The Sun does not fuse helium. It fuses 4 hydrogen atoms into helium.
4 hydrogen atoms? Hydrogen has a single proton, helium has two. Where do the other 2 protons go?
Or does the process require 4 hydrogen atoms to make 2 helium atoms, because 2 hydrogen atoms do not have enough FOOBAR by themselves to fuse? What might the FOOBAR be? Energy? Mass?
But if it has to survive against modern air defenses that means stealth AND speed. I'm thinking of something like a supersized F-22 or 35.
The B-1 and Tu-160 have airframes designed for reduced radar reflectivity and speed. Though not stealth aircraft, it is certainly possible to take the idea further, see for instance the F-15E Silent Eagle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"We wanted to demonstrate that we could do it upside down. We had a discussion and we thought that everyone thinks of a tractor beam as people being sucked up into space.
"So we mounted the array upside-down in a cardboard UFO, and the particle gets sucked up into it."
And this is demonstrated in the video attached to the article too.,
Got me to go RTFA. I cannot believe how much the web has changed since I last saw it, circa 1998 or so!
My dream is that one day they'll risk Cassini to get a better look at this.
It's too late. That photo was from when Saturn was at equinox, 2007 or so, and therefore the Sun cast long shadows at it's equator (the ring plane orbits Saturn above the equator). Saturn orbits the Sun about once every 30 years, so you've got 15 years between equinoxes (equinoii?). That means the next opportunity to catch those moonlets' shadows at their longest, and to have the leading faces properly illuminated, will be in 2022 or thereabout. Cassini won't last that long.
The instruction set for ARM64 is a bit more like MIPS than ARM
That's not really true. MIPS has no condition codes, has branch delay slots, has no PC-relative addressing and no complex addressing modes.
I think that OrangeTide meant that the experience of porting to ARM64 is like the experience of porting to MIPS. He mentions specifically that there are major code changes (i.e. in optimizations) that need to be done which weren't necessary when porting to i.e. Thumb. Those code changes make the port experience similar to porting to another architecture altogether, i.e. MIPS.
Hey! You should go edit the Wikipedia page then! Here's what it says about machine learning:
No, he shouldn't. Wikipedia is written by people with the time to argue that their precious wording is correct, and will defend their wording and viewpoints with vigorous edit wars. Edit wars are won by the side with the most time to invest, not those with the most knowledge.
Because Martas works in the field, and did not read the information in a blog post, he will have no source to quote. As you know, "original research" is not acceptable on Wikipedia. His time is better spend actually doing something productive such as developing new ML algorithms or posting on/..
When the Shuttle or Soyuz capsule reaches the International Space Station, do they just kinda press up against the ISS and open the hatch? No.
You may have just stumbled upon the reason that the Tesla uses a touchscreen. The SpaceX Dragon 2 pilot and command centers are touchscreen-based. Not only does this save (almost literally) a ton of weight, but it also permits better egress to the relevant seats and fold up when not needed. It is a genius design - iff using a touchscreen is as good an experience as using a 'real' control panel.
Perhaps the Tesla uses the touchscreen to beta-test touchsceen UI decisions that are to be incorporated in the Dragon 2.
I lump all Israelis together because the situation in Syria is important to all Israelis. Whether you are a Druze on the Golan Heights, or a Muslim tech worker in Tel Aviv, or a Jewish scholar in Jerusalem, or a Christian metalworker in Haifa, the conflict in Syria might one day suddenly spill over into your daily life.
This perspective hints that the role of the Moon and plate tectonics in the formation of life is overrated.
I'm not sure about plate tectonics, but the role of the moon was, so far as I understand, to allow _complex_ life to develop. A few self-replicating proteins don't need stable seasons and tides, but eukaryotes and multi-cellular life do benefit from the repeating (and replenishing) energy gradients.
Thank you for commenting. I understand that oceans were significant only at the end of the Hadean, 3.8 Ga. The moon I'm not sure about other than the fact that it was also formed during the Hadean. Plate tectonics though, from what I understand, only started after 3.8 Ga along with the oceans.
