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[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

The initial phase of colonisation in Africa (until the 17th century) involved mostly religious propaganda, unequal trade and miltary alliances with existing political powers in Africa. Look, for example, how Portugal, and later the Netherlands, slowly eroded the sovereignty of the Kindgom of Kongo and compare it to what China is doing today.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago

TLDR: African leaders are making the exact same mistakes with China as their predecessors did with the European powers.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

It was a joke to make the point that vim can be the easiest tool to use if you are trying to do a complex task.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 4 days ago

In the same way that any game with nazi zombies or even every single historical war game. I don't seem them kicking out Call of Duty

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 days ago

Easy is relative. What are you trying to do? Replace a value in an yaml file? Then nano is easier. Trying to refactor a business critical perl/brainfuck polyglot script in production? Then you probably want to use vim (or emacs if you are one of those people)

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 5 days ago

Chapter 1

Eagles get the ring. Eagles fly to Mordor. Eagles get shot down because Mordor has the best air defense system in Middle Earth. Sauron has the the ring and throws a Eagle BBQ party to celebrate. The end.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

You know, there's plenty of Syrian refugees that have skills France actually needs and also learned how to speak French and are not cozying up with criminals and dictators. I wonder why Macron doesn't give them French nationality.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 week ago

And? All of those being part of the same walled garden is a bug in the legal system not a feature.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

There's also the part where they cooperate with Russian authorities but not western authorities (which is why Pavel Durov was arrested), or how their half hidden end2end encryption mode used to have a mechanism to make it almost impossible to detect a Person in the Middle Attack until they got called out.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably not a whale.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

That's what happens when the drones' QA is done in the front.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Not necessarily, when you target one very specific setup you can use performance tricks you can't use otherwise. When developing for PC you are forced to play by the rules because you can't rely on a quirk of a particular combination of components because everyone has a different one.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Not a native speaker, but if I wanted to boil it down to a word I would use "made a trailer". I think you are right about the algoritm confusing a movie trailer with a physical trailer.

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An unspecified technical problem forced the Rio-bound Boeing aircraft to turn back shortly after takeoff from Amsterdam. A spokesperson for Dutch air traffic control said the plane requested to land as a precaution and turned around over Belgium some 40 minutes after takeoff.

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A new study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests the satellites are emitting "unintended" radiation from the electronics onboard the satellites.

These low-frequency radio waves, are being picked up by telescopes designed to scan that frequency range. That's because this range also happens to be instrumental to deep space observations.

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A Harvard behavioral scientist, who has extensively studied honest behavior, has been accused of fabricating study results — and yes, the jokes write themselves.

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New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate's submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely played a role in the submersible's tragic demise.

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