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First person to ask for more parenthesis in Lisp.

For World War 2 we relied on the British to name things (The US produced the M4 Medium Tank, the Brits called it the "Sherman"). The theory was they were government designed and (at least theoretically) produced by many companies.

I believe the Cold War names mostly came from US contractors- the government defined requirements ("air superiority fighter") and the contractors came up with designs that then had to be marketed against each other so they were given cool names ("Fighting Falcon").

Now there has been a lot of consolidation of contractors, and budgets are much more constrained. You no longer have the DoD funding competing designs and selecting, but a situation closer to early WW2 where the government is closer to the design.

At least that's my 5 minute guess, probably lots of 'citation needed' to be done.

Another notable Norwegian rocket launch:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-russian-radar...

The Eagles did- one of their players has a rugby background.

Do I have to be the old guy that brings up Clutch Cargo?

https://youtu.be/J8P3vZo-0Hc?t=169

Keep waiting, the dystopian cyberpunk future I was promised in my childhood is finally arriving...

You should look into the Artemis Spaceship Simulator: https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/ (also on Steam)

While not nearly as extensive as what's in the article, it's a first step achievable with a small group of friends.

In the US, Methodist is a relatively middle-of-the-road denomination, not nearly as dreary as I've seen UK Methodists described.

When your kids are older there's "Phineas and Ferb" and "Gravity Falls" which are both good enough to be watched without kids.

Warner's a relic of a different time, unfortunately.

You do realize PARC and Bell Labs are long gone, right?

Anyone who has a clearance has signed numerous statements acknowledging their personal responsibility to protect the information in their care. If you want access, follow the procedures, then that responsibility is fulfilled. And if DOGE posts whatever to some unsecured S3 bucket its on them, not the bureaucrat (well, let's be real, contractor) who let them in.

Not really, whoever allows access could be prosecuted for failing any of a number of laws and regs for just rolling over so it would come down to a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. The proper way to do it would be to work through both the organization's chain of command and send clearances through the security chain. Maybe that's being followed, but given the stories and timelines, I doubt it- Musk's war boys wouldn't even have time to obtain a clearance from scratch 3 weeks into the administration.

Clearance does not allow indiscriminate access, it just means you are theoretically trustable. You still need a reason to access the data, usually negotiated with the data owners, who is legally responsible for protecting the data. DOGE has bypassed all of that to just hoover up whatever they can.

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Neal Stephenson fans are already heading to the salt mines.

He means NRO- the US would miss a nuclear center being built in Iran or where ever because all the NRO left to be SpaceX minions.

We are for the big.

Satellites go in circles and need to point at things.

No they cannot, unless maybe you have advanced degrees and a couple decades experience.

> Another major DoD challenge is that outside of the IT field, the DoD asks for industrial competency and competitiveness that frankly the overall US industrial base looks to barely be able to meet. And so not only is it inflicted by vendors acting like dicks, they're inflicted by incompetent vendors acting like dicks.

And inside the IT field it's even worse.

Nearly every contract award is challenged. Even if the challenge is not protracted, preparing for the inevitable challenge makes the whole process so expensive that it severely impacts the number and size of contracts an agency is able to pursue.

> too many graduates from certain social sciences and humanities compared to the actual need of employers / academia.

The natural employer of the social sciences grad is the government- social workers, city planners, etc. This type of government funding has been under attack at all levels of government since the 80's. We don't see any benefit to, say, sociology, because we've bought the idea that those benefits only go to those that don't 'deserve' them, and are paid for by taking what I've 'earned'.

You don't pair for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Don't overthink painting figures too much- it's the type of hobby where you start off with a few paints and some cheap brushes, then go through a journeyman phase of tons of specialized paints, brushes, tools, etc, then run into a real master who uses a few paints and some cheap brushes.

Basically, just start by trying to get color onto the right part of the figure, then watch some videos on how to use shades and highlights to add depth and texture. Play with the different techniques, buy some specific brushes or tools to make those techniques easier or more consistent, ditch the techniques that don't seem to work for you.

Look for 'Sonic Sledgehammer' on youtube for a good way to start, at least for Warhammer sized figures. His focus is for people who need to paint a bunch of figures in something of a hurry, but that means you can get a decent looking individual figure in an evening, which is encouraging. He'll usually call out optional extra steps to add more depth or detail, which gives you a good idea of how more advanced techniques work when you're ready.

Special ed is expensive because it's things like 'this student needs a full time aid'. The only way to decrease it is to basically abandon those children.

Ahhhh Colorado, blue state tastes with a red state budget.

Amazon's solutions to 1% problems are the next batch of cargo cult corporate solution speak that we're going to have to deal with. How can we have a web scale agile big data devops monorepo machine learning microservice oriented architecture if we're limited by TCP? I mean, it was developed in the 70s...

You've just described half the charter schools around here.

She called for admin backup, which reacted pretty quickly, but they basically just calm him down and return him to class. And of course the screaming happened after a series of de-escalation attempts by her, which often works, but not always. He is non-neurotypical, mostly ahead of the class academically (though there are gaps), but very behind emotionally. He is the 'worst behaved' in her grade level, but every class has at least one that is liable to 'go off' as it were. It is in no way fair to the rest of the class, but while the state we live in likes to act blue, when it comes to paying for social services it's pretty red. And this is in a state with school choice, so don't think that necessarily helps either...