Posts by BebopWeBop 2863 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2015
To join two threads on a recent visit to the US I saw at least two people paying more attention to their mobiles than anything else around them - while riding scooters. Its just a same that they appeared to be texting with one hand (fun watching a scooter being ridden hands free I suspect)
I can sympathise (with the dogs) - I frequently come across someone with 4 of them (he competes in events that involve the dogs towing a sled on wheels). He only has 2 out at any time - and runs 5-10 miles with each pair every day. They need a *lot* of exercise - unlike my increasingly lethargic terror (admittedly he is getting on for 14 years old)
About the only thing that every unites the three is when a Health Minister threatens to upset the
With good reason given the motivation and behaviour of most ministers in the public and the NHS' collective memory - o competence or motivations or 'hidden agendas' and the need for a lucrative career when they are booted out all play their insidious parts.
Anyway the reason you can't get a decent cup of tea in Spain is they haven't invented the kettle yet. They don 't have a word for it even. The concept of a device to boil water with in order to make proper tea is completely alien.
Rubbish - I live in Barcelona half of the year. While tea in a cafe is to be avoided at all costs, we have a kettle (acquired from a corner electrical shop), and while I have not conciously taken a census, many of our friends (non British) have them as well. More of a problem is our friends begging/filching decent tea bags.
This might be the best thing that has happened to Tesla. Amid stories of him sleeping in the factory and poor treatment of workers (not exactly uncommon, especially in the US but no lest inexcusable) it seems clear that he has problems delegating in this particular company.
Tesla are already under a lot of pressure and have achieved a great deal. A note of personal interest, I am a very content owner of one bought in a fit of ethusiam wihen I found myself with more cash than sense - but I have not regretted it and have used it as my main vehicle for longish distance travelling in the UK and Europe. Screwing the company is the last thing I want on the altar of Musk's narcissism.
Speaking in a television interview, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said that the administration would be reviewing the roughly 6,000 comments members of the public had made to the US Trade Representative on the $200bn proposals before deciding on how to proceed with the tariffs.
I'm surprised they feel a need to pretend they will review comments from any outside party.....
blowing my ever so small trumpet,
A very comact piece of control and instrumentation code I wrote for part of a somewhat novel (at the tme) monitoring system for an industrial machine is still being used unchanged on the five original installs 31 years later - an output of a PhD project. Subsequently rewritten (mine was coded in 6502 assembly) for new incantations that I believe process aircraft turbine blades, it seems to be still running, remarkably. I can only presum,e that the machines were repurposed for other similar processing and being dumb and simple no changes were seen to be necessary for what are no longer safety critical systems.
From a conversation about 10 years ago, they were still running on the same hardware . Spares have been laid down.
The softwa, if not the hardware was a test stufy in what might be done in more formal verification.
As are far too many people here in the US (confused that is). I'm not a US citizen, although my children are - one of them is here - but at the risk of talking as a hopefully, engaged outsider, it seems clear that a political and legal system suited to the 19th century has run its course. Not of course that I hve a say in the matter.
I have it on good authority from a source I trust that the someone like the NSA have bought up all of one particular model of supercomputer as they hit the disposals lists, and have created a monster encryption cracker with them.
Ther are good reasons why anonymous 'but I trust them' sources tend not to be welcome in the public domain - even if the latest Trump debacle was cheering and reinforced opinions on thoe who though it was the case..... (being one myself - but I am still curious about the morive(s))
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