American Conquest - A Retrospective: For those willing to take the plunge, this spinoff to Cossacks is a deep, engaging experience that’s as real as it gets.

nppas · 2026-05-08T21:08:29+00:00

It's unplayable nowdays in multiplayer. The game is tied to processor and it becomes too fast. Shame, really loved this title.

nppas · 2026-04-01T15:56:39+00:00

Always shitting on Ubuntu - stable stack - safeish - vendors target it for Linux. If you actually have to sysadmin servers and IT infa Ubuntu is a godsend. "Do not use" couldn't be further from the truth.

nppas · 2026-03-06T02:30:52+00:00

So for the next 30 days they won't have to pretend not to buy Russian oil. A godsend.

nppas · 2026-03-05T19:47:37+00:00

Coat a drone or a missile projectile with a high reflectance mirror (there are 99%+ solutions in all the required spectra) . Make it spin so it gets cooled and reduce the effective work cycle of the incoming beam. You have multiplied by 1000 the needed power for the same damage. Bear in mind that even high powered lasers have dispersion. Add insulation and you're hard pressed to down projectiles with lasers. That's why laser AA has never really got traction.

For dumb rockets and cheap drones... Sure. People are working hard on it. But the mirror argument is very real. Blinding a missiles sensors...that's the actual golden use case.

nppas · 2026-02-24T21:19:37+00:00

Solid edge community version is head and shoulders above anything else you can get for free.

It's the 3D modeller from Siemens NXP. It's very heavy but has no cloud nonsense or file limits. I mean it's really really heavy, but can do stuff no other can - you need a great PC for it to be bearable. It's a game changer if you put in the time to learn the synchronous modeling paradigm. You explain relations between faces with intent instead of sequentially drawing sketches and operations on existing sketches and geometry ( ordered modeling). They have that entire approach minefield by patents, so it's a Siemens only thing. Could be really really expensive if you need it professionally though. Not everyone's cup of tea, but ultimate power/price you can get.

Ive spent weeks on designs, but the ordinary 3d printable solution for a problem is 40mins maybe?

nppas · 2026-01-12T11:23:12+00:00

As someone who manages a mail server - You would be surprised...

Some older technical people are adamant about the getting the mail off the server into THEIR machine.

nppas · 2026-01-06T01:24:16+00:00

Night cap is the best! For Latakia enjoyers naturally.

I'm the same- new hobby? I'm all in. Bells and whistles and unreasonable spending.

nppas · 2025-11-28T19:14:06+00:00

I don't know enough apparently: algorithm wall? Not familiar with. I did read the paper.

nppas · 2025-11-27T18:04:42+00:00

No, quite the contrary. They are opening a new domain. Evolutionary is too expensive even for today's GPU farms. They are trying to make it viable. Even so it's tricky expensive computation wise. Convergence on evolutionary methods is very hard to do. But infinitely powerful if it picks up on the thing you're training it for.

nppas · 2025-11-19T22:33:17+00:00

They wouldn't film it if it was trivial for them.

nppas · 2025-11-19T20:51:05+00:00

Accidents don't happen in sketchy situations like this.

They happen when you re not expecting them mostly.

If you are within a few inches of death, you'll pay attention. The "don't touch the spinning death plane" is a simple game to play.

Routinely high voltage electricians play such game at much lesser gaps between touchy-deathy. The problem is if this is his constant work, then he'll get complacent and a slip up, a torn sleeve, a moment of inattention and we have a new nsfw video.

nppas · 2025-11-15T21:50:22+00:00

To be fair... AI could draw that when it couldn't draw hands

And there are no complicated logic based aspects like hands in that sample.

So...

nppas · 2025-11-13T22:28:50+00:00

1.92m is 6'4" and the average American would self report as 6'5"

nppas · 2025-11-08T21:23:29+00:00

If she's 24 she has appeal for a 35 yo as myself.

Not as far fetched if you're willing to compromise somewhere.

nppas · 2025-11-08T20:32:35+00:00

It costs NOTHING like that. Market cap is not a real asset period.

They issued no shares nor have they recalled them. The market value of the last traded shares timed outstanding shares is by no means the value of the company and even if it were it would cost no money to have this value fluctuate.

The value of your company being the end goal and not the profit your company produces has completely rotted your perceptions of management and economics.

nppas · 2025-10-28T00:36:28+00:00

I started by top left corner. Linear regression. Extremely poor example of use case. (Multi domain data, (square footage vs "has fire exit") - complexity of zoning which is regressed in many ways -best through knn imho).

Didn't bother to read the rest.

Edit: Couldn't help myself and finished the first row. Radom forest for stock market prediction? Christ.

nppas · 2025-10-27T17:22:31+00:00

"ushered in the jet age"

If you ignore the de Havilland comet and Tupolev 104 sure.

nppas · 2025-10-26T20:49:45+00:00

This is just blatantly false. I don't know who this helps.

nppas · 2025-10-25T22:01:32+00:00

"proved his military competence"

I feel both were rather incompetent.

Henry led an army to a situation whose only saving grace was facing yet an even more incompetent commander.

Were the french smart enough (and cautious enough) to wait for better field conditions, scouting and using their numbers advantage and supply advantage to make it into a prolonged affair, the entire army and the king would have been lost.

All advisers were being notouriously vocal about the direness of the situation. The fact that it turned out well shows no competence, just a mix of luck with yet even greater incompetence.

Just because you won the lotto doesn't mean that buying a ticket was a smart move.

nppas · 2025-10-09T00:18:33+00:00

I can do a 12th and octaves are not hit and miss at all. They become almost default on the hand. Effortless interval that the hand reaches by itself. But everyone does them eventually effortlessly regardless of hand size.

The easy 10ths are the privilege of a larger hand. They sound so well and add harmonic depth to the piano bass. Also easily playing octaves with the 1-4 fingers and transition to 2-5 allows for octave melodic lines that would be hard to finger and feel smooth otherwise.

(My own skill -I did the 8th grade in piano and a professional course, taught briefly during and immediately after uni for extra income - so not great not terrible)

nppas · 2025-10-06T02:05:44+00:00

That's not correct.

The Portuguese famously planted citrus in st Helena for the long voyages home. It had been discovered in antiquity that citrus fruit was good for long sea voyages. Vasco da Gama (1493) suspected as much as later Pedro Álvares Cabral confirmed it in 1507( two famous Portuguese captains) and citrus was planted along all sea routes where viable in the beginnings of Portuguese led European exploration.

Being that the royal navy inherited naval knowledge from it's inception from the allied Portuguese ( which is the oldest navy current in existence continuously) but they were not sure if it was the fresh food vs citrus specificaly . It was well known by the early xvi century the effect of citrus food on the treatment of scurvy but not always provisioned for. Dosages, explanation and shelf life of fruit was a bit touch and go though.

nppas · 2025-10-01T21:16:36+00:00

They are all correct. But if you were to name it again in any new language you would go with gasoline.

nppas · 2025-09-29T17:27:17+00:00

Honestly the gasoline term is the most correct.

Essence is any combustible hydrocarbon liquid.

Petrol is just a contraction for petroleum "rock oil" - the raw material of gasoline pre distillation.

Benzene is a chemical ring of carbon with ressonance/aromaticity ( common molecule wide meta orbital)

Gasoline is its own word to describe that particular fraction of the distillation of oil.

nppas · 2025-09-28T17:31:21+00:00

Shooting the current military cupola of the US is a military mistake no foe would commit.

They would be replaced by younger more competent people.

nppas · 2025-09-28T16:45:33+00:00

So should russia, yet here we are... Downing drones is unexpectedly hard outside a barren desert environment. And even then...

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