jacquesm

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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Yes, you are right that the first order effects of the military are inherently destructive, that's why you should use them with restraint. In that sense the military is no different than other tools: use with caution and read the manua
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
> The longstanding view of Americans opposed to the empire has been that the empire enriches defense contractors, but is a deadweight loss for the country as a whole. And they are right, but for the wrong reasons: yes, the MIC enriches d
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Division of the spoils is not up to the outside.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
> Are you from Austria/Germany? Because from what I know only there are kids told such nonsense. > It's not a big deal to dig a hole, except maybe for germans I think you are skating pretty close to disqualifying yourself fr
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
You have 67(!!) comments in this thread all of which amount to rabidly pro-nuclear and 'nothing to see here' arguments the bulk of which have been dealt with many times over. I don't know what it is that you are trying to ach
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
> The claim that literally blowing up vast quantities of money has been good for America is an extraordinary one that requires extraordinary evidence. So, if I understand you right you fail to see what a lasting peace and good relationsh
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
> Even the UK and France spend 2% of GDP on defense, and they live under America's shield. You mean: America lives under the UK and France's shield. The last time that US soldiers died to defend France or the UK is a long time
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
> An OCXO will (usually) have less short-term jitter and better stability with ambient temperature changes than a chip-scale atomic clock module, but will drift more than the atomic clock long-term. Indeed! And that short term stability
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I thought it was familiar... But yes, that's exactly it. Turn inward, define the world as 'the enemy' then start clamoring for some lebensraum.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
> There’s no reason for us to light money on fire having bases all over the world, when we have two huge oceans to protect us. Yes, that helped so much on the 9th of September in 2001... MAGA is a fairly direct result of those attacks. A
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Every time you comment on here you show a little bit more of how little you understand of how the world works. It is not 1945 anymore, indeed. But that's not why the US has bases in Germany. It has bases in Germany to serve as 'st
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
The emperor is mad and wears no clothes. Pointing this out will result in the emperor throwing a tantrum exacting vengeance on his own people.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
And with the unappreciated feature that the Securitate's people listening in could always be counted on to be available for consult in case you forgot a detail discussed in a call...
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Renewables and reduced consumption is the answer, not swapping out one fossil fuel for another, which - incidentally - if you did it at large scale would have massive geopolitical consequences. Your 'people are literally dying' ho
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I got rid of both and my system is much better for it. The only thing I still use that is distributed in such a format is AppImage, and mainly because it has never given me trouble.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Almost everybody that trumpets how fantastic France is doing with their nuclear fleet has no clue how they are really doing. You can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France Oh, and good chance
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
That 'local TXDO' is most likely being governed by some kind of phase lock on the PPS or some other divisor and may well lead to terrible clock jitter in the short term while giving you insane precision over the longer term. Allan
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Ensembling clocks allows you to spot 'the odd one out' in case any one of them is having trouble so in that sense it would allow you to improve precision overall (or rather: availability of precision).
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Depending on your application a GPSDO may well be the entirely wrong solution depending on lots of implementation details.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Go hunt up a Rubidinium standard on Ebay, $150 or thereabouts and you'll have a pretty good standard.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
This is bad news because those are some of the most risky plants operating in Western Europe. Many, many safety issues over the years, quite a few of which were waved off from being properly fixed because they were going to be decommissione
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
That's fair, I was thinking of hole-through components and I should probably stop doing that in 2026... But: if we're being pedantic: it isn't the physical size as much as it is the loop area that the current travels through,
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
That's ban worthy.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
You can't really argue that things are in a certain way when that contradicts the way the law works, that's a recipe for disaster. The rules have been set, you can disagree with them and then you will be forced to litigate, which
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Indeed a developer owns copyright over the source code and on the compiled binaries, because there is no expansion happening here but just a translation from one format into another, the kind of thing that has been ruled copyrightable sin
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
That's not how that works. You warrant you wrote the code yourself, then it is found your code infringes on code owned by other entities. Now you have a tough choice: admit you lied about writing your code yourself tainting all of th
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
In some places simply not keeping the public street in front of property ice-free can incur liability, even when you are not actually there when it snows. There are so many such examples I'm kind of surprised to see this kind of confus
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
> If you're not the author then why would you have to be liable for it? If you do not understand this make sure that you always operate within a framework of people who do because this soft of misunderstanding can cause you a world
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
If my business depended on a legal fiction to be true and I had invested a whole pile of effort + money into it being so then I would argue at every opportunity that 'of course it is legal'. But that's just a version of fake-
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Yes, excellent point. Cruachan dam is a nice example of such a double storage setup. https://www.visitcruachan.co.uk/

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