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Decades of futile attempts to retake Balkans after Greek revolt lit the fire in Europe, and caused a chain reaction of support for Ottoman dismantlement.
For Russia to survive as a state in coming decades, it will not need a "Russian Washington," but rather somebody more like a Russian Ataturk.
It's an OSS projects with the most abrasive, and socially inept people around, seemingly gathered together on purpose. GNOME had few hundred active contributors on its peak, now down to at most 20-30 people.
The proliferation of *Kits is very much an intentional policy by RedHat to pull the classical "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" scheme, except when they do the extinguish thing, the remaining people have no other option, but to move to RedHat's platform.
An even greater commentary been provided by this tweet: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1539623100144295936
How did America pump out liberty ships faster than even China can build ships today during the WW2?
US military production was a byproduct of its great civilian heavy industry. US tanks, ships, airplanes, bomber, guns were mostly made by factories repurposed from making civilian goods. So when the demand for them waned, so did the raw military potential. This was in contract to USSR, where civilian manufacturing was a byproduct of weapon production.
American military planners knew that all well during the late cold war, and its pursuit of "smart weapons" was an attempt to substitute quality for quantity, and capitalise on American leadership in electronics. This paid out extremely well. Even first generation smart munitions were many times more efficient.
After the Cold War, US peacetime military planning started to stagnate, and finally disappeared due to obsession with "special operations" during the War on Terror, and military procurement becoming a business like operation. By only allowing expensive toys winning procurement competitions, the military pigeonholed itself into extremely uncompetitive purchasing position.
While USA has no rivals in arms exports for things like fighter jets, nearly no brand new weapon systems developed after year 2000 are bought by US allies. As you see even now, most bought US hardware today is still from the Cold War era, which is a proof of the above. Look at the super expensive titanium M777 howitzer: they wanted to restart its production recently, but... surprise! They have to buy its titanium from Russia. F35's titanium bulkheads are now turning into a similar issue.
US electronics is no longer an edge for its military industry, and more likely a liability. What however the West can deny China, and Russia are high grade machine tools, and other implements for the heavy industry: modern Chinese steel industry was built by Dutch, car industry by Germans and Italians, materials by Japan, electronics assembly by Taiwanese, and heavy machinery by Koreans.
> The parliament is made of power hungry MPs and a commission full of elitist jackasses, with a million and one agendas
An alternative to people ready to fight, and campaign for a place in parliament are people without any agency in the fate of the country, and nothing to lose if they want to massively harm the country.
The worst alternative by far is to have a parliament full of uncharismatic yes-men, who would be easily dominated once some charismatic Der Fuhrer would appear.
10BASE-T1L PHY fits on a single chip, without much of analog trickery, and the whole line encoding, signal processing is much simpler.
10BASE-T1L is what will go into 1 dollar devices, not a $100 modem.
Network cards do run into extremely uncommon MAC collisions because they just generate a random MAC on first start, which is then read, and printed after manufacturing.
Intrinsic semiconductors, and Beryllium Oxide. Neither are cheap enough for mass market products.
1. When enemy has tons of artillery, and any light armour is doomed in open field
2. The only military unit capable of offensive operation during nuclear warfare
For as long as nuclear weapons are there, there will be a need for an all-terrain nuclear bunker with gun.
Points they told:
1. A mandatory PhD just to get at internship
2. Few years of unpaid internship needed to get a coffee porter job, before you are let anywhere close to the process
3. A postdoc is required to get a real R&D cred
4. 7-10 years in R&D sweatshop before any real promotion
5. Get very lucky
6. In 20-30 years of career, you can get to a VP level, where you can hold the company by the balls with critical knowledge. Then... and only then, you will look up to a 7 digit salary.
He will not let the West to recover. Were his 200,000 troops to march into Poland instead of Ukraine in February, the entirety of NATO in Europe would' be in a giant trouble until USA would've brought forces from North America.
For as long as the West will be showing fear, he will continue to attack.
First, it's people without even most basic aeronautic backround designing an aircraft.
Second, the number of flaws with their scheme being pointed by experts is so huge they cannot possibly get certified without throwing out everything, and redesigning completely from scratch.
Third, they finally hired somebody with the background, but so far nobody seen any change from "submarine ramen startup," to a serious company happening. Unlike with SpaceX, where Elon promptly yielded to professional engineers shutting down his fantasies like an SSTO design, 3D printing the whole rocket, or developing an ion engine to replace chemical one for last stages.
