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Right now, for instance, the American military:

- desperately needs a new self-propelled howitzer, as the M109 is a 60-year-old design that has been upgraded to its limit, and can no longer perform adequately in a modern near-peer engagement

- the AIM-120 AMRAAM is outclassed by other beyond visual range air-to-air missiles developed in the last 30 years

- the OH-58 Kiowa, based on the Bell JetRanger, was the Army's scout helicopter for decades -- but was retired in 2020 without a replacement

- the Ticonderoga-class cruiser, which was the first incarnation of the Aegis anti-air and anti-ballistic-missile system, is being retired without a replacement, forty years after it entered service -- its planned replacement, CG(X), was cancelled, and so more Arleigh-Burke class destroyers with larger Mark-41 VLS cells are being shoehorned in

- the Arleigh-Burke class destroyer, which also has the Aegis system, is still in production after 34 years because the Zumwalt-class that would've replaced it was a total flop due -- its eight-inch Advanced Gun System requiring bespoke ammunition on the order of $800,000 per round

These are all replacement programs that could have been (and in some cases were) started over a decade ago, but we are just now seeing the fruits of some of the very long development processes.

- the ERCA (Extended-Range Cannon Artillery) is not forecasted to enter service until 2025

- the AIM-260 is meant to enter production this year

- there is currently an ongoing competition between Sikorsky and Boeing to build the Army's next scout helicopter

- the DDG(X) program will replace both ship classes eventually, but is not even meant to begin construction until 2028

Meanwhile, one shining example of the successful replacements of older programs is the Virginia-class submarine. It remains one of the few examples of American military procurement that was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget, while still being a success.
I'm vegetarian, and I'm offended. Mostly by that god awful Alegria-like prictogram on the first product packaging.

It's bad enough we have to see these hose-armed and hose-legged people pictograms from every tech company, but now they're on my food as well?
This is exactly how to corner yourself into a local optimum that balances how much people are pissed off, rather than how much people see benefits.
A more appropriate comparison here might be to my Datasette Lite project, which runs SQLite in the browser using WASM and lets you join multiple CSV files by URL: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/20/datasette-lite-csvs/

I think CSVFiddle is a fantastic addition to the ecosystem: making DuckDB more accessible - especially in a browser - is a very useful thing.
M!lk..
It was a good idea in that it made a lot of people very very rich. Some folks such as the Clinton's got their fingers in both the Russian pie as well as other minor ones (in terms of wealth extracted, not effect) like Haiti.
I wonder how much not having nissan.com affected Nissan’s business. I’m probably sure it’s tremendous.
I think it’s merely a style as you mention in your first sentence. Some people who speak using the objective style are just being loose with language. They still realize what they are saying is subjective.

I talk like this even when I'm being subjective. In fact, I largely talk like this because I used to talk and write more subjectively but I was dinged in an English class for not sounding convincing.
How to track changes in the behavior of ML models with Touca
Love these. I keep talking to them for days. Really pissed a few of them off.
Those libertarians who have famously been in charge of the United States since it's founding and got the US into the current health care cost mess?
Those easily-detached non-locking barrel jacks for power are definitely the weak point of guitar pedal design.
It seemed obvious to me that robbery was being used in the colloquial sense (rip off)
Yeah - mercaptan I believe? I knew that, I guess I just assumed they wouldn't use a non-odorized propane..
It may have been unintended but it was defiantly not unknown, I remember people pointing out this exact problem during the debate around ACA.
Which is about 5000 BTUs or about the same amount as 3/4 a cup of gasoline, if I did the math right.

So not nothing, but not very worrisome either.
That goes for switching any almost vendor. But it does give insurers an incentive to not runaway with pricing.
and they don’t even have the guts to give us a nice purple gorilla
Why should corporations have more of a claim to property or resources than individuals, just because more people know of them? If they were exercising phishing attacks then fair enough, but if they had a personal website of some sort on there, why the hell should a company get it just because they have the same name?
I'll spread the word to the guy maintaining some tools (RIE, wire bonder and mechanical profilometer) running DOS in our university micro-nano fabrication center. Hope it can help extending the useful life of those >20k$ equipment a bit.
Not at all. The solution in America is often to medicate, not change your own behavior or diet. If you watch regular television here (with commercials), every other commercial is for some new pill you need to take. When you go to a doctor's office, it's not uncommon to see a "drug rep" roll in a suitcase with samples of new drugs they want doctors to push (which inevitably comes with financial incentives).

