HF tools are not designed for the long term, generally. If you need a tool to work at least once, for one job that you are never going to do again, HF is “good enough”.

The rule of thumb is to never buy a tool there that could result in a gruesome death if it fails to protect your life, like jack stands. (Invest in quality safety equipment first if you get something like an angle grinder.)

It’s just a surface to air missile. 100 is quite a few, but considering how drones are used in this conflict, it’s probably not nearly enough.

They are likely reserved for last resort air defense closer to cities or areas where they really need to push back the Russian air force.

Patriot batteries are a bit on the expensive side, so their use is likely limited. If I am not mistaken, Ukraine did get a few batteries from other NATO countries and not just the US.

And it’s about a mile? Many common rifle bullets will be starting to nope-out of supersonic around that distance, so you would need something really beefy, like a .338 Lapua or even a .50 to be accurate. (A bullet will generally start tumbling when it drops sub-sonic.)

Don’t mistake me: many bullets can and do travel past a mile regularly, especially depending on the shot angle. Yeah, they can still kill. I am referring to the uncertainty and inaccuracy at those ranges, especially if a bullet has lost a ton of speed.

My main point is that long range sniper rifles are quite large caliber and generally require long heavy barrels. You aren’t going to swing one of those around without being noticed.

The shot speed approximation is the easy part, believe it or not. Since the bullet must be a large caliber you can guess at about 200-300 grains for a “smaller” large caliber bullet, or between 650-900 grains for a larger one. (Maybe a few more, but I am sticking with a 338 or a 50.) Muzzle velocity is also going to be on the high end at between 2900fps and +3100fps for most all of them. The math is easy to work out with a common ballistics calculator by estimating the ballistic coefficient of available bullets in the category we are talking about. (Bullet speed at the target is the most important number to calculate.)

Still, it’s not perfect math. If you look for a camera flash at an estimated time when a bullet was supposedly fired, you are probably going to find one, especially if you have a second or two of footage across multiple cameras.

Old 386 and 486 code was really easy. I also got lost around the Pentium era as well. At the time, it was getting really hacky to work through extended and expanded memory while also learning to work with 32bit registers.

At the time, correctly or not, I just felt I was learning to navigate a bunch of architecture bandaids and not anything that was going to be static for the next few years. I just kinda put it aside, TBH.

ASM is still useful for MCUs at times and developing that feels like the good ol days…

You can generally cross compile across architectures, but there can be instruction or build nuances that can cause hiccups. Also, you need to build everything against the target architecture as well, not just the kernel.

Undeniably there are similar swooping patterns but I think you are experiencing apophenia.

The layers are almost invisible with this tech. The custom adult novelty business will go crazy over this.

Several gallons (per day?) are allowed, for a little bit.

Sugar is one of the best anti-craving foods there is, IMHO. (I went from 185lbs to 215lbs in just a couple of months. I lost it all over the next year.)

Yeah, the GI issues can run deep. It took a couple years to get my heartburn under control, but that is finally manageable now.

The shits sucked though and those did resolve fairly quick. You will find that it is a common affliction among professional drunks, actually.

I only skimmed your profile, but it seems you were an every day, drink till you blackout type, similar to me. (No judgement, at all.) I bring this up because, if you haven’t already, be honest with your doctor about this. Alcohol will wreck your gut and cause all kinds of weird imbalances, especially after you quit. It may help your doctor to take that into account, s’all. (I don’t know your age or gender, but a colonoscopy may be in your future. That is a good thing, and it wouldn’t surprise me if one was recommended.)

Embrace these wins and remember this feeling you have. (The first few dozen times I quit drinking, I never really embraced how good it felt. I do now and it’s an awesome motivator for me.)

Damn. “First comment” theory is out. It’s something though.

I have had this issue show up on my own comments as well. (Even with using the I function in Connect or not.)

Also underscores have been italics for years across many platforms. It’s not always, but is generally. (Well, I have been using underscores as a pseudo-emphasis before markdown was even a thing.)

Edit: From a now deleted post, but you can see it in my history:

I have had this happen once on a comment post. (Also tried multiple edits to resolve, but it didn’t work.)

Thanks! That worked as expected. Odd. I’ll just point the dev to this and a couple of other threads I have seen this happen. Cheers!

Even when you completely ignore that bullshit monologue from Altman, something is fishy with this.

While just speculation, I think they are positioning for a sale as that is going to be the only way to get any value from their shares. (Aside from dividends, if that is a even a thing with pre-IPO equity? They can’t really IPO being a non-profit and it makes sense to sell the company off.)

Anyone else case to spitball any theories? They can’t be an investor sinkhole forever so there has to be a way for profit to be extracted eventually.

Unrelated question: Is the markdown above broken for anyone else? There are random cases where it’s broken for my client and am trying to to nail down the conditions better for the dev. (I am on Connect)

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Pick one. It was an arbitrary value.

Basically. The root of your question was about what gives any item value.

If I have 10M stem bolts and you need them and don’t have access to a replicator, those bolts now have value to you. If I can trade those bolts for latnium with the expectation of trading that latnium for something else, that latnium has value to me.

We now have the makings for a society based on trade.

And what can I buy with latnium?

Self-sealing stem bolts. A bunch of them.

Couldn’t I just hop into the holo deck and swim in my personal lake of it?

Only in something that looked like latnium. Holodecks are a derivative of replicator technology, so it wouldn’t actually be latnium. (And it’s not a store of wealth since it would only exist on the holodeck.)

I could replicate one small bot to build consecutively bigger assembly bots.

There was an entire space station that could replicate itself as well as replace parts on other ships. (At the cost of biomaterial…) Also, they build entire space stations, so yeah, automation is a thing but it still takes an energy source.

More like Star Trek deep snooze nine.

It wasn’t my favorite series and the ferangi weren’t my favorite species either. Regardless, trade was still active across the galaxy and many cultures didn’t have replicators. The reasoning behind what and how the ferangi traded was still extremely viable.

Hold my coffee.