Posts by imanidiot 4422 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Mar 2012
Must be you then, I've never had a problem with them (in fact, they're my go-to sketching/drawing utensil as an engineer).
How much of the lead do you let stick out? Should be no more than a millimeter or 2 at most.
The sturdier clutch pencils with 3 or 5 mm leads also work fine if you can find a good quality one. Almost all I've found recently are cheaply made shit.
For deciding where the comfortable height of a workbench is, it does't really need to that accurate or repeatable. You wouldn't really notice too much if a workbench is at 105 or 107 cm height, but you definitely will if you have to work on something 90cm height when you're over 1.80 m tall
Cherry blue switches are delightful to type on, but a nightmare for all those around you trying to focus on their own work if you're stuck in an open plan office
I've gone for the Cherry Browns (just about clicky enough for my taste) for my home setup where I very rarely bother anyone. At work I'm stuck with a rubber dome keyboard with a rather disappointing feedback.
Starlink launched nearly uneventfully yesterday. The booster made a soft landing, just about 100 meters next to the barge, instead of ON the barge.. Details as to why are not available at this time.
As to the Dragon/Starliner "race", there is no way in hell Starliner will launch with people aboard before Crew Dragon does. SpaceX is currently putting the final touches on the capsule and will then be putting the stack together, Most of what is left before they can roll it out, fuel it up and light the blue touchpaper is paperwork.
Starliner on the other hand is a hot mess and more problems keep coming to light as they comb over the data from their borked test launch. With everything that's gone wrong there is a 50/50 chance NASA will have them do another dry run before they get man-rated (The only reason I can see them not do it is political pressure not to embarrass Boeing any further, to be honest)
Well yes, but moving 35 in a 55 zone makes you a moving hazard to other traffic because they are not expecting somebody to be moving 20 mph slower than them. It's okay to be moving a bit slower, but you should not form a hazard by going too slow either. (And most states in the US also have "obstructing the flow of traffic" laws for that reason. In a lot of European countries it falls under a more general "creating a traffic hazard" laws)
Crew dragon does have some sort of toilet facilities with a "privacy curtain", but they're likely to be very minimal.
I'd be more worried about "accidents" using those facilities. There's a reason the Apollo crews referred to the CM as "the mens room".
Looking at their last annual report, they're not that big a fund (roughly 125 million in total assets), most of which is invested. While I am not in any way knowledgeable on financial stuff/deals their reports on other "deals" don't exactly read like a beacon of ethical behaviour either imho.
Their plan seems to have been to get everyone opposing them in one room and pressure and/or bribe them into making a deal somehow. When most opposing forces refused to put themselves in that position they called the whole thing off because the whole point was to get them all in the same room.
So you shake your head, back of the throttle a little bit and let the gap grow again. It's not hard. (And no, this doesn't mean "you can't move at all because people keep diving into the gap". In reality most people on the road aren't total bellends despite what it feels like.)
Btw, at 30kph, 2 second rule means you should be keeping about 16 meters distance. Which is more than 2 car lengths. (2 car lengths is almost never enough!)
"the vast space between you and the car on front of you could perhaps comfortably fit another car. Which translates to less bandwidth.:"
You'd be surprised just how little that matters compared to the traffic jam preventing properties of having space available. At 50 kph you should have about 25 meters of space free in front of you. That COULD easily fit another car. But it shouldn't!!
Even if you DO keep that sensible distance you should be looking further up the road ANYWAY! That's not a replacement for keeping sufficient distance, it's called not driving like a moron.
Only actually good choices I have experience with Bose QuietComfort 35s or Sony WH-1000XM3. Choice depends on comfort and tolerance for Bose. (IF you get the Bose ones, don't EVER be tempted to update the firmware). I went with the QC35s because they fit me more comfortably, but a coworker is very happy with his Sony pair, both are in a similar price range.
In cheaper price ranges, you usually get what you pay for.
The whole point of Lorem Ipsum is that people see it as looking right as "a language" but not anything readable. The whole point of placeholder text in graphical layout work is to show where text will be without distracting the viewer with trying to read the text. Somebody that does website design should know Lorem Ipsum and use it.
"Pokémon GO is a game for children yet most of its players are adults"
Why do you say Pokémon Go is a game for children? AFAIK it's always been targeted at a young adults to 30s demographic (which is the majority user base too), i.e. those that got introduced to Pokémon in their younger years.
I did. (well, I wanted something with mechanical key switches that wasn't eyewateringly expensive. The RGB version of the keyboard I ended up with was on sale and cheaper than the non-backlit version.)
I'm a little too young to have scored a 80s or 90s keyboard and don't move around in the kind of circles that would land me with one so I make do with what I have now. Still like it WAY better than the mushy rubber dome Dell shit I have to use at work.
