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Didn’t they sell government housing before? Anyway this is probably a bad idea as governments are bad landlords and taxpayers will get the bill eventually
> Against a an adversary with no anti-air capabilities. Like the Taliban. Whom we are no longer fighting. For the nation-state level conflicts we're gearing up for, the A-10 is a waddling duck.

The US has been gearing up for nation-state level conflicts and only fighting asymmetric guerrilla ones since 1945. And the AF is the one branch which most refuses to fight the wars the US are actually fighting.
A fundamental right it may be but it has to be built by somebody and that costs money. So it’s a market
>What I’m not sure about is why aren’t they using Apaches, Comanches, Scorpions (all helicopters) etc instead for close air support?

What about the Warren:
https://www.duffelblog.com/p/army-to-name-new-attack-helicop...
US air force operates like a US corporation and is bestowed to LHM And others to start new products and buy a bunch of new parts. Who cares if it does the job great.

Masters of war.
Of course its a societal problem in India, but to root out caste, we have to understand where it came from first and then work together of making people equal. Whilst Christian missionaries from Britain keep coming into India exploiting caste to gain conversions which further creates divisions.

When we understand the reasons, we can address the problem.
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Of course its a societal problem in India, but to root out caste, we have to understand where it came from first and then work together of making people equal. Whilst Christian missionaries from Britain keep coming into India exploiting caste to gain conversions which further creates divisions.

When we understand the reasons, we can address the problems
Meh. I have friends who lived in a Vonovia apartment in a prefab in East Berlin. It's not for me, but the rent was pretty cheap (~10 Euros/sqm, heating + warm water included) and didn't get raised during the years they lived there.

Berlin just came from a place of super low rent and is slowly catching up to other large German cities. Understandably, Berliners are in shock, but it's more "things are returning to normal" than "Berlin is so expensive, nobody can live there".
You are confusing

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/system.3.html

with

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html
The Codeowners File
Agreed. This is the most obvious way fwd. Rust, Haskell, Elm, even Kotlin seems to come along nicely.

Exceptions and null for error cases are horrible and Java and Go are doomed. (semi-jokingly)
> ...to get annihilated by Russian or Chinese air defences.

Which is a big concern when… not fighting either.
It won't. Companies will always have more money to spend than people. We should add extra tax on house/apartments and you don't need to pay it if you live there. Initially landlords will add tax to rent but as the tax will increase (let's start at 1% and increase each year) eventually the rent will be so high nobody will be able to afford it and landlord will have to sell it.
False. Housing is not an elastic "free" market. Houses are not fungible goods like bolts or eggs.

https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2017/03/27/where-mar...
> Is it going to provide eye candy? I’ve heard it’s supposed to work in non-visible spectrum like infrared?

Most astronomical images (even those taken in the optical) are not as a human eye would see/perceive the scene. They're almost always made in a way to highlight features of scientific interest, look aesthetic, or both. And in the case of images outside the visual spectrum, they are assigned representative colors.

Another angle is that astronomical images are generally intensity images, taken through a single filter, rather than inherently color images. Several of these images, taken through different filters, can be combined to make a color image. However, even if taken in the visual portion of the spectrum, the responses of the filters generally won't match the human eye's responses, so the images aren't what the human eye would see.

For example, the Spitzer Space Telescope (covering 3.6-160 microns), captured images of astrophysical objects and these images were used to generate representative images:

- Helix nebula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comets_Kick_up_Dust_in_He...

- Cepheus B and C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA23126-CepheusC%26Bregi...

JWST operates largely in the infrared (though it has some overlap with the visual range), but will undoubtedly capture wonderful images in the infrared and these images will be combined to make stunning pseudo-color images.
- Socialism (as in: actual socialism, not the European / Scandinavian variety that for the most part still builds upon a free-market economy), when implemented, will inevitably fail. In most cases, because it'll devolve into an authoritarian system fairly quickly. Those arguing in favour of socialism often will resort to a True Scotsman argument: "Yes, but this wasn't real socialism."

- The idea of "limits to growth" (as promoted by the Club of Rome) is a fallacy that - although since the time of Thomas Malthus it has been proven wrong time and again - remains bewilderingly popular.

- The EU is a cold war relic that's ridiculously ill-equipped for the challenges of the 21st century. Though motivated by misguided ideas, petty nationalism, and selfishness, given time Brexit might prove to not have been such a bad idea after all.

