Posts by Tom 7

Re: different controlling authorities on the one site

Wallpaper? In the 80s a friend of mine was pissed off with the page 3s stuck to the office walls and after the lads refusing to take them down stuck up large posters of naked men. It was delightfully effective and possibly the first time I heard mansplaining (though it was a long time before it got that name) as to why it was ok for there to be half naked women on the walls but not half naked men. It even got brought up at a union meeting where the old guard couldnt understand the laughter. They got woke in the end though - again a long time before someone thought up an ugly word for it.

With one in every town I'd imagine we'd have trouble keeping them safe from mischievous people should we do something stupid like sell weapons to a slightly different side of a religion for err fun!

Part of my current property (gedit) was knocked up by a builder and his sons in the 70s. When a switch fails I can guarantee its because the cable to it was cut 1/2" short and over time the tension has pulled the copper lose from under the not tightened down enough screw. When I had the PV put in the fitters noted half the wires in the back of the consumer unit were loose! I did wonder whether some previous occupant just overinsured the place.

Re: Working on that..

Grew up in an ancient old farmhouse. We did some rewiring and at the time got more for the lead cable we pulled out than the new copper cost. Still remember the smell of 300 year old cowshit in the wattle and daub walls when plastering around the new sockets/switches. The whole place was higgledy piggledy and extended out to a garage up against a very large old barn. In the garage about 10' up was a bakerlite box with a big switch on the side. We never looked to closely at it until the barns were turned into houses and in the process it was discovered (by a huge flash and bang from a digger) that this was connected to an old underground mains cable that even the electricity company had forgotten about. We could have cut our bills enormously!

I have an honours in electrical and electrical eng and it always amazes me that I can tell employees to do things I cant legally do myself.

Re: Just enough is enough.

I do wonder whether there is a case for the old large grey box that can be VNCed to for doing serious grunt work. I've got a dual GPU box which does Wake on Lan that I use for doing AI and other massively computational bits and pieces which I tend to do on sunny days so the PV takes the weight. Its not the sort of thing you want in an office as it gets quite noisy when its running hot but coming from pre PC days I can easily see this as being the sort of thing to be shared around so long as you can keep the miners off it.

Re: 4G will still be good enough for most people.

Time moves on, and gradually things take more and more bandwidth for very little reason at all.

A picture saves a thousand words. Which is a fucking waste of bandwidth when all you wanted woz a cheese burger. That four hundred other dickheads wanted to sell you something is neither here nor there.

Is it not strange that it seems harder to get water out of high humidity air than it is to get if from low humidity air? When the humidity is high here it comes out of the air on its own at the slightest temperature drop!

Re: Dragon?

So you're saying rather than put in a few bits of hardware to get Hubble going again in perhaps two to five years we should wait a whole generation?

Re: "observe the sky at high altitudes"

So clouds are below the sky? Cos I can nearly touch them here just before they drop into fog.

Every time I remember the Carrington event I do wonder if I can cycle to the nearest real ale beer barrels with taps pub for the last pissup ever.

Its going to be daytime when the shit hits!

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

Re: Ordered. Been waiting for this.

I did some motion detect on a zero which then fed into some AI to try and identify non chickens entering the chicken hut but due to networking problems and inquisitive and incontinent chickens I never quite worked out if it was actually powerful enough for this. Might give it another go!

I do wonder whether Lazarus might be a great thing to teach kids - runs ok on the Zero and has enough stuff to get you through a degree probably! For about £30 you can set a TV up to be something that ran a large office at the turn of the millennium.

Re: an unpopulated 40-pin GPIO interface

Wait till the populated version comes out then. If you cant find a use for it thats your problem.

Working from home getting to you?

Re: Black Arrows forth dimension

There were some strange post war ongoings that my mad Dad was convinced the US had more influence than is reported. The Avro Arrow was not just cancelled but destroyed while looking like the best thing available anywhere. It has been said it was because rockets with nukes were replacing planes with nukes but people still developed far less useful planes.

British supersonic jets, rockets and a few others seemed to get cancelled for dubious reasons.

But then my Dad was in academia and didnt come face to face with post war management in industry in the UK.

Re: Colonization

Some humans are selfish and egocentric Not sure how we eugenicise them humanely but it may be possible.

By the way nature is not self regulating, it just seems like that to people who dont look close enough.

Re: Negotiating...

But the decisions to keep the UK from bidding on other ESA projects would just look like spite if we weren't desperately trying to tear up an agreement that we hailed as worldbeating and now we claim to be failing having done absolutely nothing to implement,

Re: Brexit would be of benefit to Britain’s ambitions to become a “science superpower”

Why did they make us vote for brexit?

Re: British institutions are left high and dry

The UK won't overlook the French fishermens' lack of correct paperwork which they promised to give them but havent.

Do Not Spin?