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[jedidia]

Interesting thing I learned this week: Apparently my natural mode of debugging has an official name, which would be Rubber Duck Debugging.

Just that I never used an actual rubber duck for it. I'm used to argue with myself... :shifty:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Nearly 60 F here today, but my school already cancelled school for tomorrow owing to an expected snowstorm. Four day weekend! (today was my normal prep day).

 

[Linguofreak]

Interesting thing I learned this week: Apparently my natural mode of debugging has an official name, which would be Rubber Duck Debugging.

Just that I never used an actual rubber duck for it. I'm used to argue with myself... :shifty:

My method is called "rubber hose debugging". Or as Captain Tagon said it "equipment that can't perform gets replaced. Equipment that won't perform gets abused until it will, or until it can't".

See also "rubber hose cryptanalysis".

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Similarly, "'Do you have a backup?' means 'I can't fix this.'"

 

[Andy44]

The disarmed bomb before transporting it away for disposal:

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So what model is that bomb? Is it American, British, or what?

 

[mojoey]

Well I'd say it's a deactivated model now.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Based off the shape, I'm going to wager British.

 

[Andy44]

Based off the shape, I'm going to wager British.

I agree, this is a photo of a British WWII-era GP bomb. American bomb designs all seem to have straighter sides, although it's really hard to find info on this stuff. If you want to look up info on aerial weapons like missiles its everywhere, but dumb bombs don't seem to generate the same level of interest in research.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

In other news, Boeing is seriously considering a "797" to fill the gap left between the 737 MAX and the 787... or in other words, a replacement for the 757.

http://www.seattletimes.com/busines...m_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_left_1.1

The concept Boeing currently favors, airline executives said, is a twin-aisle jet that can carry more than 200 passengers with a medium range of about 5,200 miles.

 

[jedidia]

My method is called "rubber hose debugging". Or as Captain Tagon said it "equipment that can't perform gets replaced. Equipment that won't perform gets abused until it will, or until it can't".

Sounds more like a development paradigm than a debugging strategy... :lol:

 

[Andy44]

In other news, Boeing is seriously considering a "797" to fill the gap left between the 737 MAX and the 787... or in other words, a replacement for the 757.

http://www.seattletimes.com/busines...m_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_left_1.1

What's old is new, reminds me of the L1011 TriStar.

You know, when I was a little kid I always imagined a Boeing 797 would be some sort of hypersonic beast, maybe suborbital or even orbital. The Pan Am clipper in 2001: A Apace Odyssey? That's what I figured a 797 would look like someday.

Oh well...back to my non-flying car and my non-robot-cleaned house and laundry now. At least we have things like smart phones and Alexa that make us feel cool while corporations and governments use them to track and spy on us. [sigh]

 

[steph]

here's a weird one: my neighbours have been renovating their appartment, so a big drill machine has been operating there today (don't know what for ,not interested ) . Every time that thing starts up (it's a big one, I can hear it despite the music booming in my headphones. ), my laptop loses the wireless connection. Some sort of electromagnetiic interference at work? I'd say it's not related to the power supply, since everything (including the router) seems to be working fine.
And it's happened like five times already , so I'm pretty sure it's related

 

[Urwumpe]

Some sort of electromagnetiic interference at work?

Possible, since large drills lack full EMC. But your SNR should be pretty weak at your computer, if the EMPs of a large electric motor operating can disturb it. I would say a dirty power supply is more likely because of the drilling.

 

[Fabri91]

Does the disturbance last only while the drill is spinning up or for its entire operation?

 

[steph]

Does the disturbance last only while the drill is spinning up or for its entire operation?

It's worse when it starts up. The router is still visible on the wi-fi list. Eh..probably interference. Too bad my phone doesn't have a magnetic sensor. I would've loved seeing the activity with that Tricorder app.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Hmmm... Do you have an old cassette player laying around gathering dust? There's a remarkably sensitive magnetic sensor there. It's possible that you could rig that to feed the data to the phone. :hmm:
Might have to dig out the plans for that light listener and see if it could be converted to run a magnetic sensor instead of the light sensor...

 

[Andy44]

Calling Artlav: your mad scientist skills are needed here...

 

[Artlav]

Imagine looking for fireflies in the field at the darkness of the early night, the stars above twinkling, and the "stars" at the horizon blinking, a cold breeze pleasant after a hot day, mosquito repellent doing it's job perfectly...
Then some drolldoodle sweeps a vintage anti-air carbon arc searchlight across the field, straight into your eyes.

That's what it feels like to be that wi-fi receiver when that jammer of a big-ass brushed motor (aka spark gap transmitter) revs up nearby.

 

[Loru]

Imagine looking for fireflies in the field at the darkness of the early night, the stars above twinkling, and the "stars" at the horizon blinking, a cold breeze pleasant after a hot day, mosquito repellent doing it's job perfectly...
Then some drolldoodle sweeps a vintage anti-air carbon arc searchlight across the field, straight into your eyes.

That's what it feels like to be that wi-fi receiver when that jammer of a big-ass brushed motor (aka spark gap transmitter) revs up nearby.

And who says scientists aren't poetic.

 

[Quick_Nick]

here's a weird one: my neighbours have been renovating their appartment, so a big drill machine has been operating there today (don't know what for ,not interested ) . Every time that thing starts up (it's a big one, I can hear it despite the music booming in my headphones. ), my laptop loses the wireless connection. Some sort of electromagnetiic interference at work? I'd say it's not related to the power supply, since everything (including the router) seems to be working fine.
And it's happened like five times already , so I'm pretty sure it's related

They're drilling into ancient burial grounds and causing spirits to manifest as electromagnetic disturbances... Maybe?