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by jeffdn 4y ago
NASA has not pinned the entire manned space program on Boeing, however — now there are two competing companies who can provide that capability!
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by jeffdn 4y ago
SLS has just put a capsule into orbit around the moon, however, while Starship has yet to embark on its first orbit of the Earth, with no date in sight. Additionally, pinning the entirety of the American space program on a single private co
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by jeffdn 4y ago
It's mostly increases in targeting and accuracy -- in the era of air-dropped bombs, and early ICBMs and cruise missiles, having a reasonable probability of kill on a hardened target required an absolutely enormous warhead. With the min
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by jeffdn 4y ago
And how the test pilot who was flying the F-14 to get the shot for the movie died[0], as well. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Scholl
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by jeffdn 4y ago
This may sound like a distinction without a difference, but it is explicitly illegal to give money directly to politicians in the United States. Lobbying is giving money to their campaign committees, which get them elected or re-elected. It
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by jeffdn 4y ago
The Lusitania had nearly 1,200 of its passengers killed when it sank. It was clearly sunk by a German submarine. That was a much more overt act of war. There is no such thing as NATO waters, only the territorial waters of NATO members, who
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by jeffdn 4y ago
This is not an act of war with Germany. This happened in international waters. The pipeline is already shut down. This does not affect Germany's gas supply, as they were already receiving no gas from Nordstream 2. Additionally, the ass
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by jeffdn 4y ago
I'm certain that there will be investigations from NATO navies soon, and we will have some explanation. Whether or not that's actually what happened or not will depend on who did it and who is most beneficial to pin it on, but I&#
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by jeffdn 4y ago
Have you listened to Revolutions, his more recent podcast? Also great — and there are ten seasons, each about a different revolution, in-depth.
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by jeffdn 4y ago
That's a little disingenuous, regarding the F-15 -- there is the A/B series, with A being single-seat and B being the two-seat trainer, and the C/D series, with the same distinction between the two models. Both the F-15A and
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by jeffdn 4y ago
I think it’s fair to say that Rust has changed massively since initial release. There are certainly safety aspects, but doing what you describe should be trivial and trigger none or almost none of them. The compiler’s error messages are fan
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by jeffdn 4y ago
I've read the book, albeit 15 years ago. That may not be the entire thesis, but it is the primary component of it. From Wikipedia[0]: > Fukuyama argues that history should be viewed as an evolutionary process, and that the end of hi
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by jeffdn 4y ago
They are and they aren't. Both parties have national bodies that vote on a platform which all candidates are ostensibly meant to support. It's not as rigorous as parties in a multi-party parliamentary system, but it's certain
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by jeffdn 4y ago
From the engineer's perspective, it's hard to take seriously a manager that is completely ignorant of any of your day-to-day work.
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by jeffdn 4y ago
The Democratic Party has completely lost its bearings. It transformed from being a pro-union, center-left party in the middle of the 20th century into a "third way" neoliberal party that is much more well known for its social stan
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by jeffdn 4y ago
I don't think anyone can possibly take the guy seriously after he wrote _The End of History_. What an absolute joke of a hot take that was. Did he truly believe that just because the Soviet Union and its satellites had a governmental c
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by jeffdn 4y ago
It's pretty widely accepted that the government will help people gain and maintain access to infrastructure, even (especially?) in rural areas. Ever heard of the Rural Electrification Administration[0]? The Tennessee Valley Authority[1
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by jeffdn 4y ago
That's not advertising though -- the commenter stated that the scope of the law was for edited photos in advertisements.
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by jeffdn 4y ago
That's ~575 new employees per week (probably more, making up for turnover)! Absolutely wild.
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by jeffdn 4y ago
I haven't found one, unfortunately -- just setting team-wide architecture policies, and then using linters extensively to make sure those policies are adhered to.
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by jeffdn 4y ago
It has so many built in footguns, however. For instance,`SerializerMethodField`, in conjunction with a list endpoint, can generate a huge number of queries if one doesn't prefetch appropriately, and this issue is very difficult to catc
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by jeffdn 4y ago
Right now, for instance, the American military: - desperately needs a new self-propelled howitzer, as the M109 is a 60-year-old design that has been upgraded to its limit, and can no longer perform adequately in a modern near-peer engagemen
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by jeffdn 4y ago
That's not the _new_ Chinese carrier, that's the Type 002 class carrier _Shandong_[0]. Their latest carrier, the Type 003 class Fujian[1], was launched last month and has a catapult system, just like American and French carriers.
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by jeffdn 4y ago
It's a 10x improvement by being 10x the size -- it hasn't improved efficiency by 10x or anything remotely like that.
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by jeffdn 4y ago
I'm not talking about all validation, I'm talking about a length constraint on a string (that isn't something like a US state, which should be a two-character field) -- already a pretty uncommon thing. At work, our codebase h
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by jeffdn 4y ago
Yep, that's fair enough. In my experience, however, in the vast, vast majority of cases, folks either don't actually care about the length, or they should be using business logic in code to do the validation, rather than waiting f
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by jeffdn 4y ago
Right, but use a check constraint and not a data type constraint (i.e. `varchar(x)`). That sounds more like a code review issue -- `blob` would've been an appropriate storage type in that case.
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by jeffdn 4y ago
> The solution was to grow the slug column to 512 characters and retry. No, the solution is to always use `text` as your column type, and use a check constraint if you need to enforce a limit. It's much easier and safer to alter a c
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by jeffdn 4y ago
Those HP Laserjet printers were just incredible. They printed pages so quickly and crisply. That warm toner smell :)
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by jeffdn 4y ago
You can do it pretty much verbatim, with dynamic dispatch using enums and lots of pattern matching. It gets a bit trickier when you are nesting environments for closures and the like, but certainly nothing insurmountable without a few thing

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