If the oceans and plate tectonics, along with the differentiated interior, did in fact develop 4.4 Ga, then why is the period that we call Hadean said to have ended only at 3.8 Ga?
Yes, half a billion. Thank you. I was trying to put the discovery into perspective, and this correction shows just how hard it is to grasp the vast time periods involved.
Note that 4.1 Ga is right in the middle of the Hadean period, when the Earth was still settling into layers and the crust and oceans were just forming. No distinct core or mantle yet, and the moon was a ring of rock encircling the Earth. This is half a million years before plate tectonics, before even prokaryota (micros without cell nuclei) developed.
These clues might just tell _how_ cellular reproduction and upwards energy gradients (i.e. life) began, not just _when_.
Most phones don't have this function due to privacy concerns, and if they do, such records are (or at least, should) not be available to the general public to query.
Actually, most Android phones do have this feature enabled by default. If you know somebody's Gmail credentials (I've guessed dozens of them myself for people that I know), then you can get the current location of the device associated with that account, and their entire past history!
Then you've never studied history, nor do you understand how humanity functions.
Furthermore, there are those who say that the war in Syria was caused by climate change, the very threat that the seed bank was designed to protect against.
In fact, how would a climate-change caused armed conflict look like? Would it be obvious?
Though I firmly believe in human-accelerated climate change, I thought that the loonies who claimed that the Syrian conflict was cause by it seemed to be looking for problems to pin on climate change. However, I'm now starting to think that it's partially possible. Syrian demographics took a sharp turn in 2005-2007 when drought pushed a lot of the rural communities into cities. Now, we have overflowing cities and less food in them. This was known at the time, I remember about 2007-2008 there was talk about this possibly causing discord in Syria, which us Israelis take seriously, especially as it was only shortly after our 2006 problems with Lebanon. Sure enough, war in Syria broke out. Now, the "real spark" of the violence was in Daara a few years later due to political oppression, but things had been simmering for years and during that time the drought did not abide by much.
Did climate change cause the drought? Maybe. Did the drought move people into the cities? Yes. Did the drought mean that less food was available? Yes. Did less food and crowded cities mean that people were more willing to oppose their oppressors? That might be a long stretch, but it's plausible.
By the way, the _current_ war in Syria has nothing to do with the war that started in Daara. But it was an evolution, I personally place the border between the two stages of the conflict when the Libyans started going to Syria to fight.
Thank you for the well-informed response. You'll find that I agree with almost everything that you say!
In the case of Gaza, you also have 13 year old boys getting shot dead for throwing a rock at a truck
No, you don't. You have 13 year old boys throwing rocks at trucks, and you have 13 year old boys getting shot, but you do not have 13 year old boys (or anyone else) getting shot for throwing rocks at a truck. The times that I know of people getting shot for attacking a truck were when using slingshots (The Muslims call this "throwing" but it adds an order of magnitude more energy to the projectile than does a normal hand throw, in Hebrew as in English we have a distinct word for it), or when throwing from an altitude, such as from a cliff or building. In both cases there is real danger of harming the occupants of the vehicle. Of course, that is the intention. People who "just throw rocks at trucks" are usually welcome to throw rocks at trucks all day long. The rocks do some damage (mostly to the glass - armored glass is rather fragile) but that is no reason to go hurt somebody.
armed Jewish settlers burning down Palestinian houses with the families still inside
The incident that you are referring to was one of the most disgusting incidents of violence that I recall in recent time. A group of Jews entered a Muslim village and burned a house, killing a baby and I believe another family member died from wounds sustained in the fire late. As an Israeli, I am ashamed to have to say that my fellow countrymen would even think of burning someones house, someone they do not know even, because that "other person" belongs to "that group" of whatever. There is no excuse, this incident will stand out for decades as a black mark on our history, as it should.
