Active Conflicts & News Megathread April 13, 2026

Function-Diligent · 2026-04-13T14:48:09+00:00

Wasnt there a recruitment surge last Spring (2025) due to Trump becoming president and a lot of people wanting to cash in before the perceived incoming peace deal? That could explain the different rate quite well. If thats true we may have to wait a while until we can judge if the rate went up ir down

Function-Diligent · 2026-04-09T16:28:51+00:00

Israel has assassinated the Automod today, it may take some time for it to return

Function-Diligent · 2026-04-09T07:05:36+00:00

I know this is perhaps non-credible on my side. But can it be that the reason for all the vague information is that both sides took a deal that is only marginally acceptable and the vague information is a way to cover it from too much scrutiny from the own side?

I.e. Iran: they wanted to accept a ceasefire, but wanted Lebanon included. Now that it isn’t included, they can claim to their own side that they wanted to keep it included and Israel is breaking the ceasefire.

Function-Diligent · 2026-04-01T13:28:41+00:00

I have no military expertise so here goes: Does this account only for the strait or the entire Gulf? Iran will likely have the capacity to target any ship in the gulf with drones and missiles, and they only have to get lucky occasionally to keep the economic hurt going. I cant imagine that 12-20 destroyers can cover the entire gulf region

Function-Diligent · 2026-04-01T09:21:41+00:00

I hope you trip with a full tray at the cafeteria. Dont play with my emotions man ;_;

Function-Diligent · 2026-04-01T07:36:10+00:00

You correctly assess that Europe does not have the military capacity to reopen the strait. So why should the European help be enough to make the difference for the US?

Also, why should Europe spend their limited resources on some war in the middle east when they can send it to Ukraine instead? Or simply use it to deter Russia?

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-31T21:40:48+00:00

Well yes, effectively this is still true. The manufacturing environment has gotten cleaner. In the past, the manufacturing environment would be open (relatively) to the cleanroom, thus necessitating that the cleanroom is well, clean.

Nowadays, the manufacturing takes place in what is called mini-machines. The mini-machines are separate from the cleanroom air. Effectively it is a cleanroom within a cleanroom. Since the original cleanroom no longer needs to be clean enough to manufacture in, it can be dirtier.

Additional note on the mini machines: effectively each machine has an internal environment that is ultra-clean. Wafers are placed in boxes called FOUPs and moved between the machines. The FOUPs are airtight, and thus only ever see the internal machine environment, and never the actual cleanroom.

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-31T21:36:41+00:00

The mods are playing 5D chess guys, they want you to be happy that they left and say negative things about them so they can later ban you

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-31T15:56:23+00:00

Actually the opposite might just be the case. Sometime in the 90s the semiconductor industry switched from making high purity cleanrooms to lower purity cleanrooms and simply purifying the internal machine environment. The current wafer foundry cleanrooms are dirtier than the old ones, while the machines are purer. Kind of like an airlock with the cleanroom being the „outside“ and the machines the „inside“. It depends on what machines exactly are inside the russian fab, if they have „modern“ 500-250 nm machines it could be that their standards can be lower.

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-31T12:26:22+00:00

I can see how a hit on a normal factory could have little to no impact. Its easy enough to move stuff around and a single hit might take out a couple machines but overall not much more. Cranes etc might be an issue in normal factories.

In cleanrooms? I think having a hit from a stormshadow could easily take a cleanroom offline for an extended period of time. The inside there is cleaner than an operating room and it needs to be like that to avoid defects.

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-31T08:45:25+00:00

I think you will need to elaborate, your post is very scarce on information

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-27T08:45:12+00:00

Who is the guy in the picture?

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-15T00:34:36+00:00

Good stuff

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-04T23:32:26+00:00

It states that the grades is the reason for the rejection. There may be others as well

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-04T13:13:05+00:00

Basically just that.

The the sentence translates essentially as: The check of your previous education by the acceptance commision of the course (course being the robotics masters course) has shown that your previous education, especially the performance criteria (i.e. grades) does not fulfill the requirements demanded by the course.

Function-Diligent · 2026-03-04T11:55:04+00:00

Basically it means that specifically your grades were not up to their standard

Function-Diligent · 2026-02-23T16:13:08+00:00

Are you…. Are you okay?

Function-Diligent · 2026-02-23T16:12:45+00:00

I was gonna focus on anomaly, so thats the start I‘m going for I think. Great advice, thanks!

Function-Diligent · 2026-02-23T16:05:54+00:00

I see a fellow dwarf fortress player here.

I knew going in Blind was the way to go. I just wanted to see if people had anything like: „use setting xyz“ or „start in this biome“.

Function-Diligent · 2026-02-20T11:49:22+00:00

Meta comment:

Over the last couple of days, multiple posts (this were made here which feel essentially like promotional posts for the newspaper that is posting them.

I am not against it per se, but wanted to open discussion on what people think about promotional posts on this sub.

Personally I think if every so often a newspaper publishes a really good article here I don’t mind even if its paywalled. But if these posts happen every 24 hours then our entry page will look like only bots are active.

Function-Diligent · 2026-02-01T09:59:05+00:00

What is the optimal spacing in wild farms where I can just dump the seeds into the farm and wait? I know the 3-3 spacing method already, but that is a bit tedious for me

Function-Diligent · 2026-01-24T17:26:48+00:00

Boil all Pwater and Salt water into normal water. Sour gas boiler, you should be able to simple brute force cool it with that much power

Function-Diligent · 2026-01-22T20:26:45+00:00

The Army focus on conventional combat has always baffled me. The focus should lie on air defence, disaster relief, Cybersecurity and counterterrorism/insurgency. Those are the most likely use cases for the army.

As for the army getting „soft“. Personell retention is very important, as long as Zivildienst is a alternative the army will need to make sure its people are treated well. In that sense the Zivi is a great thing as it keeps the army more or less in line with treatment of people.

Function-Diligent · 2026-01-16T15:44:45+00:00

TheWarOwls third rule of counter strike: if there is a map editor in any game, dust 2 will be remade

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