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With interceptors that cost the defender $100k/unit and shaheds that cost the attacker $10k/unit, over time the attacker can bankrupt the defender if the target is something the de…

One I can think of is simplicity. No need to worry about what the type of the string should be (size_t?) or where it should be stored. Just pass around a pointer. Pointers fit the …

Time to add 2FA...

Surprisingly Jia Tan has not offered to help yet.

CYCLADES ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES ) was influential in the design of important Internet concepts like the OSI model and TCP.

I think he writes 'compensate' ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compensate , meaning no. 3) as a translation of 'compenser' ( https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/compenser ). There's a …

True, however the penalty depends on the amount by which the threshold was crossed; in the country I live in at least.

A rate of 10 000 (ten thousand) RPM is mentioned in the video for certain bacteria. My background is in mechanical engineering, does RPM stand for revolutions per minute here? Soun…

Taxation is only part of the picture. Quoting from https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/ : In the EU, they've had the GDPR – a big, muscular privacy law – for nine years…

European leaders are far from blameless. I fully agree European countries should have weaned themselves from Russian gas and ramped up military spending much sooner. Meanwhile for …

I am now convinced that Russian complaints about supposed US influence campaigns, “NATO expansion” etc. were never sincere. Russia has conducted info-ops in the West forever, durin…

> Are you suggesting that the Russians were using __ The Guardian __ as part of an influence campaign....in 2004? Definitely! Because they did the exact same thing in France, where…

The linked article is long on opinion, short on facts. The content does not support the headline. This is likely part of a Russian influence campaign (they did not start yesterday)…

I had a similar experience of writing machine code for Z80-based computers (Amstrad CPC) in the 90's, as a teenager. I didn't have an assembler so I manually converted mnemonics to…

That's how I would define kouign-amann.

In a dictatorship, running against the leader involves more personal risk than in a country that is already democratic. Also, democracies tend to be more peaceful than dictatorship…

One attempt I know of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_a... There might be others.

Ukraine was left out of NATO. When Russia first invaded in 2014, European leaders looked the other way. Claims that there plans for Ukraine to join NATO and that Russia felt threat…

Russia is the aggressor in this war; if it stopped its aggression and withdrew from Ukraine, the war would stop. So the responsibility for deescalating falls squarely on Russia. Ru…

I have heard this move characterized as "horizontal escalation". Putin is stuck in Ukraine (hasn't taken anything strategically significant, controls less territory than 3 years ag…

I found that surprising when I learned about it. Grass did not exist yet at the time of the dinosaurs. In good documentaries, artistic representations of dinosaurs may show them am…

Like calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v5926yeqro