Posts by fg_swe 1328 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Nov 2021
JavaScript is in some ways memory-safe, but certainly not in the spirit of Rust or Sappeur. For example, JS records don't have a type. Each instance of record can contain other members. Or same named members with different types.
Rust, Sappeur, Spark Ada - they are Strongly Typed
Even in 39-45, information superiority was key. Germany was bled to economic death by that. Japan was literally destroyed by information superiority. Everybody can now make a warhead and a missile, but only a few can deliver them anywhere, under any condition.
So, if information superiority is key, we must deny information and information technology to our potential enemies.
Kinetics has been secondary to information since at least 1939, maybe 1917.
Both countries must be denied high end electronics, tool machines, chemicals and so on. That would be used to build advanced weapons.
Just look at HIMARS - what makes it extremely dangerous is the reliable GNSS receiver and flight guidance mechanism. One HIMARS is worth easily 100 "dumb" rocket launchers.
Other advanced weapons need even more electronics+informatics, which I will not elaborate here, as we already have enough fires.
Diesel we can make out of coal, if push comes to shove. Look up LEUNA.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19latestinsights/antibodies
Ok, so just 95%.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/office-for-national-statistics-scotland-england-wales-government-b2031918.html
Or 98%, according to this source.
As the saying goes "Chinesium is the weakest metal on earth".
Of course they will try to do what you say. Until now their success is rather limited. Their key skill is treating their own people like ants(see the Covid lockdown terror and other draconian things). There is no such Chinese man like a von Ardenne, a Diesel, a Hoare, a Copernicus.
Their nation is based on brutal repression by communism. Great minds are destroyed by that.
Also, there is no honesty in Chinese Quality Control. How can anyone complain about bad quality, when the cause of it is a communist plant manager ? They still worship the Covid thing, even though 99,7% of populace is now naturally immune.
High end weaponry needs high end semiconductors for all sorts of applications. As both the Ukraine and Taiwan fires are very real, we (NATO+SK+JP+ANZAC) need to restrict the supply of petrol to China and Russia.
Also, other machinery, chemicals, instruments, consulting services, specialist information must not be delivered to them. This is the best way to preserve the current international order and the moderate peace we have. "Free Trade" means "putting petrol next to the fires". Or rephrasing Uljanow "do not deliver rope to the commies, which they want to use to hang their opponents".
Even the rather small German Luftwaffe recently deployed five JÄGER90+Tankers to the Australia-Japan region. The German Navy sent a frigate. They operate in concert with RAAF, USN, RN, USAF and JASDF.
https://www.bmvg.de/de/themen/dossiers/engagement-im-indopazifik
We are in fact very close to a very hot war over the Taiwan issue.
Let's keep the petrol( high tech) away from the fire.
For some reason European voters are for Greenies and other Marxists. People who want to deprive us of competitive energy sources such as Uranium and Coal. Greenies are programmed by America-WEF to damage European economies and their roots are in Maoism. Of course Mao wants China to be strong and everybody else to be weak.
Voters need to grow a pair and get rid of these traitors.
Then we can again have competitive energy prices and run data centers here.
Secondly, we need an Airbus-like cooperation of European nations to create alternative IT systems. Think of a nicely integrated solution of European hardware, Linux, a sleek QT GUI, LibreOffice, NextCloud, OnlyOffice, Jitsi and so on. Using Modula-2, Oberon, SPARK Ada, seL4 where it makes sense. Italian mechanical hardware design, French CompCert compiler, British CPU, German HA OS and so on.
We need to assemble the existing pieces into something competitive. Something which is not infested with key loggers and other extraction mechanism (Ala Google Docs). Police wiretapping must be transparent and defined by law, which is not hard if you think about it. Require people to post their keymat to the local police station. Much better than the covert subversion we currently have.
At the same time as Unix and C were created, the Algol Mainframes were developed by ICL, Burroughs and Moscow(now MCST).
These computers already had quite a few memory safety mechanisms.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1463321/was-algol-ever-used-for-mainstream-programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICL_VME
If the insured companies actually used best practices, then insurance against unknown issues is reasonable.
But who decides what is "best practices" ?
Who mandates use of memory safe languages ?
Who mandates seL4 in certain areas ?
I guess the financial industry and central banks should come up with regulation, as the damage of 900 billions clearly threatens the entire economic system. They can always get help from other government agencies and specialist organizations such as HENSOLDT and INRIA.
