As someone who smoked two packs a day at one point, I am also impressed.
A Chinese man who chain-smoked his way through a marathon was disqualified for smoking on the course
(Confirmation bias, ENGAGE!)
We have a few of those projects coming up as well. Thankfully, I just get to poke at the apps to make sure the issues are resolved.
But yeah, one of my examples of rogue threads is a coding issue, not inherently a language issue. Even log4j issues can't be completely blamed on Java "The Language".
Hating on big tech has probably been a thing since the creation of the abacus.
Being honest about products would be a great start. I would probably be totally cool with some of the shit they do if they weren't deceptive about it, Chrome being a great example.
The article isn't that bad either. It's at a novice level, but it's not horrible.
Same thing with COBOL! So many devs with ... Wait. Are any COBOL devs even alive still?
In return, he had a conversation with a big wig from Target where he taught them how many checkout stations you could actually cram into a tiny space.
The effectiveness of a laser system, is neither about speed nor range, but about exposure time of the target.
I get what you are saying, but exposure time is directly related to speed and range in the context of the laser systems I was referring to. I'll explain below and try to call out my own knowledge gaps as well.
I knew we had satellite killers, but I didn't think those were practical enough to be deployed in an effective capacity yet. If there are, that would be neat.
For the smaller systems, I am only aware of the Israeli laser systems used to supplement their "iron dome" and some of the ones the US has on their ships. Both of those, I thought, only had an max effective range of about 2km, but only because of average atmospheric conditions. (And maybe even beam dispersion or something? That is a guess.) 2km @ mach 6 is 2 seconds of exposure time provided that the target acquired in advance.
It just makes more sense that those two laser systems are used to supplement a larger defense strategy. My mistake if I implied that they would completely solve any issues and not have consequences. Sure, the rocket, morter or whatever may not hit its primary target, but anything else could be considered a secondary target, I suppose.
(If I said anything stupid, just call me out. I like discussions about these kinds of things.)
There is nothing inherently wrong with Java I would speculate, but it can be a royal pain in the ass to manage if you just need one application to work.
I know the basics of the language, but from what I have seen managing it, I don't like it. Just from being in security, I constantly hit barriers with devs because of versioning issues. There is always some ancient app running on a version of Java that can't be updated, for whatever reason. Version management is always a pain, but with Java? Goddamn.
I admit ignorance about the details of Java and how awesome it is for job security. There is no way in hell I could even debate anyone who has watched a single video on YouTube about Java. However, from what I have seen, it either works great or it fails explosively with billions of randomly allocated threads attempting to suck memory from every other server within 50 miles.
If it's awesome to code with, cool. I am just a little salty from my experiences, as you can tell.
Why? They just doubled their user tracking.
We use all of our brain. Well, some of us try to anyway.
Laser defense systems are short range and anything traveling between mach 6 and mach 10 is going to be extremely difficult to hit by the time the weapon is in range. Some tactical nukes might be slower and more vulnerable, but laser defense weapons are better used on slower things like drones, rockets or even artillery shells and morters, for now.
It was likely return fraud and is super common with PC components. The logic is, is that your average customer service rep doesn't know how to correctly identify parts that are being returned and doesn't give a shit about the return as long as the customer doesn't throw a fit. I would imagine this is still the case with Amazon since there is little human interaction.
I worked with a kid at CompUSA who did that with GPUs. He got arrested, or at least, escorted out of the store in handcuffs. Back then, and I don't know about now, most retail stores had an RMA cage where one or two people worked comparing part number and serials for expensive part returns. When your name is on the receipt and you work at the same store, you are gonna have a bad time.
I just moved to vaping and away from smoking. There was no big accomplishment here, unfortunately. Meh, it's just a risk tradeoff as nicotine isn't completely harmless itself. Without getting into details here, quitting nicotine is not on the table for at least another year.