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by XorNot 10mo ago
Defensive weapons technology is how you get less conflict though. When some idiot in the ME decides to shoot something at Israel, the character of the response demanded by the population depends heavily on whether any Israelis die or prop
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Seriously this: smoke stacks are a carefully engineered structure specially to ensure air emissions diffuse and don't roll along the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnYdt4T76mk You absolutely cannot park a bunc
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Compression fittings first question is "can you use a shark bite push fit instead?" Second thing is, get a small amount of food safe grease and put it on the copper ferrule to make the connection: took me far too long to learn tha
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Seriously. Add a pressure cooker in here too: you can put the rice cooker on, then chop and prepare your pressure cooker items, put that on for 20 minutes and then it basically all finishes at the same time.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
But the competition isn't carrier-based aviation, it's VLS cells on other platforms. If you have more of them, then your ships can engage from further ranges meaning they can shoot sooner and faster while dealing with less incomin
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by XorNot 10mo ago
This is exactly it: they're making a perfectly rational decision keeping Musk on the way he is, because the alternative once he's out is the stock crashes due to the uncertainty and the fanboys bailing. Why have less money when yo
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Honestly what I don't get is how this even happened though: it's been I think 10 years with no progress on getting the volume of things to equal out, even with all the fancy software we have. Like I would've thought that 5.1
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by XorNot 10mo ago
The problem is 100km back just isn't very far, when missiles like the Ukranian Neptune have a range currently of 200km, and extended range variants in the works that push that to 1,000km. That's a non-NATO, "country at war&qu
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by XorNot 10mo ago
People are not available though. Navies and militaries in all western nations have huge recruiting problems and that's before dropping fertility rates will shrink the entire pool of able bodied potential recruits.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
He's a troll because those also aren't the real numbers. The UK law categorizes arrests under this category in the same bucket as domestic violence arrests. The people talking about this never make the distinction.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Helicopters don't have that much range - certainly way less then a ship does. So either you're close enough to a land base they can make the trip, or you're operating from another munitions ship - it's all the same probl
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by XorNot 10mo ago
I am 100% sure you have absolutely no idea what Palantir actually do, and I suggest you go actually read about it. There's plenty of resources out there which will explain in considerable detail what the product is, what the services
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Increase education funding, mandate a couple of levels of free choice liberal arts/philosophy type courses to ensure people have to expand their thinking a little, focus on critical thinking and media analysis skills in primary and sec
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by XorNot 10mo ago
We live in democracies. The price of entry is a citizenry informed enough to choose how they want many issues of state handled. The alternative is worse, and the result of an uninformed citizenry can be disasterous and a regression towards
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by XorNot 10mo ago
It's not clear when you would ever reload a conventional ships gun at sea either though, particularly on a modern transparent battle space. It would still involve putting two or more ships in close proximity with heavy lift equipment
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by XorNot 10mo ago
The Arsenal ship concept[1] paired with the idea of "crew optional" ships would be inline with this idea and also integrate with the data link capabilities intended for the F35 (where it potentially fires missiles it's not ca
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by XorNot 10mo ago
That presumes no future innovation or improvement in defense systems. Which with the way the US is being managed might be true, but generally there's no evidence that China has a missile which cannot be intercepted by refined means we
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by XorNot 10mo ago
The Bradley has performed very well in Ukraine, and the man who wrote that book is both a liar and crazy. Read up on what his proposed alternative was.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
That's a "motherhood statement"[1] - you haven't answered the question. Militaries make targeting decisions with data. That's entirely separate to whether they have been ordered by civilian government to target some
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Companies that submit bids for contracts get contracts. You would be surprised at the diversity of size and scale of companies which service defense contracts in particular - very small companies can end up in big supply chains because they
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Yes I'm sure reality TV did it and not cost of living meaning they have little money for entertainment and definitely will never purchase their own home.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Really makes you appreciate the point of view of the Scramblers in Blindsight...
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by XorNot 10mo ago
I'd say it'd just Kubernetes in general should've shipped with a storage engine and an installation mechanism. It's a very hacky feeling addon that RKE2 has a distributed internal registry if you enable it and use it i
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by XorNot 10mo ago
And common sense mitigations: if a new program I've never seen before drops an actionable control under my cursor, maybe just default to not immediately accepting the next input to it so I have a chance to see it.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Imagine if web browsers all had mutually incompatible DOM implementations for basic functionalities. That's the situation with Wayland that people are complaining about. I don't need innovation in keyboard and mouse sharing, I nee
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by XorNot 10mo ago
"any" yes their honestly aren't that many and I'm not aware of any which are as available and battle-tested as ZFS. It's been decades at this point and it's a well-proven, capable filesystem.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Of course they don't but it sounds truthy so give it a few rounds of the Internet whisper machine and it can become accepted fact everybody "knows".
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Why would that be the case? The government isn't redacting "yes we contacted aliens" they're redacting information about military capabilities that might be of use to adversaries.
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by XorNot 10mo ago
The heavy asterisk here is that none of this actually makes using NixOS impossible because it obviously still works. But when you get into the problem I am - and one of the major purported benefits of it which is reproducibility and traceab
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by XorNot 10mo ago
Nix and specifically nixpkgs is IMO very bad at this. It's not a distro: it's a collection of random links that in many cases now only exists in cache.nixos.org. The tarball server frequently doesn't have content, can'

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