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Lol nice,  who's the clown who wrote that T-34 book?  

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The Management.

Old vans turnedd into tracked ATVs.

It's been a while since I've given an update on my fun in satisfactory. I've been working on it since I posted last, but life got in the way and I also decided to make some of my builds more complex for no good reason. 
 

 
This huge build, which takes about 1.1 GW to run, is to make "heavy modular frames", and this is the first of 2 culprits that have slowed my progress, because I decided that using 6 different resources would be more fun that the normal 3 that are required. I also upgraded my first coal power plant to make sure I had enough juice just to run this supply chain before I got into oil tech. 
 
 
 

 
After that project, I decided to work on quartz technology before I went on to oil; how very un-American of me . 
 
 
 

 
The most recent factories I've set up all heavily rely on CRUDE OIL! However, Satisfactory does oil a little weird. I'm not going to get into it, but It's simpler than Factorio in the starter set ups (and the extreme oil set ups you can find on YouTube are absolutely self-inflicted convolution rather than necessary), but the unavoidable byproducts make it just as annoying to keep the production chain running. The wonky fluid physics in this game also make it kind of frustrating if you don't compensate for them. 
 
 
 

 
With all that I've done, I could finally move on to producing a part I've never actually automated in this game: the Supercomputer. This is second culprit to why it took a while to post again, as I've been working on this production chain for over a month. It also consumes some 2.5+ GW of power, without accounting for the previous oil factories that feed into this. 
 
 
 

 
I've also upgraded some of my equipment to better explore and exploit resources. This is the jet pack (you get a better one later) and consumes fuel canisters to fly. 
 
 

A bit of humor :
 

AMD just officially showed off their new Ryzen 7000 series CPUs.  They should be available by September 23.  How time flies!

Performance for these CPUs is on the high end of what leakers and analysts were estimating.  However, it remains to be seen exactly how these perform in games vs. the handpicked average shown off in this presentation.  We should be seeing actual benchmarks soon.  It also remains to be seen how this will compare with Intel's Raptor Lake 13th generation CPUs.  Rumors and leaks suggest that, at least in single-core performance, the offerings from the two respective companies will be very close in performance.  TSMC's 5nm node looks quite impressive here, as it apparently allows for blistering 5.7GHz max boost frequency.

In an interesting reversal, the AMD CPUs will require a new motherboard with the new AM5 socket.  Intel has confirmed that their upcoming 13th generation chips will use the same socket as the previous models, which will make upgrading easier for people with existing 12th generation Alder Lake systems.

The highest-performing AMD CPUs for this generation will be less expensive than had been anticipated.  This suggests that their production efficiency is very good, and also that they're gunning for more market share.  However, because these new CPUs will require a new motherboard and new DDR5 RAM, making a new system using them will still be expensive.

 

This rumor suggests, however, that AMD will decisively take the performance crown in Q1 of 2023.  Their vertically-stacked vcache will be back, and at least according to this source, it's considerably improved over the implementation in the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.  The CPU frequency penalty for the vcache is lower, and the performance boost is higher.  Again, the proof will be in the pudding.  I do also wonder what pricing and availability will be like.  The chiplet strategy has helped AMD's CPU production efficiency overall, but the more components they add to each chip the more vulnerable they are to various global supply chain disruptions that have been going on at least since the 2019 South Korea / Japan trade war, and which were accentuated by COVID-19 and the Ukraine War.

Relatedly, I've seriously thought about trying to found high-energy biology as a field:
https://xkcd.com/2656/
 
As a post-graduate, I looked into the possibility that plant nitrating enzymes (eg: the whole nitrate reductase pathway) along with plant tissue specific promoters could be used to effectively grow a bomb. It wasn't very serious enquiry or anything, but as far as I can tell it's a perfectly feasible project to carry out.

A really nifty introduction to spin-scan and con-scan IR seekers (ie: the system used by early Sidewinder variants):
 
https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=697101
 

Thanks to this Secret Projects thread, we have some images of the transitional forms of the Northrop fighter lineage which help connect the T-38/F-5/etc to the Cobra/Hornet. As is fairly well known, the this transition begins with the Northrop P-300, which is still firmly grounded in the Freedom Fighter. This is an important member of the family, which I left out of my original posts:





This is a configurable study model of the late version (A43) of the P-300 (seemingly evidenced by the very difficult to read nameplate). Clearly visible is its resemblance to a high-wing F-5, but you can also see in the belly shot a very clear view of the flared out body-intake configuration that would follow the design all the way through the P-530 and YF-17, which was much more subdued in the F-18:



 
In fact, the early P-530 looks much more like the P-300A43 than it does the later P530s:






 
Note that by May '67 they haven't even ditched the single tail yet (that wouldn't happen until the summer of 1968)!

By the end of the P-530 the aircraft gets looking very much like a proto-Cobra:



You can see that in this very "Starfightery" series of designs, one of the big distinguishing features visually is caused by the location of the gun. Not in front of the pilot like in the Cobra and Hornet, but below the pilot:
 



Speaking of guns, evidently the armament of two M39s in lieu of an M61 was being considered as late as 1973/4:




The photos in that SP thread really clearly illustrate the evolution from the F-5 to the Hornet very well, and there's even a handy visual outline:



But what's this? It mentions a single-engined P-610? Indeed:




 

That was Meplat that got banned. 

