fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

C/E/F also have shutters, probably more types do that too

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 39 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Type E and F plugs are not really a thing anymore, today it's more common to find combined Type E/F plugs.

Fuses in british plugs are a mistake and only a requirement because of sketchy practices allowed in british electrical code immediately after WW2. Nobody else does that because nowhere else electric code is built in such a way that it is necessary. Switch seems to be mildly useful tho

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

llms allowed them to glide all the way to the point of failure without learning anything

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 23 points 1 month ago

Live in the forest ig. Some defect to Ukrainians, there are flyers and websites and telegram channels for that, but hard to say how many choose so

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

well, i see a large category of infrastructure problems (that will be 99% civilian use anyway - and not only transport, also telecomms, you can even put healthcare training in there) that is solvable by pouring money at them, and now it's politically convenient to let it rip even among pro-austerity neoliberals. if you want an example of what can this do, look at eastern eu countries and how they changed after funding went in

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

which ones? germany has government spending at 48% of gdp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_spending_as_percentage_of_GDP so 5% of gdp for defense will be closer to 1/10 of all government spending

going by 2024 numbers, russians putting third of government spending to defence would be closer to 13% gdp

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It all depends on how it all will get managed, but there are already longer term infrastructure projects that now got some funding and now also it counts under 5% NATO target. I think that more resources will go towards rail infrastructure, bridges are just more illustrative, but still for a couple of these village 7 ton level bridge there will be one 30 ton bridge in town nearby that will get overhauled

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

in eastern nato countries there is logistical problem because army suddenly switched from 40 ton tanks to 70 ton tanks, for example, and old bridges or rail can't support them. this is just one of many small examples that add to that problem, and of course 99% of the time the stronger bridge will be used by civilians

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

about #1, not only this makes number of potential leakers higher (intentional or not - by opsec failures) but also this narrows down number of loyal, reliable people who also won't fuck up the job real fast

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 25 points 2 months ago

there shouldn't be billion dollar startups

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

japanese have 100v and don't have this problem

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not. He-3 is supposed to be maybe one day used in fusion power, but we're talking about tons of this stuff. Not only scale is off, also He-3 burning requires much higher temperature than D-T fusion, and this is just around in next 20 years pinky promise

People who think that it's a big deal also take Ray Kurzweil seriously, it's scifi noise

In practical terms, when DHS wanted to get He-3 neutron sensors, they bought out entire global supply for multiple years, for an application where only grams are needed and it's not used up. It's made from decay of tritium currently and it'd be less energy intensive to make it the usual way

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