Sounds like a good day to put a little extra butter on your crumpet.

Ok I think we have some pretty fundamental differences here. Firstly, I never suggested nor do I believe anyone has suggested giving up. This is not a choice between having elections or giving up democracy, it’s a choice between having elections now or waiting until later. This war will not last forever, one way or another.

Secondly, I never said the election had to be perfect and I disagree in the strongest possible terms that it’s better to “make a good effort” or have as good of an election that you can under the circumstances. An election must be free and fair, or it’s actively damaging to the democratic status of a country. I don’t see how any of your proposed solutions here can result in a free and fair election and I personally would not accept anything less than that so we have a fundamental disagreement here.

Appreciate you taking the time to come back and write up your thoughts though.

That’s really interesting. It must be very much dependent on where you are because my first class at uni they literally said the opposite. “Everyone who didn’t take xyz class in high school take this sheet with a bunch of extra shit you need to learn before next week. Good luck.”

I have to say I’m very doubtful of that but I promise to do my best to read your response with an open mind. Have a good night, mate.

For real? A lot of high school subjects were pre requisites for enrolling in my degree here and it’d be quite tough to get through the degree without the foundation laid in those subjects. At the very least they’d have to extend the university course by probably a year or so.

Ok well, maybe I’m wrong but I really don’t see how you can have a free and fair election when:

• 3.5 million Ukrainians are currently living under occupation.
• 1 million Ukrainians are currently drafted into the armed forces. Having them vote would create a huge logistical challenge on top of the already massive challenge of the day to day operations.
• Drone strikes on Ukranian cities are a daily reality. Russia has shown a willingness to target civilian populations to create terror. Any large gathering such as that required to vote would be essentially suicide.
• You mentioned that defence would be a problem…I feel this understates the issue. Every available resource is being used right now to protect the continued existence of Ukraine as a country. There is nothing to spare.
• Russia has the opportunity to conduct the ultimate voter suppression, disproportionately targeting pro Zelinsky electorates with attacks and making it unsafe to vote.

This is what I can come up with off the top of my head as a layman. I’m sure there are other issues I haven’t touched on.

I’d love to hear a coherent explanation about how you can possibly have fair and free elections under these conditions. Having an election during wartime is not the same as having an election when you are under occupation and having your capital city droned every day.

Maybe people get mad because it seems like you haven’t thought this through. I mean maybe it would be easier than I think but it seems basically impossible to hold a fair and safe election under the conditions Ukraine is dealing with right now.

Things take time. The fact that he hasn’t gone to mars yet doesn’t prove that going to mars requires him to be a cunt.

He has all the money. He can go to Mars without being a cunt if he wants.

I’ve found LLMs in general helpful for coding specifically when I have to use tools or languages that I only have a passing familiarity with.

In my life I’ve used Gemini for some fitness coaching alongside other sources of information and it has been quite helpful and motivating.

Not necessarily. Complex shapes yes, but simple shapes you don’t really need a computer model. The main limitation on building height historically has been to do with materials from memory. It’s been a while since I did structural engineering though so correct me if I’m wrong.

So it weighs almost as much as no more than 45.93g, what’s the issue?

/s

Yeah for sure, I actually watched Batman Begins at the cinema this weekend for the 20th anniversary and I’m itching to jump back into the Arkham games after that. Such a great series overall.

The Batman Arkham games had some pretty awesome soundtracks.

Exactly! They say AI but what do they mean? GPTs, LLMs, GANs, CNNs…do they hate RAG as well?

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Acronyms are a pet peeve of mine. Basically useless and now you need tribal knowledge to understand what the hell someone is talking about.

The normal amount is what? That can’t be right.

I believe the CEO is a former Disney exec as well. I remember reading up about this when they were messing with all the review scores for the Star Wars sequels.

Any specific kind of pasta?

Remove the bottom text and it’ll be more accurate.