No, carbolic is different.
Green soap as used in the Netherlands and Germany was traditionally made from hemp oil, nowadays usually some other cheap oil like rapeseed or soybean oil and saponified with potassium hydroxide instead of the usual sodium hydroxide, which means it's a very soft almost gel like soap.
It's also very useful because it's very universally applicable and a lot cheaper (and often better) than a lot of the dedicated cleaning products.
Take it outside (Wearing elbow length gloves and a full face mask), put it in the gutter, point a fire hose at it. After getting most of it out, give it a good dunking in a bucket with some green/yellow/brown soap (Can't find the english name for it. The Dutch and German name translates to " Green soap") to get the rest. Should be good enough to dispose of after that.
Still using my Logitech MX-1000 after (at least) 13 years. Still going strong, microswitch wise. Did have to replace the battery and strip the rubber "tire" off the scroll wheel (it had swelled and become sticky), so gave it a thorough cleaning while doing that. That was 3 years ago.
I've witnessed a similar argument. However in our company the rather blunt and gruff shop foreman "don't take shit from no-one" so to speak. He quite clearly (and loudly) told the lady that if she wanted to step foot in HIS shop she would follow the damn rules and wear safety shoes. (Allegedly he at one point physically picked her up and dropped her outside the yellow lines when caught improperly heeled.)
Nowadays if a women insists they must wear something "stylish" there aresome less than perfect options
Those don't seem to meet S3 standards though.
"Surprisingly, the latest Apple Watch did slightly better, earning 6/10, with iFixit complimenting the device on the ease of screen and battery replacements"
Well, Apple figured out that it needs to do at least SOME basic service (like battery replacements) on it's products to keep it's market share. And their product needs to be capable of being serviced in order to offer that option.
Pilots need to dribk something, this ban effectively means the pilot flying can't have a drink unless someone else takes over PiF duty. This can be rather problematic, especially when the third man on long flights is on his rest break and in a crew bunk at the back of the plane.
Ahhh yes, the great EMO button that doesn't actually do anything.
Reminds me of the time I was working late in the cleanroom, far away from anyone else, getting sprayed in the face by 40 liters a second of water, desperately trying to keep the flow contained, just barely able to press the nearby EMO on the water conditioning cabinet, only to realise the flow doesn't stop and the pump is still running full blast...
Then you're left with 2 options. Release the broken L-joint, duck left, sprint to the nearest console and enter the required commands for a remote shutdown or option 2, release the broken L-joint, duck right, sprint to the main shutoffs in the control cabinets at the end of the lane and just close the valves, letting the spike in water pressure force the pumps into an auto shutdown.
I'm glad I'm not the one that had to report a 40 000 gallon water spill at a later time into the sub-fab basement at a customers fab though... That must have been a tough talk.
*Pedant alert*
"If the launch goes according to plan, it'll be the highest Starship has flown, marking a milestone for Musk."
No it won't be. StarHopper (as it's been nicknamed) wasn't Starship. This new test vehicle won't be Starship proper either. So Starship hasn't flown, and won't fly, until an actual Starship flies.
==> It might not be grammar related, but I'm sure it's pedantic ==>
Yeah, sure, if you ignore all the pre-work done since the 50s by the French and British. Plus the fact the basic outline of the aircraft had been on paper by 1961 already. Tu-144 development started in 1962.
So no, Tu-144 was NOT proposed before Concorde, it was NOT designed before Concorde. It did fly before Concorde (according to some reports mainly because it was rushed, not because the plane was actually ready). It was also a rather crude design that was noisy, uncomfortable and decidedly unsafe.
And if the whole team hadn't colluded and cooperated to keep the Junior out of the storm that would probably have been an option.
Cases like this is really a matter of "What management doesn't know can't hurt us (or them)". And since they care about being able to run the factory (and the team made that happen) and being able to show a shiny computer room (and they could), little details like how exactly 6 drives happen to fail on the same night don't really matter to PHBs.
Junior and the team got lucky he didn't try a good (production) disk pack in a failed drive after borking it though!
The sticky residue is actually the intended function, not a bug, in WD-40.
It's a water displacement product, intended to be sprayed onto seams where it'll seep in between the material and form a residue there or for covering a surface and form a protective film, preventing corrosion. The aforementioned rockets (The Atlas specifically) were one of those applications.
And they normally would, unless the drive is powered until the moment it hits the floor. The impact can whack the heads against the platter hard enough to lose the air cushion and stick them in place. Some (mostly laptop) drives now contain a accelerometer that parks the heads if it detects a 0G situation (freefall) to protect the drive
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