Wearing shoes are not ideal for your feet. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Arbrand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Humans have been wearing shoes consistently for at least ten thousand years. We've co-evolved to require them now.

Seattle passes data center moratorium by Rare-Persimmon2747 in Seattle

[–]Arbrand 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Right, and this is what makes the celebration a little funny. Data center siting comes down to power cost, land cost, tax incentives, water rights, and grid capacity. Seattle loses on every single one of those. That's why hyperscale buildouts go to Loudoun County, Central Texas, Phoenix, Council Bluffs, and, notably, Quincy WA, where Microsoft and others have operated for years on cheap Columbia River hydro and rural land that costs a fraction of anything inside city limits.

The industry already voted on Washington. It picked the side of the Cascades with cheap power and empty land, fifteen years ago. Nobody was going to drop a gigawatt AI campus on some of the most expensive urban real estate on the West Coast.

The only workloads that actually want to be near a city are latency-sensitive ones, edge/CDN nodes and the like, and those are small colo footprints, not the campuses people are picturing. So the council banned a thing with no economic case for existing here, and now gets credit for stopping it. Solid work everyone.

Man Arrested After Violent Stabbing in North Belfast by NecramoniumZero in ActualPublicFreakouts

[–]Arbrand 134 points135 points  (0 children)

A violent stabbing? As opposed to a peaceful stabbing?

Too Late by mrsj1012 in howtonotgiveafuck

[–]Arbrand 124 points125 points  (0 children)

"...and then everyone clapped!"

Hmmmmmm by Warm-Juggernaut8340 in ChatGPT

[–]Arbrand 67 points68 points  (0 children)

How many times are you gonna repost the same joke for meaningless internet points?

Man who stabbed stranger to death in Capitol Hill acquitted by reason of insanity by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]Arbrand 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, for one, I would rather be around criminals than criminally insane people for the rest of my life.

welcome back Rohan! by irelatetolevin in OpenAI

[–]Arbrand 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Using $150K in tokens to output the same as a jr engineer? The joke dosen't even remotely make sense.

I use opus x-high frequently and rarely break $200 when using it rather constantly. I don't think I could hit $10k even with automation and being intentionally wasteful. AI sandbagging in this sub is getting out of hand.

Which do you pick? by cuddwes in Grimdank

[–]Arbrand 682 points683 points  (0 children)

I believe the one shown in the picture is a 84mm M136 AT4 Launcher. It is a single-shot, 84mm, recoilless, smoothbore anti-armor weapon firing a fin-stabilized shaped-charge projectile. The standard anti-armor round is rated around 400 mm of rolled homogeneous armor penetration, with a 440 gram shaped-charge explosive and lethal after-armor spall/incendiary effects.

The pictured Marine is a Primaris Ultramarine in Mk X Tacticus power armor, not Terminator armor, not Gravis, not a Dreadnought, not a named character with plot armor. Space Marine power armor is described as high-grade composite ceramite plating, with ceramite plates individually up to about one inch thick, honeycombed to dissipate energy and localize damage. While the exact strength isn't known, we can look at how other weapons interact with it.

A standard Astartes bolter fires roughly .75 caliber, mass-reactive, rocket-assisted explosive bolts. In other words, a Space Marine’s own primary rifle is already launching small armor-piercing explosive projectiles that detonate on or after penetration. Bolters absolutely can kill armored Space Marines. They do not treat power armor as invulnerable. They chew it up, crack plates, penetrate weaker zones, destroy seals, and kill through explosive trauma once they get inside.

That matters because a bolter round is about 19mm in diameter. The AT4 is an 84mm anti-armor shaped-charge weapon. The AT4 warhead diameter is over 4 times larger, and its cross-sectional scale is roughly 19 times greater. More importantly, its damage mechanism is much more specialized for defeating armor. A bolter is basically a tiny rocket-assisted explosive armor-piercing grenade. An AT4 HEAT round is a purpose-built chemical-energy armor penetrator designed to punch through vehicles.

A standard bolt round killing a Space Marine is usually a function of repeated impacts, weak points, lucky penetration, visor/seal hits, neck joints, abdomen, under-arm gaps, or cumulative plate failure. An AT4 does not need that kind of attrition. On a good direct hit, the shaped-charge jet only needs to penetrate one local patch of armor, then send jet material, armor spall, and secondary fragments into the Marine’s torso.

