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by openasocket 2y ago
It’s been years since I’ve read the book or seen the movie, but I had the exact opposite impression of the book vs the movie. The book is very deep, I found it compared rather well to dystopian novels like 1984. The movie, by contrast, felt
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by openasocket 2y ago
One saving grace is that nukes do have a shelf life. They require regular maintenance too. The radioactive core of plutonium or uranium can last for a while, but the various components will degrade. I heard once on the Arms Control Wonk pod
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by openasocket 2y ago
The Davy Crockett variant seems to just have had a yield of 20 tonnes. Per nukemap ( https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ ) the fatal radiation range (of 500 rem) is like 500 meters. If you fire from, say, 5k the radiati
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by openasocket 2y ago
Aegis really can’t intercept ICBMs except in very niche circumstances.
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by openasocket 2y ago
I don’t think that makes sense. Where are the vast stockpiles of missiles? The silos? The thousands of people who would need to be on ready alert to launch those missiles? This also would require the US to have been cheating on the START tr
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by openasocket 2y ago
THAAD cannot intercept ICBMs…
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by openasocket 2y ago
It’s a missile that has been developed in secret, for years. With a conventional payload, so that it could actually be used in a demonstration strike like this. That was apparently completed just in time to be used here. Makes sense that it
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by openasocket 2y ago
> The fact is, the US has enough active missile defense that if all out nuclear war were to happen, the US would likely survive and Russia wouldn't This is just blatantly false. GMD, on paper, could intercept maybe 10-20 missiles by
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by openasocket 2y ago
GMD is hit-to-kill. Though I should point out that it’s broadly useless. GMD is only capable of taking out 10-20 missiles at once. Russia and China both have hundreds of missiles, and if the DPRK isn’t there yet they will be soon. GMD is es
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by openasocket 2y ago
Ugh, I really hate that term. “Hypersonic” just means traveling faster than 5 times the speed of sound. We’ve had ballistic missiles capable of exceeding that speed since the 1950s. ICBMs are hypersonic. So, yes, GMD has been tested against
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by openasocket 2y ago
I actually don’t think that’s why Russia responded. The announcement about being able to us US missiles on Russian territory occurred too quickly for them to have launched this is response. I think this is Russias response to the opening of
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by openasocket 2y ago
Absolutely! The US ABM shield is meant to intercept incoming ICBMs, which in terminal velocity will be in excess of Mach 20. The difficulty with speed isnt that the interceptor will “tear itself apart” it’s just that it means less margin fo
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by openasocket 2y ago
Cool! Looks like is used dynamic loading. Which is certainly workable. One downside is that while dynamic loading is well-supported, dynamic unloading is generally not. Meaning if you are using dynamic loading and re-loading for hot updates
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by openasocket 2y ago
Surprisingly there is prior work on this! https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/ctchalt.pdf . Apparently a Turing Machine with time travel can solve the halting problem
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by openasocket 2y ago
What happened to Alex Jones is not some new phenomenon, it is the status quo. There are tons of carve outs and exceptions in defamation law, particularly to protect journalists being sued for "getting it wrong." Amon other things,
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by openasocket 2y ago
I really hate this lazy argument, that what happened to Alex Jones is another step on the slippery slope to fascism or something. He was sued for defamation and lost. Defamation has been a tort in the US this entire time. Defamation as a co
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by openasocket 2y ago
I disagree. I see about the same amount of information on the maps in the article in comparison to maps of the war in Ukraine. The maps in the article are certainly prettier, but not more informative. I think your complaint about the "
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by openasocket 2y ago
To be clear, what they did to Tom Perez was ALREADY illegal. Which is why he was able to sue and win $900K. If you want to prevent these sorts of things from happening in the future, adding another ban on this behavior isn’t going to do it.
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by openasocket 2y ago
I've never used it in production, but I have a deep love of Prolog, just because of how different it is from any other programming language I've used. As a programming paradigm, it found it as eye-opening as functional programming
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by openasocket 2y ago
Nitpick: the M-60 is a Patton tank, not a Sherman. The M-4 Sherman was the primary medium tank used by the US during WW2. The M-60 is much more modern, used by the US military until 1997, and several countries still use them today. I only b
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by openasocket 2y ago
Not terribly difficult. The standard library's benchmarking framework records allocations in addition to latency, so you can just look at that. Fun fact, you can use this to even make unit tests that assert that certain benchmarks don&
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by openasocket 2y ago
In my case it was a choice made long ago, when the exact consequences weren’t fully apparent. I don’t think when making those initial decisions people understood how important low memory usage would turn out to be, or that Go would be an ob
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by openasocket 2y ago
I work with Go a lot at my job, and I definitely prefer functional programming so I chafe at the language a bit. I was excited to incorporate iterators into our code. Unfortunately, I'm also working in an environment where we are memor
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by openasocket 2y ago
Tolkien has specifically stated that the Dead Marshes were inspired by the appearance of Northern France after the battle of the Somme. And that Sam is a reflection of the privates and batman he served with. That said, he explicitly denies
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by openasocket 2y ago
Super niche nitpick: the photo is not of a tank. That appears to be a StuG III, which is not a tank. There is no turret, the gun is just fixed in the hull, with a couple degrees of freedom. Originally intended as a sort of mobile fire suppo
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by openasocket 2y ago
I recall something like that. You might be talking about baudio: https://www.npmjs.com/package/baudio . I also recall seeing some website demonstrating the idea of soundifying a stream of incoming metrics/events s
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by openasocket 2y ago
They didn't really explain why graph coloring can be done quickly in this case. I'm not familiar with graph coloring theory, but I know the general graph coloring problems are NP-complete. I'm guessing the reason you can use
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by openasocket 2y ago
> Did the solution taking 10 minutes make it seem like it was all just semantics from old faulty definitions? I recall that I, and the rest of the class, were very suspicious of the proof. The proof took maybe 10 minutes, but it probably
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by openasocket 2y ago
It's all abstract nonsense until it starts having practical results lol :) The main motivation for Galois theory was proving the insolvability of the quintic. For those not aware, there is a general formula solving the quadratic equati
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by openasocket 2y ago
Here’s a comprehensive list of books banned in Texa, school district by school district: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/list-of-texas-banned-boo... . On there you will find obscene books like “the Handmaid’s tale”

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