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Blue Footed Booby posted:It's funny you say this, because text is all git is really meant for. It was just designed by the most programmer to ever program. It's a deeply unpleasant piece of software that the most humorless grognards treat as above criticism. A lot of git’s tooling is designed around the assumption that the line is the important unit of change, which makes it hard to read a diff of a sentence or paragraph. There are alternate diff viewers that do word/sentence/paragraph consideration but things like blame still work on lines.
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Volmarias posted:Honestly I would love it if this is how legislators could actually introduce legislation, especially if you could easily see specifically what sections were stricken or added. I've seen bills that are basically context-less diffs, which would be greatly helped by the innovation of showing the surrounding text.
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Jan 9, 2024 20:56
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Rust Martialis posted:
You forgot the best part, the comment /* * If the new process paused because it was * swapped out, set the stack level to the last call * to savu(u_ssav). This means that the return * which is executed immediately after the call to aretu * actually returns from the last routine which did * the savu. * * You are not expected to understand this. */
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Jan 9, 2024 21:18
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Tuna-Fish posted:What? There are several. At least vim-mode, vimpulse and their successor, Evil. Apparently there's no get-the-joke-mode
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Jan 9, 2024 21:20
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Rust Martialis posted:Oh, like Emacs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc
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Jan 9, 2024 22:45
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Thread about a new book by some journalist from Time magazine: https://twitter.com/mylovanov/status/1744316501228650858 Book is The Showman by Simon Shuster. Apparently contains interesting stories about behind-the-scenes happenings in earlier stages of the Russian full invasion: "Around the 55th day of the invasion, the battle for the Donbas had started, and Zelensky invited me to his office to talk. His aides warned that his schedule was erratic. Lately, they said, so was his mood." "A rift emerged between Zelensky and top general Valerii Zaluzhnyi over military strategy, with the commander gaining a cult following that challenged the president's standing as Ukraine's hero" "But as the Russians went into retreat, Zelensky grew more confident. He formed his own military priorities, and they were not always aligned with the General’s. Soon the rift widened." Other books about the war, in English: https://kyivindependent.com/10-ukrainian-books-about-russias-war-available-in-english/ Now all I need is to have more time (and be less lazy) to read some of these
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Jan 9, 2024 23:15
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Volmarias posted:Commit: 8fdb2af1a3b61a0deb3ee49da757975967269b58 You threw me for a real good loop here. Reading on the app, this was the first post I hadn't read and I wasn't sure if the app was loving up or if this was a real post 
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Jan 10, 2024 02:36
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Nervous posted:You threw me for a real good loop here. Reading on the app, this was the first post I hadn't read and I wasn't sure if the app was loving up or if this was a real post This is the commit that tried to remove the load bearing slurs, sorry
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Jan 10, 2024 03:15
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https://www.newsweek.com/zoya-konovalova-putin-propagandist-state-tv-found-dead-russia-1858549 Head of Russian state-run propaganda TV found dead alongside ex-husband after mysterious ‘poisoning’. So while the battlelines aren't moving very quickly, there seems to be plenty of 'important' Russians dying. I can recall several killings going off that were highlighted in the news, (for example, that russian war blogger who got exploded via a gifted bust of himself, and a further list here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_businesspeople_(2022%E2%80%932023) ) I'm not gonna say that Ukraine should or shouldn't do things like this, but one does wonder if assassinations like this one will increase, or even become a new expected norm in this war.
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Jan 10, 2024 20:57
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Dull Fork posted:I'm not gonna say that Ukraine should or shouldn't do things like this, but one does wonder if assassinations like this one will increase, or even become a new expected norm in this war. Hm, how much evidence is there about which of these killings are by Ukraine? Most of the oligarch murders for example seem obviously done by other Russian oligarchs (including Putin)
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Jan 10, 2024 21:02
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jaete posted:Hm, how much evidence is there about which of these killings are by Ukraine? Most of the oligarch murders for example seem obviously done by other Russian oligarchs (including Putin) In this case of the dead state-run tv channel lady... its true she could have been going against Putin, but I kinda doubt it? but yes, for sure there were killings Putin did to keep oligarchs in line.
