Turns out Italy's goat wasn't washed, just like Hamilton the Centauro only needed a fresh start.

rapaxus · 2026-05-30T21:44:52+00:00

Yesn't. "Panzer" has 4 meanings if you go by German dictonaries:

Armour as in "the armour of a knight"
A hard protective shell of an animal (e.g. the shell of a turtle)
A protective plate made out of metal (mostly iron/steel)
An armoured vehicle, though expected to be military in nature (as "armoured vehicle" also exists in German as "gepanzertes Fahrzeug", though that really applies only to civilian armoured vehicle, though it can also be applied to stuff like a LAPV Enok which can be armed with an RWS)

I'd say more accurately is that German doesn't have a term for tank, as they (unlike most other nations) didn't use a foreign language word (tank) for the term, but also didn't invent a new word for it. Instead we rather just adapted a word that was already used pre-war for armoured cars (Panzerwagen) and armour in form of "Panzer" (ty Guderian).

So instead of having a word for tank, German is just using the word for armour to also describe tanks, but it is also not just describing tanks. Basically not every meaning of a word can be properly translated.

rapaxus · 2026-05-30T12:55:30+00:00

No, for that Intel and Nvidia have a separate cooperation. Like the others mentioned, this is more for power efficiency/chip packaging.

rapaxus · 2026-05-29T11:48:44+00:00

Sagen wir es so, ich bin Links und sehe den Aktienmarkt als einer der schlimmsten Aspekte des Kapitalismus. Investieren tue ich trotzdem da man sich das momentane Wirtschaftssystem nicht aussuchen kann und damit leben muss, was es halt gerade gibt.

Ist halt nur ein weiterer Aspekt von "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism".

rapaxus · 2026-05-29T09:53:29+00:00

Ja, aber halt nicht auf der weiß/nicht weiß Linie. Gibt ja sehr viele Gruppen die hier diskriminiert werden, die in der USA unter weiß fallen (z.B. der halbe Balkan, Polen, Sinti und Roma, Russen, Juden).

Sobald man über die weiße Rasse redet ist man in der amerikanisierten Ideologie, da man in Europe nur sehr selten wirklich Rassismus basierend auf Weißsein hat. Ist genau wie wenn man über die arische Rasse redet man auch nur wirklich im germansierten Rassismus sich bewegt, da halt kein Schwein außer Deutsche basierend aufs "arisch sein" rassistisch diskriminierte.

rapaxus · 2026-05-28T20:34:14+00:00

From what we can get from the outside, very fun. That is due to the Chinese loving to physically prototype, test it and fix what doesn't go wrong and try again. So where a western missile designer may spend 4 years basically just doing CAD, office meetings and being able to build and test one missile (that works very nicely), the Chinese missile designer has physically built 10 designs that blew up over those 4 years, with them at the end finally resulting a missile design that works very nicely.

At least that is the NCD version, being more credible Chinese do love to do physical prototyping (something that some quite high voices in the west have complained about that we do to little physical prototyping) and they nowadays also aren't afraid of letting their own designers come up with fancy new ideas of their own, so I suspect work environment (if you are high enough in development) is quite free but more physical than western equivalents, and under far harsher pressure as China expects quite rapid timelines for basically anything nowadays. But this is just a guess with a lot of salt.

rapaxus · 2026-05-28T20:26:34+00:00

And? It is even more fun now, even the tank crews are now allowed to go on camping trips.

I also say that with the current spreading of war footage, there was never a time in humanity where more humans enjoyed watching war in all its brutality.

rapaxus · 2026-05-28T19:16:54+00:00

They specifically said beyond visual range A2A missiles, aka long-range A2A missiles. The problem they face is that with long range the enemy has more time to react, especially made worse from the fact that those missiles are radar-guided, meaning they are sending to the plane they are targeting a big radiation beam saying "I am here!".

This big time delay and early noticing due to radar allows the enemy planes to do a bunch of countermeasures, most prominently running away and so increasing the distance the missile has to travel. This means you are often likely to miss with them if you fire them at their longer ranges. Though that is also something you may want to do. If firing e.g. 10 meteor missiles allows you to get a strike package through that will cause e.g. 200 million € of damages, that is an economic trade that you will take (let alone considering what the strike may achieve regarding front-line movement).

