That is fun to know!

With regards to why the culture hasn't changed. To be honest nuclear power is really safe. We used to play little thought experiments on the boat about how we would get a meltdown to happen and it's hard

It goes beyond safety systems and automatic protective actions. The design of the cores themselves makes it so you have to jury rig a situation where you get prompt criticality (reactor criticality due entirely to prompt neutrons vice delayed+prompt; very very bad). Frankly operators are there for regulatory reasons; nuclear operations are so safe and formulaic you could run a 1GW plant with ~3 people total given all the available automations.

So why change the culture? The program has literally never had an incident in 70 years of operation. Not one fission product release in close to a century. We have no blood to write rules in.

You don't want to know about the number of times a fast recovery has been done asleep or a full plant startup is done by an RO who is actively blackout drunk.

We all have, at least, one of those stories.

Yeah that's... Not how the Navy does things.

Sleep deprivation is the norm across the Navy, particularly in the engineering community and particularly in nuclear engineering.

I would commonly go 36 hours without sleep, generally a few times a month. People keep this up for decades.

Oh come on we know how this works. Age verification is a prelude to digital ID and that "totally optional user field" is a prelude to something not optional. The current incarnation of that PR is optional and user controlled but it leaves us open to more and more.

Never give them an inch

The US needs to fall at this point. American hegemony is a threat to global democracy.

These days I have to assume these posts are by feds or Russian plants. He was a Marine, if you've never spent time around them let me tell you, they promote a culture of killers and respect effective killers. SS imagery was as common as "Back to Back World War Champs" imagery.

The left needs killers.

This is what I'm saying. Political violence is 100% a valid form of protest.

It's not the first pick, more like second or third, but we're WELL past that point.

I'm not a rust programmer, can anyone with experience in systems programming explain a legitimate use case for the uutils other than weakening the GPL? The auther even admits that several coreutils are still GNU in 26.04 which begs one to ask "why the rewrite?"

Loving the recent "New York is a part of New England" trend.

A joint northeastern political identity will help with soft balkanization.

Every single Republican and moderate Democrat, regardless of voting record, is a fascist sympathizer.

"If this is the best candidate we can put forward, we deserve to lose"

OK so you are absolutely saying you would rather die than dirty your hands?

What do you mean we're not at the point of gestapo pulling people from their beds? What the hell is ICE doing?

You act as though this is still a legitimate government with legitimate laws. It is not. The US government is no longer legitimate; we are in a high functioning failed state. The legality of the rioters is irrelevant, they are a part of our tribe and our tribe is targeted by a rival tribe. We cannot act like there is such a thing as the rule of law, we will bury ourselves in our sanctimoniousness.

The goal at this point is embrace, extend, extinguish.

EDIT: Also, to be clear, when you say things were going back to normal you're referring to the US just being a regular imperialist hell hole? "Holding steady" in that context is equally unacceptable.

Two of them were not even present at the time of the shooting. This regime used NSPM-7 and the PA to get leftists on terrorism charges. They will do this again, it will be worse next time.

We are very close to masked men knocking down our doors and dragging us out in the middle of the night.

Do you think this is just going to go away? That everything is just going to work out? The tyrants will stop at precisely this amount of abuse of power and no further? Not once in history has a slide into authoritarianism just "worked out".

I too am interested in this. I work at a sort of intersection between traditional backend systems and industrial controls so I see a lot of Java/C# and a lot of Ladder Logic and SFC.

SFC in particular is as close to visual programming as I've seen be feasible and one can accomplish quite a bit with it.

I wonder how feasible it would be to develop a visual programming language that worked a bit like stringing together blocks that worked like pure functions where each block was, internally, just a function written in some language. Like some unholy marriage of SFC and Scratch.

PS: What keyboard are you using for the Thorpe character?

So I actually got my BS CompSci from WGU so I probably fall in this category. Did 2.5 years at community college for a math associates, ran out of money and joined the military, then finished the degree online in my last year in. I suppose all together it came out to about 4 years and it's accredited so {shrug}

I have mixed feelings about the degree, it got me the job I have now working as a Linux Sysadmin for a robotics company and working towards a role with the robotics Dev team but the education was thin.

Strictly speaking, if you did all the supplemental material you were given the classes were actually dense as hell but the problem was it was way easier to cram for each test.

That being said, I know a lot of CS grads that don't know what an array is so honestly I think I'm on the side of "maybe cramming all your education into 4 years is worse than just slowly picking at it over a lifetime".

I think I'd like to see a system like that. Like IT certs but not complete shit.

Violent revolution with the express intent of ending the lives of political enemies. Thought that was pretty clear?

I've run Guix on my main desktop witch is an Intel i9 and an ARC B570 and I'm trapped in a frame buffer without nonguix. Part of me was hoping that with a non-duscrete GPU I could get away with it.

As for the hidpi that's the first I've heard of it actually. My desktop's monitor is a 5120x1440

Do report back! Tinkering with the initramfs has been on my todo list for a bit and I haven't seen a whole lot of content online talking about it.

Brother.

He got out and then joined blackwater. My entire argument here is that even granting the sexual assault it's (unfortunately) almost certainly one of the least violent and savage things he's done in his life. If we were willing to give a pass on that but suddenly allegations of sexual assault appear and we drop him than we are falling for the fascists plot. The republicans know full well that we've been conditioned to treat sexual assault as a capitol sin and they know that our candidates have to be more catholic than the Pope while they can source the most vile humans on earth to serve their interests.

We're fighting with a hand tied behind our back and apologizing if the other hand might inconvenience the enemy.

We are running out of opportunities to vote our way out of this. If this country even makes it to the midterms we're going to have one shot to pack the senate with enough radicals that we can end this once and for all and even that's a long shot. My support for Platner comes down to one question.

"Do I believe he would be willing to vote in favor of jailing or executing every single sitting republican official in the country, as well as complicit sitting democrats?"

Between him, Collins, and whatever AIPAC stooge the DNC pushes to replace him with my moneys on Platner.

If by "purity test" you mean "would be willing to vote on incarcerating every sitting republican and establishment democrat in the country" then yes.

Our opponents just sentenced a dozen people to life in prison for printing magazines. Do you not think the stakes are high? We have, officially, reached kill or be killed.