A third year CS student should be able to write a lot of competent software. And yet, we live in a world utterly lacking in competent software. Voting software? Garbage. Kinja? Dogshit. Facebook? Flaming pile. Systems managing billions of dollars every day are complete crap. No wonder, the banks still hire COBOL devs:…

Hanlon’s razor?

The problem with that is separate elections depress turnout. That’s how you get nutbars on school boards pushing creationism. They got in with ~200 votes because nobody bothered to show up on rando election day in May.

If something as crucial as the name of the candidate is wrong, then you can’t really trust any confirmation, can you?

In theory, you have instant tabulation and elimination of issues like hanging chads, crossed out entires and half-filled circles.

America built it’s empire through sheer economic might, crafty statesmanship, and the fact that its nearest peers kept literally killing each other. Eventually the USA was left the singular military power in the world through all of the above. How did it do this? Well, having a land area twice that of Rome goes a long…

I’m guessing his last words were “what the fuck?”

A new F-16 costs more than a new F-35A, so why would you bother with the Viper? No joke. Economy of scale is everything.

A Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24 like last year.

Marines are a specialized, self contained, rapid reaction expeditionary force. Something between the conventional army (and it’s heavy equipment) and special ops.

Christ, no. Jim Bob and his mountain cabin filled with his AR collection is *not* relevant to US domestic defense. He’s just a rube with a hobby.

Manchin waited until the GOP had their 50 votes. At that point, the nomination was fait accompli and it didn’t matter what he did. So he decided to vote yes so he can play up his “independent” reputation at home. He decided to salvage home state optics from a lost cause.

Bob Menedez should have been primaried out of office. But he wasn’t. And now we need that seat if we want any realistic chance of getting to 51 senators and stopping Trump’s court packing, and other horrific appointments.

Joe Walsh was defeated by now-senator Tammy Duckworth back in 2o12. Joe’s been a radio shithead since.

Goddamn this is some good comment. Reminds me why I even bother to stick around the rotting corpse of Gawker.

A child who is more than 24 months? Sure, especially the closer to 3 they get. Under 24 months? Nope. It’s not there yet. The most they can do is be upset you’re not doing something they want at *that* exact moment.

That is a bad take. Knowing when to do things 100% by the book and when to cut corners on bullshit busywork is an important skill.

UAVs don’t save money in real life. The line items are different, but the bottom line cost is the same or higher. The Global Hawk costs $120 million and it can't even drop bombs.

Concuurency costs, which were already at rounding-error levels as a proportion of the whole program, have been less than estimated. That cost is far less than simply retiring the early model jets any buying more FRP jets in lieu of retrofitting. Which is how it was done before planned concurrency.

Supercruise is a gimmick and, no, the A/C models don’t look the way they do because of the B model life fan, but because there’s only so many ways to back 9 tons of internal fuel & 2 tons of bombs in an airframe that small.