by the way, these Palestinians are not allowed to own guns but the settlers are armed to the teeth and they want to loosen gun restrictions even further, and the settlers have military training due to mandatory service
You are correct that the Muslim citizens of the West Bank are not allowed to own guns, but the Jewish citizens are. Don't think for a minute that this means that they are unarmed, though. Many Muslim families have a firearm, usually an old Kalachnikov or Kalach copy that has only been fired at weddings, and ammunition is scarce. But the weapons do exist and there really isn't anything that we could do about it. Note that many Muslim citizens outside the West Bank do have firearms. That is part of their culture just like it is part of American culture to possess a firearm. A lot of them work in the fields, a lot of them work in security, and a lot of them have other reasons for owning a firearm. These are mostly hand pistols, though, not rifles. They have _too_much_ ammunition, at every wedding they fire without regard for when the bullet lands, though injuries are rare.
and tearing down of people's homes and sources of income when a member of their family commits a crime.
This is a terrific point of contention. Like you, I also feel that entire families should not be punished for what a single family member has done. I know for a fact that most terrorists are _not_ supported by their families and that their families condone the actions. That said, the threat of having the house torn down is demonstrably preventing attacks. I hate the practice, but I've come to accept it. Just as the family of the murdered victim suffers due to the loss of the family member, this practice threatens suffering on the family of the would-be attacker. I wish that other methods would work, really I do, but this is an effective method for _preventing_further_attacks_.
the whole Israel/Palestine situation is effectively an occupation, whether right or wrong
I know that the anti-Israel side likes to use the term occupation, but the situation is more complicated that an occupation such as that done
War needs to have a human cost because that is the only way to have a political cost. Without that political cost it becomes way too attractive a tool.
As an infantry soldier, I 100% back this assertion. But know that some organizations use the political cost itself as a tool. Just look as Gaza today: The Hamas declared a "day of rage" due to, of all things, many Muslims getting killed _while_they_were_stabbing_Jews_. What do you think will happen to their followers during this "day of rage" (today) who throw molotov cocktails and slingshot lead at Israeli soldiers? And then the Hamas back their cause with the claim that we used "disproportionate force".
War is messy. Avoid it at all costs. And when someone tells you to go get killed (throw molotov cocktails and stab people) for a cause, avoid them as well.
Actually, I think bad weather is one of the places where automated cars will make a very positive impact on safety. We already have a limited form of this technology with things like anti-lock brakes, traction control, stability control, etc. If you've spent your entire life driving cars with these safety features, they probably feel normal to you. But, as the article suggests, once you come to rely on these features, you lose your ability to handle the vehicle safely in the absence of them. Have you ever pumped your brakes to prevent skidding? Do you know how to steer out of oversteer? Can your brain detect these conditions and react to them before you are in a dangerous situation? For most people, the answer is "probably not".
Every winter I go out skidding alone in my car to hone those skills. I'm driving a FWD Ford Focus now so it understeers, but I do pull the hand brake to play a bit and practice.
Three years ago I drove on snow for the first time while visiting Tromso. The minute we got the rental car I took it out skidding and my friend in the passenger sear was terrified. However, on the last day of our trip I was rounding a roundabout when I lost traction at about 15-20 KPH and almost understeered into a lake. I managed to steer off the road and regain control. The passenger didn't even know that I had lost control, he just perceived that I was driving off the roadway. Snow is _slippery_ and I have only my few minutes practicing skidding to thank for saving us from an icy swim that day.
Sadly it's been almost twenty years since I've driven a car without ABS, and I do wonder how I would handle an ABS failure. My terrible Ford Focus has single-channel ABS and rear disc brakes, so the ABS kicks in even in normal driving conditions, sometimes even in the dry (even with the wife driving). At least I've gotten a fair bit of practice in _obstacle avoidance_ with the increased stopping distance when that happens, but it is unnerving when that happens approaching a crosswalk with pedestrians.
But how can we use this technology to encourage women to join STEM fields?
Actually, I've dated women who speak like a Markov-Chain generator in conversation. I'm sure that they would provide valuable contributions to this project!
