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simne
2y ago
I talked with captain of submarine. He said, in real life navigation was not reliable, so they have to go to surface and make adjustments with some classic navigation - radio beacons and star navigation. And civilian education now close to
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2y ago
Your words are near to truth. Before GPS from nearly 1950s used LORAN navigation system, with similar to GPS principles, but used long waves and have relatively low precision - about kilometer at best. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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2y ago
> You can’t just ignore his first term I don't ignore. I just say, if you are programmer you must understand, 10 years is millennia for computers, and federal level is one of most affected fields. So, if Biden don't use new tec
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2y ago
I'm from Kiev, Ukraine, and I have talks with Ukrainian scientists, and will tell shocking things. All these are semi-truth. All what said everybody on these things. Real truth is simple - we just don't know, because Ukraine is un
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2y ago
> before the pandemic I'm sorry for misunderstanding, but I sure, asked about current Trump policy, not about nearly 10 years ago. - 2000s was one case; 2010s was another case; 2020s are totally new case. And what I really seen on p
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2y ago
Also in Intel case at 8086 years, very important was large number of support chips, greatly surpass any concurrent. Examples was video chips, io chips, MMU, numerical coprocessor. At that time (8086) Intel produced even RAM and ROM chips, s
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2y ago
When making sophisticated big projects, usually weighting many considerations, not just architecture. Even more, some considerations could have more weight then architecture for particular case. Examples are good compiler/libs/fr
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2y ago
> he raised the debt by $5T last time and the proposed budget this time around is similarly raising the deficit further Could you provide links to respectable non-subjective sources?
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2y ago
For Europe you could use easy trick - 4 centers (Germany, France, Italy, UK) divided by large mountains or large water. Only exception is west Germany land border. It become early obvious, battle on mountains or coast battle are ineffective
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2y ago
Sorry, I made typo: meaning dawn, not down. But questions still same.
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2y ago
I have interest and hard question for you. Please read carefully and answer very seriously. 1. It is obvious, Trump moves lead to shrink federal govt spending and with high probability could shrink national debt and lower taxes. 2. It is ob
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2y ago
Bias, absolutely. I just know, Russia was at war nearly all ~400 years it exist, and with that "liberation" wars against all surrounding peoples, over last 200 years achieve grow of territory about 2x. So, definitely, Russia shoul
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2y ago
May be "PeopleS behind the mp3 format"? :)))) Really, I hear in early 90s, how Telefunken developed PAL TV standard (and also RGB, YUV and some other things, now you could read about on Wikipedia). - They working like Gallop - ask
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2y ago
> Firefly's Blue Ghost landed on the moon last week without tipping over > from a high level perspective I'm sure senior leaders at NASA are reconsidering giving any new contracts to IM. Truth is, all contractors rely on NAS
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2y ago
Size is important. For thin atmosphere or vacuum planet, airbag approach is optimal for small size lander, but for big size space crane is optimal. Unfortunately, at the moment I could not suggest what is small and what is big for Moon. And
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2y ago
To be more concrete, space rockets nearly all fly with inertial navigation, but they are extreme case, because most use only inertial navigation just few minutes (so all those classic gyros/accelerometers integrated errors are small en
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2y ago
As I read from book about gyroscopes, most sensitive achieve so fine accuracy, they detect daily Earth rotation and even yearly Earth rotation. But when they speaking about near zero temperatures, looks like they talking about something lik
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2y ago
> effective public spending > ineffective private production You really thinking, if private company will be ineffective on concurrent market it will survive significant long time? And you also thinking, exist some superhero, who alwa
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2y ago
> Why automatic transmissions had to be invented? To be honest, this is interest question. May be better to look from other side - why manual transmission appear? - For people, most natural way to drive was horse racing style - use whip
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We cannot estimate anything, because we just have too little information about ET life. We cannot even accurately estimate how long any given life form has existed. For example, Earth is relatively young planet, and exists planets which are
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2y ago
Please explain, what exactly you don't understand from my comment? - I have included source where you could find additional info, but sure I have not included huge number of other sources, because they are well known for people really
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2y ago
I think, this named deferred demand - people known before about new tariffs and buy really need things before new policy taken effect, so now will be some time without new buys. It will normalize in few years, may be for some markets in few
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2y ago
PPPS must admit, army/navy (including veterans care) and weapons industry are special cases, which need concentrated money to effectively function, and unfortunately they typically cannot be optimized, because already working underfund
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2y ago
Definitely, no. After Laffer, in normal open market, all government spending (equal to sum of all taxes), should be less than 30% (less then optimum, so will have gap for emergency cases). Why it is more effective to limit taxes, because by
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2y ago
And I must admit, I just don't know, may be just fine-tuning could be enough to train models to be real creators, not imitators. But may not enough. Or may be some advance in structure will give this new quality (current LLM are flat,
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2y ago
Main problem is not language, but that AI models still not creators but imitators (I mean only deep AI, like LLM, will explain). Yet I read about very simple test - just ask AI to draw glass of wine - it could draw only half-filled glass if
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2y ago
It remembers me "The Mythical Man-Month" by Brooks. And in book you will find some sources of this myth. Also I suggest to search for more recent discussions about this book, where you could see modern cases.
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2y ago
I was involved in this industry about decade, when relations with Russia was warmed after end of cold war, so could share some experience. In any case, you must understand, even on warmest times, space technologies considered as semi-weapon
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2y ago
I see this idea very promising, but I don't feel safe to upload my cv to unknown site.
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2y ago
Looks like, this is just early prototype of already known things for Amazon, nothing much interesting. Or one could consider it as Amazon officially enter Quantum race. But for MS their chip is Proof of Concept, which is implemented first t
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