In other news today...
-
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
"You have lost cell service. Disabling driving features."
: Disabling optional "Emergency Braking" feature.
Do they also have to maintain at least 50mph?
-
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
"You have lost cell service. Disabling driving features."
: Disabling optional "Emergency Braking" feature.
Do they also have to maintain at least 50mph?
Does Sandra Bullock turn up at some point?
-
-
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek
luckily no ... Beelzebub would have put a devil aside for meeeeeeee in that caseFor you?
-
Phonon-polaritons are collective oscillations of ions in polar dielectrics coupled to electromagnetic waves of light, whose electromagnetic field is much more compressed compared to the light wavelength. Recently, it was demonstrated that the phonon-polaritons in thin van der Waals crystals can be compressed even further when the material is placed on top of a highly conductive metal. In such a configuration, charges in the polaritonic crystal are "reflected" in the metal, and their coupling with light results in a new type of polariton waves called the image phonon-polaritons.
-
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
"You have lost cell service. Disabling driving features."
: Disabling optional "Emergency Braking" feature.
Dammit, I knew I shouldn’t have let the LegalZoom subscription for my will lapse!
-
Well, I can't post just any SCIENCE, I have a reputation to uphold.
-
@HardwareGeek I vaguely remember my solid state physics course not only using those words but actually asking about them in an exam. It didn't go very well.
-
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Atomically-smooth
I read that as "anatomically-smooth" and wondered if they thought they made living crystals again...
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Atomically-smooth
I read that as "anatomically-smooth" and wondered if they thought they made living crystals again...
"Anatomically smooth" is how some comedians have described Ken's crotchal area.
-
I think Rule 35 of malware has just being validated.
-
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
nanophotonic
With all those phobias being mentioned here on the daily , I read
nanophobic
...
-
A non-garagey view on thermal energy:
https://www.science.org/content/article/utah-researchers-trying-unlock-earths-heat-make-geothermal-energy-reality
(likely not paywalled)
-
-
-
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Found it:
The use of automobile radiators containing lead-soldered parts in the illicit distillation of alcohol (i.e., "moonshine") is an important source of lead poisoning among persons in some rural Alabama counties. From March 5 through October 26, 1991, eight persons were diagnosed with elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) at a local hospital and were reported to the notifiable disease surveillance system maintained by the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH). None of these patients had known histories of occupational or other potential sources of lead exposure, but all reported recent histories of moonshine ingestion. This report summarizes the results of an investigation of these cases conducted by the ADPH during December 1991.
Emphasis mine.
P.S.
Lead waterworks were often applied in former days, and these may still be present in old buildings. Lead from pipes may partially dissolve in the water flowing through. Lead may bind to carbonate, therefore lower amounts of lead dissolve in hard water. Inside the pipes, a layer of hardly soluble alkalic lead carbonate is formed. This layer functions as a protective coating for the underlying lead of the pipes. The Romans often filled the pipes with wine on holidays, causing the layer to dissolve and form lead sugar.
Emphasis mine.
-
Your occasional reminder that your cloud provider is probably not as competent as your decision makers believe
-
Selectivity in single-molecule reactions by tip-induced redox chemistry
This article has a decent breakdown of it:
-
Control over the reaction products of a unimolecular transformation on a surface have been induced and visualized with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip. Albrecht et al. synthesized a tetrachlorotetracene molecule and absorbed it on a thin salt layer grown on copper (see the Perspective by Alabugin and Hu). Under cryogenic conditions, voltage pulses from the STM tip led to the elimination of the chlorine atoms and produced intermediates with a large central ring. Subsequent voltage pulses created other isomers of this molecule, a diyne and a chrysene-based bisaryne, in reactions that could be reversed with opposite polarity pulses. —PDS
-
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Your occasional reminder that your cloud provider is probably not as competent as your decision makers believe
-
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Found it:
The use of automobile radiators containing lead-soldered parts in the illicit distillation of alcohol (i.e., "moonshine") is an important source of lead poisoning among persons in some rural Alabama counties. From March 5 through October 26, 1991, eight persons were diagnosed with elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) at a local hospital and were reported to the notifiable disease surveillance system maintained by the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH). None of these patients had known histories of occupational or other potential sources of lead exposure, but all reported recent histories of moonshine ingestion. This report summarizes the results of an investigation of these cases conducted by the ADPH during December 1991.
