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by seriesf 7y ago
Just to be clear on the terminology, the weapon we are discussing _is_ "a fricken hellfire missile".
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by seriesf 7y ago
I was mostly lampooning the threat model implied by base-model Hyundai with 4-inch solid steel roof, but why can't an MQ-9 fire a KE weapon? Aren't they light and compact compared to the 500-pound munitions the MQ-9 is capable of
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by seriesf 7y ago
An anti-tank kinetic energy round (non-explosive) can penetrate foot-thick armor when fired horizontally, much more when fired straight down from an aircraft.
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by seriesf 7y ago
The article's assertion that a man-guided weapon would somehow be more accurate and consistent than a computer-guided weapon following a target-designating laser strikes me as needing some supporting arguments.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Or it shows that the mkl developers are aware of some obscene edge case that kills the performance of a major customer’s application. This article tested ONE thing.
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by seriesf 7y ago
The art of transferring control of property without a “sale” is already well known and widely practiced, rendering transfer taxes useless in every jurisdiction in America.
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by seriesf 7y ago
The gift of Spanner is it’s always slow, so if you start there you will naturally gain experience in either hiding latency or relaxing consistency requirements, which are both good skills.
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by seriesf 7y ago
The real “big caveat” here is to make sure that this actually improves your real workload in real life with real inputs. Zen and Zen+ have a lot of edge cases, for example their pdep/pext support is just crazy slow and how slow it is d
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by seriesf 7y ago
Being taken down by slow IO in a single cloud zone seems to implicated their overall architecture.