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simne
3y ago
Plus, to slowness, troubles with JVM license. Better to use Apache-licensed LLVM, or something like it (BSD/MIT licenses).
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simne
3y ago
This is economically ineffective. You could write backend for most compilers, to target JVM (instead of pure machine codes), but result will be extremely slow. Going in opposite way is much more fruitful - for example, compiling Java to nat
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simne
4y ago
Because just about 10% of people could enjoy mathematics with current education technologies, and I think, people who enjoy programming are subset of who enjoy mathematics. This is natural limitation, unfortunately. This is not to say, some
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simne
4y ago
These talks about importance of "what it feels like to lose control of your vestibular system when you fly into a cloud", makes me funny. When it is may important or even unavoidable for small aviation to use visual flight, commer
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simne
4y ago
Wright brothers used few tricks, to make success faster, because of very early stages of flight tech. First, they spent few years in meteorological archives, to choose very special place for flights - with constant strong winds and with sig
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simne
4y ago
Huge wheels mostly for safety and for convenience. Idea, that typical landing strip is ideal road, perfectly flat and clear from garbage, like stones, but not for STOL. And from automobiles exists empirical rule - wheel could easy deal with
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simne
4y ago
Specially modified wings accept very slow flight, where typical plane already stall. For example, typical stall speed for similar planes about 70kmh, but modified for STOL could stay at air at 45-50. With some fortunate wind, could land ver
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simne
4y ago
I wonder, when somebody will make STOL plane with good per mile economy. - Now exists excellent Piper and Maule, but they have comparable small range (for modern 1-motor typical more than 1000kilometers range), because high drag coefficient
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simne
4y ago
This is because SCSI is harder to implement, but SCSI is more flexible, and ATA was not flexible enough to support first CD drives. So with first "civilian" CD drives, appear few proprietary interfaces and some used sort of SCSI.
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simne
4y ago
Hi! Write me on simne007[at]gmail, other details (contacts) could negotiate there. Thank You!
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simne
4y ago
It depend on context, for which You asking. If it to obey laws, this question of regulations of Your country; for b2b market, each industry have their industry-wide typical use cases; for internal use other consideration; for box product ot
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simne
4y ago
Or black box, so they will spend millennia to understand, what we want to say :)))))
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simne
4y ago
High energy elementary particle? ;)
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simne
4y ago
> A grenade would probably be just fine to eliminate the satellite from being useful Sure, but if You are lucky or smart enough, to use it close enough. For example Soviet satellite-interceptors spent few years and made few attempts (eac
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simne
4y ago
> The potential Military applications of the Space Shuttle were why the Soviets copied it so closely It was just impossible for soviets, to copy STS. First, they just don't have (still) anything similar to Tiocol enterprise, and can
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simne
4y ago
This was very probable for so brave new program. - Energia, unlike most other Soviet rockets, only launch to suborbital trajectory (perigee under sea level), so payload have to add few hundreds m/s speed by its own engines to stay on m
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simne
4y ago
Buran was born dead, because it was so expensive, eats all money from programs it could launch. Examples, Soviets planning space telescope like Hubble; martian sample return; long-duration heavy Venus rover. Unfortunately, Soviet non-market
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simne
4y ago
As I understand, this is not case of abstract money, but most cases about investments to clean energy, for which EU guaranteed payments. Sure, this is extremely bad, because next time investors will NOT make investments, if this will no bee
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simne
4y ago
As I understand, this is not case of abstract money, but most cases about investments to clean energy, for which EU guaranteed payments. Sure, this is extremely bad, because next time investors will NOT make investments, if this will no bee
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simne
4y ago
Definitely, no. Shuttle was designed, to make use of capacity of Morton Thiokol Inc. enterprise, which without SRB's was near 100% military enterprise (created to build SRB's for ICBM's). That time Moon program was on liquid
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simne
4y ago
This case is very likely of model "too large to fail". Last time it used, when appear high probability of recession, and govt prints money and feed them to larges financial companies, to keep them alive. Opposite to print money, u
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simne
4y ago
Wi-Fi is not good solution, because too prone to noise. Better if find something frequency-hopping. BTW I'm in Kiev, first time hear about The Stone Cross Foundation. Could You tell more about it?
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simne
4y ago
Old warm C :)))) Joking. In reality, Python and React working well, but sometimes i write chunks of C code for performance critical things, and in some cases have to use jquery, because old browsers. And K8s and Docker will definitely live
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simne
4y ago
This is exaggeration and oversimplification. From American/German high quality tubes. I've deal with old soviet tubes. They where extremely specific, You even couldn't just place new tube into device, but need to make some ma
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simne
4y ago
1+ for low resolution (up to 1024x768), because it is hard to create more than one tube in one case, because of limited throughput and charges interaction. Essentially, electron beams push off each other, so it is really hard, to create mor
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simne
4y ago
Unfortunately, this is very possible, and depends from one small country - my lovely Ukraine. Just, if Ukraine will not free territory from Russians in nearest time (somewhere between 5-10 months), Chinese tops could decide, they could seiz
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simne
4y ago
> Is this realistically useful outside of games? Really, nowhere. In most cases, human behavior very simple, just question of taste, nothing rational. Rational behavior appear, when high stakes on board. For most humans, borderline , whe
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simne
4y ago
Have not read this text, but seen hundreds before. This is dead end. At least it consumes too much energy and computational resources to give very simple answers. But really important, humans are just very simple in most cases, don't n
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simne
4y ago
Unfortunately, this question is very like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Solomon - To continue iterating through ideas, company need all saved resources, as nobody knows, how much need to achieve market fit
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simne
4y ago
Safety. Happen constant race, of good guys vs bad guys. And good guys should constantly be better to win. Greetings from Ukraine!
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