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This +10 (if I could). Whether you really enjoy a bit of mentoring, are just trying to be a nice old man, or it's officially part of your job, you have to be picky about who you mentor, and what…

Same as the pry-bar found under the back seat of the burglary suspect's car, eh?

Oh, yes. Think of what happens to the clear "white" of an egg (proteins + water) when you heat it up. Which clear parts of your eyeballs (also proteins + water) would you be okay with that h…

Back in WWII, the U.S.'s Sherman tanks were somewhat infamously vulnerable to late-war German anti-tank weapons (and the German tanks' main guns). But soldier casualty rates were far, far h…

Properly employed, tanks are a weapon of fast movement, maneuver, and rapid exploitation of breakthroughs. German commanders spent most of the Battle of France (1940) in a semi-panic over how many ta…

Having your own tanks matters far more against a competent adversary, or when you want to mount your own offensive - one that goes a substantial distance, at decent speed.

tl;dr - A rather zealous call for "ASAP" escalation of near-direct US / Western involvement in Ukraine, by a recently-retired U.S.Army 3-star general. He sounds well informed about the…

Early in a new President's first term, "I promised over and over to do X while I was running for President, and the American People very clearly voted for that" is d*mn good political c…

THIS. "Does Not Actually Work In The Real World" (no matter what Hollywood, or your own imagination or seething emotions might say on the subject) is a 100%-All-Cases-Covered "NO"…

No reason it shouldn't...and say so right up front - "Our fine citizens wanted a new playground in this neighborhood, so the City spending $playground_cost and building one for them!"…

My sense is that a large fraction of the population has a deep emotional need for "manly men" sports teams which they can easily identify with (whether local professional teams, teams at the…

My cynical bet - the victims (aka Ukrainians) look (in popular press photos & video) similar enough to "white" Americans to really push the emotional buttons.

Given the relative costs of long-distance shipping via ocean freighter, vs. railroad - especially when the land under the proposed railroad is not flat, warm, nor dry - it seems reasonable to file t…

> What will it take to destroy the Ads market? Sadly, it's looking like "WWIII, or Asteroid Dino-Doom v2.0".

tl;dr - The story is about the Global Press Journal. They noticed that the word "ethnic" was almost always a red flag for "we don't really know, or care, and can't be bothere…

I wonder how much the insurance companies could do on this (legally, politically, and practically). They've got real skin in the game, and far less incentive to listen to lobbyists or condo owne…

Rough answer - processes which are good for recycling the "spent" fuel back into "fresh" reactor fuel...those processes are also good for recycling "spent" fuel into nucl…

Consider the vastly larger quantities of naturally-occurring arsenic, lead, mercury, etc. in the world, and how - in spite of our seeming efforts to expose billions of people to them in their most d…

With enough mistakes, why would anyone bother to install a back door? That costs money, and reduces deniability.

> Strategic goal is collapse of Russian's economy. Ah. Is that the (sole) strategic goal , or is that a tactical threat - which many people believe useful for "improving" the situa…

's/so long as Israel is a strong western ally/so long as being "insufficiently pro-Israel" makes it difficult to gain or retain elective office in most Western democracies…

Generically, yes. (So - ignoring details of Thawte's legal situation, etc.) Sanctions, supporting Ukraine in various ways, etc. should be intelligently used tools, with an informed, competent,…

Doing a quick compare with the 12.1 Release notes - https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes/ - I will speculate that the 13.1 Release Notes are not a finished d…

An expensive game of pretend, while it lasts. TBD whether the end will be some real nation running out of patience with their antics, or a hurricane sweeping over the tiny (1.2 acre) island, or some …

> Through a series of steep escalations, the case had passed to officers from counter-terrorism command... Skimming through the article - the police agencies, justice system, etc. poured an utterly…

If Hollywood's use of deepfake Luke Skywalkers gives "more truth-oriented" folks a good-enough awareness of the technology, and fact-free stuff like the Pizzagate conspiracy is good eno…

> I have used those before, and yet I still had those characters appear in data... Oh, yes - which is why I emphasized "is". But ASCII text is easy to test for, which lets you fast-tra…

If you don't already have parquet deployed, there's a wide gulf (in skill set, overhead, etc.) between CSV and parquet. If you don't mind being old-school, the data is ASCII text, and…

Attackers with the resources and patience to read and deeply analyze all the commits, over time... those guys were fairly likely to notice the bug back when it was introduced. Plain vs. obscure comme…