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Thanks for sharing the game!
5·14 hours agoTrust me, if you get any more heavily armored than a KF41 you are talking about a main battle tank, this thing is a beast.
Think of a US Bradley but even more advanced and heavily armored, which if you are a russian soldier and you aren’t an idiot should make your sphincter clench tightly.
This is major, these AFVs/IFVs stomp on anything russia has and anything Ukraine is replacing with these.
Imagine being previously stuck in a tin can MT-LB, BTR or BMP and being upgraded to one of these, it would be quite the rush indeed.
Just considering engines alone, the engine in this thing shits on the engine output capability of most russian main battle tanks…
Here is a rundown of the KF41
8·14 hours agoI would make the default home router ip a human recognizable number like 123456 or something.
I would make it so complex software has an accessible console for commands and readouts/logs of previous commands like AutoCAD.
I would make it so mouse driven UIs were designed from the bottom up to be tightly integrate with command line views. This would make tutorials, learning and utilization of commands so much more efficient.
I also would make it so every UI element/window/toolbar of complex software had a specific ID number you could use to put into a search engine, search documentation or ask for help with.
Depends on the context, armored AA is still relevant, so is the Gepard for that matter.
23·1 day agoSolar is Fusion as a Service or FaaS technology.
Long live the Logitech K780!!!
I love how competent and thorough you think the people creating AI are.
AI is a self selecting industry of serial bullshitters, I am sure they claim to do all the things you say, but I am zero percent convinced of it until I see proof these kinds of anti-AI strategies don’t work.
What if we figured out the right prompt to get an AI to regurgitate its memorization of reddit and just copied that? Is that still theft if it was already stolen twice?
- More then Reddit this place is an echo chamber for the far left anti capitalist crowd. While I don’t mind a discussion, everything over simplified to EAT THE RICH was getting tiresome.
That must be so difficult for you compared to all the wonderful corporate platforms full of rightwing hateful trolls who genuinely harass people.
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Edit Actually after taking a step back and looking at how many thoughtful comments and conversations have happened on this thread, I am heartened.
There is a lot of passion here, we are just fighting against unbelievably strong currents.
Why? I think Ukraine could find plenty of human tankers who would love to step into a challenger 2.
That is why the self propelled and towed bohdana howitzers exist.
However, 44 of these is a lot. Not enough, but 44 of these vehicles when placed into the context they can play forms a devastating capacity especially as 155mm guided extended range artillery ammunition becomes more available.
long response no pressure to read just more context
The most terrifying thing about artillery is with modern communication systems… you never actually know if you have been spotted and an artillery barrage is being dialed in to fire on your position.
Most of war most of the time is paradoxically boring, which means that the unpredictable onset of an artillery barrage infuses every moment of downtime with the latent question “am I being targeted?” like the thought of “are there sharks near me?” can totally fill up your mind when swimming in the ocean even if the chance of there being a shark is remote.
What a system like the Archer does is amplify that uncertainty because in the past you could develop through reconnaisance a picture of the enemies artillery capacity in an area and at least have an idea of how much pain the enemy could drop on you all at once out of nowhere. Further after a traditional artillery battery fires on you at least that intel can be fed back up the chain of command to develop a picture of where the enemies artillery and spotters are deployed and where the other weak spots must then be. This is doubly true if you have counter-battery radar like Ukraine does.
In the past counter-artillery work was often done by friendly artillery but obviously drones, particularly lancet type loitering drones have changed that. A less appreciated revolution are US supplied counter-battery artillery radars employed by Ukraine to quickly locate russian artillery (that Ukraine is developing domestic equivalents for). These counter-battery radars allow rapid location of enemy artillery after sensing incoming barrages and give Ukrainian drones and artillery the ability to quickly punish russian artillery that is out of position and vulnerable.
Not only is Ukraine better at hunting artillery and quickly capitalizing on the vulnerability that comes from the trajectory of artillery shells giving away the location of the cannon, Ukraine has already fielded a superior counter to their own counter… in highly mobile artillery systems such as the Archer and RCH 155 where even if a loitering munition receives the coordinates of an artillery battery within seconds of it occurring, it still might not be relevant unless a drone gets lucky and happens to be very close to the area.
You really have to step back and think about how to counter a system like the Archer or RCH 155 to appreciate how powerful artillery systems like this are. Extremely expensive guided long range missiles or air dominance are the only easy answers since even if you get the precise coordinates of an Archer or RCH 155 that just fired on you from 50km away, you have to be able to capitalize on that in a matter of minutes or else the highway speed capable self propelled artillery systems will be long gone. Locating the firing position is almost meaningless if there aren’t nearby assets since the location was likely chosen by the enemy to be unimportant to their static positions given the highly mobile nature of the self propelled artillery.
Systems like thus also allow what the US military calls “gun raids” which is where highly mobile artillery is used offensively and temporarily deployed far forward to decisively strike the enemy. An Archer artillery system may spend most of its time far back from the frontline, but that doesn’t mean that under certain operational conditions created by a synchronized advance of friendly forces an Archer can’t be brought forward for a brief window to fire deep into the enemies’ backline.
If one graph could illustrate why there are oil conflicts erupting right now (Ukraine, Venezelua, Greenland etc…) this is it.
This has never happened in the oil world, the future was always more cars, more combustion engines.
Even though the majority of cars will run on fossil fuels long into the future and oil isn’t going to be stopped being used anytime soon just the very fact that this inflection point has happened has begun to destabilize the oppressive structures of oil power and lead to infighting over a shrinking pool of oil buyers.
It is strange but many people in power are at some disturbingly deep level opposed to the very idea of this happening, the eventuality of most cars becoming electric and receding into a background of other transit systems is essentially a spiritual death for the ideology of US car companies and a lot of conservative, wealthy US culture.
22·2 days ago“Meningococcal disease is a terrible, terrible disease,” explained Walter Orenstein, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta and former director of the U.S. Immunization Program. He recalled seeing pediatric cases during his infectious diseases training in the 1970s “that were just awful and unfortunately led to a number of children dying and the potential for brain damage in those surviving.”
The acute, severe disease is driven by the Neisseria meningitidis bacterium. Infection can lead to bacterial meningitis, sepsis, and pneumonia. About half of people with the disease present with meningitis, which can include sudden onset of fever, headache, a stiff neck, nausea, and altered mental state.
3·3 days agoPathetic
Who needs the diet version of fascists?
My problem with the Dark Forest theory is that forests aren’t dark, the most diverse forests on Earth rather support a wide range of brilliantly colored creatures.
I think this article misses the crucial fact that small creatures have choices, they can become poisonous and display their colors brilliantly, this author ignores the entire category of forest creatures that prey upon greedy agents that plow through an environment processing everything, it ignores the existence of carnivorous plants.
What conservatives want is for us to treat them like babies with tiny little fragile baby beliefs that we have to coddle.
I don’t care if you think differently than me, what I care about is babies demanding we take their hateful and irrational ideologies seriously while they simultaneously target vulnerable groups with at a minimum hate speech and harassment.
If we coddle conservatives this place becomes less welcoming to new people, that is how it is.