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.

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.

What was the git flag to basically rewrite history again?

I’ve definitely been guilty of this, but if I can redo my changes in narrative form before I push I bet I won’t have to.

It’s a weekday, but I’m not a pro, so either llama or hamster. Maybe sloth, we’ll see where today’s project goes.

Does anybody know if there’s a standard method to do a 1-way broadcast from mobile wifi hardware? (Or Auracast, it looks like the same thing) It’s for a sort of mesh network where links may change very rapidly, and so a handshake doesn’t make sense.

Kevlar/Teflon/titanium bipods for a goddamn mortar

And we wonder why it’s so hard to scale up production when somebody starts a land war in Europe.

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST, I AM WRITING YOU TO ASK if you could please send crewed weapons. All we have are ancient AKs that got taped back together.

Can pay in uncut diamonds, but you have to send some first.

/s

The AIMs cook off on re-entry for extra fragmentation.

They would have been really hard to target until recently. I’m going to guess “just” many years ago.

Java was named after the Javanese, and not the other way around?

You’ll never make it as a big time web dev.

Probably not /s, sadly. It’s they that are wrong, not you.

Legend has it, there’s a separate geartrain just for holding a squat.

Burn the heathen.

Sorry, I mean

START PROGRAM BurnTheHeathen
Burn&
the heathen !.
END PROGRAM

/s

You know, in that case, the blame doesn’t fall on the guy that made it. Shit on the people that made the development deadline a couple weeks, and then decided to keep the product in place for decades.