orangewindies

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by orangewindies 4mo ago
They specifically mention that: Removal of model field due to problems with data collection and quality
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by orangewindies 4mo ago
During my time in Antarctica we had a (Turbo Pascal, I think) program on the met computer that prompted for weather conditions and sent it off to the satellite terminal. The UI was not great, it was surprisingly easy to report sandstorms.
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by orangewindies 5mo ago
The wire will crush over time and the connection will become looser. That will increase the resistance of the connection and in high current applications will cause heating. If you're really unlucky it will cause a fire.
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by orangewindies 6mo ago
You can't browse the modern web with Presto. I used to work at Opera and we were sad to switch to Chromium/Blink but a company the size of Opera just didn't have the resources to keep up with Google.
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by orangewindies 7mo ago
For really low temperatures some of the traditional materials work really well. For example, at -30 °C you don't need a waterproof shell but you want something that's very windproof and breathable. So at the British Antarctic Surv
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by orangewindies 8mo ago
Why whisper? Everyone knows Stirling castle is better.
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by orangewindies 11mo ago
QR codes were created for labelling automotive parts, not for URLs. Part numbers are usually uppercase alphanumeric, with a few punctuation characters.
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by orangewindies 1y ago
> > EU 400V (380V) is 3 hots, neutral and ground. > Three phase 230/400: 400V is line (hot) to line with 230V line to neutral. More for industrial use but I hear some homes can have this service for whatever reason. It varies
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by orangewindies 1y ago
That's a Namibia problem, Nigeria is NG.
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by orangewindies 2y ago
It's an interesting idea but why would I sign up and give you personal data without any idea of the site's features or UI?
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by orangewindies 2y ago
Although a lot of it was filmed in Glasgow.
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by orangewindies 2y ago
Isn't the term "rabbit ears" more of an American thing? Can't recall anyone using it in the UK.
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by orangewindies 3y ago
Sounds like this is Antarctic _American_ English. The British jargon is quite different.
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by orangewindies 3y ago
Took me a while after arriving at Kerguelen to work out who all the people with the weird-sounding job titles were. IIRC "Disker" (the head of the district) sounds like a slang word for DJ, so his official residence is the "d
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by orangewindies 3y ago
Sweden: https://1409.se/ UK (not a map, similar view to what the signallers see): https://traksy.uk/live/M+58+STIRLNG
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by orangewindies 3y ago
Flats on floors in between usually have the floor number as the first part: "3FL" for third floor on the left or "2F3" for second floor, third flat. Or at least that's how it was when I lived in Edinburgh in the 90s
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by orangewindies 3y ago
As other pointed out, this is probably just down to terrible airline IT. I don't know if AF/KLM are worse than others but it's remarkable just how bad it is. Recently they had a bug where once you selected a seat for one flig
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by orangewindies 3y ago
There's ongoing work to update the regulations to remove a lot of the loopholes. For example, some airlines like to try to claim that pretty much any delay/cancellation is caused by "extraordinary circumstances", even th
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by orangewindies 3y ago
That was usually in draft mode, since the left-to-right and right-to-left lines wouldn't quite line up perfectly.
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by orangewindies 4y ago
Mini did some tricks so the "display" was much wider than the device display but text columns were wrapped at device display width. So you you could zoom out and see the whole page but the text was readable when you zoomed in.
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by orangewindies 4y ago
"The Thing" was best viewed when alone on nightwatch just before walking across to the meteorological building in the dark at 03:00.
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by orangewindies 4y ago
Halley 5 was demolished in 2012, everything down to the snow surface was removed. So that iceberg has about 23 years of the steel legs that held the buildings up, various subsurface service tunnels and 23 years of frozen sewage. Yes, it wou
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by orangewindies 4y ago
Were you at Belgrano? I flew over there a few times on depot-laying flights from Halley. The first couple of times people even came out and waved. Unfortunately that (and occasional radio darts with SANAE and Showa) was the closest I got to