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Comment Re:Clone? (Score 1) 64

The Soviets had their own space shuttle designs with their own research on shapes. Take a look at the Spiral spaceplane for example.
The problem is the Soviet designers got a directive from the politicians at the top to replicate the capabilities of the US Shuttle, which they suspected was some sort of orbital bomber, and they ended up changing the design of both the launcher and the orbiter.

Comment Re:Every boomer programmer just shrugged (Score 1) 135

Remember Bubble Sort? If you tried to build the most inefficient algorithm possible, it's hard to imagine one that would beat Bubble Sort. And yet for years, every computer programming textbook taught this algorithm that's useful for basically nothing, and isn't even intuitive. Students normally react with "How does that even work???" But you know that algorithm made its way into more than a few production systems.

Bubble Sort sorts an already sorted list in O(n) time. Try doing the same thing with Merge Sort and it will take O(n log n) time. Longer.
Also, unlike Merge Sort, Bubble Sort does not require any extra space whatsoever.

In some applications where you are sorting mostly sorted lists you are better off with Bubble Sort than other supposedly "better" algorithms.
You have to examine your data set, the problem you are trying to solve, and select the algorithm to do it.

Comment The violations are specified. (Score 3, Informative) 133

https://t.me/mash/58063

"The court fined Discord 3.5 million rubles in a case of failure to remove prohibited information. We are talking about materials related to prohibited LGBT and pedophilia.

In July 2023, the platform was already fined 6 million for 18+ content with minors. Now Roskomnadzor can formally demand to ban Discord's work in Russia."

Comment Re:As previously covered on Slashdot... (Score 1) 107

What a load of bull. Ever heard of the R-187 Azart radio?
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/r...

The Russian Army does not allow troops near the front to carry smartphones with them. Because they can be easily tracked.
Ukrainian cellphone operators can easily triangulate such signals.

Comment Re:You don't need to look at hardware to see this (Score 2) 73

There are reasonably advanced open source RISC-V cores available.
https://github.com/XUANTIE-RV/...

That is the T-head Xuantie 910 RISC-V core's Verilog. This is a 12-stage, out of order, dual-issue, 64-bit RISC-V core.
You can also buy chips with it fairly cheap.

Comment Re:RISC-V isn't ready for Android anyway (Score 2) 31

There are already such cores available.

For example you have the T-Head TH1520 SoC which is a quad-core RISC-V Xuantie C910 processor. The C910 core is 12-stage dual-issue out-of-order.

Even higher performance cores should become commercially available over the next two years.

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