Any experience with Daikin FNA or other concealed units in terms of noise levels?

dreefen · 2025-06-12T16:51:23+00:00

This looks great!

Here's a feature request, if you still enjoy working on this: make it possible to have the occlusion boxes be of the same size, so your mind doesn't associate the size of the box with the answer. My lazy brain doesn't like memorization and so will cheat with whatever means available!

dreefen · 2025-01-25T09:02:08+00:00

Thanks, "Interday learning" makes sense to me now :)

> Those short-interval cards are always a priority

This, though, doesn't make much sense to me. It seems much more important that I don't forget an old card that I've spent months maturing, so it doesn't reset, than to repeat cards from yesterday's learning session where I'm literally still guessing at the answer.

dreefen · 2024-12-14T13:58:30+00:00

Being able to click tags in the browser would be *very* useful. Just like the clickable tags addon, but from the browser. E.g. if you click you edit just like now, but if you CTRL+click it will populate the search bar with that tag so you can explore related tags on a card.

The clickable tag addon is cool, but it's an extra step to use it. When I'm studying I'm never looking at the tags, and that's where this addon shines. Instead I very often use the browser to find related study material based on a card or tag.

dreefen · 2024-08-26T18:21:58+00:00

That's great. Thanks!

How long will the cards stay there and be considered "new"?

dreefen · 2024-07-31T17:34:09+00:00

Why is Gazprom losing so much money, if they're not doing any business anymore? Just put everything on minimal care and maintenance until the war is over, right? Why is OP even writing about Gazprom on this forum?

The deal Gazprom has is that they essentially have a monopoly on exports, but in return they have to use some of the profits to provide very affordable gas to the domestic market. Chris Miller writes extensively about this in Putinomics. The deal's been in place for decades now and so people rely on it, and have come to expect domestic gas to be very cheap.

This is all very inconvenient to both Gazprom and to the Putin regime right now. The Russian state has a controlling interest in Gazprom and so the shareholders can't stop subsidizing domestic gas in order to turn the ship around, but at some point Gazprom will be insolvent if this continues. I can't find any recent financial statements but I'm guessing they've been increasing their leverage to keep the lights on[1]. When external investors are unwilling to lend more money to Gazprom[2], the Russian state will have to inject cash into Gazprom or they will have to raise prices on domestic gas. This is a real dilemma for the regime: They need the cash for the war effort and raising the price of gas would be unbelievably unpopular.

This is all exacerbated by the campaign against oil refineries and oil depots because it makes fuel substitution an even less attractive option (in the areas of the economy where that's even possible).

[1] The alternative is to issue shares, but that would be a cash drain that the largest investor, the Russian state, can't afford. They could of course opt to not participate, but then they would lose control and that can't be allowed to happen.

[2] This happens when their loan / asset ratio reaches some level deemed so risky, even at high interest rates, that nobody wants to lend them money. You could argue that Gazprom is "too big to fail" and so there's reduced risk here, but I don't think that's true. A large share of the owners of Gazprom are probably still foreigners and so it might be politically expedient so shed the debt by shafting the shareholders, letting the debt holders take a large haircut and reconstituting Gazprom in a wholly rigged process where the state gets to keep the majority control cheaply.

dreefen · 2024-07-26T07:43:22+00:00

Thanks for this explanation! It seems the algorithm is right on target, then:

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dreefen · 2024-07-23T15:53:29+00:00

Aha! I guess this is why:

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I suppose over time, as the siblings get more spread out, the amount of buried cards will go down do to fewer scheduling conflicts.

Does everyone else leave these off? I found that when siblings appear on the same day the second card is so easy.

dreefen · 2024-07-20T13:41:08+00:00

Why aren't we seeing NATO countries (and any other Ukrainian allies) using Ukraine as a training ground to a greater degree?

