I actually don’t believe that any of the accused in this care were intentionally cheating. Honestly it seems damn difficult to make any kind of consistently predictable trajectory change with the touches we’ve seen on video.

Your math and mine both show that a touch can impact the rock but I have to imagine that curling is like golf where you train and hone your swing (release) trying to make it as consistent and repeatable as possible. With that in mind you wouldn’t WANT a touch that mucks with the trajectory of the rock because you couldn’t ever do it precisely and repeatably enough to make it worthwhile.

In my opinion this controversy is happening because some curlers have an ingrained release routine that includes an unnecessary movement / flourish and competitors have decided to make issue of it because it’s getting close to giving a competitive advantage. That’s my two cents for what it’s worth.

Nope, that’s a user created account and a user created note. 😊

SMR are for site or temporary power, not grid scale. On paper they’re a good fit for data centers and other localized power needs.

What can fingers brushing against a 40-pound piece of granite do in any event?

This is a fun little physics problem.

The CoF of a curling stone on ice appears to be between .006 and .016 depending on fast its sliding.

So with a CoF of .006 that 40lb chunk of granite has an effective weight of just four ounces relative to that same chunk of granite at a CoF of 1. With a CoF of .016 it’s relative weight is 9 ounces.

So if the finger brush is in either the X or Y axis then basically anything more than what it takes to press a key on your keyboard will have an effect.

Trying to stop the stone from rotating is a whole different matter because then you’re working against it’s stored inertia and that will be much much higher. No way to calculate that though unless you know it’s rate of spin.

What context are you asking for? Seems like Draconic has explained why that account exists and even put in a note explaining.

They are…but the Secret Service isn’t.

F2B for ddos protection?! You have absolutely no idea what you’re doing. At all.

Yachts and mansions are depreciating assets. You aren’t borrowing against those and then passing them along as an inheritance.

Getting a half dozen 24tb nas drives this morning was painful. They are twice the cost of last fall and most vendors, even big ones, only had one or two available. This is insanity.

+1 for Reolink. I have those and UniFi cameras tied to my UniFi system.

As near as I can tell the HP PSC 1315 was released in 2004, over two decades ago. I can see how it’s aggravating for you but there can’t a double handful of those clunkers still working anywhere in the world. There’s no way it could be worth it to HP to rewrite drivers for the 10 or so people still using them.

Switch to Linux. :)

the US doesn’t have the amount of engineers it needs to move production to the US

Tim Cook can eat a bag of rancid donkey dicks. The reason we ‘don’t have enough engineers’, a point which I would emphatically argue, is because CEOs like Tim and companies like Apple vehemently refused to invest in domestic capabilities as they rushed to save money via Chinese outsourcing.

If we want “Tooling” Engineers, or any other specialty such as “Process Control”, the answer is as always to pay them what they are worth and that’s the rub; Timmie and his buddies don’t want to pay the high salaries for these skills.

…it’s simply impossible.

It’s no more impossible than having enough world class software engineers. The United States in general, and Silicon Valley in particular, used to be the world leader in developing and attracting Engineering talent and the only reason we aren’t anymore is because companies don’t want to pay for it.

Perhaps but the next Windows 11 update is NOT going to “break your printer”. If you already have a printer setup it will keep working even if its driver is an old V3 / V4.

Most of the old drivers are not distributed by vendors since we are talking about the era when CDs were included in the box.

I dunno about that. I just looked up an HP LaserJet P1015. It was a very inexpensive laser printer released back in 2003, over two decades ago, and it has drivers available for download from HP both Windows and Linux. The P2035 was released in '08 and it has available drivers to download.

Granted that is only two printer models from a singly company but I think you may be overstating the impact of this.

A lot of older printers may also support “Universal” PCL 5 or 6 Drivers from HP / Cannon / Epson etc.

The posted article is NOT accurate, here’s a clarification - https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/scared-your-printer-will-stop-working-with-windows-11-dont-be-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-microsofts-support-plans

I am doubtful that starlink had any measurable impact.

You can doubt all you like but there’s a lot of documented cases of Russia using SL on their drones and in their command bunkers, too many to be easily denied.

Are they telling us that superpower Russia…

Russia isn’t a superpower. In all ways but their nuclear arsenal they are at best a regional power.

As if Russia didn’t have it’s won satelites, cell towers they could build, which are line of sight, and other methods like sending signals over power lines.

Russia has very few satellites and perhaps only a handful of modern ones. They could build cell towers…and then Ukraine will blow them the fuck up, jam them, or listen to their comms. Signals over power lines? What power lines?

I don’t believe that Russia is dependent on Elon Musk’s shitty satelite internet, which by all accounts is worlds worse than fiber optics.

Again, what you believe may not match reality.

We really don’t need to drag American politics into every single post.

This has been predicted and worked towards since the 90s.

Lithuanian torte.

Interesting given that they recently mandated that new equipment utilize post quantum resistant encryption.

You can also install ad guard home as an add on INSIDE Home Assistant. Works great!