What, you give male aliens a mulligan?

"Sorry, but we don't have an insurance code to cover 'sub-atomic vaporization chain-reaction'."

Eric

Iran and Pakistan did, and both came away pretty disappointed. Even right now, Iran is relying on Chinese radar systems that keep getting knocked out before they even see anything at all. The only thing they've been able to do with any measure of success is firing kamikazi drones at things on the ground in neutral countries based on intelligence provided by Putler.

Not with hypersonic weapons. In fact, the most success Russia has had at evading patriot interceptors has always been with slower missiles.

Not only that, but it needs to be said that you're INCREDIBLY fucking stupid.

Being less than hypersonic provides more maneuverability. The advantage of supersonic military aircraft has never been to outmaneuver, but to outrun. The SR-71 blackbird itself was designed to be able to perform reconnaissance and then simply outrun Russian SAMs. And it did exactly that. So if you were trying to get away from the interceptor, sure, but that doesn't work when your only option is to go towards it. Supersonic fighter jets do NOT dogfight at supersonic speeds for exactly this reason.

So yeah, I'd wager that Ukraine's cruise missiles are a lot harder to intercept than Russia's ridiculous hypersonic weapons.

It's a Fonzi Scheme: Ayyy Aiiii!

No. Actually he wasn't political from day one on the Late Show. At first he shed his Colbert Report persona and tried to do the typical "make nice with everyone" late night host a la Carson, Leno, and Letterman. Thing is, times were changing, audiences were expecting and demanding sharper wit, speaking truth to power, and takedowns of the high and mighty. And ratings started to slide. So Colbert adapted, brought elements of the Report back, but more overt and open than the playing th coy in-character persona from the old days. And ratings recovered. That worked swimmingly until COVID and malevolent mega media manipulation blew ups the entire television landscape and installed their minion to purge CBS of anyone who's not a true believer.

In his personal life, he's catholic and raising his kids as such, conservatively but not to be bigots. He's also a HUGE nerd and MASSIVE Tolkien and LOTR fan. He'll do fine as a writer on a LOTR movie. He havs the chops for it, and he "gets" the material. I knew the MAGAts were delusional from the outset for thinking they could silence him and that he'd bounce back. Though I must admit it's kind of a bummer he'll be holed up in a writers' room instead of back on air immediately on another platform.

I'm not a tactician, but I think longer range would make these even less effective at their main selling point, which is supposedly being impossible to intercept, which they already don't deliver on. Think about it: The longer it travels, the more time you have to spot it and intercept it.

Putin tried to point several of these at a patriot battery assuming they would take it out, and they were all successfully intercepted. The only ones that weren't were all aimed at strategically less significant targets out of range of the interceptors.

And before you say "well longer range means it outranged the interceptor", that's irrelevant: They're only able to hit targets that are not protected to begin with, which is probably why Putin fired his "this one really is impossible to intercept, this time I mean it!" version (whose name sounds like a cookie) at unprotected civilian targets in Lviv.

No. It turns out hypersonic weapons are basically pointless. The reason why is because the very thing they're supposed to do, the whole purpose of their existence, is to be impossible to intercept, and they turn out to be some of the easiest to intercept.

It's a simple matter if physics: At those speeds, air is highly viscous, which means it can't manoeuver worth a shit without destroying itself mid-flight, which means once they're spotted, it's relatively easy to narrow down a small region that they can even hit at all. Either cusco or znt (don't remember who) was trying to hype a new hypersonic weapon that was more maneuverable and "this time I mean it" impossible to intercept, probably because they don't understand physics.

Besides, the only countries who buy military tech from China are at this point in the "fool me thrice" stage, because it turns out that none if it works worth a shit.

Well then, I guess it's a good thing that the sort of big brother wannabe thugs who would demand your passwords under the guise of law would absolutely respect actual correctness and are not in any way the sort who would just toss you in the gulag for your stunt or just beat you with a pipe until you talk in the first place.

Sora was useless because the primary value from video generation is porn. Anyone not willing to allow porn shouldn't be wasting their time on GenAI video R&D.

Every company has values. A value is simply a judgement about what is important. Maximizing shareholder value is absolutely a company value (probably the most common one). Maximizing customer, employee, or society value would be different values a company could have. There are plenty of companies that focus on customer or society value, but they are usually nonprofit. If someone is investing in a company they usually expect to be the most import stakeholder to the company.

Most companies don't actually document their company values. They use principles like Integrity and Excellence that are simply core principles that every company should strive for. You can tell if your company's values are "real" if you could imagine another successful company having nearly opposite values (without breaking the law).

Not every company should appeal to every investor, employee, or company. I wanted to work for companies in my youth that worked me to the bone while accelerating my career growth. Now that I have a family I want to work for a company that respects my personal time. I'm glad there are companies out there with different values so I was able to choose employers who aligned with my values at the time.

I had exactly this false equivalence in mind by the way, though I should have suspected you'd have excitedly jumped in and snatched the bait as if it was a freshly laid piece of poop.

You, of all people, definitely need some courage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ricka...

Says the detritivore who obviously doesn't know what a false equivalence is.

This is a long-solved problem in every language. See for example artifactory, which is very common in enterprise settings. If you're not already using software supply chain tooling to manage exactly this, even if you're not doing software development at all, then you've got much bigger problems. So if it's not "more", then it's literally nothing at all.