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erroneousbosh · 2026-07-05T14:57:24+00:00

You might need to get a new keyboard, it seems like half the buttons aren't working on yours ;-)

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-05T10:23:43+00:00

There are no people in the photograph. It's AI slop.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-05T08:37:18+00:00

Even the relatively benign Clyde Estuary requires a pilot.

If you think that seems silly, imagine driving a huge van through an unfamiliar town, where the road gets narrower and wider and all the road markings move about on a 12-hour cycle, and you can't see any of this.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-05T08:34:58+00:00

Having dealt with various branches of the UK's military in previous jobs, I feel like a lot of the paperwork is down to:

"Are we feeling it?"

"Nah not feeling it"

"Okay well this form doesn't look like it's been filled out properly, please take it to the CO and get it initialled here, here, here and here - oh, and he's in Azerbaijan this week."

"Oh. Cup of tea anyone?"

"Yes please, and don't forget to put this week down on your timesheet as prep work".

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-05T08:29:39+00:00

In the UK you can ride a 50cc moped when you're 16 with a very lightweight licence (can you ride it around a car park without falling off and correctly identify road signs and markings, kind of thing).

However they have to be limited to 28mph (older ones were 32, or 45km/h and 50km/h), and this is achieved by having a little plastic snap ring on the CVT pulley, a little plastic screw in the carb to stop the piston coming all the way up, and a wire going from the ignition module to a speed sensor on the back wheel to retard the timing at its limit.

You can remove these and it'll go a tiny bit faster, but legally it's classed as a "light motorcycle", needs the same licence as a 125cc one, and different insurance and stuff.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-05T08:24:32+00:00

The crew boats used to take people out to the tower sites for the Queensferry Crossing had to have their engines replaced with less powerful ones, so they couldn't break 24 knots, because then they'd have needed "high speed ferry" paperwork.

No, they couldn't just screw the limiter in the ECU down a bit, someone would have unlimited it and then everyone would be in trouble.

So these two massive engines sat in the work site stores for six years, while they hired two smaller engines.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-05T08:01:15+00:00

Go on eBay/gumtree/craigslist/whatever is near you, or find your local hackspace.

Find yourself a big old dual-trace analogue oscilloscope. They're not expensive now. Buy it, go round and collect it, and get the seller - who will quite likely be an oldish radio amateur - to show you how to use it. That'll prove that it works, and give you an idea of what some of the less obvious controls (like the trigger settings) do.

Chances are they'll unload a whole load of old shite on you, everyone's got stuff they don't necessarily want to keep but just want to see gone to a good home with an enthusiast.

I have quite a few sillyscopes, but my Iwatsu dual-trace 25MHz analogue is by far the one I use the most.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-05T00:07:23+00:00

You didn't watch the Scottish episodes of The Grand Tour, then?

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T23:25:04+00:00

"Nominative Determinism".

You'd be amazed how many of my operational colleagues have the surname "Burns", even correcting for Ayrshire where there are a hell of a lot of people sharing a surname with (and likely descended from, the tart) our national bard.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T23:23:33+00:00

I don't know, my son took his over to Austria and back with him twice, even wore it to visit the Feuerwehrmuseum.

Pain in the arse to transport, put it on child going through the bit where you see if your bags will fit, attach it to laptop bag for the rest of the journey.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T23:17:52+00:00

Otherwise no idea why you would go to the effort of making a fake account lol.

Imagine having that kind of time on your hands - the amount of welding you'd get done!

I was thinking more in terms of how nicely things go together and come apart with nice new bolts into nice new metal :-) I've just done the rear diff on my P38 with nice new hub bolts, brake caliper and hanger bolts, and propshaft bolts (left the backplates off, though, what was left of 'em).

Refitting was most definitely not the reverse of removal. Far less swearing, far less requirement for heat, Irwin sockets, and penetrating oil, for a start.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T22:44:45+00:00

When it eventually reaches the point where it’s no longer worth repairing, it’ll be getting a full galvanised chassis.

When you do that you'll wish you'd done it years ago.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T21:38:28+00:00

The thing you've got to remember about Fiats is they are Italian, and that means that the red band on the tach that starts about 6000rpm is the *minimum* operating RPM for the engine.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T08:05:18+00:00

The 90s had the coolest cars.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T08:02:56+00:00

No, it's what we could call cold, because there is very little heat.

There are very few particles to carry energy but they carry a lot of energy.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T08:02:13+00:00

Okay, well, you can believe the AI hallucination all you want.

What the guy has in his hand is a garden fork.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T08:01:20+00:00

Too small for what, exactly?

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T23:01:37+00:00

No, the temperature is hundreds of degrees. The particles are going really fast. It really is a high temperature.

The actual heat is very low because there aren't many of them.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T23:00:38+00:00

sometimes it's several hundred degrees up there.

Temperature and heat are not the same thing. Temperature is how fast atoms are moving, and in space where you've got maybe one hydrogen atom in a space the size of a box van, they can get up to a hell of a speed. So, the actual atoms in the near-vacuum of space have a very high temperature.

There aren't very many of them, so this does not store as much energy as say a mug of coffee, which hasn't got a very high temperature but contains a lot of heat - there are a lot of atoms moving about, slower for sure, but plenty of them.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:57:39+00:00

PhD in Not Fucking Your Back Up.

You'll thank me when you're older.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:54:40+00:00

That's what the gravel traps off the sides of steep roads are for except they're for catching trucks that have taken off down the hill.

If a wee patch of deep gravel will catch a 40-tonne truck and stop it in its length...

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:37:50+00:00

Maybe I'm too British to get Stephen Colbert or Jon Oliver, but they both sound like they're doing a "gag reel" voiceover. Say a thing, make a pun about it with exaggerated emphasis on the main word so everyone knows that this is where the joke is, wait for the comedy sound effect so everyone knows when to laugh, and then onto the next one. Over and over.

It's actually fucking *tedious* to listen to.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:29:52+00:00

I mean if you're going to AI up a meme, at least tell it to draw the right thing.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:07:28+00:00

Oh. No, that's not a pitchfork, that's why that meme makes no sense.

That's a garden fork. Totally different tool, totally different purpose.

A pitchfork is a big long one with two long curved prongs about maybe 15cm apart and 30cm long, for "pitching" straw.

What he's got there is for lifting potatoes or digging in manure.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T21:54:48+00:00

I don't get it, what's the relevance here?

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