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U.S. anti-submarine doctrine for surface vessels is pretty much just “run away”, that’s how dangerous subs are, so that’s why U.S. CSGs often include an attack submarine escort.
The subject is “people”. Parent is suggesting that the equilibrium point of housing supply and demand naturally leaves some people unhoused.
Re:Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @02:23PM (#47237477)
Maybe they work for Apple
You may be surprised how cavalier some people are about their clearance.
Re:Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025) on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:34AM (#46688613)
I HATE the oily squares on my MacBook Air screen. I think the real issue is that there is zero space between the screen and the keyboard when the laptop is closed. I’ve started keeping a piece of printer paper between the screen and keyboard whenever I close it, and that helps but it’s annoying to have to do. So much so that I looked into getting a MBP but they have the same problem.
> Just how stupid do you think lawmakers, judges, prosecutors, and police are?

Quite often pretty stupid, honestly. Or careless, ignorant, jaded, corrupt, etc etc

Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes on Sunday September 14, 2025 @06:59PM (#45244149)
Which recipe are you following? I found a few, including one on the Neiman Marcus website, but none had pecan flour and only one had walnuts.
The company should pay for that phone
Re:Return to Office Is a Mistake on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:18AM (#39775371)
Maybe it’s way way way way more profitable because they got rid of cubicles
Re:Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:46AM (#37828588)
Yep!
Re:Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains on Sunday October 08, 2023 @12:52PM (#37812162)
I recently took the train in Poland from Warsaw to Krakow and Krakow to Vienna and they never checked my ID.
I enjoy talking to people about things that aren’t sports, celebrities, or the latest popular show to binge
I put tape on mine
love to see bing ai getting memed already
Re:Does Glass Break Faster Than a Bullet? on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:44PM (#34021643)
So we should make body armor out of Prince Rupert drops?
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
Re:How did NPR’s pre-election poll get things so so so wrong? on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:53AM (#33549364)
I live in California and it’s the same with the parties switched.
Re:Charts.css: CSS data visualization framework on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:57AM (#33393648)
Since when is JS [statistically significantly] not available? Even screen readers interpret DOM updates (though graphs are no good for blind people anyway).
Re:Japan WWII poison gas agents still scarring people today on Monday October 03, 2022 @06:12PM (#33074419)
> crazy to me how long these just sat without any real work

You must not be very familiar with the speed of government work.

Re:Jagua fruit makes tattoos, antibiotics, and dessert on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:50PM (#33060647)
All I could relate to out of that was “coffee” and “gardenia”. There are experts on every subject - the depth of human knowledge is awesome!
Re:Winamp 5.9 on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:50AM (#32779952)
Maybe azure is actually millions of idle windows machines instead of datacenters.
You don’t actually need to know most of a college curriculum to perform well in most jobs. For a lot of jobs the degree is just to get hired, or even just to get an interview. I think that is the problem.

For example, a doctor doesn’t need to know history very well to be a good doctor. Yet it’s probably part of the undergrad curriculum. So cheating on the test has no consequences if they don’t get caught.

Additionally a lot of jobs are really taught via OJT, and whatever was learned from a degree is mostly unused.

Connectivity is limited due to bandwidth prioritization for ship systems as well as OPSEC.
You could just not bring your phone. I would still feel disconnected without any civilization around.
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:56PM (#32599837)
Email tracking is just done through image downloads right? So if images are blocked by default then tracking isn’t possible? Image blocking is easy enough to do.
Re:Dublin Whiskey Fire on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:36AM (#32519062)
That hog needs to see a dermatologist.
True but that works better when the lynchees get to vote with the same ease as the lynchers.
> have their own category

Like adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, or any other of many word categories?

They are normal words understood by everybody, if not used by everybody, unlike your medical jargon.

First company that needs to be broken up?? What about all the other monopolies that were busted?
I think it’s not efficiency of getting a product to a customer that Amazon has squashed, rather the efficiency of innovation that comes with competition.

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