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He got spanked because the use in passive radar of illumination sources such as TV transmitters is specifically identified in the USML.

USML Category XI(a)(3)(xxvii):

> (xxvii) Bi-static/multi-static radar that exploits greater than 125 kHz bandwidth and is lower than 2 GHz center frequency to passively detect or track using radio frequency (RF) transmissions (e.g., commercial radio, television stations);

There are separate ITAR provisions for radio direction finding, but these come with plenty of exclusions for systems not designed for defence applications or signals intelligence etc, and otherwise not meeting certain performance requirements, such as those in 5A001.e.

Those exploratory "side quests" in industry are how we got the transistor, the liquid crystal display, Shannon's information theory, the laser and practical photovoltaic cells, among many other foundational technologies upon which we rely today.

Better in what way? They have avoided replacement specifically because they work extremely well and none of the alternatives have been demonstrably better.

Australia has one of, if not the highest rates of CGT in the world.

ASX dividend stocks are popular with retirees in particular because the dividends are fully franked, meaning you get a credit for the tax already paid on the dividends by the company.

If you’re in a low enough tax bracket, this can turn into a tax refund if the tax the company paid exceeds your own personal tax liability.

That depends a whole lot on your tax jurisdiction, your other income and your investment strategy.

That assumes 100% of Internet can or would be willing to adopt Cloudflare, which has no real basis.

The EU is finally waking up to the fact that putting all its eggs in the U.S. basket is a bad thing. China is enormous, and they're not going to go all in on Cloudflare either for a myriad of reasons. And a bunch of folks just don't like nor want to do business with the company and its CEO.

I tokenmaxxed in my last role.

Management succumbed to AI psychosis, and so we were directed to show that we were adopting and using AI, but what we were using it for was not considered important. So we went out of our way to burn as many tokens as possible.

If you tell Claude to be inefficient and burn as many tokens as it can, it’ll happily oblige. It will also offer useful advice as to how to use even more tokens.

No, though a very small minority are in that range with equity etc from Big Tech.

> This seems really strange to me?

As someone who flies between Australia and the US 3-4 times a year, not at all.

I want leg room and the ability to sleep with my head against the wall of the aircraft, but I want to be away from galleys and toilets and not in a seat where the overhead locker closest to me is reserved for crew equipment.

The company was doubling in size every 12-18 months for a good few years.

The rate at which code is produced is never the bottleneck in an organisation that size. Getting LGTMs on your design doc from 20 different stakeholders is, and agents aren’t going to help you there.

And you still can with HDMI and eDP.

Because in any decent sized organisation, the speed at which code is written has never been the bottleneck (even if management thinks that it is.)

Internal turf wars, endless meetings to get “alignment” and pivoting on management’s latest whims are what slows feature delivery.

The talent pool in India has always trended towards mediocre. Highly skilled candidates do exist of course, but in a sea of diploma mill graduates they are extremely hard to find.

Companies have decided that a mediocre employee with Claude is now good enough, especially at the offshore price point.

Red Hat is always slow in backporting patches to their Frankenkernel.

It’s absolutely possible, but almost nobody does, at least until they get breached.

Developers have decided that the convenience of just letting their servers pull arbitrary code off the Internet is more important than the security risks.

There’s also been a regression in how infrastructure is operated.

15 years ago you didn’t let your production infrastructure talk out to the Internet, and if you did, it was via an explicit proxy with allowlisted domains. This significantly limited the damage that a malicious dependency could cause.

With the move to cloud and DevOps, that network security model disappeared.

They also say (and they deserve enormous credit for this):

> If what you need is a guarantee that your data remains only in the EU, we don’t have that, and we’d rather tell you directly than let you assume otherwise.

Back then they only really did routing and switching, and those are still the only things that Cisco kind-of does well.

Almost every new product of theirs I’ve touched in the last 20 years has been trash, and even the R&S golden goose is being dragged in that direction with customer-hostile functionality like Smart Licensing and a general decline in quality.

And that you have to do business with Google, who have a religious objection to providing any meaningful customer support.

I get better support from AWS as a $30 per month customer than I did with GCP and Google Workplace spending $300k per month at work.

I stopped worrying about this because everyone I correspond with uses email services that store emails in plaintext, mostly Microsoft and Google.

I am also a happy Fastmail customer, but they are an Australian company with infrastructure in the US.

That’s more or less how I’ve heard Meta employees justify their own career choices.

Or Afghanistan, or Vietnam.

It’s a pretty obvious outcome. Attorney-client privilege applies to the executive branch of the government as much as it applies to anyone else, and not just in national security matters.

You’re government agency, and you ask your lawyers about how the law operates given a particular set of circumstances.

In response, the lawyers provide you with advice about how they think the law applies to this situation, and what findings they think a court would make given the evidence etc available.

Information subject to attorney-client privilege (as this information would be) is exempt from release under FOIA anyway. Dropping a security classification on top adds protections against unauthorised release by insiders.

Sometimes there are good reasons for this, such as to protect particular technical capabilities that are easily circumvented if adversaries know that they exist, or to protect human sources who might end up dead if found out. Other times, there are no good reasons to do this but without knowing all the circumstances it’s impossible to tell either way.

The fact that you suggested that number people of people who install custom bodies etc is miniscule indicates that you are not at all familiar with the AU/NZ market.

That’s not a new thing.

I replaced the heater core on a 1987 Ford XF Falcon. In hindsight, it would’ve been easier to pull the motor out and cut myself an access panel in the firewall than it was to disassemble and reassemble the dash.

> Why would you want that on EV chassis tho?

Because you want to install equipment such as air compressors, pumps, welders, cranes or water tanks, or you want to carry bulky items like ladders, and/or you need accessible and ergonomic lockers, drawers etc to store your tools and equipment without having to dig around the tub.

Same reasons as you’d do this on an ICE truck.

The number of people (and in particular, fleet operators) who do that in Australia and NZ is extremely high.

Ford Ranger Super Duty wasn’t even available with a factory tub at launch, and the Toyota Landcruiser 79 doesn’t have one at all.