[deleted] t1_irpcdn1 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 12:31 AM

Reply to comment by NativeMasshole in TIL that passenger jet engines produce most of their thrust from fan at the front, not from the jet exhaust, and that this is called a high-bypass engine. by Rilot

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Archmagnance1 t1_irpkcq4 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 1:34 AM

That's saving labor. You need less man hours to do the same amount of calculations with the same amount of accuracy. If you do more with the same amount of labor, you're still saving labor compared to if you didn't have supercomputers.

Imagine how many man hours it would take to do a complex weather simulation to track the probability path of a hurricane? How many teams would you need working on the problem to give updates every 2 or 3 hours? Using information that is old and probably no longer valuable when they started?

[deleted] t1_irpp8uo wrote on October 10, 2022 at 2:14 AM

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Archmagnance1 t1_irpu9s2 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 2:55 AM

That's still saving labor though. It wouldn't be done because it takes too much labor to do then verify.

[deleted] t1_irpuew6 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 2:56 AM

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