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@pony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_(programming_language) ??

@piggo The curse of too smart devices.

@piggo I root for your project. How about connecting your lights? You could get an e-mail with subject "Light is now on. Enjoy!"

@piggo 😂

@rjayasinghe That relates to me indeed. Funny thing: I am not heavy, BMI cca 22. Nevertheless last year I decided to lose about 1/10th of my weight. My best times on 6/8/10km tracks improved significantly during and after that time. After all, not carrying several kgs of weight makes indeed a difference, though I am not sure if all of that was fat, I guess I lost also some lean mass there.

@pony No clue in this case, but often the idea at stations like this is that they serve as "waiting"/"train passing" places. I.e., you can park a passenger train there for a while, while a cargo train would overtake it. Or more often you can "park" there a slow regional train while a fast Intercity would speed by. No clue about this case, but sometimes you'd get a station in a middle of nowhere which serves as a spikes-hub for Intercity trains to dump/load passengers which are further handled by a a star-shaped network of regional trains which would always wait for the said Intercity train, even if it would be delayed. In such situations they designed stations at overcapacity. There are more stations like this in CZ/SK space.

@rjayasinghe yeah, that's my lifestyle too. But did you ever try to track/count calories you eat? Because if you would, you'd be surprised how energy efficient human body is. What I see there is about 300g bread, 60g peanut butter and 60g nutella. My calc says to it about 1080kCal. At the lifestyle you describe, you need like 2500-3000kCal/day. Now a fast 15km ride at 30km/h avg speed amounts to about 450kCal, which is about the same as 6km swift run at 4:10 per km tempo. So I see both those sport sessions together right there on your plate. My point is this: unless they count calories (which can be very revealing), people tend to grossly overestimate their real energy intake requirements.

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@pony On Wikipedia I read this thing has an extended effective firing range: anti-tank 3km, as a mortar 20km and anti-personnel 4km. If we focus on anti-tank operation, you said the disadvantage is that the thing is a hot sitting duck after the first shot. I don't know what is the range of IR homing systems, but 3+km seems rather far. As this can fire 7-15 rounds per minute, despite being an outdated design, I'd guess it can still inflict considerable damage at a relatively low cost before being shot down, so maybe it's not such a throwaway piece for Romanians. Think about it as operating your home server NAS on a 7-years old discarded laptop 😄 . But what do I know...

@rjayasinghe Kleiner Hunger? Is that nutella over peanut butter spread? Man, that's like 2 days of energy intake on that plate for some...

@pony meditation?

@pony Next time I speak to a land army officer I need to ask them about this. Some interesting and non-obvious developments are happening where I have a chance to look at. For instance the Dutch army by the end of 2010-ish abandoned all tanks. So there are none left. The idea back then was that 1) there is no immediate threat of a conventional war; 2) it's an outdated concept; and 3) there's a need for a more flexible special-ops force mix. Then 2014 and Donbas conflict came and the NLD land army woke up to a new reality and started to consider reintroducing tanks back - at a great cost as the knowledge and skills are being lost. Mind you, those tanks are not getting back yet, some smarter ideas came along, but the dynamics is in itself quite interesting.

@pony I am not a weaponry expert (and hope never will have to become one). What I find remarkable are the analysis of role of modern anti-tank weapons in Ukrainian conflict. On the one hand, US [Javelins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin) are seen as a significant advantage there and apparently also feared by the Russian side. From what I read about it, it's a fire & forget, so probably an intelligent self-guiding weapon. Probably unlike those Romanian things...

## Daniel Kahn: Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" - in Yiddish

I do not speak Yiddish, but this is nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH1fERC_504


@pony you are probably not following the RU-UK Donbas conflict too much, do you? It was back to WW2: two parties throwing tons of steel to each other. No air force involved, suddenly high quality anti-tank tech is **the** major tech advantage.

We always thought the next big war will be all air force, satellites, etc. Maybe not. Maybe it will be a throwback to WW2 again for some important reasons.

@piggo but now as I scroll down my feed I see you sorted that one out too. 👍

@jwildeboer Appelmoes for the masses!

@piggo ... otherwise you are running a risk of locking yourself out. Not nice. I've been there too 😵

@piggo I know. I;ve been there. As for the portforward, depending on what system you are on there, the trickery is to make it bulletproof: should survive reboots and system upgrades.

@piggo so I see you sorted the wg story. Congrats. Wireguard is a good tech, but as you pointed out yesterday, I also feel it's rough around the edges. BTW, you could have saved yourself some worries with OpenVPN alternative.