euroderf

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721.
by euroderf 1y ago
When the battlespace is crawlin' with drones, floating hunks of metal large enough to carry humans and their vehicles are going to be prominent & vulnerable. The Chinese are big on dual-use hulls. Do all these normally-civilian shi
722.
by euroderf 1y ago
Is the typical mortar heavy enough that it would benefit from having an agile robo-dog hauling it around ?
723.
by euroderf 1y ago
Why are artillery rounds so expensive ? Is it the raw materials ? Is it the precision of machining ? Is it because of what's required to make the entire process safe for workers ?
724.
by euroderf 1y ago
By storing grain (for beermaking) (and baking), we created an attractor for four-legged cat snacks. Mission accomplished!
725.
by euroderf 1y ago
This is the best weather for sauna. You can sit outside in a towel and enjoy your beer and chill out/down while your hair freezes.
726.
by euroderf 1y ago
> if there's a good-sized glob of cheese or water or something on the other side you can really be in for a nasty surprise. My next band will be named Velveeta Disfigurement. The stuff never unmelts.
727.
by euroderf 1y ago
My young lad went thru a brief phase where we went thru picture books of common vehicles and for page after page, he pointed at every wheel of every vehicle and had me name it. "Wheel." "Wheel." "Wheel." ... Pr
728.
by euroderf 1y ago
Can we put their genes into domesticated animal feed and knock it off with all the climate-hostile farting ?
729.
by euroderf 1y ago
Wasn't it Copenhagen where the biker gangs had RPGs ?
730.
by euroderf 1y ago
If SQLite supported WASM UDFs...
731.
by euroderf 1y ago
It's not bribery. It's lubricating the machinery of government...
732.
by euroderf 1y ago
Corporations may indeed be the slow version of A.I. They are nonetheless doing their part as alien intelligences to crowd out and eventually exterminate their carbon-based competitors.
733.
by euroderf 1y ago
> I’m pretty sure you can send iMessage on a cruise ship when connected to their WiFi with no internet package because apple has a mesh network between unrelated devices and finds one with an internet endpoint to funnel messages in and o
734.
by euroderf 1y ago
We recommend that all carbon-based employees be terminated. With varying levels of extreme prejudice.
735.
by euroderf 1y ago
I use an underbar ("_"). This nicely separates visually a date-time into those two respective parts while keeping them lexically in a single token/string that does not get broken up at line ends.
736.
by euroderf 1y ago
I'll tell ya why they took over. IIRC in the late 70s they sold for nineteen cents each (NE USA). Ya couldn't beat that with a stick.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Benzene must've been examined down to the nth degree in quantum analysis. Maybe there's an article ?
738.
by euroderf 1y ago
The same vehicle could also disgorge wheeled bots to drop off (or pick up) heavier stuff. The vehicle could rumble slowly (and quietly) thru a neighborhood while the sub-vehicles and drones do their thing, so it could be unmanned.
739.
by euroderf 1y ago
A cancer at the heart of the Eurasian continent.
740.
by euroderf 1y ago
I always understood the appeal of a stick shift as: I want to drive the car, not the other way around.
741.
by euroderf 1y ago
Why do banks not notice when private equity enters the picture, and appropriately tighten access to credit, as a preventative measure against more-likely bankruptcy?
742.
by euroderf 1y ago
Your assertion seems intuitively correct, but I can't say I've seen any studies that explore the idea.
743.
by euroderf 1y ago
> Truckers usually have a pulley system on their plates to avoid tolls You mean like James Bond's rotating license plates ? Got a pointer to this stuff ?
744.
by euroderf 1y ago
> 2 bottles of super glue [thick/thin], CA-accelorator) I haven't built a balsa wood plane in ages. But so, the glue of choice has changed ? No more balsa wood glue with atrocious fumes ?
745.
by euroderf 1y ago
'Fraid not. I picked it up from many years of reading everything about Seelöwe that I could get my hands on.
746.
by euroderf 1y ago
To be specific, I meant that they were prepared to use them in the invasion of Britain.
747.
by euroderf 1y ago
Being usable both strategically (with nukes) and operationally (with conventional weapons), they were essentially a sort of "dual-use". Fair game for Ukraine eh.
748.
by euroderf 1y ago
The relevant film here is "Come and See" (USSR, 1985).
749.
by euroderf 1y ago
The Germans were prepared to also. It would have been horrible on both sides.
750.
by euroderf 1y ago
One might counterargue that in a fair fight (i.e. all-conventional), China might clean our clocks. And they certainly have lots of domestic political reasons to start a wholly unnecessary war.

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