People who ever lived on Earth is just over a magnitude more than were alive in 2020 (7% of all people every alive lived in 2020) [0].
But interestingly if you divide a light-year by 117 Billion (the number of people ever alive according to [0]) it comes down to about 80 000 km per person (coincidently 2x the Earth circumference). If the average life-span was 80 years, that would bring the daily travelled distance to 2.7km per person, or 5.4km if average life-span was 40. 5.4k is easily done in an hour (especially by people walking as their main mode of transport).
So yeah, maybe all people that ever lived together walked somewhere between 1-10 lightyears together. So all in all, not that much compared to US airlines in the last 15 years.
I was going to say the combination of huge oil and gas resources combined with low debt makes it hard for it to be doomed. I mean the war is expensive and they may have to cut back but that doesn't really count as doomed.
This is an address book application - based on sourcecode of the build-in Address Book, but extended a lot.
Unfortunately there's no commit history, I'm not a big master of SVN import into git. But still the code may be pretty interesting. All plain C.
An excellent read.
While not directly related, I started remembering how fun it was to program for classic PalmOS with Motorola 68k CPUs: it also had the 64k segment limitation, so you had to structure application code blocks closely together in the linker.
Where do you see that? All the videos I've seen show the plane flying fine on the glide slope but the tree line is obstructed on the camera, the explosions appear when the plane is way below the obstructions.
Edit: found a video I hadn't seen before, you can clearly see the airplane on the glide slope abruptly trying to pitch up before impact[0].
Nothing in these videos indicate your initial statement though, there's no visible damage before the crash so I'm still puzzled on how you reached that initial conclusion.
I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that right now there's nothing I see to support there was an earlier explosion as you stated.
No worries, I was trying to see if there was something public already indicating it since I'm also quite suspicious after Germany had reported finding a package in Frankfurt airport which could ignite and seemed like sabotage.
They shouldn't have been in the point of impact in any case, so the root cause was something way before the impact, and cannot be seen on the video. Above in this thread is a link with the ATC recording, in which the pilot gives incorrect readbacks, indicating a typical CFIT where they just assumed all is fine until the last second when they tried to maneuver out of this. Hence the obvious surprise. The video seems to show they hit something at the tree top or streetlight level after the last second pullup/dive/bank/whatever that maneuver was.
Massive difference between airliners and aircraft. Russia has not shown itself capable of mass manufacturing airliners. (Or even advanced aircraft for that matter.)
That said, as a petro state, they’re fine running inefficient engines across their skies.
The SSJ-100 contains far more important systems (not parts) [1] than e.g. Embraer’s regional jets. It was designed with consultation from Boeing, including throughout manufacturing. Russia’s indigenous jets are terrible, and there is no reason to expect them to improve, they can’t compete against the Chinese for the anti-Western market.
To be fair to Sukhoi, this is how Boeing builds planes. If America were sanctioned by its allies, I’d similarly argue that Boeing, too, is incapable of mass manufacturing airliners.
>The SSJ-100 contains far more important systems (not parts) than e.g. Embraer’s regional jets
Embraer jets all use Pratt & Whitney engines which is the hardest part to replace.
> they can’t compete against the Chinese for the anti-Western market.
All Chinese jet airplanes use Western engines and other systems[0][1]. China can't sell them on the anti-Western market just like Russia wasn't allowed to sell Tu-204SM with PS-90A2 engines co-developed with Pratt & Whitney[2].
Russia officially built only one SSJ in 2024 – RA-89192. But in fact it was originally built in 2022 and it is probably the last SSJ-100 ever produced.
There is no such thing as an SSJ-100 with Russian-made engines, period. Airlines cannot buy them, and you cannot fly them. Even the MC-21 is slightly more realistic, but it is also not available to any airline.
We have been hearing this never-ending story of "aircraft will be available in 2 years" for a very long time. :)
Dear untech,
1. I am both a Russian and a Russian citizen.
2. I comment a lot on Russia-related topics because I'm a Russian and I know quite a lot about Russia.
3. I'm also a software developer so I enjoy reading most HackerNews content.
4. Talking with people and learning their opinions seems worthwile to me. It's not really a waste of time.
A foreign conflict I’ve adopted for personal interest and to be opinionated about, but over which I have little to no influence or ground truth. The popular ones in America being Ukraine and Gaza. (The unpopular ones: the wars in Sudan, Ethiopia and Burma.)
“Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.”
In theory yes, in practice deliveries of domestic aircraft have stalled. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 for instance hasn't had a delivery in 2 years and I think the Tu-204 also did not get any deliveries though they expected some this year. It is however also very hard to find out what exactly is going on, because the information regarding civil aviation is quite restricted nowadays.
They have a big problem with producing modern engines and won’t catch up with the demand without Western suppliers for at least a decade, which means that in a couple of years this is going to be a huge problem.
