Em Adespoton @ adespoton @lemmy.ca

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Really?

Here’s a good summary:

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/9/8/china-maintains-dominance-in-rare-earth-production

I lived through it while it was happening. Where were you?

Well, that’s a good thing in a way; china was previously selling at a loss to put the competition out of business. Now the other refineries have a reason to start back up again.

So… Zoom went down because GoDaddy mistakenly started resolving the domain to 0.0.0.0? That’s what it sounds like….

Ooh! Haribo sugar free!

Is this Chapter 7 or Chapter 11?

That’s next. Any faith org that doesn’t swear fealty to Trump will be on the list, as not swearing fealty to Trump is political.

It’s already poisoned.

They’re planning to drain it before the invasive species they stopped protecting against finish the job.

The National Guard will not be engaging with the public, but rather taking on duties that drain the time of sworn officers, like directing traffic. The troops can help secure crime scenes, distribute food and supplies to the homeless population throughout the corridor, transport prisoners, provide courthouse security and run drone operations used for locating suspects or assessing incidents.

Er, those things can’t both be true. Is the National Guard not engaging with the public, or will they be directing (public) traffic, securing crime scenes against the public, distributing food and supplies to the public, transporting the public, providing security to public buildings, and running drone operations used for locating members of the public?

I think I may have found part of Albuquerque PD’s problem. They’ve forgotten who they’re supposed to serve and protect.

They’re thinking that it was vitamin B fortified, which besides being illegal in Canada is also a health risk.

Why not just import regular unfortified Vegemite?

That explains why I haven’t been bombarded with election madness this time… nobody is putting it where I’ll see it!

I have to admit, I’ve been enjoying it.

I presume the NDP’s idea is to publish where the voters are that they want to add to their voting base and take away from the CPC?

In some cases, it’s people who’ve done the research and written the paper who then use an LLM to give it a final polish. Often, it’s people who are writing in a non-native language.

Doesn’t make it good or right, but adds some context.

I’m glad Greens are also doing strategic representation-focusing on ridings where they have a chance of winning and supporting other parties in ridings where Conservatives have a chance of winning. It’s a better way to spend their budget.

Ukrainians have been buying John Deere tractors for years… and reprogramming them.

No reason why they couldn’t do the same with Teslas.

Your comment is so much better than the article in every way. Thank you for it.

The money they get from the government to run it has a small portion tagged as COVID money for disaster response. Which somehow has resulted in the entire funding being tagged COVID. Which means, unlikely to be renewed tomorrow.

Interesting story.

I started using Objective C in 1994 on NeXTcubes, and later NeXTstations.

For simpler, one-off projects, it was great; also great for its ability to make any existing C library or function (or even block of asm) an object that played nicely with all the rest. And every API was just another set of objects! Discovery was easy.

It wasn’t until it came to maintenance of complex codebases that it became a problem. There’s a reason things like NSurlHandler stuck around right into modern macOS — replacing objects like THAT had implications all up and down the dependency chain. Essentially, it became Apple’s equivalent of DLL Hell.

It was also the last language that I thought could be almost all things to all people; after that, I realized that specialized languages that performed really well in a single context were a much better way to go.

Or, Carney’s Gaza remark highlights LPC’s ability to be inclusive and support people with differing views on policy.

All depends on how you frame it.

What an interestingly narrow perspective!

What I was wondering is, since the aircraft in question was too old to require a flight recorder, did the business, for their own protection, at least have something onboard that recorded video and audio, as “cutting costs” was unlikely to be the reason they wouldn’t have this. And if they didn’t have that for regulatory reasons, had anyone attempted to retrieve the telemetry or the footage from the cellphones of the passengers, since they were on a sightseeing tour and so were likely filming.

But you do you.

Basically, there’s a difference between being the first to do something and having no records of someone having done it before.

Often there’s no records for things because they weren’t considered important to record.

They never said what he was fully fit for.

Depends?