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  • Redundancy doesn't necessarily come with a golden handshake, though many employment contracts do mandate it.

    But they do have to try to find you another job elsewhere in the organisation if that's possible, and they have to disestablish the position not necessarily you. That means that if they want to make one person from a team redundant, they generally have to actually ask if anyone wants to leave, and if not, run a transparent process to decide who from the team to make redundant, not just pick someone.

    You also have to not be planning to re-hire for the role any time soon as that would imply the redundancy wasn't genuine.

  • Google has removed the video through an automated process without talking to the owner of the channel or verifying who owns the video in the first place.

    Honestly sounds like Hanlon's Razor on Google's part. No collusion necessary, just can't be bothered to maintain/staff an actual effective system.

  • That's not bad pricing wise. There's very very little prosumer gear that's multi gigabit and it's all much higher price, or it's just a PC with several NICs.

    If and when we move to hyperfibre this is going to be pretty high up on the list.

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  • I'm not sure that lossy compression on vectors is strictly impossible.

    You can do things like store less colour information and simplify splines so that curves are less complex.

  • Lots of places also have variable limit signs that get updated based on traffic, accidents etc.

    Here in NZ those seem to all be marked on the speed limit maps as 100km/h even if in some places the signs never go above 80.

    Ngauranga Gorge is one such location and I believe has the country's highest grossing speed camera.

  • The question seems open to interpretation (which is bad for surveys like this).

    If I visit a location that was the site of a mass shooting a few years later, have I been "physically present on the scene of a mass shooting"?

    I think you could reasonably answer yes: you've been to the physical place where it happened, even if not at the time it happened.

  • All of those would also apply to turbine blade construction, except aircraft certification. You still want all the strength on the outside to get the most strength out of the material used.

    You still want really good validation because these will not be inspected like aircraft are. I'm not sure if anyone will actually be getting close up with the full length of the blade surface post installation.

  • Intriguing, but I find this somewhat hard to believe.

    Glu-lam isn't new technology.

    If you could achieve comparable strength: weight from timber as aluminium, GFRP, or CFRP, we'd see a high timber content in aircraft, instead of near zero.

    If they're making the blades heavier to compensate, you get all kinds of runaway knock on effects. Blades are heavier, so need to be stronger, so need to be heavier... tower, bearings, foundations, mountings etc all need to be stronger.

    Sort of an xkcd 808 argument.

  • Everything burns up regardless of size. Big things might not finish burning by the time they hit the ground.

    You need either enough thrust to slow you to ~mach 2, or a heat shield to do the same by aerobraking.

    It's called aerobraking for a reason: you're using friction to turn kinetic energy into heat to slow down, but that heat goes into the air and your heat shield instead of brake pads and rotors.

  • This is why it's important to operate with enough available reserves (fast and slow) to cover the unexpected loss of your biggest generator, transformer, and/or transmission line.

    Their black start procedures are going to be getting a good workout; I hope they're well tested.