March 15, 20232 yr 14 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: boredom while I wait for things to compile. What the hell are you writing in? Assembly?
March 15, 20232 yr Thats a shame.... Quote The Russian Army Is Running Out Of T-72 Tanks—And Quickly Russia’s tank shortage is worse than some observers previously thought. The Kremlin’s stocks of its most numerous tank, the Cold War-vintage T-72, are running out fast. The worsening T-72 shortfall helps to explain why the Russians increasingly are equipping their newly-mobilized battalions with obsolete T-62 and T-80B tanks. When it comes to assessing the Russian tank arsenal, one of the best independent sources is a Twitter user with the handle @partizan_oleg. Drawing on unclassified data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and other sources, including the Oryx blog’s painstaking count of visually-confirmed vehicle losses in the current phase of the Russia-Ukraine war, @partizan_oleg estimates how many tanks the Russians have left after more than a year of hard fighting. Their assessment of T-72 stocks has changed—for the worse. In a mid-February count, @partizan_oleg assumed Russia went to war with nearly 2,000 of the 50-ton, three-person T-72s with their 125-millimeter smoothbore main guns. In the first 12 months of fighting, the Ukrainians destroyed or captured nearly 1,200 T-72s or likely T-72s that Oryx could confirm. Since there undoubtedly have been tank losses that didn’t leave video or photographic evidence, the Oryx count is an undercount. If Oryx confirmed 80 percent of losses, then the Russians actually have written off 1,500 T-72s. But per @partizan_oleg’s earlier count, the Russians had 6,900 old T-72s in storage, around a third of which might’ve been recoverable after decades of corrosive exposure to rain, snow and cycles of hot and cold. The problem, for the Kremlin, is that @partizan_oleg’s February count was off. Double-checking their numbers on Tuesday, @partizan_oleg realized that, in fact, the Russians probably only have 1,500, not 6,900, old T-72s in storage. "And many of them are probably not in good shape,” they pointed out. The recount was pretty straightforward. @partizan_oleg started with the number of T-72 hulls that Soviet industry produced in a 23-year production run between 1968 and 1991—18,000—and started subtracting tanks the Soviets and Russians either lost in combat, abandoned abroad or exported to foreign customers. That’s how they arrived at the much lower number of war-reserve T-72s. The big variable, @partizan_oleg acknowledged, is that their production data might not include the very first T-72 model, the crude T-72 "Ural.” It’s unclear how many Urals the Uralvagonzavod factory in Sverdlovsk Oblast may have produced then stored. Perhaps hundreds. Perhaps a couple thousand. But even after adding some very old Urals to @partizan_oleg’s T-72 survey, a stark conclusion is unavoidable. The Russians have lost potentially two-thirds of the T-72s that are in active service or in recoverable storage. So it makes a lot more sense why the Kremlin is pulling out of storage T-62 tanks that are even older than any T-72 is, as well as T-80Bs that are roughly contemporaneous with early T-72s. Russian industry can produce just a handful of new tanks every month—far too few to make good monthly losses in the triple digits. All that is to say, the Russians are running out of tanks. And quickly.
March 15, 20232 yr 34 minutes ago, Mike31mt said: Do you really want to talk about meeting expectations? Maybe you should review your first 100 posts in this thread before you venture down that path I'm not the one posting about a profitable Russian bank like it's proof sanctions have been effective- they have not. The West threw everything they had at Russia and it failed miserably. Not only did Russia survive the treachery of the West, they are thriving. Besides, my expectations are not official Russian policy. We're talking about the failure of the collective West's stated policy. The repercussions are immense and generational. The fiat dollar system the West has used to rob, steal and control is going bye bye. Hell, even Mexico wants to join BRICS.
March 15, 20232 yr Quote CEO German Gref said this year’s profits should be close to the record 1.25 trillion rubles ($16.5 billion) earned in the "pre-crisis year.” It's in the freaking article.
March 15, 20232 yr 36 minutes ago, paco said: What the hell are you writing in? Assembly? Java. honestly most of the time if I'm in here I'm waiting for a full build w/ unit tests.
March 15, 20232 yr 27 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: It's in the freaking article. oh, so you're taking the CEO's word about "expected" profits and here I thought you couldn't be that stupid. I should not have sold you short.
