I thought this flag came from all the glass on the fietspad. But nope. It's a thorn. Not the biggest I've ever removed, but certainly one of the more annoying.
We've all been having a good laugh about sparkling autocarrot suggesting that people include glue in the cheese on pizza, and that we should all eat rocks.
But at the same time, you can buy mushroom identification books in Amazon that are "written" using sparkling autocarrot.
Actual printed books. On how to tell very similar poisonous and non poisonous mushrooms apart. Something that is really hard for skilled humans in some cases.
I have a course on July 5th. So I can't stay up all night and watch the results live. Boo. Maybe I could get a really early night, wake up at 2am to watch the results and then goto work...
Rail geeks, what's happening with the ICE L stock replacing the steam train between Amsterdam and Berlin? Have they been spotted doing testing and validation runs?
@quixoticgeek Genoa is less touristy… & Italian food is amazing! There’s many museums there, but I forgot exactly which ones I liked, 20 years ago :) it’s easy to reach by train. No sea thou?!
There's a lot of discussion among coders about comments, some say that good code shouldn't need commenting.
But the thing a lot of people fail to understand with comments is that you don't just want to say what th code is doing. But why. The why is often more important. I have a code base I've taken over maintenance of, and in the execution there's a 60 second delay in there. But there's no details of why. What breaks if I remove it? Do I want to find out the hardway?
@quixoticgeek "You may wonder why we're toggling /CS after every byte. It's because the datasheet is lying and whichever idiots designed this chip didn't understand SPI at all" may have been one I've put in my code.
Think I saw someone else complaining about the same thing recently. No idea if it was the same chip.
I keep getting videos promoted at me of an f35b landing on the helipad of some tall hotel in the middle east.
What I don't get is you can clearly see the markings saying max weight is 7.5t. and D value (max overall length rotor tip to rotor tip) of 20m. The f35b is 15m long so that's fine. But empty it weighs over 14 tons.
I can't work out, is this a fake video. Or are they exceeding the design load of the helipad by 100%. If the later. What are the implications for this overload?
Also given the early reports of the down draft from f35b damaging the deck of various naval ships. Does the exhaust from the jet not knacker the helipad? At the very least it should destroy the paint job...
With the likes of NetBSD and Gentoo banning (rightfully) LLM generated code. How do you enforce that? How do you ensure the code is written by a human ?
@quixoticgeek this is, in essence, much the same problem as how do you ensure the code is written by the human submitting it, i.e. how do you ensure it is not a copyright violation.
@quixoticgeek I am reminded of the tale of a 747 that was bound from the UK to Orlando and over the Atlantic when a passenger had a heart attack. "Is there a doctor on board?" — asked the crew, and 50 cardiologists en route to a conference answered the call. (The patient survived.)
@Zamfr@eris2cats@cstross@quixoticgeek
Let me tell you the tale of a North Sea platform with a dozen plus other fields passing through it's pumping system, a clearly labelled "Field Shutdown Button" behind TWO layers of "molly guard", and a platform manager called "Dumbfuck Kevin" ... what, you've guessed?