DDE

This guy would manage to find the sole puddle of water in Atacama, and still suffer a swimming accident.

Time to shamelessly plug my employer's AI survey (in Russian). Mostly because of the headline facts is that the Chinese video game visual artist market is down 70% due to automation. https://b1.ru/analytics/b1-artificial-intelligence-survey-2023/ Extra points for the name: genAIus: A Co-Pilot with Oddities.

Usually this leads to two rods, and two crankshafts, both on the Chieftain and the T-64.

Rember how Cameron got signed up for 4 Avatar sequels right away?

https://www.businessinsider.com/oceangate-cofounder-send-humans-live-venus-atmosphere-2050-titan-sohnlein-2023-7 OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation

Safer than a Pinto so long as the fuses aren't in place?

End up with an unrealistic deadline on Monday that requires working on a weekend. Procrastinate while internally whining about having to work on a weekend. Repeat.

Assuming we stick to combustion-powered engines for the sake of sci-fi hardness, which kind is best-suited for use in power armor?

https://t.me/mmmadnet/12253 And what's your biggest renovation failure?

Guess it was just having a bit of a moment.

He's site's down but he's back up and around?

The Soviets actually strapped this to a T-26:

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

The Age of Discovery in a single (Russian) map

"They see me rolling..."

Roscosmos has recently hired bots on VK. It's not an accusation I make lightly, but I've just watched two batches of space-related but off-topic copypasta show up after the mention of the Apollo landings, and I have no better explanation. https://m.vk.com/wall-203199502_91374?reply=91377#reply91377

However, unless you synch up the main computer and the brain, all the time, what you get is a cyranoid rather than the actual avatar. A meat puppet with its own mind, which strays from its puppeteer's the moment the connection is disrupted. And ethical nightmare, in summary. Easier to grow a human brain-dead and turn it into an actual, proper puppet. If you're trying to compress the growth process so much that its becomes an issue, it's probably much easier to just 3D-print the tissue in situ from cultivated cells. This could also allow you to assemble a chimera where various tissues have a tweaked genetic code to facilitate your end goals.

Oh, bummer. I never got that far.

We have Neuralink at home! Neuralink at home: https://www.newsweek.com/russian-implants-chip-brain-control-dreams-hospital-1814256

Bought RimWorld: Biotech, have you? Anyway... Cancer. Human growth isn't just restricted by nutrients, the ability of cells to replicate is also finite, and I'm really worried that by supercharging it you're going to get certain malfunctions in gene replication. That's assuming the things you grow are actually human and are not radically reengineered for such growth - at which point the growth chambers become kind of superfluous, at most providing a sterile environment in case the growth comes at the cost of an immune system deficiency. Googling "accelerated growth", I've found studies on the phenomenon of accelerated compensatory growth due to abatement of a prior dietary deficit - the specimen catch up in size but not in brain power: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040270

(4) Of course, we're assuming the disaster happened. Lotta defense and defense-adjacent types dying mysterious deaths these days.

Maybe I'm late to the oarty, but here are two questions. (1) What could have bogged their ascent even after jettisoning absolutely everything (at least ostensibly), and (2) how does composite fatigue work so that the failure occurs in the way up and not at peak depth?

Granted, such noises are not entirely abnormal for a submarine. Modern military subs are built to avoid the constant creaking of WWII examples, but they still make a noise every now and then as they contract.

Ah, the best way to protect yourself from addiction to plastic crap. (taken from a 40k VK group)