Posts by imanidiot

Re: HR Experience with big companies

" when the company tries to enforce it you can easily resign and claim constructive dismissal"

Afaik you should NEVER resign in such a situation (because that means you leave voluntarily and basically give up any recourse) and should always remain "willing, able and available" to perform your duties as stupulated under the original contract. If they then FIRE you for failing to abide by the NEW terms and build a case for that firing upon that failure, only THEN can you claim an unfair dismissal (depending on what country/state you are living in and their particular laws. Some parts of the world you're just SOL either way)

And even then I don't think "constructive dismissal is the right term here. AFAIK that applies to them moving you (and other people they want to get rid of) to "an exiting new opportunity in a new department of the company", only for them to then axe that whole department and everyone in it within a few months claiming the department is superfluous without giving you your old job back because "that's already restaffed". Ie, they "constructed" the circumstances to be able to claim that they should be allowed to fire you.

Re: Hummmm sounds familiar...

Luckily fine print on the BACK of a signed sheet isn't actually legally enforceable, it would at the very least have to be initialed and dated on the back for that to work. Any competent lawyer would have laughed them out of court.

Re: Feck, Arse, Girls, Drink.

very much this. Google has become pointless for some complex searches because it just ignores all those carefully crafted search terms for it's on interpretation of what it thinks you might have meant (had you been a boozed up 4 year old suffering ADHD).

Re: Scunthorpe

I'll add De Cocksdorp.

Re: Anti-Jam

Don't think Heathrow uses GNSS approaches. AFAIK they have good old ILS on all their runways. Theoretically spoofable (there's some proof of concept attacks out there) but in practice that is REALLY hard to do.

Re: The human mind is a frightening thing

You're already going wrong in the first question. People like this aren't capable of thinking and breathing at the same time. Since he was still alive (and thus must have been breathing) he wasn't thinking.

Re: Been there, Done that

Even with the military precision GPS isn't fast or accurate enough for precision guidance of things like cruise missiles. Especially in altitude for things like terrain following. So you still need things like terrain relative navigation. Also, GPS has always been regarded as "nice to have" by the military, as a single nuke in space can likely take it down completely so not a system to be solely relied on.

Re: They've done it again!

Not really a hole as such, its glass. But yes, it's a low-res thumbnail image taken through a field of view limiting protective transparent lens cap, not the full resolution that can be expected from the hazard cameras in future.

Definitely true. I remember seeing some photo's of the interior panels of an ex-passenger 747 being removed, showing the inside between the covering and the pressure hull being basically filled with a thick gelatinous yellow goop. The result of years and years of tar, nicotine and other chemicals from smoking seeping into the insulating material, turning it into a disgusting sludge. It's unfortunate I cannot seem to locate those photo's anymore.

Re: Single point of failure

ASML is big enough that one comapny picnic is unlikely to slow things down much.

ASML is also only a monopoly when it comes to EUV systems (NXE and the future high-NA system). For immersion and dry DUV litho there's other options. Afaik the Twinscan platform gives superior throughput and ASML provides very good service support, which is why they are preferred, but they're not the only option for those system.

Basically this. 5nm is what they call a "node" name. It sort of denotes how large a gate would have been had things kept scaling according to Moore's law. In practice gate length hasn't shrunk since the 45nm node (iirc) and the introduction of FinFET gates.

(interesting read: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node)

Re: Single point of failure

" Until the Chinese have enough IP for their own fabs…"

It'll be a long while before China can catch up to even the mid-line photolitho systems of ASML, Canon or Nikon. There's a scary amount of technology working together in a photolitho scanner to the point where they might just be the most complicated machines on earth.

Re: PDNFTT

Point out which bits aren't true according to you. Please.

Re: Horse bolted a long time ago....

Boeing was doomed the second it was taken over by MD management and put the managers in charge and in a different city, so they couldn't be bothered by those pesky engineers.

The Boeing of the past, that put out the 747 as a side project just in case the SST didn't workout, that designed the iconic 737 and played a huge role in the development of military and passenger aviation was led by engineers first and foremost. People that had a feeling for their product and understood what it was they let roll out of the hanger doors at the end of the production line.

Re: hit their full power of 109 per cent

This.

100% is engine power at optimal fuel ratio. For liftoff you want a little bit of extra oomph to get things moving, so you go a bit "extra" and get more out of the engine for a bit. The engines throttle down as the craft gets moving and approaches "Max Q" then throttle back up to 100% for most efficient burn until MECO.

For every day use to provide a bit of background noise BT streaming is just fine. I doubt most MP3s provide enough bitrate to provide good enough sound anyway.

If you're after the true Hi-Fi experience only a wire will do probably.

Re: Not enough data to proceed

Exactly this. Very, very likely another few billion down the drain.

Re: Who rides the top deck?

An-124 apparently has quite comfortable crew rest accommodations (including a toilet): https://samchui.com/2020/02/18/flying-volga-dnepr-antonov-an-124-cargo-transporter/#.X_8Ywc1KhaQ