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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
Starship’s tiles give it a nice look, and it’s the next-gen Starlink launcher… :-)
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
There’s also an easy fix, switch the structure from aluminum to carbon fiber…
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
I’d like to see a map showing US cell coverage that offers minimum 20 mbps rates (current bar for ‘high speed’ internet). I expect the vast majority of rural locations aren’t covered. Other countries will be far worse on average. Cell inter
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
A bit better explanation: The pit (primary) is a hollow shape that gets crushed, producing a fission explosion. The X-rays released by that are absorbed by a (highly classified) foam encasing the secondary, which vaporizes (explodes), comp
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
It was actually a reference to executive orders being dictatorial. Both BHO and JRB have referred to them that way when convenient, the used them liberally (sorry/not sorry) once they were able to. Some of JRB’s first actions were exec
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
You are misinformed.
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
Stealth has real benefits. Portable radars can only be so big. There are reasons the F-35 is being bought around the world. You should also look at how the F-22 and F-35 have done at Red Flag type events, which are as close as possible to r
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
That's the wildest hyperbole, although NK is a far cry from Russia. One or a few ICBMs from NK would likely get shot down by BMD. I hope the US response would be measured, meaning Russia and China would be diplomatically notified befor
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
Your final paragraph is a poor definition of human level intelligence. Yes, learning is an important aspect of human cognition. However, the key factor that humans possess that LLMs will never possess, is the ability to reason logically. Th
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
I like the idea of siting them underground, which completely addresses the aircraft strike vulnerability. Physical security is also easy when they're underground. Thorcon was pursuing this, but has switched to a ship-based approach. Se
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
I meant to reply a while back, I hope you run across this. You should definitely look into Julia. It’s a beautiful language, and squarely aimed at the Fortran space. It also relies heavily on JITC and GC. That’s fine for purely scientific c
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
If you read the article, you’ll find there is zero mention of skin cancer, it’s mainly concerned with GI tract, liver and kidney cancers.
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
A 2022 study claims that a combination of vitamin D supplements, Omega-3 fatty acid supplements, and (mild/moderate) exercise reduces cancer risk by 60% or so for older adults, but the same factors apply to young people as well. https
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
That is the exact value proposition of Mojo. Pythonesque (sane) syntax, great AOTC language features, great performance, memory safety, excellent Python interoperability. What’s not to like? If you think of something, contact Modular…
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
The only way to achieve C/C++/Fortran efficiency is a statically compiled, strongly typed language. Witness the effort put into Java JITC and the rest of the modern Java (and Graal) runtime. Still well short of the promised “C equ
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
>Musk is really under a lot of financial pressure Actually, not really. His Tesla and SpaceX assets completely overshadow X. Its value could shrink to zero, and he’d still be one of the wealthiest folks on the planet. I’m personally grat
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
You speak with certainty, when you clearly have little knowledge on the topic. Stealth aircraft are immune to targeting radar guided lock except at quite close range. IR missiles are better, but are generally not BVR. Also, at high altitude
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
Regardless of any “Pax Americana”, nuclear weapons have been the greatest force for peace in history. Before them, we had two devastating world wars in the span of about three decades, with over 100,000,000 dead total. Now we’ve gone over s
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
Reminding me of an old joke: Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees? So the German soldiers can march in the shade! ;-)
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
It’s not going to intercept a hypersonic missile, and I doubt it can reliably intercept a supersonic missile. Subsonic stealthy targets it should have a chance against, since its seeker is EO/IR based, not radar. I think the primary us
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
> Launching rockets is quite literally the last possible thing we need to achieve a sustainable and equitable future for our planet. I can think of a long list of other things, starting with nuclear war, that are FAR bigger concerns. Rar
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
For those wondering, 400,000 PSI is crazy. For a nuclear weapon, a 20 PSI over pressure is considered sufficient to demolish reinforced concrete structures, with a very high fatality rate. These bursts would have killed and atomized everyth
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
Fission is a hot topic, actually! (sorry, not sorry) Both the US and China have committed to fission-powered spacecraft in the near term. It’s probably the most important area of superpower space competition in the sense that it’ll enable s
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
4090 also doesn’t have ECC RAM, which makes its memory slightly faster as long as you don’t care about correct results…
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
I’m a huge Julia fan, you can take a look at my posting history. I love Julia’s syntax, and some of its language ideas. …BUT… For my personal tastes, Mojo’s lack of garbage collection, Rust-like memory safety, and attention to ahead-of-time
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
No, Lattner learned from Swift and is avoiding anything except zero-cost abstractions. Also, Swift isn’t very interesting outside the Apple ecosystem, and Metal doesn’t exist outside the Apple ecosystem. Mojo has a real shot at widespread,
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
> Single process python does not take advantage of a multicore architecture but neither would single process mojo. That is exactly not the case. The Mandelbrot demo IS a single process, multi-threaded, SIMD-enabled Mojo program that uses
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
Modular is mainly focused on improving AI related workflows as its business model. That market is easily many $billions, and I think most expect the AI industry to experience explosive growth.
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
> Have you played with Mojo? Yes. > It really doesn’t feel high level. Does Python “feel high level”? Mojo is a proper superset of Python. Particular functions may deal with low-level machine features, that is unavoidable when extract
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by ElectronCharge 3y ago
> At the end of the day, mojo's pay to play programming language harkens back to the early 90's Borland days. I didn’t address this in my other post. Modular is about to release a freely available SDK. Also, the standard librar

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