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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Looks out of the window...
It does look pretty frosty outside.
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Filed Under: Phrasing
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We reached out to ibm for comment but couldn't hear their response over the sound of money printers going brrrrrrr
I'm surprised we don't have anyone opening working on it here.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm surprised we don't have anyone opening working on it here.
Some things, even WDWTF members won't confess to. (Programming confession thread is )
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Some things, even WDWTF members won't confess to.
I was fortunate enough to learn that COBOL was a Nope! while I was still attending community college. I'm pretty sure I've told this story before, but it's relevant again.
My first formal programming class was a night class in FORTRAN. (I'd fooled around a bit with BASIC and a couple other languages, including a small intro to assembly.) We wrote "hello, world" our first night of class. It wasn't until half-way through the semester that I learned we shared a lab time-slot with a COBOL class, because that's the first time they showed up to use the lab. I remember COBOL students sitting on the floor sobbing because they had hundreds of errors in their very first ever program. I decided then and there that I was never going to touch COBOL, and I have never regretted that decision.
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Yellow snow warning
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Yellow snow
It could be used beer...
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Yellow snow warning
Though I guess this classic image is still true:
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@JBert That's several mm of snow. I assume that all kind of public transport has collapsed (including, for some reason, the underground stuff).
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@cvi I live in Phoenix, which has seen a recorded total of 3.3 inches of snow.
Ever.
2.8 inches of that fell before I was born, starting in 1917.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@JBert That's several mm of snow. I assume that all kind of public transport has collapsed (including, for some reason, the underground stuff).
Back when I was moving to London, the joke was that if it happens to have snowed and you actually manage to catch a bus, you know you can talk to the driver in Polish.
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Apparently something happened. But Amazon had nothing to do with it.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@JBert That's several mm of snow. I assume that all kind of public transport has collapsed (including, for some reason, the underground stuff).
You can't tell because of all the strikes.
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Noooooooooooo my waifu!
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@GOG To be fair, I'm familiar with the situation. I used to live in a city that pretty reliably received snow each year. The story was always the same:
- Day S-7: Weather report: We're expecting snow in ~1 week. Please prepare.
- Day S-3: Weather report: We're expecting snow in 3 days. Just FYI.
- Day S-1: Weather report: We're expecting snow tomorrow. Expect this.
- Day S: Public transport: The early and unexpected snow took us by surprise, which we were totally unprepared for. There are major delays in this unprecedented situation.
On my commute, this meant that the same handful of buses would be stuck in the same place on the slight incline that got slightly slippery.
Filed under: Nothing wakes you up in the morning like gliding down a street backwards in a bus. Yet a different place, though.
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@cvi After I had actually moved to London I began to have a somewhat better understanding of why it were thus, given how little snow they got overall, and how absolutely terrible the roads are.
It almost makes sense to shut the whole city down for a couple of days, after you get a whole inch of snow.
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@DogsB (hopefully). This should leave him open to play something better.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Power output = 3 MJ
Laser input to the fuel = 2 MJ â Q = 1.5
"Wall" power into the lasers = 300 MJ â Qtotal = 0.01But all the losses are converted into heat, aren't they? So now we have a 101% efficient heater. Once they get that to 105%, it'll start to matter in the house-heating-via-pumped-hot-water business.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Filed under: Nothing wakes you up in the morning like gliding down a street backwards in a bus. Yet a different place, though.
Must be a blast if it's a double-decker and you're up on the second, too.
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Your yearly reminder that wooden toys were a better idea.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Yellow snow warning
Did there actually rain cats and dogs before? Because I don't see how they could get so much yellow snow without significant increase in number of dogs.
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@loopback0's article said in In other news today...:
could see more than 7 inches of snow in the coming days
7 inches spread out over a few days? We could get that in an afternoon here and it would affect nothing! Try the double amount in an afternoon and you may see us considering calling it a snow day.
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Hippos usually don't fuck around. They're like really hostile amphibious tanks. That boy might be the luckiest SOB living.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
@loopback0's article said in In other news today...:
could see more than 7 inches of snow in the coming days
7 inches spread out over a few days? We could get that in an afternoon here and it would affect nothing! Try the double amount in an afternoon and you may see us considering calling it a snow day.
Yes but as a country we're unprepared for basically every type of weather.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@JBert That's several mm of snow. I assume that all kind of public transport has collapsed (including, for some reason, the underground stuff).
Back when I was moving to London, the joke was that if it happens to have snowed and you actually manage to catch a bus, you know you can talk to the driver in Polish.
And now after Brexit Poles had to leave, so this won't happen again.
