Comment by estebank
20 hours ago
A headwind makes it harder to advance in the direction you're going. I think you might have meant to say "there is a strong tailwind towards memory safety".
20 hours ago
A headwind makes it harder to advance in the direction you're going. I think you might have meant to say "there is a strong tailwind towards memory safety".
You're right, I better do a 360 on my comment ;)
A 180 might be more useful :)
oh boy, maybe geometry intuitions and spatial reasoning are what's really needed.
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That was obviously a joke...
Do it twice to be sure
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> A headwind makes it harder to advance in the direction you're going
nit: except in aviation
Also in aviation, but with caveats; you want to take off and land with a headwind, because the headwind gives a greater airspeed which means greater lift.
This is true for takeoffs but not for landings. You want to land with a headwind because this means that for the same airspeed you have a lower groundspeed, i.e. when you actually touch down you're going slower on the runway than if you touched down at the same airspeed but with a tailwind.
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Ah
Surely a headwind makes an aircraft travel slower over the ground so it takes longer to reach the destination?
Correct. See e.g.:
https://www.businessinsider.com/3-aircraft-fly-new-york-to-l...