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Wagner chief vows to topple Russian military leaders[^]
Apparently, Wagner has already started shooting down Russian helicopters.
This is going to get messy. Here's hoping our Russian members can stay safe regardless of the outcome.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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modified 24-Jun-23 1:00am.
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Whatever the final outcome we know who is going to suffer most. The only positive at the moment is that it may stop or slow the attacks on Ukraine.
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That, or as the chef said: "The Special Operation was built on lies".
i.e. Putin now has an "out": he was lied to.
Only time will tell if Putin "gets it".
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Putin has certainly taken a baseball bat to the hornet's nest.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Keep in mind how the media loves a story like this and most likely inflames it for their own readership / subscription / advertisement agendas, and Putin most likely does the same for similar, though metaphorical, agendas. Not to mention Wagner himself. My 2c. 
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Inflame? Shirley you jest!!! 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I dunno - Putin is between a rock and a hard place here: if he doesn't pull troops out of Ukraine to block Wagner he could lose the Kremlin without a shot being fired (except at him, I suspect). If he does then he loses face (and quite possibly Crimea or even the whole Ukraine war) and risks his troops refusing to be involved as appears to have happened in Rostov.
Just like the war itself, I don't see any signs of an exit strategy developing.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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What you describe would serve Putin well, in my opinion.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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when our opacity is more transparent, and our transparency is more opaque ... are we more, or less, blind ?
my heart goes out to the millions who are suffering, and will suffer more, in this geopolitical nightmare driven by the usual suspects: the ambitions and grandiosity of tyrants and autocrats who dream of lost empire, the never-ending saga of the battle to control energy sources, etc. This bonfire of vanities and atrocities fed with the lives of young soldiers, children.
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«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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If the politicians and generals had to be on the front lines, there would never be another war. 
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Slow Eddie wrote: If the politicians and generals had to be on the front lines, there would never be another war. 
Or their familiars
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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How long to wait until the Wagner/Putin circus is revealed as an elaborately staged deception designed to hide some military nightmare in the making, to flush out Putin opponents worthy of a free happy-hour novichok cocktail, or assisted out-a-window take off ? An agitprop appetizer for flagging nationalism ?
Machiavelli: "Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe. ... The mercenary captains are either capable men or they are not; if they are, you cannot trust them, because they always aspire to their own greatness, either by oppressing you, who are their master, or others contrary to your intentions; but if the captain is not skilful, you are ruined in the usual way."
Lots of heavily armed violent jailbirds now happy campers in scenic Belarus, enjoying the nighttime view of Cherenkov neon-blue-glow radiation of recently brought in Russian nuclear weapons ?
Chef Prigozhin leaves £38 million in boxes in a van and buses parked near his office ?
na zdrovya !
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
modified 25-Jun-23 21:19pm.
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Surely you're not suggesting that some selective defenestration may be in the offing! Couldn't happen to a more deserving pack of thugs... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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#Worldle #518 5/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
some many countries in a small place
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 735 3/6
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Back to normal!
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Wordle 735 4/6
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Wordle 735 3/6
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Wordle 735 3/6*
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Seems we used the same words today (first one for sure - I tried your starter word, not sure of second one)
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 735 3/6
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 735 4/6
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Would've been 3/6 but apparently Wordle no like business-y words.
Jeremy Falcon
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Wordle 735 3/6
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Hrmmm.
I have some code with suspected heap corruption. I've pored over it and can't find anything. However, the modifications I've made to the codebase in an attempt to run it down have actually yielded a copy that works reliably on several devices - devices that don't use a display with an "RGB interface" bus.
On any display with an RGB interface bus the device hangs as soon as it receives serial data and rebuilds the display with it. Complete hard freeze, requiring a reflash or hard reset.
I might be able to work around this by switching out my lcd_init.h with something like LovyanGFX to do my last mile display communication.
However, lcd_init.h has never caused me problems before. I suspect that even if switching it out "fixes" the problem, it will have more buried the bug than actually fixed it.
Now here's the thing with IoT, esp when you aren't using I/O bound multithreading or anything complicated to effect the following:
Every time I boot, if i call malloc and print that pointer I get back as a hex integer to the console, it will be the same value every single time (as long as the requested size is the same). If I create a thread on each core, and spit out "A" on one, and "B" on the other, I will get the same sequence of As and Bs every time, on every machine with the same chip.
That makes it very much unlike development on a PC. There aren't fiddly bits in the background making things non-deterministic.
The bottom line is, if I bury this bug well enough, for all practical purposes I have "fixed" it.
I hate this, but I know it to be true.
I don't want to use what I know to be true to move forward on this project. Burying the bug just doesn't sit right with me.
But it's an option. I wouldn't be the first to do it. Far from it.
Times like this call for a little Aesop Rock
Got an angel on my left shoulder, a devil on the polar
Got a mug a frigid, got a mug a solar, sliiidde over
The recipe's designed to plug the appetite for continuity
By stitching togetherness theme congruents (beautifully)
I peel back hearts and lodge greed physics in the chambers
Cauterize the wound and heads like
"Gimme gimme something major"
Road side prophetic, ascend well (well)
Enveloped in a mummy ribbon system
Blistering in a wishing well
BIG BANG!
I don't expect most people to understand that, but he and I communicate, even if he doesn't know it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch/gfx
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Deterministic 'safe' path in the minefield. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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