John Smith

@IanCutress It’s how you learn to get better, by practicing.

Apple/Intel/Samsung typically want to get 80-90% yield before releasing a product. That includes all binning after final packaging. What's the bet that Huawei are willing to accept 20% or 30% for Kirin?

@lisa_maths @TheEXECUTlONER_ Standard US traffic rules require left-turning vehicles to yield to oncoming straight or right-turning traffic from the opposite direction, consistent with driver manuals and state laws like those in New York and Virginia.

@TheEXECUTlONER_ @johnsmith3433 That is for the oncoming traffic...Did I just step into the twilight zone here on X????

This driver with the POV turning left says the right of way belongs to his car. The car coming from the opposite direction is turning right and proceeds to merge in front of the car turning left and takes the right of way. I looked, there is no yield sign for the car turning right. Different takes on this - A Dmv instructor said the right hand turn has to wait till it’s clear because they have a shoulder merge with a median in the way. If the median wasn’t there, the left hand turn has to wait. But a professional CDL driver with decades of experience said with an open green light both ways, ( unless the right turn has a yield ) the left turn will ALWAYS yield to straight or right turning traffic. ALWAYS. What do you think? Who has the right of way? The car turning right or the car turning left?

@airuyi @citrinowicz How could they ever sincerely believe that the USA and Israel will not attack them again. A promise from Trump is worthless. A promise from the US is worthless because they elected a Trump once and could do it again. And Israel is famous for exploding pagers.

@citrinowicz No this is all wrong. Iran doesn't want a nuclear weapon, they want not to be attacked. The problem is solved if they sincerely believe that the USA and Israel will not attack them again. The nuclear bomb problem isn't in Uranium enrichment, it's in politics in USA and Israel.

The Collapse of Deterrence Against Iran? Paradoxically, one of the most serious consequences of this campaign may be the erosion of deterrence vis-à-vis Iran, specifically, the loss of the implicit sword hanging over Tehran as it considers whether to move toward nuclear weapons capability. For years, one of the main factors restraining the Iranian leadership under Khamenei from openly advancing toward a bomb was the fear that doing so could trigger a large-scale military campaign aimed not merely at damaging Iran’s capabilities, but at threatening the regime itself. From Tehran’s perspective, however, Iran has now endured precisely such a confrontation and survived it. More importantly, the conflict exposed the significant limitations facing both Israel and the United States in any future campaign against Iran: the reluctance to commit ground forces, constraints on available munitions, and Israel’s deep operational and strategic dependence on the United States. At the same time, Iran may have concluded that its ability to threaten or disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, thereby inflicting severe damage on the global economy, gives it a level of coercive leverage that the West is ultimately unwilling to challenge decisively. It is important to acknowledge that Iran withstood an unprecedented military assault in terms of the scale of firepower directed against it, yet the regime remained intact and did not capitulate. That reality may lead Tehran to conclude that the deterrent credibility of both Israel and the United States has been fundamentally weakened. This perception could become even stronger after the U.S. elections and under future American administrations, many of which may be even less willing to enter into direct confrontation with Iran. From Tehran’s perspective, Iran’s resilience during the conflict may have shattered the aura of overwhelming Israeli-American deterrence. Paradoxically, deterrence may have been more effective when it remained ambiguous and untested. Once military power was actually employed, it may have demonstrated the limits, rather than the strength, of Western coercive capacity against Iran. This is a deeply consequential development. One indication is that Iran reportedly adopted tougher positions in post-war negotiations than it held before the conflict began. The loss of the deterrence card could ultimately convince the Iranian leadership that this is precisely the moment to move toward nuclear weapons capability, believing that neither Israel nor the United States possesses either the will or the ability to stop it. The core problem is that neither Israel nor the United States was prepared, or perhaps even capable, of going all the way in a confrontation with Iran. Instead, they appeared to rely on external variables, whether Kurdish unrest, internal regime instability, or hopes for political fragmentation inside Iran by supporting Ahmadinejad, as substitute mechanisms that could spare them the enormous manpower requirements and the prospect of a campaign stretching over months or even years. Once those assumptions collapsed, what remained was essentially an air campaign. While tactically impressive, its achievements may ultimately pale in comparison to the strategic damage caused by exposing the actual limits of Israeli and American power in Iranian eyes. From Tehran’s perspective, the war may have revealed not overwhelming Western dominance, but rather the boundaries of what Israel and the United States are truly willing and able to do militarily against Iran. That, in itself, may become one of the most damaging long-term consequences of the entire campaign. This should force both Israel and the United States back to the drawing board. They will need to reassess how deterrence against Iran can be rebuilt under the current circumstances. That will not be easy. Restoring deterrence after it has been tested , and, in Tehran’s eyes, exposed as limited, is far more difficult than maintaining an ambiguous threat that has never been put to the test. Most importantly, the conflict likely helped Iran better understand its adversaries through direct friction and real-world confrontatio. #IranWar‌ #iran

@citrinowicz what do you mean, "going all the way"

@TheEXECUTlONER_ yield means yield.

@johnsmith3433 I believe it says left turn yield on green. But, is that for oncoming traffic, not the right turn?

@ZhangTaisu might?

