mackwinston @ mackwinston @feddit.uk

Posts

0

Comments

88

Joined

2 yr. ago

All motorists are loud. Cities aren't loud, cars are loud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

It's the inverse - the car is quiet for just one day, its MOT day. The owner will put the standard exhaust on for the MOT, then put the loud one back on once they have the MOT pass certificate in hand. Same thing with numberplates with odd spacing to make words. The owner will put a standard plate on for the MOT then swap it for their illegally spaced one once the MOT is done.

Basically anyone who is measured greater than "Ignored" on the "Are you hated by the daily Mail" test - https://www.tomscott.com/usvsth3m/are-you-hated-by-the-daily-mail/

Three main possibilities:

• Engine failure after takeoff - turning back to the airport is known as the "impossible turn". It isn't quite impossible but it is difficult to execute successfully once you add on the startle factor. An incorrectly executed "impossible turn" usually results in a low altitude stall, which is normally fatal, so generally light aircraft pilots are trained to find somewhere to put it down directly in front of the aircraft.
• Engine failure on approach to land - aircraft following the standard '3 degree glideslope', this is too shallow of a glideslope for most aircraft to actually glide at without power so in the case of an engine failure the aircraft will end up short of the airfield.
• Engine failure during cruise flight - aircraft diverted to EGBJ/Gloucestershire but didn't have enough altitude to quite make it there. But this also gives the most time to look for a suitable paddock to put it down in.

Mostly 80s and early 90s (I think the nodelist peaked in size in about 1991 or 1992 or thereabouts, at about 30,000 nodes - I could be wrong). It's still going by the way.

ASL?

I'm not vegan or even vegetarian, but vegan food is for the most part absolutely awesome and not "miserable" in the slightest. I've had to seriously cut back on meat for health reasons, and I've discovered...I just don't miss meat. Vegan/vegetarian food is often just better.

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

However, I'm sure the CAA will want words with the pilot for selecting a road rather than a field to do the forced landing.

I'm sure the courts would agree it's not theft, but it really is taking the piss: a typical UK home uses on the order of 10kWh per day - and an electric car can easily take 60kWh to charge. This isn't like charging a mobile phone which is basically noise - it can mean someone staying for 5 days can easily end up using twice what the reasonable expectation for electricity use was.

Having said that, if I were the owner of a holiday home, I'd probably install a proper electric car charger as a selling point and I'm sure it would be possible to set the daily rate for the property to cover the cost of charging a car.

Just to pay devil's advocate for a moment - but let's imagine the house has oil heating (heating oil is basically diesel). Ignoring the problems of unpaid duty, given that the heating oil is provided as part of the holiday home's services, would it be theft if a guest filled up their diesel car from the heating oil tank? If that would be theft, why would (at least in the holiday home owner's opinion) it be unreasonable to not treat charging an electric car off the house supply in the same way, as clearly just as the heating oil isn't intended to be put in guests cars, the electricity isn't, either?

4Ah at 5 volts is 20 watt hours, or 1/3100th of a Tesla battery.

While this is true, extended high current usage through a 3 pin plug isn't ideal - especially if the house wiring is a bit old and imperfect (and the breaker won't trip until imperfect old wiring breaks down). It's generally not recommended to regularly charge cars off standard 3 pin plugs, although a one off usage will probably be just fine.

The courts can already do this - perjury is already a criminal offence, and people have been charged and convicted of this. The court case when someone is accused of perjury will explore things like "And what if they interpreted something incorrectly but believed they were telling the truth". The courts will decide if the evidence shows if someone is lying, just as they do with perjury.

The courts already know the difference between saying something misleading because you were simply wrong (that's not lying, that's just being wrong), and saying something misleading with the intent to mislead (lying).

But it does help give an idea of who's making the most reliable drives (both SSD and hard disk). No, this isn't a guarantee, but it's still useful information especially when it's not just a friend-of-a-friend anecdote but gained over tens of thousands of drives.

The biggest factor in making good, automatic backups for my home server wasn't speed (it's an older machine with a SAS array of spinning discs) but the availability of affordable cloud based backup storage (I use Backblaze and sync my files to a storage bucket once a day). Then it becomes automatic, and no one has to remember to do it, and it's offsite.

Even when external USB discs got cheap you had to remember to do it regularly and many people would forget.

Hard drives are not that unreliable, well, so long as you pick the right model.

BackBlaze's statistics are here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2023/ - they run tens of thousands of inexpensive drives to run their cloud backup service. Some HDDs are much better than others.

That document also links to their SSD statistics (they don't have that many SSDs yet, so the stats aren't as good) but while SSDs tend to have lower failure rates, there are some models of SSD that have higher failure rates than HDDs. For example, one Seagate SSD they use has an AFR (annualised failure rate) of just under 2%, but one Toshiba HDD they use has an AFR of only 0.31%. (Another thing to be aware of is that Backblaze's drives will all be in air conditioned data centres, not in the random temperature/humidity spreads of a PC in someone's home).

If you look at the stats as a whole generally SSDs have half the failure rate across the board to HDDs, but it varies a lot by make and model. So be careful on which you pick, and take backups :-) For my money, all my PCs (desktop and laptops) are pure SSD setups. My server still uses spinning disks, mainly because it's older server class hardware with a SAS array.

.rar is an awful proprietary format that needs to die, and die soon. You should NEVER use .rar files when sending files to others due to its closed proprietary nature.

.zip is preferable because everyone can handle it by default. 7z is OK because nearly everyone can handle it by default and it is an open format.

What do you mean by "advanced Linux distro"?

If you mean starting at a minimal starting point and only installing what you need, then you may as well start off with a minimal Debian netinst, then add the stuff you want once you've got the minimal system installed.

I think it will depend on if he wrote the song or not.

I use Backblaze B2 buckets too, just use a cron job to sync stuff once a day (using it for backups). It's not expensive and it just seems to keep on working. I also like their disc reliability reports they send out.