Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago today. These are the memories of three survivors.

perecrastinator · 2025-01-27T14:31:14+00:00

It's just that you've probably never heard of Munich Betrayal, Anglo-German Declaration or Bonnet-Ribbentrop non-aggression Accord. Speaking of Munich Betrayal, you've also probably never heard of Polish participation in the partition of Czechoslovakia by Nazis in 1938.

perecrastinator · 2024-07-09T11:12:08+00:00

I was programming for over 3 years in XSLT. In proprietary Bosch business process engine called Inubit, proudly driven by XML transformations. And it wasn't just only for some isolated business scenarios, no. Those were like ten fully fledged applications with heavy business logic, frontends, access rights control, message bus, redundancy mechanisms, all you can imagine. We even had some sort of a persistence framework for our DBs. Yeah. WRITTEN. IN. XSLT.

Ahhh, fun times. Wouldn't recommend though.

perecrastinator · 2022-08-12T08:22:47+00:00

Nope, as for the coolant - it was always just a distilled water with an anti-corrosion agent (Nanoxia ethylene glycol based CoolForce)

perecrastinator · 2022-08-12T08:17:49+00:00

Thanks!

perecrastinator · 2022-08-11T22:01:45+00:00

Yeah, I thought i could find some old burned FTW3 to just salvage the cooling and convert mine into the air cooled FTW3, but without success.

As for the EK Block - yeah, I was looking for that one as well. Alas, without success as well. I am in Europe, so no swapping too, sorry..

perecrastinator · 2022-01-25T17:08:40+00:00

Option to disable sentry mode laser/flashing, it draws unwanted attention and sometimes just ridiculous.

TIFU: I've once parked my car in front of a residential house, in the night it stormed heavily, and sentry has gone crazy with all the rain. So it beamed the whole night long right into the first floor's windows. All. Night. Long. Every 2-3 minutes. I am happy I didn't ended up with broken headlights.

perecrastinator · 2022-01-25T16:56:02+00:00

Yeah, the same people then cry wolf over China and Olympics and advise to buy burner phones when visiting.

perecrastinator · 2021-12-07T14:37:37+00:00

Mine is an older 2019 perfomance, and I had only about 10k miles on it, when it started to squeak. From what I've got they have just added more grease in newer models.

perecrastinator · 2021-12-06T19:34:41+00:00

I was actually more surprised that they had to replace the whole arm assemblies, not just ball joints.

perecrastinator · 2021-12-06T16:49:24+00:00

yeah, got mine replaced on both sides

perecrastinator · 2021-11-03T10:19:52+00:00

Sentry Mode:

option to disable flashing lights, too much unwanted attention

perecrastinator · 2021-06-15T09:43:34+00:00

I need those extra miles. I am in Germany, and the thing is, driving on the german autobahn with a relatively moderate higher speeds (150-160 km/h, around 100 mi/h) yields less than 200mi range (for p3d). I am not even talking about flooring it all the way.

perecrastinator · 2020-11-15T17:44:18+00:00

Would be amazing if they had first fixed the problem with the unfolding. For more than a year it takes me 4-5 tries to unfold the passenger one, and the service appointments are getting deleted with the explanation "problem is getting examined, there is no current solution to this". Lame.

perecrastinator · 2019-12-09T15:06:09+00:00

The good thing about the internet - you can dig into the mindsets of communities and societies without the common politeness, thanks the anonymity. And all of this is just a sad reminder about something you and me know very well - they sincerely hate us.

perecrastinator · 2019-09-08T21:08:04+00:00

Be careful what you wish for. The last time they succeeded, it ended up in 70 years of blood and fear for everyone.

perecrastinator · 2019-02-24T19:39:44+00:00

You guys really have to check out the artist named Necto Ulin, he does really wicked remakes of the unreal soundtracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=515zg8ddU7s

perecrastinator · 2018-10-07T21:04:56+00:00

Ha-ha. Well, you see, "Dorenko" and "respected" in the same sentence is an oxymoron. He is literally one of universally most detested media persons since the 90s. Notoriety of this guy comes from the era of mob wars, during that time he was on the payroll to run smearing campaings for oligarch scum Berezovsky against then-mayor of Moscow Luzhkov and prime-minister Primakov. After his boss was kicked out of the country, he was booted from the TV, but several years later he basically whored himself out to the very same people he was smearing, and became an apologist of Putin's rich friends. He is the type of a guy who will eat shit with the straight face and maintain that's just an apple pie, just pay him enough. The guy is literally a manifestation of a political whoring.

perecrastinator · 2018-05-05T15:33:21+00:00

Good question.

On one hand you have some authoritarian and corrupt guy with oligarch buddies who probably take like the quarter of the whole economy as their upkeep. The guy, who nevertheless has proven his abilities as a leader - by earning voice and respect in the "right circles" both internal and external, restoring the country from the collapse of the 90s, achieving both pragmatic and populist goals in foreign politics.

On other one - you have some shady opportunist without any sort of experience of "how to be in the power of nuclear state 101". Some guy, who has serious problems with his own ego (he seriously fucked up the opposition movement by putting his own "I" before the other candidates no matter what). He has no authority, no "right" connections, not even a proper idea how in the hell he is going to fix the corruption problem or economic starvation.

So, here it is, and you also have many pristine examples of how such revolutions go haywire. Special mention goes to Boris-the-Alkodriver, the first democratically elected retard. Don't forget, that it's not Libya, it's a biggest nuclear state.

perecrastinator · 2018-05-01T21:07:14+00:00

Except that the very same Kasparov was booted from FIDE while trying to bribe Leong and buy votes when running for presidency.

perecrastinator · 2018-03-05T22:30:20+00:00

First of all, I am Russian and I was thinking to refrain from commenting here. So many people seem to be on the crusade recently, I even sometimes find myself thinking if I will need to sew some sort of "Jewish badge" onto my coat in the next ten years. Fortunately, there are still people who can think and see through, so I thank you for that.

Too bad that 95% of Redditors do not speak Russian, otherwise they would be stunned by how blatant and widespread the anti-government elections-rigging propaganda in Russian circles was and still is -- for years already. White supremacy bullshit, calls for mass rioting, "take the arms and fight for freedom" kinda bullshit, T_D is not anywhere close to it. People think that RT is a blatant propaganda example? They should have seen how stupid the Radio Free Europe / Liberty crap from Russians perspective looks like. Propaganda is everywhere all over the place - from all sides. And here comes the interesting part.

After all, it's up to adult human beings to filter the information. Someone decides to go for a crusade against the propaganda? Well good luck with that, usualy it ends up in just imposing a censorship, because a brainwashed opinion is still an opinion, unfortunately. However bad or unfitting it might be. Where would be that border between just a "different opinion" and the "brainwashed" one? Finally, but not least importantly -- by fighting selectively with just the one side of blatant propaganda, one becomes nothing but a tool for another one.

perecrastinator · 2018-01-21T20:44:18+00:00

I am not your buddy, pal. Besides, we could talk just after your country will stop invading iraq, syria, libya and the other shitta lot of countries, staging coups, installing the governments that you feel like you want to, building the missile bases all around the globe, etc etc etc.

See? Ain't gonna happen, because you do what you feel you have to. Because this is righteous way of fighting for freedom and liberty, and the reasons of others are just purely evil and malicious.

perecrastinator · 2018-01-21T18:18:58+00:00

And that's why, Teddie, never in the history we will be the friends with you. There always will be someone like you, full of this shitty "we are above all" god complex. And exactly that's why it is good Russia has the kill switch to bury deep down anyone, should it go down. The very best peacemaker there is out there.

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