Being a doctor is a business just like any other. And just like any other business, some operate ethically while others don't.
It's about the amount of power and influence you can wield. In a discussion like this, "large corporation" is just a shorthand. When it comes to the legal system everyone should be on equally footing. That they aren't is why these things are so upsetting.
I respectfully disagree. The postal service is held to a standard of service by a USO - Universal Service Obligation. [0]

This means it is an org mandated to accept your request for service at a reasonable price regardless of your location of residence. There is an important distinction between that, and being mandated to receive mail service. That is not a stipulation of being alive in USA.

[0] - https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/postal-service-and-its-obligati...
In a vacuum, that would make sense, but most of these insurers still have to compete with at least one or two other big players.

So while you could increase your costs so that you can increase your premiums thus getting 5% of a larger pie, that assumes that you can increase your premiums without losing customers to competitors.

For the most part, on the ACA marketplace, all the plans are pretty similar, so price is really your main differentiator.

Perhaps the obstacles of switching providers makes this competition less of an issue.
Why do we need to know about progress?
Location: Italy / Dublin, Ireland
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Email: madacol10 gmail

I have a very wide range of knowledge, but with depth into web development (~5 years) and a bit on electronics.

I am highly attracted into DevOps and decentralized technologies (including bitcoin and ethereum)

Learning Rust
There's missing link between visual design tools (Figma etc.) and documentation tools (Notion etc.). Yes, you can embed Figma into Notion but that's where the interconnectedness ends.

I think it's very important for a smooth workflow.

I've been keeping tabs on two apps that are trying to merge a canvas/whiteboard and docs:
1. https://cloverapp.com/
2. https://heptabase.com/

It's an interesting and relevant problem to solve.
I thought it was just me also. At first my assumption was "OK, I'm being redirected a bunch of texts from other numbers", as nobody else I asked had similar problems (and I wasn't really being scammed at all). Some of the scammers even sent pictures to make them seem more legitimate. On iOS, the green bubbles and just continual flow of similar texts eventually made it suspicions that I don't even reply wrong number anymore. I just delete and block.
>Now do this for the influence of the state's pathologies on public schoolkids.

Such as?
Housing crisis, water crisis , yet the state is still growing. Seems like a management mistake.
Yes they should, why not?
> Russia's failures in Ukraine mostly stemmed from failures in their logistics and doctrine rather than their technology

Russia’s reactive armour had egg cartons in place of explosive. The same oligarchs are delivering these weapons. Meanwhile, Moscow’s “smart” weapons missed entire airfields.
They need to learn how to be in relation to people who know and care about them, not other random kids (some of whom will be abused at home and hence abusive at school) and the teachers, some of whom will be extremely incompetent, emotionally abusive, pedophiles or all of that.

There's absolutely no way sending a kid to school is better for their social life in any way.
"entitlement simulators" what? I'm sorry but how are Fortnite, Call of Duty, Elden Ring, Minecraft, etc entitlement simulators? That's really scraping the bottom of the barrel for a narrative there. Lol at "speedrunning" being an indicator of colonialism impulse. It's as if the author of that talk is looking at the world through entitlement tinted glasses, heavily steeped in anti-colonialism and postmodernism and cannot see anything but.

Any time you run any kind of business, whether it's retail or video game production, your most vocal feedback will be negative. People are 10x more likely to complain about a bad experience than rave about a good experience. Social media just makes it easier to amplify the negative feedback, since it's far more likely to go viral. Add to that the fact that people can get clout and even earn their own following from doing entertaining takedowns of bad games and you get an adversarial attention economy that people pick up on. You really have to develop a thick skin and roll with the punches.
How is it disproven exactly? Are you saying 5% is not a lot because it's the number 5 or something?
> nearly every human including vegans can perfectly well eat either.

If you haven't eaten meat for decades, you will probably become violently ill if you eat meat.
The free market produces the most efficient outcome
And already something exposed to the insurance world via Whole Life policies - which are technically life insurance, but with an investment vehicle baked in. Whole life policies are typically a lot more expensive than term life, but a portion of premiums paid goes into cash value which can be invested in markets, and often tax-free.

If you die early, your beneficiaries get a bigger payout than you paid in. If you live until the end of the whole life term, you've accumulated cash value and investment income on top of it.