These folks "presented" the world with the C language and the Unix OS written in C.
C and C++ based exploits are causing 70% of CVE exploits.
New projects should be realized in memory safe languages
http://sappeur.ddnss.de/Sappeur_Cyber_Security.pdf
+MODULA-2
+SPARK ADA
+OBERON
+RUST
+SAPPEUR
+SWIFT
+JAVA
+C#
Proven correct compilers and Operating Systems should be used
+seL4
+INRIA CompCert
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity/
So he openly admits that the subsystems were not tested before for low temperature ?
That does really NOT sound like seasoned engineering. If you want a complex system to operate correctly, you better simulate the environment (hot, cold, vibrations,electromagnetics, software input vectors, A/D sensor voltages, ...) and operation of ALL subsystems before. Rocket motor, avionics, vernier rockets, GPS receiver, telemetry etc. HIL Testing of all avionics and telemetry. ArianceSpace thought they could cheat on HIL and it cost them only 500 million Dollars (Ariane V first flight).
That is costly, but probably cheaper than launching the entire system and trying to decipher what went wrong based on telemetry from the real flight. Also the reason the Russians lost the race to the moon, they were overly aggressive instead of systematic and complete ground testing.
Having said that, the V2/A4 had plenty of launch failures, before it was moderately reliable. Mr Musk had plenty of failures until his rockets became reliable. So, keep trying, rinse repeat. Before that, test all subsystems in a simulated environment on the ground.
"Jet engines on airliners are optimized for thrust, not rotational energy."
Modern turbofans have a bypass ratio of 1:10 or even more. That (approx) means 90% of thrust comes from the fan. Most of the engine power is the torque and revolutions of the fan axle. As I wrote, remove the fan. Then add a gearbox to adapt to the speed of the generator. The hot exhaust from the turbine can then be used for hot water heating. ZF or the A400M folks can provide the gearbox.
Afaik, this approach is used in many warships, as yourself point out :-)
Kerosene is much easier to trade, transport and store as compared to LNG.
"liquefication of coal and gasification of coal and oil, that makes no sense"
With all due respect, you seem to be slow and not recognize there is a war ongoing.
"Town gas, but it was dirty"
What do you prefer - ice in the living room or a bit of fumes in the air. Again, this is a wartime measure.
"Germany only did it in WWII because they could not get oil"
We need a strategic insurance against energy blackmail. The two types of oil tyrants have teamed up, recently.
"But it would probably take decades to re-create the UK coal industry."
Drilling holes and doing UCG can be done quickly and with moderate manpower. Yes, Carbon Monoxide is not the nicest fuel, but much better than having nothing, freezing and closing factories forever.
The "aspiring CEO of English Electric" would ask RR to simply "bring the proven submarine nuclear engine to land" and begin trials by 1st of December 2022.
But alas, there is no English Electric anymore.
In France, the grandson of de Gaulle is an advocate, the president an equally useless Rothschild banker.
Germany, infested by Maoists who preach windmills with fervor.
In Russia, they have an SMR operational on a barge. Thank god their inefficiency and corruption is legendary.
Welcome to war. You can thank Mrs NULAND "Fuck the EU" and the WEF Young Leader trash fior it.
PUTIN, BAERBOCK, MERKEL, MACRON, TRUDEAU - WEF young leaders.
The WEF Trash also wants to inject an experimental gene therapy into the entire population, so that one of their chief oligarchs makes a "killing" 100 billion dollar business.
We need a Nuremberg 2.0 trial.
Why should we cater for people who are unwilling to think rigorously ?
The nations of Europe are great because we are sometimes able to overcome superstition. In the last few decades we have receded into feel good irrationality; if we want to survive it is time to use our intelligence.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
What came out of this great idea ?
Mr Rees-Mogg should by now developing a plan how to build 3 of these reactors per month, securing the expedited design validation and financing.
He once wanted to be the CEO of English General Electric. I guess he is now just one of these helpless RedShield Bankers like Mr Macron.
Like A, just replace the oil with Carbon Monoxide from C or from incomplete Lignite burn. Then costs will come down to 10 cent/kWh or even less. Let DGA, FGAN, QINETIQ work on this problem. They will be 10x faster than RR, MTU and SNECMA by themselves. Of course, pull out all the paper shifting BS ("V Modell", "Genehmigungsverfahren", "Consultation" etc etc).
