I heard a radio interview, I can't remember where. RIM/blackberry had 2 CEOs who shared duties, which worked surprisingly well for years. Then the iphone came out. One of the CEOs realized that they needed to pivot to a software based company, the other thought iphones were a toy and would be no competition with their business oriented product. The hardware CEO won, the software CEO left. Blackberry then went downhill and eventually became a software company. But too little too late.

Yes, we can throw money at it and get a few more years of ever increasing production costs. But it long term, you can't fight mother nature. I'm sure someone will be willing to pay $75 a bottle for however little can be produced, but that's about it. It'll end up being a major economic disaster just the way Alaska red crab season was shutdown the last 2 years, and this year the allowable harvest is even lower then 2021. The Alaskan cities that rely on the crab season will be wiped out in a few years.

999187. I log on to ICQ once every year or so. Every contact is "seen a long time ago."

If you don't accrue vacation time, when you quit, there is no unused vacation time to pay out. It's not a benefit, it's a subtle pay cut.

They mean for storage. When the plane has people on it, it's running and can provide cooling. My grandfathers garage in Arizona had AC too.

Not looking good. Flight tracking shows it took off, went up to almost 11,000 ft, then dove over less than a minute, peaking at almost 12K ft/sec dive rate. Last tracking showed it at 7K feet, diving, and traveling at 149 kts, which is close to stall speed. https://flightaware.com/live/f...

We have a replacement, it's called TESS https://tess.mit.edu/ It's not quite the same as Kepler, but has a similar mission. Good news is TESS's imaging sensors cover a LOT more area than Kepler.

I was just talking about this the other day with some co-workers. It used to be that you could manage your work network, even a decently large network, and know everything about it in your head. Reading a manual and being a smart guy (or gal) was enough to have a working environment.

No more. People expect remote access and that everything should be working 24x7, the added complexity of building out those environments, and the merging of multiple technologies means that every change becomes a much more complex endeavor. Encryption requirements makes everything more difficult to implement and troubleshoot. There are caveats with virtually everything, and I just don't have the time to be an expert on everything around me.

Example from this year - my IP phone system, which integrates with Exchange using custom nonesense for playback in outlook, using the LLDP enabled voice VLAN on my switches, with servers running on my vmware hosts, each of which have multiple redundant connections, with handsets connected to a switch using 802.1x authentication, that's complex enough as it is, but then buried deep in the release notes was a bullet point that exchange 2013 wasn't supported, 18 months after exchange 2013 was released. That's a lot of stuff to be an expert in; a far cry from 10/100 hubs with a single management IP address and a stand alone server that send voicemail over encrypted SMTP.

Radiolab did an episode about Patient Zero http://www.radiolab.org/story/...

Not just AD, but group policy, which is a decent GUI that lets you install software and push settings down to computers, users and groups. When you need to modify security settings on 5000 PCs it's pretty painless to do so. Er, most of the time

I get maybe 3 calls a week, used to be a lot more. It's either credit card scams or offering drugs to senior citizens. I put them on speaker phone, and continue with whatever I'm doing and just babble nonesense at the people on the phone. I figure my cell phone minutes are free, so I can save someone else who might fall for the scam.

The Internet archive https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz

Their compression setup makes absolutely no sense to me. The wikipedia article is either wrong, or someone doesn't know what they're doing. When you dive, your body absorbs gasses into your bloodstream. You have to ascend slowly to let the gasses out. Ascend too quickly, and it's like opening a soda bottle in your blood. With a deep dive (say 300 feet), that could take hours. The longer/the deeper you go, the more gasses you absorb, up to a certain point. This is what is meant by a saturation dive. Your body is fully saturated with as much extra gasses as it can hold at whatever depth you're at, working there longer doesn't make you absorb any additional gasses, so the ascent takes the same amount of time, no matter how much additional time you spend at depth.

So, in a saturation dive, you exit the water to a chamber which is at THE SAME pressure as the surrounding water. Which means from a pressure perspective, you don't ascend. You're just getting out of the water. You sit inside the chamber, have some lunch, get some sleep, whatever. You can go back and forth between the chamber and the water without waiting for any decompression.

But with their setup, you exit the water into the moon pool, then go into the Entry lock, where the pressure is adjusted to surface level pressure (ascending). But remember how this can take hours? You're stuck inside the Entry lock, and no one can go in or out of it until you're done.

80 feet isn't horribly deep. You can stay down for 40 minutes and ascend directly, without having to decompress at all. But 8 hours at 80 feet puts you at almost 6 hours of decompression time. seriously.

I read a lot about space, and am a scuba diver, here's my take.

First, diving to 100 meters is going to be fairly dangerous, certainly not something your typical sport diver would do. Beyond 100 feet, you'll increasingly have issues with nitrogen narcosis (you feel drunk), and you'll definitely be in the realm of exotic air mixes (helium instead of Nitrogen, less than surface amounts of O2, etc...). At 100m using normal air, your partial pressure (think concentration) of O2 is 180% of surface level (been a while since I had to do that sort of math), which would be poisonous. Lets just compare to 100 FEET of depth, which a sport diver might do. You could remain at that depth for 10-15 minutes without having to decompress. Stay longer, and you need to sit at depth (say 20 feet) for a while to let the air dissolved in your blood to slowly come out of solution. Go up too fast and it's like opening a bottle of pop, but in your blood. Those bubbles can get caught in your joints, or worse spine, and cause paralysis. Divers that DO engage in deep diving are doing technical diving. Most of the gear is the same as a sport diver, you just carry more of it, particularly tanks and regulators.

But space is worse. First, space suits don't run at normal air pressure, they're down around 4.3 PSI (normal earth is 15). The ISS runs at the same pressure as earth, so donning a space suit is the same as rising UP from depth while diving, you'd get the bends as soon as you open the hatch and exit the ISS (opening the pop bottle). To solve this, when doing an EVA, astronauts breathe 100% O2 for an hour before donning and exiting the ISS.

Second, you have all sorts of cooling issues in space. Your body gives off a lot of heat, and in space, there is no place for that heat to go, so the cooling systems are far more elaborate than any warming systems (often just a hose with hot water being piped down from the surface if you were commercial diving) you might use underwater.

My brother has a normal insulin pump. They work by continuously pumping in "fast acting" insulin into you (the basal rate), if you eat a meal, you have to calculate by hand the amount of extra insulin needed and press buttons on the unit to deliver the required amount. And yes, it knows that at different times of the day, you need more insulin than others. This is totally separate from the slow acting insulin that type 2 users sometimes take an injection of once or twice a day. If for whatever reason, the insulin delivery doesn't work properly, he'll start to have problems quickly, under a couple hours.

His also has a blood meter which starts beeping if his insulin level falls below a certain level. What his pump doesn't do is automatically change the amount of insulin delivered on the fly. Any change in insulin delivery has to be programmed. If he eats an apple, he has to press buttons to dose himself. If his body chemistry changes and that basal rate needs to be adjusted, it has to be programmed. My understanding from him is that the blood glucose measurement isn't especially accurate, though I can't remember why.

This is just the next generation of those same components. The generation after this, expect to see a unit that does a lot more dosing automatically. I think the technology is there, we just need to clear the regulatory hurdles.