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Re:Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
on Thursday August 01, 2024 @08:29AM (#41128458)
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/venues/aquatics-centre
> From swimming lessons to recreational use and high-level competitions, the Aquatics Centre will be multifunctional. From July 2025, the Aquatics Centre will become a vast multi-sports facility open to all, including two pools (50m and 25m), a fitness area, bouldering area, paddle tennis section and pitches for team sports. It will also have an adjustable floor to serve a variety of purposes (swimming lessons for babies and children, etc.). The Aquatics Centre will also be the state-of-the-art facility that the French swimming community has been looking forward to for decades. The French Swimming Federation will be able to host national and international competitions in its four indoor disciplines. The Centre will also provide a best-in-class federal training facility for leading French athletes and will notably be home to the country’s diving centre
Re:UK Air traffic control system was taken down by an ambiguous flight...
on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:27AM (#37431831)
Here's the full preliminary incident report if anyone wants to read it:
https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/NERL%20Major%20Incident...
Obviously concerning that a single (perfectly valid) flight plan can take down both the primary and backup. Reject the flight plan that the system can't understand, you've got 4 hours for someone on front-line support to be able to work out the correct path and enter it manually? Meanwhile it'd be good if the system continued to operate.
Futher concerns about first and second line support being unable to find in the logs the cause or even the flight plan being processed when the systems failed. Had to bring in the 3rd party developers to look at "lower-level" logs to find out what happened. If your monitoring/logging isn't good enough that the first responder can't work out at least what the system was doing when it failed, that's a significant problem.
Re:Canada’s Big Flex in Space
on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:00PM (#36295690)
For more context on how big a deal this is, the A220 is quite widely seen as the future of short-haul aviation. Airlines are moving towards a point-to-point model instead of hub & spoke (especially in Europe), using smaller planes with lower capacity, but flying more frequently, together with best in class fuel efficiency (with the price of jet fuel only really going to go in one direction in the next decades) means the 220 is very, very popular. Airbus is expecting to sell 7,000 of them in the next 20 years. That's coming close to the incredibly successful A320 family (including A318, A319, A320 and A321 models) which has sold just over 10,000 planes sold since 1986.
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party...
on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:34PM (#36145318)
Archive.org was knocked offline the other day due to some AI startup scraping it to death. It’s not a good thing.
Re:Mach-9 12-passenger jet will fly from New York to Tokyo in one hour
on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:34AM (#35815056)
It claims it will use rotating detonation engines, which are currently at a NASA tech demo stage. At best. They're super complex, currently not very stable. It's long, long way from becoming stable & reliable enough to be used as plane engines or being commercially available. The current record is 10 minutes firing.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/feature/nasa-validates...
Re:Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone
on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:44AM (#35081675)
My favourite thing about the Emailer is it was often stylised E-m@iler, which is the most incredibly 2000s branding.
Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery
on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:29AM (#34958346)
Restless Leg Syndrome is absolute hell. Combined with insomnia it's nearly killed me a few times. I think a lot of people (including many doctors I've dealt with) underestimate it due to it's rather benign sounding name.
Re:DIY 1,500W solar power electric bike
on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:10AM (#34724080)
Did you ever share that paper publicly? I'd be interested in reading it
Re:Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Blue Tick Verification, Reports S...
on Monday October 31, 2022 @05:59AM (#33403748)
"Musk has reportedly told engineers to have the project completed by November 7 or else they'll be fired"
Wow.
Re:Victoria III (First Impressions)
on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:09AM (#33372345)
Strongly agree with what you're saying. I think they've brought out a good game with a solid foundation for turning it into a great game with tweaks and expansions. I've put 26 hours into it since Tuesday and I'm loving it, so they've definitely done something right.
Agree with the tech tree, it's too short and you likely won't vary in the techs you get if you're playing a country with reasonable research points. I'd love some more country-specific flavour and actions; I understand folks don't want to be railroaded (having options to play a country any way you want is great), but it feels a little empty at the moment. Of course this can be modded in and filled out with DLC down the road.
If you enjoy this era of history or enjoy other Paradox games, I'd strongly recommend giving it a go.
The Remote Control Killers Behind Russia’s Cruise Missile Strikes on Ukraine
Re:Intel Core I9-13900K and I5-13600K Review: Raptor Lake Brings More ...
on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:35AM (#33274481)
TL;DR Intel's top SKU beats AMD's top SKU by a small margin in some tests, the opposite in others. But it uses a huge amount of extra power to be competitive.
