noughtnaut

What kind of comms do the wires allow? Sending guidance and simultaneously receiving video?

What was the physicality of wires back then (and do you know what they are today)? Would it feel like walking into a spider’s web, or how sturdy were/are those wires?

How often would a write break, and would that mean total loss of control or is there some form of fall-back?

Curious minds want to know! Thank you.

Imagine walking into a spider’s web, and you couldn’t just wipe it off your face.

It’s a minor concern when a nation’s existence is on the line, but I do wonder how all those wires will affect the fauna and environment.

Curiously, the first wired torpedoes, you’d propel the torpedo forward by pulling on the wire that came out the back of it.

I have never put it into words like that, more like “make zero assumptions”.

I suppose that being overly thorough can make documentation prone to becoming tedious (unless cares is taken to not talk down to the reader) or too tightly coupled (incurring the need to be updated more often as details of the process change).

How do you usually deal with that aspect? What I do is to make the documentation easily skimmable (for advanced readers) and just accept the need for rework.

You’re brutal. You’re not wrong tho.

Precrime wioll haven be here.

Perhaps this is all just highly refined British humour?

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

It would be hilarious to see random civilians being casually followed by a policeman (policeperson?), overtly and cheerfully “nah mate, you haven’t done a thing. I’m just here to watch. For now. Carry on.”

Reluctant upvote

Ohhh! Thank you!

Two questions: those dark brown minifig hip pieces along the top of the tallest building, how are they affixed? Also, those little grey 1x1 “cars” (eg one atop the closest building, what piece is that?

I m delighted by your comment.

But also, isn’t the USA portion one of the only two countries over there that are (currently) a member of NATO?

You want affordances? Get out of here you filthy leper!

• every UI designer this century, apparently 🤦

I mean, give people a damn clue at least? No? Hm.

Dropping a link for Kamyra and their awesome “C.2” condoms. They’re not latex and somewhat different than prevalent types but they’re really, really comfy.

I’m not sure if I posted this, but I figured out they have seeing 50k users, and 1:10 gender ratio - although that doesn’t say how many are real people.

Futo is great unless you constantly switch between several languages. 🥲

SwiftKey also does this!

I really, really want to switch to a less, uh, commercial keyboard but none of the ones typically praised here (for good reason) support multilingual swiping.

The trouble is that with this sort of thing you really do need some form of moderation or quality control (of the users, not (only) the platform) because it will be inundated by fake profiles and nasty content.

As much as I’m cheering for Alovoa I don’t see how this is solveable. 🥲

As well as the yeet keyword, I’m really friggin’ diggin’ this. [modernisation required]

Aside from the meme, what is the story about this photo? Is it the last photo of the family home before they evacuate? Then why is she smiling? What is going on?

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