And now analyze their work experience. Probably most of them are “Career Politicians” who never worked a honest job in their lives.

But he is not selling the gold reserves off, he is using them to plate his Throne -ehrm- Ballroom.

Yep. It really depends on if you have to replace some basic hardware like pipes, tanks, and valves that you can do with sheet metal and a welding tool, or if they blew up the control center with the computers and the specialized hardware. Or maybe some of the specialized pumps and valves. Those are expensive, and so nobody has large quantities lying around.

When the Russians hit the Ukrainian power grid, the Ukrainians can get replacement parts from all over Europe and the rest of the world. But Russia has the problem that those parts are high up on the embargo lists, so they have to get either Chinese parts (which may need modifications on them or the controlling software), or smuggle the original items.

The number also depends on whether you consider “short term” vs. “long term”. Maybe it is 38% down at the moment, but they have spare parts to get some of it back up.

But they’ll run out of spare parts rather quickly if Ukraine keeps up the speed. And then it gets interesting.

“Unfinished” as in “We have not installed the counterweights/ballast pumps yet”.

Whenever it is convenient for Microsoft, and when you least expect it.

That was over 40 years ago. It was called “Water Carrier”. It created a random labyrinth with an entry on the left and an exit on the right, and a number of puddles in it. You could not cross the puddles, but had to “pick them up” with your bucket. Of course, only one puddle fit in that bucket, so you had to empty it at the entrance in order to scoop up the next puddle on your way to the exit. For scoring, it counted the number of steps one needed to get through.

The labyrinth was one of the algorithmic challenges I had as a kid. There was no internet to look up algorithms like that, and the local libraries had no computer related books. So I invented the algorithm myself. Same with sorting, for the “high scores”, which were actually “low scores”, the less steps you needed, the better. For that, I “invented” what I many years later learned was Bubble Sort.

And sorry, no link to it ;-)

“… there will be none.”

Other sites should join to show the citizens how a blacked-out internet looks like.

If you don’t want to end up as meat crayon, yes. My handlebar broke while driving due to rust, and it was no fun.

You can prevent this. I could not, the fucker rusted from the inside out…

If it was USD4, I’d be tempted to actually buy it. But 40? Or even 60? That’s nuts.

You can get a 480p USB cam for 6 dollars on AliExpress. The plastic plant is not worth the rest.

I was about to ask if this thing can work with other hosts. But then I saw the specs, and thought “never mind.”

Movie or game? For a movie, it looks a bit lame, I’ve to admit.

Thanks for that keyword to look up!

Thanks! I am working on worldbuilding a fantasy scenario that is mainly Greek/Roman style, and had already decided on toga-style fashion, but had no idea on matching underwear. This is a very interesting resource for me.

The authenticating chip we use has the same form factor as a little SMD transistor. It only needs three pins, power, ground, and one bidirectional communication pin. Good luck finding such a thing, especially if it is unmarked or custom labeled.

One of our club members has replicated that model in LEGO for an exhibition.

I have seen this kind of works from close-up. Our neighbor was a master parament stitcher (not sure if this is the correct English term), and she had some awesome works in her flat. Including her masterpiece, a Madonna stitched with dozends of different techniques.

If they want to protect the place from people on the outside, yes, it might be worth a try ;-)

Russia has probably called for the ceasefire just in order to move air defense systems off the border and closer to Moscow.