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by topspin 3y ago
> that's uncharted territory Thus, the "extraordinary steps" I mentioned. Some have argued the executive has the authority to do any conceivable thing necessary to ensure that the "validity of the public debt ... sha
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by topspin 3y ago
The US can supply whatever amount of money is necessary to service any conceivable amount of debt. The US absolutely will debase its currency into toilet paper, but default is not a certitude. And it's not theater. When these debates
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by topspin 3y ago
Is the code shared anywhere? I'm thinking that it could benefit from some input from others that have done a lot of vanilla JavaScript work. That application should be pretty concise and DRY using <template>.
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by topspin 3y ago
"3 ton electric truck" Elon stated that Cybertruck will weigh about 7000 lbs. That's 3.5 tons. That's the same mass as an F-350 DRW (dual rear wheel) loaded with options. Seriously heavy. I'm not anti heavy vehicl
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by topspin 3y ago
Fantasies, bordering on threats.
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by topspin 3y ago
> "Stop" is not regulatory capture. "Stop" is a fiction that exists exclusively inside your head. Unless your solution anticipates a planet wide GULAG system run by a global government your "stop" is infeas
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by topspin 3y ago
I suppose. My intent is to avoid any add-on cards so I can stack these with standoffs and cool it all with a few quiet 140mm fans.
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by topspin 3y ago
I very much want to build a N100/N200 cluster. The Asrock N100DC-ITX board is almost there, but they missed with only one on-board realtek NIC. Perfect would be mini-itx N100/200, two M.2 slots, two Intel 2.5 GbE NICs, 16/32
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by topspin 3y ago
I think the premise that it's viable to "concentrate together when needed" is false. A key tactic on Ukraine's front line, due to the nature of the enemy and the nature of Ukraine's weapons, is dispersion. Concent
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by topspin 3y ago
"The best way to counter the smaller UAVs that operated with roughly a 6k-10k range is via EW." EW has been brought up a few times now in this thread. I know both side have been able to defeat UAVs with EW on occasion during this
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by topspin 3y ago
Yes, the Gepard platform has been a real success. Gepard has been most effective defending high value fixed assets from simple minded long range UAVs and cruise missiles. When dealing with Orlan-10 however, the problem is different. Here
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by topspin 3y ago
> The big problem is target detection. Generally yes, detection is hard. The Orlan-10 case, however, is easier. They can often be seen and/or heard from the ground and they are transmitting a live video feed, so their RF profile i
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by topspin 3y ago
We should worry about both. What we shouldn't do is let allies get slaughtered because Russia can make a lot of model airplanes, or bankrupt ourselves killing them with million dollar AA missiles. There must be a better way.
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by topspin 3y ago
No. The front is a huge; tens of kilometers deep and hundreds of kilometers long. You would need a stupid number of AA guns and crews to cover it all. The idea is fast hunter UAV that could sweep large areas and respond quickly to enemy
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by topspin 3y ago
"Low altitude" in this case is 1-2km. Small arms can't deal with that. Shotguns have been used to counter Lancet in terminal phase. But that's a desperation tactic. The goal would be that Lancet et al. is useless beca
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by topspin 3y ago
I recently read statements from an Azov brigade commander in Ukraine that Russian Orlan-10 observation UAVs are a major problem. Russia is producing a lot of these UAVs and has been using them more heavily and effectively. Orlan-10s revea
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by topspin 3y ago
I can't argue too much on your view of the syntax. I employ the weasel word "fine" because my experience with it is that I have little to no trouble understanding and using async Rust syntax: I can read and write async Rust
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by topspin 3y ago
On the supposed "monoculture": First, I have to wonder whether any of this can be legitimately elevated to the level of a "culture." Right now, according to GitHub "insights," tokio-rs has approximately 2.0 re
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by topspin 3y ago
Tokio isn't the fastest conceivable runtime. Tokio isn't the smallest conceivable runtime. Tokio isn't the simpilist conceivable runtime. Tokio does not port to all conceivable environments. Tokio isn't the async-std
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by topspin 3y ago
"Want to use an async library? There’s a chance you can’t use it outside of a specific async runtime." I complained about this here[1]. I'm told "Tokio won, it's not a problem anymore." Wrong. It's stil
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by topspin 3y ago
> but this differs drastically from a normal driver who'd get out and look round the vehicle before moving it anywhere That is an optimistic view of the likely behavior of your hypothetical driver. Hit and runs are commonplace. Dr
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by topspin 3y ago
From the arstechnica story: "Musk made much of this at the time, claiming that the body and bed of a conventional truck did nothing useful. `They are carried like cargo, like a sack of potatoes,' he said in 2019." This is wro
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by topspin 3y ago
A big part being CEO is deliberately not owning things. Diluting responsibility is a key survival skill for top management.
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by topspin 3y ago
> One can see there really isn't a laissez faire free market at work One would think. Yet there is never a shortage of "See! That's Capitalism For You" comments.
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by topspin 3y ago
Government policy. The US has multiple quasi-government mortgage market makers (because just one is somehow not enough...) that define baseline terms for home mortgages, and everyone must play their tune. See Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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by topspin 3y ago
Helm templates literally make me nauseous. I don't mean literally in the smart-alecky, Zoomer sense. I mean actual nausea. It disturbs me that Helm templates became a defacto standard for k8s. Something went very wrong there.
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by topspin 3y ago
I have an 11700K and a 3070ti. Both of these were panned by GN and others as somehow pointless. Somehow I'm happily running here, fast and stable with everything I throw at it. You can safely ignore the youtuberati's views on w
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by topspin 3y ago
The syntax isn't the problem. The syntax is fine: I've never had a serious problem with Rust's async syntax, and the language has been and continues to remove the papercuts that have emerged since async appeared. The thing a
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by topspin 3y ago
It's fair. It's not politically feasible, however. Yes, that means we're doomed to catastrophic financial hell. We're already at the cliff's edge, watching interest rates climb while trillions of US short term deb
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by topspin 3y ago
The flaw is whatever x-wise you pick, you have the torch in the "wrong" hand either going up or coming down. Also, hand rails weren't a thing in most medieval staircases; you were expected to just not fall, and when you did

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