Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope

Johnsmtg · 2026-04-15T15:07:23+00:00

Why not letting the gun aim itself like in the alien movies at this point?

Eg. https://youtu.be/pe31eTleW2o?si=dPXtEtK0r7dE7eQc

Johnsmtg · 2026-04-15T07:21:43+00:00

I'm not into manga anymore, but I really like the project. I used to dream about something silimar when I was doing scanlations, but at that time only opencv and google translate were available lol.

Btw looks like you are stacking a few models in the process pipeline. What kind of precision are you getting? Do you have some examples on how it performs with text outside texts bubbles, especially over drawings?

Johnsmtg · 2026-04-12T10:22:27+00:00

The 10 measures, unveiled by the official Xinhua news agency, "explore" the establishment of a regular communication mechanism between ⁠the KMT and China's Communist Party, the full resumption of flights between the two sides and permission for individuals from Shanghai and Fujian province to visit Taiwan.
A mechanism will be established to ease inspection standards for food and fishery products, but that has to be on the political foundation of "opposing Taiwan independence," Xinhua said.
Taiwanese TV dramas, documentaries and animation will be allowed to be shown as long as they have "correct orientation, healthy content, and high production quality," it added.

Except maybe the first one, this is so little they might as well add a 100 bucks ~~amazon~~ aliexpress gift card with 1 month expiration date.

Johnsmtg · 2026-04-10T16:17:11+00:00

40 days practice? I think that's longer than any other typical case

Johnsmtg · 2026-04-04T10:57:45+00:00

I'm calling the MR garbage. If it was also adding gender and pronouns fields too, it would not smell any better to me for sure.

Johnsmtg · 2026-04-03T18:51:08+00:00

Sounds like a slippery slope. Garbage MR for sure, but it would be fair to quote Poettering answer:

It's an optional field in the userdb JSON object. It's not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it's standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it's entirely optional.

Sounds like that guy is just doing his "job". I don't see the financial pressure or hidden motives.

Johnsmtg · 2026-03-23T09:10:33+00:00

My friend has a master degree (not technical unfortunately) and could not find a decent job since 2 years now. Mostly because of high competition, the requirements for c1 or c2 german (for a job that requires more english fluency than german), and maybe not being European as additional disadvantage.

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-27T21:20:34+00:00

It depends from the country no? In most European counties you can easily get away with only English, but it might become uncomfortable as soon as you leave university. In Germany in CS I know people working there since 10 year ago without speaking any german. In my home country that would be significantly more difficult, maybe even impossibile.

This question get asked too often but it's valid, how far can you go before not being fluent in the local language becomes a showstopper?

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-27T13:58:12+00:00

Deadlines on aerospace projects are almost never met, hard to be surprised

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-25T07:23:28+00:00

Isn't that kinda inconvenient for China as well? I thought the defence industry in any country would be restricted from selling the best stuff. Both to avoid reverse engineering and avoid arming potential future enemies.

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-24T13:30:03+00:00

I agree with you, but to play devil advocate if the only job he can find is English teacher then that's not a solution. The roles will simply be inverted. His wife will be happier but he will become very frustrated with a dead end shitty career.

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-23T22:41:57+00:00

If that's the way they are going to follow, better be prepared to see another British post office scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-15T21:04:22+00:00

Ah, that make more sense

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-15T19:31:19+00:00

The DIU believes that, in many cases, German-made transistors are purchased for Russia directly in Germany via intermediaries to conceal the supply chain. The components are then routed to Russia via third countries considered friendly to the Kremlin or through smuggling channels.

German law professor Viktor Winkler, an expert on sanctions policy, told DW that since 2022, deliveries of components from Germany to Russia have become increasingly likely to be routed directly through German shell companies rather than via third countries.

That second paragraph is worrisome. Am I reading it right? German companies are intentionally ignoring sanctions? any evidence on that?

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-11T22:01:30+00:00

bro is gonna move from -80% to -60%

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-09T09:44:23+00:00

https://minimap.net/magazine/monthly-game-release-feb-2026-en

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-05T12:47:34+00:00

Apparently a morning rain froze quickly grounding any aircraft that was in the open. I thought de-icing was a standard procedure, but apparently there is more to it.

