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931.
by worik 2y ago
> physically scraped out the MEMS microphones. I am curious. Are you sure you got them all?
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by worik 2y ago
https://www.twz.com/air/mysterious-drones-swarmed-langley-af... Is another take that mostly uses official sources.
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Drones swarming sensitive national security sites(cbsnews.com)
10 points by worik 2y ago|4 comments
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by worik 2y ago
> I started seeing these reddish, orange flashing lights that were starting to come in from the Virginia Beach area. Seems odd Mysterious drones over sensitive military areas...with lights?
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by worik 2y ago
> What sort of fucking shithole backwards country locks people up for weeks (including over a week in solitary!) for arriving with an invalid visa? The USA. Or Russia Tweedledum and Tweedledee
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by worik 2y ago
> There have been two dozen stories of random tourists being disappeared for no good reason from all over the US. Really? That is frightening. I plan to be a tourist in the USA within a decade. Can you expand on that?
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by worik 2y ago
> Promoting a terrorist organization... is not what Mahmoud Kahill (sp?) was doing. He's was protesting the University of Columbia's support of Israel, who were engaged in a wildly homicidal campaign against his kin.
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by worik 2y ago
> Committing terrorism is literally the central part of their operation That is untrue They are far deeper than that. They are primarily cultural, education is their main focus
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by worik 2y ago
> It worked for Germany in WWII until... they took on the Russians
940.
by worik 2y ago
How much of this is real? How much staged, carefully edited? I expect they are more honest than the Telsa men in suits debacle, but my trust is low. What do we know to be the facts?
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by worik 2y ago
> grave atrocities Tapping phones is immoral and unethical, IMO. But a long was from the "grave atrocities" that were uncovered at the end of WWII
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by worik 2y ago
> High levels of corporate monopolization, high levels of stock buybacks, and low to no wage growth. Yes But the Elephant on the sofa is a deranged President threatening important trade partners Duh!
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by worik 2y ago
> It blows Google out of the water at being Google That is enough for me.
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by worik 2y ago
> Nationalization of foreign assets is an extreme level of hostility that stable European governments would have no chance of doing I see the point. But I would not underestimate the grit of Europeans when backed into a corner, like this
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by worik 2y ago
> If you have local warrants To obey local laws The USA is going "unlawful", so the risks are technical and real. Local laws do not apply
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by worik 2y ago
> Athena had the same tall, thin design that some experts had feared could lead to a repeat of the accident. Good grief
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by worik 2y ago
What clowns This what happens when despots concentrate power in their hands When professionalism matters less than loyalty, the professionals become scarce In the 1950s there was Soviet ideology that meant something. Now there is loyalty t
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by worik 2y ago
Starship Troupers, the book, was explicitly pro war.
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by worik 2y ago
> Not everyone from the UK is English or indeed has a London accent... That is true. Especially these days, even in London. But England completely dominates the politics of the UK. FWIIW this sounds English to me. They bought us the Ma
950.
by worik 2y ago
> I use only tabs for indentation. > All the tabs get expanded to four spaces each. Then Python will not work (?)
951.
by worik 2y ago
> F# v2 What does that mean?
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by worik 2y ago
Yes Symbolic debugger seem to be going out of fashion
953.
by worik 2y ago
> Python has one sub-style I dislike the most: using tabs for indentation, because how much EXTRA room they use on the screen. Can you not adjust your tab stops? I hate it too, because tabs look like spaces and they have a different synt
954.
by worik 2y ago
Bjarne Stroustroup describes it as experimental. At least he used to back when I cared a lot
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by worik 2y ago
I love what you say. I agree there must be a fight back. This has been cast as left/right - Ok. I can work with that. > If you put down all your guns, you can't shoot back. No. I urge those on the left, those who give a fuck,
956.
by worik 2y ago
> dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator What do you mean?
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by worik 2y ago
> Why do people say Rust follows the tradition of C++? They mean the domain that Rust is in. Before Rust there was only C or C++ for real time programming. C++ was an experiment (wildly successful IMO when I left it in 2001) trying to a
958.
by worik 2y ago
> the packaging ecosystem story I love Rust, I am a devotee and an advocate. But the packaging system, more importantly the lack of a comprehensive system crate, is one of the greatest weaknesses of Rust. A simple programme can pull in h
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by worik 2y ago
> IMO it's not the right tool for high level stuff I thought that for a long time. But as time passes and I spend more time in languages like Typescript (Semi-Type Script more accurately) and Swift the more I yearn for Rust. It is
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by worik 2y ago
> Analysts predict that by 2030, 30% of American adults will be on these medications, What on Earth are Americans doing to themselves? I understand that ic certain cases these drugs may be useful, but as a replacement for proper food and

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