[Ten] days of Christmas

today I will remind them

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@eigenrobot Since the development of laser-guided bombs, the actual sinking of ships has been an afterthought

Primary design goal is now "disable warship such that aircraft have total freedom to attack"

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@DavidPe51482177 @heatloss1986 No source, but yes, almost certainly.

Improving aerodynamics of a bomb requires better understanding.

Better understanding leads to better modeling, which ought to lead to better flight computer accuracy.

Also low drag bombs -> shorter flight time -> less windage error

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@RSE_VB And boy did they consider it. Look what this ex-Sov titled his retrospective on the topic

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@BarneyFlames At least 1-2pp of that shift is due to stay at home dads

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@headwaysmatter Wrong!

The admission of affirmitive action dullards is the university comitting to ideology over academics, and you will find yourself crossways when you try to override that.

"It's so easy to tear down the king's posters, they're only paper!"

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@__CJohnston__ Laser designated by ground team?

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@big_cheddars @ToonHive Buadrillard talks about this, the order of simulacra

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@RobProvince I know a good number of Midwest middle class people whose grandparents used to have a lake shack of some kind

I suspect the cheap RV has replaced this for most of them

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@JimDMiller @AnthropologisTL @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv And then that oh so efficient researcher wastes 6 weeks and $250k because they trusted someone else's published bullshit

Rot in the wall is EVERYONE's problem

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A lotta words to say "we didn't hold the line"

[James Miller @JimDMiller]

I've gotten a lot of comments like this, so forgive me if this isn't very kind, but I'm at my limit. If you're a serious academic, you've spent a lot of time looking at citations, and you know they often contain errors. You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible. Given that this is going on, it's kind of silly to think that we should have a kind of death penalty for having an LLM, hallucination mistake What you're doing is virtue signaling and pretending that citations are somehow sacred to what academics do, when in fact they're mostly just poorly put up window dressing. You're being dishonest. Perhaps with yourself, perhaps with me.

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I was at the library yesterday, searching the catalog: Thucidydes

"Re-imagining Thucidydes"

"What the Ancients Never Knew"

"Greek History Through Women's Perspec-"

but no Thucidydes

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

average library experience: hey, looking for a book about a bear for my daughter, she’s 2. “we have narcan”. uh no just need a book about a bear. “we have a book about depression”. anything with a bear. “stinky toilet monster?” any bear. “uhh well heres bears first depression”

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

average library experience: hey, looking for a book about a bear for my daughter, she’s 2. “we have narcan”. uh no just need a book about a bear. “we have a book about depression”. anything with a bear. “stinky toilet monster?” any bear. “uhh well heres bears first depression”

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@MartovsRegrets @BowTiedNiners Countries

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@LoganDobson To get the story without clicking, you gotta inhabit the mind of the journo, picture what they *really* want to write ("data center leads to 12% jump"), and ask whether they wrote exactly that.

Here, instead of "X led to Y", they did "X; also Y" which is more legally defensible

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@NotWoofers I am suddenly less bullish on 30mm AAA solving this problem

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@KPasshole @the_engi_nerd If it is designed properly, you are accelerating through a cloud of free particles, each with very small inertia so they get brushed aside

Part of me wonders if the plane uses the altimeter to put an extra 50 or 100ms delay in for ejections with more margin

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@planefag @HalfBreedHombre @Unixsystem13 Yeah but there's a reason the Supreme Court hasn't affirmed a fighting words conviction since 1951

Not good to have a doctrine that gives a free speech veto specifically to the lowest impulse control person

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@Kittycel66 Also we'd broken their diplomatic codes, and so could read privileged comms between their leadership. So we knew full well how many were in ot to the bitterest end

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@Ijustwannaloo13 @brollbenny @hoooligan1371 It's not uncommon. You'll see a lot of euro border guards with empty chambers and white tape behind the bolt handle. It's just an extra layer of assurance for roles that will likely have >10sec of warning

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@Spelljammer04 @foolserrund @peterrhague I think the relative sizes of the planets on the plotting table and the amount of buildup around firing the thing communicate quite clearly that blasting through was not an option

Unlike a giant star destroyer choosing not to fire on an enemy capital ship in clear view