Missing the point a little, tsunami's are not comparable to ocean waves. They ARE more like a huge, very fast, rising tide, modelling is not the same as a breaking ocean wave. This research impacts the modelling for ocean or coastal structures which have relied on the breaking wave dynamics for a particular depth and topology. The research shows that the maximum breaking wave height can be much greater than previously thought. So, the off-shore wind turbine which was believed safe because the expected max wave height will never manifest as a breaking wave in the depth of water it's sitting in may actually be in jeopardy.
My partner didn't drive until my daughter was 8yo. They bused around most places, as a result, daughter and wife now refuse any offer of a bus journey...
I was a postie for a short while. A particular row of houses had no number 63, 61 and 65 were next door to each other. I always wondered if I posted something to 63 would it land in my sorting rack? Sadly I never tried, but I am fairly sure it would have. I often observed manual intervention to resolve addresses, from years of collective postie knowledge.
The first commercially available Acorn RISC processor was released as a co-processor for the BBC Micro. Acorn always had processors on the mind it seems as the Tube interface and protocol [1] is solely for co-processors.
There's an excellent Rasperry Pi based project, PiTubeDirect, which emulates the ARM and many other co-processors on original Acorn 6502 based hardware; Atom, Electron, Micro and Master [2]. The original expansion hardware is, as expected, incredibly rare and valuable.
I feel like I was shown the event in a public service broadcast type documentary at school. Sticks in the memory. Along with the nuke Sheffield film, which didn't seem too much off a loss to us southerners at the time!
My mum has told me about her shopping habits in the 70s, she would have a list of everything they needed, she would walk around the first shop writing all the prices down. She would walk around the second shop buying the items that were cheaper, then return to the first shop to buy what was cheaper there.
Which meant that everyone around got the tinny dings of your music, so it was quite anti-social and you were asked to turn it down (by family or companions, rarely strangers) which usually meant you couldn't hear it well over the ambient noise and ended up turning it off. Nobody used the big on ear headphones outside the house. The big isolation change for me was better sealed in-ear ones with a digital player, ipod, mp3 etc, where you could exclude the ambient more and have decent quality.
>There's a long list of incredibly damaging fuckups by software companies,
Just one example - Fujitsu, associated with the biggest ever misscarriage of justice in England because of bugs in their Horizon software, still going strong...
Great example, but sadly a collective of wronged Postmasters didn’t (at least until recently) have much clout - partly hence the problem.
In the Crowdstrike case, we have multiple major airlines, multiple airports, hospitals, and some large media outlets. Probably billions of dollars of losses.
I played through the game a couple of years ago. I really enjoyed it, thank you very much for creating and sharing it. Seem to remember getting stuck on level 2 for longer than is probably reasonable...! Will definately check out wordbots.
