If they ever roll out plugins, or whatever. There’s a lot of functionality piled up behind that.

Edit: I was wrong. It’s going to be in core. It’s just been “in progress” for two years because (a) there have been prerequisite blockers slowly getting implemented, (b) it’s hard, in part because of other Helix features like multiple cursors, and © the guy implementing it (and who can implement it is, in his words, limited to a couple of people with deep Helix knowledge) hasn’t had time.

Time to reshare this classic!

It’s now 5 years old.

Years.

Metal mags are so heavy.

I would argue that it’s because, unlike conservatives, liberals are not blind followers willing to overlook any sin. OTOH, it also demonstrates a lack of foresight and understanding about the realities of the FPTP voting.

I mean, if you can capture the water droplets in the sunlight, it could be really beautiful. OTOH, bokeh. 50/50

Mint eschews all of the Snap crap, though, doesn’t it?

Jesus, please tell me it does. I’ve been recommending it to beginners. I thought it was sanitized.

Ha! No, what whackjobs those people are. No, clearly the Earth is donut-shaped. This is obvious, because the Bible says so. The lizard people are suppressing the information, except on the internet. And talk radio. And tabloids.

Donut shaped!

not doing the actual task any better than conventional rounds.

Except AP, right? And if so, legislation would be harsh; c.f. SS190 5.7x28. I understand the actual AP capability is questioned, but it’s hard to evaluate because it’s hard to get. I also understand that this is because LE gets twitchy about AP ammo and the NFA tends to cave on any legislation LE Unions get behind.

Yes? How else would you look up anything if it hadn’t been uploaded somewhere?

Yeah, if you know part of a fingerprint you can look up keys, but I don’t know of a way to look up keys from partial keys.

Void is rolling release IIRC

That’s what I thought, but the main website says Void focuses on stability over being cutting edge, which would imply some sort of release cycle. Or, maybe they just update packages less frequently.

I still hold Debian in higher regard since it’s slightly easier for a novice to get used to

It’s hard to beat Mint as a novice distro, for sure.

Fair enough! At those round weights, it’s also unsurprising.

Regardless, it seems a if there would be several potential applications where deflection might be less important. I’m just surprised nobody seems to be researching or offer anything.

Would not handguns also see the same benefits? Thinking through it, deflection might be even more damaging for some uses, like home defense. If the rounds are effectively light AP (more that standard ammo), they’re not only going through walls, but then off at some arbitrary angle, and that wouldn’t be good.

Did you look at Pelican?

I have not, but I will. I may also look at Zola, although it, too, appears at the surface level to be tightly coupled with markdown.

the template language is buggy and inscrutable

It’s just Go templates, which are pretty solid; I’d be surprised by any bugs, unless they’re in the Hugo short codes. The syntax is challenging, even if you’re a Go developer and use it all the time. It’s a bespoke DSL, and a pretty awful one: it’s verbose, obtuse, and makes some common things hard.

Go is my language of choice, but my faith gets shaky whenever I have to use templates.

I’m not a huge fan of Python; despite its popularity, it’s got a lot of problems, not least of which is the whole Python 2/3 fiasco; which, years later, is still plaguing us. However, if I can containerized it so it isn’t constantly breaking in the background when I do a system update, I’m not opposed to using a project written in it. At least it isn’t Node; I won’t let that crap onto any server I admin.

Edit: Zola has the same problem as Hugo.

That makes sense

Ok, so remote Federation scientists seem to suffer a lot in ST, but I wonder how much of that is survivor bias. I mean, we can assume redshirt casualty rates are fairly consistent across starships, although that could be a leadership issue; but what if there’s a vast population of remote research outposts and only a very tiny fraction ever gets in trouble? We just don’t know. The Federation is enormous, and covers a vast 3d volume - if there are outposts even slightly evenly distributed across the surface of that volume, we’d be looking at a large population. More researchers probably die from slipping on food spills than rogue revived eugenics war corpcicles.

Yeeeah, I’m not so sure I’d opt for the Polity in third place. It has a lot of problems, and major population centers are regularly threatened. And their AIs go rouge with alarming frequency, but that’s probably a consequence of being force-grown for war. Plus, just… Prador. As a civilian, I’d rather face xenophobic Idirans over Prador any day.

No noteworthy DE

You mean, Gnome or KDE? KDE hasn’t announced they’re dropping X, AFAIK.

There are a great many window managers that don’t support Wayland. If herbstluftwm ran on Wayland, I’d try switching again. But it doesn’t, and the project has stated they have no intention of adding support.

The article said there were conflicting results, with some trials finding excellent performance; it’s notable that, inn particular, AP was a focus.

The period is, for me, significant. Technology, and weapons technology in particular, has advanced a lot since the 50’s, certainly, and even since the more recent Russian trials in the 80’s. It does seem that between the US trails and the Russian ones technology improved enough to benefit the Russian trial, even if it wasn’t ultimately adopted.

The only reason stated in the article was the dangerous sabot issue; the round and gun itself seems to have performed admirably. The started reason it wasn’t adopted - that I find, anyway, is that the sabot introduced unacceptable friendly fire risk - being undirected and potentially lethal out to dozens of meters.

The fascists absolutely do not have the numbers.

I was specifically speaking about the percent of sub-population that’s armed. There’s pretty good evidence that the average conservative (and particularly the conservative base) is also a gun owner than the average liberal base. Gun violence is a liberal plank.

As for who has the guns, you’re probably grossly underestimating how well armed non-republicans might be.

I don’t think so; I’ve been a gun owner since I’ve been an adult, and I’m pretty progressive. I’ve spent a lot of time at ranges across the US, and it’s pretty clear that that population leans right. And if liberals own guns and aren’t going to the range to practice… well.

Furthermore, we’ve seen how ineffective the US military was at handling insurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Quite effective in Iraq; Iraq was both unjustified, and concluded. Major combat operations coincided within 3 months, and we pulled out in 2011.

But the major factor in Afghanistan is that Afghanistan were a generation of trained insurgents with a decade of history of fighting insurgencies against invaders. We trained them; we trained and funded them, and helped them set up a robust cell-based insurgency. It was essentially a core component of Afghan culture by the time the US invaded. Are you trained, lean, and have a cell network set up? Anyone you know? How many people do you know, personally, who’ve ever had to suffer from anything more inconvenient than a temporary internet outage? If the US government cracks down on major carriers and network providers, can you even contact any of those people?

The US public is not the Afghan public. We’re nowhere near as hardened and tough. As importantly, we’re divided, and there’s a vast swath of the center of people who mostly don’t give enough of a shit. Even if there were voting shenanigans in 2024, enough people voted for a guy who explicitly said during campaigning that he wanted to be a dictator that it was close. When the left rises up, they’re not only going to be fighting the government, they’re going to be fighting other right-wing fuck-jobs, and worse, their uncommitted, lazily leftist neighbor is likely to turn them in because an uprising might upset little Crumpsnatcher’s soccer practice.

The Earth is curved.

At least, I assume that’s what they meant.