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Comment Granularity (Score 1) 107

08:08:42 Engine 1 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
08:08:43 Engine 2 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF

A question: What is the the granularity of those times given? I get the impression that it is one second, but there is quite a difference between
08:08:42.999 Engine 1 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
08:08:43.000 Engine 2 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
and
08:08:42.000 Engine 1 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
08:08:43.999 Engine 2 fuel switch flips to CUTOFF
One of those is essentially "simultaneously" and the other pretty much two seconds apart.
Even tenths of a second would be better than what we have been given.

Comment Re:Don't get your panties in a bunch (Score 1) 154

Even reading the second half of the summary was sufficient to understand that.
In my case I don't have a social media presence and am not prepared to shell out $500 * for a meal so it's "other people's lives".

* - $500 US, I've been to Jamaica and (years previously) Hong Kong. 500 of their dollars would be more acceptable.

Comment Re:So basically... (Score 5, Informative) 94

No, it's more like "the government has to follow its own rules".

So tell me that's what's been happening over the past few months? Beautiful tariffs introduced and withdrawn on a whim, deportations by the US equivalent of the Gestapo (they tick most of the boxes) on a whim, DOGE destruction spearheaded by someone the anointed one is now considering deporting - that is just skimming the surface.

Comment Re:Excellent (Score 1) 215

Difficult is not equal to impossible. Heat can be used to boil working fluids, which can be used to drive turbines, which can create energy, which can in turn be used to run AI chips, which give off heat, which can then also be harvested to boil working fluids...Not really a perpetual motion machine, but the inefficiency in the system can be used to suck more heat out of the heat pumps anyway. Inefficiency in this case is a feature.

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