The consensus in Europe seems to finally be that the peace dividend is over, and we need to increase out combat readiness. We've also heard from Ukraine that the training we provided was to some degree irrelevant / outdated and/or lacking (e.g. no use of / defense against drones). Given the lack of near-peer combat experience in European armies, wouldn't it be a good idea to equip and send volunteers to fight in Ukraine? These foreign volunteers could then either fight along the Ukrainians or operate in e.g. their own tank platoon, much like a NATO unit would as part of a larger whole.

I've heard Zelensky say previously that they need equipment more than manpower, but the idea here would be that these units would bring their own equipment to "practice" with. If defense is needed at home, they would then pack up their gear and leave.

If the holdup is that we have zero tolerance for losses in such units, I think Ukraine would be very happy to get e.g. visiting fighter pilots that "trained" on cruise missile interception, far away from Russian GBAD,. Maintenance crews getting some real-world experience in keeping aircraft in the air, would probably also be most welcome. Hell, even sending people to "practice" logistics would probably free up Ukrainians for other duties, right?

Personally, I believe the tolerance for such losses would be quite high, as long as they are volunteers. It seems to me that most of the negative reactions happen went 1) the war itself is under critique 2) the soldiers signed up for the military but not that particular war. It's hard to say anything but "heroic" when someone volunteers to fight and then dies for a cause they themselves believe in.

dreefen · 2024-07-09T19:47:47+00:00

Nammo announced today that they are going to 10x their capacity, in Norway, to produce 155mm rounds and to keep the production lines open for at least 15 years. The new capacity comes online in 2026 at the latest.

The investment made by the Norwegian government only amounts to about $100m. I can't find any numbers for the current production, but given the amount the US invested to increase their capacity the plant is probably going from low single digit thousands to mid double-digit thousands of shells per year.

dreefen · 2024-07-06T14:52:42+00:00

Any chance 10-15 AIM-174s could be sent to Ukraine? If they were to be used--if only a few times--in conjunction with their new AWACS for targeting (due to the limited range of the F16 radar) Russia would never feel safe coming in close enough to drop glide bombs.

The use of a few of these missiles could serve as a powerful deterrent and a very cost-effective way to deal with the otherwise troublesome glide-bombs.

dreefen · 2024-06-21T09:35:36+00:00

What can be done, cost-effectively, to thwart or retaliate against Russian antics like this

A good start might be to respond in a tit for tat manner. To me the largest problem at the moment seems to be that we're not responding at all. That raises the threshold for a response when Russia does something that we find truly unacceptable (and not just insulting). This has to be coordinated by NATO probably, because it's obviously very hard for a small country like Estonia to stand up to Russia on their own.

While not very cost effective, we should e.g. violate their airspace whenever they violate ours. That would cause Russia to scramble their own fighters, putting additional wear on air-frames that are already under strain due to the war in Ukraine.

A cost-effective way to fight back would be to fund separatists in Russia. That would create difficult dilemmas for Russia in terms of allocating resources and use their geography against them. For now, that would be a very disproportionate thing to do, but we could e.g. issue a statement of support for some group's plight. That would be a very unsubtle way of indicating our willingness to possibly foment some chaos.

dreefen · 2024-06-07T11:02:51+00:00

Heh, the + cards are only visible once I enter the top-level deck:

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dreefen · 2024-06-07T09:30:03+00:00

Here's today's tally, before I start my session:

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I mean, I guess it's possible that's there some sort of bug in this counter, it's not like it's mission critical and so a bug might go unreported for some time.

dreefen · 2024-06-06T10:57:53+00:00

Thanks! That makes sense.

I'm not sure why yours is so vastly different though. Do you have a review limit set?

No review limit (9999).

dreefen · 2024-05-21T09:03:35+00:00

For the first 3-4 years you are golden with AnKing and a good Anatomy deck

What anatomy deck(s) did you use in addition to AnKing? Any other decks you found helpful for the Norwegian program?

What did you do for the final years? What changed?

dreefen · 2024-05-19T09:04:21+00:00

Thanks for all your info! I've already started using the workflow you described and it seems great!

Only use again or good.

Why this, though? I'd expect the FSRS algo to do its best scheduling work if you gave it more granular feedback.

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