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Comment Re: Capsized? (Score 1) 55

So they would have been able to explore 5' of smoke stack?

Wow, just admit you were wrong, you're making an ass out of yourself.

Hold that thought there, donkey.

The SS United States will be sunk in about 180 feet of water off the coast of Destin, Florida. This depth will make it an accessible destination for recreational scuba divers. The recreational diving depth limit is 130 feet, but divers can exceed this limit with technical diving skills.

There are several places documenting exactly what the plan was for all levels of diving. The upper decks were supposed to rest in 55' of water. That's less than half the depth limit for recreational divers. Meaning plenty to see at that level of skill, even from an external view only. From the local investor standpoint, it also meant trying to include the ninety-five percent of the dive market today who are not advanced or tech divers.

Yes. That is a lot of potential risk now resting on it's side instead of upright. As the original plan dictated. Perhaps we'll find this out when the dive shops start complaining.

Let's see if you can take your own advice regarding admitting when you're wrong. Let's see if civil discourse is still alive here.

Comment Re: Capsized? (Score 2, Interesting) 55

Any dive to 180' is considered a technical dive and beyond standard recreational limits.

Correct. But recreational divers can go to 40m or 130'. The original (upright) plan, put the smokestacks at 55'. They had plans to put identifiers on or near the ship to mark the limits for each range of diver skill. Recreational diving might have to be scrapped from that plan now.

Not sure what the financial impact is of that yet, but Worlds Largest Artificial Reef doesn't exactly scare divers away. That is likely going to be a destination dive spot in the end for many.

Comment Lessons, not learned. (Score 1) 67

This is eerily similar to the marching soldiers' bridge collapse - Broughton Bridge in 1831, often misattributed to Napoleon but happened after his reign. Lessons weren't learned 180 years later either, for the Milllennium Suspension Bridge, which I happened to work next to at the time and watched the construction and failure unfold. People tend to walk in sync. When things happen in sync, a resonant pattern emerges.

Yes. The same thing has been happening in our cars for over a century now. Which begs the question; why does the purpose of the 100-year old harmonic dampener, sound eerily familiar to a 100-year old solution for bridge failures?

I joked about this earlier, but seriously. If we've known about the problem of harmonics in systems and why we need to dampen them, why have we not realized this need in larger structures long ago? Even for retro-fitting?

Comment Re: Capsized? (Score 0) 55

It was my understanding that the main economic reason to pay for the sinking was to attract divers. Not as many will be interested in a ship upside down or on its side.

Speaking as a diver, no. A wreck on its side is more interesting. Something is going to be buried in the sand. If upright that's propellers and rudders. If on its side what gets buried is pretty much a mirror image of what is facing upwards. So you get a complete viewing on its side.

Unfortunately you may be speaking on behalf of advanced and tech divers only now. I believe a goal was settling parts of the ship within recreational diving range.

Doubt that will happen now.

Comment Re:Smdh (Score 2) 67

Yes, I know. That it ever happened is the bigger problem. The normalization of deviancy of customers being treated as nonconsensual beta testers is also a problem.

Uh, that’s kind of a two way problem. There’s a reason the new kitchen toaster needs voice control. Gen Touch N’ Tell tended to turn the task of building a better idiot into some kind of industrial goal in need of a stock ticker. Which was quite non consensual for most of society learing just how bad it is.

DR planning the battery cycling on the battery-backed DR device, isn’t a born skill. It’s a boring-ass one. Screw that. Just give it to Dewitt Fore-Me again, says the consumer.

Critical infrastructure should be thoroughly tested before it is allowed to be sold or used.

Sounds like that might require critical thinking skills. Shut off the internet on kids today and you can measure IQ with a wet bulb. Should we be testing what or who first.

Comment Re:Not terrible, which is too bad (Score 1) 72

I expected this to be worse.

DR scenarios that we rehearse do not (yet?) include drone attacks..

Planes have been falling out of the sky for a lot longer than drones have. Same basic risk and impact to mitigate in DR. Minus the arch enemy factor behind the destruction of course.

Drone attacks (as in multiple), fly with intent. A building being hit by an accidental plane/drone/UAP strike, is a hell of a lot different scenario to plan for than an army of drones targeting a companies (multi-site) facilities.

In the latter scenario, your DR "plan" is sitting somewhere between TARFU and FUBAR. That's Meal Team Six in the cafeteria. Let's not pretend their COD skillz are going to save the marketing hotties and defend the data center to the death when a flight of stairs could kick their ass.

Comment Delayed Reaction (Score 1) 52

As for Logitech, the company believes that it's time for people to move away from the belief that playing games is a waste of time..

A rather odd declaration coming from a company who has had a dedicated gaming division for well over a decade now, and sponsors esports players. Just dusting this off and bringing it to the marketing table now? Who were you sponsoring before? Digital derelicts? Professional clock watchers?

Gaming, is not a waste of time. Gaming addiction on the other hand, is a lot harder to scrutinize since it pays the executive bonus checks.

Comment Re:Overprescribed (Score 1) 111

These drugs are handed out like candy today and now seeing more and more side effects

Not really. So far we're seeing more and more positive effects of GLP-1 agonists. NAION is rare, so it's not even clear that GLP-1 drugs are to blame. It might as well be something else, like increased physical activity or rapid weight loss.

Rapid weight loss might be the cause of NAION? Are we really going to ignore the elephant in the room directly contributing to that circular argument? Seriously?

The FDA doesn't simply wake up and spin the Wheel Of Warning Labels to see who gets screwed with that mandate today. You have to earn it.

Comment Re: What's the point? (Score 2) 48

The first sentence half explains it, this service is because Uber acquired spothero, if you look up what spothero does, it explains "Find parking near work, home, airports"

Reading the headline, I thought it was going to be much worse.

You know, like narcissistic assholes hiring some new driverless self-driving technology to go park-reserve itself in some premium spot 8 hours before a douchebag in a Porsche needs it, pulling up 3 minutes before the curtain goes up.

Not to give narcissistic assholes ideas..

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