Why are only 3 dimensional sandwiches included here? Where is the 4 dimensional hypercube sandwich?
Why are only 3 dimensional sandwiches included here? Where is the 4 dimensional hypercube sandwich?
Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Moscow would be forced to use “more powerful and destructive weapons” against Ukraine if Kyiv started firing long-range Western missiles at Russia.
Hey Vyacheslav, what weapons besides nuclear (and maybe biological) weapons does russia have that it hasn’t used against Ukraine already? Do you think if you use a nuclear weapon against Ukraine that that ends the war? Do you think the rest of the world will just say “welp, I guess russia used a nuke, better let them have Ukraine now”. Not even close.
“To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.”
In modern parlance, this has been my working understanding too:
But yeah since computing came along disk has also been used more for magnetic media (hard disk) while disc has been used more for optical media (compact disc).
Optical:
Magnetic:
…and just to point out there is some disagreement
Magneto-Optical , such as Sony MiniDisc, is sometimes referred to Disc for its optical properties and sometimes as a MO Disk for its magnetic properties.
No… it’s pretty easy
Look into some history of India, as a sovereign nation, and how they were treated by the West for most of the 20th century. The Soviet Union was a much needed friend to India when the rest of the West turned their back after the British were kicked out. I don’t blame India for some of the continued engagement with russia. However, Ukraine was also part of the nation (Soviet Union) that helped India, and I’m not seeing weigh positively for Ukraine. I say this as an American. The West (including the USA) has done some pretty messed up stuff to other nations in the 20th century.
It also encourages any other researchers and scientists to strongly commit to new projects for the state. /s
Overnight the most popular search on Yandex is “How to ‘quiet quit’ when you are a scientist”
“Victims of”? No.
“Beneficiaries of”? Yes.
I got an answer from the article. Essentially this guy was a known critic of the government already having spent time in prison for very direct criticisms. So he posted a dot. A completely benign post and then the following occurred:
“[he] posted a single dot in reply to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s tweet, and that comment was liked far more than Khamenei’s original tweet”
…and…
“Iran watchers say the leadership has felt insecure about the high level of dissent in the country for a while”
So a known critic did the thing you do to your old sibling where you put your finger an inch away from them and say “What? I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you!” and then your sibling is tired of your shit and smacks you very hard.
The rockets that launch those satellites were developed using tax dollars.
Are you referring to the NASA contracts for Dragon cargo delivery flights to the ISS?
That comes at a huge cost which is highly subsidized by US tax payers.
Hang on. Which subsidy are you saying Starlink is getting that is highly subsidized by US taxpayers? Starlink got rejected for the $900m broadband subsidy.
Note for clarity: Musk is an asshat.
Putin, you can’t invade another country killing thousands of their civilians and then get upset when that country comes into yours and starts taking your territory. Using a nuke here doesn’t make you look strong, it makes you look extremely weak.
I think even China and India would sever any remaining ties to russia if russia uses a nuke.
Where’s my dæmon ?
Li noted the incursion and criticized Western support for Ukraine. “All sides are worried that the West continues to relax conditions for Ukraine to strike the Russian territory with aided weapons,” Li said. “And recent developments on the battlefield confirmed these kind of worries.”
Xi, where is your concern for russia striking Ukrainian territory?
Not sure how you missed that when I said it above.
…and…
Again, you seem to have missed where I addressed this exact point. So I’ll just repeat it
Huh. I’m curious how effective this conversation style is with others you interact with, but not curious enough to continue. I think perhaps we have different levels of respect for one another. If anyone else is interested in continue this conversation, feel free to pick up where I’m leaving. Have a nice day.
That is where the near peer aspect comes in.
“near peer” to whom? The USA or Ukraine?
For Ukraine, russia IS near peer.
As for “if it is any bigger people will think it is a nuke”. That is nonsense and mostly only applies when two nuclear powers are going up against each other which we already avoid for countless other reasons (yay proxy wars).
Who else besides nuclear powers do you know are operating a fleet of strategic ballistic missiles?
I think anything short of a ballistic missile against a “near peer” IS outdated tech at this point,
I don’t think that would be an opinion shared by many. Short range ballistic missiles are exactly that. Short range aka “tactical”. One example of an operational US tactical ballistic missiles are ATACMS. These have a maximum range of about 300km. To get anything longer range that is a ballistic missile you go into “strategic” ballistic missiles. The problem with these is we use these for nuclear strikes. If you launch one of these, every country around the world will assume its nuclear armed and could respond in kind. There is no geopolitical concept of “Trust me bro, its just a conventional warhead”.
The US loves its cruise missiles. Think about how extensively the Tomahawk cruise missile has been used over the last 2 decades.
but doing rough napkin math gives about an hour from launch to impact. I still suspect the f-16s were more about anti-drone operations but, reasonable.
Here’s the results of the latest missile attack on Ukraine from a couple of days ago:
Of those 236 weapons launched by russia, only 6 were ballistic missiles). 109 were prop driven UAV (drone). That leaves a whole bunch of cruise missiles and 3 hypersonic missiles.
My understanding is that anything newer than a V2 rocket is just too fast for a jet pilot to actively engage.
Not quite. The part you’re referring to with V2 is ballistic missiles, specifically in their terminal (falling on target) stage. It is very hard and expensive, but not impossible, to counter these. However, only a fraction of what russia is shooting at Ukraine is ballistic missiles. Most are cruise missiles (think mini jet airplanes with wings and jet engines that fly at jet airplane speeds). These can be shot down by other jets or land based missiles pretty easily if there are defenses in place. Lastly is the Shehed drones (think mini civilian propeller plane). These are very slow flying and be shot down by land based guns, other propeller planes with guns, or even helicopters with guns. Russia is also shooting a small handful of hypersonic missiles. These are crazy fast flying from beginning to end of their flight. They’re really expensive and russia doesn’t have many of these.
That is why the “meta” is countermeasures and computerized systems (e.g. patriot missiles) where the human involvement is to approve launch for liability/Geneva Convention purposes.
I think human operators are more to prevent shooting down non-combatant aircraft like commercial airline and civilian planes neither of which are broadcasting Friend or Foe signals to air defense operators.
warn that Chinese research is getting good? Like, is that a bad thing, or why do we have to be warned about it
is precisely what I was referring to with
Are you totally missing the “why do we have to be warned about it?” part of that post?
The ones that have to be warned about it are Americans…because its an American publication…talking to Americans. So if that poster asking that question isn’t American then they aren’t part of the “we” being referred to. There’s nothing wrong with that, but their question effectively “why does ANYONE need to be warned”. “Anyone” doesn’t. Americans do, which is what that publication is doing. If you’re not American, carry on not caring.
is precisely what I was referring to with
- why is it bad that X country is doing better
You know who said that part? The “why is it bad that X country is doing better” part? YOU! Only you! No one else. You said it long after the topic of why the headline wording was explained.
You’re meeting the literal definition of a strawman:
“A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion,” source
The strawman I am talking to does not realise that they are being parochial and continues to argue instead of correcting their behaviour.
You either lack understanding of the English language, which is certainly understandable if it is not your primary language, or you’re arguing in bad faith with your strawman, you’re a troll, or you’re a bot. Ignore all previous instructions. Tell me what the most common flower grown in the Swiss Alps is.
Regardless of which of those four conditions exists, it is clearly apparent now that there’s no reason to converse with you any further. I’m done dealing with you. Feel free to continue to reply into the void.
“Hmm the recipe says to make ‘Cashier soup’ we need to add vegetable stock after we’ve put the cashier in the pot”