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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Your discussion with DrF jogged my memory a bit. There was a discussion on this topic some time ago (I'm fuzzy on when) that went into detail about how there needed to be a specific use case and demand for this. I'm trying to reme
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
This was posted on HN the other day. Enjoy! http://nolfrevival.tk/
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
I really wanted to believe that it would step up to the occasion, but twice now, it didn't. I don't say such lightly. I genuinely believe that up until very recently, all portents of doom aside, none of the prior elected president
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
> There are tons of high-power connectors out there, and they look and work pretty much the same as the current ones (to the untrained eye). They are just more expensive. That's fair, so maybe not a complete rethink then. But defina
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Great summary. Buildzoid over on YouTube came to a similar conclusion back during the 4xxx series issues[1], and looks like he's released a similar video today[2]. It's worth a watch as he gets well into the electrical side of thi
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Newspeak.
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Whenever I read an article like this that calls out things like "[driving us] deeper and deeper into our algorithmic hell holes.", I want to scream, and shake the author by the shoulders. "Snap out of it!" I yell. We don
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
I left Russia out not because they don't want an F-35 equivalent or wouldn't benefit from them. But because the Su-57 in particular is a bad airplane. Sorry if I wasn't more specific on that. But the point I argued with the
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Must be why the U.S. has been closing so many of them.
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Because it was a project negotiated by a German Chancellor in the waning days of his office as a way to bypass countries the gas would have otherwise transited through. That chancellor immediately took a job on that project's firm, the
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Israel has the F35 because it can strike Iran, not because of insurgents. And it was successful in this. Anti-aircraft missiles are not that good. If anything, this conflict is showing that. But the platforms both sides are using aren&#x2
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
You mean this one that he walked back? https://web.archive.org/web/20241213114710/https://www.busin... How is it a proxy war? Again, you frame your argument as though is the U.S. driving everything, and
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Oh, they were dictated to. It was simply implied. "Let us repress our people and reclaim our neighbors, and the pipes will stay open." Russia used that NG to bully and dictate to it's neighbors like Poland, Hungary, Romania,
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
The thing that gets me with arguments such as this is that it talks right over the heads of the Ukrainians like they don't matter. "Oh, the U.S. should moderate it's policy." "NATO shouldn't be pushing East.&qu
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
I'd argue that while Merkel continued them, those policies were taking hold under Gerhard Schröder. One needs only look at his resume to see his opinions on the matter.
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
True, but there was a bit more to it than that. Anti-nuclear sentiment has always run high in Germany, but Fukushima made it more intense. At the time of the accident, campaigning was underway in Germany. Merkel announced the closure as a w
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Can't quit Twitter/X if you never made an account to begin with. ;)
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
He's still around under Sub Brief ( https://www.youtube.com/@SubBrief ) but I wouldn't be surprised if some of his videos have since been edited and/or removed. Especially the ones where he'd whiteboard th
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
I don't discount that long-range fires won't be useful, but I don't follow how on one hand, the complexity of a "subsurface kill chain" (which is limited to...the boat?) is a hindrance, but planning a fire mission a
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Thanks for this reply! You’re right to call out just how enormously expensive nuke boats are. Anything carrying around a nuclear powerplant for that matter. They are the modern day battleships (Just see how the US Navy names theirs). For AU
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Yup! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_submarine_simulator
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
"No, they will still hide just fine." Agreed. And the fact that adversaries are still building them even as headlines like this state that "stealth is dead" tells you everything. New threats? Yes. Obsolete, no.
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
There's a lot to unpack in this article. There's several points it gets wrong, and several others in which an assertion is made but then fails to mention the compensating factors or later negates them in the piece. I'm not in
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
This is Stumpy Nubs argument (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxKkuDduYLk); that patience, forethought, and use of a blade guard and other tools would prevent most injuries. I'm in agreement. But I don't
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Stumpy Nubs over on YT gave some testimony where he believes that a well-made blade guard could prevent most injuries. He believes that it's a culture around not using them (or poorly-made ones) that is the source of most injuries. Tim
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Given the push of ARM designs into the desktop and server space, that monopoly doesn't seem to me as much of a danger as it might have a decade ago. I imagine any anti-competitive behavior in x86 would only accelerate that trend. Not t
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
Probably apocryphal, but I'm sure there were similar conversations. Though from what I've read, many in the Japanese High Command were fully aware of the disparity in war-making potential between the U.S. and Japan. That Japan dec
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
This. Nescafe was great for the same reason, as it weighed much less than coffee grounds. It's impossible to overestimate how important this was. The U.S. military in WWII had to support an enormous force overseas, to a degree and exte
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
You're largely correct. Space has become a more important domain which is growing all of the time. There had been a complaint within the USAF hierarchy and in the government as a whole that the USAF had neglected the space mission. It&
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by ckozlowski 2y ago
There was a great discussion I read here a year ago from a chemist who went into the details on why this occurs. I'll link the comment. Really great read. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34755399

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