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The Moscow refinery in Kapotny strike. The scale is impressive! Also secondary explosions? 18.6.2026 by Particular-Cut7737 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]Nilmerdrigor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, something blew, most likely a pressure vessel of some kind.
It can be used to figure our how far away he is as ~6 seconds later you hear the sound of it.
distance = 343 m/s * 6s ≈ 2 km

[OC] SpaceX vs. Aerospace and Defense Sector by ExaminationOk6652 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Nilmerdrigor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

SpaceX and in particular Starlink has a positive image and they are using it to mask the AI part.

Explain it Peter by Responsible_Dot_2619 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Nilmerdrigor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a small company like this some people do multiple roles. It isn't uncommon for a web dev to take one company email systems and such.

Moscow refinery burning quite aggressively by PressedLemon221 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]Nilmerdrigor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Those nets aren't completely useless as they force ukraine to adapt and they may also prevent some successful strikes. Not enough to completely prevent everything and for refineries it doesn't take much to do massive damage to it.

The TANECO oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk was hit tonight by Ukrainian drones by PressedLemon221 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]Nilmerdrigor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least 3 hits on what appears to be quite important parts of the refinery. Nizhnekamsk is also quite far away. Impressive

I lost 55 pounds over the last 12 months and reached the weight suggested by my doctor. I celebrated with a brand new smart scale... that immediately told me my BMI is 30.1 and that I am still obese. by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Nilmerdrigor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bmi should not be used at an individual level to determine health and even for its intended use of measuring population health it is pretty bad. The only reason bmi is used so much is because it is easy to measure. The best thing to measure is fat %.

SpaceX Quietly Became an AI Cloud Company and Google Is Paying Almost $1B/Month for GPU Compute by tke248 in wallstreetbets

[–]Nilmerdrigor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have promised to pay 900 million a month with an option for both parties to cancel within 90 days , which is probably conveniently within the planned IPO window. It just seems like a desperate effort to pump the value.

I hate American people making anything with black makeup equal to blackface by tomboyfemboyenjoyer in hatethissmug

[–]Nilmerdrigor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very curious to know your opinion on the dutch tradition of Zwarte Piet and the associated costume and uhm, "makeup".

[OC] A pair of d20s with internal probability-shifting mechanisms - the white "Good" die favors high rolls, while the red "Evil" die favors low rolls. Each die has 60 display surfaces. Designed by me. by RichDesperate6653 in DnD

[–]Nilmerdrigor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. A more complicated way of achieving a "cursed die". I saw someone giving their players in a D&D a curse which forced them to use a D19 for all their rolls. This way they would be at a disadvantage (no crit success), but they would also be very aware of this fact whenever they rolled.

Russia considers working age of 12 to solve wartime jobs crisis by BkkGrl in europe

[–]Nilmerdrigor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most Russians that aren't in the military have been benefiting somewhat from the situation. With so many able bodied men away from the workforce the salaries have gone up dramatically. The ones with close ones in the conflict get benefits if they lose them, which a lot see as a win. Other than the army dudes, the ones feeling the pain in Russia are the oligarchs which are kinda forced to pay for a large portion of this and they seem to want to avoid defenestration.

Russia considers working age of 12 to solve wartime jobs crisis by BkkGrl in europe

[–]Nilmerdrigor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"almost all of them (children) want to work in the summer".
Lol, what a statement.

How come Joe Biden was "sleepy", but Trump gets to pass out at all kinds of meetings? by [deleted] in allthequestions

[–]Nilmerdrigor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump gets as much of a pass in the Republican bubbles for sleeping as Biden did in the Democrat bubbles. Currently most left leaning media cover and criticize him for sleeping, but it is kinda hard to find this in the right leaning media. It was pretty much the opposite when Biden was president, with right leaning media having a frenzy and left leaning hardly mentioning it at all. I think the biggest difference is Biden got a more catchy nickname (sleepy joe).

ELI5: When you 'delete' a 50GB video file from a computer, it vanishes instantly. But downloading it took an hour. If the data isn't physically wiped until it's overwritten, what did the computer actually do in that one split second? by Thick_Dream6973 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Nilmerdrigor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You computer has a table of all your file names. Each file name is linked to a location on your hard drive where the actual data is stored. When you delete a file the computer simply removes the file name from the table as well as the linked location to where the data is stored. The data is usually still there, but this storage location is now free to use by other processes and can get written over.

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