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by lb1lf 7y ago
The 55khp is for each fuel pump; the first stage needed just short of 300khp just to bring fuel from storage to the five combustion chambers. (Probably not the correct term) Edit: ninja'd by eventualhorizon, whose comment is way more i
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Being Norwegian, I've found that quite a few Icelandic words are just brilliantly descriptive. I just learned another one; leikskoli. Beats our 'barnehage' for kindergarten, that's for sure!
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by lb1lf 7y ago
My old Garmin eTrek something-or-the-other had a feature which would compute local sunrise and -set. It threw a fit and rebooted when I asked it for sunset while at 78 degrees north in June.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
My Alma Mater, The Norwegian University of Technology and Science in Trondheim, Norway had issues with student E-mails being spamhammered all over the world. Why? All student accounts were hosted under stud.ntnu.no; presumably authors of sp
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Last mile fixed lines are outrageously expensive compared to wireless infrastructure, with the result being that many countries with limited land lines have wireless infrastructure other, more industrialized countries can only dream about.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Work is the curse of the drinking class. -Oscar Wilde. The man is the undisputed king of one-liners.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Well, that one at least makes sense historically. After all, we -Norsemen, that is- were there way before the British and French. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows :)
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I do the same when commissioning our products - winch systems for the offshore industry. My assumption is that the big, bad piece of machinery is actively trying to kill me and anyone in the vicinity if we give it even half a chance. Callin
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by lb1lf 7y ago
According to an army grunt friend of mine, there's a truism in his profession which goes "Friendly fire... ISN'T!" Joking aside, I would assume current IFF systems let you define anything not explicitly friendly as host
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Also, in the same vein, I highly recommend R.V. Jones' 'Most Secret War' on his experience as Chief Boffin in the UK during WWII. Chapter after chapter devoted to figuring out what the Germans were up to on the technology fro
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Fun fact - we offered the Swedes commercial rights to sectors in the North Sea as a trade for Volvo stock; the Swedish secretary of commerce basically said 'Hell, no!" at the last minute and backed out of the deal. Edit: It wasn&#
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by lb1lf 7y ago
We do here in Norway; I am in the GMT zone at 6 degrees east, while in the extreme east of the country, they're squarely in GMT+2 at 30 degrees east. All of the country is in GMT+1. The difference between standard and solar time is qui
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I think just describing what's down there (or, more precisely -what we suspect might be down there, given our lack of knowledge!) may be sufficient. That, and stressing that rather than committing years of your life to sitting inside a
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I work for the company building these, albeit in a less sexy division - I help design the kit which launches and retrieves the Hugins[0]. At the time being, these are too expensive for just about any research institution, but I really hope
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by lb1lf 7y ago
German manufacturer Sinn makes a watch - the UX - which is rated (if I read the specs correctly) to keep time to 5,000m (16,500ft.) and work after being at the bottom of a km-deep bore hole at the bottom of the Mariana Trench - the case is
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Off the shelf, or, if you happen to live in a country designed by Slartibartfast, find a fjord. The view from my office window includes a fjord more than 500m deep; a couple of hours drive to the south, you can get down to 1,300m/4,00
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by lb1lf 7y ago
YMMV, but I've experienced lots of this in my current role (engineering manager at tech support in $EngineeringCompany.) Customers keep asking for info on upgrades, specs, try to trick us into doing detailed engineering - then suddenly
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Wholly uneducated guess: many of the tasks handled by the SR-71 is adequately handled by satellites today. Additionally, if someone had indeed broken the record in some black project or the other, chances are they would keep mum about it r
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by lb1lf 7y ago
That, and the sheer amount of glass you'd need would make for an excellent workout session every time you went shooting. Say, a 250mm f/1.4 with an image circle large enough to be useful on 6x9 would be quite the beast (and imposs
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I believe it was Henri Cartier-Bresson who quipped (or at least has had it attributed to him) that "Your first ten thousand photos are your worst." I've found that using digital to gather new skills is terrific, but yet I fin
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by lb1lf 7y ago
There is more than a grain of truth to this; a couple of years ago it's was brought to my attention that since the 1950s, children being killed in traffic in Norway was down by a couple of orders of magnitude, even though traffic had i
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by lb1lf 7y ago
>Its tough though... I know of a couple times in my life I've thought something was OK until I saw something else. Examples, Glass. Binoculars, camera lenses, rifle scopes, telescopes. Glass differences are very real. -Aye. I had a
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-I fully agree with your sentiment, except I'd like to stress that a loudspeaker provides _several_ orders of magnitude more distortion than a competently designed amplifier driven within its limits.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
This, this, a thousand times this. Life is about evaluating risk. You need to learn it at some point. A playground is as good a place as any. By all means, make them safe enough that kids won't get maimed or killed - but keeping kids f
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by lb1lf 7y ago
If my anecdotal experience of Amazon deliveries is anything to go by, the mistakes may well have been made by a computer - on a couple of occasions I've received the wrong item, then gotten in touch with Amazon whose customer service h
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-They've kept the melody (which, I agree, as far as national anthems go, is the one to beat) - but the lyrics have changed, three times I believe in Soviet times and then again as it became Russia's anthem. Now they're stuck
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Just to add a bit of (useful) pedantry - what happens to copyright depends on the jurisdiction. In some (Norway, for instance) you can not fully transfer all rights, even if you want to. (This _is_ pedantry, as you can pretty much transfer
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Oh. That was unexpected. Thanks!
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Wouldn't you need to have the DPF retrofitted prior to any periodic vehicle control (as mandated by the EU), pretty much neutralising any savings?
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Probably comes down to HR and Corp security not taking the chance. Obviously, if you had malicious intent, you would have ample opportunity to act before giving notice. They just want to make sure they did what they could in case you should

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