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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • That’s bullshit, it’s fun just in different ways.

    Sweden is coffee and biscuits while the US is cocaine with meth as a treat.

    The system is all over the place, it’s safe for them to be drones, but if they show any potential they get fired up the railgun of intense academics like you can’t believe, they have some absolutely incredible engineers and scientists, and as a percentage of their population it’s almost unheard of.

    The downside is after school they tend to leave for the US or elsewhere, the actual job opportunities for world-class scientists and engineers in Sweden are decent, but their yield of talent far, FAR outstreteches the economic capacity to carry them.

    They have the talent pool of West Germany with the population of, well, Sweden (10.5m, it’s tiny).














  • Meh, not nearly as configurable as linux, some things you can’t change.

    NFS beats SMB into a cocked hat.

    You start spending more time in a terminal on linux, because you’re not dealing with your machine, you’re always connecting to other machines with their resources to do things. Yeah a terminal on windows makes a difference, and I ran cygwin for a while, it’s still not clean.

    Installing software sucks, either having to download or the few stuff that goes through a store. Not that building from source is much better, but most stuff comes from distro repos now.

    Once I got lxc containers though, actually once I tried freebsd I lost my windows tolerance. Being able to construct a new effective “OS” with a few keystrokes is incredible, install progarms there, even graphical ones, no trace on your main system. There’s just no answer.

    Also plasma is an awesome DE.


  • It wasn’t artillery, it was shells.

    We had access to bat guano from islands in the pacific for nitrogen, well, eventually.

    The Germans had to develop whole new chemical processes to keep up, and they were expensive.

    Until the US entered, Germany had an advantage in number of guns, and actually shells too at the very beginning (England was not ready for a non-colonial war).

    Chatgpt, because I’m too lazy to cite real research:

    Yes, Germany had more artillery guns and shells in the early stages of World War I, particularly before the United States entered the war in 1917. Germany had invested heavily in artillery prior to the war, and its military strategy, especially in the Western Front, relied on heavy artillery barrages. This gave Germany a significant edge in terms of both the quantity and quality of its artillery.

    At the start of the war, Germany’s emphasis on artillery allowed them to fire large amounts of shells in major battles, including during the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme. However, as the war dragged on and the Allies ramped up their production and coordination (with significant help from the United States after 1917), Germany’s advantage in artillery was gradually eroded. By 1918, the combined forces of the Allies, with U.S. involvement, had caught up in terms of artillery and shell production, significantly diminishing Germany’s earlier advantage.

    The U.S. entry into the war tipped the balance in favor of the Allies in terms of both manpower and industrial capacity, contributing to the eventual defeat of Germany.