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by martyvis 4y ago
And in between checking maintenance log book and tire pressures:- Replace the Espresso Machine Frother P/N: 227431250 as per DEV 338A Part III
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by martyvis 4y ago
Ditto for Chrome on Android 13 on Pixel 6
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by martyvis 4y ago
Why does news (and hence this theme music) have to be breaking, urgent, perplexing and disruptive?
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I haven't read this through thoroughly, but a lot of the final polishing must have been done after it was in place. It was only moved from Pasadena to Mount Palomar in 1947. There is both a '47 and '49 as being when figuring
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by martyvis 4y ago
And grinding and polishing away the 4½ tons of glass in the blank to make it parabolic took 14 years!
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by martyvis 4y ago
I thought the 10 month cooling period to anneal the blank was incredible, but then I read it took 13 years to grind and polish away 4½ tons of glass to make it parabolic (originally estimated to take 7 years). Project of a generation!
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by martyvis 4y ago
I just heard an interview on ABC Radio with The Guardian journalist Anne Davies about safety issues during the construction of the Sydney Metro rail system here in Australia. Amongst other things a 30 tonne train carriage transporting equip
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by martyvis 4y ago
Similarly train brakes are failsafe. They operate by compressed air. Being connected to the locomotive and hence control allows them to be released. If the carriages become disconnected, brakes get applied.
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by martyvis 4y ago
It does seem like the perfect thing to be documented in a GIS. Presumably you could even use high resolution satellite or drone footage to automate much of the data collection. Interview the caretakers in situ recording GPS locations and ti
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by martyvis 4y ago
Anton didn't like PDF either :- https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/why-not-pdf.html
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by martyvis 4y ago
Maybe we can progress from tensegrity coffee tables to tensegrity skyscrapers.
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by martyvis 4y ago
Don't get your hopes up as to how useful this is. In Australia we have had federal government digital health record capability for something like 5 years now. There was all sorts of moral panic about issues at the time it was mooted -
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by martyvis 4y ago
There are two numbers doing the rounds lately. One is 4000 - that's the number of weeks we have in our life. More specifically for most of us it might be the number of weekends and hence might make us think about how we recreate or bes
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by martyvis 4y ago
My wife and I have 4 married children and two very new grandchildren by our 2 daughters. Every second weekend we try to catch up with one of the families - 3 are in one city 90 minutes drive away and other family is 2 hours away. We are co
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by martyvis 4y ago
I think the point of having the online map accurate is so people can plan better ahead of time. We had this exact situation recently when my MIL needed to go to get CT scan in a hospital campus but my wife wanted to plan ahead which of the
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by martyvis 4y ago
That isn't the main return for me. It is knowing that you have contributed to the community corpus of knowledge that is almost impossible to come otherwise. For instance I had the to visit a data centre that I had previously been to b
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by martyvis 4y ago
Elon clearly overpromises - but he also over delivers. SpaceX's current capability to deliver payloads to orbit is so far ahead of anyone else (particular considering they started from scratch only 20 years ago). Even their Starlink in
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by martyvis 4y ago
Watch this walk around Starbase with Elon and Tim Dodd, and you'll get a pretty good sense that he has an engineering brain that really understands the complexities of design, build and execute more than anything. https://yo
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by martyvis 4y ago
Nice walk through illustration. One thing that is an error in beginning of the article is to say full colour printing was achieved using red, green and blue. While those primary colours work for additive processes such as on projectors or L
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by martyvis 4y ago
Government website: https://media.epw.qld.gov.au/ Infrastructure blueprint: https://media.epw.qld.gov.au/files/Queensland_SuperGrid_Infr...
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Queensland, Australia to build world's largest pumped hydro energy storage(abc.net.au)
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What's in the blue liquid in those ice cream making bowls that is normally sealed but sometimes people report it leaking. The manufacturers say it is nontoxic.
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by martyvis 4y ago
jq is a tool that can query (search/extract/format) JSON (JavaScript readable data files). I figured from the README that TUI probably stands for Text User Interface as it seems to support keystrokes in a way that an editor like V
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by martyvis 4y ago
A bit like the heli-copter | helico-pter thing.
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by martyvis 4y ago
LOL. I forgot that the Trading Post got a free plug in The Castle. I guess Sensis was dreaming when they bought them.
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by martyvis 4y ago
Interesting. In the late 1960s in Australia a classifieds-only paper called the Trading Post grew and absolutely dominated this space by the 1990s. My Dad would buy it every week to look for bargain junk, cars, etc. I'm sure the main n
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by martyvis 4y ago
The Apple Reality Distortion Field is clearly still strong.
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by martyvis 4y ago
If an app has "security, connectivity" as important features there is a greater not less an onus to keep abreast of platform changes and ensure your userbase isn't exposed.
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Except that current logo isn't the 90's one. (I would expect that they wouldn't want you to use that old but cool one)
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by martyvis 4y ago
I was an employee of HP then (still at HPE, a result of the split). I recall when these products came out and Carly was promoting it, Apple's market cap was around $6B and HP's was 10 times that at around $60B. Some of us were thi

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