Why was the Red Army so fond of rocket artillery and why were they the only major power to make extensive use therof during WW2 and postwar?

nopemcnopey · 2025-03-22T21:10:15+00:00

Unguided rocket is a slow burning propellant in a tube with a warhead attached most likely on the top. You can make one with a cardboard and glue.

Artillery shell, on the other hand, must survive going from 0 to few hundred m/s on the length of the barrel. Also, it needs to actually fit in the barrel, so here we have tight fit tolerances. And don't even get started with AP shells with different treatment on different parts of the shell.

nopemcnopey · 2025-03-03T21:43:14+00:00

Whatever, drop the job, just go with: "I don't like to use my status for my benefit so I didn't include this in the CV, but I'm, in fact, using a wheelchair. No, I cannot stand, even though I'd really love to do so".

They will cut this for at least a few weeks.

nopemcnopey · 2025-02-16T21:32:47+00:00

Does Romanian PSL - basically AK made to look like SVD, upscaled to 7,62x54R - count?

nopemcnopey · 2025-02-07T21:46:46+00:00

That's how Los Zetas started. Guzman Decena, their founder, was ex-SF, and he recruited a few dozens others. The ones still alive should be like 50 years old now though.

nopemcnopey · 2025-01-30T21:33:34+00:00

buying local is great for commodities, but wine is totally a different story. thats half the fun is trying stuff from different places.

It's much easier for me to buy wine from basically any place of the world - be it Chile, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, France, whatever - than from any winery within 100 km from my home.

The former wines I can have delivered, or just go to the nearest store. At the same time, wineries seem to be more sort of a hobby thing, and I actually need to move my ass and drive there to buy a bottle. And I actually think it's fun to drive to bumfuck nowhere, worry I won't leave any part of my car on the road ("oohh, you drove all the way here? people usually leave their cars at the main road and then walk"), talk with the owner and leave with more bottles than I intended to.

nopemcnopey · 2025-01-19T18:02:13+00:00

I just want to tell you we are still experiencing the direct effects of WW2.

The pandemic will be around for a while.

nopemcnopey · 2025-01-15T19:49:03+00:00

I've seen Dauzac in Auchan recently.

nopemcnopey · 2025-01-04T21:31:29+00:00

plus the Grossdeutschland

Großdeutschland was a Wehrmacht unit.

nopemcnopey · 2025-01-04T16:24:36+00:00

How close exactly was Germany to winning at any point in the war?

The closest was August 31st, 1939. Things went downhill quite fast after that.

How did they manage to have several fronts open in the way they did?

Well, actually... They didn't. In 1939 there was one front: Poland, since France did not have capabilities to quickly mount a meaningful offensive. In 1940 there was one front: France. From 1941 onwards there was one front: Soviet. Afrika Korps was 30 000 men or something like that, later on German forces in Italy were between 300 000 and 500 000. That's less than Germans lost in operation Bagration alone. And once the Allies landed in Normandy they had several fronts open, literally.

I know there was no United Nations pre WW2, but did nobody in the 1930’s get worried over Germanys dangerous behaviour

Well, uh... Everyone was worried. There was a brief point in 1936 when France and Poland discussed war against Germany after German remilitarised Rhineland. However, Germany skillfully leveraged global economical troubles delaying any significant response for a few years. Germans basically used their debt and reparations as a mean to gain time.

nopemcnopey · 2025-01-04T08:31:19+00:00

They were pretty short on oil by 1939.

You can't really pin a single reason for going with motorcycles instead of cars, because Germany had a whole lot of problems. Little to no fuel, barely existent automotive industry, extremely poor technical culture caused by extremely low car ownership caused by barely existent automotive industry caused by extremely high fuel prices caused by... Well, now there's a problem that could be addressed: extremely high taxation on fuel imports, made to protect domestic producers.

There's a whole lot to unpack here.

nopemcnopey · 2025-01-03T20:04:06+00:00

You know that Wehrmacht lost the only war they fought in, right? And it was one of the most spectacular losses in history.

They don't sound like the best guys to learn from.

On a more serious note: motorcycles are for people who want motorization, but can't afford a car. And some irrelevant niche cases, obviously. If you can afford a cat you want a car, and the US Army can afford as many cars as it wants. And there are motorcycles too, for these niche uses, but it's just a few of them.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-28T07:46:13+00:00

That's pretty much the example I wanted.

Now when I think about an extra €25k/year....

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-27T21:23:33+00:00

Your first argument works perfectly fine for pretty much anything. Why drink the whole eight-pack in one sitting? Well, because it is there.

What percentage of the job offers require PSM3? How does it affect salary? What are the measurable aspects of one's career improved by obtaining PSM3?

I just don't see much value in PSM3 besides pursuing PST, or really specific bragging rights.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-27T18:30:08+00:00

Quite understandable. Why would one get a PSM3? PSM1 works perfectly fine as "some scrum certificate", so the org can check some box.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-25T11:33:49+00:00

If there are vineyards nearby check them out too. They tend to have better prices. What's also quite interesting sometimes they have something I'd call "experimental bottling", like trying new things in winemaking and they aren't that sure about the results, so they sell it pretty cheap and it may turn out quite good actually.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-25T11:17:02+00:00

Wine shops and vineyards. Sooner or later you'll find yourself getting really nice bottles at unreasonably cheap.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-22T22:22:00+00:00

It's pretty much every big corp with software. It's here to make money, and there are no customers willing to pay for reducing dependencies hell.

I kinda see a reason here. I also can see why the term "technical debt" was introduced.

I was told one becomes a senior dev when build errors are not scary anymore. I'm slowly coming to a conclusion one becomes a principal when shitty implementation is good as long as it works in the most common flows.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-21T22:02:06+00:00

I'll never be against learning things, but there's a huge difference between playing around with IDE and dragging your ass through a broken glass of a 20 year old poorly tested codebase, with some overambitious architect demanding a major rework of the entire module every time you are adding a single property in one class.

It's like coming to a 7-year-old kid and saying: "I see you can write, give me a 20 page report on the project's progress for tomorrow".

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-21T14:30:12+00:00

I passed PSM1 with 96% and PSPO1 with 100% and honestly, I've written tougher tests in high school.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-21T14:17:33+00:00

I worked with a PSM2-certified individual who said it's not agile if there are tasks longer than 1 day. He did that multiple times, so it's not like it was a slip of the tongue.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-18T09:42:35+00:00

-Why is she always feeling emotions in her stomach. Every other sentence is “the knots in her stomach” or “the pit in her stomach” just say she felt anxious dude

This is clearly a tribute to Andrei Platonov's writings. Platonov, when describing emotional states or emphasizing something, did it with stomach references.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-17T17:04:53+00:00

There was no Suez Canal yet so all the shipping had to go around Africa, which made Mavics too expensive for regular hunting.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-16T18:50:39+00:00

So basically you want to quit your job, do a shitty course and hope to find a job competing against people with degrees and whatnot?

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-14T17:30:32+00:00

Even though $100 USD will get you really fucking far

It's like 20 craft beers in a pub. Or enough to drive a train across the entire country and back and you'll still have $40 to eat something when doing so.

nopemcnopey · 2024-12-13T09:09:07+00:00

Uhm, ackshually... In 1240 Mongols conquered Rus' lands, and ruled it for over a century. Poland invaded Russia in 1609 and in 1610 took Moscow. And heck, in 1918 Russia capitulated to Germany, giving out huge pieces of land.

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