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Indeed, regulation is the only way to protect passengers from market greed here, but the airplane makers play a critical role in what designs they make available to airlines. Airbu…

Not covered: the inevitable even-smaller lavatory to further insult the dignity of the flying public. At this point, the designers of narrow-body interiors should be actively shame…

> Falklands war shows otherwise. Well, actually, the Argentinians had no trouble delivering high explosives to UK vessels, but they did have a great deal of trouble getting those e…

If you look at larger multi-copters, 6 and 8 are quite common since they allow for some redundancy, allowing for safe landing and/or continued flight following the failure of one o…

Yeah, clean room implementation is the only way - and the route chosen by the aravis project that builds a FOSS implementation (which is a really great piece of software, way nicer…

Because these bodies want to maintain a moat for the products made by member companies. No more, no less. A great example of this is the GigE Vision/GenICam standards that are used…

> companies don't tend to be in the business of making highly advanced robots I think you've gotten hung up on the idea that making robots is the essential part of the problem. I'm…

> I don't need robotics experience, I need automaker experience. Their software is universally terrible. If you had any auto industry experience, you would know that the people res…

> Not that it has much to do with why automation fails to penetrate certain tasks. The reason why "long tail" tasks are often beyond automation is: piss poor ROI, calculated correc…

Ford doesn't even make the top 5 - and however "low-tech" you think these companies are is the point , the overwhelming majority of new cars are being built by those "low-tech" aut…

> "Could be in principle" and "could be in practice, under technical and economical considerations in play" are two very, very different beasts. > Everyone in the industry learned …

> How long ago was your robotics experience? This is over the last decade at one of the largest automakers in the world. Naturally there is significant variation between individual…

> Everything that could be done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor is already done by a purpose specific robot arm bolted down to the factory floor. H…

> If you std::abort(), you'll get a useful stack trace in the core dump. If you crash from an unhandled exception, you don't. That's a pretty huge difference and is one of the reas…

>> Are we talking HTP+Kerosene or UDMH+N2O4 here? > I’m thinking kerosene or even methane. UDMH is a toxic mess. Methane is absolutely out because of pressures/temperatures involve…

Where exactly is that storability not needed? In the VLS cells of USN warships? In the missile canisters of field-mobile SAM batteries being driven cross-country (which, for surviv…

"Crews can't stop sweating on the flight deck" is exactly like saying "the middle east is hot and people sweat in the sun there". It has very little to do with the ships and everyt…

Satellite launch is so much easier than storable SAM/ABM, the comparison is not really useful.

There are a bunch of other problems with this comment, but this part in particular is laughably wrong. > Our ships are designed to operate in the Pacific or North Atlantic, not the…

The munitions that (1) are currently solid-fueled and (2) represent a stockpile depletion issue are all SAM/ABM interceptors. The only new liquid-fueled missiles worth the developm…

Famously, of course, not at all the case, with Enterprise, Saratoga, and Ranger all surviving. Yes, losses of pre-war carriers were severe (Lexington, Yorktown, Hornet, and Wasp).

Anyone who describes hydrocarbon fuels and high-test peroxide oxidiser as a stable and proven combination is a charlatan trying to sell you something questionable. If you want a pr…

The DGX Spark/GB10 has CPU cores from Mediatek (in a pretty odd cluster configuration, too).

The reality of robotics is that the existence of the theory often means little about practical feasibility. I have myself joked about problems being solved in the '80s, but the jok…

No, if a process allocates an infeasible amount, malloc fails and the process needs to deal with the failure (which is what already happens, "malloc doesn't fail on Linux" is only …