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Jan 10, 2024 21:15
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it's kinda hard to tell since all the english articles appear to be copying the same basic set of info from one another, and the russian articles don't have much either themselves (i figure everyone's just vomiting out the same TASS wire) but is there anything that indicates this person was actually important? afaict she was basically the equivalent of an editor at a local ABC affiliate channel? she wasn't the head of _all of VGTRK_, she was an editor for their Kuban regional office. idk why Ukraine would care about her in particular absent some info that im missing i would expect it's more likely she somehow pissed off a local crime boss or some poo poo
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Jan 10, 2024 22:19
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Dull Fork posted:https://www.newsweek.com/zoya-konovalova-putin-propagandist-state-tv-found-dead-russia-1858549 Yeah remember when the Russians poisoned the wife of Ukraine’s spymaster? Probably some retribution going on there.
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Jan 10, 2024 22:25
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Remember when Russia poisoned Ukraine's president? Yeah, this war is going to have important people getting murked.
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Jan 11, 2024 02:37
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Ynglaur posted:Remember when Russia poisoned Ukraine's president? Yeah, this war is going to have important people getting murked. I hadn't, but now I looked it up and have learned! Back in 2004... jesus, two decades ago. Qtotonibudinibudet posted:afaict she was basically the equivalent of an editor at a local ABC affiliate channel? she wasn't the head of _all of VGTRK_, she was an editor for their Kuban regional office. idk why Ukraine would care about her in particular Yeah I think this is a fair assessment, and I chose a bad example to frame my question off of. The death of that guy via a bust seems more directly an obvious assassination.
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Jan 11, 2024 06:21
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Dull Fork posted:https://www.newsweek.com/zoya-konovalova-putin-propagandist-state-tv-found-dead-russia-1858549 I dont think Ukrainians would care enough to put valuable resources to off the lady in charge of a regional tv station from neither capital nor frontline region.
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Jan 12, 2024 18:09
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Western aid to Ukraine update. I'll paste the whole thing in case you're like me and have exceeded your free views on The Guardian app. "Rishi Sunak visits Kyiv after announcing rise in UK military aid to Ukraine to Ł2.5bn" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/rishi-sunak-to-visit-kyiv-after-announcing-rise-in-uk-military-aid-to-ukraine quote:The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is visiting Ukraine on Friday to meet his counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as the UK announced it would provide further military aid to the country over the coming year.
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Jan 12, 2024 18:22
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literally the only good thing Rishi or the Tories have ever done
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Jan 12, 2024 18:45
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:literally the only good thing Rishi or the Tories have ever done I assume it’s an accident
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Jan 12, 2024 19:33
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Subjunctive posted:I assume it’s an accident Every British PM wants to be Churchill, and sometimes not the "racist narcissist" part.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:36
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That was the biggest part!
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Jan 12, 2024 19:38
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fatherboxx posted:I dont think Ukrainians would care enough to put valuable resources to off the lady in charge of a regional tv station from neither capital nor frontline region. Really? I would. Especially after seeing the level of wetwork they've already admitted to. The Antonovsky bridge (unwitting) suicide bombing, which at least had military applications. The near miss of Dugin via car bomb, which did kill his daughter. The SBU admitting they killed a traitor (Illia Kyva) politician who fled to Russia. I'm willing to bet that washed up former politician was about as 'important' to the war as said TV lady. And they realllly hate collaborators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Russia_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#After_February_2022 The economist quotes some SBU figures who are uncomfortable with these 'marginal figures' being targets. https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/09/05/inside-ukraines-assassination-programme The Economist posted:But a subsequent string of operations targeting mid-level propagandists showed a trend that few of the insiders interviewed for this article were happy with. “These are marginal figures,” says one source in sbu counter-intelligence. “It makes me uncomfortable.” The former sbu fifth-directorate officer suggests the operations were designed to impress the president rather than bring victory any closer. “Clowns, prostitutes and jokers are a constant around the Russian government,” he says. “Kill one of them, and another will appear in their place.” With Ukraine getting less aid military aid, I absolutely see the SBU/GUR trying to be maximally destructive. Taking easy kills where they can, even if it doesn't change any battle lines.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:38
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OddObserver posted:Every British PM wants to be Churchill, and sometimes not the "racist narcissist" part. These are Tory's we are talking about. I think "racist narcissists" are the first two words in the party's manifesto.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:40
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Before meeting Sunak, Zelensky finished his trip to Baltic states and it was pretty successful. Lithuania promised €200 million worth of support over the next three years, Latvia committed over 1% of its gross domestic product to military assistance and €500 million for reconstruction. And Estonia pledged €1.2 billion and a extra 0.25% of its GDP to military assistance every year over the next three years.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:52
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Dull Fork posted:Really? I would. Especially after seeing the level of wetwork they've already admitted to. The ones you mention are different, and for example Ilya Dugin was the intended target of the assassination that killed Darya Dugina but due to a change in plans he wasn't in the car. Meanwhile Russia has a strong domestic assassination scene, whether done by the state, Kadyrov, oligarchs, other organized crime, gangs, opposition groups... when a relative nobody gets poisoned, I would first look at personal enemies, family, organized crime etc. rather than a foreign power that has limited assets inside Russia.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:54
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Nenonen posted:The ones you mention are different, and for example Ilya Dugin was the intended target of the assassination that killed Darya Dugina but due to a change in plans he wasn't in the car. This to me seems to mean that yes, Ukraine would be willing to spend their limited clandestine resources on such acts.
