Hacker News: picsao

New comment by picsao in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

picsao — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:55:02 +0000

The problem is that the losses indicate something worse. A breakdown of doctrinal disciplin- mostly created by chronic underestimation of advesaries in the region. If Israel can pulp the proxxies that easy, iran would be easy. Thus it was not necessary to do what ukraine does- mostly keeping planes in the air so they are not bombed on the runway, rotating them among bases - etc.

Which is specified as a strategy in the doctrine of the airforce.

New comment by picsao in "Somali Law (2013)"

picsao — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 14:29:27 +0000

Actually some of hitlers suicide orders went through. Germany relief on plundering Europe until the late stages of war. Then they converted all fertilizer fabrication to ammonition. Even if Germany had won 1945,they would have starved, because actually there were no measures taken for life to continue. Still got better of then the rest of Europe they laid to waste for insanity.

New comment by picsao in "What has kept you going during a personal crisis?"

picsao — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:30:46 +0000

Routine :structure the days with little accomplishments. Also reading Robinson Crusoe

New comment by picsao in "British pound hits record low against the dollar"

picsao — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:18:37 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=404IeUzGNZ4

Best explanation I ever heard for that phenomenon

New comment by picsao in "How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is"

picsao — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:47:04 +0000

The wave was small compared to what's yet to come. And we can already perceive a rise in authoritarian governments and decline of left institutions. Putin is accelerating a declining process well underway and though we still will be here afterwards, we might not recognize ourselves in the mirror. War is to force your enemy to change his behavior by force. Putin might actually on the verge of victory here.

New comment by picsao in "Scrum Has Failed the Developers"

picsao — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:41:57 +0000

Waterfall is a constructed counter example. Nobody out side of safety sensitive fields like aerospace or the military ever used it and there it is only used because the requirements force it upon the developers. What good can a paradigm do, which basic starting approach is to define itself as counter move to a strawman.

New comment by picsao in "Military drone swarms and how to combat them"

picsao — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:55:14 +0000

Carrier drones are the ideal, swallowing cost of transport while not sacrificing amount and speed

New comment by picsao in "New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws"

picsao — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 06:19:11 +0000

Straw man, germany has physical speed limits on most of the Autobahn. Meaning the rightmost lane is usually filled with trucks, leaving one or two lanes, were the aging populations slowest drivers create a upper speed limits (usually 120). And even those struggle with those slow Netherlands caravans. Your habbits are not a borthright to be a traffic obsticle in another country.

New comment by picsao in "El Salvador Made Bitcoin a National Currency. The Bet Isn’t Paying Off"

picsao — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 06:02:04 +0000

Cryptourism nice portmanteau

New comment by picsao in "Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?"

picsao — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:41:29 +0000

War with ents is my most likely explanation, most of middle earth is the frontiers in inter species warfare.

New comment by picsao in "Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes"

picsao — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 09:18:50 +0000

The death of the open web is actually the vanishing of the self educated power user culture.

New comment by picsao in "Farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use"

picsao — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 19:51:00 +0000

The last cut in american over production resulted in the Arab-spring revolution wave and the Syrian Civil War.

New comment by picsao in "Surely you're joking, Comrade Beria"

picsao — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 07:44:47 +0000

The big leap was a disaster in all relevant metrics but propaganda.

New comment by picsao in "Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride a Bike?"

picsao — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 09:18:36 +0000

My personal assumption is that all that comes close to the rush of the animal hunting experience rewires a part of the brain.

New comment by picsao in "Scientists make a touch tablet that rolls and scrolls"

picsao — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 19:36:30 +0000

Wasn't there a fiber that stiffens under load?

New comment by picsao in "If Videogames and Apps Are Addictive, Should Designers Worry about Liability?"

picsao — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 05:09:55 +0000

All games that don't have a devs vs user-base monetization mindset.

In the end all games become what management considers a good game in its shark eats shark, one up in manipulation - world.

Then there is the fact that a inferior aiming tool (game pad) became the Togo for most modern shooters.

Its feels like a product who's producer mastered the complete mental manipulation of its user-base ages ago. Suddenly all your interests align every time and you wake up feeling used and abused while distinctly remembering having a different opinion before the good times. Gaming might just be ahead of the dystopia curve here. No wonder Yuri-industries pushes the narrative of the strong, self-controlled consumer.

You are entering the town of Rantsend.

New comment by picsao in "If Videogames and Apps Are Addictive, Should Designers Worry about Liability?"

picsao — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 04:44:04 +0000

There are open source projects though trying to cater to this.. Spring-Rats and 0AD come to mind.

New comment by picsao in "Parrots have evolved a primate-like telencephalic-midbrain-cerebellar circuit"

picsao — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 07:47:55 +0000

What happens though if you give a avian or a tribe of sign language fluent apes.. a way to write things down permanently..

New comment by picsao in "Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game"

picsao — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:39:44 +0000

Those illustrations and stories where the reason I bought SC.. Event though wc2 was just a polished dune clone