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Hey, what do you call a pirate that skipping school?
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A German team of the Fraunhofer institute for Optronics and Robotics with a newly developed AUV have located two subscale prototypes of the CF-105 Arrow in Lake Ontario.
https://www.fraunhofer.de/de/presse...reste-von-historischem-flugzeug-gefunden.html
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/mel...i-Testlauf-historisches-Flugzeug-3907328.html
Why testing the robot in Canada? Because the Canadian company Kraken Robotics has the license for mass producing the robot, they will sell it under the name "ThunderFish Alpha"... well, as long as the robot weights more than 750 kg.
https://www.fraunhofer.de/de/presse...reste-von-historischem-flugzeug-gefunden.html
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/mel...i-Testlauf-historisches-Flugzeug-3907328.html
Why testing the robot in Canada? Because the Canadian company Kraken Robotics has the license for mass producing the robot, they will sell it under the name "ThunderFish Alpha"... well, as long as the robot weights more than 750 kg.
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Another thing I did not know until today...
This turn of the Volvo Ocean Race is the first time they have defined an ice exclusion zone for the leg from Cape Town to Melbourne ... Because of the three times higher speeds of the yachts, they considered the risk of getting hit by ice differently than in the past...
Well...
The problem is the single-design VO65 class is slightly slower than the previous VO70 class, which really set some records. But the earlier VO60 class had really been much slower (before 2011), because it lacked the canting keel of modern designs - the effective wind area was limited by the heeling of the yacht.
This turn of the Volvo Ocean Race is the first time they have defined an ice exclusion zone for the leg from Cape Town to Melbourne ... Because of the three times higher speeds of the yachts, they considered the risk of getting hit by ice differently than in the past...
Well...
The problem is the single-design VO65 class is slightly slower than the previous VO70 class, which really set some records. But the earlier VO60 class had really been much slower (before 2011), because it lacked the canting keel of modern designs - the effective wind area was limited by the heeling of the yacht.
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So a slow Sydney To Hobart this year...
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I doubt it will be slow, but its a bit of a gamble... but it could have an effect on the number of participants.
The fastest boats for the SHYR are too expensive, large and overdesigned for the VOR, the record holder is not even a true sailing yacht IMHO, since it would be an maritime emergency should its auxiliary diesel engine run out of fuel... the VO65 boats are just 66ft long (officially declared as the new 65 ft), the typical winner in Hobart exceeds 75 ft, some are even over 100 ft long.
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Looking at the Rushcutters Bay, it already seems to get crowded there, with so many yachts having their AIS on.
http://map.openseamap.org/?zoom=18&...&mlon=151.23263&layers=BFTFFFFFFTF0TFFFFFFFFF
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The One design VO65's do make a much better race, close racing all the way. Leg 2 finished with Scallywag and Turn the Tide on Plastic finishing 1 minute and 8 seconds apart after 3 weeks and 7,000nm of racing.
On top of that how many racing boats at that level can say they are on the 2nd lap of the planet. 6 of the 7 boats raced last time.
On top of that how many racing boats at that level can say they are on the 2nd lap of the planet. 6 of the 7 boats raced last time.
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And it makes a good race strategy and good tactics much more important than "who pays most for his boat". The final decision about who will win leg 2 took place just a day before finish, when one group of boats had been overrun by the cold front and had to divert south to have a chance of better winds, while the three leading boats managed to stay in front of the pressure and right inside the northern winds until reaching Cape Town.
Until that event, all seven boats had been pretty close together for the huge distance, with the last boat being just about 200 NM behind the leader.
Sadly they did not go live already for that exciting phase racing the cold front.
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I thought it was bad to work until 21:15 and do a very complex analysis on 7 linux core dumps and a few huge log files.
But would I have ended my work instead of doing this properly, it could have been me on that road today. Two people died after 19 year old with an overpowered VW Eos crashed frontally into a VW Passat CC going my usual way back home, right in the middle between Wolfsburg and Gifhorn at 19:35. The codriver of the Passat CC was life-threatenly injured, she was rushed to hospital. The 19 year old was driving extremely much faster than allowed (70 km/h) when he overtook a BMW driver coming from Wolfsburg, the last witness of the events, though she was already far away when the crash happened, nobody saw how the accident was caused. The cars are completely destroyed, its a miracle somebody was still some sort of alive after that crash.
The accident happened on a long straight in the wetlands, with speed limited to 70 km/h and overtaking prohibited (mostly because of idiots declaring the road to be single direction during rush hour, but animals crossings are also a problem)
http://www.wolfsburger-nachrichten....ei-Unfall-zwischen-Wolfsburg-und-Gifhorn.html
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That's a real mess!
I wouldn't even want to witness something like that, let alone be involved in it...
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It still looks like a mess there, I was driving that road this morning to work again, still many former car parts piled up on heaps next to the road.
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All cool stuff requires at least Java 8. Sadly Java 7 is still not banned, so I have to use libraries from 2008 to support a new feature and push quality a bit, instead of the latest versions of those libraries. From 2008!
