Now every country that has the capacity to get a strategic deterrent will race to get one. So much for Biden's escalation management. Too bad Trump likes Russia so much he does everything not to step on their toes. With a heftier backing from the US the Russo-Ukrainian war would be over by now.

My counter-argument to norms being the main deterrent is simple. It’s never going to get easier to hide an Oak Ridge in your rogue state. The industrial scale of uranium enrichment has a fundamental limit, no matter how you do it.

You have to process massive piles of mass into a very small fraction. And you have to collect all those rocks. And that’s just for fission.

As long as any country with preemptive strike capability exists, and satellites exist… I just don’t see how anyone could do it.

Genuine question, if the US has that capability and Trump is the issue, why didn't Biden do what was needed to make the war over?

The US has every incentive to turn Ukraine into Russia’s Vietnam.

Biden took the approach of keeping 10 pairs of gloves on when dealing with Russia. Don't help too little not to make it too easy for the russians, don't help to much to avoid escalation.

I understand and agree with that. But you said "With a heftier backing from the US the Russo-Ukrainian war would be over by now.".

If that was viable, why would Biden not have done so during the years he had?

>"With a heftier backing from the US the Russo-Ukrainian war would be over by now."

And you know this how? Accordingly to all those initial predictions Russia should be already disintegrated and fallen under heavy sanctions, Putin's regime replaced etc. etc. I suspect all these analytics and think tanks should be cleaning toilets instead.

Also there is a line in that backing crossing which may lead to an all out nuclear war. Rational countries that matter understandably do not want to test it unless their existence is really threatened.

Very true and joining in on the thanks. Did you find a way to download it as a pdf though? I believe it is essential to be able to add notes and references when reading any learning material.

there are still a lot of problems to be solved using "classical" computer vision, especially in systems where you don't have easy access to GPU acceleration. I am a practitioner doing Simultaneous localization and mapping on compute-restricted platforms, so definitely going to read the Structure from Motion chapter.

have you tried ORB SLAM v3?

Quick reminder that Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, before that they invaded Georgia and before that they took Chechnia. And yet even now the popular belief in the West is that the war in Ukraine will be the end of it and that some sort of a peace deal can hold.

Thank you. It has been incredibly frustrating to watch the modern appeasement movement repeat the mistakes of the 1930s.

You cannot appease an expansionist power that's intent on restoring the glory of an empire from days gone by (real or imagined).

Few believe Russia would risk expansion into nato territory.

One report from early in the first Trump administration (possibly apocryphal) was when Trump was being briefed about NATO commitments to defend all member countries. Trump supposedly was surprised that the US was committed to going to war with Russia if they invaded Latvia. The Baltic countries are very exposed and could be reached by land only through a narrow gap with Poland.

In most of Ukraine that would be called "samohon", which can be translated as "self-brewed" and is an umbrella term for a bunch of liquors similar to those described in the article. Vodka (or "horilka" how it's known in Ukrainian) is a specific drink that's mostly ethanol and does not include any supplements.

that same kind of thinking encouraged Russia to go on a 3-day march on Kyiv. Ask an average participant of that march how that has gone for them. Oh wait

Historical facts are not "thinking". I don't get your snark to be honest. These Russians, are they in the room with us right now?

it's about the difference between "was" and "is". Sure, a bunch of states were formally parts of the Russian Empire as well as the USSR. That doesn't mean you can reduce them to "it's just Russia", those lands and peoples had history prior to being invaded and some have been lucky to have had some independence since the fall of the USSR. Considering that there are people out there literally fighting to the death not to be a part of the next russian imperial project i'd politely ask you to be a bit more sensitive about the whole thing.

Unlike Europe (which is not a state) or Yugoslavia (which no longer exists), Russia is a country actively trying to expand its borders by force. So using "in russia" as a geographic generalization seems inappropriate to me. Using ex-USSR or ex-Russian Empire would be factually correct, but bestowing "borderlessness" onto Russia is a harmful thing in my opinion.

The ex part there is a rather important distinction :-) and there is no "general area" called Russia.

Interesting to hide behind the defense you’re just stating facts while being so imprecise about everything else you’re saying.

Some vague, associative geographic vibes you experience are totally irrelevant to the detailed discussion of what various alcohols are called across (present day) countries.

And gp didn’t mention “Russians” in some vague accusatory sense, they clearly said “Russia” marched. A historical fact as it turns out. And the comparison was also precise: Russia’s pretense to march involved a wishful assertion of how many self-identified “Russians” inhabited the area.

i'm a Python main trying out neovim (using kickstart) and couple of weeks in my journey is a bit frustrating as switching between virtual environments is a hassle, jupyter notebooks aren't quite useful outside the browser and setting up the dap has been a challenge. Setting up a fresh vscode install with all of the plugins 'launch.json's and takes me ~20 minutes at this point. Not giving up on neovim as telescope, treesitter and the no-electron experience are a joy

The seemingly lack of support of jupyter notebooks was the thing that kept me from giving it a honest try. I want the same experience as in the code editor.

It is wild, has been since Feb 2022, it's also "the new normal" we really want to get out of. (Not desperately enough to give in tho). Also keep in mind that this is only one of the stressors associated with war. Others include hearing about civilian casualties every week, reading and hearing horror stories from people who escaped occupation or were liberated (e.g. Bucha, Kherson...), learning about friends and acquaintances falling in battle, military draft, uncertain, but likely dire future prospects and the list goes on. So yeah, days go like years. Don't repeat our mistakes and write to your representatives.