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  • Commented on Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version)
    diamond bricks... How would you demolish it? With a gas axe or plasma cutter if all else failed. Diamond burns, just not well at 20% oxygen. Heat it up a bit and spray oxygen on it and it should...
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    I try and take copious notes... still I go back to repeat something done a year earlier and wind up trying to figure out the magic... When you're doing one or a few off, you wind up with no...
  • Commented on A bright and shiny hell
    TL;DR: human factors make technical solutions invalid....
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    why is Unix system time not useful for this environment? 64 bit Unix time covers the life of the universe to one second resolution, and the vast majority of our devices get time from the server so almost always have...
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    Keep all timestamps in UTC. Synchronise systems to UTC using NTP (if internet connected) or Rugby. Do all calculations and comparisons and things on the UTC timestamps. I love how all problems are trivial to people who don't have to...
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    We ran UTC internally for comparison, the problem was reading in files Yes, exactly. Who created the file and was their time and timezone set correctly when they did it? That's also not really helped by various libraries, those are...
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    SIMPLES Make all time date stamps accord to GMT, wherever & whenever ... If you're being sarcastic, then yup, that's the simplest solution. But it's not as much fun as LARTing. If you think you're being helpful... the British tried...
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    surprise exploits of this scene at the beginning of "A Fire Upon The Deep" The Fire episode always struck me as somewhat unlikely since it's a one-way channel that requires the entire exploit to hit a single receiver, using a...
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    My point above is that testing systems is necessary, and one system-level bug can mean every single subsystem becomes a suspect. The best bugs are when the various interested parties can't agree on what would constitute correct behaviour. Adding lawyers...
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    we've probably got a few score bugs that we want to fix at any given time. 200 really isn't a lot Bugs that last long enough become features - just ask Microsoft about backwards compatibility. OTOH, 200 can be a...
  • Commented on Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version)
    to rewrite, and comprehensively test, the tight, fault-tolerant onboard flight software that Margaret Hamilton wrote The good news is that we now have much better software proving systems available, to the point where there's a slightly-better-than-theoretical operating system available. So...
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    How did the various militaries phase out cavalries and pack animals and phase in motor vehicles The transition to having an air force might also be informative. IIRC that particular transition involved a degree of arse-handing-to, as did the advent...
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    I quite love the end of the MBT-story: "The Germans pulled out... later the US cancelled the joint project". It's very Trumpian "you won't come? Fine, you're not invited"....
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    I dare you to beat Harriet Klausner By reviewing that many books after actually reading them? I'm a bit suspicious, not least because when I read for pleasure I'm not also thinking critically and analysing the book, which makes my...
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    it's off to the library Sadly libraries where I am don't really do ebook lending, and a recent visit persuaded me that legacy books don't really work for me any more. I'm too used to a small thing with a...
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    Re: "aliomenti saga" Just looked up the blurb and roared. ... what kind of political views were you expecting Well, the first couple of books were free, and I thought "he's written seven in the series, he must surely be...
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    Canada and New Zealand are not giants, but they do matter - including as examples. Cautionary examples in an age of Trump and May aren't really needed, IMO. What we really want is examples of democratic countries doing good...
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    Also The Guardian has a useful commentary on how the post-truth party won. (this time with a closing tag on the link. Sorry about that)...
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    The National Party won the election. ... However, they are 2 seats short of the majority. Not getting a majority in the preliminary count means they didn't immediately win government. They might eventually be able to form part of a...
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    "Dark Carnival of Nihilistic Consumption" Martin Phillips got in before you on the "Dark Carnival" part of it, though. His usual mix of dark lyrics with slightly happy jangly piano/guitars pop music. When you get your bloody dose In the...
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    Do you identify with the characters you watch/see - and at what threshold of media? Note that the threshold could work both ways - some people will identify more with a character as the media gets more immersive, others less....
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    when I am saying Sharia (to clarify) I'm saying slightly less than Taliban Sharia but still Sharia. As in Niqab compulsory not burqa, and whippings from the religious police if you don't comply Yep, there are definitely parts of Indo...
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    At the risk of going back on topic, there's also some really good use being made of face recognition type technology to track animals. Most obviously the fin recognition work with cetaceans, and the dot patterns on whale sharks, but...
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    Antarctic methane might be a problem, but one of the issues is finding it under the ice. Waiting for the ice to melt before we start worrying might not be a good idea, depending on how much there is. And...
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    Also, persistent ... mis-speaking... by advocates doesn't help. The Guardian has found someone to write about the climate emergency whose ahistorical perspective seems unable to link the press release she read to her own life. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/21/climate-optimism-disaster-extreme-weather-catastrophe The end quote really...
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    I think the point was that the usual techniques don't work, and there are many factors working together to make that happen. So even someone as amazing as Neil deGrasse Tyson finds that changing behaviour on climate change is much...
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    A lot of that feels familiar, ever run into neurotypicals who are certain that you're just being difficult? Yes. The ones I love are the "I have excellent social skills" types who proceed to demonstrate the opposite. Generally they take...
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    On the Aspie front, it is worth noting that some schools, and some school systems, have dealt with that particular form of difference quite well for a long time. Even 40 years ago when I was in school there were...
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    why did they run it that way? The answer is, because that's the way that works best for non-Aspie kids. I disagree, there are a lot of other kids for whom competitive physical activities are not the best way to...
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    You cannot change a law (and in this case the constitution) with means not allowed by law. So when the law says "you cannot ever change the law", that the end of it? It's very hard for me to see...
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