fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

just one rationalist got lost in the wilderness? that's nothing, tell me when all of them are gone

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

it would need to be organized somehow, make it big and electric to be efficient. people go to the same places every day so you can just put a durable track of some kind in right place,

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I meant weaker per kg of body weight, not in absolute terms

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Square-cube law means that as they get bigger they need to hunt less (lower rate of heat loss per kg of birb) and get less powerful compared to their size

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 31 points 4 months ago

some common friend spilled the tea in advance perhaps

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've seen that Ukrainians got their jet (su-27?) destroyed when parked, but that was due to ballistic missiles, not drones, and 1y+ ago

Notice that also air defence radar was targeted. There's a lot of russia and apparently not enough air defence assets, and something will slip through, some of the time

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it's some copium of tremendous potency to misidentify public sentiment (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/) for movement (ignore the "AI experts" these are people surveyed at a certain machine learning conference, really could be substituted by 1000 clones of Sutskever)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

Tax reasons perhaps? In some countries ethanol with (certain kinds of) perfume mix can be taxed as denatured alcohol, otherwise some other kind of denaturant would be needed

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

DoD tries to cover up development of U2 and F117, and entire religion grows up from this

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

yeah piracy community is three blocks down, fuck off

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago

for ccgt it's more like 2/3 for gas turbine, 1/3 for steam turbine split, even more uneven for diesel/steam because diesel exhaust is much colder

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