Posts by werdsmith

Re: Why not go the whole hog

I live under an approach and I love the noises. The flaps deploying, the undercarriage going down all make noises I recognise and I can tell plane types apart purely by their sound now (I miss the distinct flap howl of BAE 146 / RJ180).

This morning one plane made a loud rattling noise that had me running out to see what was up.

The engines do make a whine on approach, you can hear it throttling up and down adjusting slope.

The old planes that do freight very early in the morning are very loud.

Re: I love a little Pi[e]

That’s a special prototype pi if it’s from 2011.

To get it to boot up, get one of the older OS images on your SD card.

Re: 5G?, Decent 4G and Voice Would be nice In Hertfordshire

I don't understand how anyone can be fooled when the only real use the average subscriber has for these numbers is to compare one service relative to another.

Re: Quick learner

A human takes an average of 10 months just to learn how to walk a few steps.

So teaching this course to a grown human draws of many years of prior learning and practice.

Tell me again how it is tied to one OS.

Tell me it’s origin.

I guess you are one of those who are invested in it.

Re: A solution looking for a problem

Of course single anecdotes are not everything but when a lady stepped into the road in front of me, the car was braking before I could get onto the brake and push it. Pulled up 2 metres short although she woke up and hopped back out of the way.

Re: Space suppository

It takes a certain kind of mind.

Re: Yeah, that sounds plausible.

Yes, USA has an excellent craft beer culture, I have often enjoyed it.

I’m not sure about milk being not as common in rural markets considering dairy farming is a rural industry.

Re: Lucky it's not 1,000,000:1

Considering people hope to win the lottery (at 1:60 million or thereabouts) this is not such a small chance...

"People" do win lotteries almost every week though. If there were as many Earths as there were lottery players then the asteroid would hit.

Re: Nasa priority

So as scientific as the Apollo missions?

All successful Apollo missions deployed a decent amount of science in the ALSEP packages.

On the face of it, forcing all the pervs and pedos onto to rivals is no bad thing for Apple. If you have products that offer strong security, then they might be attractive to the criminals leading to your products becoming known as the ones favoured by them. Which would make the products less attractive to the majority innocent market. This move by Apple pushes the stigma onto rivals.

Re: AI and Race

Individualised medicine is indeed far more effective than general treatment. However, organisations like the NHS have such a huge workload, they are forced to use a treatment that works for most people, a bit like mass education pedagogical methods don’t suit everyone.

It is true that conditions such as sickle cell anaemia affect people of African heritage more than others, and cystic fibrosis will affect people of European heritage more than others. To acknowledge this and understand why would surely help in research for treatment.

Re: I can't think of a holiday venue I'd want less.

You don’t have to travel far. I’ve done work jollies where we were put up for a couple of nights in 5 star hotels in Park Lane. Having people fawning all over the place trying to do stuff and show you around the place is really very uncomfortable for me. I don’t need or want servants. I’d choose Premier Inn over The Dorchester if they were the same price.

Re: People went to digital photography to get AWAY from this

It won’t solve the problem. It’s an attempt to keep offending images off Apple devices and Cloud so Apple don’t have the responsibility for the problem.

Re: A new Olympic sport

1966 Neil Armstrong and David Scott on Gemini 8 after an Agena docking test. A thruster stuck on and the spacecraft spun for several minutes at up to 300 degrees per second. Earth stars Earth Stars Earth stars Earth ……..

Re: Several possibilities

The Single Event Upset. These are expected and mitigated by resilient architecture. Or should be.

Re: A watch that doesn't display the time until you do something ?

Long sleeves? Not on my arms.

Re: Hmm....

There are already several hundred potential charging points in homes all over the country.

Re: It Depends…

A 1 hour commute is just a really stupid waste of money, CO2, and most of all time. Plus if it involves road transport then some risk too.

I really never did get it and I would only consider jobs that were within easy travel of home. I had a near argument with a thick recruitment guy once because he wanted me to go for a job that would have been the worst motorways in rush hour. He said “everyone needs to travel” . Nope. Not interested.

Why do people waste all that time and money for such a stupid reason?

Re: Efficiency?dre

"If my computer gets the work done in half the time using twice the power it is just as efficient providing that it is off when not in use."

What if that work is shoving more frames of raytraced rendering into 1 second so a bedroom nurd can feel he is actually in a firefight?