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headass commented on Raytheon asks retirees for help making new Stinger anti-air missiles popsci.com/technology/sti... · Posted by u/blinding-streak

happosai · 2 years ago

The issue is, American army did not see them anymore entering a war where American infantry needs to take out aerial threats. The army assumed future wars would be killing goat herders carrying AK-47s with drone strikes.

The idea was nobody would. E insane enough in the interconnected global economy to start to "real" war. And thus weapons production focused on anti-terrorism etc.

headass · 2 years ago

not exactly. near peer doctrine called for aerial dominance. only recently (last few years) has the US bought back SHORAD. manpads are seen as unnecessary because there’s bigger and better weapons systems for them

headass commented on Microsoft Edge Pre-Installing Google Docs Offline Extension learn.microsoft.com/en-us... · Posted by u/tech234a

ticos · 2 years ago

Every so often Google docs prompts me to install their plugin. At this point I don't even remember what issue it caused, I just remember that it was so infuriating and that I decided I never wanted to deal with it again.

headass · 2 years ago

google seem to be specialists at making people feel like that lol

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headass commented on Single-chip processors have reached their limits spectrum.ieee.org/single-... · Posted by u/blopeur

2OEH8eoCRo0 · 3 years ago

> The M1 Ultra is fabricated as a single chip.

I'm curious how much the M1 Ultra costs. It's such a massive single piece of glass I'd guess it's $1,200+. If that's the case it doesn't make sense to compare the M1 Ultra to $500 CPUs from Intel and AMD.

headass · 3 years ago

also all the other shit that’s on the chip ram etc.

headass commented on Ask HN: Why is the 5G rollout so problematic in the States but not Europe? · Posted by u/jb1991

mchusma · 4 years ago

Sort of unrelated, but I'm surprised aircraft need that spectrum. I'm not an expert, but my impression was that using lower frequency has lower speeds but longer range and less sensitive to interference. This seems better for the aircraft usecase.

The answer could be just that they were built using this spectrum which at the time seemed fine, and now that we want to use it for something else it's an issue. Curious if anyone knows more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_altimeter

headass · 4 years ago

i mean if it’s for the radar altimeter you want it to be much quicker as it’s landing which is when it’s more prone to interference

headass commented on Simple passwordless authentication for web projects matthewc.dev/projects/web... · Posted by u/matthewfcarlson

stevage · 4 years ago

Everything you hate about email login is what I hate about 2FA, as a user.

headass · 4 years ago

i mean it’s not much different it’s just email code/link vs an all generating a code but 2fa is unphishable as well

headass commented on Live Streaming a Macintosh Plus jcs.org/2022/02/21/macplu... · Posted by u/ecliptik

yjftsjthsd-h · 4 years ago

Tangentially related: This uses a HDMI-to-USB video capture device, which is great (I did not know they were that cheap and have ordered 2:]), but does anyone happen to know of a cheap VGA-to-USB capture device? I'm having a surprising amount of trouble turning one up, for all that I would expect them to be at least as easy to procure. (I'm interested in hacking together cheap lights out management for an assortment of oldish computers; emulating USB input devices with a microcontroller is easy, so if I could get VGA I could trivially remote control 10-15 years of computers. Unfortunately, somehow all of the "Pi LoM" projects I can find require HDMI.)

headass · 4 years ago

hdmi to vga adaptor?

i don’t think you can just do vga to usb as it’s analog to digital isn’t it?

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headass commented on Why I will never buy another Samsung device lehtimaeki.medium.com/why... · Posted by u/farmerbb

_nalply · 4 years ago

A vendor could display a nag screen at inopportune moments to connect the TV. As far as I know Samsung does this.

headass · 4 years ago

we have a samsung tv that is exclusively used with an apple tv and it’s seemed ok this far but i’m not sure how/if i can completely kill it trying to connect as we currently have no nearby open networks but if one pops up it’ll try and connect and i detest that

headass commented on Real Me and Fake Me lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n... · Posted by u/ColinWright

stickfigure · 4 years ago

I'm confused by the categorical distinction you are trying to make between Jobs and Musk. What's the problem with electric cars that (almost) drive themselves, rockets that land themselves, and broadband internet in remote places?

headass · 4 years ago

he calls people pedos for no reason and then bitched about being sued

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