Re: "Burnout"
If I create an army of straw men, am I depriving a military commander of his job?
Absolutely ridiculous naive bollocks.
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Absolute, unqualified nonsense.
https://legalvision.co.uk/employment/volunteers-workplace/
It is internships which require payment by a for profit employer. Internships being slightly different from volunteering.
The idea of working for a profit business for no pay if the business is making good money does qualify under fucking stupid though.
You have demonstrated that you don't know what open source is (it's not for profit, for example),
MySQL was purchased for $1 billion by Sun. Sun which amounted to MySQL and Java was purchased for $5.6 billion by Oracle. Oracle is now miking both of those projects because Oracle didn’t buy Sun because Larry was feeling benevolent.
People know what Open Source is, but they also understand how the world actually works and how idealism is just a nice idea.
Don't know if it fell over, it was actually meant to land on a different side down compared to the in flight orientation, so if one of the landing legs contacted the ground or an obstruction before the other, it may have landed correctly on its legs but turned. But perhaps it did a slow motion fall onto one side. I don't know how weight is distributed within the chassis but it does have a top heavy look to it.
I understand that LEV-1 has autonomous direct to earth comms and it also relays comms for LEV-2.
As far as I know, these two are working and they will be used to photograph the SLIM lander which seems to have suffered a rotation about at least one of its axes on landing. I believe that the data downloads for images will take some time.
I guess Python is the new BASIC, but what's the minimum hardware for that?
Casio and TI calculators have Python interpreters.
Micro Python runs on little microcontrollers like Raspberry Pico 2040 for a couple of quid.
BASIC of the time didn’t really have distinct function blocks but it did have conditional branching so was OK as a starter language.
Picking two what?
This is the actual syllabus headlines for GCSE :
Fundamentals of algorithms
Programming
Fundamentals of data representation
Computer systems
Fundamentals of computer networks
Cyber security
Relational databases and structured query language (SQL)
Ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology on wider society, including issues of privacy
Assessments
You won 't find anything about "underlining and right justifying in Word". Which is what I was responding to.
Is a bit off in my view. Most people learned to program the BBC at school
BBC? Never saw one, it was a rich persons computer. The equivalent chunk of salary now would be a Macbook Pro purchase.
Spectrums were in homes and more affordable, turned up on more birthdays and christmas mornings. People had their own with unfettered access at home, rather than the occasional access at school (iuf your school had a BBC Micro, mine never did).
5 million spectrums+ were built and sold but despite the support of the government, the BBC and some schools, less than a million of all variants on BBC Micro. (https://bbcmicro.computer/how-many-made).
No chance that me or any of my peers were getting hands on a BBC Micro, I just about managed to obtain a ZX81 and that got me rolling. You'll find there are many more ZX babies than Acorn ones and that's where the deep legacy is.
The Commmodore machines, after Vic-20 were popular but far more of those were just used as games consoles with a keyboard.
One of the biggest challenges is the bit where the camera see you getting to close to a white line without having used an indicator so takes over the steering to move you away from it - straight into the pothole/vehicle you were trying to avoid
I've driven several makes of cars with this feature and more. It doesn't work like that at all. You feel the steering in your hands kind of reminding you and urging you to move away from the line, but it doesn't take over and is overridden with minimal resistance. If you ignored it because you weren't paying attention to your driving (like falling asleep or looking at a phone) then it would guide keep the car in lane. It's also easy to switch off.
Newer cars have more engineered in safety, energy absorption is improving all the time. If somebody driving carefully in a revered old classic meets an idiot in a new car who causes a collision then the likelihood is that the idiot walks away with ears ringing from airbag infation. The classic car driver will have an extended stay in hospital, if they are lucky.
I also have a TomTom SatNav, a cheap entry level one with free updates for life. I stopped using it some time ago when I started getting cars with builtin nav.
Last week I hired a Transit with no sat nav. I dug out the old TomTom and plugged it in, pulled up the TomTom websites and a message "your map data is over 42 months old, please update".
Clicked update, and it loaded maps from October 2023.
Also, if you connect to website it downloads the latest satellite data for quicker fix.
I understand some TOMTOM sat navs with western europe maps sstopped updating because all western europe data outgrew the available storage on the device, but it is still possible to down load a single country.
A few years back there were a load of lies in tabloids about stopping updates for eol devices. TomTom tried to clarify, but the dirty media ignored it, and loads of thickos sucked it up.
What has your imagination got to do with anything? These are a 7KW power supply at random places in streets that are becoming available for repurpose. So they take the power feed from the box and present it a couple of metres away. So all the whinging about cables across pavements is destroyed and the whiners are disappointed and need to look for some other outlet for their negativity.
Why wasn't it obvious to everyone that the cables would not lie on top of the pavement? FFS get a grip.