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Comment Re: potentially criminal act (Score 1) 123

It does exist, and taustin made one,
No he did not.

And no: there is nothing like an ad hominem attack . I is simply called an 'ad hominem', and that is a fallacy, and not an attack.

And "wording" is not aimed at the person you are talking to.

And ad hominem goes like this:
Trumpster: "we have to make America great again" (actually not a bad idea, but he does not achieve it)
Angelo: who would follow (vote for) an convicted rapist? Let me make America great again!

The "ad hominem" (it is literally in the name of the fallacy) is: I discredit the person - and I am right with my point - but do not address not what he said.

Ad hominem(s) usually do not happen in talks were two people exchange arguments, they happen when you talk about someone else, who's points you like to weaken.

Comment Re:46USC2304 - Duty to provide assistance at sea (Score 1) 123

Ad hominem attack. Your answer is to attack other people who challenge you. Got it.
An insult is not an ad hominem. He did not attack you. He insulted you. Slight but important difference.
For example for an insult you might be able to sue him, for an ad hominem, not.

I suggest to google it :P

Comment Re:Riding the Metawaves. (Score 3, Informative) 123

Both terms have a specific legal meaning. One requires assistance, the other does not.
Nope they have not a legal meaning.
Both terms do not exist!.

The terms you are looking for is "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday" (the real distress 'distress call')
And "Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan" ('request for assistance', the 'other distress call' for technical or medical problems)

And you most certainly HAVE to assist in a "request for assistance" call, which is Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan when a person is in life threating condition. Americans of course suggest in such a situation to call a Mayday. Official procedure for a medical condition, regardless if life threatening or not, is Pan-Pan, not Mayday.

Why is that so? So that Coast Guard or On Site Operators an distinguish between Mayday and Pan-Pan, as you can have both same time close together.

And on top of that: Pan-Pan and Mayday: are both distress calls. One means: I need assistance, and one means: we are about to lose the ship and all hands on board are in danger.

There is no "requires assistance" level of urgency in maritime radio traffic. Comments like that are by amateurs who have no idea about what they are talking.

All three (or four, depending how you count) are distress calls. In case you wonder:
1) Mayday, Mayday, Mayday: [my ship, position etc.] have problem: fire, sinking etc. Pirate attack
2) Mayday, Mayday, Mayday: [my ship, position etc.] I OBSERVE [report about what you observe]. E.g. a burning ship. A person drifting in the water, etc. A Mayday call on behalf of someone else in danger, who can not call himself.
3) Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan, Pan-Pan: [my ship, position etc.] I have trouble ... E.g. broken mast, out of fuel etc. Or medical emergency.
4) Securite, Securite, Securite: [target audience], problem, [affected position, probably your own, TIME]. E.g. Carrier with flight operations, lost cargo drifting in the water, submarine about to surface, lost ammunition (e.g. mines about to be exploded or disarmed), life fire exercise, or any Mayday operation in progress.
5) Silence, Silence, Silence - MAYDAY.

First three are distress calls.
Number 4) you have to argue, it is basically a warning.
Number 3) makes you obliged to help if it is a medical emergency.
Number 5) Calling for people who are not involved in the currently running rescue operation to keep radio silence on channels 16 and 9, and maritim helicopter operations channel 6.

P.S. From the summary: radioed Mark Zuckerberg's yacht -- which was closer -- and they repeatedly refused to respond.
That is not the same as "refused to help" - they genuinely might have not received it (which is of course not plausible, and would be super bad seamanship). Completely plausible is, that the calling boat had set his radio power to low output and the other boat was out of range to hear it. The coast guard would hear it, despite being farer away, as they have much more sensitive equipment on much higher ground. So if the coast guard "over heard" a 'conversation' between the boat in distress and Zuck's yacht, it is still possible that Zuck's indeed did not hear the call.

P.P.S. the keywords Mayday, Securite, Silence are pronounced French.

Comment Hu? "crew operating on a different channel"? (Score 2) 123

That is nonsense.

By marine law you have to listen here all the time:
* Channel 16 (156.800 MHz): International distress, safety, and calling channel. Continuous listening is required.

Every marine boat's radio has an unique MMSI.
* MMSI (Maritime Mobile Service Identity): A 9-digit numerical code programmed into DSC-equipped radios to automatically transmit position and identity during an emergency.

That is like a phone number.

