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by ranger207 6mo ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/teleportation
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by ranger207 6mo ago
Yes, most ground strikes were by other aircraft types, but the F-15E did have a lot of sorties, almost as many as the F-111 or F-4G (although the F-16 had many, many more sorties, but not all of them were air-to-ground) Source is the Gulf W
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by ranger207 6mo ago
Air defense is not static. Even fixed launchers can be moved, and reacting to how your enemy is operating is an important part of air defense tactics. The famous F-117 shootdown happened because the air defense operators carefully planned a
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by ranger207 6mo ago
The F-15E Strike Eagle variant is definitely designed for attacks and defense against ground forces, but overall air defense is a probability game so it's not too surprising that it eventually happened
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by ranger207 6mo ago
Both F-15s lost in the 1st Gulf War were the air-to-ground focused F-15E Strike Eagles. https://rjlee.org/air/ds-aaloss/
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by ranger207 6mo ago
And it did sometimes get way out of control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Bat_21_Bravo
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by ranger207 6mo ago
Arguably this has been happening since the Cold War, as aircraft-launched missiles back then were designed to take out incoming cruise missiles. But in principle using something like an F-15 firing something like an AIM-120 is cheaper than
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by ranger207 7mo ago
Correct. Steam, a native Linux app, will run Windows games via Proton. As Steam itself, which is collecting the data in TFA, is a Linux app, it shouldn't be affected by thinking it's running under Wine/Proton. As to your orig
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by ranger207 7mo ago
This is from the Steam hardware survey. Steam doesn't run under Wine generally so this problem shouldn't come up
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by ranger207 7mo ago
Strafing is implemented on A and D at least, but having one hand on the arrows to turn and WASD to move is a bizarre mix of modern and original controls
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by ranger207 7mo ago
Yes, wargames can be used to evaluate strategic and operational plans. However, notice how many boots on the ground were involved in Proud Prophet. My point was that MC2002 was not primarily a wargame for evaluating plans, it was primarily
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by ranger207 7mo ago
MC2002 was not primarily a wargame to develop operational plans. You can do that much easier and cheaper with a bunch of generals around a map. MC2002 was a training exercise with an element of competitiveness to pressure people under unexp
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by ranger207 7mo ago
The US bombed basically all of the Iraqi military in 1991, yet the war didn't end and Iraq didn't leave Kuwait until troops on the ground went in. Air power alone cannot control territory or compel political change
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by ranger207 7mo ago
Automating ATC is similar to automating flying in general. Even if it's possible to automate 99% of 99% of flights, including even takeoff and landing, commercial flights still have two pilots because if things start to go wrong there&
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by ranger207 7mo ago
The one major mistake I've seen is where they recently repainted a road from 2 lanes to 1 with some somewhat nonstandard markings indicating a merge, and the Waymo just drove through the merge as if the 2nd lane was still there
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by ranger207 7mo ago
I would've said that at the tail end of Windows 10. I got my first Mac via work just as Windows 11 was coming out (having switched my personal devices to Linux), and my memories of Windows were much better than whatever version of MacO
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by ranger207 8mo ago
The Linux kernel approach
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by ranger207 8mo ago
They generally do. Random example, citation 349 on the page of George Washington: ""A Brief History of GW"[link]. GW Libraries. Archived[link] from the original on September 14, 2019. Retrieved August 19, 2019."
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by ranger207 8mo ago
Good article, this is something I struggle with and am trying to ve better at. I wish there were similarly concise and technical explanations of other social skills
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by ranger207 8mo ago
True, but in this case, civilian requirements may be "protects against ambient fumes" while the military specs are "protects against deadly gases that are designed to try to get around gas masks while standing up to impacts a
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by ranger207 9mo ago
No, the FAA recommends against creating a foam path. It reduces braking effectiveness and uses up supplies that might be needed to actually fight a fire https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/airports/ai
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by ranger207 9mo ago
I'm working right now on an app in Godot to support a tabletop game. Their UI framework is pretty nice IMO. It really helps that the editor itself is made in Godot, so they have a lot of real usage of their UI system already
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by ranger207 9mo ago
I think that video games can be art, but relatively few are, and most of those that do reach the bar of being considered art aren't particularly avant-garde. Like, taking a couple of artsy-ish games, how much does Return of the Obra Di
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by ranger207 9mo ago
The press has always been full of propaganda, it's just that in the time period 1850-1950 there weren't any dissenting media outlets so it was impossible for anyone to recognize that there was anything different from the propagand
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by ranger207 9mo ago
They probably won't reverse course, as the problem isn't the AI (or else they would've banned it completely), but instead the AI submissions crowding out all other discussion. There's lots of subs that do things like thi
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by ranger207 9mo ago
Personally I like dark mode because most of the time my screen isn't looking at things that are majority pure white, it's looking at games, or videos, or blogs with a background color, or whatever. If I adjust my brightness to see
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by ranger207 9mo ago
I don't disagree which is why the level of effort needed to use Linux has always seemed overblown to me lol, but that is the relative popular perception
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by ranger207 9mo ago
That's how my comp sci degree went at Georgia Tech. There was a data structures and algorithms class first that used Java but then 2110 was building a computer from the (simulated) transistors up. I would've never understood point
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by ranger207 9mo ago
One common complaint with the idea of the year if the Linux desktop is that Linux simply doesn't "just work" in the way MacOS and even Windows do. I think that's becoming less and less a barrier though for both the fact
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by ranger207 9mo ago
A stopped clock is right twice a day. A running clock set incorrectly is correct zero times a day. If you have an incorrect clock, the solution isn't to stop the clock, it's to set it correctly and fix the process

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