You won't be able to catch a bus on a snowy day anymore, that is.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
as a country we're unprepared for basically every type of weather
We're well prepared for overcast with a very little rain occasionally.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Yes but as a country we're unprepared for basically every type of weather.
Meanwhile, over here:
â Doctor, doctor, the waters broke!
â Oh, that's excellent news!
â No, no, they broke through the ceiling.Joke stolen from tv.
Lisbon's had a bunch of floods this past week. Including several hospitals. Water reached at least one operating room. I don't know more details than this, because I watched a comedy show, not a news show.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@cvi After I had actually moved to London I began to have a somewhat better understanding of why it were thus, given how little snow they got overall, and how absolutely terrible the roads are.
It almost makes sense to shut the whole city down for a couple of days, after you get a whole inch of snow.
I have not been to England, but the roads could not possibly be twistier than Boston's, which can handle snow.
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@jinpa TBF, so can London... sort of.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@jinpa TBF, so can London... sort of.
But can they handle leaves?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Yes but as a country we're unprepared for basically every type of weather.
It's all because of climate change!!!! (oh wait, wrong thread...)
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
We're well prepared for overcast
Yes.
with a very little rain occasionally.
No.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
We're well prepared for overcast with a very little rain occasionally.
From my observations of British culture, it's tradition to celebrate that kind of weather by going on strike.
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@TimeBandit wow, Ben's aged since he's been last around.
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@topspin at least he looks happy
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@TimeBandit He's having fun â or at least "fun".
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Lockheed Martin fixed 44 bugs in the F-35 software last year. 44 of 917 that is:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-30/f-35-s-gun-that-can-t-shoot-straight-adds-to-its-roster-of-flaws*Despite the incomplete testing and unresolved flaws, Congress continues to accelerate F-35 purchases, adding 11 to the Pentagonâs request in 2016 and in 2017, 20 in fiscal 2018, 15 last year and 20 this year. [...] By late September, 490 F-35s had been delivered and will require extensive retrofitting. [...] Still, the testing office said âno significant portionâ of the U.S.âs F-35 fleet âwas able to achieve and sustainâ a September 2019 goal mandated by then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: that the aircraft be capable 80% of the time needed to perform at least one type of combat mission. That target is known as the âMission Capableâ rate.
Posted about an hour ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQwKHO6ckGgIf that doesn't embed correctly, the video title is "F-35B STOL Ejection! Ft. Worth TX 15 Dec2022" (it looks more like VTOL to me), and it shows an F-35 hovering/landing when something goes wrong. The plane bounces, then the nose drops to the ground, the nose gear collapses, the rear end appears to be trying to still hover with the nose on the ground, and the aircraft spins 180 then slowly back again before the pilot ejects zero/zero.
Edit: Speculation in the comments that the weight-on-wheels switch was triggered by the bounce and shut down the lift fan before the aircraft was solidly on the ground. (When hovering, the aircraft's tail is held up by the engine exhaust directed downward. A driveshaft from the engine spins a large fan that holds the nose up. This fan being shut down would explain the nose suddenly dropping.)
Then there's this comment, from someone who sounds like one of us:
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Meanwhile in Germany they do floods with style.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Must be a blast if it's a double-decker and you're up on the second, too.
This wasn't a double-decker, just a normal bus. But the same route also had buses with bendy mid-sections. Can't imagine those doing too great either.
<minirant>Double-decker buses are great if you want to turn an inherently slow and serial problem into a slower and "serialer" problem. Instead of making it efficient and quick to get people in and out of bus at a stop with e.g. multiple doors, you now had added a steep narrow stairway into the mix, through which people have to funnel. Good jorb.</minirant>
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@Zecc well, fuck.
:zwj:
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@Applied-Mediocrity Yeah ... breaking that looks like it might make a bit of a mess.
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@Applied-Mediocrity That reminds me of VIKI in "I, Robot"
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
<minirant>Double-decker buses are great if you want to turn an inherently slow and serial problem into a slower and "serialer" problem. Instead of making it efficient and quick to get people in and out of bus at a stop with e.g. multiple doors, you now had added a steep narrow stairway into the mix, through which people have to funnel. Good jorb.</minirant>
The Polish approach to the Embarking Problem (which I consider vastly superior to the English one) is for passengers to purchase tickets prior to getting on, and validate them (in my younger days - by means of a marvellous instrument otherwise known as a hole-puncher) once they've embarked, allowing all doors in the vehicle to serve both purposes.
Having said that, I suspect the main reason for using double-deckers is to increase capacity while maintaining a smaller footprint, which makes sense if you're gonna be navigating a maze of twisty little passages.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
maze of twisty little passages.
Are they all alike? Are you likely to be eaten by a grue?