This also seems a convenient bit of propaganda, of course they would say that to scare the Russians.

If it’s true, it’s a really cool feat of engineering though! Can’t wait for the fog of war to lift and see what cool civilian applications all this drone tech will have.

UwUpeans, so great, and so horrid at the same time.

You sir/madam/gentlebeing, are a most delightfully twisted individual.

They’re currently recruiting/pressganging as much, so they’ve clearly chosen war of attrition against Ukraine that just don’t have the population to sustain it. I think the population ratio of Russia : Ukraine is about 10 : 1, and Russia keeps stealing people from allied countries as well.

Yeah, suck it mars, world record planet right here.

I agree, and that’s why they’re outlawed.

Unfortunately, Russia decided early on that international law and relations are an acceptable price for their war. That means some bad stuff will come their way as well, and very little sympathy will be heard from the rest of the world.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

Lol. Check your privilege.

A. Do a carbon footprint analysis of your life, if it’s above 2,5 tons coe/year you’re a net burden on the planet. My country is as well, although considerably lower than the US.

B. It is possible for you to be a paragon of environmentalism and still live in a country with inefficient systems for water, infrastructure, zoning, industry and food production. Not to mention live in a culture of unsustainable lifestyle. Many Chinese or Indian persons are simply too poor to have a major impact on the environment, but their national industrial practices drive up the average pollution to levels comparable to the US (although still lower). Most US people aren’t as poor, and also have shitty industry standards, and also the means to change that without losing your standing internationally.

C. Multiple countries are shitty, in fact most of the non-developing world countries are a net burden.

D. As opposed to the other countries at the top, the US has had the economy, data, and access to resources to be able to something about it for generations, whereas most have had half the time and considerable need of modernising.

E. The US is much larger than the other countries, and could with quite simple measures make great impact and help pressure other great polluters.

Graphene, the superconductor hoax, the quantum electron model all would like to disagree.

Even though you might not need to calculate anything with it, it certainly applies in your daily life. (although the electron model maybe mostly for high school students)

It’s always worthwhile to learn new things!

And programming is a tool, so it’s typically made to be clear how to use it, although of course people will differ on what needs to be clarified the most.

My experience is that there’s way too much discussion in what tool to pick, it doesn’t matter that much and almost all of the common languages will allow you to do all the things. And even though some will be better adapted for certain applications, it’s easy to pick up the new tool when relevant, and you’ll be that much ahead by being well versed in one.

As for how to learn, I find that you kind of need to figure out the basic syntax in each language (loops, conditionals, output, memory management, typology, lists, function calling, maybe classes/libraries if you’re fancy), and then start doing projects.

A nice intro for C# is the C# Player’s Guide by R B Whitaker, using some gamification and storytelling to get you through the basics, and even leave you prepared to tackle your first projects (by practicing design philosophy, how to break down projects, etc).

Otherwise, Python is a lot of fun, it’s made to be very easy to jump into, and then it’s fully featured to do anything you’d like it to. Unfortunately all my resources for it are in my local language, but it has many many users so I’m sure there’s great resources to be found in your own language.

I’m comfortable saying yes to that

Notice how the US is among the largest polluters per capita by quite the margin.

IIRC, a tree absorbs up to 3 tons/year, and takes a bunch of years to get to that stage.

The trees also don’t sequester underground, and will need surface area staying as forest for the rest of time.

As many have echoed: an ounce of prevention saves a pound of cure. Most bang for our buck would be to change our lifestyle and regulations. But as that’s not feasible we’re at the geo engineering and artificial sequestration stage.

Thanks for linking!

But lol, that is such an obviously biased report with vague eyebrow waving suggestions that immigrants are to blame for everything.

None of the charts or trends they present are consistent in their effect, haven’t controlled for anything (the major point is lowered GDP per capita while immigration spiked five years ago, but the Brexit drop started well before then, and the exodus of specialist EU-migrants isn’t even mentioned), and don’t actually say anything except look at this red line next to a thing getting worse.

CPS is why you should view every “Think tank” as a lobbyist organisation, and their materials as sales flyers…

Wow, this is a useless editorial.

No link to the report, unclear if the report takes into account years since migration (it takes time to learn language, develop networks, and climb ladders), some indication that the trouble is that migrants end up in low paying jobs (which of course would decrease GDP), and no comment on the fairly obvious question on what the integration policy says about time frames.

Also, it puts all of the post-Brexit decline at the door of the immigrants, which seems ridiculous.

This reads like a hit piece from conservatives in preparation for election season.

Not really, it has been a defining cultural identity since the cold war, defining all of Putins rule, and is well documented in both state position and citizen sentiment for decades.

Russia has a national narrative that it is unfairly and unrightfully sabotaged by the West in all things, and has to fight not to succumb to the hateful/imperial west.

Edit: oh I misunderstood, Russian hostility against the west is a defining feature of Russia. West’s issue with Russia also predates the war, but has certainly increased in intensity as they’ve turned more offensive in Georgia, Crimea, and the like.

I’m not for Russia in the war, but to be fair, it’s not an unreasonable response to the increasingly hostile and permissive West.

It’s still an act of war of a reprehensible terrorist state making itself an international pariah, but it’s still a clever stratagem in their position.

For anyone else allergic to apples, maybe consider a pear, or an orange.

The concept is to imagine something you wouldn’t typically crave.

This is such an understated but useful description in this context. It’s also how I understood algebra for applied matrix computation.

Real tip I received recently: Ask yourself if you’d eat an apple (instead of whatever you’re craving), if not, then it’s not because you’re hungry.

1500 main battle tanks is what the Russian factories report to have produced 2023, of which 1180-1280 are refurbished from storage, according to The Guardian.