Nah, he's just the brain dead target audience for the pro global war propaganda.

Just for a note - not banning him because he is laughable idiot.

Nah, he's just the brain dead target audience for the pro global war propaganda.

Nah, he's just the brain dead target audience for the pro global war propaganda.

Nah, he's just the brain dead target audience for the pro global war propaganda.

Nah, he's just the brain dead target audience for the pro global war propaganda.

One sided news is one sided. People have a reason to flex their hate boners, and by god are they making it obvious. 

Wanted to do this post 2 days ago after digesting new events, but was too exhausted after workshifts to do effortposting, i was coming back to home during night time. My thoughts on this war, noise surrounding it, strategical implications and expectations, for those who care.
 
 
What i think.
   After 2017 it was obvious Ukraine will not do anything from Minsk agreements as Ukr politicians were publicly shitting on them and were doing nothing to make it real. DPR and LPR fate became obvious - they are not wanted in Ukraine. Putin's decision to recognize republics was constatations of situation. I expected thing to go slowly but deliberatly towards something i will describe later. But events went in very different way from what i thought would happen. Now, i'm not going to spit in the back of our soldiers executing orders, as Army should be this way, but politicians and other higher ups are free game im my eyes.
 
   Decision to start a full scale war in my opinion was stupidiest thing our political leadership have done in past 22 years. I'm not sure why or what triggered it, but looks like a plan was being worked on for long time, probably even before last year. Putin usually was carefull, but this is rackless decision.
   Our PR can scream about this operation being against nazis and nationalists, but the fact is this war is against Ukraine and everyone inside of it, as effects of war are going to touch nearly everyone who lives inside directly or indirectly.
 
   I don't have hard feelings about it, as i "burned down" during 2015, but this was wrong call. Not because war is bad, but because net result is not going to be what i would like to see.
 
 
   Good vs Evil
   Now, in medias narrative is that Good Democratical Ukraine is fighting Evil Russian dictatorship, in my view both states are dogshit.
 
   Ukraine is highly corrupted country that was run by oligarchs before coup in 2014 and now sort of run by oligarchs together by nationalists with piece of sovereignty outsorced to US foreigh policy makers, a country that effectively suppressed opposition in 2015-16 and where you have less rights than even in Russia, if you are not following "main course". One time per few years population needs to go to specific places where they instal another politicain as a leader who will became highly unpopular by the end of his term.
 
   Russia is highly corrupted country that was run by oligarchs before Putin and now sort of run by oligarchs together with Putin and his "clan", a country that sort of suppressed opposition in 2000s and where you have some rights, but there are workarounds, if you really want to. One time per few years population needs to go to specific places where we approve prolongation of power of our leader.
 
   Personally, i fail to see who is here an actual good guy. Both, in grand scheme of things, are kind of assholes. Maybe reason for people far away to see this conflict differently than war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is mix of agressor vs defender and Goliath vs David situation, and the fact that what they see on videos is a country and people more relatable than some Middle Eastern Arabs that are getting democracy delivered to their homes. But that is how i see it.
 
 
   Why this war is in such way it is (copy pasted from Discord): 
 
   I think we started this war with soft boxing gloves on, for some fucking reason. Maybe they expected less resistance, which may show how much attention they gave to situation on Donbass and how well they took into account 8 years of nationalistic propaganda and having armed conflict in 2.5 regions.
 
   Note absolutely no videos coming from our MoD, nothing about combat. Also note how for several days we used no artillery, very limited cruise missile strikes and no airstrikes (like in Syria with 100+ sorties per day from small base in Hmeimym). All this led to major units not being destroyed, equipment partially left in working condition. Internet was not turned off, mobile phones working. They did jack shit on this front. They did half measures and got half results.
 
   Thanks to that UAF was not destroyed. Convoy routes left undefended. No use of CAS, no proper AA coverage. Big units in bypassed cities left without serious blocking formations. They can orginise by using just mobiles phones. Thanks to ability to film and upload videos to the internet, net is now flooded with videos of Russian equipment destroyed and soldiers killed. Uplifting material for other side. All this instead of getting moral collapse of enemy faster and destruction and murder to minimun turned 180. Ukrainians are fighting back harder that what was anticipated is my expectation.
 
   Another boggus decision was using such small number of forces for operation. I saw claims of ~50k in initial phase. 100k is possibly going to be total number of forces. Ukraine is 40+ mln country. Not sure how they will hold it. Even with Rosgvardia there is not enough people to hold whole country.
 
   In the end results will be same on grand scale, but path to that result will be bloodier and longer. I guess thats why Putin fired that big star commander. But i guess they had plan B for bloodier route, which is why we now see MRLS used to bombard enemy.
 
