WTF Bites
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the things we’ve actually seen from the past about predictions about our time.
I want my flying car. We were promised flying cars.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
the things we’ve actually seen from the past about predictions about our time.
I want my flying car. We were promised flying cars.
I mean, every time they deploy one, spectators at the track get showered with hot pieces of the car after it impacts the fence. :do_not_want.tiff:
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@izzion Thelma and Louise had a flying car too.
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landing (which involves breaking)
For something this stupid? Yes, I'd agree much will break.
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@izzion Thelma and Louise had a flying car too.
So did the Dukes of Hazzard.
It had some really nice accessories, too:
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I’ve actually RTFA now. This is definitely the dumbest thing I’ve read in awhile.
Challenge accepted!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I want my flying car. We were promised flying cars.
:-O Have you met the driving anti-patterns thread?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I want my flying car. We were promised flying cars.
:-O Have you met the driving anti-patterns thread?
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I’ve actually RTFA now. This is definitely the dumbest thing I’ve read in awhile.
Challenge accepted!
No garage content. That would make life too easy for you.
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@Carnage Neat. Also useful for mowing your lawn, trimming vegetation and making people smoothies.
The failure modes seem pretty exciting and innovative too.
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@Carnage Neat. Also useful for mowing your lawn, trimming vegetation and making people smoothies.
The failure modes seem pretty exciting and innovative too.
Yeah, those rotors are scary.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I’ve actually RTFA now. This is definitely the dumbest thing I’ve read in awhile.
Challenge accepted!
No garage content. That would make life too easy for you.
Pretty much any link from the crypto thread should work though.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I’ve actually RTFA now. This is definitely the dumbest thing I’ve read in awhile.
Challenge accepted!
No garage content. That would make life too easy for you.
Pretty much any link from the crypto thread should work though.
I feel that is cheating but I'll allow it.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I’ve actually RTFA now. This is definitely the dumbest thing I’ve read in awhile.
Challenge accepted!
The Apple Stand doesn't count, I've read that a long time ago.
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@topspin Also, let's not forget about the $700 wheel kit further down on the page, under "Recommended".
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@Carnage Neat. Also useful for mowing your lawn, trimming vegetation and making people into smoothies.
3 speeds — chop, puree, liquify
The failure modes seem pretty exciting and innovative too.
Not especially innovative. Fixed-wing aircraft are fairly safe, but rotorcraft have been actively trying to kill their pilots and passengers since the first helicopter was invented. I don't know whether quad- or other multi-rotor aircraft suffer from the same issues as helicopters, but they have lots of "special" failure modes.
Also, the tag line at the end of the video, "everyone is a pilot". I think the FAA (or equivalent in other countries) would rather strongly disagree. I'm pretty sure that's going to require a pilot's license (~ a year of training and $10k) with a rotorcraft endorsement (more training and more k$).
Not to mention, have you seen the driving anti-patterns thread? Do you want those idiots driving vehicles that can do stupid in the Z axis, too?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
whereas the unworthy shall perish in its magnificient radiance
Details that. I was severely burnt.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
a flying car too.
So did the Dukes
That's a ballistic car! It's generating literally negative lift.
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VR? Cars? Butts? What am I supposed to be buying?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
What is that thing?
The result of many millennia worth of advances in material science, all engineering disciplines, economics and philosophy, rivalling if not surpassing the Universal Constructor itself. Gazeth thine eyes upon it, the worthy shall be exalted whereas the unworthy shall perish in its magnificient radiance:
My employer requires monitor stands to be adjustable in height and rotated in all three axes.
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VR? Cars? Butts? What am I supposed to be buying?
Thongs. Clearly thongs.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
VR? Cars? Butts? What am I supposed to be buying?
Thongs. Clearly thongs.
I find that rather opaque here.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
VR? Cars? Butts? What am I supposed to be buying?
Thongs. Clearly thongs.
I find that rather opaque here.
Nothing some good ol' eye cleaner can't fix up!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Not especially innovative. Fixed-wing aircraft are fairly safe, but rotorcraft have been actively trying to kill their pilots and passengers since the first helicopter was invented. I don't know whether quad- or other multi-rotor aircraft suffer from the same issues as helicopters, but they have lots of "special" failure modes.
Having the pilot in the plane of the rotors seems to add a bit extra excitement over helicopters. Plus, there's a pair of rotors on each side. (Besides, from what I understand, some helicopters can kinda autorotate. Can't say for sure, but I'd have my doubts about this thing being able to do so.)
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Not especially innovative. Fixed-wing aircraft are fairly safe, but rotorcraft have been actively trying to kill their pilots and passengers since the first helicopter was invented. I don't know whether quad- or other multi-rotor aircraft suffer from the same issues as helicopters, but they have lots of "special" failure modes.
Having the pilot in the plane of the rotors seems to add a bit extra excitement over helicopters. Plus, there's a pair of rotors on each side. (Besides, from what I understand, some helicopters can kinda autorotate. Can't say for sure, but I'd have my doubts about this thing being able to do so.)
Most helicopters can autorotate. This thing will drop like the appreciation of the pub-closing-pickup the morning after.
