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frezik , 18 days ago to 196 in Testicular torsion this mend buttcrack that I CAST EIGHT FUCKING BEARS

Fine, we'll make it three, but only if you promise not to play blue.

frezik , 18 days ago to Technology in How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

It's a no brainier, until you deal with standardizing the battery and attachment mechanisms across many manufacturers. Then figuring out the machines necessary to automate the process of removing the battery and swapping in a new one. Then dealing with people who abuse their battery and bringing them to EOL early. Then deploying all of that nationwide.

Oh, and it limits where you can place the battery. You can't integrate it into the frame, which has some big advantages in reducing weight.

Conversely, charging stations are relatively easy. You need to standardize the plug, which ain't nothing, but it's far easier than an entire battery release mechanism. The charge stations themselves aren't much more than a transformer, some high voltage electronics, and some controls. Again, not nothing, but way easier than an automated garage for battery replacement.

Charge stations were always going to be able to race way ahead in deployment timelines, and we still don't have enough of them. If we had focused on battery swap stations, we'd be even further behind.

frezik , 18 days ago to 196 in Rule

Or just, like, fucking not.

frezik , 18 days ago to 196 in Ukraine rule

America. Doing the right thing after exhausting all the alternatives.

frezik , 19 days ago to 196 in Screw you guys. I cast what I want.

These joke Calvinball Magic sets are getting out of hand.

frezik , 19 days ago to Technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

It's interesting, but the electronics are more complicated. There's a reason that everything standardized on base 2, including in Russia after the 1950s.

frezik , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to Technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

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Edit: just for future reference (because people who argue this shit aren't worth giving the benefit of a serious debate), I don't doubt one bit that the US benefits greatly from barbaric imperialist polices around the world both then and now. I take great issue with the idea that the USSR somehow got to space without its own barbaric imperialist policies. Just ask Poland, Finland, or Ukraine. Or any of the numerous peoples who had been forced to live under the previous Czarist regime, and whom the Bolsheviks did fuck all to help. Or Hungry or Czech, which played host to the incidents that invented the term "Tankie". Marxist–Leninism is a shitty drug.

frezik , 19 days ago to Technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

especially since it didn’t abuse colonialism and imperialism to do so

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frezik , 19 days ago to Technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

Yeah, they were so bad at it that they ended up in space first. Just absolutely terrible.

And rushed it so bad they didn't have fundamental tech that was applicable to a wider economy.

Their space program was callous towards both human and animal life.

Show us your proof, PragerU fan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika#Ethics_of_animal_testing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

The Soviet rocket program failed a lot, but they covered it up at the time. It's largely come out in the time since then, and it was horrific. If NASA lost an astronaut, everything shuts down and they figure out what happens. When a test site in Russia blowed up and kills over 50 people, including the head of the development program, that's just Tuesday.

capitalism was able use space technology to improve the lives of the working class capitalist parasites better than a supposedly communist system did.

FTFY.

Nah, I like my version better. The proof is the machine you're using to type this.

Also, I'm a socialist. I just don't think the USSR was very good system. There's both positive and negative things to learn from it, but the most important is "let's not do that again".

frezik , 19 days ago to Technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

Cloning stuff is good. Not being capable of designing and building your own is bad. It means you can never improve on what already exists.

It wasn't for lack of engineers. The Buran rocket's first and only flight took off and landed on 100% automation. That's not easy. But didn't build things in ways that could benefit people in a more widespread way.

frezik , 19 days ago to Technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

They didn't just buy them (although there was some of that). They cloned them outright. They had the manufacturing capability to make them on their own, but lacked the knowledge of how to build it themselves.

frezik , 19 days ago to Technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

Russian programmers are pretty good; don't underestimate them. A lot of them are focused on malware, mind you.

I don't expect Russia will make a console on par with a PS5, but they might make one closer to the hardware of a SNES Classic mini-console.

frezik , 19 days ago to Technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

. . . anything and everything to do with space.

No. Just no. Soviets had their successes, but they were bad at building fundamental tech. Their space program was callous towards both human and animal life. They were focused on being the first at everything, and tended to run with the solution they could implement immediately. It wasn't built in a way where successes could be leveraged for more successes. Nor did it build fundamental tech in ways that could be used in the economy at large.

Ironically, capitalism was able use space technology to improve the lives of the working class better than a supposedly communist system did.

frezik , 19 days ago to Technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

They couldn't have been that isolated when they were directly buying and copying western designs. The first version of Tetris was programmed on what is more or less the Soviet clone of the DEC PDP-11.

frezik , 21 days ago to Memes in AI will capture carbon through reverse buzzwordolysis

They primarily use evaporative cooling. Way less energy use, but no, it doesn't get returned.