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by nvy 3y ago
>Are there any "pure" civilian targets then, or is absolutely anything a legitimate military target? Welcome to the fundamental ethical dilemma underlying the debate around the Total War concept. I don't claim to have all
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by nvy 3y ago
There were military factories in the city center also. What I'm saying Jacques, is that the issue is nuanced. I encourage you to read Frederick Taylor's excellent book on the subject.
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by nvy 3y ago
Dresden was as legitimate a target as any other city. Its factories made, among other things, precision optics for bomb sights. Dresden being a purely civilian target is a myth.
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by nvy 3y ago
The reason why you use a biplane design is to get more lift per unit span, so you can keep wingspan within some arbitrary constraint. As with all engineering, there is a tradeoff involved, and with biplanes you don't get double the lif
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by nvy 3y ago
Oh just give it up already. No country is perfect, got it. There are shades of morality. Got it. Prejudice exists. Got it. Welcome to the realizations most of us attain in our teens. The sanctimonious, smug, self-righteous tone you ad
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by nvy 3y ago
They dropped leaflets stating "some or all of the cities named" would be destroyed in the coming days.
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by nvy 3y ago
Once, I tried to write a GUI program in pure win32, that would have a custom window shape like demoscene intros/warez cracktros. Once.
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by nvy 3y ago
Try it. Apple M-series laptops are by far the superior hardware on the market today. TFA is about using a non-Apple mouse (because Apple mice are touch sensitive so you can do gestures on the mouse's surface). The OS itself is a certi
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by nvy 3y ago
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by nvy 3y ago
Not OP but here's mine: https://github.com/nathanvy/dotemacs The .org file gets processed and the source code blocks extracted into an elisp-only file which is what actually gets executed. Some people prefer an a
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by nvy 3y ago
>Emacs was called "obsolete", "hard to use", "bizarre", and other things. As a daily emacs user, it is all those things. It's just also awesome if you put in the time to get over the hump and learn it.
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by nvy 3y ago
From the HN commenting guidelines: >Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. You're complaining that
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Emacs 29.1 Released(lists.gnu.org)
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by nvy 3y ago
Me too, like the hackrf portapack. Unfortunately I think most posters on r/cyberdecks don't have the skills for SDR.
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by nvy 3y ago
The overwhelming majority of cyberdecks I see get posted on reddit are basically raspi + pelican case + ortho/ergodox. It's grown quite stale and certainly almost none of these devices get toted around despite the emphasis on por
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by nvy 3y ago
The specific data? No idea, never seen it. Do I think that, in principle, data sets can be anonymized? Of course I do. Your incredulous tone and excessive ellipsis seems to imply you find this position to be ridiculous, so maybe you'
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by nvy 3y ago
Interesting. I thought this was only the case for exits.
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by nvy 3y ago
>One objection a lot of people in this thread have to using Tor is the (misconception) that they'll be relaying Tor traffic. Um. I'm pretty sure that nodes relaying Tor traffic is the fundamental principle underlying Tor. Ever
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by nvy 3y ago
So long as the data cannot identify specific students (i.e. it's sufficiently anonymized) what's the issue?
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by nvy 3y ago
I think history will remember Alexandra Elbakyan as one of the most important figures of this century. She's very low-profile, but the work she's doing is of fundamental importance to humanity. Locking (usually publicly-funded)
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by nvy 3y ago
Firefox Android here as well. Works normally for me. Are you running ublock?
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by nvy 3y ago
Fair enough. My experience is fairly recent but it might also be a military vs intelligence agency thing. All the classified/SCIF systems I used were networked, though the networks were physically segmented and most of the classified
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by nvy 3y ago
>These systems are commonly air-gapped Do you have direct experience? Because this is contradictory to my own experience. When I was in the Air Force we had access to various classified networks at levels up to and including TS. You of
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by nvy 3y ago
Didn't he have a special PRIVACC designation that allowed him to bypass traditional "need to know" silo boundaries, under the auspices of being a sysadmin or whatever?
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by nvy 3y ago
>Why would Google not monetize unattested traffic? I mean that's like Google blocking it's own ads from being shown. It's very simple. Google has concerns of click/impression fraud. Unattested traffic would be more
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by nvy 3y ago
Yes. My point is that Google's done an excellent job stacking incentives against the user, here.
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by nvy 3y ago
>But as a software creator, it's up to you to determine what is best for your customers. Absolutely zero large web properties do anything based on what's best for users. If this gains traction, Google will simply deny adsense
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by nvy 3y ago
Meta: does flagging and vouching work differently for links than for comments? This account has enough karma for flagging, and I can see the title of this submission is prefixed with [Flagged] but I don't have an option to Vouch. How d
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by nvy 3y ago
>It should not be up to the pilot to ground the plane; shouldn't that be up to the airline or chief engineer? Aerospace engineer here. I've worked in airworthiness and maintenance ops, though never on the 767. "Grounding
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by nvy 3y ago
I mean the way we'd do it is a series of sawtooth climbs, since weight typically has a profound effect on climb performance. Other than a nerd-sniping exercise I don't see the point of going down this rabbit hole, because on an ai

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