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...20% of the attacks causing 80% of the casualties?

Were they the villains? I remember the rogue three-letter-agency executive being the BBEG.

Not "life", "wholeness". I also quit midway through the second book out of four, too much woo.

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…

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 do…

> 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 pa…

> 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 Russia…

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 manufac…

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 antici…

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, …

"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 resp…

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 Ternop…