For those of us using vim/neovim sed is something everyone had to learn, even if they did not realize it.

This is the true power of vim. Even now decades later the unix toolbelt holds up, and is still unmatched for productivity.

Vim is in the end just a small piece of the puzzle. You use small tools for your problem, mix and match.

Its kind of like functional programming. Compose and reduce.

Yup, notably the famous %s/PATTERN1/PATTERN2/g, which I suppose comes from sed

vi and sed took the s/ syntax from ed, independently of each other.

The drawback is also the JVM. Its a heavy, bulky VM. The alternative being Go that is much lighter.

With all due respect, I'm fairly sure that anyone using "VM" the same way as you do here really think of it as a container or what.

It's a runtime, and go also has a similar, fairly fat runtime. It's just burnt into the binary instead of being shipped separately. (Hell, even Rust has a runtime, it's just very very lean compared to languages featuring a full GC like go and java)

What started in Ukraine, this is modern warfare. Like most "consumer" goods that are mass produced, you can now get a capable strike force for peanuts.

The russians have taken close to 1.5 million casulties because ukraine engineering for cheap drones. Putin really, really f-ed up his "3 day military operation".

Its scary that you can whip something like this in under 100 bucks. Add a small warhead and you got a small missile.

Like we see in Iran, with trumps idiotic war the US cant even protect its allies and own soldiers, even with a whopping 1.5 trillion budget.

The budget is not the issue...the idiots running things behind that budget are the problem.

VAC is actually an AI based anticheat. I guess IF (a big if) it ever gets good enough it will be better than any kernel level AC, because it analyzes the gameplay, not the inputs, meaning a DMA cheat would also be caught.

But so far that still seems to be miles away.

"VAC" is a catch-all term for all of Valve's anti-cheating mechanisms.

The primary one is a standard user-mode software module, that does traditional scanning.

The AI mechanism you're referring to is these days referred to as "VAC Live" (previously, VACNet). The primary game it is deployed on is Counter-Strike 2. From what we understand, it is a very game-dependent stack, so it is not universally deploy-able.

I don't think that's what VAC is. I think VAC just looks for known cheat patterns in memory and such, and if it finds indisputable proof of cheating it marks a player for banning in the next wave. Maybe there is some ML involved in finding these patterns but I think it's very strictly controlled by humans to prevent fase positives. That's why VAC bans are irreversible, false positives are supposed to be impossible.

Valve has some AI detection stuff for CS2, but it’s remarkably ineffective. VAC itself delivers small DLLs that get manual mapped by Steam service, do some analysis and send that to Valve (at least to the best of my knowledge, there may be more logic implemented in Valve’s games or in Steam/Steam service).

WP used to be left leaning, and with bezos the move has gone right. So naturally all readers move on to some other medium. Business 101

WP was not sold to him because it was healthy and thriving in the first place.

RIP Legend

Vim slime is awesome. I use it for tinkering in languages with a repl like ocaml or javascript.

The feedback loop is probably the best in class from anything i have ever used. No IDE comes even close.

That doctrine works great for defending your homeland, when you are taking off from your roadside base and coming back home to a road-based airfield already on the map.

My understanding of these VTOL aircraft is they need to travel a long way, quickly, and set down in far less predictable conditions.

Are you saying these are for human transport? Sounds like real niche in modern warfare.

I suppose the argument is that X-76 could work in environments without roads. But that also implies without fuel or any other support on the ground.

What usecase is this? Where is a place "without roads", and that can be important enough for something like this?

Can it hover?

Why do you need hover? Its a pretty useless thing that requires shitloads of engineering (for a plane, not a heli). It sounds like a hollywood movie like requirement that is built for the purpose of burning tax payer dollars.