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You seem to be only applying this observation to one side, though. Russian arms manufacturing has come under attack too.

My point is that conventional strike can provide a meaningful deterrent, even without the NATO umbrella or a domestic nuclear capability. If Putin had known in 2022 what this utter…

Not the only way. Sending drones against Russia's oil industry and logistics centres is having a pretty spectacular effect too, and Russia's having no luck defending against those …

Hey, this beer glass is cold, lemme get my Handschuh.

This is an interesting angle, and one I hadn't considered before. Would it be overly cynically to draw a line between it and the recent willingness [1] of many on the frontier to s…

I've never had it require SMS either. Probably because I've never given it a portable telephone number. (Until a couple of years ago I didn't have one, and I still use it as little…

Two? Since the Franchise Wars, all restaurants are Taco Bell.

Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is probably a better-known example of that.

Ah, I see. You're aiming to become the hashbrown of testing.

Have there been any discussions about upstreaming this into cargo proper? Are there any significant downsides to nextest compared to its predecessor?

I've seen this bouncing around since the early 90s, with New Agey people like Danah Zohar, and probably predates even that. There never seemed to be a whole lot to it; not much mor…

Pretty sure it originated with the Wikipedia annotation. See e.g. https://xkcd.com/285/ from 2007.

Huh? The Honor Harrington books are published by Baen (who are all DRM-free).

I'm sure they were originally hoping for mass-market success, but given the RAM drought and ensuing pricing, I'm guessing the best possible outcome at this point would be to break …

Hard disagree. The war has been at least tacitly supported by the majority of the Russian public (via enlistment, taxation or just acquiescence) and it's very explicitly being wage…

He's very proud of having been rejected by a Russian publisher for being "too dark".

Luxury. I'm still using a 1650 Super with 4GB VRAM and it's basically fine. Holding off on a few newer titles, but I'm old and my eyesight is going so 1080 resolution is plenty for…

A noble principle, albeit not without its lamentable failures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer

But in that case this bit of TFA feels a bit out of place: > To eliminate the possibility that the owl was [...] detecting heat from the body of the mouse (for instance, by sensing…

> Over the next few days, the owl makes 16 more strikes at mice, missing only four times, each time by less than two inches. How did the experimenter measure miss distance in pitch…

That one's explicitly mentioned at the end of TFA itself, though.

I wondered if this might have been the basis, either physically or at least aesthetically for the Aliens APC. Apparently not; while very similar in low-slung form factor, that was …

`export template` was included in the C++98 standard without any experience, experimental or otherwise. The first implementation was achieved by EDG after enormous pain in the earl…