'In our testing, power consumption topped out at a absurd 335 Watts, over 100W more than the Ryzen 9 7950X'
Re:iPad Pro M2
on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:27PM (#33249914)
I see a lot of people using an iPad for music alongside a proper computer with a full featured DAW. You don't need a mouse or keyboard shortcuts for idea generation, sketching out rough concepts from inspiration on the go or playing with some of the pretty unique synths & other tools available on iPad. For modular synth simulation I've found iPad with Pencil to be a much much better UI for me than using a mouse.
Re:A Real World React – Htmx Port
on Sunday October 16, 2022 @08:24AM (#33223055)
It may have improved significantly since I last used it (9 months ago?) but mypy was a world away from the ergonomics, quality of tooling and maturity of TypeScript.
Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with Zen 4 Archit...
on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:43AM (#32651085)
Yeah there are no major microarchitectural changes that we're aware of for these chips. Bigger L2$, support for AVX-512 (kinda ... double pumping 256bit units), possibly wider front-end but not a huge amount more; it's primarily the new process making the difference.
Re:Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:51AM (#32507730)
Join the waiting list to try the Arc beta by The Browser Company. Very fresh take on a browser, quite a bit of your list, particularly bookmark behaviour, is in Arc.
Re:Germany sees shift in sentiment toward atomic energy
on Saturday August 13, 2022 @02:15PM (#32452321)
Yeah, the drought in Europe has dried up or made too warm the rivers used to cool French nuclear plants.
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent
on Sunday July 24, 2022 @06:46AM (#32212120)
This is a falsely attributed quote. There's zero record of Zhukov (or anyone, particularly none of the various people this quote has been attributed to) saying this. It's a lazy stereotype of the CCCP's strategy during WWII and absolutely incorrect.
Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
on Friday July 22, 2022 @05:25AM (#32190163)
The UK absolutely required children to wear masks in schools in various situations. Schools were closed for significant periods of time as well.
Re:Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and...
on Thursday July 21, 2022 @01:07PM (#32181904)
> a video game known for its super-realistic simulations of real vehicles and tracks
Don't let the hardcore simmers read this!
Re:I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:19AM (#32116986)
My favourite hardware music is this Radiohead cover from 2008. Blew my mind at the time
TSMC to customers: It's time to stop using older nodes and move to 28nm
Re:Why don’t European girls like science or technology? (2017)
on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:15AM (#31808480)
> the fact that females are worse at handling acute stress
Do you have a source for this alleged fact?
Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:17PM (#31622882)
My greatest frustration with UK supermarkets is the illusion of choice. You'll find metres of shelving with the same product in different branding / price points. Went looking for Thai Jasmine rice, but the rice section is just 40 variants of Basmati, & one box of Arborio. There's 5 metres of fridges packed with fish but it's all Cod, Haddock and Salmon in various guises.
If you want any ingredient that's remotely off the beaten track (and I'm not talking super exotic stuff, basics herbs like Sage are hard to find) you've got to go Waitrose or specialty shops.
Re:Heatwave in India breaks records, still worsening
on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:19PM (#31182896)
Supermarkets in the UK are already rationing sunflower oil due to the shortage. A lot of concern about food prices in general as a large amount of our processed food is produced with sunflower oil.
Re:Payment startup Bolt sued by its most prominent customer
on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @09:07AM (#31179377)
Willing to share which merchants so we know who to avoid in future?
Re:My take on Elon's offer for Twitter
on Saturday April 16, 2022 @09:41AM (#31052239)
> UNHR estimates 2,000 civilian deaths so far in Ukraine
This number is nowhere close to being accurate. UNHCR "believes that the actual figures are considerably higher" [0]. More than 900 dead discovered since the liberation of the areas around Kyiv [1]. And we've not yet had the opportunity to count the dead in Mariupol, or Russian controlled areas.
> And you probably didn’t post anything about it on your Facebook, right?
Millions in the West spoke out with horror and revulsion at the death tolls in the 9/11 Wars.
[0] https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2022/04/ukraine-civilian-casua... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/15/number-of-civi...
Qualcomm Wins yet Another Major Automaker with Its Snapdragon Digital Chassis
Re:BBC: Killings in Bucha are deliberate massacre – Ukraine
on Sunday April 03, 2022 @12:19PM (#30898027)
Yes, obviously.