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slurpinderpin , to Ukraine in African mercenaries are lured into the Russian army with an initial payment of $2,000, a $2,200 monthly salary, medical insurance, and a passport for the soldier and family members.

More fodder for the cannons

Streetlights ,

The initial payment is probably in the form of a cheque that they won't live long enough to cash.

Russian passports for your whole family? Now they can also be mobilised, good job.

slurpinderpin ,

Yeah its pretty evil

random_character_a ,
@random_character_a@lemmy.world avatar

So there's gonna be such a thing as black Russian?

Noodle07 ,

It's just a white Russian without the cream

FinishingDutch , to Ukraine in African mercenaries are lured into the Russian army with an initial payment of $2,000, a $2,200 monthly salary, medical insurance, and a passport for the soldier and family members.
@FinishingDutch@lemmy.world avatar

And you can’t really blame the poor guys who take up this offer either. I imagine this is very attractive to some of those poorest Africans.

But can you imagine dying in the cold mud thousands of miles from home, based on this bullshit? Or losing a loved one to that?

All in all, it certainly shows the Russian level of desperation if this is what’s needed to fill their ranks.

luciferofastora ,

Desperation preying on desperation

SpicyLizards , to Programmer Humor in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

This thing in quotes?
Searching for not that!
Did you mean that?
Okay, here's nothing.

carpelbridgesyndrome , to Programmer Humor in STOP DOING DEPENDENCY INJECTION

Why yes, I would like my stack traces to make no ffing sense! I'm so glad you asked.

Aurenkin , to Ukraine in "The Pride of Russia!"

Army recruiters sell dreams and deliver nightmares.

Dremor , to Ukraine in The Ukranian Navy confirmed the destruction of the Russian "Tsiklon" missile ship, the last cruise missile carrying ship in the Black Sea.
@Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

So does it mean that Russia won't be able to launch missiles from the Black Sea anymore? That may be a godsent to shuffle around air defenses elsewhere.

LaFinlandia OP ,
@LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz avatar

Russian bombers can still launch missiles from the Black Sea, but this reduces the number of cruise missiles they can use in an attack by 8.

maculata ,

But submarines can launch cruise missiles CANT they?

And Ukraine just turned this into a submarine.

morbidcactus , to Programmer Humor in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

Interestingly, bing of all things turns up better results than Google with the same search terms, first 3 blocks are "popular results", first is tutorial sites, second is w3 schools and third takes you to the current docs for functions and operators.

If you ignore those, the fourth result takes you to the current docs for comparison functions and operators. I'd prefer it taking you right to the official docs on the first result, but comparatively acceptable. It was memed to death but I've seriously found it more useful than Google these days, comparable to ddg's results.

brisk ,

DuckDuckGo uses Bing's results

morbidcactus ,

Did not know that, for some reason I thought it was (or at one time was) based on Google's

victorz ,
jnk ,

If you're going through that route, SearX beats everything and it's not even close. It's self hosted and takes search results from any engine you check in a config, different config for search categories, ... Rn I'm mostly getting results from brave, qwant, and duckduck.
Gotta acknowledge the bing copilot tho, it's pretty decent, but requires to use edge or bing app in android, so i only use it when I'm lazy or I'm searching for something too obscure for searx.

Vilian ,

SearX

i hate that name lol

ObsidianNebula ,

I've used Bing for a few years for the free rewards points and purchase rebates, and it has worked very well for me when it comes to normal searches including searches for software development. I very rarely have to turn to Google when trying to look something up, and as you mentioned, sometimes Google honestly gives me worse results. I will say however that I have found the image and video search on Bing to be significantly worse than Google's (which I already have some issues with). Not sure about the other search types like shopping or news since I never use them.

morbidcactus ,

I have a half thought that maybe bing works well for technical searches because it's the default search engine for edge and depending on the company, you may or may not be able to use a different browser and I'll be real, I tend to leave my work laptop setting as default as possible unless particularly awful.

Vilian ,

i read something a few years ago, that it was better, because bing don't have many users, so they couldn't rely on AI, and because everyone was using google, sites didn't optimize for bing SEO, not sure how much time it has, with microsoft obsession with AI

mozz , to Ukraine in Another Ukranian anti-aircraft missile unit shared their kill marks.
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

That's a lot of crewed aircraft

Pistcow ,

was

TheMightyCanuck , to Ukraine in The Ukranian Navy confirmed the destruction of the Russian "Tsiklon" missile ship, the last cruise missile carrying ship in the Black Sea.
@TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works avatar

It's so new, it's not even on this list from 2016 (it was finished 2018)

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b28c4da2-08dc-4afd-8040-9dbf6b4fafde.jpeg

Donut ,

What does them being circled signify?

TheMightyCanuck ,
@TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works avatar

Damaged but not sunk

Donut ,

Thanks. Work in progress, we'll call it

theneverfox , to Programmer Humor in What it's like to be a developer in 2024
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

I feel like I've been going crazy, web searching as a developer has become a daily nightmare and all the devs I ask are like "yeah, maybe it's gotten a bit worse? Haven't really noticed"

Mikina , to Programmer Humor in STOP DOING DEPENDENCY INJECTION

My favourite take on DI is this set of articles from like 12 years ago, written by a guy who has written the first DI framework for Unity, on which are the currently popular ones, such as Zenject, based on.

The first two articles are pretty basic, explaining his reasoning and why it's such a cool concept and way forward.

Then, there's this update:

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/4029a87e-866e-48b2-9be6-3d1091bbf2fc.png

Followed by more articles about why he thinks it was a mistake, and he no longer recommends or uses DI in Unity in favor of manual dependency injection. And I kind of agree - his main reasoning is that it's really easy for unnecessary dependencies to sneak up into your code-base, since it's really easy to just write another [Inject] without a second thought and be done with it.

However, with manual dependency injection through constructor parameters, you will take a step back when you're adding 11th parameter to the constructor, and will take a moment to think whether there's really no other better way. Of course, this should not be an relevant issue with experienced programmers, but it's not as inherently obvious you're doing something potentially wrong, when you just add another [Inject], when compared to adding another constructor parameter.

docAvid ,

Exactly. Dependency injection is good; if you need a framework to do it, you're probably doing it wrong; if your framework is too magical, you're probably not even doing it at all anymore.

NegativeLookBehind , to Ukraine in The Russian destroyer "Admiral Levchenko" is on fire in the Barents Sea - Pletenchuk, Navy spokesman
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

What a shame

That it hasn’t sunk yet

HaywardT , to Ukraine in Canadian-made Roshel Senator MRAP that hit an anti-tank mine. All Ukrainian soldiers on board survived without injuries.

It would be awesome if US police departments donated all their heavy tactical vehicles to your cause.

EmoDuck ,

And risk life and limb? Acorn season is coming up and without heavy military equipment for neighborhood patrols it will be a bloodbath /j

Railing5132 ,

Don't forget about school shootings - all those rural Texas LARPers need their tacti-cool trucks to sit on while elementary school kids are murdered too!

bolexforsoup , (edited ) to Programmer Humor in What it's like to be a developer in 2024
spoiler

sdfsaf

bhamlin ,

The S means sales

Scribbd ,

Full for Sales Extraction Optimization

mindbleach ,

E ruined themselves. They push generic garbage on certain keywords, no matter how specific the rest is.

mindlight , to Ukraine in Russian patriotism

Yet another sign of the Russian economy booming!
Average Russian now has access to the same combat vehicles as the servicemen at the front lines!

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