Posts by Tom 7 8318 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
I flew LHR to Duluth with work, Business class! Champagne was OK. After that I find the best thing to drink is a bloody mary, without ice. So I ordered one and it turned up with ice in it. At the end of the flight I could attract the attention of the hostess and she'd say "bloody mary wthout ice" and return with tomato juice dripping from her fingers. After 14 of the buggers!
Given it seems to take less than 5 years for sufficient weeds to develop resistance to roundup and defeat any benefit I doubt the farmers will be better off in the long run or produce more food. I've got weeds in my gravel paths that are now resistant to all but NaClO4 which you cant buy any more but fortunately I've got some left over.
I'd bet its less than 80% of guys get the hint. In my 40 years in engineering and IT there was a serious incel whiny misogynist problem. Or just engineers who had trouble with things they couldn't control. I've seen women driven out of the workforce by fuckwits for no other reason than their mere presence made the blokes uncomfortable. People who would go around making charges like yours when there was no validity - just a complete lack of social awareness,
I was doing a student apprenticeship which involved lots of metalworking. We were given orange boiler suits before the US increased its prison stupidity. One of my colleagues decided the piece he had turned would benefit from a quick polish and used his sleeve cuff. A fraction of a second later there was a grunt a ripping noise and then the flap flap flap of his overalls spinning on the lathe and the clatter of his small change and he was just stood in his underpants and boots and socks and safety goggles.
The lesson to be learned here is check your overalls - decent ones are stitched with cotton that is nowhere near as strong as the material.
But as graphene is not strong enough by a long chalk there is no conceivable material that you could make it from. C-C is 3/4 the strength of the strongest bond you can get and anything else is not going to be in graphenes useful lattice.
So the tether does indeed look impossible,
I was walking the dog and found openreach putting in fibre to where my phone line is connected. The engineers who came round to fix things used to call it a cabinet until BTs FTTC squeezed some money out of the district council.
I watched them put it in, I read the cable.
Its not fibre - no one has any idea what I'm talking about - apart from a provider who was offered it by accident.
My dads lab had a thing for slicing up microscope samples that consisted of a very very very circular piece of tin foil spun at immense speed. It worked in a near vacuum but I found by arranging various bits of glass rods and tape I could defeat all the various fail safes and start it spinning with the door open. It went from whining to screaming to a very very loud crack that was an incredibly short but really painfully scary click as the foil basically vaporised itself coating the inside of the machine and my face in partly oxidised dust that would have given the game away even if the noise of it self destructing hadn't cause my face to adopt a look of 'OH FUCKING SHIT' that I couldn't shift for several hours.
I cant remember what my punishment was and as my Dad was old school violent and I can remember the effect that noise had on me it must have been extremely sharp.
Rust MAY be safer but it will not have the massive collection of libraries that other languages and organisations have built up that are vital to their work, So people will have to use the FFI and they will find their leakage problems are not solved.
I'd bet a far faster and more sustainable way to sort out these problems is to use many of the code coverage and analysis tools that are available and actually spend some time using it to check over the existing code for errors that are glaring to these things these days.
Trying to make new languages to solve old problems will invariably lead to more annoyance - I've got about 40 different Python implementations on my system - DLLhell++. I have no doubt RUST will come up with some similarly annoying but equally cul-de-sac moment that they didnt foresee that has been solved in many other languages.
Rather dysfunctional? Any legal system that can lock people up on a lesser charge that the innocents are given as an option to avoid a greater charger they are also innocent of id totally dysfunctional already.
Shit its only a couple of years since it stopped using hocus pocus hair identification tests that seemed to only work when the defendant was black.
Why dig up the roads when you can just put it in the bottom of the ditch. Last time I looked you could lay fibre at the bottom of an ocean - I doubt some Lincolnshire ditchwater would present much of a problem. The farmers in projects like B4RN will often lay the cable for you - which is why that costs about 1/10th the equivalent commercial service. Oh hang on I've just seen where I went wrong there.
I always felt Boris had seen the Poll Tax riots and realised that he could kettle^ a few demonstrators and be a hero for stopping what he started. I hope Brexit goes that way!
* its called kettling by the Police because its about bringing things to the boil.
Now if I could get one that would poll MY house power control unit with the price my electricity is going to change to in a second or so I could turn on the immersion and or storage heaters when its cheaper than using other sources they could be on to something.
TBF to the engineers here designing these things must be choking on their own vomit having to design something so antediluvian as they are specced. I spoke to our supplier - they kept ringing to see if I wanted one - and it is of almost zero use to the customer and given we dont get a 'bespoke wireless' signal where the current meter is its of no use to them either. But they really really wanted to install it anyway. I guess that's so they dont have to install one that might work for me for 30 years or something.
Kernow is coming back slowly - around 2000 speakers in Cornwall now. One thing about a local language is it can be very useful in entertainment situations. When all the brexiters come down here for holidays as they cant afford (or cant get visas) to leave these festered isles the serving staff and lifeguards will be able to communicate privately about which ones are more of a pain than the others and should be avoided as much as possible. Being able to feign a lack of English will allow them to have their full shouty holiday experience.
Every now and then i wonder about the Carrington Event in 1859. I'm fairly certain if that happened today we would see the end of civilisation as we know it. What we need is a backup system something on the lines of RaspberryPis with mesh networking over shortwave and wifi , a solar panel, battery and a large disk with as much info on how to switch the world back on in it.
One of my classmates had pissed about in the gym and managed to unhook one of the climbing ropes - the metal top dropped on his head and split it wide open. About a week later the nicest sweetest teacher in the school lost his temper for the first and possibly only time in his career and hurled the board duster at the pissed about in the gym lad who had broken him and it grazed the top of his head and a fountain of blood erupted from the wound.
How we laughed! God we were bastards!
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