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Not sure that counts, as we're not using nuclear weapons in practice for current conflicts/engagements.

We have the whole other range of combat capabilities, and the distribution of those capabilities in our arsenal/armed forces seems guaranteed to change.


Then it is just another proxy war, like the last half of the 20th century between major powers.

I bought a few of a similar product probably a few months later than the timeline covered here. Got mine from Etsy, and kind of assumed they were made in a home setup (obviously this is far from universally true with Etsy products). Living in an apartment complex, I got a lot more use out of them than family living in SFHs.

I'm certainly curious what sales looked like over a longer timeframe.


I assumed it was mostly distance from painting surface to camera that needed to be controlled for.


As an American, I'm probably heavily influenced about non-state-by-state discussion in the media and thus ignorant... (and work in tech and don't directly pay for health insurance...) but I don't think I'm aware of significant state-by-state differences in healthcare.

I know California generally has more regulations and has MediCal, but most insurance options I've encountered seem to be multi-state (regional, not necessarily country-wide though). Things like FSA/HSA are nearly the same across all States I think?

I'd assume quality of care varies more by region (likely with some correlation between quality and the to major options health insurance providers) than by state lines.

That all said, I'd be curious to see all 50 states in a healthcare quality ranking combined with the various "peer" (or EU) countries like you propose. I'd probably be surprised by the spread.


Medi-Cal is California's implementation of Medicaid, which along with CHIP is always administered by the individual states (though the federal government tries to apply some controls via funding).

That's the only big top-down state-by-state distinction that comes to mind, but there are a lot of small details. We have some models predicting medical outcomes and financials and state is always at or near the top of the SHAPs. Sometimes bigger than age or household income. (I don't study this or anything, just an incidental observation.)


The organizations that take doctors' licenses away when they misbehave are all state-level organizations (in California, it is called the Board of Medical Quality Assurance) and I can easily imagine that some states perform this function much better than other states.


Was happy to read this, as I've often imagined doing this myself (i.e. thoroughly hashing out commentary on a bunch of nits in a GUI that annoy me and I'm convinced should be better).

I agree that ctrl+L is a weird shortcut in a vacuum, but it's one I've known for 15 years, originally from using browsers. And it always makes me happy that Windows and Gnome (and Nautilus, which isn't the gnome default but is still present) all share it, which is nice for old/power-users.

(but actually, on re-read, the complaint may not be with the shortcut at all, and purely with the "no other way")

There's something in the room (I think it's an elephant), but not mentioned in the post, which is that the current Gnome UI is very Windows 11-like, while screwing up a lot of the details (hover-text, location bar being clickable).

(After using Gnome with 14.04 and 20.04, I had stability issues in 22.04 and am now happily on XFCE; long-term stability ftw)


The writer is just using an old version, you can just click the bar to enter edit mode.


For context "old" here is within the last 6 months.


The Gnome version that the writer uses is Gnome 43 which was released 2 years ago.


And for how long has it had this "broken" behaviour for? When Microsoft introduced a similar path bar in Explorer (in Vista or 7, don't remember), it had the double functionality right from the beginning. The fact that Gnome Files didn't is frankly baffling.


> And for how long has it had this "broken" behaviour for?

For years: "This will probably be part of the upcoming Gnome 46" [1], "46.0 2024-03-20" [2].

Funnily enough, this feature seems to have been released less than 6 months ago. :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1asa3u0/comment/kqow...

[2] https://release.gnome.org/calendar/


I don't think it was "broken", it was just a dumb design choice. But I don't know why people like to whine about an issue that was already fixed either.


Nautilus and "Files" are the same.


I might have made this mistake via confusion from my more recent use of XFCE then. (I've never bothered trying to change my file manager; let alone learn the name, except that I needed to launch nautilus from command line, years ago and so have /that/ name learned)


Further, I'm not sure you can do command injection, as the the `host` variable is treated as a single token in the shell call. `host = "google.com; wget exploit"` won't run `wget exploit`.

Happy to learn if there's a more nefarious trick that gets around this, though.


Slack and chatgpt behaviors here are regular reminders to me of "using tech still sucks for the [non-nerds]". I'm pretty resilient to these whoopsies and just live with it...

Teams does the discord thing mentioned in another comment, helpfully! But I swear getting into code/format blocks in Teams only works sometimes (phase of the moon?)

My company's internal GPT changes the ChatGPT enter behavior, which I definitely appreciated the forethought of.


Because nerds will not tolerate them at all?

I wish... as a nerd, slack et al is a pretty miserable experience.


You /can/ totally do it hardmode though. I did small plastic battlebots several years ago, and I went for Xbee teleop communication to a microcontroller, controlling PWM motor drivers etc. (no, didn't go far enough that this gave me any competitive advantage)

But my real passion is tying together servos/microcontrollers/motors letting me make custom built teleop'd quadrupeds with airsoft guns, lasers and cameras...

There's a lot of stuff you can do in robotics before you get to true autonomy.

(just rambling, inspired by your comment; nothing you said is wrong :) )


Enlighten us, then?

And does "broadly unproductive" have a specific meaning, too?


Thanks for the insights on that half of the hypothetical! 9mg is indeed wild, and made me go check the article... The article is a bit confusing, or I'm missing some nuances. It seems to talk about 2-3 drones, I think, mentioning weights of: 9 mg, 1.13 g, and 4 g. I think the one in the video is not the 9 mg version.


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