Posts by LogicGate

Musk makes the Macrohard joke again

Do not forget the ventilators he planned to build out of Tesla parts during Covid

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Re: America's reputational loss will be long lasting

I seem to remember that in the last 2 elections, most identified election fraud /tampering was performed by MAGA Republicans, usually in an atempt to prove election fraud / tampering.

Re: restricting voting

Everybody expects...

...The Revenge of the Hamberder!

Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system

Obligatory:

But can it run Crysis?

Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states

Re: Crashes

I suspect that EVTOLs will be a drop in the bucket of transportation.

Once all safety relevant issues have been sorted, pricing will not be too dissimilar to helicopters I suspect.

Re: Maybe

It crashed

Re: Maybe

Keep in mind that in an EVTOL, the rotors are most likely directly coupled to the (mass of the) motor (no clutch). Still, I have not seen any concepts based on autorotation.

IMHO, the best path out is redundancy and high reliability architectures

Re: Maybe

Autorotation is not an uption unless the vehilcle is equipped with variable pitch propellers which can transition from windmilling to lift generation shortly before lithobraking takes place.

As a result, the authorities have assigned a requirement for Design Assurance Level A for lift generating propulsors in wing-less vehicles of this class.

I believe that going from 4 to 8 independent propulsors can relax this requirement to DAL B, but I am not certain about this. It probably depends a lot of the mission specific hazard analysis.

Re: The autonomous elephant

EVTOLS built to fulfill a money-earning mission will most likely use a hybrid powertrain where combustion provides a base-load.

hop-charge-hop-charge will most likely lead to too low utilization.

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place

Re: A bit of devil's advocacy here

I fully agree with the albove.

My suspicion is that the backlash is in part due to the commentards being enthusiastic about the revolution in space exploration that we are seeing now, but then having to endure the icecold golden shower that is Elon Musk and all that he stands for.

Re: Hoping Musk's rocket goes kaboom

That was not my post, but by now I too see no redeeming features in the morons that enabled this evil sociopatic racist fuckwit regime TWICE.

Re: Hoping Musk's rocket goes kaboom

"So far he hasn't hit London"

The death-toll of the Trump Precidency, and specifically of Musk's destruction of USAID is a multiple of the deaths due to the V-2 Blitz of London (ca. 3000 victims if I recall correctly).

Edit: Spellink is difiklut

FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools

The FBI of today is clearly not the FBI of yesteryear. It is as if something like a Delusional Overkill of Government Employees has happened.

Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

Re: Working at a US 3 letter agency

Nope, unless DOGE did the firing, it will have been done using a falsehood, via falsehood social.

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

Re: 200,000 Neurons

It is the year of the Lord 1938, and all you guys can talk about is this Herr Hitler!

NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour

These are better units! They are Freedom Units, in the rest of the world known as American F-U s.

Iran all but vanishes from the global internet amid US-Israel strikes

Re: Just Weird

On a side-note,

there are rumors that, during the cold war, a young Russian KGB agent named V.Putin was stationed in the DDR in order to handle/support this little protest group named "Rote Arme Fraktion".

Nothing is new, but the Internet has made it vastly more easy to reach far.

By the way,

If the US or Israel were serious about a popular uprising, then they should flood the airspace over Iran with drones that create a free flying cellular network.

The question is whether the Iranians could easily jam such a network, and whether anti radiation missiles could cost effectively take out said jammers

Re: Just Weird

Russia, Iran and China are more than happy to promote any kind of movement that creates strife and incohesion in western societies.

This means that they will be prepared to support both far left AND far right movements simultaneously in the same nation without sharing ideology with either.

Russia supported Brexit not because they felt that pint marks and blue passports were a good thing. Nor were they terribly worried about too many brown people entering the UK or regulations for bent bananas. They supported brexit because Brexit weakened both the EU AND the UK.

My country's being bombed, I have no idea if I'll live to see tomorrow, I'd better get online and..

-find out where my family and loved ones are, so that we can organize somewhere safe for all of us to stay

-find out where food, water and medical aid is still available

-communicate with likeminded in order to organize the owerthrow of the regine

-post videos that show what is really happening, rather than sanitized propaganda

-take pictures of myself in speedos on the beach with an easily georeferenced S400 battery in the background

-keep updated on what the Kardashians have been up to lately

Euro allies aiming to rapidly build low-cost air defense weapons

Re: The old fashioned way

Putin only talks to gain time from Trump.

His end-game does not include any kind of settlement outside of a full capitulation of Ukraine and dehabilitating NATO concessions.