It may have been generated via "AI" techniques, but the results are little if any better than a simple Markov-Chain text generator, of the kind I built back in the 80s with my programmable calculator... and used today to generate spam emails.
I am the author of the article, the submitter and the person who is replying to your comment.
I guess comedy is not my strong suit?
The article was well-written and I found only one glaring problem with it: the lack of a label on the X-axis of the CPU speed graph. Always label your axes!
The second paragraph of the/. summary was written in a different style than were the first paragraph and the fine article. It is sloppy, colloquial, and even contains an obvious product placement. In contrast to the fine article, the/. summary was insulting to the reader. That might be fine on proletariat websites, but on a site populated by the/. demographic (engineers and generally older aged) I wouldn't suggest it.
That said, thank you for the informative article! I enjoyed it and learned some things. And it is obvious by the way that you read and respond to the comments here that you take interest in improving your writing. I look forward to reading your future works.
The comms: Forget 4G LTE, New Horizons uses the very best!
The fine article compares the spacecraft's systems to a few cellphones. Thus, the submitter decided to take the insightful analogy and make it funny. We can laugh at him now.
Unless normal operating flux was very easily detected I suspect that many reactors could fall to "effectively impossible to locate" flux levels within a matter of hours - fast enough to offer a wide range of strategic options, if not so many tactical ones.
This might work. If the sub is content to stay in one place (I don't know if that is possible, I'm infantry not navy) and it doesn't need the reactor at full power for locomotion, then perhaps strategically sitting on the edge of the continental shelf for a few weeks under reduced power might hide it. But that narrows considerably the area that hunter subs could search for it, and I'd be sure worried about removing the control rods 300m under the surface!
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The Sun does not fuse helium. It fuses 4 hydrogen atoms into helium.
4 hydrogen atoms? Hydrogen has a single proton, helium has two. Where do the other 2 protons go?
Or does the process require 4 hydrogen atoms to make 2 helium atoms, because 2 hydrogen atoms do not have enough FOOBAR by themselves to fuse? What might the FOOBAR be? Energy? Mass?
But if it has to survive against modern air defenses that means stealth AND speed. I'm thinking of something like a supersized F-22 or 35.
The B-1 and Tu-160 have airframes designed for reduced radar reflectivity and speed. Though not stealth aircraft, it is certainly possible to take the idea further, see for instance the F-15E Silent Eagle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As for the supersized F-22 or F-35, you will be very interested in the Su-34:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just to give you an idea of how big it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"We wanted to demonstrate that we could do it upside down. We had a discussion and we thought that everyone thinks of a tractor beam as people being sucked up into space.
"So we mounted the array upside-down in a cardboard UFO, and the particle gets sucked up into it."
And this is demonstrated in the video attached to the article too.,
Got me to go RTFA. I cannot believe how much the web has changed since I last saw it, circa 1998 or so!
My dream is that one day they'll risk Cassini to get a better look at this.
It's too late. That photo was from when Saturn was at equinox, 2007 or so, and therefore the Sun cast long shadows at it's equator (the ring plane orbits Saturn above the equator). Saturn orbits the Sun about once every 30 years, so you've got 15 years between equinoxes (equinoii?). That means the next opportunity to catch those moonlets' shadows at their longest, and to have the leading faces properly illuminated, will be in 2022 or thereabout. Cassini won't last that long.
One has a lot more arms.
Are you suggesting that an arms race is imminent?
The instruction set for ARM64 is a bit more like MIPS than ARM
That's not really true. MIPS has no condition codes, has branch delay slots, has no PC-relative addressing and no complex addressing modes.
I think that OrangeTide meant that the experience of porting to ARM64 is like the experience of porting to MIPS. He mentions specifically that there are major code changes (i.e. in optimizations) that need to be done which weren't necessary when porting to i.e. Thumb. Those code changes make the port experience similar to porting to another architecture altogether, i.e. MIPS.
