Month: November 2018

This week and a bit of the next, I’m in Amsterdam. If you have any ideas for unusual things to see – let me know. I’m not interested in rainbow ponies

Very interesting about how to teach children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gt6m7RwlYk

Apple should be killed for their engineering solution of gluing the battery into the little bath. To remove the battery, you can’t just pull it off without breaking the seal, which almost certainly leads to sudden ignition and/or explosion. Plus, it’s soft. It can easily be squashed in your fist. Unlike the usual batteries that you can only open with a chisel. To make it easier to remove, you need to heat the lid from the other side to make the adhesive less strong. That is, you understand, yes, with the risk of tearing the battery and getting a massive explosion/fire in your hands, you need to hold it over, say, a stove. Definitely check out what happens when it depressurizes https://youtu.be/2J-h6fC1GrU

In the end, I changed the battery. The new one works great. But I don’t want to repeat that ever again.

We’re running. It’s dark. 9:30 PM. At the former school, someone is changing letters on a sign, dimly lit by a yellow lamp. You’ve surely seen various signs in that blocky white font the size of an elbow. We exchanged greetings. It turned out to be the school principal 😳

Photo of Mars from InSight. Looks like a cardboard box after the rain, taped together. It’s a robot-geologist (more accurately, an areologist, since it’s Mars), now it will drill a five-meter hole in this desert and search for answers there

If anyone has experience with Magento / Intershop or Salesforce Commerce, please hit me up

Update: WE HAVE LANDED!

Watching the landing attempt of the new InSight rover on Mars. NASA really did an outstanding job, I can’t understand how one can plan and execute such a project. Now we just watch. The link includes interesting 3D videos of what is happening and what will happen.

I think it’s clear to everyone that this isn’t just some remote-controlled model, but a system with autonomous decision-making capabilities on what actions to take in various situations. Currently, the rover is 90 million km away from us. Thus, a signal takes 11 minutes to get there, and the same amount of time to return. You can’t anticipate everything: out of 17 missions, ten were unsuccessful. The cartoon at the link above shows how complex it all is.

Live broadcast – it’s been at least three hours already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0

30 minutes left

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/

Fingers crossed

Nadya wrote a post, and it seems it struck a chord) it’s already been published in KP

“when I was there, there was also a line of cars,” “mom, I thought you would take pictures of this church and then go back,” “in this race, I must perform better” Living in an English-speaking environment gradually deteriorates the Russian language: calques of English words start appearing

The number Pi in wartime can reach four!