Probably, cane sugar was unavailable due to blockades and the Napoleonic expansion of beet sugar was only just starting.

His goal was the Russian army, they retreated towards Moscow and he pursued.

It's not a major deal as nobody will use them, but it's strange to have a company on US legal tender. I wonder what percent of the run Cray will buy?

Presumably some, although HPE don’t use the old Cray logo, and the name is a bit downplayed when they talk about their supercomputer stuff, although it is still used (like most old computer companies, naturally they’ve ended up owned by HPE, who seem to collect them).

Ah, I noticed they had been acquired by HPE, but their Wikipedia article still listed revenue so I assumed they were a subsidiary. Looking again, the revenue is from the year before the acquisition. My mistake.

There isn’t a company on the coins, just the supercomputer device itself.

The Jobs coin has Jobs himself.

The device is followed by the word "Cray" and overall it's similar enough to their trademarked logo I imagine I'd get in trouble if I tried to use it.

Yeah I just meant the actual device is being honored, not the corporation itself.

that shit cray

It would be neat to recreate early radio, where a broadcaster would get a play-by-play over the wire and then announce it as if watching it, complete with sound effects. It was one of Ronald Reagan's early jobs.

That is an interesting idea. And that sounds quite doable.

Not sure about TOS but would be a natural fit as a twitch channel.

The presumably Brezhnev caricature is an amusing touch.

Is he the figure shown in Russian Turkistan with fists raised, in circles?

I assume so, they were the leader of the USSR in 65 and that looks like his hairline.

And eyebrows!

Wouldn't "high civilian activity" refer primarily to miners?

Probably. Barentsburg, west from Longyearbyen, is predominantly a Russian mining village. Svalbard is interesting in that it is part of Norway but citizens of some other countries are granted more rights than they’d have in the rest of Norway, and Norway also is not allowed to operate its military from Svalbard.

I believe it's basically all countries. There was a deal with other countries through the UN.

48. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Treaty

In practice it's a visa-free zone. Anyone from anywhere can settle in Svalbard as long as they can get there. Of course, not many want to, so it's a bit academic.

There's was/is also Pyramiden to the north east, also a mining town but closed down in '98

To me, the article is saying that an "ongoing investigation" is not a valid reason to grant anonymity, not that there are no valid reasons to grant anonymity.

Who is being protected from whom by granting this source anonymity? With your three examples it's clear, but not as much in this case.

Officials who are not supposed to talk about ongoing investigations, and might get fired if they do, but can't help themselves so they do it anyway under cover of "anonymity."

And honestly, probably everyone in a position to know, does know who the "anonymous" source is, but it's just enough plausible deniability that everyone gets away with it. They get to push their narrative but also pretend they are following the rules that are supposed to protect various parties in the process.

Meanwhile if I were on a grand jury and blabbing to the press every evening about an investigation, I could get in real trouble.

>Why did you put quote marks around the word “legitimate”, like he said the word in his post?

They do say that in the associated blog post, though they don't seem to think it's likely to be legitimate. https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-far...

It does note via screenshot at bottom that these devices are often seen in Russia. Not sure what that means

Source?

A month ago Arch came under ddos attack. DHH and others were offering to either pay for or get Cloudflare to sponsor antiddos protection for Arch.

Instead of accepting the offers or even saying why they won't various Arch services were down for almost a month.

Then Arch published https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/ essentially saying that they are seeking ideologically pure service

I didn't see "ideologically pure" anywhere in the linked statement but what I did find was this quote:

> We are also evaluating DDoS protection providers while carefully considering factors including cost, security, and ethical standards.

How is that not reasonable?

Literally August and parts of September

https://status.archlinux.org/788139639/calendar

To be fair, the mirrors and mailing lists were fine throughout.

I assume a hefty chunk of that has gone towards court costs for the fight to publish the book.

With $500k advance, she has 10 free times to do it.

That's not how legal fees work. Hiring lawyers to oppose Facebook and allow your book to be published is expensive, and currently she seems to be losing the fight.