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Australian Transport Safety Bureau report – Qantas had tool left in engine(abc.net.au)
2 points by martyvis 2y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 2y ago
LEO means less RF power and lower latency.
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by martyvis 2y ago
Yes, pretty amazing. While I did have a couple of free tourist maps, I planned and executed a 1700km road trip to New Zealand basically using Google Maps on my laptop and then simply navigated on my phone. It seems incredible that you could
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by martyvis 2y ago
I think they have a "build it and they will come" attitude. While their own Mars goals will need 100s if not 1000s of launches they also see new customers that would want launch and even recover much larger payloads than what are
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by martyvis 2y ago
But they haven't reused one yet AFAIK. They have reused an engine.
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by martyvis 2y ago
The 2nd tower at Starbase is much more modular than the first and is being built at quite a rapid rate.
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Redesigning Photography with AI-Enhanced Metalenses(petapixel.com)
7 points by martyvis 2y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 2y ago
There is a wonderful plant bank here in Sydney, Australia. Lots of thick mud walls and other sophistications to outlast weather and similar incidents. https://www.botanicgardens.org.au/our-science/science-facili...
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by martyvis 2y ago
I would imagine that if you just had a switch connected to nowhere, in the morning you would remember what you Morse coded in any case just because it has raised your alertness
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by martyvis 2y ago
I have been there many times. While the network guy can solve some of the latency in things like TCP handshakes and use compression and caching with magic black boxes you can't fix the actual application query and acknowledgement requi
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by martyvis 2y ago
Many years ago I was called into troubleshoot the rollout of a new web based customer management application that was replacing a terminal green screen one. I was flummoxed finding all the developers had only ever tested their app running f
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by martyvis 2y ago
And even a "super-super hero" in 1926! http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21042874 Apparently Charles Lindburgh was known in the USA as a "super-hero". http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95
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by martyvis 2y ago
And here is one in the plural from 1928 referring to our Anzac (veteran's) day march. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115521528
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by martyvis 2y ago
A quick search on the Australian National Library archive finds an article titled "A British Super Hero" in a 1918 newspaper. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129947369
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Photographer Stephen Shore Walks Out of Lecture over Audience's Use of Phones(petapixel.com)
12 points by martyvis 2y ago|2 comments
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by martyvis 2y ago
> Lab diamonds are a testament to the principle that what nature can do, man is capable of doing better. A lot of unfounded hubris there. Come back when you have perfected a man-made forest with all its diversity of plants and animals.
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by martyvis 2y ago
Works on my android fine.
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by martyvis 2y ago
This test gets you sort hues along a gradient. https://www.xrite.com/hue-test
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by martyvis 2y ago
It's also interesting that in the nautical world it is more universal. Boats everywhere keep to the right passing each other on the port side (the left)
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by martyvis 2y ago
Maybe there is a language issue here. In Australia, a full on election is also called a poll. The government electoral commission does the polling, the voters do the voting. I think you getting confused with opinion polling.
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by martyvis 2y ago
I think you'll find that they have more thrusters on the spacecraft that they actually need - they can control attitude even if they lose one or more thrusters. So the possibility of the failure of them is already in the design.
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by martyvis 2y ago
Grok IS why Tesla does it.
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by martyvis 2y ago
I think my one of my adult kids that was interested in video production pointed him out to me quite a few years ago. What is amazing is that you can see his comedic schtick was already in his earliest videos from 16 years ago
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by martyvis 2y ago
Reminds of this story where they found paper planes in the school house ceiling dating before 1910 - https://youtu.be/A555LYvAPp0?t=16m08s
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by martyvis 2y ago
HP!=HPE for over 8 years now
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by martyvis 2y ago
My Mum is an Australian Yvonne and married my Dutch father Jan. When we spent a whole year in the Netherlands back in 1971, Dutch acquaintances would always pronounce her name something like Yuh-vonna, quite different to how in English it i
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by martyvis 2y ago
Having a medical system that has the concept of "hours of emergency room fees" is also a pretty fundamental problem
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by martyvis 2y ago
It's pretty bad when the main ABC 7pm News Bulletin pretty much had them reading from their iPads couldn't use their normal studio background screens and didn't even give us the weather forecast!
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by martyvis 2y ago
And you will need your bitlocker recovery key to access your encrypted drive in safe mode. I luckily had mine available offline There's going be a lot of handholding to get end users through this.
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by martyvis 2y ago
There was only one file matching it on my machine. The * just saves typing.

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