Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken 6157 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Oct 2015
"deploying a lot less code each time, hopefully just a handful of changes, or even just one"
Or even just none. Once the customer gets used to his "daily" update, he'll be expecting them. No bugs to fix, no code to tighten? Yust change the colour of that button...
In other news: another day, another DevOps plug.
You forgot the gift shop... where would you buy the t-shirts?
Maybe Lockheed-Martin's truck is something like a land-based aircraft carrier.
On a more serious note, I guess they have given the plumbing some thought already*, but will really get into it when they can sustain reactions lasting longer than fractions of seconds.
*Maybe not the physicists, but definitely the engineers building the thing.
Well, she has a magna cum laude PhD in physics* (Dr. rer.-nat.) and isn't related to Douglas Fargo, so she's good to go re pressing buttons.
* 1986: "Untersuchung des Mechanismus von Zerfallsreaktionen mit einfachem Bindungsbruch und Berechnung ihrer Geschwindigkeitskonstanten auf der Grundlage quantenchemischer und statistischer Methoden"
Fiat 500 - one of my favourites. The Abarth versions move very nicely, too. The Fiat 500 Giardiniera is the original minivan IMO.
There is one original Fiat 500 that was recently converted to accommodate a V12 Lamborghini motor. Bit of an abomination, but fast...
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrkultur/fiat-500-getunt-mit-einem-motor-aus-einem-lamborghini-murcielago-a-901161.html
Cruise missiles can carry nukes and use inertial navigation and maps, but GPS is much, much more accurate. Which is why it was developed.
If your cruise missile has to travel over land for some distance during the winter in regions like Siberia, (radar) maps won't work that well because snow and wind are constantly changeing the ground profile.
Early ICBMs had basically a hardcoded flight profile and had to be launched from a precise location to make that work. Easy on land, tricky from a submerged submarine.
One of the reasons for developing multi-megaton hydrogen bombs was the poor accuracy of ICBMs - if the bang is big enough, targeting doesn't have to be that neat.
"It's going to be taking a big breath: the base will need to be 22 metres square for stability."
That's only loosely connected to the size of the tower, depends on the design of the foundations (and what kind of ground conditions your're dealing with). Just look at wind turbines, for example.
But maybe improving the genius loci ("academic breathing", my podex) isnt't the only goal here? Maybe Narayana Murthy wants it to be his tomb as well?
1987 while being a student I worked part-time at a copy shop/printer. We had one Macintosh 128K or 512K, can't remember, but it did not have a HD and just the one single-sided floppy drive. And used Aldus PageMaker to do DTP. On a 9" black-and-white screen. Using 2 floppy disks, one for the sowtware, one for the file you were working on, and at least once every 5 minutes you had to swap them.
Still, given the cost of a Mac, a laser printer and the software compared to, say, a Linotype system, it was a breakthrough.
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