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Just finished watching Salyut-7. Nicely done!
A dramatization instead of a documentary. Great visuals, good musical score.
Wife watched part of it, and she didn't even mind the subtitles.

Kinda cheesy there near the very end, if you watch it you'll see what I mean.
 
German drivers will think: "80 means 80 and not a mm/s less"
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Swiss drivers will think: "80 is 80, then we got a tolerance of 5, and my tachometer is constantly showing somewhere between 5% and 10% too much, so somewhere between 90 and 95 should be fine!" :lol:
 
Russian drivers will think "80 means 100, but since they don't fine below 120 i might as well go 140 between the speed cameras".
 
Just noticed that I joined the old "M6" Orbiter forum 12 years and 9 months ago.

That's just over half my life in this place!

(And a major reason I've been doing aerospace engineering for real for the past two years)
 
My boss after we got a few pretty large solar panels delivered to the office:
"... They felt smaller on the internet..."
 
Never trust those blank background photos :lol:

Just saw an article about lightning, and it said that it can hardly be heard at more than 16 km/ 10 miles out. Sort of a low estimate...I've heard it from storms 30-40 km away, perhaps more. It's not that classical rumble, but you still hear a faint muffled boom. And on a quiet night, that's the only thing it can be.

Come to think of it, ever since I became interested in weather, I started to fear lightning more than any other phenomenon. Especially the situations where you have Cb clouds in development which haven't had lightning yet, and people go about their business outside.

A few weeks ago, we had a positive lightning strike take out around half the village's power network. Literally the only strike of that cumulonimbus. There were other electrified storm cells in proximity, but this one had been calm so far. When I saw the flash, I jumped on to lightningmaps.com to see if it was lightning or something else, and the deafening boom was so intense it had me wondering if it was only lightning or it had struck something that went off :P
 
Just saw an article about lightning, and it said that it can hardly be heard at more than 16 km/ 10 miles out. Sort of a low estimate...
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It depends a lot on whether you're upwind or downwind, and downhill or uphill. If you're standing downwind and uphill, thunder can be heard ridiculously far. Though I guess uphill doesn't matter too much since a lot of the sound also gets carried by higher air layers...
 
Today I've learned that browsers do not respect the download attribute of cross-origin links. I really try to think of a good reason for this, but the only thing that comes to mind is that whoever made the decision hates good software design...
 
jedidia said:
Today I've learned that browsers do not respect the download attribute of cross-origin links. I really try to think of a good reason for this, but the only thing that comes to mind is that whoever made the decision hates good software design...
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Or has a very good criminal imagination. I can actually understand why they ban it. Just adding download there does not make a link safe.
 
Just adding download there does not make a link safe.
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No, but what about all the single-page frontends that are cross-origin by nature? Not to forget about CDNs? Also, it only counts for files the browser can display (PDFs, images, videos, stuff like that). Anything else will still trigger a download. So where's the gained safety in that, compared to the cost?

On a more positive note, here are two entries from todays edition of "hilarious quotes of a six year old":

"Clear the way, there's math in the air!!"
"Two plus five is seven. I can count that on my hands. But I don't have fourteen-seventy fingers. That would be an entire forrest!"
The second one is probably mostly a product of him being very tired at that point... :lol:
 
That's exactly what I'm talking about. the download attribute is not respected by browsers for cross-origin links. Which means it's not possible to put a direct download link for something like an image or a PDF if it doesn't come from the same server as the frontend, even if said server explicitly allows cross-origin sharing.
 
jedidia said:
That's exactly what I'm talking about. the download attribute is not respected by browsers for cross-origin links. Which means it's not possible to put a direct download link for something like an image or a PDF if it doesn't come from the same server as the frontend, even if said server explicitly allows cross-origin sharing.
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Thats odd - it should treat them as one origin, if properly authentificated.


But when I read the argument "Google was opposed to using CORS for this.", I suspect its a true PEBCAK.
 
Download attribute?
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Just an attribute you can give to an html link that is supposed to tell the browser to open the download dialog for the linked resource instead of opening it in the browser.
It's really neat for stuff like context menus. Like, you right-click on an image or document or somesuch in a list and can choose actions like "delete", "download", "move" etc.
Now all that's left for downloading a resource directly on a frontend that relies on CORS is the browser context menu, and that's so crowded that a significant percentage of users have no idea what most of the options do.
 
If you add the "Content-Disposition: attachment" header to the thing you're downloading it should work. Basically you can't just point at something and go "download that", the other server has to say "This is meant to be downloaded."
 
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