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some helicopters can kinda autorotate.
It's a skill that helicopter pilots practice over and over and over and over, because it's their only chance of survival when (not if) their helicopter tries to kill them.
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@loopback0 what is “this”?
Squirts out of the bottle.
What did they expect??
The ad was for a bar of soap which to be fair doesn't do that when you run over it with a car but I doubt it's exactly useable after either.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 what is “this”?
Squirts out of the bottle.
Kind of what I’d want it to do.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
some helicopters can kinda autorotate.
It's a skill that helicopter pilots practice over and over and over and over, because it's their only chance of survival when (not if) their helicopter tries to kill them.
In fixed-wing aircraft, the saying is that if an emergency occurs, the first thing you do is wind your watch—because you almost always have a few seconds to think carefully before you react. But in helicopters when the rotor speed drops below the lower limit, it's effectively impossible to recover, so the pilot must respond to some problems really quickly.
Still, normal helicopter can survive any failure except for seizing of the main rotor bearing, and obviously structural failure, but that applies to any aircraft.
Quad- and more-rotors, however, have fixed-pitch propellers for rotors, so they can't autorotate, and can't be controlled without enough engines running. Which is why this contraption has two rotors on each pylon—if an engine quits, the opposite engine must also be stopped to avoid imbalance of lift, but then if it only had four engines and one failed, the remaining two wouldn't be enough to provide control. So it needs two engines on each pylon so that if one fails, it still has at least some lift at each corner and can maintain control.
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Still, normal helicopter can survive any failure except for seizing of the main rotor bearing, and obviously structural failure, but that applies to any aircraft.
Helicopters have an annoying tendency to induce their own structural failures, or their pilots do. There have been a rash of cases recently of pilots practicing a technique to escape a ring vortex state, doing it poorly, and causing their main rotors to chop through their tail booms. That's something a helicopter won't survive.
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@HardwareGeek Hm, heard about that. There seems to be something seriously wrong with that technique.
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Inspiring
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
this configuration
If only there was some way to denote the format of a file,..
I know! We'll use a parallel data stream addressable by the filename!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
this configuration
If only there was some way to denote the format of a file,..
I know! We'll use a parallel data stream addressable by the
filenameinode!What is this "filename" thou weakest of?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
this configuration
If only there was some way to denote the format of a file,..
I know! We'll use a parallel data stream addressable by the
filenameinode!What is this "filename" thou weakest of?
The thing you use to look up an inode.
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I know! We'll use a parallel data stream addressable by the filename!
Don't cross the streams, it would be bad.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
this configuration
If only there was some way to denote the format of a file,..
Alas, the filename ends in
.pem
in both cases.
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@PleegWat If the filename ends with
.pem
, and is, in fact, PEM, then the content has a prefix indicating what it actually is, so it Shouldn't™ be a problem.
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@Bulb Yes, it does. No, it shouldn't. It should automatically detect and handle traditional encrypted and pkcs8 encrypted private keys. With the command-line tool, it does. With the C library bindings, the former work and the latter do not.
The customer has reverted the system-level switch so I haven't gotten to spend time on it.
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I noticed that the text was a bit blurry in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands:
Well. That's an easy & obvious fix. Just set the "Clutter" quality to "high":
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@cvi instead of asking why I’m going with “how”?!
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Well, it appears to chose the resolution of the rendering buffer used to render clutter. And I guess they feel their menu UI is cluttered, so it uses that buffer
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Well, it appears to chose the resolution of the rendering buffer used to render clutter. And I guess they feel their menu UI is cluttered, so it uses that buffer
This makes as much sense as anything.
I guess that "Draw Distance" was a solid candidate for this option as well, considering that it's somewhat common to use signed distance fields for fonts.
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@cvi the only thing that seems related there is the use of the word “distance”.
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@topspin Which is one more related word than "Clutter".
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I know! We'll use a parallel data stream addressable by the filename!
Don't cross the streams, it would be bad.
You can never parse the same stream twice.
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@cvi instead of asking why I’m going with “how”?!
They're obviously using GNOME libraries, duh
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@Bulb I had to look that up.
The technique would seem to cause rather violent forces to the rotor even when performed correctly. You can kind of guess from this image:
However, it has a distinct advantage:
Developed by senior Swiss pilot and examiner Claude Vuichard, the VRT is a method that promises (and has been proven to) recover from VRS with only around 50’ height loss or less, which is substantially better than what we initially had to deal with during the ‘old’ recovery technique taught in most syllabuses.
The "old" techniques in question being:
- Enter autorotation
- Just tilt forward more
Both of which lose a lot more altitude.
So I'd conclude that if someone needs to do a lot of low-altitude work, they'll definitely want to learn this.
As to the main rotor chopping up the tail boom, well, the technique may not be suitable for use in all helicopters. As stated, it is violent. So a copter that has a particularly flexible rotor, or a lower clearance between main rotor and boom, may just not be suitable to practicing the technique.
(I'll say nothing of actual emergency use, as that's between the pilot and the rapidly approaching ground.)