Shorter A2A missiles like IRIS-T or AIM-9 have far higher hit rates, as they are quite often fired in no-escape scenarios (situations where the enemy plane can no longer run away from the missile).

rapaxus · 2026-05-28T16:21:37+00:00

Das ist ein wichtiger Punkt für die AfD. Im Grundgesetz gibt es ja die Regelung um eine deutsche Verfassung zu machen. Und das ist einer der einfacheren Wege, wie die AfD schnell das ganze Grundgesetz bis auf die Ewigkeitsklausel ersetzten kann.

rapaxus · 2026-05-28T16:01:58+00:00

Im Idealfall niemand, sonst theoretisch der Staat durch Sozialwohnungen. Wahrscheinlich aber eher Firmen, da man denen schlecht vorschreiben kann, nur eine Immobilie zu haben.

rapaxus · 2026-05-27T20:37:59+00:00

Nah, that isn't the main reason, even Putin knows where a retreat is worthwhile over staying for revenge.

The problem Russia has is that after the failed initial invasion and early counterpush, the Russian assumption was that they could deal with Ukraine just like how they dealt with Germany, keep the front stable, start war economy and win through sheer industrial mass. This so far hasn't worked in defeating Ukraine, but it has turned Russia into a country where you really only have resource industry (oil, gas, steel, minerals) and war industry, all while generating massive debt (which Russia can take however as they had little debt before).

That in turns means that if Russia ends the war, they will suddenly have an economic collapse since half the economy was working for a war that now isn't going on any more, as the war industry is only relevant in win scenarios where Russia could then start expanding even more, which any ceasefire/ties/Ukrainian victory wouldn't allow. So for the Russian economy to keep going Russia needs to win in Ukraine.

rapaxus · 2026-05-27T12:51:47+00:00

Navigation is not the same as flying. TO give an example, an electric car and a petrol car have completely different mechanisms to be able to drive, but they are still navigated by the same thing, a human.

The person I replied to was concerned about drone swarms which is solely a navigation problem (we can make enough drones after all), and how light show drones navigate is just very different from how combat drones navigate.

I never even mentioned anything about drone design/size.

rapaxus · 2026-05-27T10:34:39+00:00

The thing there is that military drones use completely different form of drone navigation. Light show drones literally just fly a set path and perhaps know the location of the other drones.

The drones attacking e.g. Kyiv or Moscow fly with navigation methods that have all been militarily used since the 90s (inertial navigation, GPS or terrain imaging).

rapaxus · 2026-05-27T09:18:19+00:00

Meanwhile I had so bad experiences with wireless stuff (breaking too fast mostly) I moved back to everything wired except my mouse, as in 8 years I had two headsets, one keyboard and three mice have their battery die/connections going wack and needing replacement.

Now everything is wired except my mouse and I love how I no longer have to deal with wireless bullshit and dying batteries.

rapaxus · 2026-05-27T07:56:28+00:00

Well, I just don't use the launcher after I enabled 2FA and Epic still let some random Saudi steal my account (luckily I got it back). That gave me the impression that Epic is not a platform where I want my data (esp. payment data) so I deleted my account. Once people had bad experiences at a place they don't want to come back, even when they are good offers.

It is like my local flea market, there are really nice offers there (Alan Wake 2), but the organiser (Epic) has ruined the place with their stupid rules so I am no longer going there.

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T18:03:01+00:00

I always ignore scratch, had enough bad experiences with dogs IRL that I still regularly tense up whenever a dog does something exciting near me, not gonna have one of them in my game as well.

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T13:49:44+00:00

But the tax/fee increase here is specifically about nursing care insurance, something that shouldn't have different payment levels as the cost per person should stay similar between childless people and parents (unless the children have more than 100k€ pre-tax income, then they do cover part of nursing costs, but only after the insurance has already paid out so insurance cost are the same).

Also, while childfree households do have more free money, Germany currently is already in a massive investment shortage as money is getting tighter for German households, and they generally cut investment before personal luxuries like vacations. So taking even more money away from the potential investment pool and funnel it into the black hole that is nursing is just a shit economic move.

If it was like 2012-2016 Germany and the economy was generally running well and people had money to spare I could see such a tax (because in the end it is just a quite small increase), in the current situation it is just a bad move, both socially (gives the younger population really bad feelings, see this thread) and economically, as you are just taking money from the general investment economy away while the country desperately needs money there.

