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by pigpang 2y ago
Carpet shelling or carpet bombing with kilotons of TNT beg to differ.
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by pigpang 2y ago
> So while you may see videos of drones taking out tanks, they are often tanks that have already been killed and drones come in on an immobile target, etc. Those tanks are immobilized by other drones or mines. > You would also think t
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by pigpang 2y ago
If Ukraine will win war with Russia, it will mean that Ukraine will take their place as mightiest country in the world. EU will be a good buffer for us.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Global warming can be stopped by nuclear winter only.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Supersonic missiles are very vulnerable to a debris in the sky. Instead of catching of a missile, a drone can be blown up in advance on predicted trajectory of the supersonic missile.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Exactly. "Foo" is democratic when democratic or non-democratic country does it in a democratic way.
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by pigpang 2y ago
> In Italy the current defence minister is personally earning considerable amount of money by sending weapons to Ukraine, because he's also an owner and manager of companies that make said weapons. FUD is the reason why Russian liar
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by pigpang 2y ago
When Tesla's will have built-in StarLink?
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by pigpang 2y ago
When single bug may cost millions of dollars, then Rust is cheaper and faster than Go. Google manager is not a liar.
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by pigpang 2y ago
It's possible to write unsafe and slow code in Rust.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Many games are written in Rust already, but they are not AAA games. Example: https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/chapter_0.html
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by pigpang 2y ago
Unsafe Rust is not harder or safer than C/C++. If you can uphold all safety invariants for C/C++ code (OMG!), then it will be easier to do same thing for unsafe Rust, because Rust has better ergonomic.
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by pigpang 2y ago
I.e. don't throw bad apples into bin, because they will rot deeper, but keep them closer to healthy apples with hope that healthy apples will heal bad ones. Nice idea, I like it too.
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by pigpang 2y ago
You can use unsafe code and pointers if you really want, but code will be unsafe, like C or C++.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Meta.ai requires "login with FB" for me. :-/
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by pigpang 2y ago
Exercising in hot weather requires drinking electrolyte water to avoid hyponatremia. Drinking large amounts of soft or distilled water (around 6 liters) can lead to death.
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by pigpang 2y ago
How you will calculate hash of file, when it broken, to lookup for?
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by pigpang 2y ago
It's not a legend, it's just chemistry.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Rust-protobuf is much slower than quick-protobuf or prost.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Idiomatic quick-protobuf is much faster than non-idiomatic rust-protobuf: https://github.com/tafia/quick-protobuf/tree/master/perftest
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by pigpang 2y ago
We can safely assume that approximate time needed to produce papers is t_approx = O(n), where n is number of papers. O(t_approx) makes no sense.
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by pigpang 2y ago
It's same as for everything: something is going into lower energy state, while something else going into higher energy state via some energy transfer mechanism. We are 100% sure for one side of energy transfer: both spacecraft and Sun
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by pigpang 2y ago
Even in this case, there is infinitely small chance that we are sitting so close to the beginning of everything.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Such drones are not practical in the war zone, because this introduces dependency on wires and electricity. In our air space it's no helpful. In enemy air space it's vulnerable to enemy action.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Power company can install a mesh or net over lines, to prevent sitting on them, or use another drone to inspect lines and direct a man with a shotgun.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Simple net will solve the problem.
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by pigpang 2y ago
A utility company can operate such drones without a meter, because they own lines and power.
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by pigpang 2y ago
Universe is infinite. It means, that we can zoom up infinitely AND we can zoom down infinitely, which means that space always filled with something, and this something have a temperature.
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by pigpang 2y ago
I have the opposite issue - if I want to work on a document or sheet, I open it in LibreOffice, because it is intuitive to use for me. I use office rarely, so I have no time to memorize how to use MS Office properly, while LibreOffice can b
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by pigpang 2y ago
Red scotch tape over door handle is much easier to apply or replace.

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