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  2. Satchel charge - Wikipedia

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    A satchel charge is a demolition device, primarily intended for combat, whose primary components are a charge of dynamite or a more potent explosive such as C-4 plastic explosive, a carrying device functionally similar to a satchel or messenger bag, and a triggering mechanism; the term covers both improvised and formally designed devices.

  3. Rust (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Rust is also used for command-line tools and operating system components, including stratisd, a file system manager [184] [185] and COSMIC, a desktop environment by System76. [ 186 ] In web development, Deno , a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript , is built on top of V8 using Rust and Tokio. [ 187 ]

  4. dc (computer program) - Wikipedia

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    dc (desk calculator) is a cross-platform reverse-Polish calculator which supports arbitrary-precision arithmetic. [1] It was written by Lorinda Cherry and Robert Morris at Bell Labs. [2] It is one of the oldest Unix utilities, preceding even the invention of the C programming language. Like other utilities of that vintage, it has a powerful set ...

  5. exa (command-line utility) - Wikipedia

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    exa is a (currently unmaintained -- see below) command-line utility for listing files. It is promoted as "a modern replacement for ls" with features not present in ls, such as showing git status. [2] [3] exa is one of the first applications written in Rust to be included in Fedora, [4] [2] openSUSE, [5] and Gentoo. [6]

  6. Nuclear football - Wikipedia

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    President Reagan and Nancy Reagan in 1987—the military aide at right-center is carrying the nuclear football. The nuclear football, officially the Presidential Emergency Satchel, is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the president of the United States to communicate and authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers, such as the White House Situation Room ...

  7. Facepunch Studios - Wikipedia

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    Rust ' s inception stemmed from Facepunch's frustration with DayZ ' s gameplay; inheriting its cruel player versus player model and Minecraft ' s crafting and building aspects. [12] Rust ' s grand concept was to develop a game where the players would be able to mold the environment: hunting, scavenging, gathering, and looting for survival; and ...

  8. Cranelift - Wikipedia

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    It is written in Rust. The project started in 2016 and is currently developed by Bytecode Alliance . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Unlike compiler backends such as LLVM that focus more on ahead-of-time compilation, Cranelift instead focuses on just-in-time compilation with short compile time being an explicit goal of the project.

  9. Slat armor - Wikipedia

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    An IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer equipped with slat armor surrounding its driver's cab. Slat armor (or slat armour in British English), also known as bar armor, cage armor, and standoff armor, is a type of vehicle armor designed to protect against high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) attacks, as used by anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).