It’s just a surface to air missile. 100 is quite a few, but considering how drones are used in this conflict, it’s probably not nearly enough.
They are likely reserved for last resort air defense closer to cities or areas where they really need to push back the Russian air force.
Patriot batteries are a bit on the expensive side, so their use is likely limited. If I am not mistaken, Ukraine did get a few batteries from other NATO countries and not just the US.
Noobs. I have a MAPP gas/oxygen torch that burns at 2900° C in my garage.
And that is scary. If the is one takeaway from observing the universe it’s that there are always bigger and stranger things out there somewhere.
Something tells me this isn’t a bad thing. If there is an edge of the universe, it’s probably going to be a very strange place.
I taught myself QuickBasic as it was the only thing I knew that was related to copying C64 BASIC out of magazines. (QBasic was packaged with DOS 3.11 I think and I was able to get a full copy of QuickBasic somehow. That was about +30 years ago? Dunno. I was about 12 at the time.) I didn’t know what other languages were out there besides TurboPascal. I did learn simple Pascal, but that was a short chapter.
I actually met someone else in the area that was learning to code, and of course, we wanted to write a game. The only way to code for a mouse at the time was to write an INT33 handler, so it kicked off our interest in asm. (I still use asm for MCU stuff on occasion, but it’s limited.) I quickly diverged into writing some really nifty… eh… “boot sector code” so that kicked off my career in security.
And yeah, it’s the same phenomenon for me: I just think in terms of bits and bytes getting shifted around and I still refuse to believe in “magic”. (Slight jab at Rust coders there, but in good fun.)
Fast forward to today, I train “kids” fresh out of college as part of my job now. The first thing I do is start giving them weird tasks that require they actually understand how something like an fopen() actually works.
(Funny story. I refused to “show my work” in math class for simple f(x) problems as I viewed it as unoptimized code. Lulz. I was such an autistic dork.)
That, 200%!
When I started in computers, years ago, I transitioned from QuickBasic directly into assembly. Ever since then, I can kinda “read the Matrix” (Blond, Brunette, Redhead…) and forget about how confusing a raw binary or how a mess of a dmp looks to someone else. (To me, I really just see patterns and nothing massively complicated.)
“It’s just data.” - You would be surprised how fuzzy that statement is for some people. It’s almost exactly like telling someone who doesn’t speak any English that “the sky is blue”. It’s totally cool though! Learning about the internals of any computer is really just a very long chain of “aha moments” as many concepts aren’t intuitive.
Was that changed in the last day on lemmynsfw specifically? I still see plenty of new posts tagged as NSFW in the Connect client.
I dump memory more often than you would think. It’s usually not obfuscated or encrypted in any meaningful way even though it is fairly trivial to do so.
It’s good practice to scour through any bloatware installed on windows laptops. Since bloatware is generally written by the lowest bidder, you can find all kinds of keys and phone-home urls (sometimes with all the parameters) and other weird things. Just fire up a decent hex editor and search for strings in the dump file. You don’t need to know jack about reverse engineering either.
I am too lazy to cut-and-paste links, but we were just having a discussion about you. (Just read the last couple of posts in my profile history for more information.)
Ok, that hits on several levels.
As an ex-sailor, I was happy to have made it to Friday many times in my life. I have also been in the ICU for the last day or so, so yeah. Happy to see another Friday. Stay positive, friends!
See, that is what I thought at first until I thought about the proportions. Having one arm shorter than the other is possible…)
(FYI, my comments are ~50% /s)
That’s the right arm, not the umbilical cord, my dude.
Mistakes are OK! (I added the word “intentional” as an afterthought to cover this contingency as the statement still remains true.)
True. It does match the profile, but I am usually not in the habit of profile diving unless I smell a troll.
Nothing better than a match in a high oxygen environment.
Intentional poor spelling.
There is a caveat, but yes: By definition, 3D printed parts should not be considered food safe.
Single-use cookie cutters are generally OK if you don’t use them multiple times a day every day.
There are probably minor chemical risks but it wouldn’t be in high enough quantities to kill you. There isn’t really anything inherently food unsafe with PLA, ABS or PETG.
Bacteria is a much bigger risk during reuse because you can’t fully clean the prints between the layer lines and other surface defects. The plastic generally won’t survive a proper sanitization process either.
What your own risk tolerance is for plastic additives is up to you. If you do print a cookie cutter, toss it after you are done.