EZ, no password on password manager.

[Points at head]

Is this the version of Islam the Taliban are going off of?

Fire in the hole!

(Credibly speaking, those weren’t battery explosions)

You bet your ass they’re tearing everything apart in a panic now, at least. Which might be a reason to stop at two devices and save the new shekels.

That’s more of a philosophical stance than any kind of secret.

Yes. That being said, it matters which language you choose. COBOL is always a bad choice, unless writing in COBOL is the whole point. There isn’t really a universal best choice, either. Python is often a good one, but if you’re doing something big it will become this meme.

I don’t think that’s quite right. It’s more like if you have to choose a language before you know what you’re doing, Python is the best choice. For anything large enough it’s multiple places down the list, but you really don’t want to have to learn Rust and possibly reinvent wheels for your quick boilerplate hack.

Bover kurwa! It’s kind of impressive to me that this thing can cover many hundreds of kilometers.

I heard about the HIMARS, but does this extend to all American munitions?

Yes! And you can dump any removable armour, because road rage incidents rarely involve calibers larger than 55.

Um, AKCTUALLY, there’s mines that are triggered magnetically, so they might not go off from a blow.

I suggest adding an anti-personnel mine at the point of impact to make sure.

Russian warfare circa 2024: We have lot of shells, and a lot of troops. Both can be fired at suspected enemy positions.

I’m guessing the European ones are harder to get into, though, or have less sleeping space. That engine has to go somewhere,

Hmm, could you electrify an Abrams? I wonder if there would be a way to make it street legal, given that’s it’s not so much different from a large SUV at this point.

There are 193 states party to the treaty, but “Four UN states are not party: Egypt, Israel, North Korea and South Sudan.” For them, use would be acceptable.

Anyone want to take odds on whether Egypt won’t sign just because Israel won’t sign? They’re not exactly a frequent flier on lists of nations who don’t support international law.

Lol, I plead not American, I’ve never had to deal with the IRS.

I regret that the Democrats aren’t abusing (to whatever degree doing exactly what they said counts) the shit out of that ruling. This is why the other guys win.

Bonus points if it’s fucking with the justices personally. Telling the IRA to adjust someone’s taxes upwards sounds like an “official action”…

Maybe I just like the idea of a closing tag being very specific about what it is that is being closed (?).

That’s kind of what I was getting at with the mental scoping.

My peeve with json is that… it doesn’t properly distinguish between strings that happen to be a number and “numbers"

Is that implementation-specific, or did they bake JavaScript type awfulness into the standard? Or are numbers even supported - it’s all binary at the machine level, so I could see an argument that every (tree) node value should be a string, and actual types should be left to higher levels of abstraction.

I actually don’t like the attributes in xml, I think it would be better if it was mandatory that they were also just more tagged elements inside the others, and that the “validity” of a piece of xml being a certain object would depend entirely on parsing correctly or not.

I particularly hate the idea of attributes in svg, and even more particularly the way they defined paths.

I agree. The latter isn’t even a matter of taste, they’re just implementing their own homebrew syntax inside an attribute, circumventing the actual format, WTF.

Hmm, so in tree terms, each node has two distinct types of children, only one of which can have their own children. That sounds more ambiguity-introducing than helpful to me, but that’s just a matter of taste. Can you do lists in XML as well?

I think we did a thread about XML before, but I have more questions. What exactly do you mean by “anything can be a tag”?

It seems to me that this:

<address>
    <street_address>21 2nd Street</street_address>
    <city>New York</city> 
    <state>NY</state>
    <postal_code>10021-3100</postal_code>
</address>

Is pretty much the same as this:

  "address": {
    "street_address": "21 2nd Street",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "NY",
    "postal_code": "10021-3100"
  },

If it branches really quickly the XML style is easier to mentally scope than brackets, though, I’ll give it that.