Close-In Weapon System

The Phalanx defense systems you see on naval vessels.

Which is total overkill for the job. It very well might cost more to fire a Phalanx at the drone than the value of the drone. And the Phalanx has IIRC 20 seconds of fire before it needs extensive downtime for reloading.

They need something in the realm of a big automatic shotgun.

Depends on the target, some large ISR drones totally need big 20mm rounds but you scale the system down to machine guns and shotguns and build out integrated air defence systems with electronic actively scanning radar and sensors to detect and track the threats to kill

The way the US military works, throwing rolls of toilet paper at the drone from the deck of the shop is likely more expensive than the drone said toilet paper is hurling towards.

Yeah, just a smaller version, naval CIWS are designed to shoot down missiles.

I get the same spinner as well. I'm curious if it's related to: https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamou...

Yeah, every store should do this with line items on the receipt.

I don't have an exact date or anything but feeling was with Google in the early 00's. While my "big" first gig was managing Linux and FreeBSD in the data center about the same time, we still had a lot of SGI, IBM/AIX, IBM VM/ESA, AS400, SunOS/Solaris and Windows. Our main driver for getting rid of the big iron was the industry was turning towards cheap commodity systems running Linux and saving the yearly support costs was a big win. Google doing Linux at scale was helpful for the management team to "risk" moving away from tried and true vendors.

Interesting.

So if I understood correctly, at the time you were at some other major company that still had a long tail of commercial Unix, mainframe, and other operating systems in the data center and the fact that a company like Google was able to grow and operate at scale while running nearly everything on x86 Linux advertised to other companies that it could be done?

When I see stories like this, doesn't it make it easier, not harder for the DOGE folks to do their thing?

I get the "resign in protest" angle but is it really helping any?

I think it is in part a statement of "I can no longer do my job as required but am expeted to take responsibility for future outcomes, so i'd ratger resign" which I would cobsider reasonable.

When you can't prevent corruption, you can choose to separate yourself from the outcome, or potentially be blamed for it later.

You forgot the Huffington Post: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-pentagon-says-it-wil...

What’s the runway versus the burn rate? Who are the founders and who are the investors?

rclone, Apache VFS, GoCloud.dev ?

Thank you, looks like GoCloud.dev would be the closest. I was surprized Aapache VPF didn't have any cloud proivders such as S3 built in.

I have had to build these kinds of abstractions several times in the past and figured there must be something out there already but haven't found anything.

Can we get this applied to print, broadcast and cable news programs?

> “L'histoire est une suite de mensonges sur lesquels on est d'accord.” —NB

("History is a bunch of lies upon which we all agree")

Ironically, it's not used in journalistic contexts in Turkish. It would seem amateurish if it were, like they weren't doing their jobs properly.

But it is in Azerbaijani (they also tend to makeshift the non finite verb suffix -ub as the perfective).

And here I thought we were going to rehash Crowdstrike ;-)

Just a tactful reference hahah

> the US government isn’t burning taxpayer dollars on a ten figure spaceship just to have us push a Crowdstrike update on it.

I know you kid, but theoretically running crowdstrike-susceptible windows on a spacecraft would work fine (at least I claim so), because you'd need a robust backdoor / OOB into it anywa (And I'm no windows fanboy, I hate them just as much as the next guy). Crowdstrike bug would cause an N-day loss of comms just like a thousand other things they plan for in a spacecraft.