A) Quick Fix Electricity: Lease Planes, remove engines. From the engine, remove the fan. Connect engine to generator. Add electronic control unit to synchronize with net and control power. Cost will be in the order of 40cen/kWh operational and 1Dollar/W Capital Cost. Still cheaper than blackouts, production stops and stopped trains. Can be done in the dozens of GW scale in a matter of weeks.
B) Lignite Coal Briquettes: Can be ramped up in a matter of weeks. Unbeatable national sovereignty.
C) Underground Coal Gasification: under the North Sea, there are vast coal reserves, that can be turned into hot CO and then on the surface to CO2, generating huge amounts of heat (100GW easily). The heat can be used for electricity or heating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBpj42CF2yI
D) Coal2Methane, Coal2Diesel, Coal2Petrol. Been there done that, worked nicely until those bombers destroyed it. Can be done again !
All of this can and will be done, if the situation worsens and some foreign tyrants think they can stick it to us.
We also have to drastically reduce methane consumption, because 40% came from Russia. In practice this means that some industries will have to shut down or maybe die completely.
In addition, we might experience a shortage for private methane consumption.
All of which can be handled, if you know more options than handing out money. Engineers can find solutions, lawyers(chancellor) and children's tale authors(economy minister) can only scare the people.
What we will do is to put a small oil-powered stove in methane-heated households. Ersatz Chimney through the wall, using a bit of sheet metal piping. That will create a bit of fumes, but I am sure nobody will want to trade that for ice in the living room.
https://www.hornbach.de/shop/Oelofen-Haas-Sohn-Elba-II-406-55-Braun-Beige/5795556/artikel.html
And that is just Engineering Measure Nr 1. Many more to follow, if needed.
Just think hard. Do you think solar cells come free of environmental damage ? Certainly not. Installers fall from the roof then and now. Windmills are full of hazardous materials, which are currently impossible to recycle, at least economically. After 20 years, they must be demolished for safety reasons.
Same argument can be made about any source of energy. Think of the people killed in Wars For Oil.
Think of the political damage of Lack Of Methane. People killed from methane explosions.
People getting cancer from coal exhaust, much of which is radioactive(was naturally buried, is now airborne).
1.) Fast Neutron Breeders, which can burn U238, Thorium and Plutonium. The Russians have it operational in Beloyarsk.
2.) Maybe the SMR reactors, which can be mass produced and shipped by heavy road vehicles.
3.) Simply more large pressurized water reactors. They have a very good safety record in terms of People_Killed/TWh. That includes the 1000 or so people killed in Tshernobyl, Windscale and Fukushima. All other energy sources kill more people per unit of energy generated.
4.) U238 we have sufficient in storage and U235 can even be mined in many places in Europe, providing great jobs for European families. All controlled by competent and honest medical professionals.
Fusion is a nice concept, but still very much research and no commercial development. The fission reactors we know can provide reliable energy production at reasonable cost (unlike wind+solar) and they can provide tens of thousands of well paid jobs for educated people. As opposed to make-work programs in "renewable" and pipe dreams.
What we need is Industrial Policy as opposed to MaoistGreenScare and FreeMarketByTyrantCarboSource. Energy is a strategic matter like building tanks and fighter jets; it must be secured by government policy and long term finance. Just like the reactor building programs of the past.
1.) Running you own WWW server is by no means as hard as climbing an 8000m mountain. More like "get your fat arse up the local 50m hill"
2.) Posting something on Facebook means that your ideas can be killed any time, especially if you post something inconvenient to some oligarch. They can either do this in a hard or a stealthy way. On FB, you are not a free man, but a slave-product of an oligarch and the Giga-financiers who own his stock.
3.) As I wrote, there are now lots of small WWW sites, internet radio stations, non YT video sites. There is absolutely no need to further the dystopian control of a few oligarchs. Rather, we should consciously use the little guy alternatives. The oligarchs displayed their rotten attitude when they pushed GATES' Covid agenda and business, all while censoring dissenters to nowhere.
3.2) Klaus Schwabs "you will own nothing" should be a warning to all free men, of the coming merger of Big Business and Marxism.
Fighting biology is one of the insane aspects of hard core Marxism. These folks killed 100 Million people in the 20th century and they now want to maim teenagers for the rest of their lives. Somebody needs to call out this.
SPARTA have been dangerous nutters, already 2000 years ago. They hated the family and wanted to steal children from their father and mother, in order to turn them into superbrute soldiers. A wholly rotten idea.
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