Sopwith Camels could also be used a bombers. They were used with great success to bomb the German airship base at Tønder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... That was the first air raid ever launched from ships. They were launched from the deck of a battleship.

Later Sopwith models even carried torpedos.

I don't think you can hold up the DotCom Boom as an example of right management. Sure, it was fun building things from nothing with little legacy and no thought of profitability. But it was unsustainable and at least as dysfunctional as the current tech world. I was there too. If you want to stay employable you have to adapt. Either adapt to a more mature and restrictive climate or adapt your skills to be in the centre of the next raging boom. If you do the latter, you will have to do it again as these raging booms never last. Reality always asserts itself when the easy problems have been solved and solving what remains just isn't as exciting or profitable.

I really hope it is not a "reddit" filter. While there is merit to promoting discussions, reddit's main utility is that many topics are only discussed there. Where there is a choice, reddit is usually bottom of the barrel.

This is personal memory but I recall that the foam strike was reported by the press before reentry. The messaging was that, yes the strike happened but we think they will still be OK and there are no alternatives anyway.

I don't think ISS was reachable from Columbia's orbit. AFTER the disaster, shuttle missions profiles were required to be in range of ISS for exactly this reason.

Because everything after Gen2 is a little fuzzy with the data rate. Actually even Gen1 and Gen2 have framing overhead that is not accounted for.
Gen3 is not quite 2x Gen2 because they opted reduce the overhead instead of double the line rate. But they did not eliminate the overhead and 8Ghz can only be twice the rate of 5Ghz if the 8B/10B overhead was eliminated. 64/66b is more efficient but it isn't free.

As others have mentioned Gen6 adds further fuzziness. Two bits are transferred on every cycle with PAM4. The overhead equation has changed too. Some is reduced, some is increased, and the fixed sized flits means that the amount of overhead varies.

Indeed. We don't want to blow up the whole solar system.

All the Surface models with ARM processors have been discontinued.

The thing is, though, that is totally unnecessary. It is far easier to have robust power for the towers than robust power for the CO, all the remote platforms, repeaters, and robust wiring to all the customers.

It is well past time for redundant power to be taken seriously for cell towers.

The whole thruster is essentially a charged particle accelerator. That works for boron proton fusion since the outputs are also charged particles. With DD fusion much of the energy is in neutrons. That energy would be mostly lost.

Not a chance. This would never happen to Comcast. Not because they don't lie but because they have the money and political experience to ensure they are never taken to task for their lies. Or if they are, the fine would be a rounding error on Comcast's profits.

OK, I understand that everything needs to be be tested and these intakes likely have other interesting qualities. But converting supersonic air to subsonic is something essentially all jets do. The rare exceptions, still only existing as research prototypes, are scramjets.

No. The chickenpox vaccine is a live virus. The shingles vaccine is a single protein. https://www.precisionvaccinati...

The mediocrity principle would go against us being at or near the maximum intelligence possible. If is more plausible that we are near the limit on naturally evolved intelligence, however. The reasoning is that once a species reaches the level required to start building technology, the game is over. To get significantly higher intelligence, evolving species would have to keep encountering obstacles to tool usage that even higher intelligence can not work around.

The singularity might still be impossible if turns out to be impossible for a intelligence to design an intelligence greater than itself. We see hints of this the last AI winter and the current summer. The last round got stuck because no one could purposefully design intelligence. We still can't but we've made progress by loosening the controls and allowing emergent structures that evolve from training do the heavy lifting.

This is not at all surprising for doctors trained in an era when chickenpox was common. Symptoms are always at least somewhat ambiguous so doctors have to filter into probability buckets. If one of the likely suspects is no longer likely, it is going to over diagnosed. It doesn't mean the doctors no longer know chickenpox well. Almost the opposite. They need to detrain the selection for chickenpox and increase training for diseases with similar symptoms that are still common.

What would indicate doctors unfamiliarity with chickenpox is a high percentage of chickenpox cases were misdiagnosed as other things. This tends to happen with diseases that are rare or rare where the diagnosis happens. For serious tropical diseases seen by doctors in temperate areas this can lead to bad outcomes.