- Nuclear power at least in the short term should be considered a vital component of combatting climate change.

Regarding software:

- Web standards are actually quite decent. The web and web technologies are great way of providing and distributing applications.

As for more some recent events:

- Lockdowns and civil rights restrictions in general are neither an effective, nor a reasonable or sustainable approach for dealing with a pandemic.

- Zero Covid / No Covid / a Covid elimination strategy is an unsustainable dead end.

- Negative COVID-19 test results, not vaccination passports, should be relied on as an access requirement.
A lot of people are saying that housing supply needs to go up to resolve the problem. This is essentially correct! But the market is not doing it, so government intervention is reasonable. The government should buy land, construct a whole bunch of high quality housing on it, then rent it at below market rates. Rents in the rest of the city will collapse downward to compete.

Problem solved. This is the same tactic that the us government used to make electricity cheap in the 1930’s with the construction of the grand coulee dam.

Edit:
Look: governments all over the world are willing to plow unlimited amounts of money into the stock market when rich people are in trouble. But when young people just starting out can’t get an affordable apartment, somehow nothing can be done.

Let’s get real. This is a matter of priorities.
No. This fork still uses Signal's servers. It's essentially an alternative Android client for Signal.

Session is a much more complicated protocol with way too many additions and differing specs for it to be able to interoperate with Signal at this point.
It’s only morally wrong for the numpty who gets caught holding the bag.

Everyone else will be celebrated, and can pat themselves on the back, for having the foresight to time the market.
Remarkably, Austrian capital Vienna manages to keep a good municipal stock of affordable housing. But other cities failed to imitate Viennese methods.

Also, Berlin has a lot of land that could be built upon. Land is not a scarce resource in that particular corner of Europe.
This, 100%. Then a new generation grows up in said slum with its attendant effects on their development and the cycle worsens
Please stop saying this - house prices in Australia have recorded record growth in the same year as record low immigration due to covid restrictions. The primary driver is low interest rates enabling cheap debt, not "supply".
That may be technically true, but it misses the fact that the demand pool is larger than it should be - it consists of many other actors than just people who want to live in a given location. Those other actors tend to have more money.
Deport illegals and halt immigration?

Or genocide followed by an ethnostate?
Don't all those companies follow the same practice? I've used most of them and have issues all the time (though in most cases they have some car available, just not what I reserved).

Seems like it's not just me :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2GmGSNvaM&t=39s

Airlines also overbook but at least they have reasonable limits based on data, and offer compensation for bumps.
1982: I wrote Alien Attack, my first game, on an Atari 400, in BASIC
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It does serve to benefit the reader.

Knowing if someone is new to what they are discussing makes the reader less likely to take what they say at face value.

While you should still be critical of people who have experience, it probably will hurt you less or give you different insights if what they are saying comes from experience.

For example, I'm fairly certain the world of web programming would be way better off if lots of those tutorials had some sort of "I didn't know what HTTP or arrays were a couple of weeks ago" disclaimer :|
> 28 Days Later was shot on digital potatocams and looks awesome.

I'll have you know they like to be called canon XL1s ;)

But I'm not sure how much was actually shot on those. I know a fair wedge of the action was, as it meant that they could do multi-cam shots (low budget, more realism, etc etc), I thought that they used ARRL something or others for slower shots. But I could be misremembering.
Not sure how much of a real change this will make, but man, what a bad deal for taxpayers. They shouldn’t have allowed rampant corporate ownership in the first place, but now they’re going and spending public money on overpriced real estate.
Without regressing to another ad-infinitum housing discussion, real estate involves two markets: rentals/living, and ownership.

Some people want to own their own home and live in it (owner occupiers); these people however compete with investors who are seeking to rent it out. While investors don't directly affect the rentals market (as you'd expect an owner-occupier to not be a renter), they do push the price of housing, because housing becomes more of an investment (competing against everything else with zero / negative interest rates).

Progressive taxes on investors can mitigate this and make home ownership more affordable. First property, no tax. Second property, 1% of its land value charged annually. Third property: 2% of its land value, etc...
> I have no special knowledge about the issue, but if I had to guess, it's embarrassing to the Air Force that the A-10 does a better job at close air support (CAS) than the F-35.

