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warontherocks.com 17h ago

Learning from the 'Voyage of the Damned': The Making of a Russian Naval Disaster

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warontherocks.com 17h ago

The Spanish Navy's Reserve Squadron and the Tragedy of Unpreparedness

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warontherocks.com 21h ago

The Blood Bank and the Logistics of Wartime Medicine

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radicalcontributions.substack.com 6d ago

The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make a Whole Society Wealthier?

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radicalcontributions.substack.com 6d ago

Escalation Theory: Compliance, Violence, and Overachievement in Society

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warontherocks.com 13d ago

The Davis Wing, the B-24 Liberator, and the Self-Made Bet That Paid Off

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mwi.westpoint.edu 13d ago

The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

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mrmarket.lol 1mo ago

Remote work is bad for you

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www.deadcarl.com 1mo ago

The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History

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springbett.substack.com 2mo ago

The Transit Trilemma

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worksinprogress.co 2mo ago

Modern Hindu Temples

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secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com 2mo ago

In Defense of Operation Market Garden

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www.scientificamerican.com 2mo ago

The unlikely story of an email time machine

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acoup.blog 3mo ago

Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians

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reactormag.com 3mo ago

Aragorn's Tax Policy and Other Weird Shibboleths

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theconversation.com 4mo ago

Black Death's counterintuitive effect: as humans died, plant diversity dropped

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www.theregister.com 5mo ago

Big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood– they pay for proprietary groupware

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militaryrealism.blog 6mo ago

Neutrality Is Not a Shield

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worksinprogress.co 7mo ago

The developing world needs more roads

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www.pentestpartners.com 9mo ago

We turned a real car into a Mario Kart controller by intercepting CAN data

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acoup.blog 10mo ago

Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction

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militaryrealism.blog 10mo ago

A Review of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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worksinprogress.co 10mo ago

Reclaiming the Roads

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carcinisation.com 10mo ago

The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth

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edconway.substack.com 10mo ago

Tinned Soup and Tariffs

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www.thepsmiths.com 11mo ago

The Domestic Revolution, by Ruth Goodman

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worksinprogress.co 11mo ago

Madrid built its metro cheaply

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worksinprogress.co 11mo ago

Chinese Towers and American Blocks

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worksinprogress.co 11mo ago

How to redraw a city – On land readjustment

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militaryrealism.blog 1y ago

Indiscriminate killers? – The reality of cluster munitions

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Well for DS1 DLC, you had to kill an enemy from one of the latest area you unlock, then go to the back of an early zone, without any indication that you had to do so.

They experimented with different approaches in DS3, where certain NPCs you encountered would essentially evaporate after you exhausted their dialogue, and they would later materialize back in the hub.

I can't really talk about DS2 because I didn't play very far in that one, but in DS1 there are a few NPC who do that, like Laurentius, Griggs and Ingward

In my opinion, it would've been worth the money to just buy a gaming PC, put it in a garage, hidden room, etc with the networking gear, then stream it over the network to a Steam Link

Well if you scroll down the page, it's presented as a selling point of the machine

Now only rich people get to enjoy a sport meant for the masses, yay.

By and large, the masses have always experienced football on a TV screen. (though removing lower price tickets from such public sport events is still bad)

I never really had the choice of a full remote work, but I'm like the author and anytime I work remotely I have that loneliness issue he's describing. There are a handful of colleagues that I never interact with when working remotely that are part of those "Weak Ties" the article touches upon and seeing them is part of why I go to the office, even if I don't have to.

And I posted this to see if other on HN are like that.

Though the mass introduced with Vatican II had a certain number of differences with the previous, Latin mass. Also while the Society of Saint Pius X excision still exists (and looking at their recent decision, will continue to be split from Rome's authority), I'd say that the majority of parishes celebrating the previous mass are under Rome's authority.

While I've never been to a mass with the homily in Latin, I've had a few with the readings in Latin (including Monday's mass two days ago), which always annoys me a little because it's immediately followed by the translation in the local language.

Personally I prefer the Latin mass, but one change I'd like to see would be for all the texts for that day to be read in the local language, not just the Epistle and Gospel (among other changes).

Funny, I watched it just last Friday (randomly, as I don't follow that channel). But while its author makes a compelling point, I'm not sure sure how much of the basing of the semi-conductor industry in Taiwan was a conscious decision vs a post-facto rationalization.

I am a little disappointed the tomb where the mummy was found is from the time where Egypt was part of the Roman Empire. At this point ancient Egypt had been a colony of Rome for quite some time and beforehand a Greek/Macedonian colony for a few more centuries (under the Ptolemaic dynasty, founded by a general of Alexander the Great). If it was from a previous era, it would have been a much more interesting find (in my eyes).

Cultures of patronage are fertile ground for mediocrity.

While judging that at such a remote is hard, the Roman Republic was such a culture, with strong patronage networks. And while we may or may not agree with Rome's goal, that culture didn't seem to produce mediocrity.

Human Resources. In olden time it might have been called Personnel. The department that will manage pay, hiring, contract, firing, that sort of things.

It was the start of aerial bombardment of civilians

It had already started way before, right when armed forces started using planes, in WW1. (I was thinking even earlier, in Libya during the Italo-Turkish war of 1911, but I haven't found confirmation in a quick search)

I don't think there's any purpose behind it, most like early on, game with shooting were just simpler to develop, especially with regards to limited processing power and storage. For example I remember an extract from a review on the original Doom, saying that it would be much better if they were able to talk to the monsters; but at the time, a talking game would have been nearly impossible to make, especially to the same level of polish as the original Doom.

And then it's a feedback loop: video games get the reputation of being violent (perhaps undeservedly so, like Myst was outselling the original Doom, IIRC, but violent games made for bigger headline in mainstream media) => only people interested in that buy them => violent games are the best-selling => games...

This was on my work computer

is this an employer-issued computer? Like if I did something similar on my DELL laptop (us lowly devs at %DAY_JOB% don't have Macs), management would be up my ass the minute they saw this, if only because the maintenance agreement the company has with our supplier will likely be voided for my machine.

Indochina

Huh, that should be Indonesia... Because Indochina (as in the former French colony) was well and fully communist after the Vietnam war

- You can easily avoid paying VAT if you know how to, so that's a 20% increase

You mean by how VAT is not paid on materials a company is going to use (at least that's the case here in France, no idea what the rest of the UE does it). Or by doing undeclared work?

I think the parent is making the assumption that a business owner would be able (and willing) to update the menu on their own website, whereas random pictures on Google Maps/Instagram might not have the most recent menu.