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by topspin 4y ago
> At this point, an attack on Taiwan is an attack on the USA. Who or what are you citing? That isn't US policy as far as I know. I can't recall any US president, political party, etc. taking that position.
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by topspin 4y ago
> The US is perfectly capable of some symbolic protest if it doesn't want to be involved in a particular conflict. Indeed. A long history of declining open conflict with the Soviet Union in several theaters supports this.
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by topspin 4y ago
> too hard to search on? You only wrote "latest wargames" whatever that is. I'm not wading through the dreck of the interweb to figure out what you had in mind based on that. Thanks for pointing out specifically what you
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by topspin 4y ago
I really wish you had answered my question about war games. > USA isn't even economically tied to Ukraine, and you can see our response to that. There aren't any US nuclear assets at stake in Ukraine. No flag ships or other so
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by topspin 4y ago
> what if they just miss the carriers in practice? I look to history for this question. Time and time again the navies of advanced nations have been caught off guard by anti-ship missiles. The US, UK, Israel and Russia have all had shi
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by topspin 4y ago
> Latest wargame A sincere question; what is "latest wargame?" Does "latest wargame" compute the political equivalent of an extinction level bolide impact when a US Navy nuclear aircraft carrier gets destroyed, leavin
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by topspin 4y ago
> No one knows if those Hypersonics actually can kill a carrier though. No one needs to. Just damaging a nuclear powered, nuclear armed carrier would be more than sufficient. Probably just making a splash near one. The design premis
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by topspin 4y ago
> they also are building capital ships, like Aircraft Carriers, and also producing ship killing Hypersonic Missiles. The Chinese need a full compliment of carriers to enforce a total blockade of the island and effective hypersonic anti-s
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by topspin 4y ago
Great. Tell bbojan how Rust didn't actually "drop the ball" then. When you do you'll be told about all the different ways Rust doesn't actually solve overflow. And those claims will likely be correct because they
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by topspin 4y ago
> I feel Rust had a chance to fix this Don't see how. Given the hardware Rust is designed to program you have to compromise some or all of efficiency, memory usage and complexity to solve overflow.
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by topspin 4y ago
I got about 50% of the way through the books and lost interest. That's not usual for me.
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by topspin 4y ago
Mindhunter. I'm hoping they pick that one back up. The long thread in that series is BTK, which they teased throughout the existing episodes. Apparently Netflix never "got the numbers" they wanted, which disappoints the hel
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by topspin 4y ago
Correct.
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by topspin 4y ago
> I've never seen a non-compete enforced I have. Tiny company had a coder go off to another company in another state that they were approximately in competition with. They sued. Don't know the outcome, but I know it when to
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by topspin 4y ago
> I've been doing it since early 2019 and there are still subtleties that catch me off guard. That's true of every non-trivial discipline. I often learn subtleties about programming languages and hobbies I've been dealing
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by topspin 4y ago
I suspect the opposite. Solar activity opens paths in bands that otherwise won't DX. So while some or all of HF might close VHF and the lower end of UHF can open and do amazing things. Aside from amateur radio this would also impact
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by topspin 4y ago
> Why are they using garbage trucks to plow snow? Fewer vehicles to acquire, maintain, store, etc. That seems self evident. Further, the scheme works fine. The issue isn't whether plowing snow and collecting garbage with the same
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by topspin 4y ago
> what education would Tesla have to do and why would it have worked I'd have started with fire departments. We're now replete with horror stories of un-extinguishable fires and re-igniting cars, new headlines appearing routin
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by topspin 4y ago
> A vehicle fire with an EV is much more dangerous than an ICE. No, sorry. A blanket statement likely that isn't meaningful. The failure modes you're comparing are very different and both have aspects that are either more or
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by topspin 4y ago
> edit: I'm aware of the statistics about gasoline vehicle fires, guys. It doesn't matter. You'll be lectured none the less. I had someone ask me about electric vehicle fires just before the holiday. She is worried becau
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by topspin 4y ago
> Are people expecting WASM machines to be a thing? People are expecting to embed WASM[1]. A generic FAT can provide a lightweight storage abstraction for such work. The WAMR AOT compiled runtime is 50K; 2.5-10% of the flash memory on
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by topspin 4y ago
Ok, so now that we've exhausted the regression of invalid reasons we're left with what? Someone made it so in it goes? Enjoy the CVEs I guess.
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by topspin 4y ago
> Which means, yes, more administrators. If the solution were more administrators the US would lead the world in test scores, setting new records annually.
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by topspin 4y ago
> Do folks like Zinger seriously believe Folks like Zinger believe whatever the narrative prescribed by the institution in which they're very comfortably ensconced require them to believe. In this case we're dealing with someo
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by topspin 4y ago
A useful survey of current efforts. However, I don't see what I want here: depth. The third dimension. Yes, we think visually. But we also aggressively compartmentalize. We rigorously group things into mental boxes, dig into the b
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by topspin 4y ago
> My main reason for wanting ksmbd is that it's tiny That's a fine reason. Does it have to be in the kernel to be small though? From what I can see ksmpd is small because it delivers only a minimal SMB3, not because it'
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by topspin 4y ago
"Finally, my order will be quick and accurate" I usually don't have problems with order accuracy. Of course, I tend not to think out loud and change my mind mid-sentence four times. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
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by topspin 4y ago
The paper content might not be all that but the fact of its existence is interesting to me. Lines are being drawn around what AI can be permitted to engage; if the methods aren't understood then they can't be controlled, and there
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by topspin 4y ago
I've had an experience like this recently in Java. One of the most storied and heinous areas of Java development: so-called "web services." This is the whole SOAP+WSDL hell that did incalculable damage to the Java language
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by topspin 4y ago
> [streams are] pretty crappy compared to Linq I think that's unfair to the Streams API. It wasn't intended to solve the same problem as Linq and the problem it does solve it does very well. Streams transform collections. St

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