RobertMiller

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by RobertMiller 5y ago
It's not really the same thing as spaced armor. The hope with statistical slat armor is that the tip of an RPG, where the detonator is, passes between the slats but the rest of the wider warhead behind that detonator is destroyed by
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Company mode is the big offender for me, it handles very large completion lists poorly. I'm not yet fully satisfied with the latency situation in my emacs config, but for me there is no going back. Evil mode let me keep almost all of
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
The Economist is not misinformed. Those western analysts might be misinformed, but the Economist isn't. The cages are being called cope cages. Incidental to that, I'm not so sure the analyists are actually wrong. Most of the
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Better than decent. I switched from neovim to evil mode a few years ago and never looked back.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
The only crime I've ever seen Seattle police respond promptly to was a shooting, they got here within a minute or two from when I heard the gunshots. But something like a crazy person screaming at 3am in the middle of the street thr
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> Why would we be humane to someone who fundamentally doesn't respect others' rights? From a purely pragmatic standpoint: because it's good for general morale.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
This is painfully true. Half a year ago my family was discussing plans for Christmas and they offered to come visit me in Seattle. My shocked response was "...why the fuck would you want to do that?!" , to which they sheepishly
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Suppose your roof leaks and you can't afford to fix it. Or maybe you pay some professionals to come fix it, they faff around for a bit, say they 'rehabilitated' your roof, but a while later it starts leaking again. So you ge
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> Are jails a cost-effective way of separating people from society? Optimizing for cost is not what you want. The most cost effective way of separating people from society is a summary execution with no trial. Prisons aren't mea
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
He may want status, but nobody is entitled to it. Some people are born into circumstances that gives them undeserved status, which is unfortunate. But for those born without status, earn it if you want it. You aren't owed status by
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> If we put Andre in prison, Seattle's taxpayers would be paying $3,400/mo to keep him there He and his ilk do much more damage to the city than that, when they're allowed to continue their criminal lifestyles.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I'm aware of that, but it's not suitable for me. I'm looking for this functionality on my real computer, not my phone.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I've found niche uses for Yandex; translation specifically, which can do OCR on images you upload to it. Google translate won't do that, last I checked. If anybody knows of an alternative, I'd like to hear about it.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Any time after 9pm, those sorts will be fast asleep.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Most probably don't support it. Some might. People are complicated and not always logical.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Many people are required to have and mow lawns by their HOA or local government. For those people, the choice is mow, move, or eat some fines. Mowing may also be necessary if you live somewhere with a rodent problem, or particularly if you
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Countless hours of Number Munchers taught me mental arithmetic.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
It was a somewhat popular name for girls in the 30s and 40s. Mavis Beacon came out in the late 80s, one of the programmers might well have had a mother or aunt named Mavis.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
It's possible that GLONASS isn't working well for them for some reason. They've been using relatively few precision munitions. And of those few, many of them them seem to be missing by quite a lot. Some of the ballistic
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Besides eshell, are there any shells that have mouse support in the line editor? Somebody once lead me to believe that fish does, but I could never find more information about this or get it to work.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Some may support the war in principle but hypocritically don't want to be conscripted.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
This reminds me of the way my troop used to play "greased watermelon" in boyscouts in America. Basically get a watermelon greased up with vaseline, throw it into the lake and let everybody battle royale over it. There were usua
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
It's the same thing colechristensen brought up: > The US has killed thousands of “militants” (and many people who were certainly innocent) with drone strikes in places where we’re not engaged in active conflict and without due proc
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
From what I understand, meteoric iron is very difficult to forge, tending to crack. Being able to bring it up to welding temperature helps deal with that, but according to the article this dagger was forged at a lower temperature.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I've heard of this dagger before but I had no clue it was so large. 35.2 cm total length, 21.8 cm for just the blade. A little longer and it could almost be called a short sword. Very impressive for meteoric iron.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Incapacitation isn't synonymous with execution. Imprisonment is a weaker form of incapacitation without that finality. A murderer locked up in prison can't harm the general public (though other prisoners and prison staff may st
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Whether it's officially part of the system or not, the public's desire to see retribution is definitely on the minds of American legislators when they write laws. Thirst for retribution also plays a roll in the public tolerating
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
When you start talking about targeted drone strikes outside of war zones, the difference seems thinner than a razor's edge.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> It would probably just be "Korea" if they didn't have nukes Their first nuclear test was in 2006. Even their production of refined uranium and plutonium only began in the 80s, decades after the war came to a standstil
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Kazakhstan (under Russia's sphere of influence) is the largest producer at 36% of the global supply (5% from Russia itself.) It can be purchased from countries like Canada (15%) or Australia (12%). The next two are Namibia and Niger

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