ArbitraryValue

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

About half the inhabitants of Gaza are under 18 years old, so 1/3 of the dead being children corresponds to a ratio of two civilians killed for every combatant. This is not out of the ordinary for urban warfare conducted in a manner intended to reduce civilian casualties.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What about the lower-profile Warsaw Pact tanks? Are they safer to drive around small children?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They'll have to pry my Pepe from my cold dead hands!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Even Master Chief's Mjolnir armor from Halo wouldn't pass. (It would stop one bullet but not three in a row without time to recharge the shield.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

There are also anti-materiel rifles (generally bolt-action) which use that ammunition.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The fact that it won't have any record of calls I missed while the phone was off or didn't have reception, although actually that's probably the fault of the service provider. They can send me texts I missed. Why can't they send me a list of missed calls?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I don't understand why browsers support this "functionality".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The soldier has a blank shoulder patch even in the original photo. Odd.

The railing in the photo has blue and yellow stripes, which is unlikely in Russia, but I don't see anything about the soldier himself that makes him obviously Ukrainian. (Maybe experts can distinguish by camo patterns?) The comments in Russian on that Reddit thread are ridiculing the use of this photo on a Russian poster but provide no further information.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

3 point blank shots from 14.5×114mm rounds

How is that something a person could wear? Those bullets penetrate light vehicle armor.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

mostly useful for suppressive fire

I think the concern is about a shooter firing into a dense crowd (like the Las Vegas attack) which is generally an application that would not come up during military use.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

My worst review said that my paper was technically sound but my entire specialty was a "cottage industry" generating computational models with no real-world relevance and therefore the paper should be rejected. The editor offered the opportunity to rebut but what could I say to something like that?

(The reviewer still lives, as far as I know.)

On the plus side, this meant that I was rejected by PNAS but then published in BJ.

 

Before covid, I would be sick with a cold or flu for a total of about two weeks every year. That means I spent 4% of my time sick; one out of every 25 days. Since covid appeared, I've been wearing an N95 in crowded indoor areas whenever I reasonably can. (Obviously I can't if I'm eating something.) My main goal initially was to protect my elderly relatives, but during the last four years I have not gotten sick even once, except from my elderly relatives who didn't wear masks, got sick, and then infected me when I was caring for them.

Why isn't everyone wearing N95s? Sure, it's uncomfortable, but being sick is much more uncomfortable. And then there's the fact that wearing an N95 protects other people and not just the wearer...

 
 

There appears to be no straightforward way to permanently stop Windows 11 Home from rebooting on its own after installing updates. I looked for workarounds but so far I have only found a script that has to run on a schedule to block the reboot by changing "working hours". (Link.)

Is that really the best that is possible?

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I have an Intel i7-4770 CPU (from 2013) and I don't think I have ever been CPU-bound so I would rather not spend money on upgrading it. However, I want to upgrade my graphics card to a Radeon RX 7600. My motherboard supports PCIE 3.0 which the RX 7600 is fine with.

Is there anything I should look out for? I'm worried that I'm missing something that will prevent me from running a 2023 video card on hardware ten years older than that.

(In case anyone is curious, my current video card is a GeForce GTX 960. It has been good enough for Diablo 2 Resurrected but I don't think it will be able to handle Baldur's Gate 3.)

 

I bought a new-in-box LG V20 about 18 months ago because I was tired of phones without removable batteries and headphone jacks. However, it gets absolutely terrible reception for some reason (as in, no signal in the middle of Manhattan). Some guy had the same problem and he soldered a big antenna to his phone to fix it. I might try to do that but given how great I am at soldering, there's a good chance I'll break the phone. Should I do it? I don't want to have to buy a modern phone with a built-in battery but I can't just have a phone which doesn't work when I'm away from wi-fi...

 

Driving is the most comfortable, convenient, and fun mode of transportation. Walking and biking can be OK but only for traveling relatively short distances in good weather. Mass transit is inherently unpleasant. No matter how nice you try to make it (and most mass transit systems aren't nice) the fact of the matter is that passengers are still stuck in a crowded box with a bunch of strangers and limited to traveling to the mass transit system's destinations on the mass transit system's schedule. Compare this to getting into your own car and driving wherever you want, whenever you want...

I currently live in a place too crowded for driving to be practical - I get that places like this need mass transit. But needing mass transit sucks!

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