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2y ago
Wait, what orders did he take from Putin?
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2y ago
I thought of that, too. Surely they wouldn't be that bold, but then again, it's such an obviously crazy idea that it might just work.
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2y ago
And who has?
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2y ago
Why use await when you have processes? Await would feel very much out of place in the erlang world.
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2y ago
> Edit: If that. I personally think this Terms of Use thing is a storm in a teacup. You may be right, yeah. I don't actually use Firefox, there was something else they did like this before which spooked me off. I was mainly explaini
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2y ago
Yeah, pretty much. If you look historically, it's always that traitors and betrayers get the most severe punishment. It just wakes up something very basic in humans.
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2y ago
It’s about expectations. In very simple language: people expect Microsoft and Google to track the hell out of them. But Mozilla says they are your friend and respects privacy, but then their actions speak the opposite. A betrayal from a fri
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2y ago
Wait till she "mishears" you: "I thought you said you wanted to purchase 10 gallons of Amazon basics hand soap. Sorry about that. The shipping is arriving today, but you can return it back at the nearest UPS location". I
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2y ago
Linus' reply to Christoph https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/20/2066 > What's next? Saying that particular drivers can't do DMA, because you don't like that device, and as a DMA maintain
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2y ago
Bullies always act tough but they are often weak and insecure.
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2y ago
I worked on I-DEAS briefly, on the FEM part, but not the UI, so never got the chance to talk to the UI team. It was a wild time. Windows NT was taking the CAD/CAE world by storm, especially with much cheaper graphics cards available. W
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2y ago
> Lemon felt strongly that timesharing systems were the wave of the future and that SDRC should focus on providing software on these systems rather than license its software for a one-time fee. Initially, the company sold ANSYS and NASTR
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2y ago
> Not sure why anything they said back then is worth while to base opinions on today. There is still a lot of that hope but it's also a different time. The bravery of of Ukrainians in the initial wave and the counter-offensive as un
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2y ago
That was the security guarantee: having the presence of US mining companies there. Honestly, I don't really think US really needs Ukraine's mineral resources. US has plenty of its own to extract. But it was a pretext to invest and
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2y ago
> America is literally allying itself with Russia, trying to turn Ukraine into basically colony (by demanding their resources forever) It was Ukraine/Zelensky who suggested that first not Trump. It was back in November. But we tend
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2y ago
> So you're still just going to attack the most extreme interpretations and dismiss the truth because it's not literally dead? I can attack my own interpretation, that seems fair, doesn't it? You can have your own interpre
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2y ago
> Twitter that large corporations can survive drastic, chaotic and insane levels of cuts/layoffs (80%+) and still survive. US Government is not Twitter, but yeah, I can see some element of it. Now I suddenly remember, the various co
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2y ago
> "If you don't like it, talk to your local politicians", Indeed people only noticed this because Apple tried to do the right thing and now it's somehow also Apple's fault. No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.
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2y ago
> how can you “pull” E2E encryption without data loss? What happens to those that had this enabled? They'll keep your data hostage and disable your iCloud account. Clever, huh? So they are not deleting it, just disabling your accoun
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2y ago
> at the end of the day if the Russians won't put their people in it nobody should Ha, fair point ;-) > I'm sure politics play a non-trivial role Yeah, they may get paid to fly supply missions, but it's still a tiny bit
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2y ago
> Russian Federation has wanted to deorbit it for decades simply due to the burden of repair and resupply missions. They do get paid for it? I'd imagine it's bringing in a chunk of change and they'd be happy to let it keep
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2y ago
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230502-a-fiery-end-how-... Weren't the Russians pulling out of supporting it in 2025? > Russia has even suggested it may pull out of the ISS as early as 2025. Though I
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2y ago
It's a Schrödinger's false-flag! Just incompetent enough to look like a false flag. But at the same time, it's coming from the heart of US bureaucracy, which finds cash to build multi-billion dollar hidden data centers, but i
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2y ago
I assumed that much, SunOS is pretty ancient, last version was what, in early 1990s? Though, Solaris still would report a SunOS 5.$solarisver version or something like that. So I guess we can say it is a "SunOS" box if we wanted t
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2y ago
> can I comment freely here Sure, we all have the freedom of speech here. Will you have freedom after speech though, I don't know? It depends on your particular situation ;-)
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2y ago
> No attacks occurred during Memorial Day and Independence Day holidays which were unique American holidays. Simple but effective. A good non-NSA agency should also learn from this to be able to effectively false-flag as NSA, as long as
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2y ago
> Microsoft’s topological qubit architecture has aluminum nanowires joined together to form an H. Each H has four controllable Majoranas and makes one qubit. These Hs can be connected, too, and laid out across the chip like so many tiles
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2y ago
> like transforming the stop-motion shots in Terminator 1 to motion shots. Oh yeah, or RoboCop!
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2y ago
> A lot of people in this thread have an extremely facile understanding of art, I don't think anyone would deny Lynch had his own, distinct Lynch-ian stye. A lot of people probably can't describe it clearly in words but they&#x
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2y ago
> If the engine loses a fan blade, it will vibrate violently and it's probably better to lose the engine. That's the idea with a fan blade loss, they didn't want to just drop an engine in that case so the centering mechani
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