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by lb1lf 4y ago
Nobody expects the English inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise and an almost fanatical devotion to Oxford's... (I'll lead myself out)
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I am not sure it is 45.45 baud w/170Hz shift (taken from memory) ham RTTY, but I figured I'd run it through a decoder once I got back inside the shack just to see if it is an Easter egg or just rando
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by lb1lf 4y ago
D'oh, you're right! Sigh. I thought it had a Chekhovesque ring to it and was too lazy to look it up. Thanks!
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by lb1lf 4y ago
To paraphrase Chekhov - All large companies are the same. All small companies are different in their own different ways. IMHO large, corporate-style companies all appear to have read the same manuals on how to organize a company, so, minor
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by lb1lf 4y ago
In the same vein, Ars Technica did an amazing story on analog computers in the US Navy a few years ago: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/gears...
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I googled around a bit out of curiosity, and it appears the remote control is indirect - the train controller can override a green signal to red. (Presumably not the other way around!) All trains have instrumentation which will cause them t
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I only know what i've read about it in the papers, but I think the concept was that the trains and track are fitted with instrumentation enabling the train controller to see in real time exactly what segment of track any train is on at
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Nowadays, the train controller can stop a train remotely even if unable to raise the train on the radio. Still baffles me how packed the old system was with failure modes, though.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Just after two trains had crashed at Åsta in Norway back in 2000 or so, a journalist from the Norwegian Broadcasting Company managed to ask the accident site manager whether the trains had been on the same track when they collided. Long, cr
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I guess there's a business opportunity right there - surely, with capitalism being what it is, some enterprising soul must have launched a service grooming social media accounts which you can then purchase or even rent whenever you nee
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-Then again, not having an online presence at all is probably sufficient for you to be paid extra attention by the powers that be, so there's that...
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by lb1lf 4y ago
...but that would require flow, right? (that is, closing of the flow too fast will basically lead to a shockwave rupturing the pipe). In this case, the pipes were basically being used as pressure vessels (I believe it was quoted in the medi
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by lb1lf 4y ago
There is another option which is being discussed in Norwegian media now - that the Russians have used the pipelines essentially for storage of excess gas (Seeing as the pipelines are basically, combined, a 5M cubic meter pressure vessel) Th
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by lb1lf 4y ago
There is another option which is being discussed in Norwegian media now - that the Russians have used the pipelines essentially for storage of excess gas (Seeing as the pipelines are basically, combined, a 5M cubic meter pressure vessel) Th
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by lb1lf 4y ago
If that anchor had a couple of hundred kilos of explosives attached to it, it might... (Swedish seismic survey suggested the shock as the pipeline ruptured was consistent with an explosion 'equivalent to a couple hundred kilos of dynam
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-Easily repairable may be a stretch, it is my understanding there are no shutoff valves along the length of the pipeline, so if they're all breached (4 pipes, each ~1200km long, slightly over 1m in diameter) then that's about 5B l
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-But that resolve is feared to be weakened by falling temperatures in Continental Europe. Surely it cannot be completely outside the realm of the possible that Someone(tm) helped EU politicians do The Right Thing(tm) by ensuring they couldn
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by lb1lf 4y ago
If one is of a sufficiently dark view, it may even be some western power wishing to drive home the point that Russia will not - full stop - export gas in any significant quantity to Europe anytime soon. I would believe it more likely to be
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-But methane (IDK the composition of the gas in the Nord Stream, but significant methane content is a good bet) is a much more potent greenhouse gas than the CO2 resulting from burning methane. You basically get more global warming bang for
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by lb1lf 4y ago
It is exceedingly unlikely that this is an accident, seeing as no less than three separate pipelines were punctured at different locations within hours of each other. While none of the pipelines were currently operational, this basically en
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Pressure leaks hit undersea Nord Stream pipelines(politico.eu)
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by lb1lf 4y ago
While I may live in a relative outlier (Norway, with its petro-boosted economy), that sounds like an exaggeration. (Deep sea business, fight for much the same talent as aerospace, senior dev, $95k base and some $35k on top of that in variou
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Ross Anderson's Security Engineering. More than any other title on my bookshelf, it has affected the way I think about any product design process. Things WILL go wrong, sometimes in ways you did not expect. Hence, you had better plan f
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Ah, thanks for setting me straight. Come to think of it, it is quite possible Mirta never actually said that 'Peder' equalled 'pederast' - just blushed and suggested (after Peder had left the room!) that the name was hig
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by lb1lf 4y ago
And, completely irrelevant but still - a Croatian former colleague blushed like hell when being introduced to another colleague of ours, named Peder. Turned out in Croatian, a 'Peder' was someone with an unhealthy interest in kids
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by lb1lf 4y ago
-SUVs aside, do keep in mind EVs are quite heavy compared to their ICE counterparts, too. (On the upside, I guess they, being newer, involve more passive safety for whatever they run into). For instance, my 20 year old Land Cruiser (Which I
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Norway has only had two female PMs: Gro Harlem Brundtland (labour), three governments between 1981 and 1996. Erna Solberg (conservatives), 2013-2021.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
For years, I had a poster which looked like your average Ishihara test in my office - an assortment of random dots. If you had normal colour vision, that is. If you were the right kind of deficient, though, it read 'Color vision? We do
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Thanks! (I was eight at the time and in Europe, so while I remember it as being live, it is not unlikely it was an edited news segment shown on Norwegian TV.)
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Presumably you're thinking of Christa McAuliffe's mother, who were, unless this is a fake memory in my head, shown on live TV just as the space shuttle blew up right in front of her face. Understandably, her face was all in turmoi

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