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by commandar 12y ago
>Let's not kid ourselves what the Russians are really doing. This is basically trolling on an international government scale. Putin certainly doesn't believe Snowdon is a freedom fighter, and his actions around support for Snow
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by commandar 12y ago
People have looked at it, but I think the general consensus is that there's not enough surface area on the airframe to generate enough electricity to make a significant impact. Depending on the exact motor+prop setup, peak draw of betw
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by commandar 12y ago
A fixed wing can also generally run its single motor at lower power most of the time, which contributes as well.
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by commandar 12y ago
It's not just resolution. The MBA also has a TN panel with relatively terrible viewing angles.
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by commandar 12y ago
>On the other hand btw the Air is a lot cheaper. Than the Pro, yes. It's about the same price as other ultrabooks with 1080p or better IPS displays, though, especially if you bump up the e.g., RAM. Basically, I'm not willing to
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by commandar 12y ago
Meanwhile the Air continues to put along with what is one of the worst screens in the ultrabook segment. It's frustrating. The Pro is bigger than I want and honestly higher specced than I need, but the MBA's screen would be a huge
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by commandar 12y ago
A valid contract can't compel one of the parties to engage in illegal activity, can it?
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by commandar 12y ago
>Don't police helicopters usually have thermal / infrared cameras? There's very little chance this drone had an infrared camera, correct? The one in question more than likely used a normal visual spectrum camera. Cheap, re
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by commandar 12y ago
Derp, you're right. It seems I can't English this morning. :)
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by commandar 12y ago
>more<esc> bi much <esc> Don't you mean "bcw"? ;)
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by commandar 12y ago
I'm in a field (healthcare integration) where vendors constantly break spec or handle things in a quirky manner. The actual code I work with is fairly straightforward and easy to understand functionally. I can understand the what of
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by commandar 12y ago
It's not just the low resolution - it's also a TN panel. It's just a terrible display compared to almost anything you can find in an ultrabook in the same price range these days. Which is a shame because I really love everyth
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by commandar 12y ago
I touched on it upthread and the wiki very briefly mentions it, but politics killed the F-20. It essentially ended up being a direct competitor to the F-16 which the USAF had already selected as its light fighter. The USAF wanted the F-16 t
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by commandar 12y ago
No need to be defensive. I was just clarifying for others reading. EDIT: Now that I look at the OP article more closely, it appears you may have conflated the F-16 CPFH quoted in the article as representing the F-35 CPFH. I don't see m
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by commandar 12y ago
Your article touches on just where it differentiates from those options, though. >Comparatively, Scorpion offers speed over the twin-turboprops and simplicity versus the trainers, which are structurally optimized to withstand high G forc
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by commandar 12y ago
FWIW, those F-35 numbers are flat out wrong. http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/usaf-estimates-f-3...
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by commandar 12y ago
>The F-15 is 42 years old, and yet its still being built, still being upgraded, still being sold and still kicking ass. The problem isn't that the designs are old. It's that the physical airframes are old. The entire F-15C fl
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by commandar 12y ago
It's still better than the reason why modern browsers like Firefox and Chrome adopted the absolutely terrible backspace-for-back shortcut: because someone on the IE team decided to do it 20 years ago, probably because it was a shortcut
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by commandar 12y ago
> (although no one's going to fit a GAU-8 onto anything but the A-10 airframe I suspect). Depending on the flight characteristics and just how strong the airframe is, it's possible it might be able to carry a GAU-13 gun pod,
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by commandar 12y ago
Nope. That's why I said it's not a direct replacement. The A-10 can carry a larger payload than the entire dry Scorpion airframe weighs. But it fills the slot better than the JSF which is just plain too fast a design to fill a loi
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by commandar 12y ago
The F-20's problem was that it was directly competing with the F-16 (and in some ways actually outclassed it). It was always intended to compete mostly for the foreign export market. The problem was that the USAF had already selected
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by commandar 12y ago
I'm really a fan of this thing as a potential replacement for the A-10C since the USAF is hellbent on retiring the Hog. It's not a direct replacement, but it's a better fit for the role than the F-35 would be and the things
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by commandar 12y ago
The anonymization rules for PHI are strict enough that it would make a lot of the interesting mining you could do difficult if not impossible. Specifically the restrictions related to dates and locations.
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by commandar 12y ago
>Lockheed first learned how to game congress with the B1B (another useless plane). Well, except that the B1B was manufactured by Rockwell who have since been absorbed by Boeing.
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by commandar 12y ago
The problem isn't just that the F-35 is multirole but is trying to cater to the various quirks of multiple services. I mentioned it upthread, but an example of this is the very shape of the aircraft was determined in large part due to
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by commandar 12y ago
A lot of what's made the F-35 such a disaster is the Marines' obsession with VTOL/STOVL capability. That requirement and the desire for commonality between the A/B/C models meant that all F-35s had to be designed
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by commandar 12y ago
>I have a friend with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. In recent years several studies have found a potential connection between Hashimoto's and celiac disease (it is still being actively studied, and the link is not conclusive), and s
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by commandar 12y ago
Those can be understood from a high level point of view in a few minutes time. I've sat through multiple classes that have done just that. Java is so deeply OOP that there's just no way for somebody to grasp and understand the con
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by commandar 12y ago
>This is the same reason I dislike Java as a teaching language: having to tell people "don't worry about what public static void main(String[] args) means just yet" when teaching "hello world" isn't a great
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by commandar 12y ago
I think you also need to account for stopping distances and acceleration. A bike can stop in far shorter distances than a car can (and will be travelling at a lower speed in the first place). Bikes are also slower to accelerate than a car.

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