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The point of commissioning them isn’t for them to take command of a line infantry battalion. It’s to have them have authority to do stuff that requires a Lt col, but is not actually commanding. It’s like how we commissioned a whole bunch of people in WWII to do admin jobs.

If there was a zip code that was just virtual PO Boxes, it could use the existing change of address machinery to slap the actual delivery address on when addressed with a virtual box. Assuming they used an entire sectional center facility for it, you could have 100 zip codes, with 6 digits of unique delivery points, so 100 million virtual boxes.

You can buy digital stamps for the USPS as well. You need to accurately put a barcode on the envelope though.

The default +2 plus code is ~14m resolution. But you can add more characters to the end to get higher res. 5 more gets you down to sub centimeters.

Theoretically, you can just print a DPBC and a name on a USPS delivered mail, and it’ll get delivered. The DPBC has the ZIP+4, and delivery point encoded. The delivery point is the actual mailbox used (some addresses have multiple delivery points, such as apartments).

Size: base 64 is 2/3 the number of bytes as hex.

Welcome to the jeune ecole. The problem of $1000 drones is range and speed. A carrier is moving at 20kt, regularly. More if conducting flight operations. $1k drones are group 1 drones in DoD classification. There are limited in speed and range. If they teleported into range of the carrier, sure, they could reach it, and keep up with it. But if they don’t start near the carrier, how close do they need to start to do so?

To get holes at the water line, you’re going to have to take your drone down to the water line. Which means you’re going to have to deal with the waves and spray from being down there. Cheap drones are not notable for dealing well with hitting the water.

Beyond the thick steel plating, and compartmentalization, there’s also the fact that little holes just won’t let in much water. If you want to sink a ship, you need to let in more water than the pumps can take out.

If you start talking about $50k drones, then a bunch of these objections start changing. You can get much more range, much more speed, much larger warheads, and much greater capabilities in general. But your cost curve has changed a bunch, so you get 200 drones instead of 10k drones for a given amount of cash.

A remarkably large number of the weapons on a USN warship can be used offensively. Most of the anti aircraft missiles can be used in surface to surface mode. Given their high speed, they can do a large amount of damage, despite the small warhead, simply from KE. This is, in fact, why the US Army is acquiring the Typhon system with SM-6 missiles.

As for the Euro navies, I believe they are generally not designed for really offensive operations. They're generally conceptualized as fighting the Soviets, and so designed for fighting off Russian maritime attack regiments and submarines.

Define drones. Define missiles. How big are these drones? Are they group 1? Group 3[0]? Can this ship with missiles use its group 4 drones to find and fix these patrol boats so it can toss missiles at the opposing patrol boats? Can the patrol boats do anything about the missiles incoming at M3? Can I use some group 4 drones to drop a bunch of group 1 drones in the vicinity of those patrol boats, where they have no response because they don’t have medium anti-air capability?

Vulnerable does not mean obsolete.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAS_groups_of_the_United_State...

Relatedly: if you park an AEGIS BMD ship off the coast of San Francisco, how far inland can they defend with SM-3 against an ICBM? Approximately eastern Kansas. Same question, but Hampton Roads: approximately western Kansas.

The footprint defended by SM-3 is actually fairly huge.

Holes full of air tend not to do a good job of sinking ships. Holes full of water are good at sinking ships. Small warheads aren’t going to be effective at making holes full of water. They may be good at blowing up stuff on top, that make the ship not useful for doing it’s mission though.

There are PIV creds for more than just DoD.

Cheap oscillator because they expect it to be network connected and be corrected by NTP. Why put in a good clock when a cheap one will do?

Knowing how China designates cities[0], citation needed on the number of cities.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing > The municipality covers a large geographical area roughly the size of Austria,[14] which includes several disjunct urban areas in addition to Chongqing proper.

The armor and projectile are solid the entire time. It’s just the pressures involved are enough to make the material flow despite that. Actual experiment: cut the rod into quarters long ways, glue it back together, then shoot it. Out the other end of the armor, the rod is in quarters still. Or at least, what’s left.

Also, most materials will burn at a high enough temperature. DU dust is pyrophoric: it will spontaneously catch on fire at room temperature.

On mobile at least, the friends tab no longer just gives you suggestions, but actually gives you a friends feed. Doesn’t help if what you actually want are the groups you’re part of, but it’s something.

The fact you don’t agree is immaterial to the fact that your “fixed point” code doesn’t implement fixed point arithmetic. Fixed point arithmetic has a fixed scale factor for the type, not a value dependent scale factor.

If you don’t create any GC-able objects in the loop, why would you need to call the GC? And if you are, that should involve a function call.

And if you do need to call the GC, you could manually insert function calls every x loop iterations.

So if you can get more than 3 different TV stations you should be good. Most stations don’t share transmission towers, AFAIK.

There are places, especially in the mountains where you don’t get the requisite number of towers, but large portions of the US will, and the required signal to noise ratio is better than to decode regular TV signals, so you have a larger area covered than for TV.

Except the live wire is the one that’s switched. So if you plug it in backwards, the neutral is the one that’s switched. And if they aren’t careful with how the wiring is done, you potentially have live voltage on the outside of your metal cased device.

For another example, your standard e26 bulb can have part of the thread exposed. If the neutral and live are swapped, that threaded bit is hooked to live, instead of the proper neutral.

Not all unclassified can be FOIA’d. There are exemptions to FOIA, that aren’t “it’s classified “. And there are things that aren’t “records” according to DoD records management regulations, and so would not be FOIAble, because they wouldn’t be a record to get.

They mean vector tiles. It’s tiles of vectorized images, usually of a map (or other geographic data). They’re so named because they are a vectorized replacement for raster tiles, which were PNGs. If the server chucks back a picture, it’s not a vector tile server.

You are in MGRS zone 17S. MGRS also has grid square designations after the zone, and before the easting/northing numbers. A full UTM coordinate string will only have N/S at position 2/3, while a full MGRS coordinate string will have 3 characters at that position. A MGRS string will also be 2 characters shorter than an equivalent UTM string.

Civilian UTM doesn’t handle things near the poles very well. MGRS explicitly uses the zone characters to change to a polar projection. Those other 4 characters not used for row identification actually identify polar areas (NE, NW, SE, SE semi-hemispheres).

They didn’t name it that, IEEE did.

I think it mostly goes “I’m going to sell, it goes up to market on day <X>, unless you meet my ask.”

In service, it was pressured with nitrogen, just like it was while not in service. RP-1 is not an especially volatile fuel.

The analog lines before digitalization were limited to 8kHz bandwidth. This is because to deliver a circuit between two points, the system generally figured out which bit of bandwidth wasn’t in use and frequency shifted the entire connection into that band.

“Dual channel” is not a thing with CAMM. CAMM is 128 bits wide. To feed a 256bit wide memory controller, you need 2 CAMM modules. LPCAMM2 uses 4 memory packages. The observed number of packages next to the APU on this is 8. So you need 2 modules.

The Missouri basin is largely west of the dry line, and so gets substantially less rainfall.

A single LPCAMM2 module is supposed to be all the RAM for a laptop, so it’s 128 bit wide. You’d need two LPCAMM for this, not four. And they are currently available in 32G and 64G varieties ($180/$330). So they aren’t absurdly priced, if they were in stock.