Posts by werdsmith

And yet I use Libre Office, but before I can distribute docs from it, I have to open them in Word and check that they format right.

Re: So, who here actually *runs* Kubernetes?

It depends on how you operate, if you need the capability of deploying containers like you can deploy cloud services, but doing on premise then....

Re: Many companies will fail

It's hard to imagine people being so negligent with hundreds of thousands of whatever currency. I guess we are working in different kinds of business.

Re: sealed so tight it includes Lunar vacuum.

I guess it was sealed on the moon and will come back like that. I wonder if it will make the same popping sound that vacuum tubes make when you throw them on a hard surface.

Re: Always do the sums

Aren't these baremetal Macs, effectively co-located? If so then you can't save money by shutting them down.

Re: A bit of context to a Boeing puff piece

Combat roles such as flooding the target defences and decoy would be nicely suited.

Re: Excuses, excuses

I imagine cryogenic containers, even more so.

If you were in Wetherspoons and not wearing baggy grey sweatpants with wee stains then the staff are obviously not going to take you seriously.

Re: @Dwarf

It might be worth pointing out that, even to a technically-minded person, it's not always obvious what failures are likely to happen until they actually do happen, nor is it obvious whether it's been made deliberately repairable or deliberately not

It was easy enough to mark up a display product such as white goods with a colour coded energy rating labels, and noise level ratings etc, so making any feature of a product highly visible to consumers is really not that hard.

You could also get them from CEEFAX.

Please yourself. Nobody is talking about airport steps. It’s onboard steps for places that didn’t have airport steps. Even gravel fields. No doors on the gear wheel wells either. In the 1960s this was not just for passenger steps, but ground access for cargo doors, fuel intake etc. There were no A319s in the 1960s.

This explains better:

https://simpleflying.com/737s-low-to-the-ground/

Anyway, it really doesn’t matter if you buy it or not.

Re: It's all relative

That’s like comparing Boris and Trump. You can choose which way round.

A lot of thought has been applied to space junk clean up. Whoever figured out a “cheap” simple way will “clean up” in more ways than one.

So much brainstorming has been done already.

Re: Still. The Farage Garage will be open for business on time.

Why would anyone in the UK expect leadership and competence from their government? I’ve not seen that from any government in my living memory, it would be a complete miracle if that ever happens.

Re: Back in the UK

I was a shotgun licence holder when I did regular clay shooting. My police visit was an inspection of the gun cabinet and a check that the house was tidy and unwashed dishes weren’t piling up in the kitchen.

As a member of the clay shooting club, we were invited by the local police to their gun range for a safety and gun security talk with a hand gun demonstration. I was given this little box of 12 .22 handgun rounds for my turn. Unfortunately on the first shot the gun action cut a gash in my thumb making it bleed everywhere and I was driven in a police vehicle to A&E for stitches. Next morning at home when I put my jacket on, the remaining 11 .22 rounds were still in my pocket.

Re: Best of British Boffinry

Not only that, but there were routine launches of Skylark, in fact 441 launches between 1957 and 2015. A sounding rocket, which may have been only suborbital, but the peak development could lift 200kg to 350 miles altitude. So significantly ahead of this Space Command “first rocket”.

Re: The Scottish Solution

The main chute trails a small drone shoot above and behind, the helicopter snags this line with a long underslung line.

Re: Yes, it IS insured!

They don’t need insurance, they can underwrite themselves by guaranteeing their assets. A wealthy person need never pay any more than an admin fee to insure a fleet of super cars, unless one prangs.

Re: Don't go to space til we sort out Earth

We need spearhead projects like space to drive us forwards and help sort out earth problems.

It’s part of human nature to push on and explore beyond the envelope.

Anyway, this moon thing won’t happen in 2024, that timescale was set to generate some glory in Trumps final term.

2030 is more realistic.

Re: How exactly?

I doubt that the existing cabling sufficient to power a light is going to be capable of carrying the current needed for EVs.

People don’t have petrol pumps on their driveways, so I don’t see how going to shared charged points will be a problem. Especially with the tech more developed in the future,

Oxford Westgate car park has 50 spaces with chargers.