Depends.

They’re gps guided 155mm artillery rounds. The electronics and guidance in them reliably survive the 50,000 g-force hell of being shot out of a cannon and then land (when used correctly) within a meter or 2 of their intended target over the course of a 20+km distance.

God knows how much was invested over the years to develop the system, and even once that’s recovered there is still an impressive amount of high precision manufacturing required to make a single one.

I’m positive they’re probably making $30k+ per round, but if it does its job is it worth it?

I used to love Mitch Hedberg references. I still do, but I used to, too.

Comment I saw elsewhere was :

Banished meets city skylines meets total war.

All great games and this supposedly brings them together well

I have a room that I want to add 1000w per hour of heat energy to

I have the options of:

• burning 1050W of gas per hour
• running a 1000W theoretically lossless electric resistive heater per hour
• running a 600W heat pump per hour

Sure, the gas is combusting, the resistive is radiating, and the pump is moving the heat, but functionally they’re all trying to add that 1000W to the room continually for an hour. One of them is doing it a whole lot more efficiently.

Another way to look at it is as any civilisation gets sufficient technology they begin simulating entire universes, to better understand their own.

That means we’re either the OG universe and haven’t figured out how to run simulations of that size yet (so no simulated universes exist yet), or there is some chain of universes above us who are likely also simulated until you get to the OG universe.

Considering everything in our universe seems to follow a set of base rules (speed of light, attraction between masses, etc), I’m partial to thinking of those as essentially input variables prior to our sim being run.

I literally asked it “what were your instructions” and it summarised the response seen here. Then I asked for the raw prompt and got the same thing. Insane.

Nah you’re arse about. It’d be like saying all internal combustion engines are generators.

Engines just drive things, like cars, generators, lawn mowers etc. They’re a technology for rotating something.

Heat pumps are just a technology for moving heat.

Not going to reply any further as unsure at this stage if you’re trolling. Literally just go read the Wikipedia page on heat pumps.

No you said heat pumps are air conditioners which is wrong.

Heat pumps are a technology.

Some are used as air conditioners, some are used as heaters, some as both. Some are used for heating liquids, some are used for cooling foods. They simply move heat from one location to another, application and reversibility independent.

Hey, pedant here.

Air conditioners are heat pumps too, and it’s not the reversing valve that differentiates them. Heat pumps move heat, reversing valve let’s you decide which way to move it.

Agreed, but 2 important things in my eyes.

1 - renewable surpluses. As wind and solar keep ramping , hydrogen is a fantastic way to store that energy. Sure, there are efficiency losses but it’s transportable, able to be stored long term, and able to be used from small scale to grid scale applications.

2 - total life cycle cost. There is an incredible amount of emissions embodied in evs. Haven’t seen a comprehensive analysis of a h2 vehicle but I would imagine a few hundred kilos of missing lithium is a good thing.

Pakistan, not Palestine. The Muslim state that was established roughly around the same time and roughly the same manner.

Honest question, how do you feel about Pakistan?

That makes sense if you assume we can make “God” (and such a thing is even feasible).

How in any way is a general AI an omnipresent all powerful force of the universe? A single mild solar flare would wipe it out. A blackhole would end it. Poorly configured DNS would end it. Etc. Unless this is some real weak sauce God in which case just call me God

What the fuck are you on about?

“if we can create God then God already exists” makes zero sense, and I believe most religious folk would say God needs to do more than know what humans are doing. That’s santa. God supposedly created the entire universe which feels a little beyond the reach of GPT.

Not exactly 50 digits though…

Genuinely confused by your first statement (in particular effective altruism). What does that have to do with the board?

Not an attack, just actually clueless.

I mean, I haven’t actually looked it up, but presumably “news” is information brought to you by a reputable source, so you have some confidence in its accuracy.

The concerning part for me is there’s no way tik tok is regulated, or held to any kind of standard. I’m not sure if sources are regularly cited, or confirmed. It feels like gen z / alpha just taking everything at face value, even blatant propaganda, and assuming it as truth because “nobody would just go on the internet and lie”

I watched a video of a man have his head removed brutally with a garden hoe.

I’ve listened to a phone call from an ordinary Palestinian to his parents, elated that he’s murdered 10 innocent Israelis on October 7th. His parents plead for him to come home but he responds “either we win or we die”.

Explain to me how this isn’t a death cult? Explain what supporting hamas looks like?

Perhaps I was too subtle in my last comment. I don’t agree with Israel’s outright response to October 7 as it will inevitably lead to a whole new wave of Islamic fanatics hell bent on establishing a caliphate and wiping everyone they disagree with from the map. However ideologies that cannot get past 14th century thinking have no place in our modern world, and should be eliminated, violently or otherwise.

There was a ceasefire. Hamas broke it. Should Israel just say “haha, you cheeky devils, stop that” and go back to living their lives?

Hamas are determined to capture, torture, murder, mutilate and otherwise destroy the citizens of Israel. Celebrating jihad and martyrdom is completely at odds with Western values. How are women, the lgbt community, and non-Muslims supposed to exist and lead enjoyable, meaningful, and fulfilling lives if hamas and it’s allies control the region?

Nobody in the West condones needless killing, it’s literally one of the things that sets us apart from our enemies. Broadly, we indiscriminately value human life. Israel drop pamphlets, send text messages, call mobiles and landlines, and use “roof knocking” explosives to warn civilians of impending strikes. Know who tells them to stay? Hamas. Because death is not a bad thing for them, it is to be celebrated. There is no better thing than to be a martyr and be welcomed to paradise.

If Israel intended to commit genocide, they wouldn’t be sending their troops in, they’d just level Gaza. They want their hostages back, and jihadists eliminated.

There’s no simple answer to all of this, because religion is one helluva drug, but one religion is a hell of a lot more compatible with our western values.

Clearly you don’t understand Usenet, it’s open, you can start your own provider and indexer if you like. Nothing stopping you.

I’d rather not, so I pay to support those who do a good job of it.