Posts by Tom 7 8318 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
Old engineers dont need to make up stories. Some are often come from breeding two stories and evolution is a wonderful thing. While working at one large place me and a man in an office 1/2 mile away launched two totally different but credible rumours at just after coffee one morning and by afternoon tea the whole place was buzzing with their bastard, and TBH fucking hilarious, offspring.
This was at a time I call before work had to be miserable and I doubt even well placed rumours would get far before being killed by the lack of humanity in modern workplaces.
I gave my love a bunch of flowers saying "Here's a bunch of plant reproductive organs I've killed for you and sorry they were grown using vital land that could have fed starving children". Not the most romantic thing but at least I've never had to buy her any more and the starving children are our own.
While there may be sour grapes here I dont think that is any reason not to pour a thousand tons of piss and vinegar onto musk in the hope it washed away some of his over optimism and replaces it with some rock hard caution.
A single failure is an indication that there is a cavalier approach somewhere in the system. Engineering is hard but our local garage makes money out of regular checks and damage through wear and tear and human stupidity, They dont seem to get many 'well fuck me that was obvious now I think about it' repairs to do. Musk does.
Nothing investment and testing cant solve. But its far too early to send people to Mars. Their lives are too valuable but then so is the reputation of manned space travel - a major disaster could set things back another 50 years. Its not like he's short of money to get things right.
We are in the sticks and are fed by three phase to a pole and transformer that leans over by 15degrees and feeds our house* by armoured cable to a pole in our garden 30 ft from the explosive** fuse box and meter. It feeds by armoured cable because the pole that leans over snapped the last cable but they dont seem to want to ix it properly until the cows start chewing on the three phase.
The max in house I've measure is 235v when the PV is going flat out and everything I could find was turned off. We often get lulls where the LED lights cut out and the filament ones glow a dull orange which is romantic. Or would be it the PC would stay up which it wont!
* next door is off the same transformer on another phase I guess.
**we have a spare explosive fuse in case lightning takes out the installed one though I cant remember where that came from honest guv it was here when we moved in.
I did try and implement a 'security from the bottom up' system. You couldn't access any data/app that could access that
without permission, the permission being devised by the owners of the data etc.
Turned out management didnt actually want any security really - more interested in finding out what other parts of the company were doing well so they could absorb them and claim their commission cut.
Farage is not to be trusted. Norway was fine for him then, but now it seems no-deal wont be enough.
The ERG would not have been happy with it either and while a Norway deal might be fine for a Norway that still has massive oil wealth and taxes that would make a tory commit suicide its effect on the UK would have been bloody awful, which would be blamed on the EU and round we would go again.
The in-laws have a place in the Algarve and its very nice there but I fear it is near breaking point as in the locals can no longer afford to live there - indeed the restaurants ten years ago you could spend all night in over food and wine costing 20 or 30 quid will skin you for that and boot ease you out after an hour and a half or so. A lot of the area burnt last year as well.
Still better a bomb site there!
When I was younger I was 6'5 and 70kg - I still didnt fit into aircraft seats and had to manspread to take off as the table on the seat in front prevented me from kneeing the poor bastard in fronts kidneys.
Clothes manufacturers seem to have an inkling that people are different sizes - perhaps the airlines should take note.
I'm a large passenger - 6'5. Most planes have seats that bend forward in the wrong place. My all time favourite is the twat that put those little headrests on train seats that stick out a couple of inches each side at the top - in my back! If I ever catch up with that bastart Dr Mengele will look like a saint.
Seats take up warm-paying-body space.
I've a particular bugbear on this on - I'd 6'5 so booked some extra legroom on a flight which was up against a bulk-head - not too bad as I could lift my legs up and rest them on the bulkhead which is sometimes nice. The couple next to me were both quite small but had booked some platform they could put their baby on that attached to the bulkhead and invaded the space in front of me so I couldn't get comfortable at all. And of course the poor little sod was only about a month old and couldn't clear its ears and screamed for the duration of the flight. Fucking sadists.
is very simple and very naive. It requires a uniformity in the accretion disk that I find hard to imagine in 2nd generation systems where the concentration of material that sets the thing going is likely to come from the collision of two or more shock wave from supernova and some interstellar junk as well.
Just looking at the remnants that adorn the heavens today you should be able to imagine places where large planets form in clumps of 'disk' long before other parts collapse to form stars as a(?) shock wave passed through. For every nice accretion disk there are a billion acned teenagers faces that will also form planetary systems.
My local village went FTTC a couple of years ago, There are a dozen or so small businesses there and none have upgraded to the higher speed. The local primary school had 20Mb fibre before then and haven't found a need to change. The local secondary school doesnt need the 76M FTTC feed according to the techie who runs the IT there.
I used to work at a place with 30,000 customers and had a 2M connection and almost all our business ran on that - you can do business lunches on 5G as far as I know.
I've just gone 4G and I would bet that is more than enough for most small business that dont allow their employees to watch (or make) 4k all day.
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