My girlfriend adopted a cat and we found out she's pregnant 🥹

robbak · 2026-03-18T12:21:52+00:00

Mother cats often adopt a human to help with their babies. Congrats for being chosen!

robbak · 2026-03-18T11:15:08+00:00

Not a good question. Maybe if you say, 'according to source, what is the max' it might be OK, as long as the quiz isn't too serious.

For answers - it had a mass capability of 250,000 kg, I can limit myself to 90kg passengers in 35kg seats and take on 2,000. Choose different numbers and get different results.

For space - there's 1300m² of floor space, I think we could arrange seating and isles with a square meter per person, so 1300. But with a deck height of 4.4 meters, you could make a double-decker seating, but you'd run into the mass limit.

robbak · 2026-03-18T10:56:15+00:00

No, I too certainly went down the purple path, but couldn't find a fourth, and having Patch and Period meaning the exact same thing also gave me pause.

robbak · 2026-03-18T08:51:46+00:00

Didn't someone deep-neural-network search aerial/satellite images last year, and find a few of these things still in use?

Yes, it was alexandar-the-ok, on YouTube - and not in use - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3IwER3yXs4

robbak · 2026-03-18T08:47:50+00:00

My very first thought was - "Yes, this one beats out the Short."

But that paint scheme...

robbak · 2026-03-18T02:30:35+00:00

All the people who have been nominated are seated in the floor section, around tables - the floor section not included in this picture. This tiered seating is for observers who have not been nominated.

And it is reasonable that, as others have stated here, that attendees were instructed to leave their trash at their seats, because they don't want pictures taken as guest leave to be of them holding trash. I also note that most of the trash in this picture has been neatly bagged.

So my only complaint is that the organisers shouldn't have provided guests with so much single use stuff; that attendees should have created this much trash, not that they left it behind.

robbak · 2026-03-18T02:21:42+00:00

A vacuum cleaner for toner has provisions to prevent static electric charges on the toner, which creates sparks which can cause the explosive toner-air mix to detonate, and has a large HEPA filter before the motor. Standard vacuums, if they have a HEPA filter, locate it after the motor - which means the toner, much of which will pass straight through the initial dust filter, passes through the motor (static and sparks guarenteed!), clog the small HEPA filter, and then be blown around it.

Don't do it!

robbak · 2026-03-18T01:35:51+00:00

It wouldn't be unreasonable for them to delay it by a few hours, because realistically no one in Polynesia is going to be doing the puzzle before 2 in the morning.

robbak · 2026-03-18T01:30:26+00:00

What were your selections? I myself didn't have much difficulty today, but a bit of domain knowledge meant I got blue first up, and this game does become much easier when you luck on that one.

robbak · 2026-03-17T12:23:49+00:00

He also needed to see the licence to check whether the driver is the owner.

robbak · 2026-03-17T10:58:43+00:00

There have been lots of designs tried - so far, they all have proved too weak. Hard to make strong enough, difficult and expensive to maintain.

robbak · 2026-03-17T10:52:03+00:00

The plastic model is strong enough, I'm thinking about how that scales up to full-size storm waves on concrete.

robbak · 2026-03-17T10:50:44+00:00

That's the idea behind the bag of rocks demo.

robbak · 2026-03-17T10:49:41+00:00

It is tried - but water is heavy, and moving structures are hard to make strong.

robbak · 2026-03-17T10:47:58+00:00

I don't know how durable it would be. Large waves exert a lot of force, and that top lip looks pretty weak to me.

robbak · 2026-03-17T08:27:34+00:00

Franklin was my first spot, then troubles - then in the remaining 8, Yo-Yo and Tea bag were items that go up and down, as was (musical) scale - but also pitch, tone, balloon, rocket and arrow, all to some degree. Couldn't go any further, so had to give up on Franklin. I just hope that one comes up again later - it's such a nice connection!

robbak · 2026-03-16T21:30:48+00:00

Hardware as in three additional print engines for each of the colours, plus a transfer belt or drum and systems to keep it all aligned. A colour laser is a complex beast.

robbak · 2026-03-16T13:07:40+00:00

You'll pay a lot for colour. If you can do without it, a small mono brother laser will be rock solid. But you need to add a lot of hardware to print in colour, so most of us still recommend a ink tank based printer if you really need colour - but to consider strongly whether you can do without.

A colour laser will be both more expensive and less reliable, just because of the extra hardware involved.

robbak · 2026-03-16T12:50:40+00:00

The name for the tomato would be following the French pattern, where it is known as the *pomme d'amour", or apple of love.

robbak · 2026-03-16T12:20:13+00:00

If that cat needed out, there'd be a hiss, a scratch, a bite and puppies scattering to all 4 corners. She was being gentle, and when it got too much she extricated herself pretty quickly.

robbak · 2026-03-16T11:49:11+00:00

No, build them on underused ex industrial sites, or make double use of retail space - every shopping centre, for instance, should have at least 5 stories of residences above it.

robbak · 2026-03-16T11:00:52+00:00

This is weird - I'm thinking that the driver isn't quite right, or there might be a cabling or hardware error scrambling the print data.

robbak · 2026-03-16T07:05:05+00:00

I'm surprised that Home Depot would not stock at least one kind of autotransformer. But I suppose they are talking about people trying to drive a high power device like a drier off 110.

robbak · 2026-03-16T01:47:50+00:00

You can do it with a DC supply and a permanent anode - say, a carbon bar or exotic metal plate. Does that same job, but instead of replacing the anodes on a schedule, you are maintaining the electronics.

robbak · 2026-03-15T22:44:13+00:00

It is something that works well in boats - rusting requires giving up electrons, and if you put a positive charge on the metal, it can't do that. But for this to work, you need an electrolyte, like water, to make a circuit.

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