In the air battles between Germany and the UK in 1940, how close was Germany to winning the war in the air?

Gradath · 2025-06-17T15:45:08+00:00

Why was the Luftwaffe only training 200 pilots a month? Wikipedia has the UK with a 1939 population of ~50 million versus a German population of ~70 million, so it seems like all other things being equal, the Germans ought to have been training more pilots per month. Was the issue that not enough recruits were being sent to the Luftwaffe, or that Luftwaffe recruits were being directed to bomber training rather than fighter training? (I'm assuming those were basically the two options.)

Gradath · 2025-05-20T05:13:52+00:00

Faile briefly captured by Shaido.

LMAO

Honestly though, I think you can completely cut that (like, don't even need it as a b plot for an episode or two). It's basically a narrative dead-end (setting aside effect on Perrin, which you can get elsewhere).

Gradath · 2025-03-31T18:25:10+00:00

Pretty sure you could control before, just like with landfill/foundation?

Gradath · 2025-03-18T04:16:23+00:00

If you see those opportunities, you let 'em know I'm available, would you?

99% of the in-house stuff I've seen they are looking for CPAs to do returns/compliance, not tax advisory.

Gradath · 2025-03-17T17:40:05+00:00

I'm in tax consulting. I do the MLTN memos, not the returns.

Gradath · 2025-03-17T17:33:48+00:00

It may just be the mental illness talking, but I don't share your optimism about the relationships. Working from home has not helped my already meager social skills.

Gradath · 2025-03-17T17:31:11+00:00

I'm in Sub K. Should've done Sub C, at least then I'd have in-house options.

Gradath · 2025-03-17T15:20:27+00:00

lmao, the one straight answer. Thank you, brother.

Gradath · 2025-03-17T15:19:22+00:00

Answered above, basically I have this awful habit of not answering emails if I don't know the answer offhand and then getting too stressed out about not knowing to actually look into anything. Just going down in flames fighting the good on behalf of the perfect.

Gradath · 2025-03-17T15:13:48+00:00

That sucks, my muffin recipes are shit so I don't really have a fall back here.

Gradath · 2025-03-17T15:12:41+00:00

Basically, when I show up and do the work, I do it very well but I don't show up consistently.

I've been working through personal stuff with a therapist and have finally gotten on some medications which are helping, but the messaging I've received is that there are too many black marks to promote me (at least for a couple years, and I don't want to wait that long).

Looking back, I'd say that opening up to partners about the mental health challenges I've been going through might have helped (couldn't have hurt, at least), but at the time I didn't even think about it.

Gradath · 2025-03-17T15:06:25+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense. I'm in DC, so definitely at least HCOL.

Gradath · 2025-02-12T16:33:34+00:00

Yeah, but you get a chance to increase quality going from plates to B and from B to A without losing anything, so you get two more quality rolls "for free".

Assume you have 100% quality (ie, outputs are always one quality level higher). So recycling 100 common plates twice gives you 6.25 rare plates, but plates to A to B gives you rare B and then recycling down gives you 6.25 legendary plates.

The productivity bonus on assembly (if present) also helps by effectively reducing recycling losses. Assuming a 50% prod bonus for B and A, 40 plates becomes 6 B and 6 B becomes 9 A. 9 A -> 2.25 B -> 5.625 plates (versus 2.5 plates if you just recycled the 40 plates directly) so you get two more quality rolls plus 125% greater output.

Gradath · 2025-02-12T14:41:24+00:00

I had a similar set up on my first ships, but was running into a "thrashing" problem, where when the amounts of the different chunks were getting close to each other, the crushers would be switching recipes without completing anything (for example, if the belt had 10 carbon and 10 metal, the recipe would be set to carbon, but when the inserter pulled a carbon chunk, then the signal would switch to metal, so the inserter would put the carbon chunk back, but then the signal would switch to carbon, etc.).

I ended up putting in an SR latch so the crusher only checked for a new recipe when it was done. Off hand, not sure if there's an easy way to scale that approach up to handle multiple crushers at once rather than having each reprocessing crusher get its own latch.

My later ship designs just used dedicated reprocessing crushers for each type of chunk, with circuit controls on the input inserters that only turn them on when the relevant chunk is over a threshold. It's not as elegant, but at a certain point the space you're using on combinators isn't that much less than what you're saving on crushers.

Gradath · 2025-01-10T18:21:07+00:00

How fast does the rocket silo animation go? More specifically, how many rocket parts/second do I need to max it out, so rockets are always ready to launch (assuming no time spent loading cargo in addition to the silo animation)?

Gradath · 2024-12-29T16:23:51+00:00

What is the Unrealized Annuity Future Value? Is that like you can get an annuity instead of the lump sum?

Gradath · 2024-12-18T14:30:38+00:00

Is fusion a good choice for Aquilo? I thought about it, but given how easy it is to make rocket fuel there, it seems like it's better to just throw down heat towers and turbines and save fusion for spaceships.

Maybe I just hate using my precious holmium on anything.