Emphasis mine.
P.S.
Lead waterworks were often applied in former days, and these may still be present in old buildings. Lead from pipes may partially dissolve in the water flowing through. Lead may bind to carbonate, therefore lower amounts of lead dissolve in hard water. Inside the pipes, a layer of hardly soluble alkalic lead carbonate is formed. This layer functions as a protective coating for the underlying lead of the pipes. The Romans often filled the pipes with wine on holidays, causing the layer to dissolve and form lead sugar.
Emphasis mine.
The chemical symbol for lead,
Pb
, comes from plumbum, the Latin word for lead. Its use in Roman pipes is why we call it "plumbing" to this day.
-
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Your occasional reminder that your cloud provider is probably not as competent as your decision makers believe
I remember writing a report 15 years or so ago that concluded that if your stuff isn't in multiple datacenters, preferably geographically distributed, it's not resilient against datacenter-scale fuck ups (and up; major floods can take out a lot of stuff at once), and never was. That class of resilience has real costs however.
Nothing about the Clown since has changed that one little bit. The providers haven't got especially better.
-
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Your occasional reminder that your cloud provider is probably not as competent as your decision makers believe
I remember writing a report 15 years or so ago that concluded that if your stuff isn't in multiple datacenters, preferably geographically distributed, it's not resilient against datacenter-scale fuck ups (and up; major floods can take out a lot of stuff at once), and never was. That class of resilience has real costs however.
Nothing about the Clown since has changed that one little bit. The providers haven't got especially better.
This is also true if you are keeping it all in house. All back-ups and ideally fail-overs should be offsite, ideally WAY offsite.
-
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Found it:
The use of automobile radiators containing lead-soldered parts in the illicit distillation of alcohol (i.e., "moonshine") is an important source of lead poisoning among persons in some rural Alabama counties. From March 5 through October 26, 1991, eight persons were diagnosed with elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) at a local hospital and were reported to the notifiable disease surveillance system maintained by the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH). None of these patients had known histories of occupational or other potential sources of lead exposure, but all reported recent histories of moonshine ingestion. This report summarizes the results of an investigation of these cases conducted by the ADPH during December 1991.
Emphasis mine.
P.S.
Lead waterworks were often applied in former days, and these may still be present in old buildings. Lead from pipes may partially dissolve in the water flowing through. Lead may bind to carbonate, therefore lower amounts of lead dissolve in hard water. Inside the pipes, a layer of hardly soluble alkalic lead carbonate is formed. This layer functions as a protective coating for the underlying lead of the pipes. The Romans often filled the pipes with wine on holidays, causing the layer to dissolve and form lead sugar.
Emphasis mine.
The chemical symbol for lead,
Pb
, comes from plumbum, the Latin word for lead. Its use in Roman pipes is why we call it "plumbing" to this day.Used to have lead pipes at home, and they were OK for most things provided you ran them a bit before drawing water for drinking or food use. We gradually replaced them with (mostly) copper piping; some of the pipes were left in place because ripping them out of the wall was too much work, but the ones remaining are not actually used for anything now.
If I remember right, the contamination problems really come if the flow of water is reversed, as that stirs up any sediment.
-
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
This is also true if you are keeping it all in house. All back-ups and ideally fail-overs should be offsite, ideally WAY offsite.
Depends. The times I've actually dealt with this, it's been enough to use a different building on campus. I did consider flooding patterns, likelihood of fire and explosions when taking that decision. Decided to not care about other things, as they would have been much more expensive to handle (high-gigabit bandwidth connections remain quite costly even now).