When the coastguard radios a yacht, they dial the MMSI + a channel number and the yachts receiver jumps to that channel and automatically puts the call on loud speaker.

Fucking liars just like the scumbag Larry Ellison who left a yacht behind in distress during a regatta.

You get hailed from a coast guard radio tower that has 1000 times the radio power your boat has, and you claim: oh you did not notice.

They should have told they had a power failure but found it to insignificant to radio for help themselves - that would be more believable. But similar absurd.

Those guys belong into jail!

Comment Re:Reddit have 11 year-long accounts? (Score 1) 177

That is because you mix up:
Sign in with
Sign up

And the Sign UP button is highlighted and default.

Blame the web designer.

I have a friend with ~20 Facebook accounts, every time, the cooky runs out, he makes a new one, and gets himself as first friend suggestion.

Always takes days to recover the original account.

Comment Re:I don't understand why this is considered... (Score 4, Informative) 177

Agreed that this is forum drama. It sucks to lose an account but nothing of value was actually lost.
How can you write such nonsense?

Reddit doesn't owe you anything. Facebook doesn't owe you anything. Twitter doesn't owe you anything. Slashdot doesn't owe you anything.
They do, idiot.

They have the obligation to treat me as a human being, and not randomly delete my stuff and then pretend they did not do anything wrong.

Comment Re:Enforceable for ordinary users? (Score 1) 177

Which makes me wonder, is there an EU rule on how popcorn must be popped?
Most certainly.
The temperature to make it, is limited, to avoid producing nitrosamine.

Simple example, there are probably more.

What is your farking problem with rules?

It is tiring to sue one for compensation of damage who should have known before that he is producing damage.
So we we make a damn rule, so we do not have to sue, but can point at the rule.
Simple.

Get a clue.

Comment Re:Not an LLM (Score 1) 173

But what I didn't expect is that Nvidia ordered them the names by birth date of the scientist. I didn't verify, I just believe you here. Misunderstanding. I do not know anything about how/why they do it. It was a proposal how I would do it.

The numbering schema should simply be YY.MM.patch. If necessary for example if an API is involved, then the typical MM.mm.pp (majour, minour, patch) might be okay, but I personally would add a YY- in front.

Blaise Pascal was foremost a mathematician, but a typical Renaissancen scientist, as in having his fingers in all pots. He lived in the 17th century, 1623 till 1662. He is considered a child prodigy. He is known for the "Pascal triangle". Which is a formal description how a bunch of balls would roll down a steep hill and hit a regular set of poles/nails and where they would end up. The programming language Pascal, is named after him.

Tesla had more luck, lived 2 times as long - roughly. From 1856 till 1943, mostly a physicist and engineer.

Electrical power was basically unknown during Pascals lifetime. So it was easy for me to know who was first without knowing (remembering) anything about their birth and death dates.

Pascal was more the thinking man and writer.
Tesla more the engineer and tinkerer.

Both got the honour to be remembered by mankind forever: Pascal the unit of physical pressure of gases (or anything actually), and Tesla as the unit for magnetic field strength.

Jokingly: Pascal is so important that the base unit is very very tiny. So in real life you most of the time find hecto Pascal. The typical air pressure at sea level is: 1,013.25 hectopascals (hPa). (note: this is over one thousand hecto Pascal.) The odd number (same as the odd number of our Earth radius over the poles) is a measuring error from the time when the unit was defined. They wanted to have 1000 hPa to be the base, but missed.

Teslas is unimportant, so they base unit is a gigantic :P Earth magnetic field is 50 micro Tesla. The strongest permanent magnets are 1.4 to 1.5 Tesla. With "tricks" you can put them into a so called "advanced Halbach array configurations" that lead to 4.5 to 4.6 strong fields. The strongest super conducting magnets hit close to 50 Tesla.

So, a mundane trip to the sea gives you 1000 hPa but only 50 micro T :P hahaha.

The strongest magnetic objects in the universe are Magnetars, super condensed Neutron stars with over 1.6 billion Tesla, which is roughly 1,000 trillion times stronger than the magnetic field of Earth.

Here is where Tesla and Pascal meet:
The strongest imaginable magnetic fields, and the highest imaginable pressure inside the neutron star.

Approaching a neutron star (forget the radiation that grills you long before) is the death to matter: at a few 100km/1000miles the fields are so strong they rip the electrons away from the atoms/molecules and ordinary matter ceases to exist.

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