I should follow up today while cows milk mixed with chicken is treyf, mixing chicken and eggs is very common in Jewish cuisine Judaism is nothing of not pedantic about the absolute letter of the law rather than and kind of spirit. Good is arbitrary, capricious and deeply pedantic apparently.
It's more common than chicken milk but the rules still apply (except that sect and of course atheist Jews)..
Ultimately how do we determine that a clock is 'accurate'?
There's no such thing as accurate per-se only more accurate and less accurate. More accurate means less drift and less jitter.
but that begs the question of who decided that a second was 9,192,631,770 cesium vibrations long.
Who? International agreement, on the recommendation of some very nerdy metrologists. You need some repeatable arbitrary thing, and that definition was the most repeatable thing people knew of in 1967.
In the end, something must be arbitrary.
Yes, and the scientific community would like an arbitrary measurement which can be
recreated with the lowest possible drift and jitter that's consistent with the existing definition of a second.
Currently caesium clocks form that definition. Currently they are accurate in about 1 part in 10^16. The new clock is accurate in one part in 10^19. So, if you pick a number of vibrations for the new clock that's within the error margin for current clocks, then no one could tell the difference based on the current standard so you won't be inconsistent with any measurements so far, but now you have a new, more accurate clock with which you can make more precise measurements.
Well we have the Torah and the Talmud. Take meat and milk. Every sect has it's own interpretation as to how much and how long. The Chinese Jews believe the prophet takes precedence over the scholars and tracked cows, their milk and calves to make sure they literally never did the wrong boiling.
I personally like too reflect on the silliness of it while eating a bacon and cheese bagel.
Nah. They were more free before all this started.
Before 2014, all they had to do is not do anything that really aggravates Russia.
In your world "free" is "do what Russia wants". That's not free, that's capitulation.
But they proceeded to aggravate Russia by trying to join NATO.
They wanted to join NATO because they knew Russia would invade. They were proven right.
And again, having to bow to a powerful neighbour under threat of violence is not freedom.
After 2014, they lost Crimea and were under threat. They had a choice to either accept their loss or commit to NATO. All other options were no longer available. They chose NATO.
So after being invaded your grand idea is to side with their hostile expansionist neighbour, rather than side with the group which may offer some protection?
Seems your idea of freedom is capitulation and appeasement. That's not freedom.
In another year or two they will either have lost half of the country or be directly under Russian control.
You're a Russia fantasist. Russia is slowing down. At their current rate it would take 150 years and more than their entire population to conquer Ukraine. Russia's massive and threatening cold war stocks are gone, they've basically run out of tanks and are at their not very fast production level. Their air force is degraded, they can't even cover the front with AWACS anymore. They're down to performing meat assaults with poorly trained infantry. The $5000 signing bonus for 5 weeks of life expectancy on the front line is not going to keep the military going forever. At some point people notice their "rich" friends aren't returning from the front.
Well there's nothing particular in rust too ensure correctness, apart from reasonable language constructs. The borrow checker, combined with other semantics guarantee mentor safety, which is necessary but not sufficient for correctness.
SPARK has this whole wacky contracts system which I'm admittedly trying to get to grips with but don't have much time. It's got a theorem prover in there and won't compile of it cannot prove your program obeys the contacts.
See e.g.
The people against the covid vaccine were suppressed.
There was a metric fuckton of anti-vax shit. There were plenty of people here advocating chowing down of horse pills, presumably in the hope that a dose designed for a half ton herbivore wouldn't blow some part of their anatomy.
The rejection of debate
Dissenting views are not the same as a debate. Some people just want to be contrarian.
I thought it wasn't quite that. Ada/SPARK is memory safe, and almost certainly more correct than Rust code as well. I gather that it was somewhat less flexible, since you basically had to avoid pointers with SPARK because the theorem prover couldn't deal with them. They added a borrow checker to it modelled on Rust, which allows a lot of useful pointer based code to be provably correct.
- expanding nato eastward against promises and common sense
Russia invades its neighbours. Then complains when it's neighbours join a defence pact to prevent invasion, then whines about the defence pact existing. You know how Russia could prevent NATO expansion? Not invading its neighbours. They even managed to persuade an incredibly reluctant Sweden and Finland to join NATO, something it seems that everyone except Russia has been unable to do.
proclaiming that georgia and ukraine would be part of nato (bucharest 2008)
And Russia proved that wasn't necessary by invading both of them...
this is all just before russia's invasion. point 1 was already a red line bright enough
Sure, Ivan, sure. The "threats" Russia feels from NATO is not being able to overrun its neighbours, and the way it deals is to try and overrun its neighbours. You can take your appeasement elsewhere.
My guess would be that Putin has a few working nuclear weapons by chanc, as in some of them have survived the degradation. There is no way they have been doing proper, expensive stockpile stewardship without corruption creaming off what budget there is. Potential nukes are part of MAD, if Putin demonstrates that he doesn't have them, then no one has any reason to pay any attention to his blustering. Plus if you start a MAD war and turn out to not have the M part, that's bad.
How has NATO been a threat to Russia?
Well if Russia tries to do some perfectly peaceful military exercises in Russian territory, i.e. Poland, Estonian, then they'll get the crap bombed out of them. Pretty threatening if you ask me!
Their air defense appears to be pretty weak, not likely to hold up to an attack by stealth aircraft like the F-35, F-22, B-2, or even ancient F-117.
Forget about those, they're having trouble holding up to attack by an Aeroprakt A-22.
I think the problem of scooters blocking the sidewalk is summed up well in this cartoon:
Interesting, but there's a little bit missing which would be interesting to know: the author compares the $500 drone cost to a $100 unguided shell. What we don't get is the hit percentage. Russia has been firing literally millions of artillery shells per year: the hit rate isn't high at all.
It seems all options suck, but you have to do something.
This is B.S. What purpose does it serve?
It serves the purpose of the Ukrainian people remaining free. It's easy to call bullshit on other's freedom when yours is not at stake.
A Raspi with 1 core and 512MB can recognize ~500-2000 different objects. It's no longer expensive to build autonomous assassins. I've been saying for years here that the future of war is toy technology, and here we are.
An while the recognition part is slow, something like the Pi is more than capable of realtime tracking of objects within the field of view of the camera. Once the object is identified, you keep it in the field of view. The drones already have gyros so small twitchy movements of the drone are sorted. You're basically tracking gyro drift and the movement of an object. Until you're very very close the latter is slow as far as tracking is concerned.
Well, it's not like the 32 bit version is gone. It'll likely keep forking for a while yet, and by the time it's obsolete, how likely are you encounter a bit of 32 bit x86 hardware that you'd run it on?
I'm all for computer dating, but I wouldn't want one to marry my sister.
