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  • Probably not with SARH, multiple emitter sources would just complicate the job of the detector on the missile. Like I’m sure it could be made to work with a bit of compensation, but it would add cost and complexity to the seeker on the missile, which sort of defeats the point of such a system being cheap and easy to build. There’s also the Possibility that the returns would be too diffuse for a detector on the missile to track beyond that 20km range, so having additional sets beyond that range wouldn’t help. Probably easier and cheaper just increase the range of a single radar. Just putting the whole set on a really big missile and making it an active radar homing system might make sense with an array of sets providing warning and an initial vector, and the missile guiding it’s self in, but again, now your missile is the cost of at least one set per launch.

    Not sure what limits the range on this set, but they mention a wave guide improving it, which makes me think it’s just a power limitation on the emitter or limited sensitivity on the receiver.



  • Nah, that missile was visual tracking. Not radar guided. Also, way too small to intercept anything going high and fast which is generally what the patriot is for. Intercepting an aircraft requires a really powerful motor to give it enough speed and altitude to catch a plane.

    This radar could maybe be used with a semi active radar guided missile, where the ground radar lights up the target and the missile just has a detector that homes in on that, which is what early patriots used. But it’s only got a 20km range which isn’t really enough for an anti aircraft system, unless all you’re worried about is something slow and low to the ground like a helicopter or cesna. Need enough time for the radar to detect, identify and lock the target, fire the missile, and have it track to the target, and something moving fast and high will be in and out of the range of the radar before all that can be done. Especially if the target is high up at 10km, which would half the effective range.


  • I’d say for an American style pancake you’d also want to add like 33~ grams of baking powder for 500 grams of flour, and bit less milk to get a thicker consistency. Something like vanilla and almond extract, and a little bit of salt and sugar.

    But they’re fairly easy to make from scratch all the same. The store bought mixes often contain powdered milk and powdered egg so they’re “just add water”, in addition to a bunch of additives to make it last longer on the shelf.




  • Please I beg of you, just recommend people Mint. Catchy is great, it’s very easy and smooth as arch goes.

    But if you have someone who is under the illusion that Linux is hard. The moment they have any issue it might frustrate them enough to bounce off. I know so many people who have gotten recommended some flavor of the week like Manjaro, Bazite, Pop_Os or Nobara, who that has happened with. I’ve never talked to anyone who was recommended Mint with Cinnamon, used it, and then decided it was too hard and went back to windows. Plenty of people will say “well I used XYZ and didn’t have any issues” or the issues were minor enough and the answers easy enough that they stuck around, but that’s survivorship bias, the people who didn’t deal with it aren’t here to say otherwise.

    So just send them to cinnamon mint, there will be no hiccups, it will just work. Maybe later they’ll be like “yah, I kind of want to see what else is out there” and then they can try other things. I get that, cinnamon mint is limited in some ways, but not in ways a first time Linux user is going to care about.





  • the first DE I used on Linux was cinnamon and I was like “wow, this is great, everything makes sense to me out of the box”

    And then I tried Gnome and was incredibly put off by it, like “why the hell is this over here, this layout is strange to me. Why are all these unconventional features on by default, this is very annoying.”

    And then I tried KDE and I was like “wow, this is great and everything makes sense to me out of the box, also there’s all these features and options, I don’t know what they do, but i don’t have to interact with them if I don’t want to.”


  • Honestly, I’m just surprised this is the first time someone has dared to put a phone SOC in a laptop chassis.

    It seemed kind of obvious to me that a laptop experience on phone hardware (but like… with a bigger screen, keyboard and mouse/trackpad) was sort of perfect for most use cases. I just assumed that it would come in the form of a phone docked in to a hollowed out laptop. The core issue was just that the software was awful with such a set up. Apple just kind of bypassed that by having their whole OS and everything on it switch over to ARM and just running a non-mobile OS on a phone SOC.

    It seems like Google is kind of edging that way by merging chrome OS in to android. And windows was maybe flailing that direction with windows on arm… but… I think that was mostly just them trying to copy Apple without really thinking to hard about it.





  • I haven’t seen any AI generated images on here in nearly a year. So it’s interesting to me that you’re seeing enough of it to be an issue. I blocked like 3 or 4 AI boosters because their absurd arguments made me angry and want to argue, and I don’t come here to be angry and argue. So if I had to guess, most of the objectionable content you’re seeing is probably coming from a handful of people, a tiny fraction of the active users here.

    If it took people actively calling them out to prevent some sort of normalization and spread, then new people would be routinely poping up and posting slop that I would see. I think most people just realize that it adds nothing to the community, and aren’t about to start spontaneously doing it or liking it just because they see someone else do it without being challenged.



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    2 months ago

    I suspect it’s largely more the result of failing internal organization. Like, a detached from reality and ideologically motivated faction with in corporate leadership has seized control of the company and fired anyone who told them they were being idiots or opposed their initiatives. People are probably getting promoted or hired to management positions based on their ability to tell leadership what they want to hear rather than their ability to actually run things. Everyone lower down has internalized that telling the higher ups what’s going on will get them fired and only is telling them what they want to hear. Resources and people got diverted away from projects that the management doesn’t care about (have no potential to drive growth), and they’re just assuming that the “increase in productivity of AI” will make up the difference. Now everything is melting down and their core product is losing market share while the new products intended to drive growth are failing to see meaningful adoption. Heads will probably role, but it’s unlikely it will be the people who are causing the problem.

    That’s what it looks like to me from the outside.



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    3 months ago

    Yah they used machine learning but that’s not really AI, or at least not “generative” AI which is what people associate the term with at this point.

    Saying it’s AI gives the impression that it’s just a prompt and output system, as supposed to… well closer to the virtual instruments that get used in DAWs.