I wonder if turbulence would make it more fun or a complete clusterfuck.

Just had this mental image of a combat swimmer that crawled out of the sewer arguing with Rambo who got through the ventilation if that statue is southern or northern Macedonian style and what period.

Hm, I’m currently working on a project with a ton of runtime-configurable plug-ins and dependencies between them. All of that is held together with a copious amount of black QMetaObject magic. I had the same thought about it, but I’m not sure how you’d get similar functionality without reflection and not making it even more convoluted and fragile…

Would make a good movie too, with a giant Spiderman points at Spiderman scene where a bunch of dudes from different nations with a tenuous grasp about what exactly they are supposed to recover have a hushed standoff to figure it out before security shows up

Glances nervously at the recent Bavarian election result

No, it either does proton-proton collisions or heavy ions, both regular matter. At TeV energies the added energy from anihalating matter with antimatter isn’t that much of a contribution anymore that it would justify the added complexity.

Its predecessor collided positrons with electrons though. But the LEP was more for precise refinement of known interactions and not so much about reaching the highest possible energies.

OK, cool now teach your family that calls their web browser “The internet” enough computer science to adequately understand and audit this proposed open system and convince themselves that their votes are counted in a fair, verifiable and secret manner. Also that the implementation does not have obvious side channels and what is actually running is built from the published source code.

Like, If I was part of some shady powerful elite I’d love a fully automated setup. Most people will not be able to check the system deeper than “phone displays green check mark” without an unreasonable time investment.

On the other hand, “room full of people opens box full of papers and counts them while verifying each other” is intuitive enough for almost anyone to grasp and gain confidence in.

Are you a zombie?

In the same boat. and recently of all the issues that could pop up, Teams has decided to become a buggy mess. Their own software on their own OS just stops working after just one year of using the machine.

Not to speak of all the other slowdowns and child-diseases that the thing has developed.

Meanwhile my desktop install of Linux is nearing its 10th birthday, has all sorts of legacy configs that I never bothered to clean up, has moved drives 3 times and to a different filesystem+partitioning scheme, changed bootloader… Yet still is way less of a pain than Windows at work.

Apart from the other points that have been raised: basically every recent report about Ukrainian troops has gotten a bit in it along the lines of “they’re exhausted and have taken heavy losses, but are in good spirits and willing to fight on”.

Especially if you read what individual soldiers are saying, I get the feeling that this war would not end, even if support to Ukraine where to vanish completely (good luck convincing Poland, the Baltics and Nordics). You’d just get Afghanistan, but the invaders are openly genocidal and don’t give a fuck about civilians at the best of times.

Salamitaktik würde ich auch den USA (siehe z.B. F-16, aber vor allem gemessen an deren Möglichkeiten) und Frankreich unterstellen, evtl. weniger UK. Polen und die baltischen Staaten haben von Anfang an rausgehauen was geht.

Die Art und Menge der Lieferungen orientieren sich halt nicht daran die Ukraine proaktiv die Werkzeuge in die Hand zu geben die sie brauchen um zu gewinnen, sondern lösen nur die akuten und bestehenden Probleme.

Ist irgendwie enttäuschend zu sehen dass wir immer noch diese Salamitaktik fahren und die Ukraine um jedes Waffensystem feilschen muss.

Hat sich jetzt ja wirklich zigfach rausgestellt dass Russland nichts mehr zu eskalieren traut außer mehr Terrorangriffen gegen Zivilisten. Aber ein Teil scheint ja immer noch zu glauben dass man es mit irgendwelchen Verhandlungen beenden kann. Egal wie barbarisch sich Russland aufführt, wie sehr sie auf einen Vertrag scheißen würden ohne entscheidend besiegt zu werden und wie wild entschlossen die Ukraine ist den Konflikt nicht noch einmal einzufrieren.

Der schnellste und imo der einzige Weg den Krieg zu beenden der unseren Werten gerecht wird, ist dafür zu sorgen dass die Ukraine ihn so schnell es geht gewinnen kann.

Macht das “Ideologie!!”-Geschrei von Söder, Afd und Co eigentlich ziemlich lächerlich wenn man mal drüber nachdenkt wie schnell sowohl die Partei als anscheinend auch die Wähler:innen in der letzten Zeit ihre Meinung an neue Situationen angepasst haben. Ob man diese Flexibilität jetzt gut oder schlecht findet ist es echt frustrierend dass der Ideologie-Holzhammer zum Teil trotzdem funktioniert.

Tu es du Feigling!

Weiß jetzt nicht ob das so ein komplett anderes Problem als heizen ist. Wenn man ein Gebäude gut dämmt oder ne lüftungsanlage mit Wärmetauscher einbaut hilft das ja in beide Richtungen…

The recent war on food would be exactly how I’d expect Nestlé to act if they acquired cruise missles.

Oh, it’s Wunderwaffenzeit. Maybe we can interest them in some battleships on tracks, intercontinental artillery, bomber Blimps or an iceberg-aircraft-carrier (it’s still going to catch fire somehow).

We have credible intelligence that an individual named “Ben Shapiro” is the head of the terrorist group known as “Facts and logic”. I have therefore authorized an air strike on his assumed location to address this grave threat to national security.

At the very least, make it clear that whatever looks at civilian ships funny or thinks about firing missiles at the ports will have a prompt smoking accident

Just following orders right? The 100% completion run in warcrimes is surely just the fault of a small minority. The population and most of the army are the real victims.

Wait, where have I heard that one before…