That’s not bad pricing wise. There’s very very little prosumer gear that’s multi gigabit and it’s all much higher price, or it’s just a PC with several NICs.
If and when we move to hyperfibre this is going to be pretty high up on the list.
European governments and courts have a long history of laughing at US companies attempting to apply US labour laws on European soil. I’m sure they’ll cope.
I’m not sure that lossy compression on vectors is strictly impossible.
You can do things like store less colour information and simplify splines so that curves are less complex.
Lots of places also have variable limit signs that get updated based on traffic, accidents etc.
Here in NZ those seem to all be marked on the speed limit maps as 100km/h even if in some places the signs never go above 80.
Ngauranga Gorge is one such location and I believe has the country’s highest grossing speed camera.
Everything burns up regardless of size. Big things might not finish burning by the time they hit the ground.
You need either enough thrust to slow you to ~mach 2, or a heat shield to do the same by aerobraking.
It’s called aerobraking for a reason: you’re using friction to turn kinetic energy into heat to slow down, but that heat goes into the air and your heat shield instead of brake pads and rotors.
This is why it’s important to operate with enough available reserves (fast and slow) to cover the unexpected loss of your biggest generator, transformer, and/or transmission line.
Their black start procedures are going to be getting a good workout; I hope they’re well tested.
It’s been a long time since I played, but king+queen+bishop should be pretty achievable?
Oh, I’ve had the name for a lot longer than that.
As Someone Somewhere, I urge you to post more.
It’s often a disaster recovery type of thing.
603 for maglevs, 574.8 for steel rail, set in France in 2007 by a hotted up, modified TGV.
China holds the record for a stock train at 487, set in 2010.
(all per Wikipedia)
It looks like the article might be implying that they will be the fastest trains operating in revenue service when they enter service, but that surely needs to be demonstrated with a production train in revenue service.
There’s still a lot of flights through Russian territory.
Korean 007 could have been intentional (I believe the pilot involved still claims it was a military plane) but Hanlon’s razor still applies here. They’re firing a lot of SAMs at many targets without good controls.
The US is barely better; they shot down one (nearly two) of their own fighters about a week ago and then there’s the Vincennes incident.
NZ law just says it has to be adequate for the intended purpose: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2002/0035/latest/whole.html#DLM154837
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a legal requirement for a signature other than a witness’ signature is met by means of an electronic signature if the electronic signature—
(a) adequately identifies the signatory and adequately indicates the signatory’s approval of the information to which the signature relates; and
(b) is as reliable as is appropriate given the purpose for which, and the circumstances in which, the signature is required.
(2) A legal requirement for a signature that relates to information legally required to be given to a person is met by means of an electronic signature only if that person consents to receiving the electronic signature.
On underground lines, the PSDs are mostly for air-sealing. It allows you to air-condition the platforms without trying to cool the tunnels, and it helps the piston effect of moving trains pull air through the tunnels, rather than just swirl air around each platform.
Also probably helps for fire engineering.
I was thinking she was only going to live long enough to see two Christmases…
The Elizabeth line is already built with platform screen doors, although I believe they’re only on underground sections. I don’t know enough about this station to say whether it had them; I expect not.
Platform screen doors tend to be used underground mainly for airflow management. They are not primarily for safety.
They work less well outside. No overhead structure to anchor to, weather has a larger impact (particularly snow/ice), and they can become something to climb rather than an obstacle.
Have you never heard the phrase “died peacefully in his sleep” or “at least it was quick”?
Do you remember where you played it?
It sounds/looks a little like some of the stuff from bontegames.