Anything else will see disgruntled soldiers return home and demand his head on a platter.

It is not the world that prefers the obliterating choice, it is Putin, and maybe Xi if he fears that old age is approaching.

The rest of us just has to deal with the cards that we are dealt.

NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results

Re: Hmm...

Hmm.. It could indeed be that the woshing sound I heard was the joke performing a low-pass directly over my head...

Sadly, we will never know.

What the current situation proves is that while amazing things can be done when enough funding and effort is spent, spending the same funding on pork over as many election districts as possible will not necessarily lead to technological progress. Who would have thought.

With regards to doubting the moon landings: This load of BS has been debunked so many times that it is not worth my time.

Re: Coal dust

Too late

Trum has already arranged for the US military to buy all the coal.

Probably to fuel the new Trump-Epstein class Baffleship.

European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools

Re: Where else is sufficently intelligent?

That would mean that an entire administration, including the party backing said administration would have to be let go or put in quarantine due to it being fully compromized (mainly by the Russians).

Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?

"The vision," Parakhin writes on X (formerly Twitter), "was to create symmetric panes: you have notification/system controls/etc. pane on the right, Weather/Widgets/News pane on the left. That pushed start menu into the center position."

And there we have the moron.

I do not want Weather, Widgets or News pane

Thus, once I have successfully gotten rid of this useless bloat, I have an unused left half of the taskbar, while the right half is filling up with stuff that actually does something. Stuff will then have to be reduced in sice because there is no space.

The colored crayon department in Microsoft should stop eating all the crayons.

BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street

Somehow I feel that Simon should have made it a tesla with self park funtionality. The PFY would not even have had to leave mission control..

Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'

Re: Don't underestimate Elon Musk

In my experience, one of the common markers of people that make their way up in life is ruthlessnes.

Narcissists, by nature, have little to no empathy to others, which is why these are often seen in positions of power

I would say that they share sociopathic narcissism.

However, while Musk at least very superficially learns and understands things like aerospace engineering, Trump seems to actively avoid any kind of external input, preferring the comfortable "reality" that he has created inside his own mind.

What a time to be alive! ...Shudder..

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

Re: Americans

Well, the story mentioned a bullet, but you are right, it may have been a rifle rather than a "gun".

As for the geolocation, very few countries has the same degree of firearm profiliation as the US, especially with regards to firearms not locked away safely.

Compound this with the fact that the current US administration is "flooding the zone" in order to keep everyone thinking about them ALL the time, it is understandable that the OP read the story and instinctively thought about "the land of the people that believe that they and only they are, and have the right to be, free".

edit:spellink

Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

Re: Nuclear Powered Bacon!

It will be what the significant other who is always right did not finish off.

AI can predict your future salary based on your photo, boffins claim

Re: …what, we're back to phrenology again, aren't we?

The solution is easy, apply retro-phrenology as per late Sir Terry.

A vide variety of hammers is available at your preferred clinic.

Re: blue-eyed, tall, fit-looking, posessing perfect teeth, a deep voice, and abundant head-hair.

You just described the Trump "modeling agency look" according to the Epstein files, so yes, looks matter in the USA.

British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain

Re: Bloody Vikings!

Dear Moderators,

I would like to report the first case in recorded history of a (presumed) Scotsman complaining about the bloody northeners.

Re: Bloody Vikings!

Keep in mind that we are living in modern times. Some concessions must be made to the gallivanting youth.

Re: Bloody Vikings!

It WOULD fix your economy though.

AND reverting to the runic alphabet would save on schooling, since the young ones would only need to learn 16 letters (Younger Futhark).

Your fish and chips could once more be made with NATIONAL cod (from Lofoten).

As a bonus, you would no longer need to complain about the bloody southeners (Since it would be you)

What is there not to like?

Re: Bloody Vikings!

Cultural appropriation!

As compensation, the UK should secede Scotland and Northern ireland back to Norway

Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031

Re: sunlit uplands

Yeah, I suspected that a few downvoters did not notice the "wosh" as the joke flew straight over their heads.

However,that is on them, not on me. AND, there will also be those that DO notice the snark, and feel bad about it the other way around, bless their little snowflake hearts..

On the bright side, de-coupling from Europe allows the UK to expand it's special partnership with th US. Off to the sunlit uplands!

SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk blathers about Moon city

Re: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but

The moon is very much a harsh mistress

However, I am sure that the techbro's can install an AI on the moon, which can then safely controll the mass driver.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Re: Well, that's all a bit ...

I would be careful about throwing the child out with the bathwater.

