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by thunderbird120 2y ago
Reconnaissance is a prominent role but is hardly the only thing that these could be used for. What exactly is possible is going to vary a lot between designs but with the right design you can do electronic warfare, acting as a communication
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by thunderbird120 2y ago
>I hope aviation is next. It is equally behind. SpaceX took the launch market from a niche, almost artisan thing to something which actually does volume. There is no comparable improvement to be made in commercial aviation unless someone
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by thunderbird120 2y ago
It's interesting to think that rather than being destroyed by becoming too expensive, ornamentation may have died because it became too cheap. A lot of ornamentation existed to show off wealth and status, but if everyone can have it th
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Gaudi3 is supposedly due this year with a 4X bump in Bf16 training over Gaudi2. Gaudi is an interesting product. Intel seems to have something pretty decent but it hasn't seen much of a volume release yet. Maybe that comes with V3? Not
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
I realize the whole MBA bad idea is popular right now on HN but it's worth remembering that Intel's struggles with 10nm were the result of too much engineering ambition rather than too little. The original 10nm was very VERY ambit
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
The article on VLS is also quite nice https://www.navalgazing.net/VLS
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Wasn't really very surprising when this happened. The V-280 demonstrator was running laps around the competing program (the SB-1 Defiant) in pretty much every category the army really cared about. Tiltrotors let you fly dramatically fu
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
According to the report[1] they are referencing it means people spending >30% of their income on rent and utilities. This is up from around 40% in 2001 and is identical to 2010 but putting it that way wouldn't get any clicks. [1] ht
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
News organizations are businesses and bad news sells. People are evolutionarily wired to pay more attention to bad news because bad news is theoretically useful for trying to avoid or mitigate threats. Problems is, once you have a limitless
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
So many companies from the whole 2010's tech boom just produce so little actual value per user that their entire business model just collapses once raising additional capital becomes even slightly difficult. These massive services are
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
The Houthis possess both true ASBMs and land attack ballistic missiles which have been shot at and hit ships in the past few weeks. The second can only ever work if the ship is totally stationary but these were identified as ASBMs by U.S. C
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Native speaker narrators are often hired to read exactly what is written in a script written by non-native speakers and read it they do. You see it a lot with this kind of video on youtube.
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Faster chips which use less power to do the same amount of computation, same as ever. CFETs are very much real world technology which are on the roadmaps for all leading edge fabs. They're the same as current gen FinFets and GAAFets a
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Intel is using angstroms, so their "2nm" node is "20A" and the "1.8nm" node is "18A". These of course still don't have any more relationship with the physical size of the transistors than previou
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
I think the fundamental misunderstanding here is about use case. A SR-71 successor would not be snapping pictures of static known sites where nothing is changing. That can happen at a leisurely pace which means that satellites do that fine.
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Satellites have essentially fixed and predictable orbits, are hard limited in how close they can get to targets, and soft limited by realistic payload limitations of satellite constellations. You can have an extremely high end satellite in
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
>the B-21 is an manned version of a drone called a RQ-180 No it's not. The RQ-180 as a HALE drone with no weapons. The B-21 is a dedicated bomber. Despite both being flying wings with roughly the same basic shape the airframe requir
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
It is roughly 1,200 miles from Houthi controlled Yemen territory to Israel over the Red Sea. 2100km is 1305 miles.
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
The damage is consistent with a single small-ish rocket filled with explosives, not a 500+ lb bomb. Blast fragmentation at the site caused damage within a small radius around the impact site setting fire to cars and breaking nearby windows
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
The Houthis have access to Quds-3 missiles which are an Iranian design derived from soviet Kh55s. They have a range of over 1000+ miles. https://defense-update.com/20220927_houthis-a-new-cruise-mis...
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Its hard to get a good impression without more data points but the improvements we're seeing in the A17 on N3B are not very impressive relative to chips like the A16 made on N4P. It's really difficult to see the full picture but m
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
A1Bs are not submarine reactors but I guess that's not important. If it were as simple as just taking a carrier reactor and plopping it in the middle of a corn field everyone would be doing it already. For their cost calculation that u
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Because submarine style high enrichment pressurized water reactors are both a nuclear proliferation concern due to their fuel type (i.e. much closer to weapons grade uranium than normal reactors use) and INCREDIBLY expensive. The reactors b
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
The article references the F-35A which is a conventional take off and landing aircraft (CTOL). The F-35B is the short take off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant. The F-35B belongs to the marines is capable of using extremely short and im
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
There are few air bases but many sections of highway which are long and straight enough to take off from. Targeting all of them with expensive precision munitions is totally impractical.
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Will be interested to see how this first(ish) gen of Intel's disaggregated chips pan out. I've been needing to replace my laptop and these seem like they have the potential to be extremely nice for a mid range machine with long ba
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
May have some trouble killing people with an aircraft which doesn't carry any weapons. This is a reconnaissance drone.
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Raising kids is difficult and time consuming. As people gain more opportunities to do other things than raise kids they chose to do those other things instead. It's an opportunity cost issue, not a literal cost issue. That's why t
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Well, that would certainly be an effective way of instantly and permanently killing any public support for climate change related policies.
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
You may have gotten the impression that I hate trains from my comment. I don't hate trains. I hate when people try to propose trains as a solution to transit situations they are completely unsuited for. Rail is the highest volume mass

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