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by euler_angles 6y ago
Ah, yes, so I was. Sorry to sow the very confusion you're trying to obliterate.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
I recently tried to use pdoc on a system that can never have internet connectivity. Looks like pdoc implicitly expects internet connectivity because it wants to get at a bunch of .js and css files online. Did I just overlook something? If t
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by euler_angles 6y ago
We aren't allowed to use VGA because it's vulnerable to being sniffed. Everything has to be hdmi or display port/mini display port
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Make your own social media service, they said. Where does this end? What's the endgame?
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by euler_angles 6y ago
We still do, but it's rarely used in my experience.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
The F-35 is to replace some F-15Cs, the legacy Hornet (F-18 A/B/C/D) and the A-10. The F-15Cs are all pushing 40, Hornets are 30+ and because they're used by the Navy they're used hard, the A-10 is totally obsolete,
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Not sure who bills it as "fighter jet to replace all fighter jets" but that's certainly not what the Operational Requirements Document for F-35 says.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
The DoD has done a lot of simulations (some for the purposes of higher fidelity, but that's definitely not the only reason), but this is the first time it's truly tried to fold a simulation into the formal acceptance of an air veh
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Ah, my mistake. Shame to put that much effort into putting something on film and have it look so awful that you think it must be CGI
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Yes, I'm aware, I followed the Alpha Dogfight trials closely. If anyone else is wondering, they used a 3000 foot cone with point at the nose of the simulated aircraft, any time the enemy got within 3000 feet and 1 degree of the boresig
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by euler_angles 6y ago
There was (bad) CGI of an X-35B in that movie. Real F-35Bs don't have an internal gun, and if they did, the guns wouldn't fire from the intakes, and if the aircraft took a large chunk of concrete directly into the LiftFan it would
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by euler_angles 6y ago
...And yet it has served in actual combat with the US, UK, and Israel. Do you really think that an aircraft not meant to do something would be fielded by those nations and used to do that very thing? And of course the program has politica
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by euler_angles 6y ago
The direct lift system of the Harrier is simple but not robust. Turbines hate ingesting hot gas, and a Harrier in a descending hover is descending straight into its own hot exhaust. This can and did cause "pop stalls" which led to
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Oh this is far from a weird theory. I've spoken to people who worked on the program during the fly-off in 2000/2001 and every single one of them say something like "We would never have chosen the Boeing entry because just loo
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by euler_angles 6y ago
To give a serious answer, as in a stealthy animal that stalks its prey unseen until the final, decisive moment and then can exit the situation with haste.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
In case someone reads this comment and wonders what the actual names of this aircraft are: The official name is the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. It comes in three variants: * F-35A (Conventional TakeOff/Landing - CTOL) * F-3
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Simulators are used quite regularly to practice combat tactics! In fact, that's one of the intended uses of the Joint Simulation Environment that the article discusses. DCS's missile simulation models are so far from the real thin
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by euler_angles 6y ago
I'm really surprised on a forum like HN that there isn't more questioning of what the Joint Simulation Environment is really supposed to do and why the development of a simulation should hold up the full production of a tactical a
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by euler_angles 6y ago
A-29 was being looked into and the US even had a couple (I saw one up close once) but a diplomatic tiff with Brazil (home of the Tucano's manufacturer) about a decade ago meant that the whole effort was CANX
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by euler_angles 6y ago
I could easily flip the question around: Who are these people both smart enough and dumb enough to work at FAANG companies?
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by euler_angles 6y ago
> My understanding is that if you take away the stealth aspect the F-35 is a sluggish fighter bomber that would be outperformed by most 4th gens. Considering an F-35 is nearly the price of 10 4th gen fighters the choice to "upgrade&
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by euler_angles 6y ago
>I have no idea what happened here – why some people decided to use a code that was, apparently, written to protect people from sexism, violence, racism, and intimidation, in this way. "I didn't think the leopard would eat my
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by euler_angles 6y ago
This kind of positive assertion handover of control is still standard for very good reasons.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Our modern world is so tightly coupled that lots of us are working in professions where mistakes can cost lives.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
I see now. Thank you.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
I'm sorry, the double negative there is making it very difficult for me to parse and understand the distinction you're pointing out.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Many tactical aircraft to this day use their fuel for the same purposes. I know the F-35 uses its fuel as a heat sink. The F-35B variant specifically uses fuel as the hydraulic working fluid (aka "fueldraulics")for much of the wor
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by euler_angles 6y ago
I am a parent and I can confirm. Most of my 4 year old son's toys were purchased for him by grandparents, friends, etc. We've bought almost none of them. We have bought him a lot of books and good second-hand clothes.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Seems like a lot of people have converged around that. I had a professor in my undergraduate mechanical engineering classes who used a 4x rule for his exams -- he had to be able to do it in 15 minutes, we had an hour.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
There's no one simple reason, but a big contributor is compensation. Government pay for high skill professions like computer programmer, mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineers, etc is far below what good people in those fields

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