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by wrp 3y ago
Some current systems already have trouble at night. I would expect vision based systems to have even more trouble. Are there any CV based guidance systems?
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by wrp 3y ago
It is misleadingly phrased in the Bulgarian article, but the original Russian report was that a Ka-52 deflected 18 missiles over the course of a sortie, not all at once.
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by wrp 3y ago
The case of 18 missiles over the course of a sortie was a different instance from the test mentioned. Air International magazine published a report from the Egyptian Ministry of Defense, which had already targeted Russian Ka-52 helicopters
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by wrp 3y ago
> "Deflecting" 18 older model Russian SA-16 Gimlets Where did you get the missile type? TFA doesn't mention it.
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One Ka-52 helicopter deflected 18 MANPADS(bulgarianmilitary.com)
13 points by wrp 3y ago|21 comments
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The Games the Marine Corps Plays(military.com)
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by wrp 3y ago
As the term "creole" is used in linguistics, it means a language that: a) started as a contact language, and b) has become the mother tongue of a group. So, I think you might be right, because Spanglish originated as a speech amon
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by wrp 3y ago
I struggle to imagine how this could be a controversial issue. It is just a clarification of the terminology used in linguistics, not a judgement of anyone's culture.
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by wrp 3y ago
I hate to use Wikipedia as an authority but: Spanglish is not a creole or dialect of Spanish because, though people claim they are native Spanglish speakers, Spanglish itself is not a language on its own, but speakers speak English or Span
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by wrp 3y ago
Need to clarify the difference between "pidgin" and "creole" here. A pidgin is a (relatively simple) language that develops for communication between two or more speech communities. A pidgin is considered to have become
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by wrp 3y ago
Primogeniture gets a lot of criticism because of its perceived unfairness, but this illustrates why societies could see benefit in it for so long.
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by wrp 3y ago
The edited title made me think a "restaurant hostess". Geeeeeez....
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by wrp 3y ago
> better suited for people with field experience who need the nice sheet of paper to move up in their field That seems to be the case for online education in general. > consider...community college and then...WGU I agree. I've w
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by wrp 3y ago
Well...they really are following precedent, e.g. World Series baseball. :-)
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by wrp 3y ago
I think the largest such effort is Western Governors University. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University ) The biggest problem for any attempt at education reform in the USA is that education is orga
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by wrp 3y ago
I was looking for a service member to point out the official support. Some of her complaints did sound quite strange.
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by wrp 3y ago
To be fair to the parent, all the people I've met who reported a good experience living in Germany stayed far away from Berlin.
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by wrp 3y ago
This was so snowflake-y, it really made me cringe. Please don't think she is typical of Americans abroad or even military families. I've lived in Korea over many years and have known several Koreans who studied or worked in German
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by wrp 3y ago
Several years ago, I experimented with making coding fonts in different styles. One of my creations was Pointfree ( https://www.dafont.com/pointfree.font ). A few of the others I made are in the Google Code Archive ( https:&#
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by wrp 3y ago
> Why do they keep inventing new sweeteners... Because nothing so far tastes as good as real sugar. The common practice in employing artificial sweeteners is to combine two or more in an effort to avoid the bitter aftertaste that you get
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by wrp 3y ago
TFA is about India. Don't automatically apply its perspective to other cultures, because the motivation of dowry/bride price can vary considerably. When I worked in Arabia, I had occasion to discuss wedding arrangements with some
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by wrp 3y ago
We seem to live in different worlds. Every hiring I've ever seen has been on the basis of personal contact and paper resumes. In OPs case particularly, we are talking about local businesses, not big corps.
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by wrp 3y ago
I lived through some really tight job markets as a youth, and it was the most aggressive of my classmates who got the jobs. I would advise printing out a short resume that could be scanned quickly, then handing it directly to the assistant
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by wrp 3y ago
This is from vague memory, but I believe all franchise convenience stores in Japan are run as family businesses. From what I recall, the company demands a strong personal commitment as a condition for getting the franchise. I suppose that&#
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by wrp 3y ago
Twenty years ago, Korean 7-11s seemed more full-service than Japanese. I don't know if that's still the case.
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by wrp 3y ago
Not joking at all. There are even vending machines to sell you a fresh pair of briefs and a change of tie. I've seen them in Tokyo around major train stations and hotel districts.
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by wrp 3y ago
My very-elderly parents have a house full of stuff, from appliances to towels, that they bought as a young couple on a tight budget. They were always the type to buy the cheapest thing that would do the job. Even that stuff, though, would l
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by wrp 3y ago
I like hard SF and don't like politics mixed in (even Heinlein can annoy me), so this isn't something I would follow, but I think the case is philosophically interesting. A substantial portion of serious SF devotees think that &qu
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by wrp 3y ago
For a criticism of Psychology from a giant in the quantitative approach try: Meehl, Paul E. 1990. "Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable." Psychological Reports 66:195-244. He gives a very d
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by wrp 3y ago
Well...being willing to edit the details at all makes him more scrupulous than usual for a newspaper opinion piece.

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