Hey! You should go edit the Wikipedia page then! Here's what it says about machine learning:
No, he shouldn't. Wikipedia is written by people with the time to argue that their precious wording is correct, and will defend their wording and viewpoints with vigorous edit wars. Edit wars are won by the side with the most time to invest, not those with the most knowledge.
/..
Because Martas works in the field, and did not read the information in a blog post, he will have no source to quote. As you know, "original research" is not acceptable on Wikipedia. His time is better spend actually doing something productive such as developing new ML algorithms or posting on
When the Shuttle or Soyuz capsule reaches the International Space Station, do they just kinda press up against the ISS and open the hatch? No.
You may have just stumbled upon the reason that the Tesla uses a touchscreen. The SpaceX Dragon 2 pilot and command centers are touchscreen-based. Not only does this save (almost literally) a ton of weight, but it also permits better egress to the relevant seats and fold up when not needed. It is a genius design - iff using a touchscreen is as good an experience as using a 'real' control panel.
Perhaps the Tesla uses the touchscreen to beta-test touchsceen UI decisions that are to be incorporated in the Dragon 2.
I lump all Israelis together because the situation in Syria is important to all Israelis. Whether you are a Druze on the Golan Heights, or a Muslim tech worker in Tel Aviv, or a Jewish scholar in Jerusalem, or a Christian metalworker in Haifa, the conflict in Syria might one day suddenly spill over into your daily life.
This perspective hints that the role of the Moon and plate tectonics in the formation of life is overrated.
I'm not sure about plate tectonics, but the role of the moon was, so far as I understand, to allow _complex_ life to develop. A few self-replicating proteins don't need stable seasons and tides, but eukaryotes and multi-cellular life do benefit from the repeating (and replenishing) energy gradients.
Thank you for commenting. I understand that oceans were significant only at the end of the Hadean, 3.8 Ga. The moon I'm not sure about other than the fact that it was also formed during the Hadean. Plate tectonics though, from what I understand, only started after 3.8 Ga along with the oceans.
If the oceans and plate tectonics, along with the differentiated interior, did in fact develop 4.4 Ga, then why is the period that we call Hadean said to have ended only at 3.8 Ga?
Thank you for your clarifications!
I presume you mean "half a billion"
Yes, half a billion. Thank you. I was trying to put the discovery into perspective, and this correction shows just how hard it is to grasp the vast time periods involved.
Note that 4.1 Ga is right in the middle of the Hadean period, when the Earth was still settling into layers and the crust and oceans were just forming. No distinct core or mantle yet, and the moon was a ring of rock encircling the Earth. This is half a million years before plate tectonics, before even prokaryota (micros without cell nuclei) developed.
These clues might just tell _how_ cellular reproduction and upwards energy gradients (i.e. life) began, not just _when_.
Most phones don't have this function due to privacy concerns, and if they do, such records are (or at least, should) not be available to the general public to query.
Actually, most Android phones do have this feature enabled by default. If you know somebody's Gmail credentials (I've guessed dozens of them myself for people that I know), then you can get the current location of the device associated with that account, and their entire past history!
If you have an Android phone, then you really need to look at this: https://support.google.com/gmm...
Then you've never studied history, nor do you understand how humanity functions.
Furthermore, there are those who say that the war in Syria was caused by climate change, the very threat that the seed bank was designed to protect against.
In fact, how would a climate-change caused armed conflict look like? Would it be obvious?
Though I firmly believe in human-accelerated climate change, I thought that the loonies who claimed that the Syrian conflict was cause by it seemed to be looking for problems to pin on climate change. However, I'm now starting to think that it's partially possible. Syrian demographics took a sharp turn in 2005-2007 when drought pushed a lot of the rural communities into cities. Now, we have overflowing cities and less food in them. This was known at the time, I remember about 2007-2008 there was talk about this possibly causing discord in Syria, which us Israelis take seriously, especially as it was only shortly after our 2006 problems with Lebanon. Sure enough, war in Syria broke out. Now, the "real spark" of the violence was in Daara a few years later due to political oppression, but things had been simmering for years and during that time the drought did not abide by much.
