Horrible. Where are the hackers working for the west?

Combine dumb, unqualified people with a rigid command structure and this is what you get.

Tried using Flutter a year ago to make a simple Mac app. I don't think it was ready at the time. Also poor documentation.

Well, I've been programming since 1986 and I had to buy all the compilers I used. For the Mac: Lightspeed Pascal, Lightspeed C and Metrowerks. I wish I had the money to buy MPW. Linux then was just a glint in Linus's eyes. We didn't have the internet with easy access to pirated software. I didn't do BB's so I don't know about that area. Once I went to uni in the 90's I started using Usenet but even then I didn't download any pirated software. Microsoft was virtually giving away Visual Studio/Visual Basic to University students. Back then I also remember reading Linus' arguments with Tanenbaum over microkernels and this funny language called Python and its creator unveiling/supporting it on Usenet. Around that time more and more tools were being offered for free and as a poor student I was delighted. Also we got access to free Unix tools since as we were doing work on Unix systems. Oh yeah, I remembered using this cool functional language called Miranda in one of my courses but was sad that it was a paid product. And then I heard about the debut of Haskell which was sort of a free answer to Miranda.

I remember paying something like $400-500 for Glockenspiel C++ for MS-DOS, which was based on AT&T's cfront and compiled to C code. Not long after that, Turbo C++ and Zortech C++ made things a lot easier, since they didn't compile through C, like cfront did. Those were in the $150-200 range, iirc. I also remember paying for PC-YACC from Abraxas, something like $400.

Horrible behaviour, yet his supporters still support him.

> I think it's just a small segment of terminally online people that are still hardcore supporters.

On HN alone there are thousands of Trump supporters. It's completely insane because you'd think that they have zero excuses but it does not make any difference at all.

Six months ago they most likely couldn't point out Greenland or Denmark on a map and now they have many opinions and all of them are informed by the same crazy reasonings.

My "small segment" was in the context of everyday people in the offline world, as opposed to the terminally online which HN clearly has a higher percentage of.

And yes, we had all hoped that more access to information would help people reason better. But it mostly seems to help them rationalize more.

He’s not.

Is the US attacking Russia and China and India as well because they’re the biggest threats?

India has neither the ability nor the desire to attack the US. The very idea is silly.

The country has its hands full enough coping with its state of quasi-chaos and belligerent nuclear-armed neighbors without taking on the worlds leading superpower for absolutely no reason at all.

> India has neither the ability nor the desire to attack the US.

Extraordinarily wrong on the first part.

Some countries have even outsourced some of their cyberattack capability to Indian companies in the past, and not for cost reasons.

You need to give some details and arguments on your extraordinary claim because what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

The US is almost certainly ready to attack China, Russia, India, and every other country. Currently attacking? No, at least not on this scale.

Also: Why is India on your list? "Biggest", certainly, but in what way are they a threat?

I read GP as a commentary of BRICS. There may/may not be interference there by the US and/or Five Eyes.

https://www.cybercom.mil/About/Mission-and-Vision/ This is a 4-star command.

No: 1) big bully only bullies little guys. 2) big guys have nuclear deterrent.

Almost certainly not. The first impeachment trial revealed that Trump's foreign policy was for his personal benefit. It's pretty obvious Trump has figured out that nations, corporations and oligarchs will pay him for favors. I think the dots are connectable.

Trump is incapable of causing all this havok alone. Im sure he’s a puppet. Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, Minnesota in the last week alone. How can he keep track of all that when he’s sleeping in meetings and refusing to read daily briefings?

Weird that India, who does a lot of business with Russia, was not affected.

Maybe because the intended target are immigrants who purportedly put a higher load on welfare and public services:

> "The Trump administration is bringing an end to the abuse of America's immigration system by those who would extract wealth from the American people," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said. "Immigrant visa processing from these 75 countries will be paused while the State Department reassesses immigration processing procedures to prevent the entry of foreign nationals who would take welfare and public benefits," he said.

Since the Indian diaspora is famously known to be the wealthiest on average in the US, they wouldn't be targeted under such reasoning.

I gave GH actions a chance when our org moved from Bamboo but I still hate it. I think i have to do more to get a build going.