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by pas 6mo ago
they are cloning Zoom and MS Teams, and try to get people to either copy a script (which is in a textarea that's conveniently too small to show the whole script, and scrollbars are hidden by CSS, and there's a copy button, and whe
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by pas 6mo ago
ask any Factorio aficionado! the rookie answer is a conveyor belt, the better answer is a railway.
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by pas 6mo ago
also easier to put some soil over them. MBS for example loves moving lots of sand in a nice straight line!
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by pas 6mo ago
but if you know there are 3 CIWS, you know they can move the pew-pew pipe at some radians per second this axis, and that axis, you put the drones in a formation to maximize the need for muzzle movement, estimate how many rounds are in them
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by pas 6mo ago
what's the connection to the opioid epidemic?
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by pas 6mo ago
I guess the conclusion is that the manned missions since the Moon landing were for Cold War reasons. (With that kind of mentality.) And when that ended they made even less sense. For example when they had to go up to refill the wiper fluid
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by pas 6mo ago
... so the real problem is that to get back and slow down nicely would require so much more launch mass, right? (By slow down I mean to change to an orbit that has more drag and wouldn't take forever to return to Earth.)
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by pas 6mo ago
Safety culture requires the ability to learn from mistakes, the capability to ground planes (without that turning into a political problem), and someone to foot the bill. (Which did not always happen, Boeing MCAS with a SPoF AoA sensor wit
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by pas 6mo ago
pnpm does global + per-repo
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by pas 6mo ago
there are questions where the abstraction of real numbers becomes leaky, and some axioms (or their lack) poke through. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice#Real_numbers
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by pas 6mo ago
we evaluated them in 2023, because we wanted to move off JIRA, and their name came up, and we did the initial import, and I spent some time trying to understand what's where and how, and the whole experience was lame. it was aggressive
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by pas 6mo ago
the hypothesis seems pretty important and interesting, even if hard to study (and hard to classify companies, and sustainability, way too many degrees of freedom, so it would need preregistration, etc)
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by pas 6mo ago
What's undergrad business faculty? The people who teach undergrads or undergrad TAs?
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by pas 6mo ago
They could at least send the paper with the reported problems out to a new set of referees. And just as they decided to take responsibility for publishing, they can take responsibility after a similar review for retraction (or issuing an er
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by pas 7mo ago
> The analysis I have read point out that this attack actually further legitimizes the regime and takes steam away from internal unrest, especially if Iran comes out on top. Yes. Unfortunately both things can be true (irreversible declin
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by pas 7mo ago
Obviously the current US Mobministration is almost impervious to shame, but of course they still have their own egoistic expectations to grapple with. They are not afraid to spend money (and blood) on a problem, even if it turns out to be b
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by pas 7mo ago
> If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It neve
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by pas 7mo ago
> It will act to save itself first, even if attacking the aggressor hurts itself too in the process. Of course, but as we see simply focusing on ground forces, drones, and anti-air defenses would be strictly better . (Because they would
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by pas 7mo ago
The HN protocol to deal with this is downvote silently. Complaining about why and what is on HN is also in the FAQ as a no no. If there was any serious preparation for a many months long campaign then why Kharg island is not occupied alread
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by pas 7mo ago
But it didn't really. Iran is poorer than it was before, even more of a problem than it was before. NK has two very special advantages (Seoul is within artillery range, and it is literally in the backyard of one or two relevant superpo
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by pas 7mo ago
Tehran "spent" 2T USD on the nuclear weapons program, which they could have spent on water desalination for example. Yes having the deterrent is strategically beneficial, but working toward it paints a huge target on your back, wh
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by pas 7mo ago
He emphasizes relative importance, he doesn't claim that the actual people are not important.
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by pas 7mo ago
the nuclear weapons program has cost about 2T USD for Iran, and definitely makes certain arguments for intervention more acceptable, but it doesn't negate the other side of the equation. the cost of intervention is still enormous. (and
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by pas 7mo ago
I remember his protracted war posts, and ... indeed there's still a war going there, and fortunately it did not even get into the anticipated guerilla phase. Can you elaborate a bit on what was unrealistic? (Maybe you have different po
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by pas 7mo ago
if UE doesn't pay for itself they should just turn off the lights and sit in shame forever
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by pas 7mo ago
it was pretty meh back then, so people had pretty understandable reasons. it made LAN parties harder for example :) but it got a lot better. Epic had more money and time compared to Valve. and their store is still worse. sure, Steam has an
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by pas 7mo ago
Thank you for the detailed answer! It's unacceptable that operational matters are not handled by a standing ops team that covers so and so gov agencies. (And at least Apple did something useful by pushing for shorter validity time for
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by pas 7mo ago
ah, true, thanks! (unfortunately I can't delete/edit the comment.)
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by pas 7mo ago
EU has the NIS2 directive, the CRA (cybersecurity resiliency act), and a few sector specific ones (DORA for financial, MDR/IVDR for medical/diagnostical, and there's probably a bunch more) these are slowly but surely pushing
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by pas 7mo ago
obviously it will require an age verification, also you need to tell Google that you want to go somewhere 24 hours in advance, and Apple gets 30% of the revenue that gas stations make.

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