Posts by Boris the Cockroach

Re: It is mandatory to have a Oh No Oh Second experience

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"And one of the only other times you will see it, outside of IT, is during a car crash."

You've never been involved in robotic programming then?....... being called over to cell #5 today because the operater loaded the magazine with castings and put them up the wrong way with the hole at the bottom.

Then pressed start.... where the arm grabbed the first casting , stuck it in the lathe and then he noticed the tool heading for a non-existant hole.........., to his credit he did e-stop the cell... too bad it was after the tool and part died (we've had worse than that ..... thats when the ohno second goes straight to brown alert)

Re: Well that’s a new one!

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"Gives the authorities and media a new scapegoat after various genres of music, dungeons and dragons, comics and video games, right?"

I listened to, played, and read all of the above and never felt an urge to kill anyone.

Apart from the people on my little list,

but they'll never be missed

Re: A brief look back

Musk is a pillock, and more than likely a complete pain in the ass to work with.

However, its not the people who played it safe history remembers.

Plus hes saving the US taxpayer millions by having a cheaper launch option than ULA ever produced, such as the falcon heavy costing less to fly in full on throwaway configuration than a ULA rocket of the same lifting ability(and if the falcon heavy can land the sideboosters and core stage its even cheaper)

Spacex have also proved the reliabilty of their rockets as they've lost 2 in 200+ launches (one to a helium tank failure and 1 to a manufacturing fault in the helium tank asembly)

As for starship, all they've proved with that is that it can fly with multiple engine failures, an APU failure, a flight control failure,its strong enough to survive the flight termination system, and it would be great for digging big holes really quickly if you got it to hover at 40 foot from the ground.

heres looking forward to starships next launch.

PS Musk is still a pillock even with the above going for him

Thats what we Anunnaki want you to think,

After all we really control the world and groups such as the Secret Black Hispanic Gay Jewish Nazi Lizard Freemason Illuminati Alien Nuclear Whales are merely a way for us to control the population.

Should try flying into Dallas-Fort worth and being told that they'd lost the aircraft that was your onward flight.

they resorted to borrowing an aircraft that was supposed to be flying to Paris(no not that Paris) from a different terminal.

Re: The iPhone 15 toaster oven attachment coming any day soon!

It will be so toasty that it will start asking

"Does anyone want some toast?" 246 times a day............

Re: Lost the plot

"And courting Micor$oft...??"

just be glad m$ is not on board yet

"Ahhh thats a very nice processor you got there..... would be a shame if something ..... happened..... to all those spare clock cycles.."

Re: Obligation

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"All paths through the filters had to take exactly the same number of clock cycles and I achieved it with only one NOP. (How many of the younglings even know about such things?)"

I do because I had to debug an interupt servicing routine that took 65 msec to process on the longest case. bit of pisser when the interupts were coming in every 60 msec.

Then again... I'm no youngling

Re: For many of us, hybrids make more sense than BEVs

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"Something like 75-80% of vehicles in the UK are able to be parked off road at home (RAC figures I'e quoted often here)... a good proportion of the rest will be parked at work for good portions of their life."

In this area, (UK south coast) the 2 big citys run at about 75% street parking, especially in the older areas. EV charging will be via lampost(after tearing out the lamppost and its wiring and putting in a charging point with a power cable that can supply 10 cars... we'll not worry about 30 feet of power cable trailing to every car) then theres the power load on the 11Kv substation feeds and the 240v distribution cables.... theres at least 1 fault every year on the 11Kv somewhere in the city, and several on the 240v due to the age of the cables, the extra EV load should help increase that.

But its ok , you can charge at work...... using who's power? so look forward to the payslip Gross pay, followed by deductions: Income tax, national insurance, pension, EV charging.....

And as an amusing footnote..... you know all those people with off road parking/garages, and who cheerfully fill out their insurance quotes with 'garaged/off road parking'

How many actually USE it?

Re: Indicators?

This of course is a complete myth

BMWs do use their indicators as I saw on the motorway last night, as the BMW I was following had its right indicator on while turning left off the motorway.

And let us never forget that they use all 4 indicators at once to park anywhere they please (pedestriian crossings, double yellow lines on a blind corner, middle of a single lane road,blocking someone's driveway. etc etc.)

Re: More

Dont worry..... when labour get in all will be sweetness and light............ until they start making the stupid decisions led by a stupid idology

<<<already loading the brick cannon for labour.... run out of bricks to throw at the tories due to them buying the lot and then dropping them on their feet

Depends on the cost of building blue orgin rockets/buying ULA ones vs the cost of the proven flight design of the falcon 9

In other words... if it costs 15 billion to design/build your own launch vehicles vs 5 billion to buy space x launchers, thats 10 billion that amazone can return to the shareholders....

In any case , I bet the worry for bezosbub is that spacex adopt amazone delivery practices..... IE lob it into an orbit after getting close, then take a picture and claim it was delivered

Re: I knew my keyboard was doomed

Upvote for someone getting the reference

Re: computer intrusion, blackmail, and fraud

According to the beeb he was released on bail with conditions

One of them being no unsupervised access to the internet.

So he guessed the wifi password at the bail hostel, and logged right on in.....

On the subject of him being metally ill, the judge should make out a nice sectioning order that hes detained in a secure unit for at least 12 months for assessment plus treatment...

Re: A lot of people in the comments acting like someone pissed in their cereal this morning

And always remember the huge sums of money spent on NASA would keep the british health service running for about 3 months

Or the US military for about a week

Or the US welfare system for about 3 days.

As for the 'no humans on the moon we can do it better with robots' remember the mars insight lander and its struggles to get the seismic probe into the surface.... what that lander could have done with is a big fat human boot in the right place and that probe would have dug itself in just fine.

Yeah... but they dont have the same sort of impact we're looking for here...... ie 500lbs+ of batteries.......

<<<typed this 3 tymes due to beign worse for wear ... and now for the post pub fry up(where did that section go el-reg?)