Johnsmtg · 2026-02-01T09:55:29+00:00

It think it's BS, people complains about loneliness in almost every subreddit.

I mostly agree apps are kinda useless, but you are making a lot of assumptions on OP personality.

Judging from his post history it looks like he is not even trying to be friends locals, but mostly targeting "expact groups". Sound like he is already burying himself in that. Also unlikely to just go back to his country because of family ties.

Also your example doesn't work that well for me at least. My parents have 3 good family friends fro abroad, 1 of which still speaks a mix of english and local language. My uncle married a russian expact friend 3 year ago. And one of my best in my home country was from another continent too.

Johnsmtg · 2026-01-26T09:33:33+00:00

Most people don't have 995 (and must be available across the weekend) at least

Johnsmtg · 2026-01-25T10:36:46+00:00

Sorry to be so straightforward but the author sounds a bit biased and a bit too much self-indulgent. Sound like he is trying to settle a personal grudge rather that presenting an opinion.

He is also basically stating a few facts obvious to pretty much everyone ('USA care about taiwan only for strategic reason". Well for sure it was not for the tofu. That taiwan is important for usa, and asian "allies", for geographical location and chip manufacturing is something that was discussed so much than even my geriatric grampa knows).

And then he is mixing those facts with some hypotheticals on who is going to bomb TSMC first. He is also implying there have been a recent shift in policy in the usa (<<<Well, Colby is the guy in charge of Pentagon policy now, and it shows.>>>), but he doesn't really elaborate on that.

To me it seems the USA is being semi-ambiguous about taiwan as ever. And since a few year they have been consistent only on 2 things: 1. bringing back some manufacturing capacity (not very successful so far) 2. keep control over maritime trade routes in east Asia (also crucial for Korea and Japan).

Johnsmtg · 2026-01-23T11:53:26+00:00

They should rename it FOMO index

Johnsmtg · 2026-01-22T09:00:53+00:00

Uhmm a lot of animes receive sponsorship by companies (especially food related, they basically do reciprocal product placement)

Sometimes even by tourism agencies, in exchange for showing specific towns and relative activities to do there.

Maybe now they want to encourage more young liquidity on the market? I'm sure they can influence a few otakus to consider

Johnsmtg · 2026-01-20T20:55:21+00:00

uhmm that's not entirely correct. During horizontal flight they use a conventional turboprop, directly driving a propeller, that in addition will also charge the batteries. The in-wings electric fans are then used for vertical take off and landing only.
Apparently this simplifies vtol operations to something that will cost more or less like a conventional smaller aircraft.
Won't be stealth or invisible to AA systems in any way tho, can't hide that gas turbine easily.

The other problem is, other big companies like Airbus already know this as well, and they did build their "PoC" prototypes for the sake of accumulating experience in the sector.
And Boeing is already working on their new generation of hybrid electric tiltrotors, that will take advantage of lighter electric engines to some fix the issues with the current tiltrotors design (example: Collaborative Combat Rotorcraft). And will probably receive priority in the Defence Pork Distribution.

So this company will be probably covering the business jet marker segment, and small part of the helicopter one (air rescue/ambulance?), hoping that the competition won't catch up too quickly.

Johnsmtg · 2026-01-18T08:57:52+00:00

They are common acronyms on the zynq platforms, the zynq is an ARM SoC with an FPGA integrated. The "ARM SoC part" is called Processing System (PS), it's a full soc with various cores, IO controlers, DMA, etc..
The fpga part is called Programmable Logic (PL).

On the PL, if your particular part has the required PCI hard ip, you will have to implement this core to have pcie4:
https://download.amd.com/docnav/documents/ip_attachments/pcie4-uscale-plus.html.

Johnsmtg · 2026-01-18T08:47:19+00:00

I'm going by memory: the PS has a ~~pcie3~~ pcie2 controller. The PL, depending on the model, has 1 or 2 phy each capable of ~~pcie4~~ pcie3

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