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fredthestair··on How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming
If a drone is 90% reflective it doesn't need a weapon besides your laser.. (If the star wars approach weren't a scam to enter an ever more expensive race as the side with more money than sense.)
fredthestair··on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
Giving E-ink Corporation most of the profit via that 25$ screen is too much risk to make back on users who actually sign up to your store and buy books vs ones that put the gift in the closet, clearance models, losing to a more popular store, etc.
fredthestair··on How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming
It's extremely easy to make surfaces partly reflective and extremely hard to make lasers outside of labs more powerful.
fredthestair··on Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
Snowflake sounds like nominative determinism. I was just looking at this thing today, totally puzzled as to how to update it and postgres itself without rolling dice that it destroys everything on the cluster that uses postgres. Perhaps someone with k8s experience could explain to me why CRDs are not Singleton hell? The LLMs just run me in circles..
fredthestair··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
Maybe there's a nicer way to hear the joke is on you.. But the US has to get it s together and start checking Presidential power if it doesn't take joy in feeding Putin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeclared_war

fredthestair··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
I think Putin takes joy in getting called out for this kind of hypocrisy. He copies US corruption like letting the President exceed his authority in a "special military operation" and then points at the bias.

It's not like he needed this bypass on a check on his power. He has done it to insult the US.

fredthestair··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
Right the attack Milo Minderbinder sells in 2 quarters will look just different enough to not exactly be the same thing happening again.
fredthestair··on Root shell on a credit card terminal
From the description it sounded like the linux side may play some role in tamper event handling, but hopefully it can just also see it has occurred, otherwise getting a root shell first may lead to an opportunity to prevent the tamper event from clearing security keys.
fredthestair··on It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Rides Surpassed
The hyperbole of the title is the point I think. It actually does make me cynical like Waymo could fart and the US cheer leading machine would go into action.. How is WeRide doing and why are they faking that they are a California company?
fredthestair··on It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Rides Surpassed
I stopped using Apple stuff in any capacity because of their regioning of accounts a long time ago, so it being unique to them wouldn't surprise me.