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A production rate of 2000 drone interceptors per day seems pretty good. It is quite incredible to see how fast Ukraine has innovated and set up production facilities when it comes to drones.

Thanks! I appreciate the archive link, although I think it’s OP’s job to provide it.

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The USA is rapidly burning through munitions that Ukraine desperately needs. I suspect the loss of those anti air weapons etc is much worse for Ukraine than the small reduction in drones launched at them.

Hell yeah! Great to hear that

That can only happen if we stop giving a shit about impact factors (and remove it from legal hiring requierements in some countries) and when big name PIs stop giving excuses like ‘I want my research to be read’ as if that wouldn’t happen in the journals that are more appropriate for the topic they publish in.

csv is a pretty good data sharing format, but not very well suited for spreadsheets. Just because you can shove anything you want in there doesn’t mean you should.

Both show Orban starting to rise again or at least not decline anymore :( Come on Hungarian people, you have a chance to get rid of the wannabe dictator!

Ah, I probably mixed up F-14s and F-15s

Probably just a mistake, especially likely since Iran also had (or used to have?) F-15s of their own. Still really bad communications wise.

I guess their own slop isn’t good enough as a communication platform

Wanted to test PieFed, mashed the keyboard for a bit. Turns out, PieFed is quite nice, maybe I should make another account with a proper username

Add more requirements to the contract that make these kinds of practices impossible/harder to pull off

The man who wanted to make peace in many places in the world and get a peace price for it, has decided to start yet another war in the Middle East…

So for a change a company is cleaning up after itself? That’s nice! (Not sure what’s up with the endless reminders that it’s not sharks)

So far the USA still provides a competitive funding environment, despite the budget cuts. I suspect that the increasingly limited academic freedom due to the fascist government will become the greater driver of migration.

I’m under the impression that not many people have moved yet and that it’s mostly people returning home (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, they’re great researchers too), but of course acquiring funding takes a while. We’ll have to see how it continues in the next few years.

Absolutely. Typically, the bigger the branding the more you pay for that and the less bang for buck you get. In second hand shopping I do often look at the brands though, because branded things are often better than no name items, but at the same price in that market (e.g. in kilo sales)

I think patience has already run out. It is rather a calculated approach of identifying what does and what doesn’t depend on the USA, and setting up alternatives for those things that do depend on the USA for example through trade deals (Mercosur, India) and investing in independent tech (funding open source projects, governments moving to native tech alternatives).

In the past year the EU has found out that it depends scarily much on the USA, but also that it can be more independent than expected while also having serious economic leverage.

You mean wear something generic, unidentifiable and add some body armor?

Yep, that’s the direction I was thinking. The whole point of these cameras is to track people, including you, meaning that they can track everyone in the area before and after a camera is destroyed. It seems to me that the logical time to destroy a camera is when few other people are arround to stop/witness someone destroying a camera, but that also means there are few people to track and therefore it’s easier to single out whoever did it.