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by wbl 2mo ago
They did not get vaporized in the fireball. We have survivors at the hypocenter. Intense burns and radiation poisoning killed most plus conventional blast damage mechanisms. Half the acute deaths happened after the first day.
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by wbl 2mo ago
The US is always going to slap a JDAM kit on for better effect.
63.
by wbl 2mo ago
And yet they do more good than the moral critics do.
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by wbl 2mo ago
The compiler declares them UB because very useful transformations would change the semantics of races. Races are ok with specially marked variables!
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by wbl 2mo ago
Physical DVD is the way. Praise Criterion
66.
by wbl 2mo ago
If only the Alpha had hung on.
67.
by wbl 2mo ago
Autotools on little endian Linux is the biggest waste of CPU time imaginable.
68.
by wbl 2mo ago
They use cyclotrons with some regularity and advanced imaging techniques.
69.
by wbl 2mo ago
Transporting forty-five tons of this stinking liquid far enough offshore won't be cheap.
70.
by wbl 2mo ago
Trading the underlying to offset your derivative position isn't fraud.
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by wbl 2mo ago
"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" - prior failure of intuitively appealing disposal option.
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by wbl 2mo ago
The hardware security module does not need to change to support tying to a credentials. I showed how to do this years ago and the theory was known long before. Its just that the EU is making self imposed barriers to doing this right.
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by wbl 2mo ago
They don't invest in Japanese companies because Japan is horrific for corporate governance. Huge cash holdings, cross investments, etc.
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by wbl 2mo ago
There was extremely limited contact between them until thousands of years later, and no real cultural exchange until the era of exploration.
75.
by wbl 2mo ago
Sanskrit is not an ancestor of English. Sanskrit is a satem language English centum. Proto Indo Iranian diverged long ago.
76.
by wbl 2mo ago
Because Congress doesn't work if an issue becomes partisan.
77.
by wbl 2mo ago
If you told them this was the problem and they would still have a job if they failed probably. The reasons people don't go head on these problems is career incentives and psychology.
78.
by wbl 2mo ago
You have chronology backwards. Lisp predates C by 14 odd years. Pascal was contemporaneous.
79.
by wbl 2mo ago
Nothing was broken in the change: there is no need to migrate.
80.
by wbl 2mo ago
Rust will not "win" when it targets a much different niche, any more than C won against Java or Scheme.
81.
by wbl 2mo ago
Because that's in the SOC2.
82.
by wbl 2mo ago
Humans can detect single photons with their eyes! https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172
83.
by wbl 2mo ago
Worse than the Babel fish dispenser?
84.
by wbl 2mo ago
Not so new: the legend of the Fisher king (the source of Parsifal), the implicit theology of the Deuteronomistic history, the substitute king ritual in Assyria all speak to a conception of a connection between a rulers moral and physical he
85.
by wbl 2mo ago
Don't confuse political limitations and lack of a theory of victory with the inability to achieve a goal. A blockade needs ships those ships can be destroyed.
86.
by wbl 2mo ago
11 carriers are not just for show.
87.
by wbl 3mo ago
In America you can call politicians names. In Germany that's a criminal offense
88.
by wbl 3mo ago
"Stop him!" "For what?" "He's a bad man" "There's no law against that" Unless there is a statue that is on point criminalizing the actions here no one is going to jail. I expect there will b
89.
by wbl 3mo ago
Jobs are things people are willing to pay money to have done and thus are important to society. It's not surprising people find purpose in them.
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by wbl 3mo ago
Better to die on ones feet than live on ones knees.

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