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jolj commented on UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite   theguardian.com/uk-news/a... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
mr_toad · a year ago
The UK nuclear arsenal has always been a strategic deterrent. The weapons in the UK arsenal (trident missiles with MIRV warheads) are designed to destroy cities, so unless the Russians have managed to conceal the locations of their major cities, targeting shouldn’t be an issue.
jolj · a year ago
Presumably part of the nuclear doctrine is to take out your enemies nuclear launch sites before they launch

Also, even large cities have places which are better to target

jolj commented on UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite   theguardian.com/uk-news/a... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
317070 · a year ago
None that I'm aware off.
jolj · a year ago
so I assume Britain received its imaging intelligence from the US as part of five eyes. or else I cannot explain how a nuclear armed country has skipped over one of the main prerequisite for missile targeting for 60 years
jolj commented on UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite   theguardian.com/uk-news/a... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
KineticLensman · a year ago
The British have had military satellites since Skynet 1A in 1969 [0], although these historically supported comms rather than ISR.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

jolj · a year ago
yes which only makes sense they were used to support five eyes sigint and used US satellites for visint
jolj commented on UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite   theguardian.com/uk-news/a... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
317070 · a year ago
As a Brit, I reckon Brexit, and the restricted access to ESA [0], are the far more reasonable explanations here...

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-involvement-in-the-eu-space-p...

jolj · a year ago
which one of these programs constitute of a military reconnaissance satellite?
jolj commented on UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite   theguardian.com/uk-news/a... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
jolj · a year ago
It sounds like extremely late to the game, we are talking about 1960s tech.

Very surprising for a country as large as the UK, I can only assume they used US satellites up until now, and started designing their own due to Trump

jolj commented on Foobar2000   foobar2000.org/... · Posted by u/citruscomputing
a0123 · a year ago
A remnant of simpler times. Foobar and VLC, any other software that has always worked and remained pretty much the same?
jolj · a year ago
Total Commander
jolj commented on Investigating corrupt Winamp skins   jordaneldredge.com/notes/... · Posted by u/treve
jolj · a year ago
Looks like a lot of people thought that if you place a single image file in the zip, you'll get a skin
jolj commented on I have no constructor, and I must initialize   consteval.ca/2024/07/03/i... · Posted by u/cyber1
fouronnes3 · a year ago
Best you're gonna get is a combination of godbolt and cppinsights.
jolj · a year ago
cppinsights looks like what I was looking for, there's even a vscode extension thanks
jolj commented on I have no constructor, and I must initialize   consteval.ca/2024/07/03/i... · Posted by u/cyber1
jolj · a year ago
Is there a C++ tool that adds/shows all the implicit stuff that happens behind the scenes?

Such as all the constructors that are being added, implicit copy constructor and all the other surprises?

u/jolj

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