Basically the same way, but instead of absorbing gasses through the air, it’s through the water. They don’t have stomata (air holes) that are found on plant leaves that exist on land and I believe they can absorb carbon directly through their cell walls.

The reset/boot part of the SEA-PICRO uses 4 MOSFETs, so that makes it a little more sensitive to ESD and short circuits. Covering it with something would be good since keyboards can move around more, are subject to more abuse and people who have hobbies like this are more likely to have bits of metal (or screws) on their desk.

I would generally agree with you about the exposed pins not being and issue, but for this application, a little more protection will go a long way.

What about if he buys fence gates with that fake money?

Bill Gates Gate Bill-gate.

Damnit. I’m thinking about it now. Make it stop.

Electrical tape is a pain. It will work, but it’ll age and either get nasty-sticky or the adhesive will degrade eventually, still leaving a layer if nasty stuff on the MCU. It’s a crap shoot, depending on how it it was made.

Kapton tape (maybe?) or a 3D printed cover would be better.

If you want something permanent, some potting epoxy would work wonders. It’ll be messy and more expensive, but it won’t budge. Ever.

The last option I could think of that would be between tape and epoxy would be some common silicone sealant. You can get it clear, black and white colors easily. It’ll be a hair messy, but you can peel it off later.

I have basically stopped using electrical tape for electronics work unless I really don’t give a shit. At the end of the day, anything that would prevent a short between the pins on the MCU is a win.

I found that gem as well.

Ditto. I was in an unlucky block of dynamic IPs from my ISP once. Not only was sending or receiving email out of the question, my IP addresses were somehow part of firewall blacklists as well. I couldn’t get to banks at all and tons of random places were just dropping my traffic. It was a serious pain.

You build mobile crematoriums.

Russian use of those is contested, but it is an efficient way to deal with a problem like that. There was some media buzz about those things about a year ago or so.

The M795 projectile is about $500, so that sounds about right. Just the “dumb” shells are fairly cheap. Once you start adding guidance and specialized fuses, the price starts to get cranked up. I don’t know too much about artillery though, but the powder charges should be fairly cheap as well.

I would have to start digging to find what the real prices are, but it’s probably still in the ballpark. The real cost is in the equipment.

You really don’t know how our military industrial complex works, do you?

We are sending very little cash to Ukraine. Most of the money goes to our workers, in our country, to replenish our stockpiles. It would cost magnitudes more to refurbish our own rapidly aging stockpiles, if that can even be done at all. Explosive compounds degrade, and our missiles are even only rated for a certain number of flight hours before they have to be replaced.

Our stockpiles across Europe are a prime example of this. We have warehouses filled with different vehicles that are just sitting around collecting dust. Rubber seals and hoses are degrading and metal is rusting. It needs to get used for what it was built and stored for in the first place: A war with Russia.

Ukraine has a vast supply of resources. Not only do they supply a huge portion of the world with grain, they are sitting on massive natural gas reserves. If you think for a second that we won’t benefit from that after this conflict is over, you are very much mistaken. Did you notice how simple instant ramen prices have been increasing lately? That is one tiny window into some of the much more major implications of letting Russia have their way.

Stop screaming that ignorant rhetoric. It’s not a good look. It’s almost like you were told to parrot that line from a politician or something.

While I am 100% behind US support for Ukraine, I have mixed feelings about Israel. The only thing that country is good for is a strategic position for us in the event of another war in the middle east, which seems to always boil down to oil anyway. I don’t want to get into the political bullshit about that conflict, but I am just pointing out it’s strategic benefit here.

I dug a little deeper as well and I agree. The author of the link that was posted here just summarizes “papers” released by various security companies. It’s not quality content, but it’s a living for him I suppose. Meh.

The numbers are listed poorly and not put in the correct context, me thinks.

6.5 million documents is nothing compared to the user base of 3 billion, so that is something to keep in mind. Each number given is not clearly compared against the total user base, the total number of public documents or any other condition they listed.

Hell, I can’t even tell if my guess is even accurate. It’s really bad writing and I am not going to download the original report to find out more.

Just to confirm, I say gee lib cee or lib cee as well. Honestly, I have never heard any different.

