Soviet Computer Software and Applications in the 1980's
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ahahaha at the pathetic tankies crying in the comments
their entire lives are based on the glorification of being a loser
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The Russian trinary computer! It's definitely not because they had no idea wtf they were doing.
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Pretty telling when all their heroes are 100+ y.o. dead neets and history's biggest losers
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and its has like 200+ upvotes, I'm not shocked the subreddit called progamming is filled with
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Being a loser is better than being giga losers that they are now. Even NK makes better phones than Russia nowadays and probably artillery guns and they were the teachers of NK and China. Soviet Union was better than Russia in every way and to this day only Estonia had higher gdp per capita than Soviet Unions adjusted gdp per capita from 1990 and that if we would believe Soviet Union economical growth would be 0% for 30 years and don’t count the newly Estonian inflation of 22,2%. So it’s generally kek that ex Soviet Union folks thinks their lives are now better than under Soviet Union especially Ukraine who is legit a mid tier third world country.
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Put those meds in your butt
If you count this year Estonian 22,2% inflation they will be poorer than Soviet Union (cheked it actually 22,7%)
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Neighbor idk what Frankenstein shit you're doing with those numbers but here is a PPP chart normalized to 2011 dollars. (Inflation is accounted for)
Also it's just well known that people in the Baltics live much better today than they did in the USSR.
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Former Soviet Union ? Dude Russian gdp is 11000 today and Russia is over 50% of Soviet population than Ukraine big country the gdp per capita is 3000 usd Russia and Ukraine is 180 milions than Belarus and Kazakhstan are 9000usd that’s around 20 millions than Baltics are like 10 million and they and they together have around 20000 gdp per capital usd in 2020 that’s 10k in 1990 money or 17k from 2011. Those neighbor didn’t had economical growth since than and now have inflation around 20% so if you calculate the inflation they will go to Soviet lvl and former Soviet countries already on average live worse.
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Russia has a few okay-ish things but they can't afford to actually build them for themselves lol
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Russian programmers from the 90s were apparently top tier because they were working with shit obsolete hardware. Having to keep a careful eye on memory and only having a potato to run programs on meant they were good at conserving the resources they had.
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True, we need to put all those zoomers on potato computers and mb the start making good programs and video games. Like mgs2 and ff10 even now looks more complex than many new games
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Zoomers are literally boomer tier with tech because their shit works instantly and they're coddled by proprietary software. They don't know how to navigate folders, don't know what a directory is and just have everything in one bloated "downloads" folder on their phone. They need to be forced to grow up with Commodore 64s, unironically.
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I mean honestly starting out on Arduino stuff instead of python would probably be very beneficial.
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I'm glad Moore's Law is dead because eventually our era of computational decadence will come to an end and we'll RETVRN to an era where efficiency is king.
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more than moore and carbon nanotubes will save it
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They will just start making big phones
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Russian hackers reign supreme this day
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It turns out communism and the whole "the customer is always wrong" attitude with no quality control is pretty terrible for electronics.
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Coomsumer doesn’t knows what he wants so he is wrong.
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I wish we had documentation like this again
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This is like long covid but for communists.
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Ivan be computing
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I'm kinda disappointed we never got to see the Soviet Union try and compete on computers. It would have been very funny to watch tankies seethe that the USSR was behind Argentina in getting internet.
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If Soviet Union existed we would had way better phones and pc’s now since Burgerstan would had motivation.
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Read later
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