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by eesmith 6mo ago
If other companies come along to fill the niche then how is it that the likes of Eastpak and whatnot have not died?
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Oh, absolutely not.
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Yes, there is an entire narrative that first there was chaos, then there was waterfall, and then there was agile. For example, https://www.infoworld.com/article/2334751/a-brief-history-of... It's as if people
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by eesmith 6mo ago
The descendants of the Muslim colonists were defeated by the descendants of the Roman colonists, fighting under the banner of the Roman Church, and not by the native and indigenous people of the Iberian peninsula. The native and indigenous
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by eesmith 6mo ago
What other campaigns had a 52 day march or longer before the first major battle? Perhaps the Siege of Baghdad, or some other Mongolian campaign? Or Hannibal's route to Italy? I can't think of a comparable from the 1800s.
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Uber was considered a startup: "Uber: The history of the ride-hailing app, from start to IPO" https://www.businessinsider.com/ubers-history "[Uber] quickly became the world's most valuable startup, &quot
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by eesmith 6mo ago
> The 400,000 dead soldiers died mostly to disease. I believe that in every major war of the 1800s, more soldiers died from disease than from combat. Consider the War of 1812. "fully three-quarters of the war deaths resulted from di
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by eesmith 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure some of the air traffic controllers for military airfields in WWII were draftees, just like many air defense operators were draftees before the military became an all-volunteer force in 1973. We know from the PATCO stri
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by eesmith 6mo ago
The characters in the movie and TV series M A S*H included unwilling civilian draftees who were doctors drafted to serve in the Korean War. Doctors need to pass a lot of exams.
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by eesmith 6mo ago
The situation is hardly comparable. The French and Dutch were members of the Allies, with Charles de Gaulle as leader of the Free-French forces and Queen Wilhelmina the head of the Dutch government-in-exile, both in London. Both wanted the
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by eesmith 6mo ago
The 1970s energy crisis as a result of issues in Israel and Iran did indeed help improve cars. We had this thing called a 'library', with 'books', which helped me learn things outside my circle. Our schools even had a fu
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by eesmith 6mo ago
It's more complicated than that. The fourth power law is only an approximation. If the road is designed for higher weight then the impact of larger loads is less. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
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by eesmith 6mo ago
You're again giving some strong manosphere podcast vibes here. The US failures in Iraq and Afghanistan are no more due to women than the US failure in Vietnam was due to men. If grip strength is so important, then test for that. The mi
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Pragmatically, the main weapon in most wars were arrows and swords. Pragmatically, most of the military is far from the battlefield - or the battlefield is on home territory, in which case everyone is involved anyway, so train 'em all
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Yes, and women are not prohibited from taking those tests simply because they are women. Indeed, many women qualify.
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Over 300,000 women were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. You have no idea what their grip strength was. You have no idea what their overall strength was. You have no idea if their duties required that strength, or if endurance, focus for l
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Why would they use it at all? Women have been US military soldiers for a long time. Every one of them could have had their grip strength, body strength, etc. measure - if those additional details were predictive of anything useful. But why?
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Yes, calling one's self "expat" instead of "immigrant" sounds exactly like what someone who goes elsewhere to avoid taxes and draft service, while driving up the local housing market and enjoying cheap labor, would
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by eesmith 6mo ago
If that factoid were at all important then the military should use grip strength to determine who to draft, not gender.
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by eesmith 6mo ago
I say nothing about code which can support when char is 64-bit because my entire point was that my definition of "platform" is far more restrictive than C's, and apparently yours. You wrote "I generally include various s
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by eesmith 6mo ago
If I am not mistaken, is_iec559 concerns numerical representation, while __STDC_IEC_559__ is broader, and includes the behavior of numerical operations like 1.0/-0.0 and various functions. Huh. https://en.cppreference.com&#x
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by eesmith 6mo ago
And as I wrote, "There's platform and there's platform." I don't support the full range of platforms that C supports. I assume 8 bit chars. I assume good hardware support for 754. I assume the compiler's docume
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Do you have checks for non-IEEE 754 math?
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by eesmith 6mo ago
What determined the inclusion criteria? The first thing I looked for was insulin. I was surprised that it's not there, even though the bottom points out "Insulin administered to a human. First peptide drug." https:/&#x2
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Take a look at https://www.kermitproject.org/ckupdates.html . These quotes come from the last few years: > [fixes] specific to VMS (a.k.a. OpenVMS), > For conformity with DECSYSTEM-20 Kermit ... > running on a real
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by eesmith 6mo ago
There's platform and there's platform. I assume a POSIX platform, so I don't need to check for CHAR_BIT. My code won't work on some DSP with 64-bit chars, and I don't care enough to write that check. Many of the tes
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by eesmith 6mo ago
There are a lot of odd (by modern standards) machines out there. You're also the most likely person to try to run your code on an 18 bit machine.
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Some are higher, some are lower. Windows, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica... 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with 2 or more cores, 4 gigabytes RAM, 64 GB or larger storage device, UEFI, Se
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by eesmith 6mo ago
I see you didn't answer my questions. Who is the creator of an iPhone device? I'm pretty there are many creators, not "a creator". Does the creator of an iPhone device no longer control the device after someone has bough
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by eesmith 6mo ago
I don't see where the linked-to page discusses "rights". The headline sounds like editorializing to get off-the-cuff remarks about treating synthetic text extruding machines, as Bender correctly describes them, as people. Saf

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