blueandmoreblue.bsky.social
Scuba diver, aviation family/fan, etc
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Back before ewaste was a thing we just tossed dead hardware in the garbage, and we didn’t need video proof we’d defeated it either.
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Requiescat in pace. Per ardua ad astra.
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Or even the chat function of your favourite online multiplayer game, according to the younger generation & fiancé.
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[x] Check if Usenet is still switched on
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Almost seems you were really more interested in that tugboat and just swung over to its big load for context.
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If the Fe ions come back around as Au ions you might have a business model there.
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An ocean away from Flanders fields.
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“Bearded Unix Wizard” remains a terminological alternative.
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Easiest “improvement” is one unaware of all the constraints the existing solution satisfies, so you get faster but broken! Meanwhile things nobody wants to touch fester onward.
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Looks more like a ritual porpoise.
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They always fly it like they’re going to bolter and go around, but if you catch a wire and slow partway and it breaks then you’re neither stopping on deck nor flying when you run out of deck. Option C is the conveniently-fitted ejection seat.
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Children would cheerfully read such a book, but the lesson they’re supposed to be learning is that adults inexplicably don’t talk about certain topics.
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Training them to return to earth is pretty cool too!
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Make sure you Ctrl-Q later if you’re on a serial terminal.
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Modern video editing software does such amazing things for your hair’s chirality!
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I confidently expect that some number of male space flight participants are already calling themselves astronauts.
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Halifax NS might be a suitable nautical city. My daughter counted a bunch of rainbow flags there.
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Trying to get to your smartphone and find the page in the app with the robot’s thermostat slider as she’s doing her best to distract your full attention and the sheets are starting to singe.
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I think “space tourist” has become the term for that, differentiating from astronauts trained to do mission-critical duties up there.
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FTDI good, PL2303 bad, Silicon Labs good.
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I’m still not ever using anything called NT.
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Remembering when we brought our wee lad to his first airshow. He loved the C-5 and the B-52 but cried when we sat him in a helicopter. Thirty years later he was captain of the Aurora on display.
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Where’s the microphone on his headset?
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Also it’s the only base that would be launching a nuclear strike again.
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I’ll never look at a switch in a wiring closet the same way again.
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They borged three Canadian ISPs and threw us in a blender.
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I was there for a bit in the mid-naughties after they borged the ISP I had been with for several years.
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Colour me green with envy! I build firmware images and never get to drive the test gear or have access to our liquid nitrogen or anything.
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Thought for a moment you were talking about a certain $TELCO from the other side of the huge pond, but that was following decade.
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Booster recovery has to stay north of Cuba.
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Or even a helo hovering ready to blow the fire flat and haul the pilot out.
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Maybe the old one just needs a fresh goat?
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Too easy to launch theories of a foreign agent making sure the autopilot’s aim was true and deepsixing the only awake witness I suppose.
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The fuzziness would rather appear to be of the flames-and-smoke nature.
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Innovation is just another word for breaking backwards compatibility.
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Nice safe environment without major thermal extremes, high voltage fields, etc, would be nice if we only had to build for that.
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The Internet is international enough that I think we’ve all picked up bits and pieces of everyone’s turns of phrase.
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Only two of us in the plane, I don’t know how to fly, and I used to change the pilot’s diapers.
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My brother the helo test pilot had named a daughter Lucinda before realizing that at that stage he’d inevitably have cause to say “Luce, let the fork be with you”.
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Turn human workers into bleary-eyed automatons and it’ll be easier to match with what we’re flogging as AI.
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RF propagation is willing to try just about any medium. Is it time for an IP-over-Rhododendron RFC?
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Just the thing to be enjoying whilst watching Ghostbusters!
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There does appear to be an international covenant that the nuclear genie stays in the bottle. Question is how far each player will go with conventional logistics.
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Are we feeling lucky?!?
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Hopefully please not because of this being the year they launch?
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Would the world interpret the US internet as damage and route around it, or discover it’s a Single Point Of Failure?
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Some of it is people grabbing the high-visibility hero tasks and pushing maintenance and testing to others to make it look like they’re accomplishing 10x more.
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There are reasons we call them evil boards.
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Having the tech on the shelf ready to use was quite an accomplishment itself, not to mention coming together with design, national will, etc.