Yup - anyone who is likely to try and hit the US is far enough away is going to be using long range ballistic missiles, and it’s been pretty conclusively demonstrated that it’s technically feasible to intercept a single missile, it sure isn’t reliable enough to be a reasonable deterrent or cheap enough to build enough launchers to give you any amount of coverage.

Iron dome works because Israel is small, with a concentrated population, and is being attacked with small, short range rockets that are easy to spot on radar - that isn’t a likely scenario for the US to face

Tingly

They seem to be pretty good at making sure the military has all the finding they need

I’d be ok with anonymous donations if they were truly anonymous both publicly and to the management of the institution receiving the money.

Maybe this is something that the government could facilitate - pool these resources, then help distribute them where they are needed. Almost like how taxes work.

Maintains uncomfortable eye contact with the camera

https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html?m=1

It’s doable, just needs a fair bit of hardware, time and money

They are in it for the vibes more than the anything

I guess my point is less about the party specifically, are more that your country might not be collapsing quite so quickly if 49% of the population didn’t feel massively disenfranchised every 4 years, and if there were actually incentives for collaboration and compromise between different view points

I vote Green.

Because I live in a country with an actual proportional representation system, so my vote for a minor party still allows the major party that I most closely align with to gain power

have a build environment [set up]

Means that you need to have a C/C++ compiler and typical set of supporting tools installed so you can compile the program. For Debian (which Raspberry Pi OS is based on), the build-essential package will get you most of the way there - you can use the search tools at https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages to find which packages provide the other tools you need

clone the repo

Means download the code using the git tool - run git clone <url>

Molotov cocktail, except is just a dead guy called Molotov holding a jerrycan

I’m just a little sad that there are people in the world who have lived such empty, passionless lives that they can’t conceive of being so excited and invested in something that they could lose their self control for a moment

If you can’t afford to pay your staff enough for them to want to work for you, then your business has failed - you just haven’t run out of cash yet.

Pay them properly, or admit that you don’t have a viable business model.

What is the constitution if not a law?

Way back when I used to go to the football with dad - kids under 5 could take the train for free, but weren’t allowed in the stadium, so I was 4 on the train, and 5 when we got to the stadium

Since when has a trivial thing like “the law” stopped him from trying to do something he wants?

Oh shit it hadn’t occurred to me that the logical end state for Elon is running for president

At a previous employer, I worked with a client who used our platform and had 3rd party API integrations with companies called Skynet (a large logistics company) and InterWeb (a 90s era almost-PaaS that somehow survived the dotcom crash, pivoted into whatever they could find to charge people for, and went bankrupt a while ago).

Somewhere I have screenshots of emails I sent to the Ops team, asking them to “enable Skynet in production” and “turn off the InterWeb”

In the immortal words of Monzy:

I pull out my keyboard / and I pull out my gloc / and I dismount your girl / and I mount slash proc / cos I’ve got your pid / and the bottom line / is you best not front / or its kill dash nine

Meanwhile, a Linux user wipes blood off a sledgehammer with “SIGKILL” written on the handle

Even assuming 25% of Twitter users are bots (probably a significant over estimate), and even if half of Twitter’s users quit in the next year, it would still be 150x bigger than mastodon

(Mastodon has ~1m MAUs, compared to ~421m for Twitter)