WalnutLum

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[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In 2001 when The US authorized use of force on Al-Qaeda that, along with The 1973 war powers resolution gave the president (as in the position of president, not just Bush) unlimited ability to bomb anyone loosely associated with Al-Qaeda in perpetuity.

It's what allowed Bush, then Obama, then Trump, and then Biden, and now Trump again, to use the military as they see fit for performing military operations against basically any state and group in the middle east.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't the National Guard the people who shot those kids at Kent State?

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm no expert, but usually when missiles "go ballistic" their engines turn off and they have limited maneuvering capability at the end of their flight.

This one looks like it had engines on all the way to the target, which is a fairly newer class of design.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Shepherd my love!

I've used SystemD for years and the pure joy writing system initialization units in Scheme gives me can't be overstated.

Seriously, a lot of times I feel like I stick with Guix's many problems just for shepherd.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Soooooo... Kind of...

I didn't check the cargo numbers but for Crewed missions we have some nice estimates from the OIG in 2024 based on the crew program development costs and the built-in 6 flight missions we got for the contracts:

-SpaceX Dragon ~ 55 million/seat

-Boeing Starliner ~ 90 million/seat

-Russia Soyuz ~ 86 million/seat

-Space Shuttle ~ 87 million/seat (adjusted for inflation)

Soyuz was ~ 20 million a seat in 2007, 2013 it was ~ 55 million a seat, and 2014-2018 it was 62 million a seat, now it's that 86 number.

Funny thing is happening at SpaceX recently, namely NASA used up all 6 flights that were 55 million a seat, so they needed to extend for flights 7-9 and 10-14

In February 2022 NASA Extended their contract with SpaceX for flights 7-9 at around 258 million per flight (so ~64.5 million per seat) and again in June 2022 for flights 10-14 at 288 million per flight (so ~72 million per seat)

So SpaceX came out of the gate with their handfuls of investor cash and subsidized the original contracts, but they're likely rapidly increasing prices now that they've burned through most of that runway.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

I have also been done in many times by git-filter-repo. My condolences to the chef.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Outdated image, everything goes through palantir now

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"sorry you haven't paid your monthly driver's permit fee" Car drops out of the sky

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm not sure if it would work for your situation but you seem to be able to ssh into a server on that network? If so you can run a browser on that computer and tunnel the X session over ssh:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/running-x-window-graphical-application-over-ssh-session.html

Otherwise neko seems neat, I've actually been looking for something for watch parties.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not just helicopters. Commercial satellite imaging is good enough to detect mold and askew shingles (usually more through running the image over multiple angles and finding reflectance differences)

I worked for a company that does large scale construction updates based on SAR and Maxtor reflectance data, it's pretty terrifying how accurate it is.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looking forward to every other country on earth advancing space exploration while America feeds SpaceX more money to blow up endangered bird sanctuaries.

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