The BBC, for all it's flaws, remains a reputable name in worldwide reporting AND entertainment. This means that the BBC gives the UK a way to influence worldwide opinion and viewpoint.

It is a tool for UK soft power and a marketing tool for UK tourism, culture and entertainment.

By accident of birth (colonialism) the UK of today happens to be the source of what is closest to being the "world language". This puts the BBC into a position which similar actors from other countries, sich as Deutsche Welle or whatever the French equivalent is only can dream of.

Get rid of the BBC (and NPR), and you leave the field wide open for other state actors such as RT, and these do NOT have what is best for you in mind.

Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing

Re: So restrict ammo?

However,

as my previous post indicated:

The "controls" on 3d printing mentioned in the article are unworkable and not rooted in reality.

Re: So restrict ammo?

"Oh yes, trying to arrest people with active deportation orders is so unfair. But that's a different discussion"

The problem with that sentence is that it is de-coupled from reality. Mr. Miller has set quotas in his effort to make the USA white again.

Then he has hired large numbers of people that would never get a job in real law enforcement and given them little to no background checking, training or supervision.

These guys are now roaming the streets looking for colored people to take. They are not going after the worst of the worst. That would be too much work. Instead they are going for anyone that they can get, starting at home depots, building sites and farm fields.

The NRA argument about the 2nd amendment dies on January 6, when they did not stand up to protect the democracy. Sadly, a number of those parttaking in January 6 are now roaming the streets with masks, weapons and no ID.

As for gun control: this is not an all or nothing issue. I have a close relative lives in a house filled to the brim with firearms (in varous states of restauration). They are all registered (I believe the muzzle loading flintlocks do not require registration) and stored securely. The relative has all required licences, and the police has the right to come knocking inspect the state of said firearms. This does not make his country of residence a police state, but it makes gun crime a much more seldom occurence. A shooter would not just get a slap on the hand, a "bad dog" and be returned to the street. At the same time, criminals are not put in jail just for punishment, but also into a system that tries to avoid repeat offences. On a side note, becoming a police officer is a university level education taking ca. 5 years.

Personally, I like aircraft (Airbore), I like historic aircraft, I like military aircraft. I do NOT feel that I need the right to own and operate armed ex military aircraft in order to pursue my hobby. In the same way, I enjoy plinking at a target with a KAR 98 or similar, but I do not feel that I need the right to own a large magazine semi-or fully automatic weapon. Guns, like cars and aircraft have a grat potential for misuse, guns maybe more so.

Living in a society where the goal is for everyone to get through the day safely and freely, I think some gun control is needed in the same way as the operation of cars and aircraft has requirements and restrictions. Otherwise you end up in society of fear, where police go to work fearing the populace and vice versa. -this is not freedom.

Nope, it is cars that kill people.

This is why we have drivers licences, monitoring of car condition / maintenance, requied insurance etc.

Regulating guns like cars would be a huge step forwards.

Re: RE: 3D printers are actually dumb tools

If the buttstock was supposed to be a microwave door handle, then this would have been VERY interesting to the Germans, since the cavity magnetron, which made microwave ovens possible, were a key part to the top secret british airborne radar design :)

Re: RE: 3D printers are actually dumb tools

During WW2 the Norwegian resistance produced sten-guns in occupied Norway. The production was distributed to multiple workshops, and often described as "parts for shovels", "bed-springs" and similar.

Only the finished product could reliably be identified as a weapon.

I wish lawmakers would have some subject matter knowledge about the laws that they are making. This is obviously not the case, which means that they should be required to "listen to the experts". Sadly, listening to experts is often considered a failure of loyalty in today's political environment.

Re: So restrict ammo?

Ban printing guns and parts thereof: impractical

Ban gun propellant: Imparctical

Ban gun projectiles: Impractical

... How about putting some controls on gun posession?

Ooh.. You can not do that just in case the government goes all authoritarian and puts masked and armed goons without identification on the streets and starts to arrest, dissapear and execute people on the streets! Second Amendment!!

YOU. ARE. SO. SCREWED!

Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately

Not a calamity, a ship-wreck, with ensuing adventures on a lonely volcano island

The real Lego Rocket should be picked up from the launchpad while making rumbling noises, run a coupleof times around the house while discarding various stages and finally landed in the little brother's bedroom, preferrably on a moonscape made put of blankets.

I built Lancaster bombers with 4 electric motors which regularily crash landed in the hallway. Collect (most) pieces, rebuild and go off on the next mission.

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

Re: Orbiting AIs

Our libraries appear to be scarily similar