List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the 2026 Iran war:

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

Iran: 40, Israel: 18, US: 36, Others: 7

It's a bit weird counting drones in the same list as expensive fighter jets (and other expensive planes).

MQ-9s are ~$30 million USD and are strike capable.

Sure. But looking at all of the downed Israeli crafts, they are all $2-5m drones (all 18 of them).

For perspective: Patriot missiles cost $4m each.

The two(2) H450s are in that unit cost range. The others and the Heron variants range to $40 million. A not insignificant number of Iranian aircraft(such as the US-produced F-5s and C-130s acquired before 1979's Revolution) are low unit costs comparably to the UAVs("drones") lost here.

Attrition compared to US materiel(not material - although that too greatly burdens cost to the US) depletion such as the aforementioned Patriot does not favor the US for sustained operations in theater(let alone should a second theater contingency operation occur).

I wasn't comparing to Iran, I was just saying that putting an F-35 and a $2m drone on the same list and same count was funny.

As for the $40m number: I also saw this number, but I don't think it's correct. E.g. Germany recently bought 140 of them for $165m. Ref: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/1649255166-ger...

It's not just about cost - a $2m drone and a $200m drone can both be sacrificed if cost/benefit analysis merits it.

You don't sacrifice pilots, ever.

That’s because Patriots are typically upped, now downed.

~15/16 MQ-9 Reapers have been shot down inside Iran. Not jets but still combat(strike and reconnaissance) aircraft.

I just looked it up. Those are turboprop (slower) but have a high ceiling of 50k feet. So Iran did have something better than stingers left. Maybe they just got lucky this time.

Infor is huge in the ERP space and dates back to bigger iron days(mainframe and midrange - IBM AS/400). They acquired a lot of smaller players over the years which might be way they are somewhat unknown these days unless you date yourself to that era.

Oh huh ... I actually did a lot of AS/400 & Stratus work back in the 80s. So Infor isn't written in RPG is it? the 400 actually had a decent COBOL compiler but everything seemed to end up in RPG :-/

I'm not a young man and my dad used to talk about and work on this stuff back in the 80's-90's he's long since retired. I think your best bet here would be to train someone I can't imagine there are many folks left who worked on these systems...

I have used Infor. i have not administered it.

Nice! Not sure if you're aware of Got(Game of Trees) that appears to pre-date your Got.

https://gameoftrees.org/index.html

Yes the author reached out. There has not yet been a confusion among real users that I am aware of.

https://github.com/gotvc/got/issues/20

Thanks for sharing! Definitely interested in reading further about the project.

Interesting(unnerving?) to see a number of domain registrars that offer their own DNS services utilize at least some kind of Cloudflare service for at least their own web fronts. Did a check on 6 registrar sites I currently interact with and half were down(Namecheap/Spaceship, Name, Dynadot) and up(Porkbun, Gandi, GoDaddy).

I just considered moving from Namecheap to Porkbun as Namecheap is down, but Porkbun use Cloudflare for their CAPTCHA meaning I'm unable to signup and I assume log in as well, so also no good.

Porkbun also uses Cloudflare for their NS servers.

F# 10 released to GA today along with .NET 10 and C# 14.

The 16" doesn't offer the M5(yet), rather the M4 Pro and Max CPUs. Difference also is higher number of performance cores vs efficiency cores and memory bandwidth is significantly higher in the M4 lines(273 and 410 GB/s) versus the M5(153 GB/s).

You're absolutely right and my bad. (I feel like Claude saying that.) Apparently the M4 Pro and M5 Max are coming in February.

https://www.macworld.com/article/2942089/macbook-pro-m5-pro-...

This and Little Snitch Mini.

Makes me think what would have happened if CityDesk from Fog Creek Software in 2001 modernized into today.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020802014713/http://www.fogcre...