MachineFab812

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

No need to worry about ground-based Russian Anti-Air if you're staying away from territory under Russian control. If the Su-34's Air2Air capabilities were much good, we wouldn't be here reading/discussing OP's post.

Stealth(F-35 "stealth" anyways) ain't shit versus Russia's ground-based assets. It's use in an all-out invassion would be more down to its beyond-the-horizon capabilities, if they even served well there. Try to keep up.

Seriously though, Russia, and Russian territory, are sooo not the match-up you want for the F-35, no matter how much of the complex's Kool-Aide you've drank. This isn't the war, not even the right hemisphere, that it was designed for.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Nah. I'm the guy they wrote the "civilian use of weapons of mass destruction" law for. At least according to how they used it against this poor bastard(my personal hero, minus he did it for free).

Me? I would have to plead guilty. Yes, your honor, I fired it because I could, and there was money involved. Why are we wasting time sending me to jail when we could be pointing me at randos you don't like over some oil or whatever?

TL;DR: I would never be charged.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

What on God's Green Earth are you talking about? I hack electronics. Okay, mostly, I fix them, but I thought this community was about electronics. I said in my first comment I would enjoy completing this captcha, so why would I hack the forum that supposedly uses it?

Is "these forums" the name for some cool new russian tamagotchi clone or soviet calculator clone or digital slavick bird call? Then, for hacking purposes, you might have caught my interest. Still wouldn't learn the language though. Yes, I was already well aware that translators can generally handle cyrillic.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Personally, I would rather hack it, copy/paste, and talk to whoever would be willing to communicate with me about it in English. I said niche interest, but that wasn't about the time I'm willing to sink into a given project. Learning Russian would be investing months to save hours from an electronics perspective.

Rather let my desire to travel and communicate with a given group of people in person dictate what languages I might study and in what order.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

Can't remember ever looking to purchase a bike helmet online, so of course this one is only available in Europe so far.

That said, at least its a real product you can buy, today. Over half the time when an award-winning design sparks my interest, that is not the case.

https://ventete.com/products/ah-1

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

No one has mentioned the idea of having double-decked stations to make it so you don't have to worry about moving to the right floor in advance of your stop.

I would posit this as a given if we bothered to make taller tunnels for taller train-cars, but based on other comments here, I'm not sure this idea actually makes the concept of double-decker subways any more sensible or useful.

It looks like those metros that have a use for the idea have made it work in their own way and places that haven't tend to have significant reasons of their own for not going this route. Enlarging existing tunnels vertically seems to be a non-starter in most places, for instance.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

I see nothing to hmm at. Dude has his priorities.

I wouldn't be wearing long-sleeves and leather shoes in his position, but maybe his AC/de-humidifier setup is exceptionally on-point.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 11 months ago (4 children)

More like, you're the ideal operator. I would do it for you though. I would do unholy things in order to have the honor of firing this thing at some Russian tanks, even if I could never tell my friends exactly what I did without offending them.

Fuck, now I need a cigarette.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Wait, did you think you had to convince me I'm missing out?

That said, I'm still not learning Russian any time soon. There's at least a dozen other languages I would rather learn first, and at least a hundred other countries I would rather visit first, my niche interests be damned.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 11 months ago (6 children)

The F16 is more useful to Ukraine at the moment. Until Ukraine is approved to engage in deep strikes on Russia, that will probably remain the case.

The F16 is faster, more maneuverable, and cheaper(including maintenance), vs the F35.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Only problems I've ever had on TPB were not finding things that I could find on other sites. Then again, I don't use Windows for either downloading or media consumption, I check torrent file lists as I'm downloading to make sure I'm not downloading anything suspect, and I've so far managed to catch wind of things like certain trusted uploaders getting hacked, spoofed, or just plain trying to cash-in, in-time to avoid getting worked over.

Those same users post to most of the other public sites as well, so I'm not getting where TPB is somehow particularly un-trustworthy. IME, other public sites seem to have MANY more torrents for a given search, often by orders of magnitude, so which one is really less moderated?

The REAL encouraged/discouraged is Private vs Public sites and trackers, and I'm not pretending that for all my caveats I haven't been just plain lucky. If you download regularly at all, Private is the way to go.

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