March 15, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, paco said: What the hell are you writing in? Assembly? @JohnSnowsHair uses Logo
March 15, 20232 yr 35 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: oh, so you're taking the CEO's word about "expected" profits and here I thought you couldn't be that stupid. I should not have sold you short. Isn't the entire article based on the CEO's reporting? If you expect him to give an honest assessment of what did happen, why not remain consistent and expect him to give an honest assessment of what he expects to happen in the near future. Or are you just interested in the bits you think prove sanctions worked? Doesn't matter. There's a banking crisis and it aint in Russia.
March 15, 20232 yr Because expectations and reality are two different things regardless of how far up your ass you allow Putin's arm to go.
March 15, 20232 yr 7 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Because expectations and reality are two different things regardless of how far up your ass you allow Putin's arm to go. It is in all the way, moving his lips and fingers and everything.
March 15, 20232 yr I get it. The sanctions are going to kick in any minute now. 2022 may have been just a road bump but you just wait. The elevndy twelf sanctions package targets the last remaining stronghold for Putin's regime- his gardener. That'll show 'em.
March 15, 20232 yr the West sanctions Russia in response to its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. subesquently... the biggest bank in Russia reports 78% reduction in profits gazprom exports fell 46%; overall gas production in 2022 was down 20% gazprom has not announced profit numbers for 2nd half of 2022; most analysts expect it to be zero volume of floating diesel is at its highest level since 2016, as Russia struggles to find buyers for its fuel. Russian tankers are literally idling offshore. vatnik with Putin's hand up his ass: "sanctions are a road bump!"
March 15, 20232 yr All of that in exchange for at least the most fertile and industrial 30% of Ukraine, an end to genocide of Russian speakers and NATO in turmoil- chump change.
March 15, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: All of that in exchange for at least the most fertile and industrial 30% of Ukraine, an end to genocide of Russian speakers and NATO in turmoil- chump change. Russia only occupies about 15% of Ukraine. NATO is adding two new members, and Ukraine is much more likely to be welcomed as a member in time .. NATO is more united now than it was 13 months ago. the only genocide being attempted is Russia's effort to wipe out Ukrainian language and culture. just stop dude. you're a clueless vatnik.
March 15, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, BBE said: LISP is all... LISP has been popular with college kids for 25 years.. but I've yet to see it make much penetration in enterprise software development. there are some niche applications but mostly it's people finding some contrived way to use it. Python is the only "cool" language I've seen start to get real traction in the enterprise space, and that's mostly around big data.
March 15, 20232 yr 28 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: you a fortran guy? My very first comp sci class was in fortran. That was my only time using it.
March 15, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: My very first comp sci class was in fortran. That was my only time using it. do you work in software development?
March 15, 20232 yr I learned Fortran, Cobol and Algol. This was great, as I discovered I FRIGGIN' HATE programming.
March 15, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: do you work in software development? I've spent 35 years in software related activities. 10 hard core development/design which was mostly C/C++ but some assembler and of course a good bit of scripting AND the rest in various management and executive roles. 90% of the time working with software products, mostly B2B.
March 15, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: I've spent 35 years in software related activities. 10 hard core development/design which was mostly C/C++ but some assembler and of course a good bit of scripting AND the rest in various management and executive roles. 90% of the time working with software products, mostly B2B. Like mulesoft type b2b or API integration?
March 15, 20232 yr 21 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: LISP has been popular with college kids for 25 years.. but I've yet to see it make much penetration in enterprise software development. there are some niche applications but mostly it's people finding some contrived way to use it. Python is the only "cool" language I've seen start to get real traction in the enterprise space, and that's mostly around big data. We had a friend's son over to visit who just graduated with a comp sci degree and took his first job programming in Ada. I didn't know anyone was using that anymore. Of course he's in the defense industry.
March 15, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Like mulesoft type b2b or API integration? No, more tool or middleware/stack based products. One area was network/performance mgmt for telecoms systems sold to the operators and carriers. Another one was graphics middleware and tooling for electronics like mobile devices, cameras, printers, auto digital instrument display panels, etc. (anything embedded and constrained and with a decent screen and resolution).
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