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No way, 51nb wouldn't have done the X62 if we were alone.

Don't get my hopes up for a return of the X40/X60 form factor

It's not like we don't embellish and overbuild high priority state of the art facilities today.

A well back then may have been quite a proud and precious thing you point your best builders at, considering it was the life source for the area village/farms.

> then that implies that about 99.9% of the US military budget -- and the entire known fleet -- is essentially a massive disinformation campaign

Except that's not how the world works.

We have peace for as long as there's a balance of powers in this MAD nuclear stalemate we find ourselves in.

If you've got secret goodies in the shed that completely disrupt the balance, you don't realize them until it's absolutely necessary. It's not a massive disinformation campaign, it's about operating at scale on a level appropriate for the circumstances.

China and Russia have been doing a lot of saber rattling and projecting new technologies that threaten to disrupt the balance, so I don't think it's too surprising that the US is responding with escalating propaganda of its own.

The big question is are these UFOs demonstrating real capabilities or is it just fabricated FUD propaganda.

We'll always have something better in the shed, otherwise we're obsolete.

The fediverse seems like a good start. Wikileaks should host their own instances of mastodon/diaspora etc, and we should stop participating in these centralized commercial enclaves expecting them to prioritize respecting and protecting our free speech on their web sites.

> He was a gentle, troubled spirit that said the Gamer Word. Did he ever hurt or wrong anybody on racially motivated grounds? He jumped in front of a train after getting shadowbanned on Hacker News. Maybe you're the bad guy.

He live-streamed using racial epithets against people of said race in public.

If you think shadowbanning on HN is why Terry committed suicide, you weren't paying attention.

He didn't jump in front of the train, he sat on the tracks and waited patiently with his back to it (there's video).

What happened to Terry is a textbook example of why vulnerable people need to be supervised on the internet.

Trolls posing as his fans had miniature drums sent to him while still living with his elderly parents, playing a significant part in his eventually becoming homeless.

They spoofed fake love letters from an internet-famous woman he was clearly obsessed with to anyone watching his live-streams, who would then of course completely ignore his advances.

Basically trolls actively messed with Terry, watching the consequences in real-time on his live-streams, as if it were a video game. Steadily pushing him further down a spiral of self-destruction, culminating in taking his own life.

I'm saddened by what happened to Terry, and am confident he'd still be among the living had he never discovered YouTube. Live-streaming his daily life was his undoing.

> One notable example of this in our industry is Terry, who built TempleOS.

Was Terry, he committed suicide while homeless in August 2018, after being horribly antagonized and manipulated by the likes of 4chan and other internet trolls.

> very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it

Terry Davis, the late schizophrenic author of TempleOS, had a number of racist rants and other bigoted and hate-filled videos on YouTube.

If you buy physical gold, how does one go about converting that back into liquid cash without getting fleeced? Where do you sell it? I don't get the impression that pawn shops or jewelers pay fair amounts... what am I missing?

When people recommend buying gold, do they literally mean purchasing gold bars/coins and sticking them in a safe?

No worries, I was just curious to read about it.

That's pretty smart, using de-tuned aviation engines.

But unlike what WalterBright is describing, these were appropriately reconfigured to not require high-octane fuel.

I couldn't find mention of anything else aviation-related in the per-tank pages, and the Maybach WWII engines page [0] doesn't speak to it either.

Do you have any good references we can check out?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WWII_Maybach_engines

> In WW2 the Germans fitted aircraft engines to their tanks, which worked great when the engines ran, but too often they didn't due to battlefield conditions. (Germany was also terribly short of avgas, which crippled those tanks.)

This sounded interesting so I skimmed the tanks mentioned in [0] and only found mention of prototypes exploring use of a turboshaft engine [1] from [2]. [1] explicitly states "none of these was fitted operationally", so I don't get the impression that these ever even encountered battlefield conditions before Panther II was canceled.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tanks_in_World_War_II

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT_101

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_II_tank#Engine

There's plenty of reporting to be found if you just search "munich linux".

From the end of [0]:

> At the time Munich began the move to LiMux in 2004, it was one of the largest organizations to reject Windows, and Microsoft took the city's leaving so seriously that its then CEO Steve Ballmer flew to Munich, but the mayor at the time, Christian Ude, stood firm.

> More recently, Microsoft last year moved its German company headquarters to Munich.

[0] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-in-munich-no-comp...

Munich successfully pivoted to Linux for over a decade, then Microsoft Germany moved their HQ to Munich no doubt greasing many wheels in the process and Munich switched back to Windows a year later IIRC.

> this is not just a write-where, this is a full guest-to-host write-what-where

Ouch.

> I was under the impression the bundle of insurer and healthcare provider would avoid these issues.

It gets worse, bundling those two is the epitome of conflict of interests when you find yourself the victim of the hospital's negligence and expect your insurer to act in your best interest.

Nope!

I had loaded that page and didn't see one, I guess it must require javascript.

Strange for that wikipedia page to not contain a single graphic representation of what's being described.

I emailed pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org FWIW

> Debian Sid has Diaspora: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/diaspora , but Diaspora doesn't support ActivityPub: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7422#issuecommen....

For posterity sake:

I just spent an hour trying to get that package happily installed in a fresh debian sid debootstrap running in nspawn and it seems to be broken. They're requiring an old 1.2.x ruby-zip version, and sid seems to only have 2.0. Even after kludging past that, things break down again on unmet sass version requirements.

So true to the 'unstable' name, this package isn't currently usable.

Yikes, do you know of any activitypub-compatible implementations actually packaged by distros? gnu social perhaps? diaspora?

I checked out Pleroma after seeing it mentioned on that freshports mastodon page, which seemed a bit less onerous with just the OTP component but they don't distribute an i686 build, that's unfortunately what the dusty old colo I'm looking to run this on has.

It appears "Installing from source" is the only option?

Are there no distributions packaging mastodon and its dependencies such that I don't need to have gcc/build-essential and piles of -dev packages installed to run it?

Can anyone recommend a good and current guide on setting up and maintaining your own mastodon instance?

The linux kernel has been run on "big iron" for a long time now, it would be surprising if it weren't better prepared for scaling to 128+ cores.

linux/Documentation/vm/numa.rst states it was started in 1999, was windows going anywhere near NUMA architectures back then?

Cuddling? Lots of mammals do it, and in my experience it's a very comforting and bond-reinforcing activity. It doesn't feel awkward and forced at all to me, unless with the wrong people, which strikes me as a desirable feature.

With you 100%

I chalked it up to growing up in a household where intimacy wasn't on display at all, there was barely ever any hugging even. My parents kept all displays of physical affection behind closed doors.

Sex is fun, but all the other stuff feels completely awkward and unnatural to me.

Were you raised in an environment where adults kissed often?

In some sense e-readers are an advantage, since it's less easily spoofed; instead you have to discuss the content of books with them, rather than be impressed by their collection of potentially unread paper lining the shelves.

It doesn't seem difficult to avg +1% per month doing relatively basic trading in my experience.

The challenge I have is remembering to actually care about it and do the trades, life gets too busy and before I realize it a month has gone by.

But whenever I'm on top of it, 1% gains have been very easy over the past decade, I'm rarely in the market for more than a few hours. But I risk having a pile of cash to trade with I suppose, the dollar could crash.

If you do +1% per month you're already +12%/yr, I consider 12%/yr the minimum acceptable yield for any kind of investment given how easy it seems to be to DIY.