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That's what's different about this one. "Enter the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, a mouthful of a chip that includes 64MB of 3D V-Cache on both processor dies, without the hybrid arrangement that has defined the other chips up until now."

Isn't the UK a perfect control group? Didn't the EU push back on similar legislation, until Brexit?

> insisting again and again on something so unpopular?

Didn't the UK do exactly this?


Firing them all broke the pipeline

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495739


When I don't show up to work I expect to get fired and not rehired too.

"The job will not save you, Jimmy. It won't make you whole, it won't fill [you] up."

https://youtu.be/NR1g30pQi4I?t=106s

Yes, it's true one needs to eat, have a roof over one's head, etc. Of course you can even like what you do, make friends at work. But never forget the nature of the relationship. It won't love you back.


> They tried to make Windows into a mobile OS, severely restricting the alowed actions of program

They already had Silverlight! For Windows Phone 7. Then they killed that off too and expected the "plethora" of WP7 apps to be rebuilt for WP8 (requiring the beloved Windows 8 desktop OS for this task). Then they again expected developers to throw that away in favor of UWP for Windows 10, which unified the desktop and phone OSes. By then it was too late.

Old apps still ran on the newer OSes but the SDKs became dead-ends.


It's such an interesting mission too, keeping the spacecraft synchronized enough with incredible precision so that one can cast a shadow in just the right place on the other, all while the orbital mechanics of gravity are constantly insisting otherwise

"Given the diameter of the occulter disk on the OSC and the intended corona observation regions, the CSC must be approximately 150 meters from the OSC and maintain this position with millimetric accuracy, both in range and laterally"


Scott Manley had this nice overview of the mission (~9 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfW645jhbKM


Is metonymy really so unreasonable in this title?

You have it exactly right. I read the title the way it was intended and I think the complaint was pedantic.

I doubt there's anyone in the small group of people that actually need to care about the distinction between EU and ESA spacecraft who doesn't already know this is an ESA mission anyway, and if such a person exists they can probably read as far as the first four words...

In theory this could be about Roscosmos since they're based in Moscow

“North America puts man on the moon”

Yes. Yes it is.


Now let's evaluate "America puts man on moon"

Its a common term for the USA that has no other meaning. The content is North America, the two continents are the Americas. No ambiguity.

Europe properly means the continent so it is far more like saying "North America puts man on moon" than saying "America puts man on moon".

Ambiguity is always bad.

Some people say its clear, but I am sure a lot of others thought an EU agency reconnected with a spacecraft.

Its interesting that people get so upset about asking for correct and unambiguous language.


“America” has no other meaning? So USA means United States of USA?

Exactly, their name is a zip bomb.

Doing recursive acronyms centuries before it was cool.

> Its a common term for the USA that has no other meaning

Except, you know, the only “other” meaning of “America” is just literally the alternative name for Americas, both continents. Here is an obscure link to the description [0]. Even if you want to refer to North America, what about Mexico and Canada?

The less you know, the less ambiguous it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas


Didn't think it was possible, but yes, you made it even worse.

A good title is brief and clear.

"'Miracle': European Space Agency reconnects with lost spacecraft" is long.

"'Miracle': ESA reconnects with lost spacecraft" is opaque.

The first four words of the article are, "The European Space Agency..."


ESA is one of the largest space agencies in the world. There’s nothing opaque about calling it ESA especially in a title. We wouldn’t use initialisms if everything had to be expanded all the time.

So is Roscosmos, but in such a situation, "Russia reconnects with lost spacecraft" would be the more accessible title

Personally I would prefer to call it "Roscosmos/ESA connects..." than "Russia/Europe connects". It adds information for free while keeping it short, just put it in the title. ESA is more specific than Europe or EU, so why make the title more generic and opaque than needed? It tells you it's not a random team of "Europeans", it's not an amateur hacker in the backyard, or some intelligence agency.

The expansion isn't really needed when it's a "household name" in the field. If you read a title about space industry there's no need to expand or explain NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, maybe not even for ISRO or JAXA, although I can see how some of these wouldn't be the most familiar for people in the West even when they have some interest in space news.


Other than that, of course, WWII was perfectly civilized

The unfortunate thing is how keen the US and its allies appear to recreate it.

Last time I checked, only the US and Israel. Europeans don't want anything to do with this war, and the USA's East Asian allies also like it not even a little bit.

As a Brit, I'm disgusted that Starmer is allowing UK bases to be used by the US for launching attacks. I can see it being just a matter of time before Starmer drags us into another war of lies. (Last time it was Tony Blair, also a Labour leader and he still hasn't been tried for his war crimes).

A UK base was attacked. Would you rather Starmer be the next Chamberlain?

Interestingly, this is denied by the Iranians.

Regardless, Trump and Bibi started this war unilaterally. It's not gone as planned and now they want our support.

The only appeasement I've seen the UK do (repeatedly) in my lifetime is in kowtowing to the US and Israel.


That attack looks like a false flag operation to me. Also, as already stated, Iran is not the aggressor - that would be Trump with his Fifa Peace Prize.

Fallacious comparison, two entirely different situations. For a start, whatever the Iranian response, the aggressor at the root of this particular episode is the other side: the U.S.

Yes, I'm sure Iran is completely honest and knows what it's doing at all times. It's not like there's no central command and someone surely knows what everyone else, including proxies are doing, right?

Moscow would be encircled right now if that was true.

I mean in relative terms ...

It never ceases to amaze me that demonstrating such a weapon on civilian targets somehow made it past the entire chain of command. One of those things that I just can't wrap my head around no matter how many times I come back to it.


They weren't exclusively civilian targets, they were considered "mixed" targets. Hirohito's home wasn't considered strategically-important enough and therefore didn't make the cut.

The sites in question were also specifically selected because they hadn't previously faced conventional attack, enabling a more accurate damage assessment.


> they hadn't previously faced conventional attack

Which, by the way, illustrates a related point: Hiroshima and Nagasaki had stiff competition. WWII was devastating, to cities and civilians all over the map. More people died in the conventional bombing of Tokyo than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. I think the atomic bombs represented some 2 weeks worth of casualties in a war that lasted 300.


No sir that's not a school we're proposing to bomb, it's a complex containing both a school and a vehicle maintenance facility. So it's mixed, meaning there's valid logistical reasons to attack it. Yes, hundreds of children will perish in the attack, but the action will also provide us with legitimate benefits. Just try not to think about the former and focus on the latter. I'm sure no one in the future will judge us too harshly for the decision.

So an automatic cheat code to win any and all conflicts is simply to put strategic assets in schools?

You'd be surprised how many people's "morality" boils down to that.

Is that what the Japanese were doing? (Bit of a pointless diversion though because this is a nuclear bomb we're talking about here. Not exactly a surgical strike.)

Yes and no. They were doing that, but AFAIK they did so because it was deemed more efficient, not to use people as human shields. Also, at the time, there was no such thing as a surgical strike.

What about Remote Assistance (built-in)?

It's not built in anymore. Microsoft took it away.

I can't remember exactly what the last name was that they gave the remote-assistance tool, but they removed it from all but so-called "pro" Windows... the one used by the LEAST-likely people to need it.

More anti-user BS from Microsoft. The baffling aspect is how Microsoft thinks it benefits from screwing users like this. I can't wait to buy my parents a Neo and shitcan Windows from their home forever.


Augh, annoying. I don't have non-Pro handy so I didn't realize it was removed. I also see "Quick Assist" but maybe that's the other one you were alluding to that you also found to be missing

Yeah... not sure. What I found, though, is that the people most in need of remote assistance are denied it.

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