Yeah, there’s an annoying amount of controversy over whether “Iran was trying to make a bomb”. It gets mixed answers from experts, because the literal answer is one thing, the effective answer is another, and there’s no way to explain it responsibly in a word or two.

Iran was/is trying to almost-but-not-quite get the bomb. Whether just going for it would of worked better or if the US would have stepped in sooner is an interesting question. It’s possible the Ayatollah wasn’t lying about having personal moral issues with it, though.

And even this improvement wasn’t universally appreciated: some people found error messages they couldn’t ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate “the ease of programming” with the ease of making undetected mistakes.

This guy was writing in the year x86 was first introduced, and I still feel like I see this attitude around.

(He manages to shoehorn in a “kids these days” paragraph too, though)

Yes, but quality takes actual skill to measure, instead of just a diff.

(Although I guess lines are still better than time in office as a measure)

Hmm, was the boss hoping to turn that into a “why do I even pay you” moment?

Uh, so other side of the border from me is red state Montana. Anyway, I think the idea is you load it onto something else once it’s in and take it to an actual target. It’s just a long border that’s hard to seal perfectly.

If there’s a note of disbelief in there, I’d like to point out America has nukes and uses them as a deterrent the same way. Like, whether proliferation is morally justified, of if we should just accept our fate in that scenario, is a serious question we should ask, but you don’t really have a moral highground about it.

Obviously I’m not saying killing people is cool, and we know that 2/3 of Americans didn’t ask for any of this.

TIL.

Delivery would be an issue for sure. Then again, if the potential target is America “guys on quads” would work. If the target isn’t America, America will do it for us. Edit: Because they own the Western hemisphere, and we’re their bitch.

I mean, they’re not wrong, they could get away with a lot less without the nukes.

North Korea will fall to something other than invasion now. For example, things usually don’t go too well for female monarchs, because the men around them are dicks.

How directly civilians are targeted and how formally varies quite a bit, actually, even in ancient wars.

Actually, Canada got in on the ground floor and we have everything we’d need. They say we’re about two months out at any given time, going the plutonium route.

Then again, we’re pretty used to the luxuries of not being an isolated pariah state.

Not surprising. This would be the moment to do it.

If they want to destroy America, the Bin Laden gambit is proven to work.

Do they ever wonder if they might be the badguys, when they’re going to a meeting about how to put ultranationalists in charge of Germany?

In the third world you see people selling VPN access in person at markets. At this point junior can probably just download it themselves, but at some point maybe that opens up as a career opportunity.

They can also do the aiming, which is helpful if it’s a drone whizzing around. The operator just pulls the trigger.

It’s a big development, and will have a lot to say about how 21st century warfare works, but if you were expecting Terminator you’ll be relieved.

I can’t tell if they haven’t thought through what that would mean for them themselves, or they know it’s BS but it’s still good for marketing.

Spoiler alert: because it hurts.

I guess turning it into a mystery gets more clicks than “check out how many times this exact molecule has evolved in parallel”, even if that’s the actual interesting part.

Yeah. Surveillance is covered already.

Overkill. Just find the illegal no-age-collection ISO. Installing with your middle finger raised is optional, but recommended.

Nobody really looks at the past decades that way here, and even in the third world there’s plenty of America fans.

You tried to hedge that, but you’re basically just agreeing with QAnon, on grounds of a different conspiracy theory.

Alright. Hopefully he’s good and not awful.

It’s not a given. Once whoever gets in, they have the same incentives as the last regime. Look at what happened with Sheikh Hasina.

That seems a bit premature.