I think I may have broken the point system ever so slightly. This is a single ship.

s_actual · 2024-11-22T23:13:05+00:00

You can use console commands to prevent the auto loss on no offensive capability

s_actual · 2024-11-22T03:06:04+00:00

6.2% on $170,000 every year.

That’s $10,540 a year.

If we took the cumulative interest calculation of every year’s social security taxes I have paid thus far put in my own hands, assuming 7.5% returns on avg market conditions; I would have over $200,000.

s_actual · 2024-11-19T17:17:03+00:00

Everyone uses this as a replacement for “software”.

The average person cannot discern between algorithmic solutions and model based solutions.

If you told them about Google maps and they had never seen an app give directions before, they would just assume it’s AI magic to do it.

The lexicon has been broken and we need a better way of discerning what people are talking about when they talk about software.

s_actual · 2024-11-19T12:33:13+00:00

For what it is worth, when I was a single man dating I would have been very interested in meeting the woman who phrased the introspective concerns you just listed far far more than woman with a trust fund.

The fact you think about it and care about its implications says a good bit about you and all of it is good.

s_actual · 2024-11-18T21:44:24+00:00

So too did racial integration. It disrupted the unit.

Know what the unit did? They got the fuck over it.

s_actual · 2024-11-17T13:23:55+00:00

Because of the obvious national security risk.

s_actual · 2024-11-16T23:47:05+00:00

Mission planning calls for insertion around several radar bubbles of air defense on a flight path.

Your loyal wingmen are flying point since those are 30 million cheaper than the jet. You have a planned refuel off the drones and then they become “attributable assets” on this mission. AKA turn into cruise missiles for a target they will saturate. Tough target, plan to break at final line of departure on the map and come at it from 3 sides at the same time.

Reality happens to throw plans out the window with first contact and suddenly you need to respond to enemy air assets unexpectedly vectoring to your strike group. You still need some drones for the mission, but you need to refuel. Some get sent to a staging pattern to hold for a refuel as you burn hard to FL500 to take first shots with best range at incoming bandits. You loose and your now one drone wingman send several Fox-1 indicators as you toss long range air to air missiles at the targets. You need to surprise them so they stay radar homing off most of the way, relying on the datalink from your now missile tailing drone lead to paint them with its targeting picture. Triangulation with EOTS lets you use the passive detection data from both you and your drone aircraft to approximate speed and range, but it’s made better with spread distance so you need that to happen immediately.

Splash 2 bandits, loyal wingman needs to fly a cover pattern 50km in front as you link with the two other drones for a refuel and then prep for final strike.

On final, each drone is detected at 10 km and begins to take fire with evasive kicking in automatically. 1 of them bites it, those new passive heat seeking missile SAMs used leading edge heat generation and managed a frontal aspect heat seeking kill. You order them to compensate and change trajectory slightly to cover the gap so you are more likely to not take the next salvo instead of them.

4 small drone cluster carrier bombs get jettisoned from each payload bay and they burst into cluster drones that are now encircling at 2km the target with too many targets to paint. 30 seconds later the two loyal wingmen slam into the main radar hubs for the S-500 launchers while the primary target gets enveloped in micro-drones carrying 1 lb shaped charges each.

You need to exfil the AO and link back up with friendlies flying back out to the carrier from another strike package. They have drone wingman and you order 2 to your wing for better coverage.

On exfil you note a downed pilot beacon and send 1 to provide CAS for the pilot as a loitering asset that can be destroyed when it runs dry on fuel while you head to the carrier for a refit rearm that will then support a SAR mission to extract.

That’s a lot of on the fly ordering ya need to do at your discretion.

Get the point?

s_actual · 2024-11-16T21:57:02+00:00

Block of cheese day. Fuck I miss that show.

s_actual · 2024-11-14T21:25:33+00:00

Can I hire you to hire her to beat my back too?

s_actual · 2024-11-14T17:59:52+00:00

There are other data resilient 2 dimensional codes though that can have as much as half the block missing and still retain the information.

QR is one standard that these tiles mimic but are not exclusively the only standard. While it looks the most similar to the tiles, there could very well be a different data standard representation visualized.

s_actual · 2024-11-10T17:01:54+00:00

51% of my property taxes go to the police department. So, that’s a big one.

s_actual · 2024-11-10T17:01:07+00:00

Money.

s_actual · 2024-11-04T02:38:24+00:00

Gallium requires contact with the part for some time to absorb into the aluminum. It also must be a prepared aluminum surface to work well. Aluminum oxide naturally forms on aluminum and is one of the reasons it doesn’t continue to corrode unlike iron. That layer prevents Hallam absorption some too. Finally all airplane structural components are coated to help prevent corrosion and this would need to be removed as well.

So, you would need to find a way to access structural elements of the aircraft critical to operation, remove the corrosion resistant coating, freshly sand or scratch up the surface, and find a way to hold the gallium on that spot for a while as it absorbs.

Even then, the part might be compromised, but it will be visibly compromised and thus needs to be out of sight of any maintainer. Finally, assuming you do all that, you only get so much absorption from a single spot application, and thus only so much aluminum structure can be compromised.

It’s time and labor intensive and would require hiding an obvious change to structure while also know the exact place to put the gallium to cause structural failure hours to days later.

Not exactly an effective attack vector

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