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New comment by hhr in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

hhr — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:28:15 +0000

This reminds me a Futurama quote: "Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century? Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky... But not in dreams."

New comment by hhr in "Nokia is replacing Huawei at Deutsche Telekom sites in Germany"

hhr — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:54:48 +0000

I think he is referring to "U.S. spied on Merkel and other Europeans through Danish cables - broadcaster DR" story.

New comment by hhr in "The pro-Israel information war"

hhr — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 12:41:54 +0000

Ukraine applied to integrate with a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) in 2008. On 20 September 2018 the Ukrainian parliament approved amendments to the constitution that would make the accession of the country to NATO and the EU a central goal and the main foreign policy objective. In other words, Ukraine has a lot to do with NATO. Also, NATO Membership Action Plan involved Georgia.

New comment by hhr in "Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says"

hhr — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:31:04 +0000

Opinion that I find to be usefull on this: The surveillance balloons are very, very difficult to destroy, the aircraft's radar cannot see them, they fly almost in space at altitudes up to 25 km, they are painted in the color of the sky, or even transparent like jellyfish. Reflective surface is less than any of stealth planes. For any sane results, you need a dedicated aircraft with a special weapons set for destroying this thing. Missiles with a thermal homing head and special anti-aerostatic incendiary tracer shells, with a special fuse that is triggered when the thin shell of the balloon touches. This fuse is also triggered by raindrops, so it's better not to shoot them in the rain. Rockets, on the other hand, capture the heated sunny side of the balloon with their clever thermal head. Secondly, as a rule, one hit is not enough(due to the cell structure of balloon). Balloon doesn't give a fuck about shell holes, it will slowly descend to where it needs to go for thousands of kilometers dropping ballast more often. And by the way, he can also bang on a lucky hit and take the plane with him.

New comment by hhr in "US Army deploys its first floating solar array"

hhr — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:26:09 +0000

Out of top of my head this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOS-1) can destroy such target.

New comment by hhr in "AI and Machine Learning – The Basics"

hhr — Thu, 19 May 2022 10:50:14 +0000

Great overview, I like the proper, old school looks of entire site. Also I can recommend this article – https://vas3k.com/blog/machine_learning/ it is on a same subject but has a much more relaxed style.