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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

in eastern nato countries there is logistical problem because army suddenly switched from 40 ton tanks to 70 ton tanks, for example, and old bridges or rail can't support them. this is just one of many small examples that add to that problem, and of course 99% of the time the stronger bridge will be used by civilians

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago

helical antennas work fine too and look goofy as hell

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i've used the same (800ml can) and this one works well. cookie tin is 15cm dia 8cm tall and it works, but size can vary a bit. you can copy or scale slightly designs of 13cm band antennas

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

wait i thought for some reason that pringles can sized waveguide would have cutoff frequency above 2.4ghz. nevermind, there's something better because bigger aperture can get you more directivity like this https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/cup.html i made two out of cookie tins and it works over 500m at least

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

pringles can is too small for 2.4ghz cantenna, you need 10cm-ish diameter can or shorter 16cm-ish can

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

about #1, not only this makes number of potential leakers higher (intentional or not - by opsec failures) but also this narrows down number of loyal, reliable people who also won't fuck up the job real fast

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 25 points 1 month ago

there shouldn't be billion dollar startups

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago

if someone is so bad at a subject that chatgpt offers actual help, then maybe that person shouldn't write an article on that subject in the first place. the only language chatgpt speaks is bland nonconfrontational corporate sludge, i'm not sure how it helps

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

in one of these preprints there were traces of prompt used for writing paper itself too

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

maybe it's to get through llm pre-screening and allow the paper to be seen by human eyeballs

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

nah, what happened is that they were non-psychotic before contact with chatbot and weren't even usually considered at risk. chatbot trained on entire internet will also ingest all schizo content, the timecubes and dr bronner shampoo labels of the world. learned to respond in the same style, when a human starts talking conspirational nonsense it'll throw more in while being useless sycophant all the way. some people trust these lying idiot boxes; net result is somebody caught in seamless infobubble containing only one person and increasing amounts of spiritualist, conspirational or whatever the person prefers content. this sounds awfully like qanon made for audience of one, and by now it's known that the original was able to maul seemingly normal people pretty badly, except this time they can get there almost by an accident, getting hooked into qanon accidentally would be much harder.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No. Barrels of API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) are mostly hauled from India or China, then formulated into pills or whatever, this goes especially for generic medicines. There is some american manufacture of APIs, but these tend to be on more expensive side (biologicals or small molecule drugs under patent). Inputs for these APIs also tend to be made in India or China

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