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It really depends on the kind of war being fought.
If the cheap solution involves having troops only a dozen miles away from the enemy, then you're going to take casualties, and funeral costs are FAR more expensive then the cost to buy a large bird and fly it from a 100+ miles away.
An MQ-9 has roughly the same wingspan as an A-10 - they're not small birds.
An MQ-9 needs to have a good sensor ball, ideally with both color and IR, gps jamming resistance, weapons integration with multiple types of missiles (ideally large enough to take out something larger than a motorcycle), good on-target time INCLUDING transit time (if it can only stare for one hour on target it'd be pointless), good uplink and downlink to reliably move that data (you don't want to lose track when a missile flies off), and the architecture to support, including ground control stations.
You CAN stuff someone in Cessna, give em a camera, a radio, and some mortar rounds to toss out the back, but that's not going to work for most use cases.
Honestly software that gets a bunch of updates often gets more brittle and problematic over time, like how a person accumulates illnesses over time.
Though I guess a software project or software team usually does get stronger over time, as they figure out pipelines, devops, systems and rituals that work well for them.
True - the biggest thing I want to catch in an MR is "will this change lead us onto a path that is uglier, buggier, less maintenanable".
People will generally copy and follow existing patterns, so for example if you let somebody add a new internal date time format, then soon your codebase will bifurcate and there'll be multiple inconsistent versions roaming around.
The other stuff (minor bugs, overly verbose code) can easily be fixed. Paradigm rot cannot.
Seems like housing again:
Rents have surged in recent years, driven by tourism, foreign investment and a shortage of affordable housing. The cost of housing now consumes one of the largest shares of disposable income in the European Union
My impression is that where housing is expensive, there will be complaints of unaffordability (obviously), but also vice versa, that where there is unaffordability, housing always seems to be a large component (at least in "the west").
in most places basic food (rice and beans or an equivalent) is cheap. Services can usually be skimped on. Transportation can usually be flexible (new car / cheap used car / transit / bike). Housing costs seem to be relatively non-flexible though.
I wouldn't be surprised if Greece has strong NIMBY factors.
Yeah, it's a bit of an awkward article. Just compare the paragraph headers to the paragraph contents - "Why a hex grid" and then the paragraph doesn't talk about hex grids.
AI stylisms are not necessarily bad - short, punchy fragments CAN make it easier to digest some text. But it can't be all punch. In a meandering writing (like this post), it comes off as unfocused and as a blasé imitation of actually focused, to-the-point, punchy writing.
It gives off of similar vibes as corporateese - like someone who kinda knows what "right/smart/good" sounds like, but doesn't or can't present something actually right/smart/good.
EDIT: Not that there isn't interesting stuff worth reading, but it does feel a little "someone put a big mac in a blender and I guess it's still decent".
Yeah my take is they wanted a language more resilient to slop-cannon code. Last I looked they had 900kLOC of Rust just after the Rust PR - I have no doubt there's a lot of garbage in those LOC, and Rust gives more safety guardrails for that.
There is no meaningful way of distinguishing features from bugs.
From a user perspective, a bug is when behavior deviates from reasonable expected behavior.
From a dev perspective, a bug is when the code actions mismatches the mental model (aka spec if it exists, else a reasonable mental model of the system).
A bug becomes a feature when it becomes expected behavior.
A common combo for this is (was?) C and Lua. Lua is intended to be a embedded language, so good for Interop, but also also high level and easy to use.
There's a reason why Factorio uses Lua as it's scripting level language
Yeah, I think one issue is that AI fundamentally dgaf about you and your code base. They don't have a salary on the line, and from their perspective it's not some project they super care about. I think they're happy to help, and dutiful to orders, but if the business dies in two years because of crap code that's no skin off their back.
Hah, I was just thinking that Python likely has a vast ocean of training data, but it's likely of lower quality, being much of it is written by beginners and those who aren't primarily programmers.
Ok, they're saying "let the job choose the correct tools and have that be the stack, don't have a stack and fit it into working for the job".
Which to me sounds more reasonable than what I thought they were saying.
Apparently there have been IRGC and basij curfew patrols shooting at buildings / windows of people who sing or shout anti regime songs and slogans. Apparently they are also (at least in some cases) dressing as women to avoid airstrikes. There has been very little photage and info coming out of Iran though.
I still believe the Iranian government is more afraid of it's people than of the US and Israel - the US and Israel can bomb leadership and materiel, but without ground troops, regime capitulation is unlikely, unless the populace can themselves overthrow the govt (though that is hard to do when there is a major imbalance in who has guns).
Yes I had the same thought.
Imo brutalism is monolithic and unyielding. This is opposite, with the sturdy concrete yielding into plant overgrowth and exposed rebar.
I hear this a lot from a lot of my coworkers who like Java Spring - they trust Spring to do things right, more than themselves.
On the other hand, I hate Java Spring because I feel like I don't trust it - it doesn't let me look into and understand the internals easily, making me feel like I'm afloat on a pile of abstracts I'm not allowed to look down into.