Would some manager do his job and properly enforce the enterprise standard of Java 8, we would have far less problems here with legacy bugs...
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And more joy about the crash - the 19 year old driver did not have a drivers license. But luckily, the hospital has reported that the co-driver of the other car will survive. The police also thanked all drivers who stopped, looks like quite many people fought for her.
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Whenever I hear the word "Bodensee", I think "That's a rather ambiguous name for Lake Constance. Where else would one keep a sea?"
"Deckensee"?
"Dachsee"?
"Luftsee"?
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I mean, it's technically correct.
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When I take my running clothes to work with me, motivating myself to go running after work is easy.
When I decide to go home first, I wind up blowing off my run and surfing the net and OF instead.
So thanks to all of you for enabling my laziness....
When I decide to go home first, I wind up blowing off my run and surfing the net and OF instead.
So thanks to all of you for enabling my laziness....
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Yeah, thank you for keeping me distracted from my world dominance plans. I could rule you wholesale...if there wouldn't be the Brighton Lounge.
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What the hell did NASA research there? :blink:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19820010784.pdf
MaverickSawyer
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It appears that NASA was called in as an expert in autonomous systems in harsh environments by the Department of Energy. Such inter-department contracts are not unheard of, especially with DoE.
PhantomCruiser
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Rumor control has us starting a feed pump tonight some time around 0300.
And it looks like I'm still going to lose 127 hours of leave. That's a lot of money down the drain. But hey, we're from the government and we're here to help, right? Also, this won't make you pregnant.
One of the contractors has expressed the nuclear maintenance philosoply as he's observed it, we are trying to come up with Maintenanca Law #1: "For every task you are given by a supervisor, there will be two (or more) supervisors from other departments placing barriers in your way."
Manager asked me if the feed pumps were ready, since I'm being blocked (currently by ops) my response was "Don't know, don't care", he asked what kind of attitude was that to have and I pointed to my missing leave in late Dec and early Jan and asked if that was his doing. He got kind of sheepish and walked away. Strangely enough he will be off for the next several days, his leave it seems is unaffected.
For any other Rick and Morty fans... I wanted to do the Morty rant; "Well get your
together, get it all together and put it in a backpack, all your so it's together. And if you want to take it somewhere, you know, take it to the store and sell it, or put it in the museum. I don't care what you do you just gotta get it together. Get your together.
He knows I could go elsewhere inside TVA, and if I lose $5K plus dollars because of his ineptitude I think I might to do it. The mechanism for reclaiming "use it or lose it" leave it difficult and colvoluted (on purpose might I add). Next time I get an opportunity to transfer outside the protected area I'm going to apply for it.
My advice for anyone looking at working in the nuclear industry is, go for it, just stay miles the hell away from this place. I've got a 47 page document from the Office of the Inspector General and another document from the NRC that can explain why.
And it looks like I'm still going to lose 127 hours of leave. That's a lot of money down the drain. But hey, we're from the government and we're here to help, right? Also, this won't make you pregnant.
One of the contractors has expressed the nuclear maintenance philosoply as he's observed it, we are trying to come up with Maintenanca Law #1: "For every task you are given by a supervisor, there will be two (or more) supervisors from other departments placing barriers in your way."
Manager asked me if the feed pumps were ready, since I'm being blocked (currently by ops) my response was "Don't know, don't care", he asked what kind of attitude was that to have and I pointed to my missing leave in late Dec and early Jan and asked if that was his doing. He got kind of sheepish and walked away. Strangely enough he will be off for the next several days, his leave it seems is unaffected.
For any other Rick and Morty fans... I wanted to do the Morty rant; "Well get your
together, get it all together and put it in a backpack, all your so it's together. And if you want to take it somewhere, you know, take it to the store and sell it, or put it in the museum. I don't care what you do you just gotta get it together. Get your together.He knows I could go elsewhere inside TVA, and if I lose $5K plus dollars because of his ineptitude I think I might to do it. The mechanism for reclaiming "use it or lose it" leave it difficult and colvoluted (on purpose might I add). Next time I get an opportunity to transfer outside the protected area I'm going to apply for it.
My advice for anyone looking at working in the nuclear industry is, go for it, just stay miles the hell away from this place. I've got a 47 page document from the Office of the Inspector General and another document from the NRC that can explain why.
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jedidia
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I don't quite get how that works. I mean, I know the concept of "you can't take your overtime off because there's too much work", but all that means is that you'll have to take it in cash.
I'm also familiar with the concept of "overtime doesn't exist, and if you mention it you can get yourself a new job", but nobody can afford to do that with skilled labour, as it's illegal.
Quick_Nick
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At my job, you can only carry a limited amount of Paid Time Off into the next year. Any excess has to be used by about mid-January or it disappears. I know some particularly busy coworkers who sacrifice a bit of PTO since they can't find time to use it during the year, or unexpectedly become busy at the end of the year as with PhantomCruiser's situation.
Also, as a salaried employee, overtime isn't a legal right for me. It does exist, but doesn't legally have to as I am considered exempt from those labor laws.
