Posts by EVP 156 posts • joined 16 Nov 2018
It’s definitely an exhaust plume. I have a reason (which I cannot obviously comment any further) to believe there is a colony undead squids from space living in Jupiter, and they are starting their engines to invade us.
Seriously, astro-boffins get my unreserved respect for their work. Astro-boffings, have one, or ħ⋅10^34 1/eVs, this weekend (despite that you missed the squids) —>
True, ear cushions and other sound-dampening material wear out. Replacing them regularly is especially important with hearing-protection gear.
In this case, Bose clearly tries to bullshit their customers and to setup a smokescreen. It is complete BS that worn out cushions would be magically incompatible with the new and assumedly _better_ ANC SW. Even if they were incompatible, that would indicate a failure at their engineering department for not considering worn cushions before rolling out an update.
Logical conclusion is that they are either liars or incompetent, possibly both. In any case, Bose is now on my do-not-even-consider-bying list for good.
(I really hope they’ll fix the problem for their existing customers.)
I fscking hate fscking video tutorials. Every fscking video every fscking time introduces the same fscking concepts beginning when the dinosaurs walked the Earth. The actual tutorial is perhaps 5% of the whole ’tutorial’ duration, if it’s a good one.
Not that modern (written during the last 35 years) books on technical topics are much better. Gimme a good reference manual and I’m in heaven!
Rant over. Thank you for reading and please accept my sincere apologies.
(We need exploding head icon.)
Except they probably got it wrong. China ordered speedily an authoritarian lockdown. The west is following democratic procedures, and thus can act more slowly. I recon it’ll make the peak part wider, i.e. the misery will last longer than 3 monts. If I may ask, don’t shoot the messenger.
Instead browsing POM info, I recommend analysts to stick to browsing PORN. Everybody would be better off.
Stay safe.
(We need a loo roll icon)
"Anything is worthwhile. If these Heath Robinson kitbashed systems save even one life on balance - they're worth it."
I fully agree. Although it is understandable why medical professionals fear using uncertified products.
Rather than hoping for an open hw solution, people should demand for their states to act and to produce simple to use (hospitals are/will be running out of ICU professionals) and fast to manufacture ventilators, and other vital things too.
Any state with engineering and manufacturing resources should order engineers to do emergency work and confiscate (yes, they would get paid a reasonable rate for their efforts) materials and facilities to produce stuff we really need now. Like in a state of war. Any true leader would do this like yesterday and would not fear consequences for his/her political career. We don't want a Bring Your Own Ventilator situation within the next few weeks.
"And ffs, we are in the middle of a worldwide medical emergency - companies will you KINDLY stop waving your patent and right-to-repair dicks about. You are NOT helping."
Yes. Unfortunately, the patent waving and price gouging **coughepipen** has been going on for a while. Because of those dick wads, a great number of lives are lost and quality of life is decreased all over the world. Simply because of money and greed. If something good ever comes out of this horrible situation, I hope it will be better healthcare for everyone (I know, I'm being a bit naive now). I will never deny a reasonable, or even a high, reward for people's and companies' efforts. Still, the current situation in healthcare is too much.
This certainly is not a fucking game. Thanks for your post, Jemma.
”Windows is not, never was, and will never be, suitable for *embedded* applications (which is what this is).”
Agreed. Why don’t they just replace embeeded Winzo$es with good’ol deskto versions. You know, an ATM AD account for everyone with a debit card, crtl+alt+del to login and voilà, problems gone!
Yes, I know. Don’t bother with me coat.
Oh no, there goes my golden future :/ Need to brainstrom more evil genius ideas to rule the world.
(BTW, it’s no joke that human activity creates super-bugs: too many anti-bacterial products around us. No conspiracy theories needed. Antibacterial tooth paste is one of the worst ideas ever.)
Stupid HAL, he doesn’t understand money.
1. Use AI (well, an automated system anyway) to develop all possible antibiotic permutations that might be useful.
2. Patent them.
3. Wait for the bugs to evolve -> profit.
Even better:
1. Use AI to synthesize all antibiotics it possibly can.
2. Patent them.
2. Use AI to engineer bugs to match your patent portfolio.
4. Release the bugs -> all the profit you can imagine, and then some more.
Who’s in? Minimum investment 100 M€ / £83.7M
I call your story a crash course on dangers of electricity. He, or anyone else attending to the course, won’t try it again.
Seriously, good that he survived. This case was probably something that happened impulsively. Every now and then you see death-trap installations by “electricians” which require serious planning and trouble to build. Why do it properly, when you can kill yourself, or someone else?
I remember (shame on me) MacGyver using a tin foil covered chewing gum wrapper for the same purpose once to get out of a tricky situation.
Did he bad, yes? I want to believe that he was conscientious enough and replaced his kludge with a proper bold after dealing with the crooks (and leaving behind the misty-eyed lady he saved).
Man, that summons up flashbacks from the darkest dungeons of my memory. Burning black plastic of female IDE connector didn’t smell good. I can still bring back its sharp and toxic malodour. The fumes made your eyes to water, too.
Unless my memory fails me badly, some cables had on pin 19 a miniature plug which could be fished out.
“expensive to risk, its job is to fly around for 20-30 years generating support contracts“
I’m afraid you’re right. Buy hey, if everybody had them, it would end all wars. “F-35 - Good for peace, good for GNP!” (from L-M marketing slides).
Bad jokes aside, superior* weapons are always bad for peace. ~Zero risk to take out inferior enemy troops, guess what does to the threshold to initiate a war?
*When latest Service Pack has been installed and license keys have been paid for.
No way, Lockheed-Martin is so desperate to have orders on the F-35, that any publicity is good publicity.
The Vultures might be required to return all review samples* they receive, though, unless they change their tone a bit.
*The actual jets, I believe missiles and bombs are considered consumables.
Yeah, unfortunately that’s often the case. Ruining someone’s who has just received a very expensive lesson career is just plain stupid. In this specific story, the junior operator taught himself to think twice when figuring out what’s wrong with a non-functioning device.
Fear of getting sacked for screwing up only leads to covering up tracks, which leads to even bigger problems, increased expenses, bad work moral and even mental ill-being. Fuck such management.
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