rbanffy
β¨Β Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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If itβs not broken, donβt fix it.
3270 is a very efficient form of distributed computing where terminals and their controllers control a lot of state and the mainframe is in charge of the more important things. It was a browser from the 60βs, mostly 70βs.
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On foreign soil, US law canβt protect them. Theyβll never be able to leave the US to any country who would be willing to make them answer to the ICC.
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Now wouldnβt that be sweet?
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And it seems interesting a lot of people seem to be completely oblivious to it.
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Weapons are designed with an opponent in mind, and guarded against the expected threat models from that opponent. Everything breaks down when the opponent does not what you want them to.
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> US leadership descending the oceans of stupidity all the way to the Mariana trench.
And they voted for this not only once, but twice.
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As the Soviet Union made us learn, you donβt need a big military victory to make your enemy spend themselves into defeat.
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When you decapitate a well organised military, all you achieve is installing a new enemy you know little about you canβt predict their actions and that now know they are fighting for their own survival.
Not the best place to be.
Americans seem to underestimate everyone else.
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If you throw away your principles because you are fighting an unprincipled enemy, you are no better than them.
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