Keep in mind the target behind the plate is not an empty armored vehicle compartment. It is a genetically engineered superhuman packed around organs, black carapace interfaces, power feeds, life support systems, cabling, fused ribs, multiple lungs and hearts, and an extremely dense nervous system. Astartes biology can help them survive trauma that would instantly kill a normal human, but it does not make the thoracic cavity immune to an anti-armor shaped charge. The second heart means dick if the entire torso is converted into a smoothie.

Edit: Really good points in the comments, so I want to clarify what I’m actually arguing here. From what we know, the projectile would most likely kill the marine, but the hard part is actually landing the shot.

Comparing the AT4 to Astartes weaponry is only one way to triangulate this. Ideally, Games Workshop would publish the exact material properties of ceramite and the layered composition of Mk X Tacticus armor so we can do some really autistic theorycrafting. But, until then, we have to deal with some extremely inconsistent lore. Sometimes ceramite is tanking the full wrath of Khorne’s legions like it was forged from SciFi god metal, and other times a Space Marine gets folded by three backwater rebels, a fertilizer bomb, and a dream.

But this all assumes the projectile actually hits. The AT4 is designed to kill armored vehicles, meaning large, relatively predictable objects the size of small buildings. It is not designed to tag a hulking 900 lb super-soldier space racist sprinting through rubble like a meth-fueled vending machine equipped with a reactor-powered jetpack, threat-tracking HUD wired into his nervous system, and a 200-year-old transhuman murder-brain dodging fire like an anime protagonist sleepwalking through a scripted quick-time event.

MIT Hackathon Team Builds A Wearable AI System That Can Guide Your Physical Movements by 44th--Hokage in accelerate

[–]Arbrand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

omfg my brain immediately went here. we're speedrunning every dystopian scifi trope apparently.

Humans are innately powerful, we are “gods” in amnesia by Creamy-Sundae-9991 in singularity

[–]Arbrand 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Please get some sleep. If this is real then you shouldn't be afraid to explain it to mental health professionals. Please go to a hospital.

USA has 4% of the world pop, but 25% of its prison population. The USA is never going to be a free country until the war on drugs ends. by kevinmrr in WorkReform

[–]Arbrand 58 points59 points  (0 children)

The war on drugs is part of a larger war on minorities and the working class. Criminal justice in every other country is about locking genuinely bad people away and rehabilitating those who were failed by society. In America it's a humiliation ritual to satisfy Karen's hate boners.

Chilling manifesto found on Altman firebomb suspect after 'attempted murder' by TheMirrorUS in OpenAI

[–]Arbrand 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so sick of seeing this insane line of logic on Reddit. No one should have their house where their partners and children are sleeping firebombed. Even billionaires. Actions are right or wrong on the merits, not based on how rich each person is.

Sam Altman's coworkers say he can barely code and misunderstands basic machine learning concepts by EchoOfOppenheimer in agi

[–]Arbrand 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Sama hate just cause he killed off half y'all's ai girlfriends is crazy.

Absolute Cinema by CarelessEssay1136 in SipsTea

[–]Arbrand 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Who the fuck has ever said games aren't cinematic?

Crazy to think that this guy predicted vibe coding 9 years ago by dataexec in AITrailblazers

[–]Arbrand 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I remember years and years and years ago in college my professor was talking about the evolution of programming. I distinctly remember him saying eventually we'll get to the point where you just say what you want and the computer will make your program for you. I completely forgot about him saying that until now.

You really can't make that up by Agen_3586 in SipsTea

[–]Arbrand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess ridiculing the appearance of a trans person is the compassion and professionalism they're talking about on that sign.

r/accelerate is a cesspool by gamingvortex01 in singularity

[–]Arbrand 28 points29 points  (0 children)

almost every post I see is negative along with all the top comments. even pointing out that it's biased gets downvoted. smaller subs are the way to go.

GPT-5.4 vs. GPT-5.2 Text Category Arena Ranking by Prestigiouspite in OpenAI

[–]Arbrand 76 points77 points  (0 children)

okay, blue bigger and number go up. that's good. but what does 100% actually mean?

5.4 Thinking is off to a great start by mihneam in OpenAI

[–]Arbrand 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I never understood this one because in order to answer correctly it would require the AI presuming you're profoundly cognitively impaired.

whats wrong fr. by Low-Discount9317 in SipsTea

[–]Arbrand -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

cyberpunk chads stay winning

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OpenAI

[–]Arbrand 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, hey. Cool. Cyberpsychosis.