I am assuming that "morally...outdated Soviet-made air defense systems" is a translation error.
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The assembly was unusual because it did not rely on a standard miniaturised detonator, typically a metallic cylinder, the source and two bomb experts said. All three spoke on conditions of anonymity.
Without any metal components, the material used to trigger detonation had an edge: like the plastic explosives, it was not detected by X-ray.
Upon receiving the pagers in February, Hezbollah looked for the presence of explosives, two people familiar with the matter said, putting them through airport security scanners to see if they triggered alarms. Nothing suspicious was reported.
So apparently all these airport X-rays I've been doing since 9/11 don't stop explosives after all?
I'd kind of assume that Russia has already had access to Leopard 2s via one route or another -- they're widely-available, though as the article states, there might be something specific to this configuration that might be new.
Both links load okay for me here (albeit two hours after you commented, when I saw your comment).
Those guys do a dramatically cleaner wiring job on a one-use suicide drone than I do on my own computer hardware.
In less extreme times, the US Forest Service routinely blows up carcasses of fallen horses – after removing horseshoes to minimize the hazard from flying metal debris – to prevent gatherings of ravenous grizzly bears that frequent Wyoming’s open spaces.
It probably doesn't make economic sense if the carcasses are in hard-to-access locations, but it is a little unfortunate that the hides can't be used.
Back in World War II, bomber jackets were made out of horsehide leather, because it was very tough and durable, and because there were lots of horses in use, so there was a ready supply.
But today, there are far fewer horses around. They've mostly been replaced by motor vehicles for transportation or farm work, so horsehide is in scarce supply. As a result, if you want an actual horsehide bomber jacket, it's pricey. It's more common today to use cowhide for leather stuff.
I haven't looked at the numbers, but I expext that while RTGs are simple and reliable, that they aren't cost-competitive with nuclear reactors per unit of energy generated.
From memory, we have actually used them on Earth in a few situations where we need a very long-lasting, albeit very limited in quantity, source of power, like remote, unmanned lighthouses that aren't connected to anything.
Also, I don't believe that, at least with the ones I've read about, one can control their power output. It's just a container of some material that's got enough passive radioactivity to stay warm enough to generate some electricity.
I think that there's a legitimate place for all-in-one "smartphone" SoC PCs. You can make them cheaper, smaller, and use less power.
It's just not really what I want for myself in a PC. I want the modularity and third-parties competing to provide components.
But I am pretty sure that there are plenty of people who don't care about that.
There has to be enough scale to support products like that, though. SoC systems might cannibalize enough to make scale hard.
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Well, we'll see where things go.
If this is you, then build your own home server.
While I don't disagree, there's also a very considerable cost difference here between running locally and remotely.
If a user sets up an AI chatbot, then has their compute card under average 24/7 load of 1% -- which would require averaging, say, a daily session for an hour with the thing averaging 25% of its compute capacity during that session -- then the hardware costs for a local setup would be 100x that of a remote setup that spreads load evenly across users.
That is, if someone can find a commercial service that they can trust not to log the contents, the economics definitely permit room for that service to cost less.
That becomes particularly significant if one wants to run a model that requires a substantial amount of on-card memory. I haven't been following closely, but it looks like the compute card vendors intend to use amount of memory on-card to price discriminate between the "commercial AI" and "consumer gaming" market. That permits charging a relatively large amount for a relatively small amount of additional memory on-card.
So an Nvidia H100 with 80GB onboard runs about (checks) $30k, and a consumer Geforce 4090 with 24GB is about $2k.
An AMD MI300 with 128GB onboard runs about (checks) $20k, and a consumer Radeon XT 7900 XTX with 24GB is about $1k.
That is, at current hardware pricing, the economics make a lot of sense to time-share the hardware across multiple users.
Mount Olympus is the highest point in Greece.
Denali, Alaska is the highest point in the US, and Mount Whitney, California the highest in the contiguous US.
Context:
Youtube: M1 Garand ping compilation (the sound created by an M1 Garand when ejecting the clip)
This is that website with that colored speedometer-style speed indicator, right?
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Yes.
If browsers actually permit a webpage to create national security issues, I'd think that Russia's probably facing larger problems than that particular site.