Looking at some other projects enterprise js/ts codebases though, I see a lot of "I don't understand how this works so I'll try random things until it works". In that kind of environment, I can understand the attraction of Spring - it's not great, but it also won't be a flaming pile of unbaked abstractions.
When it was carried out the invading force was defeated by unexpected resources and resourcefulness from the Iranian side, not entirely unlike what Iran has done during our invasion.
Are you saying that Iran is capably fighting and killing US personnel, aircraft, and invading infantry?
I am a little confused about the universe you live in. The IRGC and Basij effectively do not have a chain of command and are effectively moving and acting by momentum, essentially no different than a dead man walking.
Do you know the names of any alive people in the IRGC chain of command? Have you seen videos or evidence of IRGC doing anything to harm US forces other than lob some stuff and hope it hits? Where are the Islamic Iranian armies and navies you imply to exist?
If a scientist is doing more work to secure grants than doing science (my understanding is that this is very common), trying to justify their own existence, then I wouldn't be surprised that results get skewed towards that end.
If every software engineer and developer had to do more work justifying their own existence than actually coding and developing, I suspect overall software quality would be worse than it is today.
To add to what the central city budget problem is - each new piece of street and road in LA has, on average, not paid for itself in terms of increased revenue from taxes or otherwise.
So for each new street widening, new road, and piece of highway capacity, LA was increasing it's financial liability to revenue ratio.
Add over decades all of the street and road construction that LA has done, and it now has a unsustainable amount of road maintenance it's responsible for compared to the amount of revenue it pulls in. I'm having a hard time finding numbers though so please correct me or add numbers if you can find them.
I was bored and tried playing FF14 about a year ago. You need to do the usual download a launcher to download the game, fine. It asks you to log in before it'll download, fine. It crashes ~10% of the way through downloading the game. Not great but you can make it by restarting the launcher and trying again. And again and again, about a dozen times. It does eventually finish though, and I did almost successfully make a character. Except after making my character you have to choose a server instance - and every single instance in the NA server I could find was "full". I don't know if it was actually full or erroring but I gave up at that point.
The buttonology is cryptic. Like you asked tasked enterprise java devs to write frontend in jquery.
At least that's how I remember it. Game might be fun, but I'll never know.
What's the subset of games that A) can be played offline, and B) aren't already single player with no microtransactions?
Free mobile games paid by ads?
Tldr: Poland shot down Russian drones that entered polish airspace. Not the first time they've entered, but first time they've been shot down by Poland.
I wouldn't be surprised if it is deliberate by Russia.
Gray zone warfare in part does small little practically deniable actions, to create a new normal and establish small precedents that can be escalated into larger precedents. Slowly boil the lobster alive - create messaging that conflict in Poland is usual and nothing to wake up about.
When researchers attempt(opens a new tab) to recover [something like] a coherent computational representation of an Othello game board they instead find [bags of heuristics]
Humans don't exactly have a full representation of board space in their head either. Notably, chess masters and amateurs can memorize completely random board positions as well as the other. I'd think neither could memorize 64 chess pieces in random positions on a board.
I really like the phone/desktop convergence concept. Mostly I think because I want the freedom / open experience of my desktop on my phone though, I think.
But I think most folks interested enough in the concept are also rich enough to afford a phone and a laptop, and if you want a keyboard for your phone you might as well just use a laptop.
I still think conceptually it's the right direction for tech that our devices should be so flexible, but it's hard enough in practice that it's not generally done.
Lack of types is one thing that turned me away from Elixir when I was trying to learn it.
I didn't know how to think about the types so I wanted some way to annotate them to help think through it, but went through it. And then the compiler complained at me I was passing in the wrong type to a function. I mean yes thanks? But also give me a way to figure that out BEFORE I try running the code.
True that's a good point - if publishers were OK with micro purchases for their articles, we'd see some publishers try that out. Nothing's stopping the NYT and similar from trying a "pay as you go model".
The fact that publishers haven't experimented with that implies they're not interested, which dooms any project like this from the start.
I use my USB-C port to listen to my wired headphones all the time, no problem. Phone jack is now redundant now that USB-C can output audio
Good point in the post about confidence - most people equate confidence with accuracy - and since AIs always sound confident, they always sound correct
Strange - I would expect a workplace that doesn't allow mics to also disallow bluetooth
By that logic a one party system is the most superior system, since by definition everyone is on the same page.
We got Trump in part because people felt unable to fully express their opinion - they felt it was either the status quo person or the anti status quo person, with no nuance in between.
And there are still divisions - the freedom caucus, the progressive "squad", the swing politicians. Those politicians should be in parties that reflect them rather than Frankenstein's monsters of parties.
Coalitions are made to enable things like voting on government budgets before funding runs out .... But that problem does not seem solved in the US
My lens is that the military is a federal agency, and our soldiers are federal employees.
This EO combined with the "he who saves his country breaks no law" quote points towards an eventual attempt at a coupe or similar use of force to retain power. Thankfully there are currently no partisan militias in the DOD, but I could see an attempt at a Saddam-style seizing of Congress