Since the pronunciation of “gif” became an issue, I stopped caring about how anyone says anything. My pet giraffe has his own opinion though.

And glibc.

I get what you mean, but that is probably a bad analogy. Let me explain.

Just because a mushroom is poisonous doesn’t mean its mycelium living underground isn’t essential for all the plants and trees in the area. Depending on the species, mycelium can carry warning signals between different plants, boost the health of the plant, increase fruiting yields and even fend off other damaging fungi and bacteria. There is even a type that will make little hyphae lassos to trap and consume nematodes that can destroy some root systems.

McDonald’s does none of those things for humans, even in an off-handed analogy kind of way, unfortunately. It anything, a poisonous outcrop of mushrooms gives back more to its local ecosystem than a Big Mac ever has.

Fungi are so misunderstood… ;)

Assuming that everything we both are saying is false, the fact remains that Russia hasn’t hardly been able to move the lines at all. You can flash that chart you want with land gains from 2023, but it doesn’t really apply.

Russia is still an attacking force, they are still the invaders and they are locked in a slow stalemate with a much smaller force. Russia does have many more resources, so it must be their choice to have stretched this conflict out for as long as it has been going, for whatever reason. (Without a doubt, you have a long list of counter arguments and media links to the contrary. Even your boy Rybar doesn’t align with what you are saying.)

I respect the work of Mediazona to a degree, but they are open about their inaccuracies. They appear to define “casualties” as only deaths. Of those deaths, they are only counting verified ones from social media, local news and from government sources that aren’t named. If they aren’t counting a casualty in the true definition of a “war casualty”, the numbers are going to be different. (Their own estimates put true numbers of deaths around 55k in July which would put allow for a wider casualty estimate of around 165k casualties. You use the napkin math of 1:3, killed:removed from battle permanently)

“The figures we provide are sourced from publicly available information, including social media posts from family members, local media coverage, and official statements from local authorities. However, these figures represent only a partial account and do not reflect the full extent of the casualties.”

And yeah, it’s the Russian M.O. to use mass instead of quality. It’s their thing. Little value is placed on a single soldier or even an artillery shell. That concept is baked into all of their military hardware designs and strategy.

Russian army is currently routing Ukrainians in Avdiivka as we speak

Not hardly. Russian sources keep misreporting this battle. The coke plant is a great example: How many times has it been “taken”? Was capturing it once not enough? That kind of location doesn’t switch hands on a whim, btw.

The troop movements by Russia into that city are horrendous. The sheer numbers of soldiers that get turned into paste while charging into useless locations already zeroed by artillery is just weird.

A proven fact of war is that attackers are always at a disadvantage. Troop losses will be generally be much higher for any side that goes on the offense. The number 38k is just mind boggling low for the length of time it takes for Russia to take a city, especially against western weapons.

If 38k losses for Russia were actually a thing, there would be no need to increase their army size. Medvedev stated that Russia was able to recruit an additional 420k soldiers. That number is probably only about 100k, because Russia has their own numbering system for a lot of things.

Wagner alone lost ~10k prisoner conscripts in Bakhmut. Depending on the weather, or whatever, Wagner existed, or they never existed. Those numbers don’t count as Russians, I guess.

If you want a much better source of evil western fake data and propaganda, use the ISW. They also confirmed a NATO statement about Russia being at the 300k loss mark. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates

Normally, I would say that 300k is likely over-inflated as well. However, just looking at how attacks are conducted by Russia makes that number believable.

Nice. We can only hope that most of that trickles over to Ukraine. With Russia openly threatening NATO countries, like Poland, the EU needs to beef up their militaries considerably. Older weapons will naturally flow over to the Russia/Ukraine conflict from the EU as they build up a stronger defense.

With Russia on the war path, the U.S. needs to kick our military industrial complex into high gear for the time being. If the worst scenario happens and Russia makes good on their saber rattling, it will be nice to already have weapons production scaled up.

The UAW is focusing on the wrong conflict, IMHO. If Russia decides to escalate further, the Israel/Palestine conflict will probably get merged into that mess. (It’s not something I want to think about now.)

He has seen a Jeep penis. Where did you think vehicles come from?

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