Whatever happened to the "Butterfly Fan"? Those things had similar big-effects on cooling Ye Olde MAC SE's. Same idea, piezo-electric vibrators, this time on 2 super light and rigid paddles in a V-config. Result was a PERFECT fit into the cooling vent chimney under the Mac's handle, and bigly improving airflow. No speed improvements back then, just cooler case temps.

PLEASE OH PLEASE MOD THIS UP.

And I would like to join your rag-tag crew of product testers.

What they're worried about is SWIFT, basically the chatroom for international finance.

I suspect that SWIFT's main vulnerability would be to an inside job. And while they make that extremely hard, the Business As Usual(BAU) version of "inside job" is "self-inflicted outage due to a change."

And THAT vulnerability will never go away.

That's why it has a name, the process is called "enshittification."

The history of the TVA is pretty wild. It must blow the libertarians minds to consider it's succeeded as much as it has.

Wow, that's pretty much everyone affected.

I will say that I've been told BraKleen (TCE brake cleaner) was liver-toxic back in the 70's. The rule I've always heard when using that stuff is "As much ventilation as you can possibly get, then double that."

It might be in drinking water? Holy crap.

...Let the organ grinder go free.
Dire Straits.

Really? 1 week warning? I’m thinking IFT3 thought they could negotiate a way out of this. Sorry to those affected, this is going to suck.

Iâ(TM)ve gotta say, my yellow-lenses glasses really help for driving at night. But Iâ(TM)m old. YMMV.

But KNOWING your safety margin>ESTIMATING your safety margin.

No one is suggesting cutting the safety margin. But replacing the current estimate with actual sensor data is a huge improvement. Because that estimate has been arrived at with stacked assumptions that, over time, may've become invalid. EG: Climate change may've raised the net-average enviro temp for a particular power line to a value never expected in the original testing. (EG^2: Apparently higher LOW temps may be where the greatest changes will come; this would radically alter the expected cooling/day.)

Replace estimates with actual values.

“ Dr. Jensen estimates that the program would cost only $4.1 billion. That is far less than the $93 billion NASA plans to spend on the Apollo program.”

So we uncritically equate 1 person’s “back of the envelope calculation” with the current accounting work of a gov’t agency?

I’m interested in Jensen’s estimate, and the Artemis budget (did they mean Apollo?) but the first is PR and the 2nd is legislatively mandated record keeping.

How is this NOT an Onion post?!

I knew all these vanity projects got all the free R&D NASA's provided, decades of research they didn't have to do. But they've also been operating under lax regulations? (I know, shocker.)

Fuck that, let the learning period expire. They're throwing food at the kid's table, make them sit up straight with the grown ups.

Yep, thereâ(TM)s a palm pilot. (Iâ(TM)m a former IMAX Projectionist.) itâ(TM)s always on because they never want to risk failure on power-up.

Thereâ(TM)s neither money nor interest in replacing them, especially now that weâ(TM)re down to 30 worldwide.

You all might want to consider the PPâ(TM)s success at handling the new, larger platters to accommodate Oppenheimer. That extra 10mins of capacity probably widens the momentum range by 50%. And yet, it still works.

My biggest concern operating the QTRU and the PP was its wiring. IIRC the connector was hand made and I fretted constantly that it might fall or fail. But all my runs of Rogue One went perfectly.

Sad to see them go, the fate of the projectors is shredding. Probably some crappy IP lawyerly requirement.

Jeez, that strategy only works + or - 10 degrees latitude and within a few hundred miles of a western sea coast.

For the REST of us, where temp swings comfy-danger (in winter, danger-almost livable) it's very handy having something offer even a rough prediction. Can't believe how much gear I carry to handle deviations.

By the way, I'd love to live someplace like that someday.