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Cake day: January 18th, 2024

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  • Microsoft really shit the bed with Windows Phone.

    The UI was great, it ran great on budget hardware and the high end Lumia lineup had some banger features, crazy Nokia cameras etc.

    I had 2 of them and I really believed the OS would become a viable choice along with Android and iOS…and then Microsoft proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it for years. No incentives to build apps, no tools to port over existing versions for devs, never got an Instagram app, no push for desktop mode or a decent file system or compatibility with regular desktop apps via a translation layer for x64 (how apple launched M1), nothing.

    They put no effort and just let it die. Such a shame.



  • Modern nuclear weapons carry multiple warheads per missile launched, each individually controlled. You can strike a dozen different cities in one launch.

    They have 3 phases: Launch, coast, re-entry. You can intercept them successfully in the first two.

    Once the warheads have been jettisoned from the missile it’s really hard to get them in the re-entry phase, they’re really small and come in at Mach 10 and there’s dozens of them.

    The US has a system that can supposedly intercept a few but it’s not gonna be nearly enough to make any meaningful difference.

    The only way to “win” a nuclear war is to first know exactly where absolutely every single one of your enemy’s nukes are and then striking all of the launch sites first without your massive preparation to do so being detected.