I'm also pretty happy with the pro plan, it's pretty convenient to use as its default most places, free storage and transfers for images, no surprise costs.
Haven't seen the appeal of docker desktop though as linux user...
Did something similar recently for fun and cost was ~20e for co2 sensor, attached to a raspberry pi pico or esp32 and it ends up being 27-30e. (add some more sensors like co or gas for 10e each, a mini display for 5e, hook up to home assistant or telegram and ends up being more useful)
To be fair, QA on these things tends to be valuable, so perhaps cost might be justified.
Cost likely can go down if you know what to buy, I didn't and just bought what a reputable seller had.
If you meant Russia, there has to be consequences for its actions, so yes. Nobody wanted the war or to have to impose sanctions.
If you meant it as a praise, biggest nuclear power, after some point it doesn't matter anymore, both US and Russia can destroy the world by themselves. (also note that warheads on wikipedia doesn't track MIRVs, each of those can split off in space and target multiple cities on reentry)
In NATO there's also France/UK that can destroy Russia by themselves.
> If the sanctions didn’t work before, I don’t know why they would work now.
Just look at short term effects: Ruble is down 30%, Russian banks in EU are going bankrupt, interest rate jumped to 20% so anyone with a loan in Russia is screwed... There's talk of seizing people's savings... Nobody can buy foreign currency... Perhaps they'll go back to trading with Kent cigar packs like in former USSR.
Longer term, it's assumptions, it's doubtful sanctions will go away any time soon, I'd look at Iran and Cuba for possible effects.
It also decouples EU and everyone else from Russia and it grants some immunity to Russian influence. (harder to do election meddling if you're cut off and everyone is against you)
> I don’t have the answers, but certainly any move toward more militarization of the world is usually a bad thing.
Proper defense does tend to prevent invasions. It's a bitter pill to swallow for a lot of folk that Russia will invade at any opportune time and it's best to be prepared.
> Seems like this barrage of sanctions and anti-Russian sentiment will do nothing but push Russia further toward China.
It seems like it's doing massive damage to the Russian Economy. They can go towards China but that won't help much, plus China has ambitions of its own so it may end up de facto a vassal of China if it's not careful...
> No one seems to care about arriving at a solution that will minimize bloodshed.
All the sanctions were announced beforehand, Putin still decided to invade... The only way to minimize bloodshed now is to force a withdrawal and get some guarantees somehow it won't happen again. (either Ukraine in NATO or properly armed by NATO)
> A first-year student is unlikely to understand C++ template metaprogramming, or just about any Haskell code, but that's not to say they should always be avoided in production code.
They're just the people to read a book on the topic and try to use it everywhere...
Docker hub is cheap enough and convenient enough to compete against self hosted.
For self hosting you would need to manage/monitor, factor in redundancy, make it somehow easy to access to other tooling, etc...
Just the redundancy and storage would be more then 7$ pro plan dockerhub has.
If people already have setups in place for other things then it might make sense.
Then there's aws ecr and others... I don't like things that can surprise me when it comes to billing.