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Is there a #European #fighter jet that could end reliance on US & its F-35?

#Portugal & #Canada considering buying #Swedish JAS 39 #Gripen E/F as replacement for #American #F-35 due to concerns over kill switch. Is it a viable alternative?

Gripen is less expensive than F-35. Estimated operating cost of between $4,700 & $7,000 an hour compared to F35’s $33,000 to $40,000 an hour.

euronews.com/next/2025/04/16/i

Is there a European fighter jet that could replace reliance on the US' F-35?
euronews · Is Sweden's Gripen fighter jet the answer to Europe's F-35 fears?Portugal and Canada are considering buying the Swedish JAS 39 Gripen E/F as a replacement for the American F-35 due to concerns over a "kill switch". Is it a viable alternative?

Why is F# so little used and why is the community so small? Actually, every time I play with FSHARP (especially in conjunction with ionide.io/ #vscode extension for F#), I have to say that F# is a really fun programming language. In combination with FSI, Ionide and Type Inference it often feels like a dynamic language. You can use many different styles to programme with F#, but what I particularly like is that Railway

ionide.ioIonide

Reblog.🙏

#Trump ha interrotto i fondi destinati all’Open Technology Fund, un ente che da oltre un decennio finanzia strumenti digitali per la libertà online.
Questi fondi rappresentano la quasi totalità del budget dell'#OTF e sono essenziali per il sostegno di numerosi progetti, tra cui #Let'sEncrypt, la rete di anonimizzazione #Tor e il negozio di applicazioni open-source #F-Droid, che l’anno scorso hanno ricevuto rispettivamente 800mila, 500mila e 396mila dollari.🤦‍♂️

dday.it/redazione/52530/trump-

DDay.it · Trump farà saltare il negozio open-source Android F-Droid e la rete TorBy Sergio Donato

Zelensky confirms new arrival of F-16 jets to Ukraine

Additional #F-16s have arrived in #Ukraine. The #Russians lied that they shot down something there, they didn’t shoot anything down

And the good news is that several F-16 aircraft have arrived in Ukraine, #Zelensky told reporters during a briefing

kyivindependent.com/zelensky-c

The Kyiv Independent · Zelensky confirms new arrival of F-16 jets to UkraineBy Sonya Bandouil
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"Doo de doo why isn't this hook generating?"
Can't create hook at #(10 22.457139763981104): #f

MOTHERFUCK floating point‽ Oh, I'm an ass. I thought I was being fun that my rnd function does FP for (rnd 0), integer for (rnd 1+). Great idea if it's 1977 in BASIC.

Now I get to split this into two functions, AND audit a whole bunch of code.

Ok... to put an end to that discussion if the #F35 / #F-35 #fighter has a #killswitch or not:

IT DOES NOT EFFING MATTER!

Those jets need a TON of maintenance and parts to keep flying. They need the Intel to find their targets which can only be fed to them using #US controlled systems.

Agent #Trump just needs to decide cease supplying those and the jets become WAY less capable immediately and will stop flying pretty damn quick.

#EuropeFirst #gripen #rafale #Eurofighter

Source? #commonsense

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@screwtape But Scheme code is usually forwards-compatible forever; R3RS code almost entirely runs on R6/R7RS (you may need to pull in rec macro, and check for nil-punning, #f wasn't enforced as The One True False until R4RS/IEEE). R7RS breaking R6RS and even choosing a different library structure was awful.

Python evolved as a "better Perl/awk/BASIC", and until 3.0 nobody really used it for engineering unless they customized it, like Zope/Zend. So changing a lot is in their snake-nature.