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  • Kürzlich habe ich im Garten gearbeitet und die Luftschutzsirene ging los. Ich dachte: Scheiße hat genauso hart gearbeitet und die Russen greifen an, hätten sie das nicht früher machen können. Leider war es nur ein Waldbrand

  • I agree, but with a security device this is probably not the best idea. Any kinds of tampering physically would most likely trigger the alarm, sometimes in a way that can only be fixed by calling a tech. Software tampering if you do get it connected would probably have the same result.

    We've had this at work once, they were doing some remodeling and somebody accidentally hit a sensor with a large machine. The sensor was destroyed and the alarm went off (even though it wasn't even "on" at the time, as it was in the middle of a day). No codes on the panel could turn off the alarm, not even our super duper override code. We called support, they gave us a temporary override code and even that one didn't work. They said with physical tampering a tech must come by on location to tell the system all is OK. We had to work for 4 hours that day with the most annoying alarm sounds in the background. The worker that hit the sensor was very embarrassed about it.

  • In regional versions of Sesame Street Big Bird has an actual name (although usually it isn't the exact same character, but another kind of large bird). I think mostly because in those languages it wouldn't be an alliteration. But I like to think it's just because Americans are rude and never bothered to learn their name, calling them Big Bird because of how they look.

  • Well I must admit, when the plane is resting on the ground, the wings droop down a lot. Then when airborne it's the other way around, the wings curve upwards as the fuselage hangs from them. In my mind nothing that big made of metal should be able to flex that much.

    But since I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I have learned about material science, airplane design and engineering. And I have found out that it does indeed flex that much. It also isn't that thick, since it's only a skeleton wrapped with a very thin layer of metal. In fact if it didn't flex as much, it would be weaker and not stronger.

    So the thing I really learnt is never to trust intuition when it comes to things like this.

  • Just so you know, operating spinning drives this way is a bad idea. If the platters are spinning and the drive tips over, the rotation of the drives resists the movement. This gyroscopic force is enough for the platters to touch the heads which are flying a tiny distance above the platter. Obviously this is a bad thing and will damage the drives.

    A quick fix is to just lay them flat or fix both of them together so they have a more stable base to stand on. Putting it in an enclosure is even better.

  • Maybe I worded it incorrectly. The feature was released in that version. They just didn't mention it in the release statement they put out to their customers. I'm sure there's some changelog somewhere people can dig into where it says something like what you mentioned. Or it can just be under "Various small improvements" which they always add as a catch-all.

    So I'm happy, I did the job and got paid. Everyone I worked with was happy. And the feature got released. It's was just a let down it didn't get mentioned at all, even though I put quite a lot of work into it.

  • I recently put in a lot of hours for a software system to be able to handle webp just as well as every other image format it already accepted. I put in a lot of work as well. Hadn't heard about it for a while, but saw the feature release statement for the new version I knew my changes were in. It wasn't on there. So I reached out to my contact and asked if there was an issue or did it get bumped to a later version or what? So she told me the marketing team that do the release statements decided not to include it. They stated for one, people already expect common formats to be handled. Saying you now handle a format looks bad, since people know you didn't handle it before and were behind the curve. The second (probably more important) reason was nobody knew what webp even was and it's only something technical people care about (they probably said nerds, but my contact translated). So no regular customer would be interested and it could only lead to confusion and questions.

    I hope somebody is happy with the work I put in tho. Somebody is going to drag a webp into the system and have it be accepted. Someday.... I hope...

  • How is the size difference after gzip compression? Probably pretty much the same, but I wonder how large the difference is then. Since a lot of folk make sure the contents is gzipped when served to the user.