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That was over half a century ago. Completely irrelevant.

Seems likely to be even worse now. USS Ford out of action, removed from region due to "laundry fire" and some socks in the toilets. Also USN has far fewer carriers to deploy. Three or more were deployed continuously off Vietnam for years at a time.

> That was over half a century ago. Completely irrelevant.

This is Trump's America, brother, we don't learn from the past here!


I asked my dad for the 16kB expansion. He said no.


300km?



What makes you think this is a fad? (unless you are using a bit of sarcasm)

When have any elite not thought they were the smartest, most virtuous, anointed by god, etc? I don't think you can just point to Rand or something -- That's just the modern context we view it through.


This is true. But there's also an overwhelming instinct for people to think the problems they face today are completely new and have no historical precedents


I didn't get it, so I looked it up.

22/7 ~= 3.14


355 / 113

( = 3.1415929204 )

is one approximation I have read about, attributed by some, to ancient or medieval Indian or Chinese mathematicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_pi


Actually closer to π and matches the more sensible date format.

(Yes this is worth fighting over!)


while true that month being 1st making little sense, the good format usually features leading zeros, so '22/07'


Access as a front end for mssqlserver ran great in a small shop. Seems like there was a wizard that imported the the access tables easily into sqlserver.

I've not seen anything as easy to use as the Access visual query builder and drag-n-drop report builder thing.




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