IphtashuFitz @ IphtashuFitz @lemmy.world

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No. The sequel to that one.

Kind of makes me hope for a delayed reaction like the dam explosion in the movie Force 10 From Navarone.

I would love to see Ukraine trolling Russia with this.

Detonate an underwater charge that weakens one of the bridge supports. Wait while the Russians react, examine the bridge, etc.

A dozen or so hours later detonate another hidden underwater charge on another support a few hundred yards away.

Repeat the process after random delays until so many supports are weakened that the bridge collapses under its own weight.

Not a data target, but my wife was pick pocketed in Paris a few months ago. We were boarding a train to the airport and somebody yanked it from her pocket as she boarded with her hands full.

We both have iPhones. Within five minutes while sitting on the train I remotely locked her phone then wiped it. Never saw any fallout that could be attributed to somebody having access to it.

This is the sort of op they would typically notify an ally of when it is actually imminent or just got started. If Biden was still in the White House my guess is he would have been given roughy 72 hours notice or less.

GPS and similar systems are extremely low power, meaning it’s trivial to jam them with a higher powered signal closer to potential targets. And you can easily counter multiple navigation systems by broadcasting over a wide range of frequencies.

Much better to augment radio navigation with inertial navigation, terrain mapping, etc.

Not to mention the high explosives used to trigger nuclear chain reactions degrades over time as well. There are lots of parts to a nuclear weapon that must be regularly maintained/replaced for the weapon to remain viable.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Ukraine over the past few years it’s that they are incredibly resourceful. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they have other novel attacks in various stages of planning. Of course they now have to wait and see how Russia changes their defenses as a result of this attack…

I think you need to wait a generation of car buying before really coming to any conclusions.

I bought a Model Y when they first came out and still drive it, but I’m 99% sure I’ll be “one and done” with Tesla once it’s time for me to buy my next car. There are some features of my Tesla that I like, but plenty I dislike as well. I don’t agree with Elons ideas of minimizing controls, relying on vision for all automation, etc. The idea of windshield wiper controls being a couple levels deep in touchscreen menus is a terrible idea.

The only way I’d buy a second Tesla a few years down the line is if they gave up on the minimalist/touchscreen route and started reintroducing physical controls for most functions. But it’s a safe bet Elon will never allow that as long as he’s running things.

When I do finally decide to replace my Tesla a few years from now there will be significantly more EV options out there. And with the J3400 connector now an open standard and Tesla SuperChargers supporting non -Tesla EV’s, there’s even less incentive to stay with a Tesla EV.

Moving further away likely won’t deter Ukraine. The Russians will need to start surrounding their airfields with a lot more, and better, defensive capabilities. The question is whether they have the ability to do that or not.

I read elsewhere that these were autonomous drones. It likely wouldn’t be terribly difficult to program a drone to fly to a specific location, look for something shaped like an aircraft, then fly into it.

You could also program one or two drones to fly to a specific location, record video for 5-10 minutes, then fly to a different landing zone where one person is waiting to recover the video.

I do lighting design in small theaters & have a fair amount of my own gear. I have a ton of 3-pin, 4-pin, and 5-pin XLR cables, and also some adapters that convert between 3&5 pin. I use colored zip ties on the ends of each cable to not only tell me what type of cable it is but to distinguish my cables from the theaters cables.

Bets as to how many US citizens get caught up in this, and how many of them get deported without even a hint of due process?

As a current Tesla Model Y owner I appreciate this post.

I can also state emphatically that I’m “one and done” with Tesla. I’ll never buy another car from them as long as Musk is involved in any way with the company. Even before he started kissing MAGA ass I realized his heavy handed technology decisions with the cars was a turn off. While there are a few unique features I like, I hate having to dig through touch screen menus just to do things like turn on the windshield wipers. The unique features just aren’t enough to overlook all those other poor usability decisions.

On top of this they are also highly compartmentalized, which sounds like a nightmare to me. A few years ago we ran into a bug with one of their AWS services (I forget the specifics at this point, but it was with a network load balancer). It was a rather novel bug, but easy enough to reproduce, so I was able to give AWS support a working example. They quickly confirmed the bug and said it would be fixed as soon as possible.

Since it was an odd bug I asked AWS support if they could provide a high level description of the fix once it was implemented. It was then that they told me how their teams were so highly siloed and couldn’t really share details like that with each other. The support rep I worked with wouldn’t even know if the bug was fixed by a load balancer team, a more generic networking team, or some other team. They would only know the bug was fixed.

Could have very easily been a mechanical failure. There are plenty of examples of cargo ships like that losing engines, losing steering, etc.

Ok, how do we feed Torrents of movies through an LLM?

Generate a complete script for “Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning” but replace all occurrences of “the” with “teh”, then file a copyright claim for the new script.

My initial thought was similar but from the opposite perspective. Rich people like Elon would figure out a way to hold onto their wealth when they’re reborn. Like keep most of your wealth in an anonymous numbered account and make sure you have that number well memorized…