nand4011

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   by nand4011 2mo ago

   The Greeks lost writing as a technology during the collapse, so the two alphabets aren't related. They just represent the same language.
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   by nand4011 1y ago

   https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594 Apparently human language conveys information at around 39 bits/s. You could use a similar technique as that paper to determine the information rate of a spe
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   by nand4011 3y ago

   The argument I've seen against their usefulness is that they only work against static militaries that don't have NBC training, and a modern military can already defeat threats like that without paying the political cost of using t
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   by nand4011 3y ago

   In addition to what the others have said, the F-35B is more properly a STOVL aircraft: Short Take Off, Vertical Landing. It can't take off vertically with a useful combat load.
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   by nand4011 4y ago

   My favorite anecdote about magnetic core memory comes from the development of the Naval Tactical Data System. https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Naval_Tactical_Data_System_i... A paper bag of magnetic cores disappeared while t
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   by nand4011 5y ago

   https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/480113/how-large... The risk of an explosion was very real, but the show claimed it would be measured in megatons, which is completely ludicrous.