AF jocks plain don't want to do CAS at all, they want to launch missiles from 200 miles away and 20000ft up. But they want the army to have fixed wings and do its own CAS even less.

They hate the A10 because the A10 was created solely to do CAS. It flies low and slow, its only job is to support grunt, and it does that extremely well. None of that gives AF jocks a stiffy.
Agree with this. I’ve hired hundreds of software engineers and I don’t give a flying flip where you went to school or even if you got a degree. What I do care about is whether or not you can do the job, and that comes from actually doing the job (whether you’ve been paid to or have pursued your own projects). Most new grads are totally useless TBH. I’ll take a GitHub showing you’re passionate about building and a solid interview over a robot with a degree nine times out of ten.
Start with researching the "three plate method" to generate a flat surface. A flat reference plane is the first thing you need to make precision machines. (The second is an accurate way to divide a circle.)

But the three plate method is one of those foundational, from-first-principles realizations that changes everything. It basically means you can start with three rocks and manufacture your own reference plates that are accurate in flatness to any arbitrary tolerance you have the patience to achieve.

With a truly flat plate in hand, you can generate a reference square - again, to any tolerance you like.

If reading about that stuff (it's everywhere on the web if you know the right codewords "three plate method"), your next step is to find a copy (electronic, probably, it's long out of print) of Moore's "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy". I keep a copy beside my bed so on nights when I can't sleep, I can caress the covers and ease my soul.
The US army is restricted from operating fixed wing aircraft heavier than 5,000 pounds due to the Pace-Finletter MOU of 1952[0].

I agree with you that both the air force and the army would appreciate and gladly cooperate with such a transfer, if it were possible. But in this case, both of their hands are tied.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace-Finletter_MOU_1952
In the UK at least, RAF pilots who have gone through basic flight training have a broad choice between fast air, widebody and rotary wing (helicopters). Once you pick a particular type (and assuming you pass the relevant aptitude / selection tests), there is a complex career progression that includes type-specific training and then assignment to a squadron that operates a particular type of aircraft. Pilots who have trained on one type can't be randomly 'assigned' to a different aircraft without a lot of extra training.

Similarly, in the British Army, all soldiers go through basic training and then choose a particular military 'trade' (e.g. infantry, armour, artillery, etc). They receive trade-specific training before joining a relevant unit. Some regiments even have 'father and son' social events where an officer joined the same regiment that his father did.

The Royal Navy has similar career personal-choice progression routes for weapons officers, engineers, etc.
Regarding the "fundamental right" ... does that include "at the location one wishes", "of the size that one wishes" and "for the price that one wishes"?

Because there's no shortage of housing in Germany, it's just not hitting all three of those. People want to live in sought-after areas, have large apartments and pay very little. Understandable, but everyone should be able to see why that doesn't work.
It doesn't matter, as long as it's a legal entity and can therefore be sued for breach of contract.
Why fucking Bing of all things? Why not Duck Duck Go? Are these kinds of deals really solely based on the funding MS would give them?
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You're confusing implicit with automatic. That's the best illustration of self-deception and "terminally confused" in this thread. If programmers have to think about when something truly goes out of the last scope it'll be in (sometimes not obvious when it's put into and taken out of containers and passed between callbacks) then it's not automatic. If they have to think about whether they can use/pass a reference and be sure it won't outlive the object itself, it's not automatic. These have been issues in every C++ codebase I've seen, so even if I were personally able to create a codebase without those issues it wouldn't change anything. It also doesn't make a difference if you're so accustomed to a certain set of ownership rules that the time you spend thinking about them is very small. It's still not zero, and other programmers who are less inured to the mess still exist.

It's OK that these issues exist - as you say it's just programming - but don't delude yourself into thinking that's automatic memory management. It's implicit, but it's not automatic and that means it's (at least partly) manual. When you say you don't use manual memory management but then say you let standard-library templates handle it, that's a contradiction and tantamount to a lie.
I like the Army guys. Since they are the ones getting killed on the ground- they are far more inclined to go with products that just work and get the job done.

Unlike the airforce - that has a huge budget and an arsenal of all sorts of hardware from B2s to b1s to drones to f22s, b52s, list goes on.

Remind me again what happened in Afghanistan?

