Eisenhower sent 101st Airborne to Little Rock in 1957 to enforce integration with weapons in hand in case they took fire. He also Federalized the Arkansas National Guard.

One segregationist got butt stroked in the face for trying to grab a rifle and another got a bayonet wound to the arm. Eisenhower knew his military options precisely (note his WWII command record). While his orders to deploy were legal, "firing on citizens" was of course an option and may well be used illegally though we're not quite in Weimar mode yet.

Spot on, well said.

Also his family is invested in these zany ventures and 'can't' lose out.

Making them part of the MIC ensures endless graft.

Ted Postol has a good analysis of the Patriot PAC-3 and shows how the vendor has failed to tell the truth about their systems for decades while collecting endless taxpayer funds based on the lies.

Soldiers die, we get poor, they get rich. Zoomers aren't having any of it.

You've apparently not worked in "developer heavy" companies before.

Nobody gives a shit about operations, generally.

It's Covid/Two Weeks to Flatten The Curve/The Terrorists/SARS/9-11/The Russians!/The Nazis - all over again.

Just reactionary FUD to try to herd sheep into a specific direction.

This shit can't be trusted.

This is why some of us still use cash and Monero

Those are the politics that brought us the last 80 years of relative peace and freedom

Nowhere did I blame renewables. I was replying to someone talking about the huge price spikes pointing out that they applied to people lucky enough to have power.

We were out 5 and a half days for the derecho. We were in a hotel out in Sealey.

We had a generator for Beryl, but hadn't had it wired into the house yet. We had a lot of extension cords.

Later, I got the inlet and subpanel wired in. We ended up powering the house on gasoline pretty regularly without any named storms until we moved away from Houston.

To be fair sand is rough on floppy drives.

It's quite common globally since long before "pervert glasses".

Image boards like 4chan often have threads with poster-supplied content. If you want to understand humanity, look to its vilest preferences.

*** for customers who can still receive power.

During the freeze in 2021 or so, we had rolling blackouts. Myhouse was without power for 26 hours, 14 hours, 11 hours, 5 hours, 5 hours, 7 hours, 3 hours, 1.5 hours, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and 12 minutes or so that week.

Also, wind turbines kill approximately zero humans per gigawatt-hour. That cannot be said of coal or natural gas plants.

Unlike RF jamming IR floodlighting is harmless to communications.

What (theoretically of course) would be required for a discreet 360-degree IR flood zone of useful depth?

Knowing countermeasures makes sense in an irreversibly declining-trust society. What are the most effective? The least disruptive to legitimate (which means communication, not concealed photographic spying) uses?

Engineers need to remember that time exists.

You have three months to teach a teen how to control a robot with a microcontroller.

OK, how much of that do you budget to CS and assembly?

Month 1: Architecture and data structures? You have 18 40 minute periods and maybe homework assignments.

Half of the class won't even gain mastery in that time. By time your class is over they will still be having memory management problems.

So then you've failed to achieve the goal.

There are engineers who remember that time exists and for the rest we have engineering managers. Not ideal, just how it is.

To be sure engineering schools are doing a bad job at teaching reality. Even in a dx/dr environment, it's so weird.

The parent is useless. Slashdot was once a tech site instead of this general news for the typical retard.

Anyone have some QUALITY reading material on the subject? We will never see that from the editors who really should be replaced by AI which would do a better job on a bad day than they've done for many years.

How can you state that? I'm assuming you're a Rust proponent from that wild statement, which goes to show you how little you know about the topic.

Yes, memory leaks can and do happen in Rust. Rust is not perfect. Neither are the people who write it.

Most Rust code is written by its proponents' AI models, anyway.