Readit Newsscanny commented on Is the attack helicopter dead? hushkit.net/2024/10/07/is... · Posted by u/speckx
Can a RKG-3 in the right situation knock out some armor, definitely. But they don’t seem to be that effective vs amor designed to deal with shaped charges such as you’d see with a peer adversary.
Those shaped charges weren’t envisioned coming from directly above, especially precisely dropped on the engine or on hatches, hence the drones are hitting spots with little to no armour compared to the front and sides.
You are not addressing anything of my question. I don't care if 99.9999999% of bombs that go off are from WW2. Not every bomb that goes off is from WW2. How did they determine if this bomb was actually from WW2? Is it just an assumption or did they check something? The article did not clarify that point and just stated it as a fact.
Usually shrapnel, working out the depth at which it exploded, the nature of the explosion (recorded on video), and historical evidence of bombing.
There is a buch of forensic methods around this.
Awesome work, love to see the effort on the technical front of bringing a language into broader use!
scanny commented on Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative stopkillinggames.com/eci... · Posted by u/edd25
This is a great initiative from Ross, fingers crossed it picks up momentum.
> Society has to find a way to promote traditional lifestyles
Why?
If those lifestyles are so superior why do they need promotion? It's almost like people are not some homogenous blob, but individuals with their own wants and desires.
To be devils advocate here we also have to promote healthy eating, getting screened for cancer, or smoking PSAs. Just because something might be classified as "superior" doesn't mean that it will always self promote or be accessible.
This is one of the reasons in any real war, all the aircraft carriers will be far far away from the conflict region.
Now your average Joe can track them from their desktop for free.
That's not exactly how it works. The satellite operator will be taking paid orders to scan over specific areas of the earth, about 4km in width or so.
So you have to have a pretty good idea where the carrier is, and then you get an image delivered with some latency as the satellite will need to pass over a ground station that downlinks the data.
So it isn't free (although umbra has a CC BY 4.0 license for their data, much more permissive than other providers. Nor is it easy to search huge amounts of the ocean for the carrier.
What most entities probably do is tip and cue, which is use a sensor with coarser resolution to get an approximate location and then use a sensor with finer resolution to look closer.
scanny commented on Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward twitter.com/PlayStation/s... · Posted by u/tech234a
I doubt this is a controversial point, at least not in this crowd, but I'd love to see some good legislation around what it means to sell digital products, and how they are allowed to change or not allowed to change over time, whether they can be retracted, etc.
We see companies retracting licences for content regularly now (probably because we're 10+ years into these services being popular and contracts once deemed "long" are starting to expire), and we see unreasonable requirements being put on consumers after purchase. While all cases I've seen so far have been well within the terms of sale/service, they clearly go against user expectations, and consumers are clearly not accounting for these possibilities when purchasing (rightly so in my opinion). Just saying "that's the contract" isn't working, it's time for governments to step in and lay down some ground rules.
This has been brought up by a collective, in response to Ubisoft removing an online-only racing game from players libraries after purchase when they shut it down.
scanny commented on What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep? theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/kristianpaul
However those tools do not have the polish that ESRI kit does, but at leas you’re not paying the licensing!
- former ESRI consultant