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by laughing_man 2mo ago
There is certainly ample precedent for this. How many stable hands lost their jobs as people switched from horses to automobiles? In 1923 there were 863,000 coal miners in the US. There are less than 45,000 today.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Is that what's going on, though, or is it just that with fewer viewers the industry needs consolidation?
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Does it really matter anymore? How many people get their news and entertainment from local TV stations?
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
Sure, it's possible in theory. In reality, the army has other priorities.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
There was much celebration where I worked when the engineering manager approved EEPROMs. Not only did we put the eraser into storage, but they had the same footprint as the PROMs.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
>Here's a point that I ran across: these long range missiles are there to take out air defences and such (along with stealth sorties), which allows you go go in with 'regular' ordinance and non-stealth aircraft—of which th
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
The USAF has a pretty substantial inventory of stand-off weapons, and an absolutely enormous inventory of guided bombs.
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
>The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military’s readiness for future co
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by laughing_man 2mo ago
They announced a Chromebook replacement called the Googlebook in May. It's supposed to be "AI native", whatever that means.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Yeah... I remember designing these into circuit boards. They were much cheaper than EPROMs, so we did development with EPROMs and production with PROMs. And then we desoldered and replaced all the PROMs when we found a problem.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
The only reason there's more than enough to go around is people work for the betterment of their own life. If you disconnect the link between work and material comfort that simple, undeniable fact will no longer be fact.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Or not.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Well, okay, he can do lots of illegal stuff that's going to get punished in the courts. There's no way something like that would survive SEC scrutiny, I don't care what state you're in.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
I wouldn't say Shotwell is "undervalued, weirdly or not. She's a household name among space enthusiasts. Without looking, can you tell me who the COO of ULA is?
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Not at all. Ownership and voting rights are two different things. Musk can't, for example, declare a dividend that pays his shares out more than the common shares.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Companies at which I worked sometimes went silent because there was no decision. It's hard to send an email that says something like "Hey, I know it's been three months, but I can't get my boss off the stick to make a d
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
The press release says they use the wind energy to produce hydrogen. Seems like you could store the hydrogen and always have the plant running at capacity as long as the average power produced by the wind turbine(s) was enough.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
I've never had a website do more than the equivalent of "Try again, smart guy" when I put in a ridiculous age.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
But also arguably... no. They called the White House, but as I read the story they didn't get anything they wanted.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Is that what happened, though?
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
And yet Americans are the victim of food-borne illnesses at no greater rate than Europeans. I wonder how much of that is farm lobbies trying to keep out imports. US growers do the same thing when the don't want to compete with South
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
That was a long time ago. Seems like if you were going to get it, you would have gotten it already. Besides, even in the UK the numbers aren't that high.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Me too. I've been really happy with Brave.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
A more likely reason for the lack of widespread death in Israel is the Iranians don't have the capability to cause it. The Israelis have air raid shelters, plus early warning radars that give them time to get to those shelters. And t
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
To be fair, while these missiles are still in service they're obsolete and are slated for retirement the coming decade.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
It's funny, people here said the same thing about Starlink. "Sure, it's technically possible, but you could only lose money by doing something like that. There's just no market for it."
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
The Russians put the first ASats up in the '70s. Their existence doesn't require use.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Everybody keeps talking about cheap, clean power. But where I live the price of power has gone up dramatically in recent years. Free power (well, marginally free, anyway) is a major plus.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
>Also, how do you deal with the added cost and complexity for the solar tracking mechanisms for the "edge-on-to-the-Sun" radiator? Almost every satellite needs attitude control, so this isn't something out of the ordinary.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. If you need null termination you're going to be a lot better off adding it at the source (say, with sed) than trying to make a while loop work in a shell script. If you don't nee

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