There are so many more, and better!, options than testing in prod, but they take time, money, and talent and ain’t no company got time for that (for a business segment that “doesn’t generate revenue”)

Abraham Lincoln: Secretary of Ghosts

“How’d you get hired by Raytheon? Networking?” “Shit posting mostly”

The “Big Boys” use tests to gauge when code is production ready, they don’t rely on a typing system and call it a day. I’ve seen monoliths made out of bash serve their purpose for years without a glitch, thanks to tests.

This fan is for when the outside of the plane is hot.

self inflicted hardship

The perfect libertarian mascot

An ac-130 is already well equipped to fight several dogs at once.

This comment made me ugly laugh, thank you.

I used to work at a place that required daily progress reports on tasks (this was before agile took off so ‘daily standup’ wasn’t a thing.). So I wrote a script to schedule my git commits throughout the week (so that I had at least one a day), and every afternoon it would pull my git history, generate a summary, and email it to my manager.

He knew it was automated and hated me for it but I had the most consistent and detailed reports. On the upside, it really trained me to make good commit messages. On the downside It really instilled me with a strong “burn the building down” kind of vibe that persists to this day.

Holy shit, I can’t tell you how many times I looked for a gif of this exact scene and couldn’t find it. yoink

Oh I’m going to do the math on this:

assuming the warship is being fired from a naval gun of truly massive proportions based on the AGS Mark 5, firing a saboted warship based on the LRLAP ( since they were made for the Zumwalt class and cost a million a round, making them the obvious best choice.)

And why not, let’s also make the warship a Zumwaltz class, for flavor synergy.

The LRLAP weighd 225lbs and had an effective range of 150km, so thats ~ 100kg at 150km, and it would travel at 825 mps, let’s say ours needs to go 800, were in no rush.

Projectile Mass: A Zumwalt weighs, rounded down, 15,000 long tons, which is 15,240,704 kg Let’s say 15,000,000 kilograms. They emptied it, unloaded the ammunition, decommissioned the AGS, so it weighs a little less. Zumwalts are 610 feet long, let’s make that 1000 total to account for an aerodynamic sabot and charge, so 300m. The bore length was 378" and the shell 88", so that gives us a ratio of 4.29:1

Our barrel is 1287m long, let’s just say 1200m.

Saboted Zumwalt: 15,000,000Kg

Barrel length of gun: 1200m

Distance: We’re gonna park this gun on Gotland, middle of lake NATO. Well need some space, and that’s right in the middle. It’s 1,168.31 km as the crow flies, so we’ll round up to 1200 km.

So, our 1.2Km long nuclear cannon would send our saboted 15,000,000 ton Zumwalt 1200km @ 800 mps, requiring 1200 Kilotons of energy, rounded up. The boat would be in flight for about 25 minutes.

My math is quite accurate, please do not double check it.

I want one of those slow motion youtube channel people to test this thing so bad right now.

is…is this too credible?!

Doesn’t answer the question.

Shows a bunch of dehumanized people (faceless, covered, whited-out) working alone, tending to machines. This does not promote a sense of unity.

And what’s with all the white and red, sterilized, and overtly militaristic themes? That’s not exactly yelling “class unity” to me.

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