The United States has quietly delivered the long-range ballistic missiles that Ukraine said it urgently needed and that President Joe Biden promised last month, U.S. officials said Tuesday, and Ukraine has already begun using them on the battlefield against Russia for the first time.
The missiles arrived in Ukraine within the last few days, one of the officials said. Their delivery to the warfront gives Ukraine a critical ability to strike Russian targets that are farther away, allowing Ukrainian forces to stay safely out of range. The officials were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter before an official announcement and spoke Tuesday on the condition of anonymity.
The delivery of the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, was shrouded in secrecy, with the expectation that the first public acknowledgement would come when the missiles were used on the battlefield. That intense secrecy is a marked change from previous U.S. weapons sent by the Biden administration. In nearly all other cases, the U.S. has publicly announced its decision prior to the weapons and equipment being shipped overseas.
It’s because people insist on pronouncing acronyms unnecessarily. Or better yet, just go with whatever the creator put out for pronunciation
Just say S-Q-L, not ‘Sequel’. Just say G-U-I not ‘Gooey’ (This one just fills me with disgust…)
So those don’t really bother me, one less syllable = slightly quicker to say.
However given that, inexplicably with its single syllable, URL as “Earl” absolutely does my head in.
I’ve never heard that before for URL, I hate it lmao
c/TIHI
Bruh same on the second! Like UI is okay by itself, but for the love of GOD “Gouie”???
If you’re clicking on a gooey, wash your hands
I hate “gooey” so goddamn much but saying S Q L feels like walking through deep mud. I’ll always use it to refer to the language itself, and if I’m only going to say “mysql” or “sqlite” once or twice, but if it’s going to be said multiple times in a conversation I’ll fall back on “my sequel” or “sequel-lite”
I feel kinda gross about it, but c’mon, don’t make your project names so easy to stumble over. Maybe it’s just me and i have some kind of speech impediment, but my tongue don’t like it.
MongoDB, see there’s a database that just feels good to say.
What I really need to stop doing is calling mariadb “Mariah db”. I don’t know how or why i started that but it’s a habit I’m trying to break. I think it’s from reading and typing about it a bunch but never actually speaking or hearing it, so my internal voice was just like “yeah i know what im saying”. It’s clearly the name Maria, muh ree uh. tf is wrong with me man
Yah I’m not calling them A T A C M S, or H M M W V s, those acronyms are well-warranted