The "catch" is really just the expense of the premiums. Whole life is out of reach of many people shopping for life insurance, especially those looking for coverage because their financial lives are already pretty close to the edge with debts, etc.
No visa sponsorships as expected
I guess what I'm trying to clarify is: one may think they're just making a value judgment about someone's choices, but they very easily can be actually also judging based on shortfalls in ability or income... or different backgrounds, location, culture, etc.

I agree judging based on peoples' superficial choices isn't great. But I think judging people based on things they can't change or that are close to intrinsic is even worse.
My company did just what you say, and cut a few hundred engineers and managers across the board without warning. 8AM on a Monday morning a bunch of us just got pulled into a MS Teams meeting with a Sr. Director and immediately told "We're sorry to inform you that your job position has been eliminated." Thought I'd done something wrong as there was no warning whatsoever but reached out to a security engineer in the company working in a different state and immediately found out he'd been cut, too. After a couple days started getting texts from folks that a few hundred got cut. Then they do the cutesy offer of "But you can always apply for another of our open and available positions." Sorry, no thanks.
A year ago this company raised $639 million. Additionally, the article states the company makes it's money from fees paid by retailers:

>"Instead of charging consumers interest, Klarna takes a fee from the retailers."

This suggests they're not subsidizing their customers with VC money in the same way that cheap Uber rides did. Can anyone say why they are they trying to raise more money almost exactly a year after raising the kind of money they did? Are they simply trying to squirrel away some rainy day money or did they burn through most of that $639 million already? If the latter why is this such a capital heavy business if the model is based on retailers paying fees to the company?
> not buy bottled water if it can be avoided.

That goes against every advice I've ever heard for traveling developing countries. It's usually "yes, even for brushing your teeth, use bottled water!".
At this point most US vehicles use R134. Most R12 cars have been converted as once these things tend to leak, your ripe for a compressor rebuild, flush, oil swap, etc.
I am sorry but I strongly disagree with most comments here.
I do a lot of things potentially extremely dangerous, like burning wood with a microwave, or driving a motorcycle, or playing with hydrogen and oxygen in stoichiometric ratio, I tried to melt a wrench with a 12V battery, and all that makes me a better engineer and a better person, more aware of the weakness of flesh and how reality is scary and how it dont care about our stupid meaty body.

I feel I see a lot of class contempt here, "those stupid people dont know that it's dangerous, they should stick with devices conceived by us. We educated people put stupid warning labels on it just for them". Of course, those poor soul should have been more aware of the danger, but censuring those video, or forbidding them to play with microwave, is that really what we want ? Anybody should be aware about the basic physics, that's the real problem here. I dont want to see moral video "dont do that because it's wrong", I would more video like "look at that how dangerous it is, and also, how cool is that".

About electroboom, I am the only one to think that being zapped again and again does a really poor job at passing the message "electricity is dangerous and can kill you"? If some people dont understand the dangerousity of electricity, maybe they just learnt from electroboom.
I much prefer the channel "diode gone wild".
Frankly, if they are willing to employ me, treat me professionally, and pay me fairly…I honestly don’t care what social causes my organization chooses to support.

I suspect that there are not too many companies out there that really diverge too far off of the pretty middle of the road social cause paths anyway.
Like a disease? Or a meme? An arbitrary custom?
> Supported by Eli Lilly.

I haven’t heard of that company here in Europe before, but it looks like they have an interesting track record. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lilly_and_Company#Controve...
Could this backfire - similarly to how publicly traded companies' CEOs disclosing their pay caused their pay to skyrocket?
> Near UV isn't, but the photons still carry considerable energy to push chemical reactions over the edge.

In my opinion (I am an amateur biologist) there is no need to deploy considerable energy to mess things at the cell scale: Most interactions there occur because of thermal noise.

Furthermore most protein interactions depend how they are folded which involves different fields, including Van der Waals forces. Van der Waals forces carry an energy of 4 to 40 meV per bond which is in infrared range.

So even infrared can mess up the internal working of cells. It could be that even lower frequencies also have a biological effect:

(Non-thermal effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417565/

Yet cells have many "quality control" mechanisms so usually the is no permanent damage.

But infrared exposure could bring benefits to cells also.
Consider this. Yesterday, Pres Biden said unemployment was at historic lows, and the US economy was extremely strong. Nothing to worry about. So... is he lying? Or stupid?

