V_Terranova_Jr

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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
Sure, in a pure mass vs. mass scenario where the adversary's systems are no more advanced than yours, more mass likely wins. But this is really the only scenario in which aircraft like the F-16 or F-18 give you "air dominance&quo
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
Cold war Russia and today's Russia are two different beasts. Also, Russia's strategy of deliberate large-scale brutality against civilians to win military conflicts still motivates the drive to nullify their military capabilities
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
This is a very underappreciated aspect. The systems ( i.e. , avionics and portions attached to the avionics) would have also needed significant updates ($$$) to keep the aircraft relevant into the 21st century. It's not just the engi
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
> The F-16 actually had a carrier demonstrator, the Vought 1600, for VFAX. To be clear, the Vought 1600 (a partnership with GD where Vought took on the prime role and GD became a sub, similar to the what happened with Northrop and McDonn
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
It's a bug. Nowhere in any of the rationale you lay out is there anything about competence and active involvement/oversight on the part of the government. Neither major political party in the U.S. focuses on this, though the Rep
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
Neither aeronautics nor material science have stagnated. I doubt computer science has either.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
Extraordinary claims ought to be supported by extraordinary evidence. Those are some serious accusations you make.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
It's a false dichotomy to say you either have to be "all-inclusive to the entire world of developers" or you should applaud project leaders throwing out useless condescending rants with no real technical content like: And
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
Sounds like he's calling them out on an internet forum that they are also free to ignore. Doesn't sound like he's the problem.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
It's really more about rigor and the actual practice of engineering ( e.g. , tracking requirements and verification of implementation against these requirements, verifying systems & subsystems meet correctness invariants, etc.) mor
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
Not sure how mysterious it can be when he opens with a rant like: And the *reality* is that there are no absolute guarantees. Ever. The "Rust is safe" is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety. Never has been. Any
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
There are a number of non-starters here: 1. Efficiency counts for a lot in these aircraft, and it's absolutely possible to do better than the Olympus. In particular, high-temperature materials and engineering, along with combustor ef
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
I'm not sure how accessible this is for the layperson, but I thought this report was pretty well done: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20150015837 Also, I didn't really answer your question directly before, b
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
Everything about Boom has been dumb-shit from Day 1. From their name to their design concept. It's the kind of thing one expects when VCs are seduced by people in fields they don't understand. My view is that if large-scale com
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
@throwawaylol_ is correct. I'm afraid you're mistaken.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
It's maybe possible I2O didn't require clearances when Mudge was a PM. Certainly at least since they moved to their current location everyone who works in the building or for the organization is cleared*. Most programs themselves
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
Have you ever worked in or alongside the U.S. Federal Government? I have. It's pretty easy to pin all these unprincipled actions/inactions on deliberate lies and manipulation in service of power grabs. As several replies to you
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
You can imagine how sad some of us were when the last remaining flyable SR-71s, maintained in flyable storage by NASA Dryden for flight experiments, were finally retired for good. Here's a NASA page on them, but I haven't seen an
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
The lack of any accountability for the actions taken by the IC both prior to and in the wake of September 11, or any real accountability stemming from the Snowden revelations, should be taken as proof that the statement/sentiment &quot
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by V_Terranova_Jr 4y ago
Who would do the charging? The executive branch for whom it was most convenient for him to <pick euphemism for lie>? The legislative branch, many of who see taking on the "intelligence community" as something for which the
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
Well, that's an interesting strawman... If you want to willingly give over your personal information and privacy, which in fact Microsoft does take from you (no need to speak of supposition), that's certainly your decision to make
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
I totally agree that we are well past the point where data security and privacy need strong regulation or legislation. At least Europe has GDPR. However, I hard disagree with drawing a false equivalence between the open source community, p
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
They're not merely culture wars, they're also value wars. Both Windows and MacOS are headed toward continuous behind-your-back communication with their respective motherships. In the case of Windows, they have the audacity to sh
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
I've no doubt that significant proprietary software and games tie people to Windows. However, if a) those are not core to your desktop OS use, b) you care about privacy and your OS not doing a lot of external communication behind your
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
Which one(s) of these would you want me to explain?
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
> An undergrad degree is no longer a good investment. In any field, or just for people that want to develop software?
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
As much as I wish you were wrong, from what I see in avionics, I suspect you will be right. Many of the companies developing these products simply do not pay enough or have a suitable company culture to attract top-quality software develop
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
The current batch of commercial supersonic aircraft companies will fail (commercial hypersonic aircraft even less credible). There is a big bubble in commercial launch. "Urban Air Mobility" is another bubble. The problems we have
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
Random tidbit: Robert Williams, the DARPA PM for (at least some of) this, was also DARPA's PM for NASP.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 5y ago
It's definitely a bubble, not sure of the "mother of all aerospace bubbles". Small launch might be the "mother of all aerospace bubbles". Another aerospace sector that is not credible is the current batch of comme

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