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by justin66 2y ago
Interesting. Are recent US missile tests at sea as bad as the recent UK tests? I don’t remember seeing news to that effect.
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by justin66 2y ago
You can watch video of the most recent test, a little more than a month ago, of a Minuteman III. This is a short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUg7x1zo7D0 They can test the missiles and reentry vehicles, everything
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by justin66 2y ago
> Well, if you don't care about the devs, on what base are you asking them to care about your specific problem ? Caring about the user's requirements is part of the dev's job description. Caring about the dev's... any
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by justin66 2y ago
I understand the concern regarding banking. I keep "cash" in my Fidelity account in one or the other of two Fidelity money market funds that invest in US Treasuries. That's as safe as a bank, after a fashion (if the treasury
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by justin66 2y ago
The developer responds to a comment: But many players are able to do it for years. with: If it's so easy, why are you not doing it? He's not just a butthole, he's a stereotypical open source developer butthole. On the ot
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by justin66 2y ago
Only 30? I'm sure that takes all the pressure to grow off of them.
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by justin66 2y ago
Fidelity has the better website (but Schwab's site is not nearly as bad as Vanguard) and has had fewer weird financial problems in recent years than Schwab. That said, either one will work. I've got everything moved over to Fideli
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by justin66 2y ago
> what would they gain from doing "enterprise"? They are valued at 3.4 trillion dollars with a P/E ratio of 34. They can give a lot of that up, or they can continue to grow, as their current valuation demands. > Furth
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by justin66 2y ago
In the case of LCM, it would have simply been a matter of employing the people who previously worked there. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to do it - that seems like a strange thing to do - but it is not a mystery what needed to
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Or save yourself hundreds of hours and find a textbook with solutions.
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> If directed by high enough up they might accept the now-disputed EPA rules Since we're talking about the military, it's less legally complicated than it might be with some other agencies: the president could make that happen
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by justin66 2y ago
> Don’t forget that this is the same Epic Games guy who recently said that tracking thieves via Find My is creepy How... ridiculous? And totally relevant to the subject at hand?
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2: a RISC-V bet [video](youtube.com)
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> suspending doesn't work, the audio sounds like crap Your laptop isn’t the first to experience that stuff under Linux.
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by justin66 2y ago
> The 1980s were some of the most efficient NASA budgeting years Strange and funny stuff. Somewhere between when NASA estimated the cost of a shuttle flight would be less than ten million dollars and when it became apparent they cost wel
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by justin66 2y ago
> Boeing's F-15 and F/A-18 derivatives (F-15EX Eagle II and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet) have utterly failed to generate sales outside the US military, being defeated namely by Lockheed Martin's F-35 at every turn. Ev
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by justin66 2y ago
I don't believe that competitive players are unwilling to experiment with this stuff to get an edge. On the hand, if someone polled today's competitive gamers to see what they're doing with their keybindings, the results were
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by justin66 2y ago
The point was that there is a way to do "objective" study of Human-Computer Interaction, with game controllers as well as everything else, and then there are random opinions offered as "objective" for no reason other tha
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by justin66 2y ago
> objectively better There actually was a time when computer scientists at Atari studied user interface stuff with game performance in mind. All that ended years before WASD, but it’s worth pointing out that WASD came about as part of
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by justin66 2y ago
To someone like me without firsthand knowledge, the problem with a “McDonnell Douglas ruined everything” analysis is that McD’s military products are doing really well.
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by justin66 2y ago
It was maybe a slightly stronger strategy before their airliners started failing in spectacularly public ways, drawing scrutiny.
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by justin66 2y ago
Some scientists used to look at the beam emitter to adjust the aim of old particle accelerators. The story I heard was that some of them eventually developed cataracts as a result. Come to think of it, with today's medical technology t
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by justin66 2y ago
I don't know how many, but it's a decent enough choice for a jukebox machine or something.
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by justin66 2y ago
Removing that requirement makes sense to me (in the current release or the previous releases), but I'm curious why the previous releases are deemed worth maintaining alongside the current release. What did they do feature-wise in newer
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by justin66 2y ago
Why does the author backport fixes to the 1.5 and 1.6 versions? What's significant about recent changes that makes those worth keeping alive?
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by justin66 2y ago
I never knew him, but Jason Scott did what seemed like a nice job of memorializing him after his recent death: https://textfiles.libsyn.com/the-cheshire-catalyst-episode
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by justin66 2y ago
Your comment was quite condescending, and it's disingenuous of you to suggest otherwise. If this is all your idea of grace, I'd hate to see less than graceful. By contrast, I was careful to criticize the title as clickbait, not th
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by justin66 2y ago
But that's all beside the point - we're not talking about a "general disclaimer." (I am intrigued by how blurry the lens you look at the world must be, if you live by that "#include <general_disclaimers>&quo
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by justin66 2y ago
I mean, which of the following is more precise? "Why I prefer rST to Markdown" or "Why I prefer rST to Markdown for Typesetting" Since it's a clearer statement of the author's meaning, and since very few users
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by justin66 2y ago
"If a big earthquake temporarily disables a chunk of communications infrastructure." OP is talking about the kind of thing that kicks in if that cell phone network, or 911 response, or what have you is compromised.

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