Cycling to the station, I have a 1m length of steel in my backpack. Obviously this means about half of it sticks out the top. Every time I brake it smacks me in the back of my head.
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...
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.
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?