freeman

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[–] freeman 1 points 7 months ago

Why would they sell? That would create a competitor that could easily expand into other markets and take away that user base as well.

[–] freeman 1 points 7 months ago

No not really, my point is that people have a distorted and exaggerated view of BVR. 100 miles was beyond even the max range of common missiles and even with modern missiles like meteor it's completely unrealistic to fire at that kind of range. Provided that you have detected and are able to track the target at that range.

I don't know if modern planes will have to resort to guns but WVR dogfights with IR missiles are more likely than destroying F-35s at BVR ranges.

[–] freeman 2 points 7 months ago

Retrofitting F-16s to become drones (whether rc or ai-controlled) as well as designing a variant ditching human support for weight and monetary gains is the rational choice as long as non stealth aircraft are viable. In that case you'd stick to F-35s.

It makes no sense to waste billions worth of perfectly capable and proven airframes, engines and avionics. Any future drone that will have at least the same level of capabilities as an f-16 will cost practically cost the same. At the cost of high performance aircraft life support does not add that much cost to a plane, pilot costs (and availability) are a much bigger issue.

[–] freeman 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well if both sides get working stealth dogfights are going to become more common.

But the US seems to estimate it's adversaries do not have such capability at the moment since it's ordering new F-15s with the major change being air to air missile capacity.

Missiles also did not have 100 miles range 20 years ago. That's without considering actually detecting and tracking the target.

[–] freeman 4 points 7 months ago

Memory bandwidth is useless if you run out of memory and need to swap.

GPU not having it's own pool of memory is really going to help to.

Pigs fly in apple land.

[–] freeman 1 points 7 months ago

Sufficed is not an objective term but still is not a favorable term especially for machines that cost that much.

Your original point was that apple's cpu are somehow more 'efficient' with ram. That's misinformation to put it kindly.

[–] freeman 2 points 7 months ago

Yes if you don't run out of ram you won't face ram performance issues..

I wouldn't be ok waiting 2 seconds to switch between apps on something the price of Mac laptop, even the cheapest m1.

[–] freeman 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

It doesn't matter how 'insanely efficient' they are. If your tasks need to use more than 8Gb of memory you are going to run out and start swapping to disk.

8gb worth of data is not heavy lifting for professional use.

[–] freeman 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Op changed it to fatal mistake from the original fatal strike..

[–] freeman 6 points 8 months ago

Fixing a bug for a fee will create a liability and obligations for the developer. Should you mess it up, Microsoft will have no issue burying you to save even just face.

I can see him getting into a long term relationship that could guarantee the projects survival long-term,(and you at least invest some money for a lawyer to tell you what your are signing on for). For something that would get a few months for the project not so much.

[–] freeman 4 points 8 months ago

It's χιόνι which means snow in Greece and we are not very cold.

[–] freeman 3 points 8 months ago

I am not American. I am also from a non federal (unitary) state.

While non federal systems far from perfectly democratic, federal systems are inherently less democratic because they add another entity to the election process than the people, federal states. This is actually most egregious in senates where every federal state gets the same amount of members for being a state regardless of how many people it represents. Non federal parliaments have a similar problem because you have way smaller number of electors to represent the people.

At least in US presidential elections states are awarded electors based on their populations. However some or all states (can't really remember) have all their electors vote for the leader even if he won the state 51% to 49%. This acts like a filter and always changes the result as in the percentage of voters for candidate A is different than the percentage of electors for candidate A. It usually does not distort the result enough to flip the election but it happened in 2016.

It can theoretically happen in parliamentary systems as well but it's much more difficult. Also it's an unnecessary issue in the US because the head of the executive is not required to have the support of the legislative branch and the electors serve no other purpose.

I believe the most democratic way to elect the president would be a runoff like France's presidential elections.

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