rutellthesinful

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

you can't just decide to build cutting edge chips

if the DoD needed cutting edge chips but had to purchase them from within the US, all that would happen is their technology would be worse for the next decade(s) until US production could catch up

given the current us procurement strategy of keeping at least a generation or so ahead of its next near-peer, i really doubt that would fly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Biden could have had this 30 minute conversation at literally any point over the past several months

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (4 children)

in panel 2 what part of his anatomy is that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

But either you'd be strategically weakening the country to give invading forces an easier time, at which point you're throwing civilians into the meat grinder anyway, or you're starving the country until it devolves into literal anarchy, because the only people in the position to surrender were entrenched enough that they'd be the last one to see their power structure fall apart.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

but it's not the hexbears making these memes...?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the ai:

def is_hamas(target):
  return True

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

a supernova is caused by nuclear fusion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

teleporters don't work through shields

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

even if you're in a situation where it's somehow possible to manually draw 1/3 of a mm to any accuracy, 1/3 scale draft rulers still exist for metric, so it's equivalent

I seem to remember you as the one who brought up calculators

because as soon as you have access to a calculator, "off the top of your head" is an irrelevance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

well yeah, because 1/8" is 3.175mm

1/3 of a mm is a distance between 1/64" and 1/128"

mechanical pencil lead is only about 0.4mm

I still don’t see how a calculator helps though.

don't ask me ask the person who posed the "what's a third of 9.5mm" question

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

using a ruler to measure a length of 1/8" is as accurate as using a ruler to measure a length of 31mm and eyeballing 2/3 of a mm

the bottleneck at that point is your eyeball and pencil lead, not the unit of measurement

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