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Depends on the value of the target. Costs Ukraine $918 to kill a Russian soldier[1] but if you’re using a fully offline automated swarm to destroy a petro system worth billions the…

It's only Coca-Cola if it comes from the Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée of Atlanta, otherwise it's only a sparking cola beverage.

It's a catch-22: I already gambled the coin I was going to use for the heads-or-tails bet.

If anyone from Ford reads HN: What's keeping me from a Ford Maverick truck is waiting for the PHEV version.

Just take a look at the photos of his residences, it's filled with big black redaction squares of the "artwork" and photos on his walls and the little bits that can be seen lend a …

Insane thing to write when the "purity test" is not supporting/investing in a defense contractor with a CEO who begged Epstein to go to the island.

Zip was fairly defacto RW media between ~1997-2004. I was in College around that time and the blue Mac G3's in most computer labs had Zip drives, and many PC's in the labs had Zip …

Can speak for someone who managed a racked [1] Mac Mini racked as a server in 2015~2018: * Profile Manager / MDM * Caching server for OS updates * Thunderbolt connection to a PCIe …

Anecdotally on how this affects the day to day user experience: I just deployed T-Mobile 5G Business Internet to a temporary pop-up art space (it's only active for a few months) an…

On the used market you'll find absolutely cooked (literally) Leafs whose first life was in Arizona and barely have enough range to back out of the driveway.

I’m not any sort of analyst but from my understanding the threats Thai faces is Cambodia border skirmishes and Myanmar both of which could be handled with any aircraft. China is a …

“Best” but you’re going to spend millions per missile system to have “the best”. Israel quickly found out when trying to shoot down “cheap” $30k Iranian drones.

> willpower I mean, sure, but if it was just willpower for everyone then we'd all speak 10 languages, play piano, be buff as hell, be emotionally stable, and no one would be an alc…

> natural Yeah, "natural" would be living in constant fight-or-flight fear from being eaten and/or attacked by a neighboring tribe. Probably always quasi-starving and having low-le…

> They don’t really have a monopoly on local events or marketplace. Yeah, I'd say from 2004 - 2015 was the heyday for me on local events for small bands, house shows, and punk/DIY …

More food: - Brussels Sprouts taste much better now: https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/

Not to sound like the oldest person in the room/thread, but the use of "opponent" as 'opps' has gained a lot of traction in the vernacular of Gen-z/alpha. Not so much as an outrigh…

Do you have a link or reference to this? I'm going to be thinking about this for weeks now.

Retro gaming enthusiasts have been creating mini-PCs first starting with industrial computers (386) built for CNC machines, and have recently been getting custom PCBs made like the…

The author is probably Indian based upon the blogs subtitle of “ tales from indian web rabbit holes. “

I mean, if someone is saying plainly "I'm going to ruin your life and critically endanger your health." then one should expect some pushback.

Burning Reputation? It's so out in the open if you know, or more likely, worked in media advertising. Their competitor, Vizio, owns iSpot[1] which is, in my opinion, the best in th…

Their competitor, Vizio, owns https://www.ispot.tv/ which is used for ad delivery tracking . It's much more reliable and precise than the familiar Nielsen ratings: since you know t…

IIRC: There was a bonanza of DEC Multia Alpha's[1] that made it's way to some salvage seller in the late 90's for like $100-ish. The catch was they didn't include RAM and it had to…

My experience echos this but on a smaller scale, I’ve visited the NK run restaurant in Bangkok in 2019 and found it to be basically any average nondescript very dated East Asian / …