Did climate change cause the drought? Maybe. Did the drought move people into the cities? Yes. Did the drought mean that less food was available? Yes. Did less food and crowded cities mean that people were more willing to oppose their oppressors? That might be a long stretch, but it's plausible.
By the way, the _current_ war in Syria has nothing to do with the war that started in Daara. But it was an evolution, I personally place the border between the two stages of the conflict when the Libyans started going to Syria to fight.
In the case of Gaza, you also have 13 year old boys getting shot dead for throwing a rock at a truck
No, you don't. You have 13 year old boys throwing rocks at trucks, and you have 13 year old boys getting shot, but you do not have 13 year old boys (or anyone else) getting shot for throwing rocks at a truck. The times that I know of people getting shot for attacking a truck were when using slingshots (The Muslims call this "throwing" but it adds an order of magnitude more energy to the projectile than does a normal hand throw, in Hebrew as in English we have a distinct word for it), or when throwing from an altitude, such as from a cliff or building. In both cases there is real danger of harming the occupants of the vehicle. Of course, that is the intention. People who "just throw rocks at trucks" are usually welcome to throw rocks at trucks all day long. The rocks do some damage (mostly to the glass - armored glass is rather fragile) but that is no reason to go hurt somebody.
armed Jewish settlers burning down Palestinian houses with the families still inside
The incident that you are referring to was one of the most disgusting incidents of violence that I recall in recent time. A group of Jews entered a Muslim village and burned a house, killing a baby and I believe another family member died from wounds sustained in the fire late. As an Israeli, I am ashamed to have to say that my fellow countrymen would even think of burning someones house, someone they do not know even, because that "other person" belongs to "that group" of whatever. There is no excuse, this incident will stand out for decades as a black mark on our history, as it should.
by the way, these Palestinians are not allowed to own guns but the settlers are armed to the teeth and they want to loosen gun restrictions even further, and the settlers have military training due to mandatory service
You are correct that the Muslim citizens of the West Bank are not allowed to own guns, but the Jewish citizens are. Don't think for a minute that this means that they are unarmed, though. Many Muslim families have a firearm, usually an old Kalachnikov or Kalach copy that has only been fired at weddings, and ammunition is scarce. But the weapons do exist and there really isn't anything that we could do about it. Note that many Muslim citizens outside the West Bank do have firearms. That is part of their culture just like it is part of American culture to possess a firearm. A lot of them work in the fields, a lot of them work in security, and a lot of them have other reasons for owning a firearm. These are mostly hand pistols, though, not rifles. They have _too_much_ ammunition, at every wedding they fire without regard for when the bullet lands, though injuries are rare.
and tearing down of people's homes and sources of income when a member of their family commits a crime.
This is a terrific point of contention. Like you, I also feel that entire families should not be punished for what a single family member has done. I know for a fact that most terrorists are _not_ supported by their families and that their families condone the actions. That said, the threat of having the house torn down is demonstrably preventing attacks. I hate the practice, but I've come to accept it. Just as the family of the murdered victim suffers due to the loss of the family member, this practice threatens suffering on the family of the would-be attacker. I wish that other methods would work, really I do, but this is an effective method for _preventing_further_attacks_.
the whole Israel/Palestine situation is effectively an occupation, whether right or wrong
I know that the anti-Israel side likes to use the term occupation, but the situation is more complicated that an occupation such as that done
Ships have not vented steam overboard since about 1890. (Except for the whistle.) 8-)
And military subs don't vent -anything-.
Thank you, I did not know that. As I mentioned before, I'm not navy!
War needs to have a human cost because that is the only way to have a political cost. Without that political cost it becomes way too attractive a tool.
As an infantry soldier, I 100% back this assertion. But know that some organizations use the political cost itself as a tool. Just look as Gaza today: The Hamas declared a "day of rage" due to, of all things, many Muslims getting killed _while_they_were_stabbing_Jews_. What do you think will happen to their followers during this "day of rage" (today) who throw molotov cocktails and slingshot lead at Israeli soldiers? And then the Hamas back their cause with the claim that we used "disproportionate force".
