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Clutter in stasis or clutter in motion? Inquiring minds want to know.

I once had a pice of customer hardware. When I would switch on the light (neon tubes), the display would be garbled. Totally snowstorm with confetti. Lights out, lights on again - switched to clear display. Toggle lights again, display goes haywire. We made a video of this and pushed that to the...

Can't find it now - maybe one of our friends from that area can help out. But from me as a german engineer this warranted a respectful tip of the hat.

I heard that there is an art form in japan that works by coloring a thread, part by part, so it will result in a complete picture when it is used to weave a belt for a kimino.

(Laughs in german) seperate forum, you mean.

Quality of TV seems constant. It only spreads over more channels now. Re Sourdough - try adding some orange juice. You'll be surprised.

w.r.t. analog films, you can also face external "problems". An aquaintance was flying out of Tel Aviv and the 20-something security guard insisted in opening the canisters in these lead tubes. "Whats in there?" "Film, for the Camera you just checked" "The Camera is OK, what is this for?" "Film...

I still have analog wrist diving watches, and do much of my car repairs when needed. There are places I won't go, like ABS but changing pads, discs, ... off you go.

I would not say that it's safe, IIRC one ship per week is "gone without a trace". Maybe insurance fraud, maybe pirates, maybe the kraken... But it is much safer than other modes of transportation. What would bug me out on the fright ships, what does the smutje cook up? How to spend your time...

Interesting bug in the F104 control software (the startfighter) : it was meant to stop illegal pilot commands. Pilot presses "gear up", while still before the hangar. Plane checks if that is OK, checking height no ground radar because no power. no power because no engine rotation. That's ok...

Interestingly, my level of north frisian "Plattdüütsch" gives me better underatanding of dutch than google translate.

The interesting thing is that the more sayings or synonyms are there about one thing, the more important that is for the culture in question. Each one carries some co-notation for different contexts. Misuse of context is where jokes often start.

I saw that in automotive when they started to use "expert systems" in optimizing the cable harness, for example. One company had the genious thing in having all lines to airbags equally long so they fire at the same time, the "AI" then placed the airbag control module at a place where all lines...

In german we have both sayings. The cat out of the bag usually means the game is over and you see the con job.

Indeed. No matter her qualifications, no matter her skills (I don't know, maybe she IS the best for the spot) - now she will be seen as the quota hire. But I can not say we are really off topic. Reading those reports made me a better engineer, seeing what pitfalls are there NOT to fall into...

It is even harder to fly a plane against the combined strength of the booster servos when they get a bad sensor rivet. Egypt Air pilots might want to tell you, alas they have not won that fight. That was one of the cases where I had serious doubt about the QA in some places and added that...

I remember that one. A wild thing. Even more interesting are the reports and stories of incidents which stopped short of an accident. Or the root cause of the root cause reports. We had a professor for material science who also worked for the LBA, and he sometimes started his lectures with an...

I somewhere still have the ToS for hotmail which MS had tried to put unto their custormers, laying a claim to all IP, patents and maybe firstborn. They dropped that like a hot potato when someone (cameron diaz?) sued them because she had fake nudes mailed to her, and according to the ToS those...

It's not the size, it's what it does. At least I keep hearing that.

NCBA, we called some carriers. Never Come Back Airlines.