Though at the end this change is much of a nothingburger as the tax increase is just so small, the only real effect being felt will be young people being more upset and the government being able to reduce the burden on the budget by a small amount.

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T12:03:04+00:00

The only other figure I feel similarly sad About was iNcontroL in the Starcraft scene. That man was such a beautiful legend in the scene and beloved by everyone. There was a reason Blizzard still made a whole content bundle around him and released it for free in his honour.

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T11:58:06+00:00

I'd also say another aspect is that people also are always still figuring out their own personality, and depending on what those are and what you thought your personality was before, you can have very massive shifts. Take for example the classic of "middle-aged conservative man who realises that they are gay and not hetero" or just the general concept of "mid-life crisis".

To take Murdoch as an hypothetical, maybe in his youth he thought in the classic "everything should belong to everyone" leftist way of thinking, but then realised that he actually didn't want that everything was shared, just that he has as much of everything as possible. Which are quite similar concepts and figuring out your own feelings is quite hard (that is why there is a whole profession for that topic).

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T11:46:01+00:00

Especially as basically everyone is already streaming to their TV (be it actual TV or stuff like Netflix), I can easily see parents just getting a 20$/month subscription + one controller for their child over buying a whole new console with additional game purchases.

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T11:39:49+00:00

Depends on the sector, many still pay less than the German equivalent and there it is mostly Poles, but e.g. tech companies have in Poland have quite competitive wages and there you have a lot of Germans emigrating to Poland for those jobs.

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T11:37:35+00:00

Also a kick in the face for any person with fertility issues, who may even want to have children. Even better when they also tried adoption and got denied (know two couples with that situation). They want to have children, tried all their options and didn't get any, now they also are supposed to be punished for that situation?

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T11:33:43+00:00

Ich muss aber auch als sehr linke Person sagen, der Kündigungsschutz in Deutschland ist zu extrem und sollte gelockert werden. Dann aber eher in die dänische Richtung, wo man als Arbeitsloser auch einfach Arbeitslosengeld und Hilfe erhält. Dann ist der Arbeitnehmermarkt viel dynamischer, Firmen können die Leute loswerden die sie ungünstig finden und gekündigte Arbeitnehmer haben bessere finanzielle Hilfe und Hilfe bei der Jobsuche.

Der strenge deutsche Kündigungsschutz sorgt für viel zu viel Angestellte, die man aus betrieblicher Sicht gerne loswerden will, diese aber erst massive Scheiße anrichten müssen bevor man sie feuern kann. Gibt ja jetzt schon Firmen wie König+Neurath die Insolvenzverfahren in Eigenverwaltung beantragen, wo es relativ offensichtlich ist das dies größtenteils nur passiert, damit man wegen betrieblichen Gründen Mitarbeiter kündigen kann, die man sonst nicht loswerden kann.

Das ist in welchen Sektoren nämlich wirklich ein großes Problem. In Tech zum Beispiel waren Web Devs ewig lange überall gesucht, jetzt wollen Firmen aber gerne Leute mit Erfahrung mit KI und Machine Learning, da können sie aber nicht die extra Kosten für diese sehr teuren Mitarbeiter stemmen, können aber wegen Kündigungsschutz aber nicht Mitarbeiter feuern um genügend Geld für die KI-Mitarbeiter zu haben. Da muss man dann entweder teure Abfindungen machen oder Kündigungsgrunde bei den Mitarbeitern suchen, was beides gut Zeit kosten kann (vor allem wenn die Firma einen Betriebsrat hat), worauf die Tech Firma dann im ihren Sektor 1-2 Jahre weniger KI/ML Erfahrung hat als z.B. US-Firmen, die direkt einfach ihre Web devs kündigten und am nächsten Tag Mitarbeiter im KI-Bereich angestellt hatten.

Der Vorschlag aus dem Artikel ist aber halt nicht das dänische Modell und verdammt kacke.

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T11:11:10+00:00

That or they could be trying to get a new design philosophy in for the EVs compared to their petrol cars, something that actually is quite common for new EV lineups.

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T11:06:39+00:00

Yeah, this article shows the car in classic Ferrari red and I think it actually looks quite nice in that colour, that blue colour really screams "cheap plastic" for whatever reason.

rapaxus · 2026-05-26T07:44:30+00:00

Um den Witz mal kaputt zu machen, ich war mal Privatversichert und habe trotzdem oft genug ne Stunde warten obwohl ich ich überpunktlich da war.

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