War is messy. Avoid it at all costs. And when someone tells you to go get killed (throw molotov cocktails and stab people) for a cause, avoid them as well.
...I can see that it wasn't to everyone's liking...
You will have a hard time finding a more fastidious audience than on Slashdot!
Actually, I think bad weather is one of the places where automated cars will make a very positive impact on safety. We already have a limited form of this technology with things like anti-lock brakes, traction control, stability control, etc. If you've spent your entire life driving cars with these safety features, they probably feel normal to you. But, as the article suggests, once you come to rely on these features, you lose your ability to handle the vehicle safely in the absence of them. Have you ever pumped your brakes to prevent skidding? Do you know how to steer out of oversteer? Can your brain detect these conditions and react to them before you are in a dangerous situation? For most people, the answer is "probably not".
Every winter I go out skidding alone in my car to hone those skills. I'm driving a FWD Ford Focus now so it understeers, but I do pull the hand brake to play a bit and practice.
Three years ago I drove on snow for the first time while visiting Tromso. The minute we got the rental car I took it out skidding and my friend in the passenger sear was terrified. However, on the last day of our trip I was rounding a roundabout when I lost traction at about 15-20 KPH and almost understeered into a lake. I managed to steer off the road and regain control. The passenger didn't even know that I had lost control, he just perceived that I was driving off the roadway. Snow is _slippery_ and I have only my few minutes practicing skidding to thank for saving us from an icy swim that day.
Sadly it's been almost twenty years since I've driven a car without ABS, and I do wonder how I would handle an ABS failure. My terrible Ford Focus has single-channel ABS and rear disc brakes, so the ABS kicks in even in normal driving conditions, sometimes even in the dry (even with the wife driving). At least I've gotten a fair bit of practice in _obstacle avoidance_ with the increased stopping distance when that happens, but it is unnerving when that happens approaching a crosswalk with pedestrians.
But how can we use this technology to encourage women to join STEM fields?
Actually, I've dated women who speak like a Markov-Chain generator in conversation. I'm sure that they would provide valuable contributions to this project!
It may have been generated via "AI" techniques, but the results are little if any better than a simple Markov-Chain text generator, of the kind I built back in the 80s with my programmable calculator... and used today to generate spam emails.
You sent spam emails today? Dickhead.
(For the stupid: I know what he meant.)
I am the author of the article, the submitter and the person who is replying to your comment. I guess comedy is not my strong suit?
The article was well-written and I found only one glaring problem with it: the lack of a label on the X-axis of the CPU speed graph. Always label your axes!
/. summary was written in a different style than were the first paragraph and the fine article. It is sloppy, colloquial, and even contains an obvious product placement. In contrast to the fine article, the /. summary was insulting to the reader. That might be fine on proletariat websites, but on a site populated by the /. demographic (engineers and generally older aged) I wouldn't suggest it.
The second paragraph of the
That said, thank you for the informative article! I enjoyed it and learned some things. And it is obvious by the way that you read and respond to the comments here that you take interest in improving your writing. I look forward to reading your future works.
The comms: Forget 4G LTE, New Horizons uses the very best!
The fine article compares the spacecraft's systems to a few cellphones. Thus, the submitter decided to take the insightful analogy and make it funny. We can laugh at him now.
Unless normal operating flux was very easily detected I suspect that many reactors could fall to "effectively impossible to locate" flux levels within a matter of hours - fast enough to offer a wide range of strategic options, if not so many tactical ones.
This might work. If the sub is content to stay in one place (I don't know if that is possible, I'm infantry not navy) and it doesn't need the reactor at full power for locomotion, then perhaps strategically sitting on the edge of the continental shelf for a few weeks under reduced power might hide it. But that narrows considerably the area that hunter subs could search for it, and I'd be sure worried about removing the control rods 300m under the surface!