-
Oh certainly, it is all cost/risk based and for a lot of situations the ratio is not good enough to warrant it.
-
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Your occasional reminder that your cloud provider is probably not as competent as your decision makers believe
Counterpoint: If there were more clouds (or bigger clouds), it would probably be less hot because it wouldn't be as sunny.
-
about 275 Full HD movies, in just one second.
Oh fucking great. Just what I need. Another unit of measurement. It really belongs up there with Americans measuring the size of holes in washing machines.
-
-
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Americans measuring the size of holes in washing machines.
Yet another baffling British prejudice. We use dogs.
-
@Gribnit Which holes? The one through which you put in your cloths etc, or the small ones in the drum?
Although I can see how fractional dogs can be a useful measure in both cases. To wash your dog, you want your dog to fit into the machine, but you don't want it to slip through the small holes.
Filed under: Not a dog person.
-
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit Which holes? The one through which you put in your cloths etc, or the small ones in the drum?
Although I can see how fractional dogs can be a useful measure in both cases. To wash your dog, you want your dog to fit into the machine, but you don't want it to slip through the small holes.
Filed under: Not a dog person.
@Zerosquare said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
-
@cvi said in In other news today...:
To wash your dog, you want your dog to fit into the machine, but you don't want it to slip through the small holes.
-
@dkf said in In other news today...:
If I remember right, the contamination problems really come if the flow of water is reversed, as that stirs up any sediment.
Also if you significantly alter the composition of the water. Remember the Flint Water Crisis?
-
Far out, man!
-
Redheads need to pick a long film if they want to stay in the theater, they get only one per day, but I guess it's appreciated.
-
If chemists built cars, they'd fill a factory with car parts, set it on fire, and sift from the ashes pieces that now looked vaguely car-like.
Now that's a car analogy I can approve of!
-
@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
If chemists built cars, they'd fill a factory with car parts, set it on fire, and sift from the ashes pieces that now looked vaguely car-like.
Now that's a car analogy
I@Polygeekery can approve of!
-
-
@HardwareGeek
4 out of 5dentistsboomzilla alts agree!
-
In other news, Atlassian still makes shit products.
-
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Counterpoint: If there were more clouds (or bigger clouds), it would probably be less hot because it wouldn't be as sunny.
But don't clouds reflect the radiation, helping keep the heat in the atmosphere instead of letting it escape back to space?
Filed under: I have no idea what I'm talking about, but that never stopped anyone.
-
@DogsB quoted in In other news today...:
about 275 Full HD movies, in just one second.
Lovely photography, but really short stories.
-
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Counterpoint: If there were more clouds (or bigger clouds), it would probably be less hot because it wouldn't be as sunny.
But don't clouds reflect the radiation, helping keep the heat in the atmosphere instead of letting it escape back to space?
Filed under: I have no idea what I'm talking about, but that never stopped anyone.
The higher, wispier clouds do that. Lower, fluffier clouds reflect light back out of the atmosphere, which leads to cooling. No one really knows how this balances out, because clouds are complicated and dynamic and the Earth is pretty big.
-
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
In other news, Atlassian still makes shit products.
The biggest critical flaw in Atlassian's products is being made by Atlassian.
-
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
In other news, Atlassian still makes shit products.
The biggest critical flaw in Atlassian's products is being made by Atlassian.
HP makes QA software...
-
@dkf I have to ask, does anyone know if they use JIRA as a bug tracker, and Confluence for their documentation?
Or did they move over to using Trello after having bought them out?
-
@JBert If you'd like a tad more irony, this would have been prosecuted under the laws on witchcraft back in the day. Because the practitioners of witchcraft are traditionally rather big on mind-altering substances. Whereas those should be an abomination to any church keeping to the Bible.
-
@Arantor I don't know; while I used to work for a team that used that stuff, I don't any more (because I switched to a different project where I've been a lot happier for other reasons, and so haven't been inclined to investigate further).
-