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You know what FPGAs and MCUs like? Corroded leads. Works really well. LOL at no conformal coating on an electronics board that sits in a housing exposed to the gamut of weather conditions.
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psydude posted:Looks like GMLRS to me instead of JDAMS. The discussion in the thread tilted towards them actually being russian cruise missiles. There's often posts that show old or and mislabeled footage.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:If this dude has the money, I say let him have it. Then just claim his bank accounts when he immediately drives it into a bridge abutment because he doesn't know what he's doing. Some dude privately owns a MiG-29 for... some reason. He even seems like a decent enough fella as far as billionaires go (with the obvious caveat that every billionaire is a total policy failure and an inherently bad person). https://i.imgur.com/NT1MLKT.mp4
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:30k dead The US lost 40-50k in 3 days at Gettysburg. Ukraine needs more grapeshot
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poverty goat posted:The US lost 40-50k in 3 days at Gettysburg. Ukraine needs more grapeshot OK but that's cheating because both sides losses counted.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:30k dead About 2 weeks of US Covid deaths at the pandemics peak
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Died with the war, not of the war.
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That's levels of combat casualties unseen since at least the Korean American War in the 50s.
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bulletsponge13 posted:The Korean American War Who calls it *that*? PRC?
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Rust Martialis posted:Who calls it *that*? PRC? I did, because calling it The Korean War is reductionist to their history. It wasn't the only war fought there, and until I find a better term, that's what I'll use. I am probably totally wrong, and there is a better term, but I work with the brain I got, not the brain I want.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I did, because calling it The Korean War is reductionist to their history. It wasn't the only war fought there, and until I find a better term, that's what I'll use. United Nations Police Action
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bulletsponge13 posted:I did, because calling it The Korean War is reductionist to their history. It wasn't the only war fought there, and until I find a better term, that's what I'll use. Huh, Wikipedia has a specific article section about this.
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Kind of like people in Vietnam call in “the American war”.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I did, because calling it The Korean War is reductionist to their history. It wasn't the only war fought there, and until I find a better term, that's what I'll use. The War of Northern Aggression.
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FrozenVent posted:Kind of like people in Vietnam call in “the American war”. That's reductionist to our history. We've fought plenty of other wars in Asia.
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 Resisting America and Assisting Korea War
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fartknocker posted:
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psydude posted:That's reductionist to our history. We've fought plenty of other wars in Asia. Calling the Vietnam war is Laotian and Cambodian erasure.
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FrozenVent posted:Calling the Vietnam war is Laotian and Cambodian erasure. Not to mention all of those USSR pilots that participated.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/tom_bullock_/status/1636486221168771072 beats the hell out of dogs trained on your tanks
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By largest forces it was the China-South Korea War. 625 Uprising
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Alan Smithee posted:beats the hell out of dogs trained on your tanks Can you imagine the public outcry in America if there was video of Russians using suicide dogs?
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Would tremendously increase popular support for assistance to Ukraine. It’s like when you talk to people about how the Canadian government treated inuit over the years. Gave them numbers instead of name? Heh whatever. Residential schools? Those things happen. Forced relocations? Heh they did was they thought was best. Kidnapping people to take them south for TB treatment? Well intentioned! What do you mean the RCMP shot their dogs? SOMEONE MUST BE MADE ACCOUNTABLE!
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Borscht posted:Can you imagine the public outcry in America if there was video of Russians using suicide dogs? Eh, nothing would fundamentally change. People who are already supporting Ukraine would be mad about it. The ones who aren't would just make jokes about "Biden spends 3.4 million dollars studying how to put a mine under a tank, Russians just use a dog"
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1636749981074743298 https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:The dogs should have eaten the mobiks https://twitter.com/georgian_legion/status/1612728188228050944?s=20
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quote:In mainland China, the segment of the war after the intervention of the People's Volunteer Army is most commonly and officially known as the "Resisting America and Assisting Korea War" quote:In the U.S., the war was initially described by President Harry S. Truman as a "police action", STOP RESISTING Rude Dude With Tude posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1636749981074743298 vlad has been arrested for tax evasion Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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Rude Dude With Tude posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1636749981074743298 As far as empty gestures go I'm kind of all in on this one. edit: VVV All in on that one too Murgos fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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CainFortea posted:The ones who aren't would just make jokes about "Biden spends 3.4 million dollars studying how to put a mine under a tank, Russians just use a dog" "You didn't care about the Beagles that FAUCI directly ordered TORTURED but you care about these ones??? Partisan much, lib?  "
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poverty goat posted:The US lost 40-50k in 3 days at Gettysburg. Ukraine needs more grapeshot That's overall casualties, not killed. KIA over the three days were between 7,000 and 8,000. No I don't know how many died of their wounds later on.
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Power Khan posted:JDAMS incoming the lack of ribbon connectors is appalling this is some ancient electrical design
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shame on an IGA posted:the lack of ribbon connectors is appalling this is some ancient electrical design I wonder if any of their equipment is running on MS-DOS, CP/M, or similar ancient OSs.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Gotta remember that Russia hasn't had a large computer industry since 1991, so their engineers might be stuck in the '80s mindset. Large part of what is considered western world and manufacturing industry is still running on DOS, CP/M and similarly ancient stuff. Almost all corporate data centers, and old systems, have that mythical "blinking box" which no-one knows what it does and why it exists, but you aren't allowed to even intensively stare at it because last time it stopped blinking people died and/or the stock dropped like a stone, or the production line was dead in the water for several hours until the box started to blink again. There is actually a niche market for people sufficiently skilled in programming with 50's, 60's and 70's stuff like Fortran or Pascal in the legacy maintenance cycles. I wish I was kidding but I am not. But obviously you shouldn't build new stuff on top of that stuff. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Gotta remember that Russia hasn't had a large computer industry since 1991, so their engineers might be stuck in the '80s mindset. There was a photo of Putin in a meeting recently and it appeared his desktop PC was running Windows XP.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:There was a photo of Putin in a meeting recently and it appeared his desktop PC was running Windows XP. how else is he gonna play Sims 3
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Der Kyhe posted:Large part of what is considered western world and manufacturing industry is still running on DOS, CP/M and similarly ancient stuff. Almost all corporate data centers, and old systems, have that mythical "blinking box" which no-one knows what it does and why it exists, but you aren't allowed to even intensively stare at it because last time it stopped blinking people died and/or the stock dropped like a stone, or the production line was dead in the water for several hours until the box started to blink again. There is actually a niche market for people sufficiently skilled in programming with 50's, 60's and 70's stuff like Fortran or Pascal in the legacy maintenance cycles. I wish I was kidding but I am not. I used to general IT contracting work and we had a customer 10ish years ago that made high precision F1 transmissions and the entire manufacturing line was still running off of some IBM thing that looked like a giant chest fridge other than the comically large vertical floppy drive slot. Like something out of 40k you pray to the machine spirit, anoint yourself in oil, and drop the 8 inch floppy in and hit the button that makes all the machines come alive. I asked the owner and it's because the line is all custom stuff and there's no comparable modern controller he could slot in. To get rid of the flopster he'd have to scrap and re-buy the whole manufacturing line. Something like 90% of the F500 have COBOL poo poo running somewhere. As a counter to the finicky blinking lights, even after the sun swallows the Earth and explodes, there's still going to be some 70's era IBM big iron floating in space because it just won't stop running. Oscar Wilde Bunch fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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