WhiskyTangoFoxtrot

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Founder and lead developer at Overclocked Abacus Games

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human - sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Isn't #3 the school from the Discworld books?

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

John Astin or Raul Julia?

(I know there have been other Gomezes, but those are the only two that count.)

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Unless you're Superman. Then you can take him pretty easily.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

It's because no one's actually going to cut off her head, so it's okay to fantasize about it. If it becomes common to call her a bitch it could impact her reputation and cause people to take her less seriously, which would make it harder for her to get good terms in business negotiations, affecting her bottom line. .ml is a tool of the oligarchy.

Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing ( apnews.com )

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China — the world’s No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary....

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot , (edited )

No, a couple of years ago we thought that Russia would steamroll over any neighbour they tried to invade.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Plus if you post the answer in a reply it means that everyone else who reads the thread now has it without needing to do their own searches.

It's really screwed up how many people still think that conversations on publicly a accessible websites are one-on-one things.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

I tend to stick to interpreted languages so I can't weigh in on the Rust vs. C++ debate, but I know that if you're trying to make headway against a language as entrenched as C++ is you've got to get loud.

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” ( arstechnica.com )

The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

No, Colonel Sanders, you're wrong. Mama's right.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

They could reduce the amount of paved surface, since adoption of EVs would allow some parking to be moved underground as they don't generate fumes like ICEs do. Still should be treated as a stopgap solution as we move away from car-dependemce, though.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

"Of all the... Son of a... Couldn't you have waited two seconds?"

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

The truth is that the whole setup is moot if it's one of the door-guards that tells you the rules, since they might be lying about the whole thing. There needs to be a trusted third-party involved, who knows about the guards but doesn't know which one's lying and which one's telling the truth.

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