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by _djo_ 3y ago
Yes, but this is splitting hairs a bit. Are training systems considered operational? It depends. In a systems readiness point of view, yes, they're operational even if they've been re-roled, as opposed to being withdrawn-from-use
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by _djo_ 3y ago
They're still operational systems in the military sense, just no longer front line combat assets. They've been relegated to R&D & training.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
The F-117s are technically still operational, even after their official retirement. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/retired-f-117-nighthaw...
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Sure, I agree. I was referencing only the idea that being smart in one domain automatically means being a good critical thinker in all domains. I don't have an opinion on what decision the OpenAI staff should have taken, I think it wou
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by _djo_ 3y ago
I don't think the argument was that none of them are good at that, just that it's a mistake to assume that just because they're all very smart in this particular field that they're great at another.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
That countries don’t want to handle the expense is one of the signs that they haven’t been commoditised. The number I provided also includes both declared and undeclared nuclear powers. It’s not just about the ability to make a bomb, it’s a
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Nuclear weapons have absolutely not been democratised, and still stand as a technology that has largely been restricted and not proliferated. Only 9 countries in the 190 or so out there currently nuclear weapons, and 3 countries (South Af
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by _djo_ 3y ago
That's one of the two Science Processing Centres behind the SKA, the other will be in Cape Town, serving the SKA-Mid array in South Africa. https://www.sarao.ac.za/news/south-africa-will-host-one-of-t... https:&#
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Well, yes, but not a single NATO country is on a war footing or has invoked war-time levels production contracts the way Russia has. The current contracts just represent more capacity from existing plants, and are far from the huge investme
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by _djo_ 3y ago
While I agree there is plenty of waste in the US defence industry, to claim that the level of corruption is far higher than that of the Russian defence industry is ridiculous. For all its faults and costs the US is able to field effective s
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Those people panic at the drop of a hat, usually on pure rumour, and gun shops intentionally ratchet up the hysteria. There are of course responsible gun owners in the US, but there’s also a ton of easily led, highly political, irrational,
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by _djo_ 3y ago
The facility in Lake City is the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, owned by the US government but operated by Winchester Ammunition. It has always been a small arms production site, mainly producing 5.56mm, 7.62mm, and .50. Under the terms o
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by _djo_ 3y ago
That's a global definition, not just for the US DoD. In essence, 'small arms' is anything that's able to be used and carried by an individual, with a little leeway. This is how the UN defines it: For the purposes of thi
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by _djo_ 3y ago
I'd rate him far above Yeager. He was more methodical, flew many more aircraft in more varied conditions, and was throughout his career a remarkably humble and generous person considering his achievements and fame. Poor political decis
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by _djo_ 3y ago
While a very nice project, Faircamp doesn't come close to offering what Bandcamp does. It's self-hosted, requiring the artists to have the technical knowledge to both customise the platform and run the infrastructure themselves, a
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by _djo_ 3y ago
If you wanted to argue in favour of such extreme epistemological solipsism, you should have just said so rather than specifically questioning the existence of Nazi snatch squads in Denmark, or their well-documented arrests of many Jews just
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by _djo_ 3y ago
What you said was: > How could we possibly know the such things as 'Nazi snatch squads' even existed Now you’re pretending you were only questioning the imminence of the arrest as described in the article, rather than the exist
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by _djo_ 3y ago
While the article did use very dramatic language, that the Nazi snatch squads in Denmark existed, were about to strike, and indeed did end up arresting many Danish Jews just a few days later over the Jewish New Year is very well documented
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by _djo_ 3y ago
That's simply inertia and the lack of another platform with the same level of critical mass. There's no reason it will continue to last.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Type N is actually the only one of these that's a global standard, IEC 60906-1. That's the reason why South Africa adopted it when deciding what to use as a replacement for Type M. There was a bit of a push some years ago to encou
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by _djo_ 3y ago
It operates on the exact same principle. So, no.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
First, yes it would be a security risk. Second, AirTags depend on there being a set number of iOS devices nearby to provide location data and an internet connection. You're not going to get that in a rural area.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
They're always installed, just selectively disabled as needed.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
They have transponders that transmit their identity and location on the most modern, but those depend on being active (for some reason the one in the F-35 was not) and on there being receivers nearby to pick them up. At lower altitudes in r
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by _djo_ 3y ago
One thing you should understand about the biggest Government IT contractors is that they put one of their few 'A' teams (really a 'B' team by big tech standards) on the project during the sales process, then swap out to
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by _djo_ 3y ago
> Providing munitions to non-NATO country is meddling and could be considered an act of war. Where is USA Congress to vote on this war? There is absolutely no relevant precedence for the supplying of weapons to a country at war to be con
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by _djo_ 3y ago
This is the last thing we need, and Palantir is not a company I'd trust to have anywhere near it.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
That's inaccurate, the Bantustans were explicitly created on tribal lines: Transkei & Ciskei: Xhosa Bophuthatswana: Tswana (it's even in the name!) Venda: Venda (ditto) Kwazulu: Zulu (seeing the trend here?) The Apartheid gove
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by _djo_ 3y ago
I read the original proposal before posting. It's an interesting idea on its own but it's far from practical and not even the study's authors are claiming it will be a solution to climate change. It's just one more possi
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by _djo_ 3y ago
True, though I can just see them making a half-hearted attempt at pushing this through then throwing their hands in the air and saying nothing can be done when it inevitably proves impractical.

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