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by zabzonk 2y ago
I hadn't thought of this before but the UK nuclear deterrent is based on US built missiles. The UK builds its own subs and warheads, but the launch vehicle is a US designed and built Trident missile. If Trump carries on the way he&#x2
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Threat to UK Nuclear Deterrent(theguardian.com)
28 points by zabzonk 2y ago|10 comments
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, I'd never heard about it before today, but that may be just my bad, as I'm not really much into web stuff. But when I see something like this (from the top of their website): > The single platform to analyze, test, observ
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Sorry, what "successful products"? And I have to say that "Technical Content Marketer " is one of the most dubious job titles I have ever seen.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
and so, where are you? and how many cops does your city have?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
the latest intel ultra chips are also pretty good, and so are the laptops using them, such as the asus zenbooks
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by zabzonk 2y ago
i don't know about your city, but doesn't happen in any in the uk.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I honestly think there is a violent revolution waiting to happen here. Look at Trumpism - what happens if people realise they don't need the orange idiot in order to make changes?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Do you know how long these cables are? How many subs do you think you would need? Actually, surface ships would probably be more effective, but you would still need infeasible numbers of them.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
If you can't code, you should not be managing programmers. How much code you write will obviously depend on circumstances.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Indeed. After I had learned Z80 assembler from books, I managed to teach myself M6809 programming from the (very good) Motorola spec sheet. I was Master Of The Multiverse! Then I calmed down, and learned 6502 and 8086 from books. And nowad
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to belittle your experience, or the guy's demise. I was making a bit of a heartless pun of sorts on Stevie Smith's poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-b
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by zabzonk 2y ago
It was a joy. I remember in the late 1970s, after reading two text books I figured out how to write a little program in Z80 assembler (and how to use the assembler), and shortly after how to read and debug the machine code the assembler p
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by zabzonk 2y ago
perhaps he was just waving
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by zabzonk 2y ago
i just got downvoted for saying elsewhere that this "needs an /s" - but this either does, or you need some help.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, I did say "a bit" - and it is obviously a brilliant non-boring film. Actually, this has made me put "Pillars of Wisdom", which I never read before, on my Kindle to-read list.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Compared with what, for god's sake? Explosions, mad Arabs, trekking across the horrible desert, dim British superiors doing the dim British thing, dubious Turkish sexual practices, etc. This is boring??? Though I must admit O'Tool
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I certainly don't "worship" any compiler, and am pretty quick to point out non-standard extensions in people's code. But C++/CLI goes far, far beyond extensions, and becomes a completely different language to C++, b
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by zabzonk 2y ago
In my experience, none. I've worked for several investment banks, financial software companies, education stuff, engineering, consultancy etc. etc. As far as I can tell (referees would have to ask me for permission to release details)
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by zabzonk 2y ago
It is not C++ (or C) but a Microsoft invented language - which is OK, but don't confuse it with C++ anymore than MS have already done
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by zabzonk 2y ago
are you missing a /s here, doctor pangloss?
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Nominate your invertebrate species of the year(theguardian.com)
1 points by zabzonk 2y ago|0 comments
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I think the loss of the google and bitbucket repositories was the main problem - i know that took the heart out of me for doing foss development. i can deal with git (shit, i can deal with rcs), but i don't like it.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
mercurial was arguably better - but switching to it is probably a bit silly now
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Its "nuclear arsenal" consists of a single missile boat on patrol with about a dozen or so ICBMs (which could certainly mess with major Russian cities. But if a Russian fast-attack sub (of which they have quite a few) gets it, bye
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I'd second this - REE is a great utility.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
what exactly do you mean by "traditional editor"? vi(m) has been around for many, many years, and in the case of vim supports mouse, and of course keyboard?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Or the Avro Vulcan - now sadly relagated to a single example that can only taxi a bit.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Forget all this crap - just get yourself a pan and a knife an Elizabeth David's "French Provincial Cooking": https://www.amazon.co.uk/French-Provincial-Cooking-Elizabeth... And all her other books, if you can
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> So if someone is 60+ year old, chances are that most of his work has never been open source Somewhat ageist? I'm 72 and have produced a number of FOSS tools.

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