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To be fair it's a daily challenge. Try again tomorrow. But yes, I would love it if there were more game modes (similar to GeoGuessr)

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Gonna need you to provide some sources on the 'ties to the Ukrainian government' there mate. I don't think there's any doubt that he spent time in Kyiv and posted videos encouraging people to join the foreign legion and help the fight.

But as far as I'm reading there isn't any indication that he had ties to the government outside of some Russian news outlets blaming Ukraine for the assassination attempt.

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Thankfully it seems to be uniting the EU rather than dividing. Remains to be seen if they can get their act together though.

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Donald Trump really should leave his fragile ego at the door and continue to support the USA's allies at this time. People forget that it was Zelensky refusing to lie which led to Trumps first impeachment.

At the very least this entire 180 and the attempt to humiliate Zelensky in the White House is Trump wanting to enact some kind of revenge.

At the very worst him praising Putin, threatening to leave Nato, threatening other allies, moving troops out of Germany and into Hungary, et all just reeks of something more.. conspiracy theory or not it's pretty disgusting as someone looking in from the outside.

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Which also means they're banned in every running event sanctioned by world athletics.

It also has nothing to do with carbon but rather the stack height (>40mm is illegal).

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Triathlon hasn't banned carbon shoes. They follow the same rules that World Athletics follows.

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Rugby in New Zealand is a good example of this. Our small country with a small population is (and basically always has been) one of the top teams in the world.

Not only at the elite level, but our junior teams and even school teams perform well on the world stage.

Like you say, that social factor plays a huge part in it. Support, funding, etc etc

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'nginx -t' exists as a general syntax checker, would be neat to expand it further to include these in depth checks.

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I have 2 young kids, some of the best advice I've been given is that it's a good thing if your kids are occasionally bored.

Why? Because it forces them to problem solve and on most occasions they get pretty creative. I'll often get home from work and there will be a massive blanket fort through the living room, or some kind of obstacle course in the front yard.

Being bored is not a bad thing!

I know kids who have lived on iPads/TV/other devices from a young age, and they don't understand the concept of being bored and watching them try to grasp the concept of 'make believe' is downright painful.

And don't get me started on not being allowed to feel proud! Who hurt you?

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I haven't used IRC in years, but when I started out with IRC/MSN Chat in 2001ish it was using mIRC. That piece of software can basically answer for my becoming a developer and the career I've had over the last 20 odd years.

k1kingy

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My FB timeline is already a complete mess with most irrelevant garbage as it stands. Not exactly sure what adding additional 'noise' is going to achieve outside of boosting numbers (which I guess is what they want).

A current snapshot my feed:

  - Group post (from one I follow)  
  - Ad  
  - Post (from company I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from one I follow)  
  - Ad  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Post (from person I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Post (from person I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from one I follow)  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)  
  - Group post (from one I follow)

I gave up writing the above, but it was about 9 more posts before I saw a post from a person I actually know.

k1kingy

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And as unfortunate as it is, some people see black people running in their neighborhood as a danger to society and will call the police (or in some cases will just hunt them down and kill the person themselves https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-judge-sentences-three...)

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But I think that just comes back to his mental game/lack of match prep. The Ding of 5 years ago that pushed even Magnus Carlsen wouldn't have been out of prep 5-8 moves into every game and could've afforded himself more time in the mid-game to find the advantage.

It's basically what allowed Gukesh to do exactly that throughout the match. His opening prep was impressive and because he allowed himself time to think outside of the opening he at least tried to push on most games.

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This is a big reason why some of the top GMs (Magnus Carlsen in particular) aren't super interested in playing classical chess anymore.

It's at the point now where a reasonably good GM can learn and memorize a set of openings and more often than not draw the game against the top players. So in order to not lose games or rating points the game is played relatively conservative, rather than trying to push for a win.

Magnus and others are now trying to hype up freestyle chess (Fischer Random/Chess960) in order to take away the standard openings in order to avoid this memorization game and instead go back to the days where you're forced to calculate over the board.

k1kingy

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Ding's problem was not his time management but his mental game. It's no secret he's been struggling for the last ~12 months and he admitted as much that he didn't prep well for this match. Having said that, the guy got himself into favorable positions multiple times and then was happy to trade-off pieces/repeat moves to get the draw.

The last game was where he took it a step too far. Several times during the game he had the opportunity to pressure Gukesh to find the correct sequence of moves, only to take the easy way out and trade a piece to make the game more drawish.

His blunder at the end was him thinking he'd just trade off the Rooks and kill off the game, but missed the fact that he basically sac'd his Bishop in the process.

k1kingy

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Working fine for me on FF. Once or twice the timeline stops working, but clicking around a bit brings it back.

k1kingy

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For New Zealand in particular, the flags that are used through history are wildly inaccurate. It's missing the initial flag used before the Union Jack was officially adopted. And the signalling flag that is on there between 1907-1947 was never an official flag and was only kind of used between 1899-1902 before the current flag (Union Jack in the corner with the red Southern Cross stars on a blue background) was adopted in 1902.

k1kingy

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I clicked on breakfast:

  - Sugar covered donuts  
  - Iced cinnamon rolls  
  - French toast  
  - Cinnamon roll bites  
  - Nutella Croissants

Healthy indeed.

k1kingy

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Unsurprisingly, core strength is a big part of cycling. It's a good test to lean down in a more aero position and lift your hands slightly off the bars and see how long you can hold it.

so less pressure on your wrists while typing would be quite the core workout over an extended period of time.

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Oh boy do I know the feeling. We live overseas and both our kids were born here. So basically the first thing we had to do was get them their passports. Trying to get a 2-4 week old baby to open their eyes and look somewhat at the camera was... an experience.

Tip: Swaddle the baby, lie it on top of a plain light piece of fabric (we used one of my work shirts) and click the camera 100 times.

Having said that though, I'm starting to think an 8 month old would be even harder based on the fact that they move :D

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