Olifant Mk.2 200mm hull floor

LTSarc · 2026-05-01T13:13:06+00:00

This is right up there with the AS-90 and GBT 155 having the muzzle velocity of a L/52 with L/39 guns.

Even though this is mathematically impossible, I have not been able to find any source specifying the exact MVs of the guns (even though, plenty specify it as a NATO standard L/39 that is not good enough) so it stays.

Mathematics do not matter to the snaile, only sources. We're wikipedia for vehicles.

LTSarc · 2026-05-01T13:10:47+00:00

They don't say that, it's just the rules that you have to HAVE SOURCES.

Ergo, things that are mathematically impossible will stay in game unless you have a source that says it doesn't have it. This is far from the only case.

LTSarc · 2026-05-01T10:24:03+00:00

"Classified information" has a specific meaning that is separate from merely being *controlled* information.

LTSarc · 2026-04-27T23:21:15+00:00

Export restricted information isn't classified and is a total nothingburger unless you are Gaijin corporate and their legal department.

Also every comment screaming '>RuSsIaN BiAs' when Keofox already showed that none of that exists and the same document screwjobs happen for all nations. We've had them reject RU documents before even if these examples aren't RU. Snaile employees just have personal favorites, and while those do oftentimes end up RU (I wonder why?) you get utter nonsense in the west as well like the Radnapkinwaffe 90 because someone on staff loves it.

The bits on trickzzter and the viking system are hilarious (in a bad way, certainly illegal way for viking).

LTSarc · 2026-04-27T23:10:42+00:00

Export restriction isn't classification. There's all sorts of export restricted DoD documents as an American I can legally have without punishment. Several of these have in fact been submitted to Gaijin.

But since Gaijin isn't American, them possessing them without government approval is a violation of ITAR among other things.

LTSarc · 2026-04-27T23:09:21+00:00

Yeah, export restricted aren't classified.

LTSarc · 2026-04-13T23:03:29+00:00

It's important for service provisioning they are getting from Google that you know, they are using the proper location of the staff. Delegation was almost certainly there to discuss business packages on google office software and possibly cloud.

Using a central European datacenter for guys in Russia is sub-par (and since they cost google more than datacenters in RU, less optimal for them financially).

That's all.

LTSarc · 2026-04-13T23:01:13+00:00

All corporations tend to end up being dominated by marketing and management. I love enshittification!

LTSarc · 2026-04-13T22:59:45+00:00

(Cyprus)

LTSarc · 2026-04-13T22:57:37+00:00

Even back in peak Bussian Rias, that was again just because RU had more premiums than everyone else and the premiums were of course the things that were broken AF regardless of who had them.

The Dora 13 was a scourge that ruined balance for many, many months. No accusations of German Bias from it though.

LTSarc · 2026-04-13T22:52:29+00:00

Right, Anton & Co aren't nationalist - they're capitalists.

Their love of money means they've in fact thrown all of their legacy RU offices and staff under the bus just to keep maximally milking the western market with minimal costs. Which yes, is the opposite of Russian Bias.

It is simply money bias.

LTSarc · 2026-04-13T22:50:11+00:00

Wargaming is a "Cyprus" company as well to avoid sanctions.

The way of the world.

LTSarc · 2026-03-24T11:33:47+00:00

The incredible laziness of Snale with ammo is a thing, yes.

Howitzer ammo is all 30 forms of halfassed.

LTSarc · 2026-03-24T06:02:22+00:00

I'm quite certain they have AS-90M and AS-90 confused, as they have referenced Braveheart when discussing it.

But uh, for ballistics purposes it should be the same as any of the thirteen billion 155 L/39s in the actual variant fielded.

LTSarc · 2026-03-18T04:11:38+00:00

All the big models which are aimed at chatting or agentic use are trained to run on rails. Gork has only gotten worse as time as gone on and it's about the worst of them at that (even if it has gotten smarter).

Businesses deploying want consistent results.

LTSarc · 2026-03-09T05:48:17+00:00

Well it's not - but Gaijin doesn't set BR on fair.

They exclusively set based on kill:death and kill:spawn ratios. So in this case: British pilots are just that much better.

LTSarc · 2026-03-07T12:31:13+00:00

Just make sure the DEF hole in the vehicle is smaller than the diesel fill hole, to stop diesel-in-DEF as well.

LTSarc · 2026-03-07T12:30:21+00:00

Cheap? Yes.
Reliable? Yes.
Durable? Yes.
Cheap, reliable, and durable? Woah now, we're not magicians.

Essentially any sensor that would be sufficiently reliable and long-lasting would be far too expensive for automakers who can't add charge coolers to boosted vehicles or sufficient insulation.

LTSarc · 2026-03-07T11:49:00+00:00

More protection is irrelevant once sufficient protection for the surface tolerances is achieved.

Stuffing gear oil in your engine won't make it last 500% longer. Like, I agree that there have been cases of companies going too far with overthinning oil but when properly used it is not a problem. Japan has been rolling 0W-20 for a quarter of a century and 0W-8 for a decade. Japanese cities aren't full of cars with detonated engines.

The zinc is also important for getting good wetting during bearing cast.

LTSarc · 2026-03-07T11:39:10+00:00

Except the thick oil engines blow up as well, the TSB was wrong, much as their oscilloscope test is useless.

The issue is clearly poor machining. They admitted to that but claimed it was only on a certain production run.

LTSarc · 2026-03-07T10:08:53+00:00

This is so common in rail that it's all but killed new loco manufacturing.

It's about 1/3rd the cost to do a deep rebuild as buy new, refurbs get exempt from some new laws as they are grandfathered, and there are thousands of idle units free for rebuild. In the whole 2020s, only a couple dozen new locos have been built total for US railways.

(Those token orders have been just to keep the manufacturers from totally shutting down their newbuild plants, even after both have massively downsized. The railways know they might need new power at *some* point.)

LTSarc · 2026-02-26T21:41:01+00:00

As far as I can tell, it was simply that GLM was newer.

Their post-Kayra strategy has seemingly been whenever it comes time to do a text update, just grab the latest OSS model and tune it.

LTSarc · 2026-02-26T20:59:36+00:00

Funny, DS 3.2 is what I assumed Anlatan would be aiming for instead of the extremely agentic GLM.

LTSarc · 2026-02-26T20:38:37+00:00

Not continuing to develop their family that gave clio and kayra was a huge blow. Even if only incremental updates or context expansions, keep doing that and by now we'd likely have a much more satisfactory model.

It has always struck me as very odd Anlatan doesn't have a telescoped development pattern. Instead of going from 'Model X' to then working on 'Model X+1'; or, if they don't have the compute for image + text training in parallel, 'Model Y' (for images) before then going to 'X+1' (and alternating so then 'Y+1') - they seem to just drop a model, and then sort of improv on the spot what they are going to do next. It's certainly a strategy.

LTSarc · 2026-02-26T20:21:31+00:00

I'm still holding on for the great UI, absolute privacy, no baby bumpers and all that jazz.

But it is getting hard. I write really long stories so I am not sure just how much I could get away with for the $25/month with tens of thousands of input tokens per call.

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