"We have met what's going to save our ass and it is us." - Vinge
While the bird site falls apart,
the thrill of tooting fills my heart.
But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
I don't care if it hurts
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so fuckin' special
I wish I was special
@angiebaby God wouldn't have made billionaires out of meat if He didn't want us to eat them.
My Kenwood TH-D7 handheld is now being programmed over USB from Linux. I suppose this isn't remarkable to anyone but me in 2024...
I installed a Windows executable from my radio manufacturer on my Linux laptop and it only took me an hour to get to running under Wine. After that screwing around, it runs as well as it does on my Windows desktop.
I am no newbie to Linux - I used to FTP source code from tsx11.mit.edu and sneaker net it to my 386SX back before there were distros. But I am delighted to find that eventually, shit "just works"(1).
(1) - *just works *means after reading the man pages, several forum posts, downloading and installing various packages and some shell scripting and at least one reboot to make it all clean and shiny.
@cdarwin NASA can have 5% of their budget for science only if they give away the other 95% as pork.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
@JessTheUnstill Let 'em have their fun. It's not like their God is going to appear.
@petergleick #EatTheRich until they beg to just pay taxes
@Kierkegaanks @selzero @BlippyTheWonderSlug We've seen just how effective the MAGA crowd was when they fought for Trump - they lost, badly. Now one actually took a shot at him, and missed.
The MAGA GOP is no more effective at violence than they are at governance. They take the money, make promises, and that's where it stops.
Trump's anger and desperation will increase in the coming weeks. If we're lucky, he'll remember that he's "rich" and owns his own airplane and will flee into exile instead of losing twice and facing jail time and financial ruin.
@dogzilla "have to vote", like it's some awful chore.
What kind of American wants an America without voting?
- an American who knows that their goals are unpopular
- an American who likes monarchy more than democracy
Trump should take the hint from the armed heckler at his Butler rally and fuck the hell off.
@kim_harding The system is working the way it was intended to work.
The ruling class doesn't care if the working class die.
The ruling class cares when they are interfered with.
@gtconway3 Wow. If Wray was running for president, that might be devastating.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
**Dwight D. Eisenhower**
So, roughly, each Sidewinder was two houses for the homeless, each AARGM was education for a doctor. This isn't radical Marxist talk - this is the true cost of America's foreign policy, in the best possible scenario, when no one dies.
This tradeoff was obvious to a GOP president 70 years ago. This tradeoff is unspeakable by any president today.
@Professor_Stevens @fmhilton Lots of things are possible.
We even had a pandemic - a million died.
The AIM-9P block 3 Sidewinders cost the Navy $430K each in 2021. The AGM-88E AARGM were $870K each in 2011 - I've got no recent pricing on the contemporary version with upgraded software and no idea if they used the extended range motor.
Given the long teething problems with the AARGM I'm relieved that it worked.
@GossiTheDog I appreciate robust testing and release processes. But in high assurance system, it's smart to not put the bugs in the software in the first place.
What's the implementation language? What static analysis tools are being used? Are there applicable coding guidelines (e.g., SPARK for Ada, MISRA for C, etc.) being enforced?
For CrowdStrike, it seems unconscionable that professional security developers in 2024 would ship kernel-level code that doesn't validate its fucking configuration file. I guess it's even less understandable how a team like that would fail to TEST their release, either. If their engineering org survives the fallout of their self-inflicted apocalypse, whatever rises from the ashes will likely follow best practices.
Using a multibillion dollar ship to launch hundred-million dollar airplanes shooting million-dollar missiles at ten thousand dollar drones. Back-slapping congratulations all around, then they sailed home to accolades and ribbons.
And then the Houthi attacked the next ship that sailed by, and 90% of the prior Suez traffic headed south around Africa.
America: you can't pay more for a military, but you can never seem to accomplish the strategic mission.
@tomasekeli /me waiting for a Canadian to read this and explain the wonders of the Robertson drive...
