Posts by werdsmith

Hacking, to go out for a ride on a horse around the bridleways and country roads.

Nobody suggests it’s 100% safe, Jules Bianchi is a more recent tragedy.

But it is amazing and beneficial to us all that so much engineering effort goes into racing car safety that an F1 car can be sliced in two as it pierces and passes through a metal barrier, burst into a fireball and the driver can step out and hop over a fence.

Senna’s accident had an element of misfortune about it, that the high energy suspension component should impact where it did. And the Jules Bianchi incident involved a construction vehicle on the track boundary where there ought to have been, in normal circumstances, an energy absorbing barrier.

Re: America is never shy

I wonder how many of these wise quotes are misattributed. High 90s % I would guess.

Re: 5 meters off target after travelling millions of kilometres

5 metres, but the landing process was given autonomous ability to choose its own spot for a safe landing.

Re: 2K??

"fools and their money" seems an idiotic proverb to sling around in the modern world, as it's usually aimed at people who always seem to have plenty of money to part with, by people who don't.

Most of the people who buy one of these, or take it on a monthly contract will not notice the cost. Because by leading a life of a fool they have somehow become wealthy.

If you are a cow and your milk, or your meat get sold? If you are a sheep and your wool gets sold?

These are not customers. Faecebook thickos are not customers because they get harvested, they are dumb beasts.

It's a feasibility matter and I'm sure, given the variation in disabilities, that there will be people who are not disadvantaged by their disability in a space environment and by excluding them unnecessarily we are missing out on some talented people.

Re: Getting closer to time to retire?

I'm counting the days, my early retirement will be from full on IT supporting science to doing some of the science part time. I'm wringing out the last of this current role, when it goes then so do I.

I won't miss it.

Re: SpaceX

Maybe it's not usual in Texas, I guess that such cold weather is more unusual in Athens this week compared to Houston area. Although the Greek utilities seem to have managed to keep their power on.

But in the US, in the 90s, I was in the Bay Area and we used to get regular daytime power cuts from PG&E during the hot months when all the aircon was on. They just accepted it as normal. Has it changed and better now?

Re: I want(ed) to be an Astronaut

John Glenn lived to 95, Buzz Aldrin still going well at 91, Frank Borman II is 92, Jim Lovell is a few days behind Frank.

A small part of a spacecraft could be designed as a safe haven, and astronauts retire to this haven when the solar stuff gets angry.

Re: Safety?

Watching a Red Funnel car ferry arrive at East Cowes when the water is really active with sailing craft is sometimes fun, and sailing boats have found that they can’t get out of the way quick enough occasionally.

https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/news/investigation-after-red-funnel-ferry-sinks-a-yacht-in-cowes-harbour-67771

Re: Target Audience?

The target market is not you.

It’s not me either, but it’s not all about me,

Re: Moar Please!

I bought my house from a retired aerospace engineer who worked on SAM missiles. The garage was full of interesting pilfered items. I've kept one of the gyros.

Re: Who wants a cloud OS?

When distributing free laptops to low income family school kids for work from home, Windows has been chosen over CB because the kids are already familiar with it.

The Fortnum hampers that were distributed around our staff in December cost enough to make this Choc bill look like lost change.

Re: Because...

Old kit goes into a mighty chewing machine and gets ground up to sub 1cm bits. Smoke and sparks come out, it’s very entertaining.

Clearing junk is a tough one. If you throw enough cash at it you might make an impression on it, but someone needs to come up with something new and clever and many dissertations have been wasted on this problem.

Sounds like it has more compute power than a Speak & Spell machine at least.

Re: Waste and safety and usability

Piggy back your wifi on the lower beam.

Re: So what's going to follow?

I've had three attempts to get along with the alternative, when they've dropped a new version I sort of expect it to be better. But it always turns out to be the same awful low rent junk.

Re: Most iPhone upgraders ever, per the Q1 results call

Was it an S21 ?

Re: I am surprised at this much progress

The "BT Technical Centre" calls from "Shaun" or "Steve" with the strong Indian accent have stopped now. I strung them out by pretending to follow their instructions to download remote control software (making lots of mistakes and asking silly questions to wind them up). Then after wasting enough of their time I dropped the bomb, they get very angry and even more when I laugh.

To collide the drone would have to be in front of a moving helicopter or above a slow moving one.

Re: Once.....

I always update immediately and I’ve never been left with a problem that affects use.

I guess I must be just lucky.

Re: One can suspend MacBooks with a magnet too

Avoid high power radio transmitters? You mean like a microwave oven?

Imagine an 800 Watt WiFi transmitter.

And you are implying that Windows fits that description? [laughs]

Sanctimony aside, that's exactly what it does.

Debian seems to have a specific and excellent role to play in providing a core Linux OS that many other people can riff off. Debian should focus on doing what it does well, and listening to comments/criticisms that are relevant to that.

That's all well and good as long as wider adoption is not one of the aims.

Re: Odd chip

Astounding amount of expert brains on these forums.

What is plain dumb is to comment without reading about the item in question.

Re: The right attitude

Once bitten the twice shy victim will be a harder target.

The problem with paying ransoms is that it funds the criminals and encourages them to continue their work.

Re: Damage to main rotor

Pieces after the drone has been shattered might get ingested, but the intake is in the rotor downdraft so the drone won't go into it.

Re: Hands up who thought it would be the cleaner again

What the heck is the cleaner doing in a server room, messing with the PDUs in the rack?

Who left the rack unlocked? Especially the back door where the PDU is.