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by lucasjung 15y ago
The SEALs do both: they are very picky about who gets into BUD/S, BUD/S weeds out all but the best, and then they continuously train to stay the best. I actually believe that the USMC's formula for success doesn't scale without limit. They
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> One problem I have personally is that they're very credential-focused; as a high school and college dropout, I'd be kind of screwed. The military isn't really picky about where your bachelor's degree comes from (as long as it's crede
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by lucasjung 15y ago
The military has been making a huge push in recent years to grow capabilities for "cyber warfare." The Air Force has pushed especially hard to establish themselves in this area, because they see some of their existing core capabilities bei
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I don't know about carrier tone, but each key on a touch-tone phone has two freqs: one for the row, one for the column.
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> It's a pretty city, in some parts, but "Europe's greenest city" is just bullshit. And maybe technically there are more canals than in Venice and Amsterdam, but in reality you'll find that you have to walk quite a bit to get from one c
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I don't think that would work. When it absorbs light, it converts that energy into heat, then re-radiates that heat. That re-radiated heat will show up to the infrared motion sensors. I see one way you might be able to work around this: i
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by lucasjung 15y ago
You're clearly correct about vent sexing, but the story about the planes rings more true. It reminded me of a study that shows that car enthusiasts and bird watchers access the area of the brain normally used for facial recognition when id
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I've heard this sentiment phrased much better: "There are three things that mostly determine how well your life goes: what you're doing, who you're with, and where you are. If you can get two of the three right, you're ahead of 90% of the
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by lucasjung 15y ago
To be honest, snprbob86's criteria are a lot more robust than mine and probably work for more people, but since you asked, I'll share. My initial policy was to look for old games that had been so successful that they were re-released in new
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by lucasjung 15y ago
The major cities of the Pacific Northwest actually have at least one serious problem that stems from making the homeless lifestyle too easy: too many runaway teens. One of my sisters lives in Portland, and for several years she worked as
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I had an experience similar to what you describe (waking up and thinking "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"), but it predates these games. I was in college (can't remember which year, probably my junior year) and my roommates and I
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I know for a fact that some aircraft are able to operate on three by using altimeter information to resolve the ambiguity between the two possible points. It's not as accurate as using four satellites, but it's still pretty damn accurate.
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I took a class on GPS in grad school. We built a GPS receiver in software (MATLAB, actually), and I remember that we had to account for relativistic effects. I do not remember exactly what the math was, though. I think that it was just
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by lucasjung 15y ago
My experience with these is that you must either use your PKI certificate or a password as the key to decrypt the drive. The default configuration is generally to use the PKI certificate on the chip embedded in your ID card. Since you hav
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by lucasjung 15y ago
They have at least two religions: Shinto and Buddhist. I don't know how much following either of them gets today, but I do know that during the feudal period the two religions were associated very strongly with the upper castes (Buddhism) a
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I'm pretty sure it won't mount that, either. The only external storage they'll mount are external hard drives that have been encrypted with their approved software.
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Military acquisitions take a long time. To give one example, I know for a fact that there are airplanes flying right now that use DEC Alphas to control their weapons systems. Those planes first came into use in the early 2000's. An o
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by lucasjung 15y ago
The hard drive has to be scanned by an administrator before you're allowed to use it (not sure what this process entails). It also has to be encrypted, and won't mount unless it is encrypted with the proper DOD-approved software. As far as
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by lucasjung 15y ago
You can actually still do that: drawing 5V doesn't require the phone to mount as a drive.
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> they are just wined and dined by the contractor when they should be directly overseeing and controlling. There are actually very strict controls on how much government personnel are allowed to accept from contractors. IIRC, the limi
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by lucasjung 15y ago
USB flash drives are banned DOD-wide. Most DOD computers are setup up to not even mount them when they are plugged in.
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by lucasjung 15y ago
There are also really odd things like streets that seemingly dead-end, but which actually continue in the same direction but offset by one or more blocks; in other words, a street that takes a dog-leg via a crossing street. The problem is
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by lucasjung 15y ago
That was my initial idea. But then there's no good way to divide them neatly into seasons, whether you want to have two, four, or six. It does have the advantage that it comes very close to lining up with the lunar cycle, so that the lun
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I actually gave some consideration to that. There are also places that have six seasons. However, I'm pretty sure that a majority of the world's population lives in temperate zones (I didn't bother researching that, so I could be wrong),
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I wanted the months to be equally-divisible into weeks of equal length. It turns out that the 7-day week is the only really good way to divide the year equally into smallish units and only have one or two days left over. So you could have
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> The world would be a better place with only one (and simple) calendar. Go ahead, propose one. A hobby of mine is thinking up "better" ways to do things that I know will never be implemented because the current way is good enough and
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by lucasjung 15y ago
It's actually a truncation of the term "empty suit." In other words: all style, no substance; all looks, no accomplishments; all money, no ideas; etc.
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by lucasjung 15y ago
It's a Greek myth, so how much realism do you really expect? For what it's worth, the way I've always heard it was that the boy and the calf did grow up together. Seriously: your only problem with the story is that the cow and the boy grew
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I've seen people get pulled over for driving too slow, but never on U.S. highways.
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I think the idea is more that ineffective (or at least terribly inefficient) programs would be much less likely to survive in such an environment. If program a is designed to achieve effect B , some people will argue for it because th

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