@CloudyMrs Oddly, don't remember that one. Challenger, Hillsborough, yes, but I don't recall hearing about Piper Alpha. Dad switched jobs to the HSE's offshore department at pretty much exactly that time, his introduction to the job was the investigation. I had Piper Beta T shirts as a kid, because they felt uncomfortable with the name "Piper Bravo" for a while, as it sounded celebratory.
Had the last-year-of-primary students in today, doing a few classes to introduce them to the big secondary school. Always fun. But due to a timetabling snafu I found a French teacher covering them in a science class...and we've got specific risk assessment stuff with those classes, and the French teacher (rightly) had no idea what was going on. So I'm winging a practical science class with a non-science teacher there as backup. Credit where due, the kids were brilliant. Engaged, behaved, smart.
Managed to burn out my drill - motor's gone. So either another hundred and something quid on a new one, or ยฃ15 on a new motor (coincidentally saving the two perfectly good battery packs that don't work with current models). But the new motor had a round axle, not the flattened side I need. So clamp the motor, needle nosed pliers to hold the axle (filing something that rotates is a nightmare), then clamp the pliers to the bench. Fiddly, but chuffed how well it worked.
You'd probably want to supplement it with other stuff, and you'd need more in winter, but 3,000 calories a day is going to keep you alive outside, if not *ideally*, for weeks.
Just tried a little of my "eat now" one. Yeah, as he says, not going to win any baking competitions, but not unpleasant. Kind of halfway between a biscuit and a dense bread, with a bit of a dumpling thing going on from the suet. You can tell it's calorie rich, if I was hungry in the hills this would be very welcome.
Mine are at the larger end of his examples, to give me lots of internal volume for any bacteria that show up. Salt level is similar to bread, there for flavour more than preservative properties. 10 minute bake at 200C as suggested, then I'm going to give them two to three hours at ~50C because they're a bit thicker. And yes, one is to taste now!
Finally getting round to having a go at Fandabi Bannocks, a survival ration biscuit thing which, whilst not traditional, was very doable in the 1700s or whenever. Just a few ingredients: suet, oats, wheat flour and salt. I've added dried fruit too, but no sugar. Ultimate aim is to test the shelf life, I'm going to store them in cool, dry, but not refrigerated conditions, and take bacterial swabs ever 6 months or so from the surface and inside, see what I can grow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0cxV2vVC0U
Getting back in to coding with Rockstar. The need to make source code sound like a vaguely passable hair-rock ballad is always a fun challenge, and I'm confusing the issue by trying to make it generate the lyrics to Total Eclipse Of The Heart as the output, but without obviously including the lyrics in the source code. (Yes, it's a song that encodes another song.) https://codewithrockstar.com/
Funeral for my neighbour that used to play with mega-amps and related tech today. Hell of a life, well lived, I'd be terrified by much of what he did. A long life well lived. I'll be keeping the oscilloscope he built as a teenager warm, literally.
All credit to the biology teachers, we do go on to vaguely look at the biophysics of raising water in plants, we get them to try and suck water up a tube dangled down the 8m stairwell, 2m is a good effort. And we have 30m Sequioa growing across the road, visible from our windows :)
Rewatching #StarTrek#Enterprise and can't help but think that #IronMaiden's "Fear Of The Dark" was always the better theme in every way. (Review / satire)
Incidentally, every time I interact with someone speaking another language on the internet and we both get the idea via a translation, that's a far better use of "AI" than most.
"That's illegal, sir. It is wrong. I swore an oath not to do things like that. I realise it may harm my career, but I am duty bound to refuse that order."
"OK...hang on a minute...OK, it's legal now, you have to do it."
How do you deal with that? Other than submitting to military punishment for refusing a "legal" order?
If the govt do somehow pervert the legal system enough to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, I feel sorry for the RAF pilots who will be ordered to do it. There's no way commercial airlines will take part in something so toxic, so it has to be military flights. Imagine being that pilot. You could have refused on the grounds that it is an illegal order, but the govt have recently changed the law specifically to get around that. It's immoral.
@slothrop Having run bars and worked in a high school, I've got to say it's pretty 50/50. I prefer the kids to be honest, if it kicks off the "reasonable force" is basically nothing, even with a 17yr old, compared to a drunk 40 year old.