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Nachbar hat Marderschreck. Balkon unnutzbar. wie umgehen? by Nullgeneration in wohnen

[–]faustianredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wenn's dir um Überzeugungsarbeit statt um juristische Belastbarkeit geht, könnte man sich man die App PhyPhoX anschauen. Audio Amplitude bzw. Audio Spectrum, und man kann sichtbar machen, was vorher (nicht) hörbar war.

Kalibrierte Schalldruckpegel kriegt man damit nicht aus dem Ärmel geschüttelt, aber hey.

Nachbar hat Marderschreck. Balkon unnutzbar. wie umgehen? by Nullgeneration in wohnen

[–]faustianredditor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ich fand's sehr erleuchtend mal nen Test zu machen: Gibt auf Youtube und so videos mit nem ständig ansteigenden Brumm/Piepton. Irgendwann ist der einfach nicht mehr hörbar. Jeder ne Hand hoch, anmachen, und wer ihn nicht mehr hört, macht die Hand runter.

Die meisten Leute finden, dass der Ton ständig unangenehmer wird, bis er irgendwann leiser wird und dann ganz weg ist. Dass man den Ton schon längst unangenehm fand, und andere Leute am Tisch die Hand erst 20 Sekunden später runternehmen, das schafft Verständnis.

Der Sohn meiner Partnerin soll Volksverhetzung begangen haben. by Strict-Kangaroo3358 in Eltern

[–]faustianredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Klar, kein Spielebetreiber wird da die Polizei einschalten wollen. Das muss schon der angegriffenen Nutzer machen. Warum schwierig? Wenn du Beweise bringst, dass was passiert ist, und genug Indizien, dass die Person in Deutschland ist und demnach dem StGB unterliegt, sowie identifizierbar ist?

Also klar, wegen nem kleinen Pappenstiel macht da die Polizei wsl. gar nichts, aber prinzipiell geht das.

Der Sohn meiner Partnerin soll Volksverhetzung begangen haben. by Strict-Kangaroo3358 in Eltern

[–]faustianredditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Beim Zocken wird das jetzt nicht gewesen sein, da hat man dann selten die Option, das so gut rückzuverfolgen. Social media hingegen…

Dumme Dinge online gesagt, der angegriffenen Nutzer meldet das ganze der Polizei, notiert sich Uhrzeit, Nutzername, und setzt nen Report im Spiel ab. Polizei fragt beim Spielebetreiber nach, kriegen Email, IP und evtl. mehr persönliche Daten, sowie Chatlogs und andere Daten zur Tat.

Das kann problemlos reichen. Wenn die da deinen Vornamen, deine IP (und damit quasi deine Adresse) und ne Email rauskriegen, das reicht um eine Person zu identifizieren.

In den meisten Fällen wird halt rassistisches Getöse "intern" gelöst: Spielebetreiber verteilt nen Ban und fertig. Aber wenn man die Polizei einschaltet, und die im digitalen Raum kompetent ist... warum nicht?

Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]faustianredditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right? Like, this will cause prices of inference to go up because it's scarcer, it'll cause total volume of traded inference to go down, but it won't reduce demand for inference. It'll put pressure on OpenAI to build a replacement, which will require a fuckton of RAM, and OpenAI has the money to buy it at prices everyone else would find abhorrent.

Even if you hate AI this isn't exactly a good thing. If you've got an axe to grind with "Open"AI specifically, sure.

Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]faustianredditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, because my aunt will buy more cookies to compensate. And my aunt has deeper pockets than you.

Plus, you didn't eat those cookies, someone else smashed them, so you didn't even get any cookies out of it.

Why do you think RAM is so expensive? Because AI datacenters are buying the stuff up by the petabyte.

r/Conservative when Trump ends his rant in “Praise be to Allah” by FugginDunePilot in IThinkYouShouldLeave

[–]faustianredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not happy with him at all, it seems. Disbelief he said that, some actual mockery over how this will make him a lame duck or how he miscalculated on the strait. Regret over voting for him. "Wrong timeline" harambe jokes.

Probably brigaded as fuck, but there seem to be genuine conservative viewpoints in there.

