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Text boxes should jiggle where I click them, not always in the middle. Drop-down boxes do this correctly.

Ukrainians were the Soviets. It's like Scotland complaining about British colonial policy.

You can fit a Jetson Orin Nano on a winged drone. It has plenty enough power to run a vision model.

Yeah, just a smaller version, naval CIWS are designed to shoot down missiles.

Dazzle camouflage doesn't work on killer drones. Even civilian LLMs recognize that the object on the photograph is a military truck, except they can't explain why it's been painted to resemble a zebra. Most dedicated machine vision models easily lock in on a boxy shape moving along a road. If anything, the stripes make the trucks easier to see.

The real answer to killer drones is a CIWS that can cover 2pi steradians and attack multiple drones at the same time, because otherwise it will be just swarmed by drones that quietly glide towards it, engines off, from several directions before entering the final dive.

Why won't EMS providers strip down their services to the level where Medicare/Medicaid rates completely cover their costs?

People (like the guy from the article) literally take Uber rides instead of ambulances, so they are a reasonable substitute good in many cases.

It says, "Officials are checking whether travelers have received draft notifications".

Which means not everyone in this age bracket is prevented from leaving, only literal draft dodgers.

Why not conscript the bulk of their manpower reserves and actually invade in earnest?

Because it's hugely politically unpopular. There's a risk that this will happen after the parliamentary election this autumn.

The draft in Russia now covers all males from 18 to 30. In that age range, men can no longer leave Russia.

This is incorrect.

That's because Donbass is seen as useless. It's like bombing upstate New York or Michigan when invading the US.

Because he thought he wouldn't need to use them. He expected Ukraine to accept the inevitable and not provide meaningful resistance. He almost got away with it, too. Had the Russian army launched its missile stockpiles at Ukrainian powerplants on day 1, it would've done enough damage to overwhelm the country. However, he declared that "Ukrainians were not our enemies, only the Ukrainian leadership and specific armed nationalist groups were", so he couldn't have attacked the country's civilian infrastructure until after the citizens of Ukraine decided that Russia was their enemy.

Russia has destroyed most of Ukraine's traditional defense manufacturing sector a long time ago. The problem is that Ukraine has decentralized and/or offshored a lot of its manufacturing.

There's no need for a massive assembly plant to produce a lot of drones from dual-purpose components. Most of these components arrive across the EU border and go to random warehouses that have been converted into assembly shops. There the drones are put together, flashed with the latest firmware and sent to the armed forces, where they are armed and launched.

The bigger problem Russia faces is the surprisingly sorry state of its AA. It's been designed to detect and intercept strategic bombers and multirole fighters, but it's been almost 40 years since Mathias Rust, and it still can't handle a cheap and slow flying target, relying only on point defense systems that can be and are overwhelmed. Ukraine has inherited the same Soviet tech but managed to build a better detection system that collects and processes the data from thousands of cheap listening stations across the country.

Napoleon lost the bulk of his army in the summer.

Napoleon planned his Russian campaign extensively: he had supply hubs set up all over the Duchy of Warsaw, with feeder routers from Prussia keeping them full.

What he didn't anticipate was how bad the roads in Russia would be and how long the Russian army would retreat along them. You can't resupply an army that is marching on a narrow dirt road through a forest because it's blocking its own supply lines.

I wish HN supported triple backticks.

How does it compare to CommonMark, which I think was the first formally specified Markdown dialect?

"Ceci n'est pas un chien"

My son is insufficiently verbal (he's of the kind that communicates with quotes, but really struggles to express or understand new sentences), and I am quite sure he has concepts, feelings and ideas.

"Massively relaxing and feels right/normal" instantly reminded me of hobby tunnelling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling

If you're a concerned parent: set your children's ages in their device accounts.

And if you're a concerned government, make OS vendors support it and make parents criminally responsible for not setting it.

There are still enough people speaking Ukrainian even if we roll back the clock to 2019.

  Lviv = 2.5m
  Vinnytsia = 1.5m
  Ivano-Frankivsk = 1.3m
  Khmelnytskyi = 1.2m
  Rivne = 1.1m
  Ternopil = 1m
  Volyn = 1m
  Chernivtsi = 0.8m
  Zakarpattia = 0.8m (I've subtracted the Hungarians)

The problem with MUMPS (and RPG) is that there's so much legacy code written in the old style that you have to learn to read and write it anyway.

Separating locomotives from trains next?

And then, finally, hump yards?

In C# it's not a lone ?, it's two operators: ?. and ?[

Lua could have ?. ?[ ?" ?{ and ?(

LuaJIT has always been a superset of 5.1.

Mike Pall wrote in the issue that it's easier to parse. If they get rid of the ternary operator, I'll ask him again to drop the period.

Because 5.2 had a bunch of breaking changes. https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#8

Cloudflare does or at least did use it a lot.

I felt really sorry the author died an early death.

Everyone who knew Lermonotov personally thought Michel was a massive asshole. His biggest hobbies were destroying existing relationships by seducing the women and badmouthing everyone in his vicinity.