Russia is finding out the hard truth that any large scale war not a grossly one-sided contest is won or lost not on the battlefield but in factories, mines, banks and sea ports. (View Post)

And this is why NVidia has been holding most their mid-range graphics cards to 8GB for years, they want LLMs running remotely on their expensive datacentre chips, not a Geforce RTX in the box under y… (View Post)

You are making the mistake of seeing China as Russia's ally. They're not. To them Putin is a idiot, but one who's stupidity serves China's purpose for the moment. The war is useful to China for a var… (View Post)

Ukraine doesn't have to defeat Russia, it just has to hold on militarily until the Russian economy collapses. No country can sustain spending 40%+ of GDP on war, particularly not one under severe san… (View Post)

The carriers themselves work just fine, within the limitations of their design. It's everything around them that's a problem. There are not enough Type 45 destroyers to reliably provide escorts for e… (View Post)