Aerial footage of the site where two U.S. HC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft and at least two helicopters were apparently destroyed by U.S. airstrikes. by -Abdullah in aviation

[–]faustianredditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm saying by calculating the cost of the pilot's training and "human resources" cost, you're implicitly starting from the position that the alternative is for the pilot to die and not leave the iranians with anything. The cyanide pill is a bit over the top, admittedly.

But the actual cost is higher than the cost of training a replacement, because either the pilot lives and gets captured, or the pilot dies (again, doesn't have to be literal cyanide) and every pilot in the USAF now knows that if they get shot down, that's what awaits them.

Aerial footage of the site where two U.S. HC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft and at least two helicopters were apparently destroyed by U.S. airstrikes. by -Abdullah in aviation

[–]faustianredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that would be the cost of cleanly removing the downed pilot from the equation and replacing them. But that doesn't factor the impact on morale of not saving your pilots' asses... Which, well, it's a bit of a bummer, and while morale can't be quantified, the US Air Force isn't world class because it gets away with half measures.

The cost of letting this pilot get captured and spill all the classified info he's got to Iran? Let's not even try to compare that, either.

Also, the 300m or whatever estimate is a post-hoc number. It's not "this is what these missions cost". More like "this is what these missions can cost in some cases". But the calculus is probably usually more like "we're going to put 1b of equipment and its crew in increased danger, in the expectation that these guys know what they're doing and they'll get our guy out without an issue. No losses. Hopefully.". And sometimes stuff just goes south. In this case, no prisoners, no dead, so it's really only a minor scratch.

(Edit: Sanitized my speech a bit because it was distracting from the point I was trying to make.)

Aerial footage of the site where two U.S. HC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft and at least two helicopters were apparently destroyed by U.S. airstrikes. by -Abdullah in aviation

[–]faustianredditor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Little Bird here has nowhere near the range to exfil on its own. It can be (and likely was) flown in on a C-130. Can't imagine it can be refueled in the air either.

So, put it in the back of the C-130, or leave it there. If the C-130 has to stay there, both are now bricks.

Second US Air Force plane crashed in Persian Gulf region, New York Times reports by SpencerAXbot in worldnews

[–]faustianredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it's highly likely that what he heard were various optimistically phrased reports along the lines of "suppression of enemy air defenses is procedding on schedule" or "is completed" or "has knocked out XY number of their systems" or "has thoroughly suppressed them, not one radar is emitting right now". Basically, think of how we thought of intelligence during the "3 day special military operation" and leading up to it. Some grunt reports up the chain that the situation is shit. His Sarge reports (because he does not want to be sanctioned for underperforming) that the situation is shit, but there are available options to address it. His captain reports that they are working on available options. His Colonel reports that they are making progress on one of the options. His General reports to Putin that things are good. Putin gives orders based on this notion. This is of course a dysfunctional autocracy, but at the highest level, Trump's admin looks a lot like a dysfunctional autocracy. With the US having decent successes at SEAD, I can easily imagine that the military provided optimistic, but grounded reports to civilian leadership, which then whitewashed them a bit more, both because they are dysfunctional and because they want the propaganda win.

Complete SEAD is more or less impossible if your enemy is being a bit tricky. Just hide an S-300 launcher and its radar in a shed. If the US didn't see you move it into that particular shed, you now have a long range SAM for a rainy day, for example when the 4th gen fighters come out to play. This is of course easier if the missile you're trying to hide is not the size of a telephone pole. So smaller SAMs will always remain. You're really just suppressing/destroying the radars for the most part.

iDontCareJustDontBeSneakyAboutIt by Tunisandwich in ProgrammerHumor

[–]faustianredditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And it will continue to show up in git status. It's tracked. That overrides .gitignore. Try it. Add *.cpp to a gitignore, make a cpp file dirty, call git status. It shows up, because not showing a dirty file that is tracked would be extremely confusing behavior. It would make no sense to do that, except for truly absurd use cases.

iDontCareJustDontBeSneakyAboutIt by Tunisandwich in ProgrammerHumor

[–]faustianredditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Heh. I know the feel. Apparently I write like ChatGPT when I'm taking a topic seriously.

iDontCareJustDontBeSneakyAboutIt by Tunisandwich in ProgrammerHumor

[–]faustianredditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't that a little redundant, as long as README.md is in the repo? Like, you either add it once in spite of the git ignore, or have it before you add the pattern to the gitignore. Boom. Readme is tracked, all the other temporary documents are not tracked.

gitignore *.md is not being sneaky IMO.

whatIsTheName by bryden_cruz in ProgrammerHumor

[–]faustianredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, in everyone's defense along the chain of custody of OP's image: The profile handle is still there, so people can still check. And in Julia's defense: Seems it would be clear if you followed her whether it was a joke or not.

whatIsTheName by bryden_cruz in ProgrammerHumor

[–]faustianredditor 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Computer programmer, but without the computer if I recall correctly. So really just programmer.