Apache, a10, mh6, ac130. These were the workhorses and of course reapers.
What’s the “accidents per million miles driven” metric at for self driving cars?
A lot of military planning is increasingly pivoting towards being prepared for peer or peer+ adversaries.
Buying the apartments is a short term solution to take pressure off of low income tenants. This is not about supply and demand. Increasing supply is a mid to long term solution.

By the way, land is also limited in Berlin and therefore expensive. Makes building cheap apartments difficult.
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What would you do when the city decides to double prices overnight because it’s a private company focussed on profit maximisation and has a complete monopoly over absolutely everything
the 2011 version has been re-graded, and that grade isn't static.

That is to say, they were willing to change the colour cast from the original print to make it more consistent.

There has also been a whole load of re-painting and restoration to get that extra detail.

The 4K77 version is literally just a scan from the print. The colour correction is almost static.
Optimizing construction for investments leads to different houses, apartments and even neighborhoods than optimizing for living - the same way as optimizing your site for ad revenue leads to a completely different structure than optimizing it for actually being useful to your visitors/customers.
How would you go about creating more land?
> Military pilots get to choose their assignments? Is that how the military works?

We have a professional Air Force. It's not uncommon to see e.g. F-16 pilots "retire" into senior management roles. These are smart, ambitious people. If you want to keep it that way, you give them a say in the planes they fly.
Soluble barium compounds are toxic. Barium sulfate is nearly insoluble and has very low toxicity. People routinely drink the stuff as a radiocontrast agent before getting an x-ray.
I imagine this as a prison-like corporate dystopia
What this typically means is the team lead thinks they're entitled to do the interesting work, like designing new features, exploring new ideas, and everyone else gets to fix the bugs and implement their half baked ideas. Then the developers push back, because no, we're just as capable as the 'team lead' and don't care what you think.
Berlin itself is quite full (with the exception of the airport park, which is intentionally kept as a green area). There is a lot of cheap land available in Germany, especially in the countryside on the east, but near the city the situation is different.
Yes you can. You tie companies back to a specific person who has control over that company. And limit ownership of residential property by those people.
Is it their reason or is it their way of telling you to screw off because it's their money and they do what they want with it?

"hurr durr muh safety" is one of the easiest ways to shut down discussion these days.
What's the problem? Just move elsewhere. You don't own a place there - you can only rent - so you don't lose anything - it will be about as stupid/unworkable as one hotel in a city raking up room prices 2x just because they "try to maximise profit".
> I agree with you that both the air force […] would appreciate and gladly cooperate with such a transfer

No, it would not. The MOU was between the SECAF and the SECARM, if the Air Force actually wanted to hand the A10 (and CAS missions) to the Army it'd have happened 50 years ago. The AF wants to kill the A10 without the Army getting it, and the latter takes much higher priority than the former.
Imagine you're writing a function that parses an integer from a string. Would you let it throw an exception on failure?
> What does peace look like to you?

Peace is what the United States has had with Vietnam since 1975.

How can we understand that, when the reason for going to war, at the cost of 58,000 American lives, was that without an intervention, the domino theory predicted that the world order would inevitably collapse?

It didn't.

Vietnam, notwithstanding the pandemic, is a tourist destination where 18 year old American kids have the time of their live in complete safety.

Money for peace would investigate this outcome with the aim of advancing our theoretical knowledge so we might get it right next time, in time to avoid conflict.
However, like any human discipline, there are good patterns for how to write a maintainable program, and there are bad patterns.

Sure. What I’m questioning is whether there is any rational, objective basis for arguing that using exceptions to exit early in positive cases is a bad pattern. The programming world is full of opinions, sometimes strongly held by experienced practitioners, that a certain style is bad. The programming world is also full of other experienced practitioners who use some of those controversial styles very successfully. Exceptions are a common source of controversy, but you could just as well look at type systems, significant white space, OOP, functional programming, or a hundred other areas where reasonable people can differ. I believe it’s important to distinguish arguments based on dogma or convention from arguments based on rational logic or empirical evidence. One type helps us to improve as individuals and as a community, while the other can only hold us back.
Regardless, your comments fall on the wrong side of "Don't be snarky" and "Please don't sneer."

But clearly, you've picked this hill to die on and this conversation is going nowhere. Have a good day.
Over here, the ethnic restaurants I've been to have at their front desk either ethnic employees with fluency in the local language, or employees from local population. The cooks, on the other hand, are all ethnic and from the few cases I've overheard them talking with other staff, they barely know the local language.