jandrese

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by jandrese 11mo ago
This is messy. The countries that could afford to buy the jets generally have domestic industries they want to protect, and you never know when some President will come into power that is hostile to that country and tells the contractors t
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by jandrese 11mo ago
You would be hard pressed to find an official document that says it bluntly, but analysis of the situation makes it clear. https://www.csis.org/analysis/why-us-defense-industrial-base...
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by jandrese 11mo ago
Meanwhile on Reddit you will find people who delight in cutting charging cables they find plugged into street lights and the like. "Sticking it to the electricity thieves".
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by jandrese 11mo ago
What would you suggest as a more efficient way to achieve this goal? Building thousands of advanced fighter jets for private citizens? Keeping highly skilled engineers up to date on the most modern technologies and maintaining specialized
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by jandrese 11mo ago
You're looking at this all wrong. Taking 20 years to develop an airframe is fully intentional. The whole point of that project is to keep military contractors in business in peacetime because if war breaks out it will be much harder
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by jandrese 11mo ago
> Relative dates like “Today” and “Tomorrow” can be easier to understand. This is one of those ideas that sounds like a good idea on paper, but can be an actual nightmare to implement. There are so many edge cases that can occur that yo
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by jandrese 11mo ago
Don't undersell it. The game is playable in a browser. The graphics are just blocks, the aliens don't return fire. There are no bunkers. The aliens change colors when they descend to a new level (whoops). But for less than 60
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by jandrese 11mo ago
The idea that China is going to ship 300 million troops to Canada seems absurd on its face. There is just no geopolitical scenario where that happens. This is more about Canada having enough troops to contribute if NATO decides to interven
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by jandrese 11mo ago
Wouldn't that be noticed when the actual passenger tried to board and the system said they were already on board?
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by jandrese 11mo ago
The meme about the Torment Nexus continues to be worryingly relevant in the modern world.
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by jandrese 11mo ago
It depends on the details. Last time I flew I used the airline's app to get the ticket which were then immediately loaded into wallet and read via NFC at the gate. But this is Ryanair so it's probably going to do some stupid QR t
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by jandrese 11mo ago
Performance wise it was able to spit out about half of a buggy version of Space Invaders as a single HTML file in roughly a minute.
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by jandrese 11mo ago
For what it is worth, at least on iPhone you can still use the bus/train pass feature in Wallet even when the battery is dead. But it has always been the Ryanair brand to ask the consumer "how much bullshit are you willing to put
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by jandrese 1y ago
It's Power to the People.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Bluesky has lots of artists, authors, journalists, etc... who see AI as a direct threat to human creativity. Not that the AI will replace the creativity, but that it can generate slop that looks "good enough" and doesn't dem
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by jandrese 1y ago
First rule of Twitter is avoid the algorithm at all costs. The trolls have long since figured it out and now if the algorithm is involved you are going to see white supremacist talking points nonstop. Second rule of Twitter is why are you
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by jandrese 1y ago
Which opinions were those again?
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by jandrese 1y ago
If someone is feeding you ragebait on Bluesky you should just unsubscribe. The feed is what you make it. Twitter can be kind of like this too, but the trolls haunt the replies on there whereas people can shut trolls out of their replies o
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by jandrese 1y ago
Gordan Moore died two years ago so I'm not sure who would be the official for declaring it dead. But there have been plenty of articles over the last decade saying that it was done around 2015 or so.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Fuel ethanol mostly exists because the US grows way too much corn to actually eat and we needed something to do with it. Industrial farming overshot what we needed to sustain the population and threatened to put a lot of farmers out of bus
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by jandrese 1y ago
> His languages take significantly after APL, which was a very popular language for similar applications before the invention of (qwerty) keyboards. Ok, so this article is tongue in cheek. Good to know that up front.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Being further north does have some advantages. If the panels are angled more to get a better view of the sun they will also be better at shedding snow loads.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Generally the problem with carpark solar is the mounting solutions are low volume niche products that cost way more than traditional ground mounts. My biggest hope is that this policy creates a marketplace with actual competition that come
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by jandrese 1y ago
Grokipedia seems to serve no purpose to me. It's AI slop fossilized. Like if I wanted the AI opinion on something I would just ask the AI. Having it go through and generate static webpages for every topic under the sun seems pointle
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by jandrese 1y ago
I'm not an exit node, only a relay.
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by jandrese 1y ago
The UDP checksum is optional and weak. It's mostly a waste of time. It's far more likely if you get a bit flip that the layer 1 hardware will just drop the packet because it has a much better checksum that detected the error firs
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by jandrese 1y ago
I switched entirely to Libreoffice a few years ago and am still waiting to slam into that "this feature is only found in real MS Office" wall that everybody told me was coming. I don't think I'm going to switch back over
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by jandrese 1y ago
As opposed to their current business plan of making a burrito that is half the size and twice the price? A decade ago going to Chipotle was a treat. You'd get a fresh and honestly gigantic burrito for a pretty reasonable price. Someti
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by jandrese 1y ago
> maintaining poles, transformers, and wires The things that PG&E has notably been neglecting, resulting in highly destructive wildfires? The idea that it costs every single ratepayer $100/month to maintain the infrastructure is
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by jandrese 1y ago
Basically PG&E was horribly mismanaged for decades, that mismanagement lead to billions of dollars of damages and those costs were shifted onto the customers and the management got off scot free.

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