If CEOs believe his words and push forward accordingly, but the actual open market and business environment signal the opposite, what do you do?
If you believe the market and business environment, start cost cutting measures and implement austerity protocols, the community vilifies you.
If you continue business as usual, but market demand tanks, costs skyrocket, and product accumulates on shelves and loading docks, you'll go out of business.
> “..what about the genius who has the capacity to change the world but doesn’t, owing to a lack of either volition or opportunity?”

This scares me because I see how frequently people are dismissive instead of inquisitive in online threads and it illustrates how someone who didn’t feel like arguing would just remain silent.
Does anyone know whether they will be compatible with iOS?
Hello World
This is my first post
Isn't first come first served already the default?

Which leads to scalpers trying to buy out brand names ahead of the corporations so they'll be offered money for them later?
Really? to me hn leans extremely conservative. There was even a twitter account called shithnsays that had, many a quote from the community.
Sensitivity really is the problem. Sometimes people mock me for drinking instant coffee. Instead of letting that hurt my feelings, I laugh in their face and ask if they're volunteering to make coffee for me.
Some light googling led me to the brewery in question. On their About page, it would appear the answer is a no. They didn't know who the GG grandfather was until they randomly saw his name on a building, and then decided to name a beer after him.
> First-hand, what I've seen happen is that your most talented people, who are the most in demand, leave the organization quite quickly

True. The first time I came across this effect was reading the book about the IBM disaster: Big Blues https://www.amazon.com/Big-Blues-Unmaking-Paul-Carroll/dp/05...

After twenty years working in the field, my conclusion on this is: the good worker for the people in power is irrelevant. They want to get rid of anyone and that's it.
Most car companies don't "continue to improve" their software and that's probably what will happen here - they'll just stop updating those head units and leave them behind.
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What is this part about a "pathological American dislike of everything associated with feet"?

I've lived here my whole life and never heard of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Butylthiol - Because propane is delivered as a liquid and vaporizes to gas when it is delivered to the appliance, the vapor liquid equilibrium would substantially reduce the amount of odorant blend in the vapor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanethiol is used for propane (usually) but for the small amounts in a recirculating setup they may skip it.
No need for a bridge, I have signal processing products with my name on them, thanks. I'm familiar enough with the field to know how such things work.

An active multi-peer beamformer uses a single transciever complex using mathematical signal processing to transcieve multiple data channels to peers in parallel.

Some types of phased array antenna offer multiple focus points at the same time, but the electrical signals must pass through a transceiver complex for the different components to be combined and separated mathematically. In simplified terms, matrix multiplication is used to transform between parallel data channels and parellel antenna components; then the antenna geometry focuses them approximately into parallel beams.

It's not a transceiver per peer, but it behaves a bit like one for the set of focused peers at each time slot. Spatial separation by this method increases aggregate bandwidth, and therefore increases individual peer bandwidth when there is congestion.
>I'd go one step further: most of the people responding are probably not jerks or assholes, just people sharing their own opinions in a playfully exaggerated way which, when done in person and accompanied by grins or laughter rarely causes offense. "You like THAT movie?! That movie is the WORST! I've lost all respect for you!" They have no way of knowing that the author of the original tweet is expressing something that has real significance to them.

You may well be correct -- in fact, I'd say you certainly are for some folks.

That said, given the ubiquity of Poe's Law[0], it's an iffy proposition to engage in irony/satire/sarcasm in text-only forums.

That's a sad truth about online discourse. And it pains me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Quartz isn't durable enough for hypersonic IR windows in dense atmosphere. When tested decades ago, actively-cooled sapphire, diamond, and even more durable exotics ablated too quickly for that purpose. I don't know what they are using today but the inability to find an IR transparent material that could survive long enough was a central design problem. This can be seen in the odd compromises made to the seeker design of e.g. THAAD, which doesn't spend much time in the lower atmosphere.
It isn't true, almost everyone is concerned about privacy: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-an...

I'm sorry I'm not accusing you specifically, it's just very aggravating to hear people proclaim how ignorant "the public" is and how only they are wise enough to understand the real issues.
Nobody chooses to earns a 5% profit margin if they can earn 6%. Low single digits is objectively a low profit margin, for any business, and so must indicate that competitors exist Who prevent charging higher prices to increase the profit margins.
Why is it a problem for the car company if some guy named Nissan has a website? They can simply choose a different domain.