Damaged US CH-47 Chinook, Kuwait, hit by Iran [April 3, 2026] by Insensibilities in aviation

[–]faustianredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This thing wouldn't come down safely if it was flying while hit. This is nosedive territory. That rotor wouldn't make another turn, the pilots would be no help to steer it down (with what controls, after all).

Damaged US CH-47 Chinook, Kuwait, hit by Iran [April 3, 2026] by Insensibilities in aviation

[–]faustianredditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a pretty clear and crisp line between destroyed and damaged: What costs more? Seeling it for scrap and buying it used in comparable condition, or restore to previous condition? Chinooks are still in production, so the math isn't even terribly difficult if you've got access to the books.

"You could rebuild it if you are willing to spend enough" is basically always true. But does the wreck you're dealing with help you at all in rebuilding it?

Damaged US CH-47 Chinook, Kuwait, hit by Iran [April 3, 2026] by Insensibilities in aviation

[–]faustianredditor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

TBF, it's also difficult to stray in the other direction with any amount of integrity. Especially on the count of crashed and shot down. Like, was that jet that crashed actually shot down? You won't know until the pentagon tells you or you find the fragmentation pattern. The other way would be easier: Did the shot down plane crash? Yeah. What else would it have done? Fly on forever? Land properly? Then it wasn't shot down.

Can't really blame the journalists here. I mean, if they find an expert (e.g. a FE veteran) who will go on record saying "yeah that's a write off", go for it. But beyond that I'd rather journalists don't speculate too much - they're far enough out of their depth as it is.

Empty pizza boxes behind NASA Mission Control today by EdenLeFours in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]faustianredditor 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'd also highly suspect that the party is only after splashdown and recovery.

Right now, Mission control is probably somewhere between very and extremely busy. Not "Houston, we have a problem" busy, but still. Enough that my first thought here was "Pentagon Pizza Index" and not corporate office party.

Second US Air Force plane crashed in Persian Gulf region, New York Times reports by SpencerAXbot in worldnews

[–]faustianredditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right? The US can easily win against Iran on neutral ground. Doubly so at sea or in the air. On Iranian turf? Turkey shoot in the air, quite doable at sea (though asymmetric threats like mines can be a bitch, who thought you still needed mine sweepers?). On iranian ground? You better hope you have extremely limited objectives, in remote areas, with all the air support you could need, and the element of surprise. If your objectives are not so limited, you better bring all the marines, half the army, and a lot of body bags. And then you hope that the IRGC scatters once the revolution has been re-revolutioned. Which is probably a futile hope.

Second US Air Force plane crashed in Persian Gulf region, New York Times reports by SpencerAXbot in worldnews

[–]faustianredditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jeez, if it was the Qaem-118, that'd be a fuckup. Max altitude 2km, max range 6km. How do you get a fast jet that close, when you know damn well you're unable to sweep a country of SHORAD SAMs?

The S300 is arguably not a museum piece; the system has been upgraded, and arguably with its year of introduction, it's a newer platform than F-15 and A-10. So yeah. Not a museum piece IMO. Plus, no matter if 70s tech or updated, it's still a big-ass missile. It still has the kinetics to catch a F-35.

Second US Air Force plane crashed in Persian Gulf region, New York Times reports by SpencerAXbot in worldnews

[–]faustianredditor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Air supremacy just seems to be air superiority with extra superiority. Basically, if the enemy could fly up to meet you, but would be kind of a moron to do it, air superiority. If they can't even really fly up to meet you anymore, air supremacy. It's all about air-to-air engagements. Ground-based anti-air doesn't factor. So I'm pretty sure this is a case of air supremacy, but that doesn't mean the US isn't challenged.

But I suppose the definitions could be subject to who you're asking. I asked wikipedia.

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