is, there wasn’t much trade between US and the West until about 80s. Soviets certainly could end all trade with evil capitalists, if they wanted.

Countries like Iran or North Korea even have the luxury of capitalists themselves decoupling from them.