freeman
@freeman@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Starbuck milkshake is like tobacco 5 weeks ago:
Coffee itself is addictive though.
- Comment on Sea drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. is floundering 1 month ago:
Guns are not much used in modern destroyers, especially in escort duty as they are not really effective at engaging air targets and not capable of attacking submarines at all.
Then there are CIWS, which can provide self-defense for the ship they are on but can’t really protect other ships. 1 or 2 per ship are enough but if we split a destroyer’s capabilities to multiple hulls we might need more or just accept that if missiles get past outer defenses they can hit our drones.
Outer air defense, which can cover other ships on the fleet, being a very important role for modern destroyers. It’s accomplished via missiles of various sizes and necessitates expensive electronics such as air search radars and fire-control radars. Those are housed in vertical enclosed tubes and are also fired from them. Current US destroyers have ~90 of those as does the plan for the future replacement.
We certainly are not going to make a ship for each cell but we presumably are going to split it some otherwise the ship will be practically the same size as the current destroyer. Of course we are going to have to replicate some elements and/or add new networking equipment to make things work. It certainly ain’t going to be cheaper or more robust than the current destroyer for the same amount of missiles.
Then there are 4-8 anti-ship missiles per destroyer, we could put those on a drone along perhaps along with the torpedoes. We are going to need a surface radar for those.
Then a sonar array (and torpedoes maybe) for the anti-submarine role.
There are also some self defense measures (electronics and decoys) that the destroyer have. Maybe we put then on some of the drones that we deem more important?
But the point is why? What you get will be more expensive unless you choose to reduce capabilities significantly, less robust, less survivable and probably less seaworthy (if you are envisioning lots of small ships).
What is the benefit ? Reducing crews? It is already being done via automation to the extend that it is possible. You also still have a crew (and the ability to increase crew) if the automation is not performing well unlike the case with a drone.
Also your existing carriers, they already carry stuff, you can’t just have them carry the drones around nor do they have the means to safely attach them somehow.
- Comment on Sea drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. is floundering 1 month ago:
I am confused as to even what size you conceive these drones to be. Will they be carried or attached to the carrier (the aircraft carrier? A helicopter/landing ship?). Will they be able to independently travel in the ocean like proper escorts do?
Will they actually be supposed to provide air defense and/or anti-submarine capabilities on their own? Because you will need size to house the equipment for all those capabilities and of course all that equipment is expensive.
- Comment on Sea drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. is floundering 1 month ago:
You would need a dedicated ship them, an expensive one.
Why though? Carrier groups engage surface opponents via aircraft that can get them faster and farther away.
- Comment on Sea drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. is floundering 1 month ago:
I don’t think there’s any drones performing the air defense role, which is what destroyers actually do.
Probably not doing anti submarine stuff either or ranging far from the coast.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 1 month ago:
A shady vpn provider wouldn’t need to use this technique at all dumbass.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 1 month ago:
Maybe it affects BSD and MacOS.
It also can affect some Linux systems based on configuration. Android doesn’t implement the exploited standard at all and is always immune.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 1 month ago:
Indeed it’s so weird the practically only alternative to Windows comes up when discussing Windows issues.
Perhaps BSD or ReactOS should be mentioned more. Or people told to buy a whole new Mac and throw their computer away.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
Were socialists a persecuted ethnic minority?
Already they are planning to hinder open hardware (RISK-V) as it could help China and will certainly attack foss software as well.
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 2 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.
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 2 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.
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 2 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 2 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.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 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.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 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.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value 5 months ago:
Nope he is just a rich spoiled manchild on cocaine.
- Comment on Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US 5 months ago:
Obama did veto an ITC ban on Apple before but Masimo is an American company unlike Samsung.
- Comment on Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution 6 months ago:
Sovereignty over territory Apple chose to conduct business in.
- Comment on iMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open up 6 months ago:
Sovereignty
- Comment on If Creators Suing AI Companies Over Copyright Win, It Will Further Entrench Big Tech 6 months ago:
And I want a law making you pay me 500$ for reading your posts.
Copyright law already extends beyond what society finds reasonable. It’s routinely broken by normal people without them even thinking about it. It’s even broken by those vested in it both corporations and individual artists.
Finally you are not getting the copyright law you want ( nor should you, you a minority, a special interest ), big corps are. They might be ‘content’ corps or tech or both but they certainly won’t make a law to benefit either society as a whole or you as a small artist.
- Comment on Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data 6 months ago:
Sure they will store everything till it’s cost effective to crack the encryption, on everything some randoms send each other.
Intelligence will do that for high profile targets, possibly unsuccessfully.
- Comment on Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data 6 months ago:
Only if your private messages are not e2e.
- Comment on Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal 6 months ago:
Linux not being able to launch a game (that probably was not made for it) is not a relationship issue but a technical one.
Even if it is possible to run the game but you need to hack around your distro’s configurations, you can be certain the default configuration was not made with the specific intent of preventing you from running the game.
In the Windows case you are not hacking around with the json file to solve a technical issue.
Windows is not misconfigured, it’s Microsoft’s explicit decision to prevent you from removing some of it’s software even if it’s forced by law to do so for other people.
It’s ok if you don’t mind Microsoft’s behavior or you just find Linux’s technical issues more important in choosing an OS. But the issues are not similar neither equivalent.
- Comment on The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed the way we use language 7 months ago:
Word introduced line breaks
What?
- Comment on After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors'. 8 months ago:
But if someone already owns an iPhone he should not need to buy another hardware option.
Not that he needs to justify what he does with his property to the manufacturer or randos on the internet.