In the future, we might look back at the rise of cheap, weaponized drones as a watershed moment in human geopolitics: in both Ukraine and Iran, it may have given smaller countries a measure of real military deterrence that previously was only available to large nuclear powers…

@Offbrandlabour @policytensor The US thought they could always force their way through the Strait. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation…

@policytensor Does this even matter for holding hormuz though? Or the fact that Iran has been able to absorb so much of the US's missile inventory? I feel like the thing that the US and Israel got wrong was they didn't believe Iran would even make an attempt to close the strait

An important technical reason why experts were sanguine about the military challenge posed by Iran is that, even as late as five years ago, Iranian missiles were thought to be too inaccurate to pose a significant threat. The only missile capable of reaching rear area bases in central Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan was the Shahab-3, which had a CEP of 2.5 km. All of this changes very dramatically and very rapidly. Especially with MaRV, the CEPs of Iranian MRBMs fall from >1 km to 300m and even down to 10m. The Israelis have been freaking out about the Khorramshahr, a powerful, highly accurate missile with a CEP of 30m. So Iran has very recently joined the ranks of the great missile powers. And this development was not fully anticipated or digested by the community of defense experts. To be sure, everyone knew Iranian strike capabilities were increasing. But it seems clear from my readings that the rapidity at which the balance of power was moving in Iran’s favor came as a surprise to pretty much everyone in the expert community. An important lesson of this failure is that technical and force developments can be particularly rapid in the new missile age, and almost all of them move the balance against the distant power and in favor of the situated state. This was the mechanical process that transitioned the world from a unipolar to a multipolar one in a purely military sense in the space of less than a decade. All these idiots who want an arms race and a cold war with China are just poorly informed about the real prospects for the future balance of power, which are uniformly poor and cannot be reversed.

@KainYusanagi @johndrewmarkley WTF are you on drugs?

@johndrewmarkley It's not even that. It's because that's what a day's length IS. The ancients didn't just go, "Oh, it's 12s because arbitrary bullshit", no, they got as close as they could to approximating how long a day really was. Same with number of days around the sun.

12 is more versatile than 10- you can divide 12 into 2s, 3s, 4, and 6s, but 10 only gives 2s and 5s. So if you want to be able to divide the daytime into quarters or thirds 12 is ideal.

@johndrewmarkley Now imagine 13 months to a year, 28 days each (364) plus one isolated day per year.

@CPRamseyer @tomshardware

@johnsmith3433 @tomshardware Well they stole most of the IP and then sued American companies in China for daring to call it out.

Huawei introduces 122TB SSD without using sanctioned 3D NAND chips tomshardware.com/pc-components/…

@Peter96355998 @StefanFSchubert What subjects do we share a common frame of knowledge with a 5 yo?

@johnsmith3433 @StefanFSchubert "I can't explain a why question if we don't share a common frame of knowledge"

That’s a terrible rule, have you met a five-year-old

@DeaconBlues76 @reddit_lies your math sucks. It's an extra 20 minutes. And he gets paid nothing for it.

@reddit_lies I know this is going to be unpopular, but he lives an hour out, what difference does an extra 10 minutes make? He might not be an asshole but perhaps falls into the whiny bitch category.

Man is a living uber ride and doesn't even realize it.

@DonShift3 @CHP_Ventura wrote out

I literally just watched CHP sit and do nothing as two bicyclists literally wrote out 90° in front of an approaching car to cross a major highway. @CHP_Ventura

@Txp_RBI_Xctuxl Indians are smelly, dirty, rude, stupid, and dishonest, but blacks will stab you in the heart or neck for pleasure.

Revel in your great fortune that we're sending you back instead of turning you all to paste.

@policytensor To be specific, Chinese satellite ISR, navigation and communications enabled Iranian precision strike to destroy anything within missile range. Who knew what China could do or that they would provide such services to Iran?

Nonsense. We lost because Iran is militarily more powerful than anyone understood.

@JAEA_japan You tried this before with monju. It kept leaking.

冷却材 #ナトリウム 現在、日本で稼働している原子炉は、核反応で生じた熱を水でタービンに運び発電をしています。 一方、ナトリウム冷却 #高速炉 は、金属ナトリウムが熱を運びます。 金属ナトリウムは約98℃で液体になり、水と比べて熱を多く運べるという特徴があります。 #大洗原子力工学研究所

@GavMcCracken Trump has lied many times about what China has agreed to. I expect he lies about what Iran has agreed to.

Seriously who ever decided to trust Pakistan with this? They've been double dealing and insider trading for weeks, now they're telling Iran the USA wants one deal, and telling the USA that Iran has agreed to a totally different deal! This is the biggest mess I've lived to see.

@MAGA_X_Times @EL4USA Can you imagine this Family‘s behavior if there were an emergency evacuation of the airplane? No fly!

🚨 SOUTHWEST AIRLINES JUST GOT EXPOSED 😡 Black mom with autistic, nonverbal kids trying to board Flight 1948 out of Chicago Midway… Gate agent Charles REFUSES to let her scan her boarding passes while she’s holding her children. But the white couple right behind her? Zero issues. 🙄 This mom had a full breakdown on camera. Discrimination or straight-up incompetence? WATCH the raw footage and tell me I’m wrong 👇 Tag @SouthwestAirlines and demand answers. This is NOT okay. Share if you’re done with corporate BS! 🔥 #SouthwestAirlines #SouthwestSoRacist #Discrimination #BoycottSouthwest #MAGA #AmericaFirst