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Jan 12, 2024 20:30
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Im surprised that the SBU hasnt collected on the arch traitor Yanuvovich.
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Jan 12, 2024 21:08
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Dull Fork posted:What? I called it a 'near miss' because I knew Dugin was the target. Dugin and Dugina were both non-military, propaganda mouthpieces they just missed the more important one. I'm not sure how that makes it different than the assassination of Vladlen Tatarsky, the russian milblogger who got bombed via a bust of himself. Or the assassination of Illiya Kyva. All 3 killed were non-military propaganda mouthpieces were they not? I'd even go farther to say of the 4 targets, the least 'nobody' among them they didn't even get. There's no evidence or even a clear suggestion that Tatarsky was killed by Ukraine either. Why do you think that SBU in particular was involved in the assassination of a vocal critic of Russian army leadership who was speaking at a joint owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin? Instead of that being a message directed at Prigozhin himself? And how did they do it? Because while I don't doubt that there would be willingness to do it, it's another matter if it would be worth it to do such an elaborate operation to take out an utterly replaceable and, ultimately, useful media person. Alexander Dugin OTOH is a demagogue often attributed as influencing Putin's views and offing him would have had some symbolic value as a face of Russian imperialism. For that matter, who do you think killed Prigozhin? Ukraine or Russia? Surely Ukrainians would have loved to get him?
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Jan 12, 2024 21:14
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Nenonen posted:There's no evidence or even a clear suggestion that Tatarsky was killed by Ukraine either. Why do you think that SBU in particular was involved in the assassination of a vocal critic of Russian army leadership who was speaking at a joint owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin? Instead of that being a message directed at Prigozhin himself? And how did they do it? Because while I don't doubt that there would be willingness to do it, it's another matter if it would be worth it to do such an elaborate operation to take out an utterly replaceable and, ultimately, useful media person. Alexander Dugin OTOH is a demagogue often attributed as influencing Putin's views and offing him would have had some symbolic value as a face of Russian imperialism. My apologies, I am now realizing I was thinking of Igor Mangushev, also an affiliate to Wagner, and present in agitprop campaigns who proudly displayed a human skull, claiming it to be a Ukrainian's and told the crowd he was gonna make a goblet out of it. He caught a bullet to the head, no fancy bust explosions.  https://www.thedailybeast.com/igor-mangushev-russian-mercenary-who-brandished-ukrainian-skull-shot-in-head But hey, Putin was offing Prigozhin guys then, so maybe that wasn't the SBU there either? Based on the location of the hit, Putin killed Prigozhin, no questions. If the SBU could shoot down/blow up a plane in the middle of Russia, I would hope they would have saved that capability for someone better than a failed coup leader. Unfortunately I also know Putin travels by armored train.
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Jan 12, 2024 22:35
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I just don't get how one possibly gets mistaken between different mysteriously dead Russian propagandists. It's not like there's more than... HOLD ON, we just had some new defenestrations, brb!!!
