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#3124743 7-Sep-2023 19:05

9:04 AM (here)

We just have a power cut (happens very rarely here, accumulates ~15min per year) and the office continues to run without problems. However, I have to change the beeping of the UPS from repetitive to one-off - otherwise it's too annoying. 🙂

(edit: Must be something bigger, outside has gone totally silent, like during the Covid lockdown. And no coffee! 🙁)

(edit II: Ah, there is now a message that two parts of the city are affected and that the fault will be cleared by 11:00 am. Let's see if the various UPSs with their shutdown logics still behave as they should.)

(edit III: Power back after 39 minutes and everything went well. Servers up and USVs back to offline mode. Time for a coffee.) 🤗

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#3124808 7-Sep-2023 21:04

The newly discovered API to the electricity supplier also works at the same time (provided you still have access in the event of a power failure). In future, my customers will be automatically informed of a possible cloud shutdown in the event of a prolonged power failure.

A donation to the NUT project and the day has already paid off. 😎

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#3124930 8-Sep-2023 09:50

Probably not the right place, but do like a bit of aviation porn -

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-u-2-dragon-lady-as-you-have-never-seen-it-before

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#3125055 8-Sep-2023 16:48

rb99:

Probably not the right place, but do like a bit of aviation porn -

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-u-2-dragon-lady-as-you-have-never-seen-it-before

Saw it in-flight based at Davis-Monthan and a SR-21A w/D-21 at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson/AZ long time ago. 😉

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#3125181 9-Sep-2023 02:56

A new fighter aircraft being planned in the UK will have ‘cloud connectivity’. Doh, well yeah, obviously - and surely that’s physically unavoidable. What this really means is that it will “use modern communications channels to share data securely with other aircraft”. 😀

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#3125194 9-Sep-2023 08:20

Tinkerisk:

rb99:

Probably not the right place, but do like a bit of aviation porn -

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-u-2-dragon-lady-as-you-have-never-seen-it-before

Saw it in-flight based at Davis-Monthan and a SR-21A w/D-21 at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson/AZ long time ago. 😉

Correctiion SR-71A of course!

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#3127044 13-Sep-2023 13:26

Today I learnt that NZ has an official toilet calculator.

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not ****ing blue!

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#3127050 13-Sep-2023 13:30

floydbloke:

Today I learnt that NZ has an official toilet calculator.

That's really handy if you're crap at maths...

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#3127166 13-Sep-2023 16:03

12 from the last 14 days I have had more than 7 hours of 'good' quality sleep. Probably an adult personal record for me.

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#3127363 13-Sep-2023 18:44

This is as good a place as any for some meaningless trivia that entered my mind.

When daylight savings kicks in in a week-and-a-half’s time we get to enjoy it for 196 days, the maximum period possible (under current legislation) thanks to the last day in September being a Saturday and the first day in April a Monday, plus a leap-day in February.

To add to this geekiness, I’ve also worked out that this won’t happen again until 2051/2052.

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not ****ing blue!

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#3127367 13-Sep-2023 18:51

floydbloke:This is as good a place as any for some meaningless trivia that entered my mind.

When daylight savings kicks in in a week-and-a-half’s time we get to enjoy it for 196 days, the maximum period possible (under current legislation) thanks to the last day in September being a Saturday and the first day in April a Monday, plus a leap-day in February.

To add to this geekiness, I’ve also worked out that this won’t happen again until 2051/2052.

I wonder if you will get a "Special Trivia" badge for the information? 🙃

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#3127375 13-Sep-2023 19:25

networkn:

12 from the last 14 days I have had more than 7 hours of 'good' quality sleep. Probably an adult personal record for me.

If you use certain Garmin watches that measure sleep quality, you can get a badge for that. ;-)

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#3127450 13-Sep-2023 23:10

floydbloke:

This is as good a place as any for some meaningless trivia that entered my mind.

When daylight savings kicks in in a week-and-a-half’s time we get to enjoy it for 196 days, the maximum period possible (under current legislation) thanks to the last day in September being a Saturday and the first day in April a Monday, plus a leap-day in February.

To add to this geekiness, I’ve also worked out that this won’t happen again until 2051/2052.

I was musing today that this was one of the very few good things to come out of the last 6 years IMO

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#3127451 13-Sep-2023 23:11

geoffwnz:

If you use certain Garmin watches that measure sleep quality, you can get a badge for that. ;-)

I use Huawei Titanium Pro 3 which I really rate.

Is the badge sleeping beauty? No-one who has met me would suggest I was owed that badge :)

I'm grateful our kids get their looks from their mother :)

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#3127510 14-Sep-2023 07:18

Bear webcam (in Alaska)

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not ****ing blue!

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