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I assume they're referring to offshore detention.


you're correct. I assume they're referring to 8bit per colour (RGB) which is 24bit colour (True Colour) 16.7M


I've worked with several Chinese engineers, who are quietly critical of the CCP. Since they still have family in China they know better than to be openly critical of China.



mWh? Otherwise that's one hell of a battery.


Oops I missed my edit window! That'd also be some insane power consumption! Let's pretend I'm not from the U.S.A. and the comma is used as a decimal.


pictures fail to load when I block the domain


Some of the images do not load when Javascript is disabled because the web developer has chosen to include three different-sized copies of the same image and use Javascript to emulate a "zoom" effect.

Quick fix: remove the <noscript> tags

   curl https://alexellisuk.medium.com/upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-with-a-nvme-boot-drive-d9ab4e8aa3c2 |sed 's/<noscript>//g;s/<.noscript>//g' > 1.htm

   firefox ./1.htm
Note you can still zoom on these images. Right-click and open the image in a new tab, then zoom. Or you can open the larger versions in a browser tab and then zoom. The full URLs for all different-sized copies of images can be seen with view source.


> it doesnt matter what you know, it matters whom you know.

while technically the literal reading of your sentence is not incorrect, the phrase above is referring to nepotism which is not the issue OP has.


I'm not sure how fibre optics could help here, an you expand?


They're describing running the computers 100's of meters away with fibre to the robot. But it won't help with motor encoders and sensors that all must be onboard.

Interesting idea though. To some degree is probably possible. No such thing as a rad hardened cmos though


I think the idea is to have a passive bundle of fiber at the far end with all your electronics in the safe zone, like a fiber optic endoscope.


Why couldn't the necessary electronics be shielded with a shroud of lead? It's not like these robots have lunar weight requirements.


Spalling/scatter. In certain radiation environments, shielding makes things worse, as an energetic particle can cause a knock-on flood of even more damaging particles to be emitted if strikes an atom in the shield. Ultimately more mass does help, but we're talking meters-thick, not just another few cm.

The details are a lot more complicated than that. It's just worth keeping in mind that for any given radiation environment, there may be times when either more or less shielding would be a better choice, as counterintuitive as that may seem.


it will look like a parabola (or ellipsis if you read elsewhere in this thread) if you add another dimension to your graph of the balls position.

That could be a physical dimension, such as throwing a ball to your friend across the room and plotting x vs y. Or even plotting the height of the ball against time.

https://imgur.com/a/ccBDZf6

consider the x-axis of this image the distance between you and your friend, or time.


I watch F1 for the engineering, but unfortunately it's not covered much due to the secretive nature of the sport.

> The only pair of teammates on the grid right now who have any legitimate gap are Albon and Verstappen. Other than that, it's par for the course.

Abon and Verstappen are no the only legitimate gaps; Leclerc vs Vettle and Ricc vs Ocon are also substantial.

A better driver can take 250ms off their team mate - something that would take multiple millions of dollars a year to obtain via regular engineering.

That said, I agree that a great driver such as Ricciardo has no chance to compete for the WDC in his car.


I'm not sure I count Lec & Vet. Vet is leaving next year and I am sure he is a pure testing car right now. You are spot on about Ric and Oc. Ric is driving superb compared to him.


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