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New comment by throwaway4good in "GE Aerospace Successfully Develops and Tests New Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet"

throwaway4good — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:29:27 +0000

Even at war and cut off from the world the Russian economy is growing. Driving by buoyant commodity prices.

They have tech for civilian aviation in their massive military industry. And just the sheer size of the country guarantees the demand.

New comment by throwaway4good in "GE Aerospace Successfully Develops and Tests New Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet"

throwaway4good — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:19:06 +0000

Supersonic = +1 mach, hypersonic = +5 mach.

New comment by throwaway4good in "GE Aerospace Successfully Develops and Tests New Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet"

throwaway4good — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:17:25 +0000

And the Chinese have a modern engine under development that can be used in a commercial airliner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAE_CJ-1000A

New comment by throwaway4good in "GE Aerospace Successfully Develops and Tests New Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet"

throwaway4good — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:01:00 +0000

Both China and Russia are building alternatives to Boeing/Airbus commercial airliners. But are in two completely different situations.

COMAC relies on international suppliers, probably hoping that will make it easier for them to be allowed to fly outside China and then over time they can use more and more domestic suppliers. Whereas the Russians are completely cut off from international suppliers and travel, and have to resurrect their airliner projects which have been more or less dormant since the Soviet times.

I think both will be succesful over time; they have huge internal markets that can sponsor quite a bit of development cost.

New comment by throwaway4good in "Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement"

throwaway4good — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:34:36 +0000

Can your client actually pay? If not pursuing legal actions will just be a waste of money.

In general breakdown payment for larger projects into smaller installments / subprojects.

New comment by throwaway4good in "Stop using Tailwind's utility classes in the HTML class attribute"

throwaway4good — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:03:51 +0000

Isn't this the very point of tailwind? If you don't like it maybe just don't use tailwind.

New comment by throwaway4good in "Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com"

throwaway4good — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:41:22 +0000

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git

New comment by throwaway4good in "Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com"

throwaway4good — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:39:17 +0000

Isn't Google chrome open source?

It should be possible to point to the source code of whatever google.com extensions that may exist.

Or is this only available in the packaged distributions of Chrome?

New comment by throwaway4good in "US blocks British court from British territory"

throwaway4good — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:29:35 +0000

How can anyone think that Hong Kong new territories and Guantanamo, which were areas essentially taken by force and then had a dubious leasing agreement painted over them, is the same situation as an agreement between two formal allies?

New comment by throwaway4good in "US blocks British court from British territory"

throwaway4good — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:15:03 +0000

“Leased”

New comment by throwaway4good in "Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China"

throwaway4good — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:10:53 +0000

It probably is.

New comment by throwaway4good in "Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China"

throwaway4good — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:05:39 +0000

I was trying to be tongue in the cheek - my point is emphasizing dangers and restricting access can act as a form of marketing.

New comment by throwaway4good in "Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China"

throwaway4good — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:31:43 +0000

OpenAIs models are so powerful and so close to AGI that the global balance of power would flip if autocratic regimes like China were to gain API access to it.

That’s what I am getting from the geopolitical safety researching marketing department.

Anyway as far as I can tell OpenAI has been turning access on and off for a while. And oddly enough now have decided to turn it off completely just as plenty of credible alternatives are emerging.

New comment by throwaway4good in "Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C"

throwaway4good — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 18:58:26 +0000

What is the point of making the matrix multiplication itself multithreaded (other than benchmarking)? Wouldn't it be more beneficial in practice to have the multithreadedness in the algorithm that use the multiplication?

New comment by throwaway4good in "Paris Olympics' AC-free ambition melts away as organisers order 2,500 AC units"

throwaway4good — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:48:33 +0000

Yes. Solar panels, and air cons for that matter, are as cheap as ever. We europeans can easily afford this.

Insisting on no air con is a cultural phenomenon. We associate it to something unneccessary, unnatural, excessive, distasteful, and wasteful. Our attitude is changing though ...

New comment by throwaway4good in "Microsoft closes all physical shops in mainland China"

throwaway4good — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:09:55 +0000

"Company President Brad Smith also revealed that China accounts for only 1.5% of Microsoft’s total revenue at a recent congressional hearing, raising questions about its future in the country."

1.5% sounds like a number massaged to please the particular audience.

US Company Becomes Most Valuable Solar Firm After Chinese Rivals Slip

throwaway4good — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 08:47:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/us-company-becomes-world-s-most-valuable-solar-firm-after-chinese-rivals-slip-1.2074623

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40864029

Points: 4

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New comment by throwaway4good in "Ask HN: List of people who successfully built for profit programming languages?"

throwaway4good — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:08:50 +0000

I think it is hard to make a for profit general purpose language today; if you by that you mean that the developers directly pay for it. The business model has moved on; and builders for languages / platforms have found other ways of charging people.

New comment by throwaway4good in "Google dropping continuous scroll in search results"

throwaway4good — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:51:09 +0000

Funny. I get 50 results for "facebook" - ending with:

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 50 already displayed.

"Infinite" scroll until I hit that message (no pagination).

If I search for "foo" - it will show a "More results v" button after about 50 and keep on doing that.

I am in Germany.

New comment by throwaway4good in "US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication"

throwaway4good — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:27:06 +0000

I cannot tell if you are joking or not. But it is obvious she is litigating in public until she gets the payoff she wants:

https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik

Of course a big corp cannot give in easily to behaviour like that as it would just open the flood gates.