Tape is unfortunately uneconomical for regular people due to the drives costing so much, unless you get a used, older generation one.
How many GB’s do you mean? Maybe try some optical discs, BD-R at 25GB maybe.
Otherwise just rent some online storage. Hetzner Storage Box is cheap and Storage Share is only slightly less cheap, and has lots of sharing features (it’s really NextCloud).
try mplayer?
Not that good a thing to be doing as each such project potentially balloons into drama, dealing with each new client and their often confused or inexperienced expectations will be its own hassle, etc. Working full time or having a few long term clients is a lot better, as is getting leads through people you know if you have some special expertise in something.
I’ve heard people suggest looking for bug bounties. I haven’t tried that myself so I’m just relaying the suggestion.
Front-end web stuff is its own circle of hell but back-end is just like any other programming, so you could look for that.
I mentioned the “freelancer” HN thread a while back, but it’s mostly people looking for work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434575
Try here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434575
There is a similar thread that goes up first business day of each month so there will be a new one in a few weeks, but the old one is probably still active. This will show the archive:
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
I guess you could try Microsoft’s code hosting site (github.com) too, since they have some kind of scheme for devs announcing their availability. I don’t use it so don’t know the details though.
You couldn’t do it with one slingshot, as several people have explained. But if the slingshot was big enough to launch a ship carrying someone with another slingshot, you’d do a little better. With the second ship carrying a third ship and so on, the slingshot round on the last ship might move fast enough. This is how multi-stage rockets work, by the way.
Added: the math you want is called the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation.
I wasn’t familiar with the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel#“Blackpill”
It doesn’t sound good at all.
Wireshark?
Bob Dylan is still around and got a Nobel Prize for his songwriting, but I can’t tell if he meets your critereia.
Oreshnik hypersonic missile.
Start with a vps so you can ramp up with the software.
FYI Hetzner VPS have a 1 click install for guix if you just want to try it out.
No idea about aleph. I’ve used Solr for that (solr.apache.org), thus my username, but maybe that is considered old school by now.
I hate to say this but there are still interesting people on Reddit.
Kurdistan Region’s Counter-Terrorism Service announced that a drone was shot down near Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq.
Word finding difficulty.
Yes, they generally work fine.
I guess it’s a question of how much hassle it’s worth. I did a messy data recovery of a crashed database for a work client once, but it involved a lot of trial and error and writing special purpose code, plus considerable luck that some things worked better than I had a right to expect. Cost of something like that would be in the multi kilobucks, maybe low 5 figures. We got almost all the data back, though not 100%.
Maybe just put that HDD aside and replace it with a new one, and deal slowly with recovering the data as you get the time to mess with it. Also don’t do any write operations on the old drive. Maybe copy it entirely to someplace and work on the copy. In fact better do that anyway, HD’s physically crash all the time.
No it likely wouldn’t make them explode if they hypothetically were there.
It’s reasonably certain that Iran didn’t and doesn’t have any usable nukes at the moment. The claim is that they were working on building them and that the bombing was to stop them from completing any such projects.
There are conflicting opinions about whether they were really working on building nukes. One might reasonably also say that if they weren’t working on it before, they are NOW.
IIRC there was some kind of religious fatwa against Iran building nukes, which made the claim somewhat credible that they weren’t building them. It looked to me like they were instead getting the precursor materials together without doing the final refining and assembly, so that if the fatwa was lifted and the clerics said build the nukes, they could do so relatively quickly. That’s just me though, and I don’t have any special sources of info.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01771-z
Optimistic, but a start maybe.
I think the stuff you’re describing is outside the range where we internet randos can give any concrete help. You’re doing the right thing in seeing professionals who have actual training in dealing with this stuff. I can only offer sympathy and best wishes.
I find if I get agitated about something, I can often calm myself down with deep breathing. But I’m sure my experiences are less intense than yours to begin with, so I have no idea whether the same methods would work for you.