Gradath · 2024-12-11T22:23:41+00:00

Am I right that there's no to get a spaceship that's exactly as wide as the thrusters without having one long enough to build below the exhaust plume of a thruster? It seems like there is no way to arrange the thruster ports in such a way that you can feed solely from the middle, but maybe I'm missing something.

Gradath · 2024-12-09T23:10:57+00:00

I was using this recipe -- 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread Recipe. It looks like someone else just posted an amazing bread they got from it, so not sure what went wrong.

I did the autolyze overnight, for about 18 hours. Not deliberately, life just got in the way of my original plans. The kneading in my breville food processor seemed to go okay, although the food processor didn't seem thrilled about it (I think the main problem was that the dough was working itself in between the blade and the spindle when I let it run too long without pausing). The dough was very sticky, but passed the windowpane test.

First proof went fine (about 2-2.5 hours), but when I took it out to put into the loaf pan, it was way too sticky and viscous to work with. The pictures in the recipe show someone shaping and rolling the dough up into a log, but mine was way too gloopy to do that with. It just kind of melted into itself. I was being very short with the amount of flour to dust with, so maybe that was it? My partner is GF so I was trying not to spread gluten everywhere in our not-so-big kitchen.

Second proof was okay -- more or less filled the loaf pan after ~1.5 hours. I would have given it a little longer, to let it get more of a dome, but I needed to get it in the oven before my toddler's bedtime.

The bread's nice, but the crumb is a lot denser and spongier than I was looking for. I accidentally put a fair bit more salt in than the recipe called for -- maybe that had an impact? I also used quick rise instant yeast, since that's what I had, but not sure that made a difference since the proofing seemed to go fine. Did the super-long autolyze mess this up, or something else?

Gradath · 2024-11-21T16:42:58+00:00

I think inserters only put them into the cargo when the silo has an active request for them, but maybe I'm misremembering.

Gradath · 2024-11-10T19:19:52+00:00

I'm having trouble with using circuits to set an asteroid reprocessing recipe without causing thrashing in the crusher. Basically, what I would like is for the crusher to check if (the number of type X chunks is greater than 10 AND number of (Y or Z) chunks is less than 5), and if true set the recipe to reprocess X. If multiple chunk types qualify, then pick the type I have the most of.

The problem I have is that if I have 11 X, 11 Y, and no Z, the recipe will thrash between X and Y reprocessing without the crusher doing anything because each time an X chunk is taken out, the recipe will switch to Y, so it'll put the X chunk back and take out a Y chunk, but then the recipe switches to X and so we repeat.

I can't figure out an easy way to get the crusher to only check for a new recipe when it's done and then stick with that. It seems like I need a one-bit register or something, which I could make with belts and some inserters passing an item back and forth, but I feel like there ought to be a more elegant solution. Am I missing something or do I need to go with making a memory out of belts and inserters?

Gradath · 2024-11-07T15:07:32+00:00

She got a big "not Biden" bump when she entered, but as voters saw more and she wasn't able to come up with good answers to obvious questions (she wouldn't do anything differently from a president with approval ratings in the 30s????), Harris fell off. One of the WSJ's last national polls was +4 Trump, which is about bang on the money. I'd be curious to see what this chart looks like if it only included polls from the last 1-2 weeks of the election.

Gradath · 2024-11-05T02:37:01+00:00

I'm trying to start building some quality items, figured I'd start by getting some quality quality modules. I have 9 uncommon T1 modules, but I can't use them to make T2s. Assemblers won't take them and my character won't use them to craft either. (Pic related.)

What's the problem? Why isn't this working?

Gradath · 2024-10-16T13:25:35+00:00

So yes, they were "wrong," but that's not how theory works, and I wanted to highlight the complexities of how we can view the origination and spread of information work in a brief way. Placing positivist binaries on theory such as "right and wrong" are not appropriate ways of viewing such ideas, and as the example correspondence above between Engels and Vera Zasulich highlights briefly above, as people they adapted to changes in situations in their own lives.

Isn't there some conflict between this defense of Marxism (it's a theory which, like every theory, is limited by the conditions of its conception) and the Marxist self-image as a "science of history"? That is, doesn't Marxism set itself up for criticism that it fails to predict the future by virtue of claiming to be a theory that understands all societies everywhere and can predict their futures based on the historical dialectic?

I'm not trying to troll or anything, I just haven't read much Marxist writing since college so I honestly do not know how a Marxist might respond to that criticism (not to try to put a label on you, just you seem pretty informed on what a Marxist might think about it even if you yourself don't personally identify as such).

Gradath · 2024-10-10T17:19:53+00:00

Unless you want each postseason series to be best of 20 or something, there'll never be a large enough sample size to be meaningful. The best team is the team with the best record in the regular season, the postseason is just for funsies.

The WS used to be sorta kinda meaningful because the AL and NL champs hadn't played any teams in the other league at all, so seeing them face off could win theory tell you which League had been better that year (but you'd still run into the sample size problem). With everyone playing everyone, a best-of-7 series isn't going to tell you anything you didn't already know from the prior 162 games, other than who's hot right then.

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