As well as what the other commenter says, a balloon cost a lot less than the jet fuel to scramble a jet and get it to where the balloon is, and then the jet can’t be somewhere else. The goal isn’t to make an undefeatable weapon, it’s to cost the enemy enough money that they’ve got no choice but to give up on the war and go home.
Incel generally means the mindset rather than the literal definition. Getting laid doesn’t stop someone being an incel, and failure to get laid doesn’t make someone into one. It’s all the misogyny, entitlement and self-loathing that makes someone an incel.
It’s producing much less oil than it would have been without these strikes. At the minimum, it’s costing Russia a lot of money, and defensive wars are won by making it too expensive for the invaders to keep going.
If you’re the kind of person who wants a particular person banned, you probably want to be on the kind of instance that would ban them, and then from your perspective, they’d be banned, so you’d never have to see their posts. It still being possible to interact with them from other instances isn’t any more of a big deal than it being possible to interact with them on an entirely different website after they’re banned from regular social media - no one can ban someone from the whole Internet.
Geolocation of images isn’t sci-fi or magic. You need to have something recognisable in an image that can distinguish the image from a similar image taken somewhere else. It’s not an intelligence breakthrough that the image was taken by a human, and any efforts to identify which human will be fruitless as their face is only about nine pixels, which are out of focus and eroded by the bokeh from the sky in the neighbouring pixels. From the detail available, we can’t even tell if they’re wearing a balaklava, which would make the face unidentifiable even if an analyst did have access to magic.
The picture here has a blurry patch of sky with no detail that could be matched to weather patterns, and the side of a pickup truck. There’s not much actionable intelligence in knowing that at some point, a drone was next to a pickup truck.
Marxism-Leninism isn’t about being Marxist or Communist. It’s about supporting whatever’s politically expedient for the current leader of Russia without critical analysis.
The interpreter can’t make the replacement until it’s about to execute the line as __bool__ and __len__ are both (Python’s equivalent of) virtual functions, so it’s got to know the runtime type to know if the substitution is valid. Once it’s that late, it’ll often be faster to execute the requested function than work out if it could execute something faster instead. Even with type hints, it’s possible that a subclass with overridden methods could be passed in, so it’s not safe to do anything until the real runtime type is known.
Once there’s a JIT involved, there’s an opportunity to detect the common types passed to a function and call specialised implementations, but I don’t think Python’s JIT is clever enough for this. LuaJIT definitely does this kind of optimisation, though.
The fuel was going to end up burned anyway, so it’s only bad for the environment in that it’s incomplete combustion with lots of soot. It’s also preventing other fuel getting processed, so it could be a net benefit.
Rubbing your eyes a bit can make you feel a bit less tired, so obviously using a machine to rub your eyes a lot will make you feel a lot less tired. Brought to you by the school of I felt happier after two beers, so clearly I will feel ten times happier still if I drink twenty more beers.