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Javascript embedded scripting for databases .../shivers

I couldn't agree more. If I ever decided to make any of my work public, it would be under "Good luck with that" license (https://github.com/me-shaon/GLWTPL)

Isn't it a standard practice for any interaction between male teacher and female student? Never in private, always more than 1 witness not related/close to either of participants, etc.

>encouraging bunch of programmers, pumping them up,... https://assets.amuniversal.com/6856d80039c30136327f005056a95...

Looks like a clone of Total Commander?

Ok, i'll bite. You know nothing about the operational details of power grid infrastructure in Texas and what lead to the problems encountered.

Here is a good video explaining what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXICY4JM

Just FYI, Grady from Practical Engineering channel who made the video is a civil engineer. I also recommend his entire series about power grid (well, actually all his videos are great). )

Uhm, healthcare?

GAU-8 might not be that great against modern armor, well, it's from 70s, but it's still capable of M-kills even on Abrams (happened during one of those unfortunate friendly-fire incidents during 1st Iraq war). And immobilised tank is a dead tank. Or at least useless for the mission.

A10 was designed for one specific task - to slow down Soviet tank armies rushing into Germany in case of European non-nuclear conflict. And while it was guranteed they would be accopmanied by mobile SAMs, it was tanks themselves that were major concern. The goal was to slow down the hordes by any means necessary and A-10 was the ideal solution for that.

According to all documents I was able to find, including several US military assessments, GAU-8 was more than capable of achieving K-kills on T72s using top-down attacks or low-angle side attacks.

CAS != tank killing, if your plane "gets there and out faster", you are not doing CAS but some sort of flyby. CAS usually requires visual confirmation of the targets, that means you have to fly low and slow, which F16 is not really made for (bad maneuverability at low speeds). You might also need to stay in the area for extended period of time, which, again, isn't F16s strong point (it's a great plane though).

IIRC pretty much all Mavericks in 1GW were from A10s, something like 95%.

I mentioned only 1k tank kills because I was lazy to type the other stuff, like trucks, armored vehicles, SCUD launchers, SAMs, all sorts of bunkers, command infrastructure, radars, etc.

Oh well, at least get the facts right.

A-10 was designed to kill T-55s, T62s and T-72s (most modern tank USSR had at that time), not today's tanks.

GAU-8 was extremely effective against armor from that era and still is very useful against armored vehicles, structures, etc.

F16's can't do what A10 does the best (CAS).

In 1st Gulf War A10s are credited with something like 1000 tanks destroyed (mostly with Mavericks though)

AF is trying to get rid of A-10 for decades, but it still survives ..

They are also very big, making them easier to find with satellites. Also don't forget that those subs are not just randomly wandering around, you can bet both Russia and China are keeping track of approx. location of every carrier group very carefully.

Finally someone who understands this! All modern weapons are no doubt very effective, but they are also very complex ,take long time to build, need specialized factories and skilled workers and the result is that there aren't that many stockpiled. Because that's not only expensive, weapons also deteriorate and might malfunction if stored for extended period of time. Most of the fancy toys would run out after 1st month of actual war (assuming non-nuclear conflict, of course).

Not he horrible syntax that would make (former)Perl developers shed the tears of joy with how many symbols are used? Not to mention the weirdly shortened words, if I had to write in Rust, I'm sure I'd soon 'mut'(ilate) myself. If you want to save on typing, go the full way and embrace Perl (or APL ;), don't stop in the middle.

What is "far right"? Is there "near right"? "middle-reach right"? 'Far right' is just a BS title used to 'adjust' the perception of people that anyone not left wing is crazy extremist nutjob.

Social media are not the only source of good training data, have you seen how many security cameras are in London, for example? Hint: a very very very large number. Or traffic cams pretty much anywhere?

It's important to learn about it, but being completely obsessed about the issue and view everything from its perspective is counter-productive. It's really an American thing, because many European nations went through similar experiences multiple times.

What's the harm? Read 1984 to see how the 'end state' might look like. As other commenter said, words have power. And who have power over words, rules.

Aren't APK files simply java .jar packaged together? It's trivial to fully decompile java binary (bytecode) directly to source code.

What is "far right"? Is there "near right"? "middle-reach right"? 'Far right' is just a BS title used to 'adjust' the perception of people that anyone not left wing is crazy extremist nutjob.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. (Cardinal Richelieu)

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about? Soviet level? Not even close, not even in the same-universe-close. Please learn something about what the life in USSR was really like.

Microsoft simply realized what current Open Source really is -> free labor. People will willingly work for free in their own free time using their own hardware on projects of other people or corporations. And they are proud to do that! Anyone not taking advantage of that must have brain damage.

Original ideas of open source (free as in speech) are long forgotten.

Reminds me - what happened to the Church of String, I mean String theory? IIRC that was the ultimate "nothing can ever be tested, not even a tiniest part" theory

You are right, in short term, fusion has not much value. But in (very) long term, unlike fission, which no matter how incredible it is, is still only 'planetary-level tech', fusion is the first 'stellar-level tech' we've unlocked so far. If we ever plan to go somewhere else than Solar system, fusion is the key.

For some reason I read the title as "...in search of hidden tractors" and wondered what did I miss - are there black markets where shady individuals sell tractors or did tractors became sentient and hide from their owners and AdGuard is trying to track them by orders for spare parts they make online? lack of sleep is bad bad bad

I think we should blame Canada! from South Park movie for those who didn't get the reference, it's scary how relevant it still is

You are both correct :) Tritium is used for boosting fission bombs, lithium (lithium 6/7 deuterides) as fusion fuel in thermonuclear bombs.

Seriously? Have you ever heard about state secrets? Some information are locked for decades, even centuries, some never made public. Are you sure that there were never any accidents in USA related to manufacturing of VX or similar nerve agents?

Well, do you expect any country would honestly say that they are responsible for global disaster like this? Even if it really was an 'industrial accident', the consequences are so severe that any country admitting it would open themselves to future lawsuits, embargo and who knows what else. And I'm not even mentioning 'losing face' which is a big deal in Asia.

Long time ago I worked at a hospital and once had to go to a certain department to fix something on computer nurses were using and was horrified how slow the computer and everything was. So I asked around and ladies happily explained their daily morning routine: - turn on computer - do a morning checkup of all patients (around 20 minutes) - when they got back, computer usually finished starting Windows, if not, they waited another 10+ minutes for it to get ready - then they started Word (another 10 minutes) - and opened their main document with notes..or to be exact wanted to open the document. That took another 10 minutes

TL;DR - users can get used to pretty much anything because they don't know it could be so much better

Intercal isn't horrible! How could be the only language with PLEASE keyword be bad? (from wikipedia) This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite.