dylan604

You have to learn the rules before you know which ones can be bent and which ones can be broken.

The problem I have is that when I'm asked to follow a procedure that you know just while reading it was created by someone with less experience and better/faster/cheaper ways are available to get to the same result. Deviation will however get you into trouble because the procedure is what is vetted and approved. Deviations from procedure could open one up to liability if things later do not work as expected.

I learned about it in high school, and that was 80s/90s but not by name per se. I took the ASVAB and there were questions like "fold a piece of paper in half twice, punch holes in a pattern, and then pick which image would be the result when the paper is unfolded" that I thought were ridiculously easy. I was told that they were difficult for people that cannot form mental images and these help test that ability.

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I don't use WYSIWYG editors anymore, so I have to remind myself to use those when writing raw HTML text. Although, most browsers correct raw ' and " symbols in text now, I still try to use them to have compliant HTML

Let's hold this comment until after the mid-terms. The biggest thing Americans can do to stop Trump's war mongering would be at the ballot box. Protesting is one thing, but actively voting in people with power to stop POTUS would be the most direct action they can take.

Most are probably too busy dissing the health care situation

Does the fear of being poisoned have an affect on Russian ex-pats from being very vocal?

Does Europe have dynamic toll pricing? In the US, some places increase the toll fare during congestion which would make estimating tolls no better than a guestimate

I always joked about setting a custom keyboard layout to replace the space char with the underscore char specifically for avoiding spaces in file paths.

why would you use smart quotes in a terminal like that?

Unless you're running a shell command from python. That was the first time I saw a command string broken down into "string" arguments for every thing like that.

"an NLJD is correspondingly capable of detecting almost any unshielded electronic device containing semiconductors, whether the electronics are actively powered or not."

Is properly shielding something really that difficult or expensive that people are not shielding their gear? Or is more of nobody gives a damn to be bothered?

It's less about what they have but what the people they want to communicate are using.

Why do you think it is now an issue? Flock is a private company where other traffic cameras I'm familiar with were not. Those were problematic and in my state they were deemed not legal and removed. The other type of cameras I'm not a fan of are the ones for the toll roads. They take shots of license plates even if you have a tag. I don't know if they are searchable by law enforcement, but I have no reason to think they are not.

Any camera system that can be used to track people even if that's not the sole purpose is problematic, but when the entire purpose of the camera is tracking people then it is especially egregious. It's not a problem now, but they've turned the knob to an 11.

Didn't theGoogs set precedence that recording location of MACs and SSID type information long ago?

Why are they so concerned about an image and not the obtained data in any format like OCR generated text?

Polyester can be made 24/7 365 while wool comes in batches. Also, regardless of how low wool prices are, it will be more expensive than polyester components as the sheep require being fed and what not. Maybe polyester prices are affected by Hormuz closing????

I'm talking about as a response to already being attacked, not just someone sitting around looking to poke the bear. Iran has the drones, they've been attacked, and would make sense to be looking for a plan like this.

How's that regime change working in Iran?

Yeah, I'm not a military expert and confused the ordinance nick names. To be sure, the kinetic force is definitely something that cannot be recreated with drone swarm attacks.

61111 * $200 is only a little over $12million. The plane to deliver the MOAB is more than that. Also, why does it need to be a grenade? Why not deliver C4 or other explosive material?

This is coming from the same person that didn't realize there was a b in dumb. The same person that likes to rename bodies of water. The same person that wants his name and/or his face on everything. It did not come out of nowhere unless nowhere is the void in the brain space of said same person.

That's already in use for a subtitle format. I have many .ass files lying around.

The industrial military complex is doing just fine thank you very much.

Will we get degraded performance notifications when the DC's power suddenly prioritize the lasers over the GPUs? At 15:34UTC, we noticed degraded performance due to an incoming drone strike. Normal performance was restored at 15:42UTC once the strike was defeated.

How many $200 quadcopters delivering blow after blow to reach the equivalent damage to a single MOAB? Is it an impossible number to reach for those unable to deliver MOAB?

Ukraine showed you can deploy from shipping containers delivered inside hostile lands quite successfully. As much stuff gets smuggled into US ports on a daily basis, sneaking a few of these into the US isn't impossible. Honestly, I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just build a fence around the building? They are cheap and easily repaired.

I fell into it. The company started as an MPEG-1 encoding shop making interactive CDs with Macromedia Director and Video CDs. That then naturally evolved into MPEG-2 encoding and DVDs. There were a couple of DVD programming apps, but the standard was Scenarist. I started using it on the first version released on Windows NT. We used the original 3.95GB DVD-R drive that cost $15k as test discs which made it interesting when building a full 4.7GB disc. We'd write the images to LTO4 tapes when sending to replication. This was pre-SSD, so we had interesting drive configuration. Writing disc images is full of I/O. We had a raid-5 volume where the original assets lived. When muxing, it would read from the raid-5 and write to a raid-0 volume. It would then read from the raid-0 mux data and write to another raid-0 image volume. There were plenty of places programming shiny round discs that the studios would hire out. Some were the bigger post houses, but others were boutique like the one I worked. Getting studio work was a pain as you had to get certified to hold unreleased content with a security audit. This was all Web1.0 days, so not much learning resources other than an email mailing list that wasn't so much tech support rather people talking about DVD "tech" with occasional interesting questions raised here and there. Scenarist was a drag-n-drop node based UI. It was pretty useful on learning what could connect where because it would change the cursor accordingly. The best learning resource was the DVD bible from Jim Taylor "DVD Demystified"[0]. After that, it was just watching as many DVDs as possible to see what other people were doing and taking inspiration from there. Lots of cool stuff done with the subtitle track like the robot animation over the video for MST3K.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/DVD-Demystified-Jim-Taylor/dp/0071350...

Too bad LLMs did not learn imposter syndrome

That sounds like something someone would write a driver for that then installs a rootkit