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Jan 12, 2024 22:49
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Dull Fork posted:My apologies, I am now realizing I was thinking of Igor Mangushev, also an affiliate to Wagner, and present in agitprop campaigns who proudly displayed a human skull, claiming it to be a Ukrainian's and told the crowd he was gonna make a goblet out of it. He caught a bullet to the head, no fancy bust explosions. Yes, that one was Russians and most likely just some guys (though most affiliates said it were Wagner guys) killing that moron over money or some personal animosity. Fraggings are reported very often, mostly of "drunken arguments going extra " variety. Dull Fork posted:Really? I would. Especially after seeing the level of wetwork they've already admitted to. The Antonovsky bridge (unwitting) suicide bombing, which at least had military applications. The near miss of Dugin via car bomb, which did kill his daughter. The SBU admitting they killed a traitor (Illia Kyva) politician who fled to Russia. I'm willing to bet that washed up former politician was about as 'important' to the war as said TV lady. The difference is, everyone knew Kiva, he was a very loud and prolific turncoat, just as he was a loud and obnoxious "rahhhhh kill every rusnya dog" pre-2022 at home. Dugin, Tatarsky, Prilepin (the failed assassination) are also fairly high profile (but not high enough to have proper security). Crimean Bridge - a place of insane symbolic power. Local collaborators in occupied territories are obvious classic targets because of proximity and local agents. Murdering a non-public regional manager in Russia proper is unlikely because it barely registers on news, so I highly doubt it is a work of agents.
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Jan 12, 2024 23:31
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Dull Fork posted:Really? I would. Especially after seeing the level of wetwork they've already admitted to. The Antonovsky bridge (unwitting) suicide bombing, which at least had military applications. The near miss of Dugin via car bomb, which did kill his daughter. The SBU admitting they killed a traitor (Illia Kyva) politician who fled to Russia. I'm willing to bet that washed up former politician was about as 'important' to the war as said TV lady. Add to this the former submarine commander shot while jogging.
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Jan 13, 2024 01:18
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Nenonen posted:I just don't get how one possibly gets mistaken between different mysteriously dead Russian propagandists. It's not like there's more than... HOLD ON, we just had some new defenestrations, brb!!! The Something Awful Forums > Debate and Discussion > War in Ukraine CE: the defenestrations shall continue
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Jan 13, 2024 01:24
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Dull Fork posted:Really? I would. Especially after seeing the level of wetwork they've already admitted to. The Antonovsky bridge (unwitting) suicide bombing, which at least had military applications. Minor point, the Antonovsky bridge is the ruined one across the Dnepr at Kherson, not the Crimean Bridge across the Kerch Strait.
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Jan 13, 2024 08:46
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Rust Martialis posted:Minor point, the Antonovsky bridge is the ruined one across the Dnepr at Kherson, not the Crimean Bridge across the Kerch Strait. There was an incident on the latter one, too.
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Jan 13, 2024 13:52
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quote:Ukrainian military officials notably stated that Ukrainian forces also disabled over 20 of the missiles using “active countermeasures by means of electronic warfare,” which may be an inflection in Ukrainian electronic warfare capabilities that are normally credited with disabling Russian drones but not missile systems. curious about this, is it referring to spoofing satellite transponders to mess with coordinate targeting, or something else?
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Jan 14, 2024 09:30
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This was asked elsewhere, but never answered. Wouldn't Ukraine benefit greatly from shutting down Russian satellites in orbit? I don't know what kind of logistical hurdles would need to be overcome, considering the technology was tested successfully 50 years ago. Wouldn't that shut down all Russian weapon navigation capabilities? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT
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Jan 14, 2024 16:03
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Nitrox posted:This was asked elsewhere, but never answered. Wouldn't Ukraine benefit greatly from shutting down Russian satellites in orbit? I don't know what kind of logistical hurdles would need to be overcome, considering the technology was tested successfully 50 years ago. Wouldn't that shut down all Russian weapon navigation capabilities? Whats the range of the ASM-135 and what is the altitude of GLOSNAS?
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Jan 14, 2024 16:20
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That is not a can of worms anyone actually wants to open. So many satellites are effectively dual use, once someone starts destroying them, retaliation will inevitiably clear out the sky AND pull in previously uninvolved nations.
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Those things produce tons of space debris which can severely endanger unrelated civilian applications as well, and basically piss off everyone. It's not impossible to do stuff to satellites w/o creating debris, but Ukraine doesn't have that capability. (US actually might --- one can possibly use the "mission extender" thing Grunman made basically backwards).
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