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New comment by engi_nerd in "Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China"

engi_nerd — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:58:29 +0000

Eh, I give up.

I disagree with you wholly and completely.

Tired of seeing people on the internet defend obvious propaganda

New comment by engi_nerd in "Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce"

engi_nerd — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 01:40:49 +0000

Why do you want to grow?

New comment by engi_nerd in "China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwindling"

engi_nerd — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 01:19:45 +0000

I think the US is past being "fair" with China, and I believe this is a very good thing. The Chinese are cheating in every arena with everything they've got, and being fair only plays into their hands.

New comment by engi_nerd in "US imposes new tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods"

engi_nerd — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:50:53 +0000

Seems rather binary.

New comment by engi_nerd in "US imposes new tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods"

engi_nerd — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:50:08 +0000

Why do you think it so automatically likely that China wins?

New comment by engi_nerd in "Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China"

engi_nerd — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:01:01 +0000

YC going into China just proves that they have no ethics and morals

New comment by engi_nerd in "Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”?"

engi_nerd — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:47:24 +0000

At my company, I don't have a staff of engineers to productionalize things so I have to do it myself.

New comment by engi_nerd in "Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China"

engi_nerd — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 22:31:26 +0000

Can you please explain? Because I've reviewed those rules and I don't understand where I fell on the wrong side of them.

Should I not call Chinese propagandists as I see them?

New comment by engi_nerd in "Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China"

engi_nerd — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:29:44 +0000

Exactly correct. The history of the United States is marred with some horrible events. But that does not change the fact that there is a large faction within the Chinese government that views the US as an enemy and second rate power that must be humbled. The US should recognize this and act accordingly.

New comment by engi_nerd in "Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015)"

engi_nerd — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:37:27 +0000

I've been lurking here for 10 years. For most of that time I was employed as an electrical engineer.

Why should people who are interested in high quality technical discussion surprise you with their presence?

"Hacker" used to mean a lot more than "software developer".

New comment by engi_nerd in "Why I never finish my Haskell programs"

engi_nerd — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 03:04:43 +0000

I heard this gem a couple of weeks ago:

"Don't engineer things to failure."

When you find yourself saying "I ought to be able to generalize this", that's when you need to stop and just write the code you need to write NOW. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

New comment by engi_nerd in "F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development"

engi_nerd — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 19:47:06 +0000

Yeah, the F-35 is delayed. Originally, Initial Operational Capability declarations for the services was supposed to be in 2010. Now it's 2018 and while the USAF and USMC declared IOC for their variants, the Navy still has not.

New comment by engi_nerd in "Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing"

engi_nerd — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:00:47 +0000

This sounds like an article of faith.

Do you really want to have faith in a place that is likely ephemeral?

People once had this same degree of faith in the technology corridor of New Jersey.

New comment by engi_nerd in "F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development"

engi_nerd — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 12:53:54 +0000

True, but that's only for the F-35A. The other two variants are more expensive per copy due to their lower production numbers.

New comment by engi_nerd in "F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development"

engi_nerd — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 12:53:27 +0000

Just FYSA, PAK-FA program was cancelled a few months ago.

New comment by engi_nerd in "F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development"

engi_nerd — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 12:52:43 +0000

To correct and expand upon your point a bit. Yes, the Super Hornet isn't just a limited upgrade.

The Super Hornet is a bigger airframe. You can think of it as "what would happen if we scaled up a Hornet by about 15%?" New wing. New intake design. It required a development program and a flight test program of a kind that you do when you make a new airplane, not upgrade an old one.

The Super Hornet is much more capable. Greater endurance, can have an AESA radar, better ESM suite, better communications.

New comment by engi_nerd in "F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development"

engi_nerd — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 02:31:06 +0000

So why do you think this was covered up?

New comment by engi_nerd in "F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development"

engi_nerd — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 02:22:08 +0000

There are actually quite a few reasons.

New comment by engi_nerd in "F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development"

engi_nerd — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:24:46 +0000

Yup, shape is the biggest thing you can control, then radar absorbing and reflecting materials.

One of the big anecdotes from the early days of stealth aircraft development in the 1970s is how at some wavelengths the Hopeless Diamond shape wasn't visible to range radars at all. During one test, the range radar guys went absolutely crazy trying to detect the shape -- which was a pole model, not even flying yet -- and were about to just give up, when suddenly, there it is on their screens, plain as day. Awesome, the Hopeless Diamond lost its stealth! Or not, because what really happened was a bird landed on the pole model.

That's the power of your aircraft's shape.

New comment by engi_nerd in "F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development"

engi_nerd — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:19:43 +0000

I've been replying to you, not attacking some strawman editorial, as you put it.

David Axe, the guy you linked to, has a long history of misunderstanding the F-35, like also, this piece.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/test-pilot-admits-the-f-35-...

You described that this was "covered up". You would have only gotten that idea if you read the piece I just linked to.