Fourth, they lash out on all criticism with "you have no vision," it's "aircraft 2.0," and similar dismissal.
Fifth, they courted investors with physically unachievable performance figures.
To me it's very clear, the company is heading the way of "HTML supercomputer"
P.S. Speak of the devil, it's already starting: https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2022-06-02/lilium-i...
I had the first Arduino model with a COM port bought to me by my late mother to spike my interest into computer stuff when I was in high school.
I grew a bit over confident with what I can do, when on my first job I went on to fix an MP3 player firmware so it don't crash from Russian in ID3 tags.
I told the boss the fix is trivial, then it took me 3 month to find out that whatever you knew of garden variety C++ is not working in the world of hardcore C, and that hardware needs control down to clock cycles, registers, and assembly instructions. It was a sink, or swim experience.
Were Luddites pro-elite, or anti-elite? Factory technology was definitely something both hated, and intentionally propagated.
Violent conflicts were fought by different stacking frame manufacturers for making them cheaper, and more efficient than one other.
Similarly Saddam attacked Kuwait on the premise of selling oil cheap, and diluting his power.
Knowledge, sophistication, and culture was an alternative to "eliteness" given by having the biggest stick around.
What Greek, and Roman elites realised naturally 2000 years ago, and what we do not now is that knowledge, and culture were power, and that power must be prevented from being monopolised.
Scholars, historians, artisans, and scribes were patronised by the state to prevent "eliteness" being monopolised by clans, and powerful families.
A good way to prevent a man with the biggest stick from seizing power is to give more sticks to other people. And similarly "cultural eliteness" was kept accessible to foreign gentry to drag them into Greek society, so they don't try to reach "elitness" by swinging the stick.
Books were very precious. A 5th century monthly salary of a scribe was enough to buy a house.
Yet, 99%+ of written data from Greece, and Rome is lost. We lost both archival data, and literature. First to rot, second to book burning.
Literature was state sponsored for most of classical period, and "casual" writing all about propagating Greek culture to "not-so-Greeks" (Thracians, North Africans)
Literature was subsidised not so much for elites, but to create more elites
Luddites, and book burners are your typical strongman elite who rule by swinging a club.
Defeating CoVID was too a national priority. Did they manage to build a single new mask manufacturing line?
No, but they actually tried really hard. Dozens of companies were recruited for the effort, and they just gave up after realising that they can't even get a single part in the blowing machine to be made in the US.
There are no individual chemical plants, there are huge chemical complexes owned by many companies with own well guarded know hows. There may be 2-4 suppliers in a row producing some intermediary product used in making of only 1 output.
Just to make the semiconductor grade hyperpure propanol you need ultrapure catalysts, ultrapure sulphuric acid, ultrapure water, and ultrapure input hydrocarbon stock. Ah, forgot, you also needs an ultrapure tare manufacturer, because bottles you ship ultrapure materials are single use.
You need decades just to replicate this. Now you need to move 100+ of such material chains.
> If it's just for historical and/or economical reason
Simple answer, yes! Taiwan has quietly swallowed near an entirety of the wider precision manufacturing industry.
It been consistently swallowing very capital intensive industries producing exportable niche products one after another simply because nobody else been taking such hard, and risky ventures. Yes, their profitability is not high, but their "moat" is gigantic.
Taiwan been an industrial titan for 20+ years, and the US only finds out about it now.
Much of critical blockers for chemicals, consumables, materials will still be in Taiwan just because the semi industry is that huge there.
All 300mm fabs working outside of Taiwan are just few shipments of consumables away from stalling all the time.
When Russia attacks Ukraine, the 3rd world is fucked.
When China attacks Taiwan, the 1st world is fucked.
The entire humankind's power consumption is completely microscopic in comparison to any natural weather phenomena.
We are 0.0000000000001% of energy the Earth dissipates.
The entire premise that Germany is "mortally reliant" on Russian gas is plainly wrong.
Double digit of gas Germany imports ends up as its electricity exports. Only 20% of the gas actually goes to the industry.
They eventually made a CMOS sensor development from scratch
https://m.dpreview.com/news/1885231343/sigma-releases-update...
They are really dinosaurs of electronic imaging. Sans Sony, I can say ALL sensor makers from the dawn of the era died off, or were sold/resold a million times.
Perl already had python2->python 3000 fiasco before python: PERL6
Who in this day, and hour tries to make an OS as a commercial product?
Germany needs to stop exporting electricity.
Most of export electricity comes from gas turbine topping plant which work during high EU electricity price times.