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by topkai22 8y ago
The US would break its sanctioning tools if it took on China unilaterally with sanctions, but if they managed a coalition that included the EU and a few others it could work.
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by topkai22 8y ago
Economic Sanctions- possible, but only effective with Allies and a clear set of demands on what it takes to lift the sanctions UN Resolution- China is a veto holding member of the security council, not happening Boots on the ground- not w
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by topkai22 8y ago
I do most of my work in large enterprises and there is definitely a point when you hit a complexity cliff managing your own systems. No one system causes this (major systems can often support a dedicated staff), but it looks like death by a
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by topkai22 8y ago
You are right in "the way we currently use them", but that doesn't make buses inherently as safe as you imply. Buses get professional, trained drivers, subject to substance abuse testing and rest laws, consistently driving th
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by topkai22 8y ago
I'm thinking some of the stuff that will pushed for climate change mitigation will generate a lot material for new revolutions. If researchers and engineers manage to get efficient, cheap carbon capture at scale what sort of consequenc
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by topkai22 8y ago
In the early 2000 MSFT released VB .NET (a different language and platform) as a successor, which is what you are thinking of. What the OP misses is the tooling surrounding VB6
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by topkai22 8y ago
No, Visual Basic was its own development stack direct to the OS. It had some pretty nice tooling for creating GUIs in a drag and drop manner. The last version was 6 and that was initially released in 1998. That being said, the VB6 runtime i
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by topkai22 8y ago
A lot of it is about price and ease of adoption. My mother used a video phone at the worlds fair in the 60s. I’m fact, she loved it so much she kept on waiting in line to do it over and over again. She only started using one again 50 years
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by topkai22 8y ago
I don’t think this is sign we are doing something wrong as opposed to a reminder that big changes in technology usage take a long time to develop and process. The first self propelled passenger vehicle demoed in 1808- more than 100 years be
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by topkai22 8y ago
This is because their job absolutely requires performing on insufficient sleep. Combat isn't shift work. I think (without much data here) that medical training pushes insufficient sleep on doctors due to on-call schedules. While hospit
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by topkai22 8y ago
I just started attending the sections of the same class that started at 930, except on test days. The professors knew I was doing it, but didn't seem to mind.
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by topkai22 8y ago
I actually did the math on this in my district. Based on the cost data they published, it costs (roughly) $1.5-2/ride on our school bus system. Allowing 20 minutes for pick up and drop off, no current ride-sharing system I know about w
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Microsoft Awarded $480M Army AR Contract(techcrunch.com)
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by topkai22 8y ago
There is a point that is often glossed over in these analysis- the rental stock and the ownership stock are often fundamentally different. Last time my family moved we weren’t opposed to renting, but there was something like 1/10 the n
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by topkai22 8y ago
I don’t want to beat the author up too much- the over application of CASE tools in the 90s was a real thing, and I have less than fond memories of being forced to use a VPL when it really wasn’t the appropriate solution. A good professional
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by topkai22 8y ago
Visual programming languages will only take you so far, but often that is far enough. What the author misses is that we as professional programmers miss the success stories, because we only get called in when the boundaries have been reache
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by topkai22 8y ago
Ok, the dam scenario is excessive (and kinetic already), but where that threshold crossed? If a string of on going attacks caused 10s of billions of damage but with no fatalities, would it crossed? What about incidental fatalities such as p
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by topkai22 8y ago
I get your point, but the regular US military is a culture and organization apart from the mainstream.
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by topkai22 8y ago
AFAIK, there remains no clear policy or line on what sort of cyber incident would warrant escalation to a “kinetic” (blowing things up) response. This is a serious problem, as it can lead to unintentional escalation. For example, if Turkey
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by topkai22 8y ago
I will add on- no, I didn't find out how its possible to professionally program for 5 years and not use arrays. But the poor guys response showed he hadn't.
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by topkai22 8y ago
I've been trying to weed out a lot of these problems from my team's interviewing set- they filter for CS students, not practical development knowledge. I can honestly say I've never used a linked list in 15 years of being pai
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by topkai22 8y ago
The techlogical change here wasn’t iterative, it was an immediate Big Bang shock to the existing system. I’m surprised the school board even proposed it after seeing it. It sounds like they completely ignored their own knowledge of politica
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by topkai22 8y ago
Nope, it’s improved a lot and approaches greatness for the reasons you mention. It still drives ME crazy because it lets many of my colleagues produce unreadable hard to understand spaghetti code in a way I don’t see with more structured (a
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by topkai22 8y ago
It’s algorithmic efficiency and at a basic level- things like 9 levels of nested loops, each loop pass generating an http call (admitadly some of this is the platform we are using fault)
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by topkai22 8y ago
This remains a serious problem on my team- Over half my team members don’t have CS degrees. They get an enormous amount done, but there is often a perf or maintainability cost. I have no intention of swapping them out because they ultimatel
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by topkai22 8y ago
I do have a CS degree, but I manage a software development team that is mostly composed of people with non-CS backgrounds. Having done this, I can assure you that you don't need to be able to solve toy CS problems to produce sophistica
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by topkai22 8y ago
This line of thinking is partly what the author is warning about. France’s early war aims in WWI were to recapture Alsace-Lorraine (think Crimea). Germany’s were, basically, to be taken seriously. Britain was fairly anti-war but got talked
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by topkai22 8y ago
It’s been a while since I watched it, but only kind of. A major component of that movie is how he deals with and prioritizes NON work stuff (his kid.)
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by topkai22 8y ago
Ford’s propulsion is still steam but it generates a tremendous amount of electrical power for its other systems I believe France’s boomers and the next gen SSBN the US is designing both have electric drive. Isn’t this a bit of a “if you can
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by topkai22 8y ago
Even if they aren’t explictly there to prevent theft I’m sure they do. Knowing you’ll have to run that gauntlet on top of the other loss prevention techniques would make me want to try a softer Target (pun intended)

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