   You can't "half-fight" the war, trying to look friendly on tv. What was supposed to be public flogging of Ukraine starts to be 1939 Soviet war with Finland, where USSR technically won, but Germans, looking at how it was won, thought Red Army was umm.. "incompetent" and decision to invade USSR was taken with taking into account poor results of that war. 
 
 
   Expectations, future
   After declaration of recognition of republics i thought we will start to help rebels in taking back 2 oblast', and this will be the end of hot-ish phase of conflict in Donbass region after quick strike against main forces of UAF in this region (which are most of their forces) and enforcing some sort of political comma in a conflict and moving to next phase.
 
   Reality went in different direction.
   I suspect this war will continue for a week (optimistically), 2-3 weeks if Russian command will not unfuck their plans, or turn into strange military stalment for a month or 2 when most of Ukraine is going to be technically captured, but vast territories and many towns/villages will not have any occupation forces to keep an order, so motivated people will have space to continue strategically unorginised conflict until we will pump necessary amount of internal troops to put it down enough for law enforcements to handle situation.  
 
   After that expect new government, neutral status and Russian troops leaving, with scars of stupidity of leadership. And after some time - nationalists will rise, again, maybe even at bigger scale. Reason - they were screaming about Russian invasion for 8 years and now it is a reality. Their voice was heard by people in Ukraine before, but and now it have big and firm foundation to stand on thanks to this war happening.
 

Saw a lot of activity here, and got curious. Though I’m not surprised, I am saddened that it smells like shit in here. 

Dude, no. Just... I mean, did you fall into a coma in 2004 and only just wake up? Are you an amnesiac or something?
 
Knocking over other countries is a terrible idea if your purposes are to safeguard liberal democracy. Even if you grant someone the right to get rid of "dictators" and "terrorists" that run places in a way you don't like (and that's a planet-sized "if"), it never works. The locals never turn around, look at all the foreign troops lording it over them and go "you know what, we like these guys so much that we're going to vote for someone who aligns perfectly with their interests and never cause trouble again". 
 
If you actually believe in the concept of a liberal, rules-based international order, then the US declaring a bunch of countries guilty of a crime they didn't commit and invading them was one of the crimes of the new century. And even if you don't; it's results have been an unmitigated disaster by the very justifications that they themselves provided. No democracy flowered, no peace was achieved. The only beneficiaries were a bunch of defence contractors and an even more virulent crop of terrorists that the US effectively manufactured and spread around a quarter of the globe.
 
So if you are going to blame Russia for unprovoked aggression and breaking international norms, then you have to blame the US for showing them how it's done: never once apologizing for the act, and never facing any consequences except the inevitable blow-back that comes with some of the stupidest policy decisions in history. That's just basic mental consistency.
 
And if you really think that simply being able to paint your enemies as illiberal is all you need to justify any heinous act, then how is a democratically-elected Russian government, who sees the government in the Ukraine as the illegitimate result of a soft coup by the US, not also going to be able to use that to argue their case?
 
Learn to use your head, or get off this forum.

I sincerely hope you said the same thing about the US, UK when they decided to invade  Iraq, bombed Syria, funded "moderate rebels" in Syria, toppled the government of Ukraine, destroyed Libya, etc. in the 21st century.
 
Just a reminder,  foreign backed regime change coups are as legal as military invasions.  They are both illegal according to international law.  The hypocrisy and double standards are mind blowing. It highlights how  conditioned / brainwashed people have become. This is absolutely surreal.
 
To be fair the US and the satellite states that participated in these actions should have been sanctioned, particularly after it was determined that they had lied to the world, repeatedly. For some "strange reason" this did not happen. Hundreds of thousands of deaths have accrued, millions of refugees and trillions of dollars in damages were generated in the past 20 years because of the actions of the US and its enablers.
 
The 2003 Iraq war and the lack of response to aggression  was a watershed moment in World history. It demonstrated that might makes right and that "international law" including the UN are worthless / pointless in the grand scheme of things.
 
The US should have been severely sanctioned  for what it did in Ukraine, let alone the other mentioned places. The regime change coup in Ukraine in 2014 was one US coup too far. If the shoe would have been on other foot, the US  would have not been thrilled if Russia or any other nation would have had the "brilliant" idea to send their version of Vicky Nuland Cookie Monster to Mexico or Canada to bring  about an Anti-US regime change right at the border of the US. If we use the Cuban/Turkey missile crisis as an example we all know what these actions could and would lead to. Neither Russia, China, or any other US rival was dumb enough to attempt this in the past 50+ years.

I think this is a bit of a misnomer - wind turbines without any bird-scaring features (such as painting one blade black) kill plenty of birds. But far, far less than an equivalent coal power plant does.
 
I'd expect tidal power to kill plenty of fish and crabs and such, but again far, far less than, say any form of technology which involves jetting a huge plume of heated or briny water into the sea (ie: nuclear power or desalination plants). 
 
Really, the biggest issue with tidal is just that it's damn hard to make anything with moving parts that doesn't degrade or get encrusted with sea life after a few years. The sea is not a happy environment for anything with moving bits that's also supposed to sit in one spot for years on end without maintenance.