engi_nerd

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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Eh, I give up. I disagree with you wholly and completely. Tired of seeing people on the internet defend obvious propaganda
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Why do you want to grow?
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
I think the US is past being "fair" with China, and I believe this is a very good thing. The Chinese are cheating in every arena with everything they've got, and being fair only plays into their hands.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Seems rather binary.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Why do you think it so automatically likely that China wins?
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
YC going into China just proves that they have no ethics and morals
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
At my company, I don't have a staff of engineers to productionalize things so I have to do it myself.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Can you please explain? Because I've reviewed those rules and I don't understand where I fell on the wrong side of them. Should I not call Chinese propagandists as I see them?
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Exactly correct. The history of the United States is marred with some horrible events. But that does not change the fact that there is a large faction within the Chinese government that views the US as an enemy and second rate power that mu
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
I've been lurking here for 10 years. For most of that time I was employed as an electrical engineer. Why should people who are interested in high quality technical discussion surprise you with their presence? "Hacker" used to
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
I heard this gem a couple of weeks ago: "Don't engineer things to failure." When you find yourself saying "I ought to be able to generalize this", that's when you need to stop and just write the code you need t
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Yeah, the F-35 is delayed. Originally, Initial Operational Capability declarations for the services was supposed to be in 2010. Now it's 2018 and while the USAF and USMC declared IOC for their variants, the Navy still has not.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
This sounds like an article of faith. Do you really want to have faith in a place that is likely ephemeral? People once had this same degree of faith in the technology corridor of New Jersey.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
True, but that's only for the F-35A. The other two variants are more expensive per copy due to their lower production numbers.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Just FYSA, PAK-FA program was cancelled a few months ago.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
To correct and expand upon your point a bit. Yes, the Super Hornet isn't just a limited upgrade. The Super Hornet is a bigger airframe. You can think of it as "what would happen if we scaled up a Hornet by about 15%?" New win
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
So why do you think this was covered up?
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
There are actually quite a few reasons.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Yup, shape is the biggest thing you can control, then radar absorbing and reflecting materials. One of the big anecdotes from the early days of stealth aircraft development in the 1970s is how at some wavelengths the Hopeless Diamond shape
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
I've been replying to you, not attacking some strawman editorial, as you put it. David Axe, the guy you linked to, has a long history of misunderstanding the F-35, like also, this piece. https://medium.com/war-is-boring
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/read-for-yourself-the-f-35-... You linked to this yourself.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
They don't know, either. They are speculating. You can't truly know unless you're on the inside, and then, you can't talk.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
> The F-22 is innately stealthier You cannot know this unless you are read in to both programs, so this is further speculation. And if you were read into both programs (or either one) you wouldn't say things like this.
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
We cannot make an F-22 right now. A few years ago, Lockheed Martin was asked how much they thought it would cost to restart F-22 production. The cost was several billion dollars. Plus, the people with the intimate knowledge of how to build
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
You got a link to any of this, or are you just speculating?
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
The size of the control surfaces was NOT changed after the report that you linked to. Where do you even get this misinformation? You yourself linked the article that I'm referring to, and you mentioned it originally. And I am informed
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
I think you are making some of the same mistakes as the author of the piece you linked to. You are not understanding the context of the whole test, nor are you reading all of the pilot's observations. Look at what the pilot says about
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
Sure. The F-35 is a "fly-by-wire" aircraft, which means that computers are required to direct the movements of the control surfaces. The engineering and mathematics here is not my area (my flight test experience lies in data acqui
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
That wasn't a trial of air-to-air combat. It was a control law test of the F-35. An F-16 aircraft, which was already being used during the mission as a "chase" aircraft for test execution safety reasons, was also used by the
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by engi_nerd 8y ago
I'm curious why Google is okay with doing more business in China, but they have moral issues doing business with the US Department of Defense?

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