mats: my understanding is that many systems are used to ensure reliability, like infrared search and track (irst), flir, inertial navigation systems, AESA/APG-81, laser illumination for cooperative engagement
mats: AN/AAQ-40 features combined flir and irst as well as laser designation, and also capable of generating geo coords to support gps-guided weapons systems
mats: the systems described above are used in the f-35, but shipboard versions exist, ie, AN/SPY-1, AN/SPY-3
mats: there's more but i can't remember the acronym
mats: (cn's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, performs autodock with Tiangong-2 spacelab)
ben_vulpes: well with caveats pursuant to mircea_popescu's critique that gps is not long for this world, gps + dead reckoning
ben_vulpes: the only hard part of gps + rocket is maintaining lock under g's
ben_vulpes: and i'm pretty sure that we did the tightly-coupled gps+imu+kalman filter thread before
ben_vulpes: reliability is important if your birds cost millions to loft
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe a large part of the iss research is very much in the vein of "mp's private whore spending time in brothel -- she's not there to learn how to make money with her cunt, but to acclimate herself mentally and physically to the taxing environment."
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 23:26 phf: *is
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 23:35 Framedragger: i actually never got to know what the major issue with pascal was. (i mean, as long as you're teaching imperative programming..)
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, /me is cleaning up mangoes (holy shit it's mango season, you can not imagine) to go into this fabulous mango-pineapple ... not sure how you'd call it in english, "conserve" i guess. eeuropean thing, stiff sweet whole fruit preserve.
mircea_popescu: kitten walks by, i'm like hey, you know this is good for the face ?! proceed to wipe my hands all over her mug. she stumbles to the bathroom flailing about, eyes closed. then five minutes later... "hey her face is really good!"
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: hah! well, i don't know any colloquial / actually local words for this other than the (generic boring), you know, "jam".
Framedragger: in .lt you normally also say what kind of uogienė (strawberry, apple, etc.), but i guess that's normal/conventional anyway
mircea_popescu: ya but it's not the same, as evidenced by the fact that as a 10 yo i could eat a proper sized jar of say apricot jam (800g) but barely made it through a small (240g) jar of dulceata de piersici.
Framedragger: how did you come to this, uh, query, if i may ask??
Framedragger: ya i usually can't stand british 'jams', it's just ~sugar. which is what britons eat, anyway
shinohai: mircea_popescu: Is dulceata similar in .ro as in es to signify `sweet` ?
Framedragger: (and scottish add deep fried mars bars to the diet)
jhvh1: shinohai: mermelada
mircea_popescu: shinohai it's this particular preserve with ~whole fruit
mircea_popescu: it's not marmalade in any sense. ro notion of marmalade is, no sugar added, plum generally, if you make it thin it's the basis for alcohol (that's how you make tuica, from distilling fermented thin plum marmalade) and if you make it thick it's a sweet.
shinohai: I have some stuff here called "dulce de fresa" which is basically whole strawberry spread, deliciousness.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-23 02:29 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-22#1647496 << had terrible video libs at the time this was all happening (mp's hs cs class was in pascal, for instance). so kids who were bright hated it because couldn't make little amiga-like platformers on their 386s.
mircea_popescu: draw the page as a memory area and flip it into the video buffer zone was the state of the art iirc.
mircea_popescu: i know of no one who in practice showed this theory of yours.
mircea_popescu: whereas the "define screensized memory object, do bit toggles on it, flip it into video range" was exemplified by just about any early 90s product, take your pick.
mircea_popescu: yes but this is not a particularly cogent argument becausae the people writing for the video effects don't particularily care about corectness.
mircea_popescu: in fact, a lot of the issues of software today can be traced to that early "can this machine do nice light blinkers?!?!"
mircea_popescu: it worked at the time specifically because early micros were a lot closer to signal processors than to cpus.
mircea_popescu: none of this "processor watching the processor process" bs.
mircea_popescu: possibly. it's certainly implicit in "how can we make this more '''truthful'''" or however you'd put it, truer-er./
mircea_popescu: imo the exact same drive is behind "let's build ai to make friends" and "let's make use of the higher transistor count to reflexivitize the cpu". it's a sort of triumf des willens all of its own.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's a great definition. it also covers things like molluscs in nature, but whatever, acceptable collateral damage.
mircea_popescu: one of the lulzier downtails of "bigger is better" and "better is anything you wish it to be".
mircea_popescu: "a house can be big enough to never need cleaning" follows sylogistically from accepting those premises.
mircea_popescu: thus therefore, capitalism + democracy = houses big enough to not need cleaning.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, trump's tv scripts crew is engineering a "100th day govt shutdown". reality has over fiction the enduring advantage that fiction can't be this fucking ridiculous.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not brave enought to risk fingers adjusting trigger tension on conibears?
mircea_popescu: "With at least one quarter of Mosul still under Islamic State control, it is too soon to uncover the full story of the liberation of western Mosul." orly ? i guess what he means is "with the isis army being outnumbered 10:1 and it still managing to inflict blistering, humiliating if regular tactical defeats on the ill prepared, bumbling invading force, it becomes clear that the only victors in the engagement were the so calle
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dudes cost the usg more than any engagement since vietnam cost it. this puts them above the chechens, as far as successful unalligned powers go.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo who the fuck wants syrian children anyways.
shinohai went to "Mozart Festival" in Atlanta couple years back, was a horrid affair with a highschool band masquerading as "Chamber Orchestra"
mats: what a massacre... ten dudes
mircea_popescu: the notion that usg-alike drones are "soldiers" is just as laughable today as it always was. chickens, not men, to be slaughtered as such.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-23 08:29 mircea_popescu: "With at least one quarter of Mosul still under Islamic State control, it is too soon to uncover the full story of the liberation of western Mosul." orly ? i guess what he means is "with the isis army being outnumbered 10:1 and it still managing to inflict blistering, humiliating if regular tactical defeats on the ill prepared, bumbling invading force, it becomes clear that the only victors in the engagement were the so calle
mats: reminds me of the story of the bank robber
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's practically like knocking retarded kid upside the head by now. oh, his mommy told him he can do anything he wants!111
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo who the fuck wants syrian children anyways. << Tyrone wants what he wants
mats: mircea_popescu: the trilema one re: the penultimate antisocial man
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the process would benefit teh extant swedes immensely. clearly they've no business around anyway.
BingoBoingo: In other news, Carfentanil seems to be the culprit in substance not named opiate cases per Qntra's "Sophostic Trendalitics"(TM)(R)
shinohai: Or, how radiator hoses are produced
mod6: Running another test against the same phyiscal fg right now (figure I'll do three per unit).
mod6: ANd at the end of the whole thing, will update that blog page with all of the data.
mod6: also, eatblock test is no around 411K bocks and into blk0034... so should be done in a day or two.