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by smcl 4y ago
Also things like cops shooting other cops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKEsx1hcRjU
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by smcl 4y ago
If we're going with the developer metaphor, it's more like you're making a bunch of low quality PRs that aren't adding any value to the product and the maintainer is choosing not to merge some of them. I don't think
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by smcl 4y ago
To be honest if you are comfortable writing Python you may want to just use plain old nbconvert. It'd take you a matter of minutes to get some kind of HTML output that you can then spend as much or as little time as you like customis
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by smcl 4y ago
The point of the aid is to assist Ukraine in its defence. Whether Putin chooses to continue to exhaust Russian military stockpiles and crater the Russian economy in pursuit of a war that looks increasingly unwinnable is his choice.
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by smcl 4y ago
This was my understanding too, I was wondering whether this user was confused or being dishonest :)
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by smcl 4y ago
Some soviet tanks are supposed to have reactive armour. The same way the Russian troops were supposed to be issued with body armor and the tank columns invading Kiev from the north were supposed to have fuel. I don’t think anyone’s particul
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by smcl 4y ago
Yep I don’t believe the described enormous, modern tank fleet exists. T-14 exists and probably does work fine, it just doesn’t exist in sufficient numbers to matter.
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by smcl 4y ago
So you're saying they've got this enormous fleet of tanks that they've yet to deploy but which could turn the tide of the war ... and they're just sitting on them? I don't buy it.
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by smcl 4y ago
I mean yeah they tend to actually have reactive armor and don't tend to be quite as vulnerable to the "turret tossing" as those operated by the Russians. But this isn't about western vs soviet tanks. The point was the &q
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by smcl 4y ago
> many thousands of high-quality Soviet tanks I'm curious why they have chosen not to deploy them, then.
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by smcl 4y ago
Brexit happened for many dumb reasons. The current government has been going through a patch of being deeply unpopular and have decided that banging the anti-immigration drum can help shore up their base. So in truth yeah it's unfortun
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by smcl 4y ago
No idea, probably not very well
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by smcl 4y ago
Well those who have left are effectively stranded where they are, unless they want to return. If you left as mobilisation was announced and you're in Georgia or Armenia right now you likely do not have permanent residency - many applie
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by smcl 4y ago
I commented somewhere a few weeks back[0] that we should probably be making it easier for Russians who are vulnerable (those who left during the mobilisation push, are vocally critical of Putin, or who simply want to not be part of it) and
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by smcl 4y ago
He failed in his bid for reelection though. I guess you could criticise comedians, satirists, cartoonists for failing to mobilise a revolutionary movement to oust him from office by force before any election, but I don't think that was
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by smcl 4y ago
I wasn't prepared for how good that looked. I'm not a big fan of orange, but for some reason it really works on that car. Great job :)
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by smcl 4y ago
I think more importantly they're forgetting about France who would probably "Frexit" before consenting to elevate English above French
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by smcl 4y ago
You're making it sound like this commenter has some nasty personal vendetta on Elon, when it's just that Elon's a goofy dude who keeps embarrassing himself in a very public way. This isn't Tall Poppy syndrome. This is Si
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by smcl 4y ago
Well that's what the claim was. I never bought it, to me it sounded very much like the "Dear Leader Kim observed during the factory tour that one of the machines was miscalibrated and that productivity could be increased tenfold&q
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by smcl 4y ago
I follow Hector on Mastodon and he's posted a few times in the past about how he dislikes the HN comments and often finds them toxic. He didn't implement any anti-HN measures in his sites before though, so there was clearly someth
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by smcl 4y ago
It’s a shame because most of the top 10 top level comments ended up being just pure praise and admiration, and all the negative ones were downvoted or debunked. I think the main disagreement was the people speculating on the identity of Lin
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by smcl 4y ago
You don't necessarily need to be a drug addict to enjoy edibles or a joint every now and again. It's a really fucking nice way to unwind once in a while. That said some bits of SG life seem good, I only visited briefly but the foo
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by smcl 4y ago
That's mental. I guess they're trying to encourage people abstain altogether, but what'll actually happen is anyone inclined to dabble will steer clear of the kind of substances that can be detected for a while after you take
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by smcl 4y ago
Yikes, Chris Rufo...
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by smcl 4y ago
Good to see you again News-Dog :D I'm actually happy to see the .li, .vn, .fo and .md mirrors, I only knew about .ph and .is
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by smcl 4y ago
Who is my FA?
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by smcl 4y ago
I believe the FA actually use the looser dimensions (meaning 45 metre width is ok), but you're right few clubs at the upper end of the pyramid will really push the boundaries so to speak. Might make for some fun cup encounters though
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by smcl 4y ago
There probably aren't many regulation football pitches that narrow ... but it is absolutely permitted. You can get this information plenty of places but since you raised FIFA, it's in their PDF containing the Laws Of The Game (d
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by smcl 4y ago
Certainly not perfectly, but compared to the chaos that is the world of crypto, positively mundane and peaceful.
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by smcl 4y ago
Interestingly the area of a football pitch has a pretty huge degree of tolerance - between 45-90m wide and 90-120m long - and iirc while they can be nearly square, they aren't allowed to be exactly square (i.e. you can't have a

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