Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[kinboshi]

'Boshi has sussed it (via PM), but I suspect he used image-matching software, so I'm having him shot.

What lead you to that conclusion?  I know because I worked on some projects with the Imperial War Museum and the National Maritime Museum.  So if you can call back the firing squad for now please...

[tikay]

'Boshi has sussed it (via PM), but I suspect he used image-matching software, so I'm having him shot.

What lead you to that conclusion?  I know because I worked on some projects with the Imperial War Museum and the National Maritime Museum.  So if you can call back the firing squad for now please...

OK, you shall be shot.

[TightEnd]

Munitions and armaments then? a bullet chimney?

[tikay]

Munitions and armaments then? a bullet chimney?

A "bullet chimney"? Lol, how exactly would that work, Rich?

[kinboshi]

Munitions and armaments then? a bullet chimney?

A "bullet chimney"? Lol, how exactly would that work, Rich?

You can lead a horse to water...

[tikay]

Munitions and armaments then? a bullet chimney?

A "bullet chimney"? Lol, how exactly would that work, Rich?

You can lead a horse to water...

Lol, superb clue!

[AndrewT]

Tikay's picture puzzles are plumbing new depths.

[Dino]

How did someone discover that if you pour molten lead through a sieve and let it fall a hundred feet or so into water it ends up round.

[tikay]

OK, Boshi gets the prize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_shot

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Shot_tower

[tikay]

Tikay's picture puzzles are plumbing new depths.

I think that's called a backhanded compliment.

[Dino]

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=46900

[tikay]

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=46900

Oh my, good find, thank you!

Well that's that sorted, just gotta understand them Processor things now, & my life will be complete.

[rex008]

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=46900

Oh my, good find, thank you!

Well that's that sorted, just gotta understand them Processor things now, & my life will be complete.

It's the bit that does the maths, basically . ARM were one of the first to suss that as chips got more and more complicated they got harder to design efficiently. If you make them simpler, you can make them go faster and use less power, so if you want to do a complicated thing that a fancy chip could do in 1 step, you could do it in 3 steps and still do it faster overall. IBM thought of it originally, but ARM are the masters these days.

Even most programmers don't really care what goes on in a CPU these days - programming languages are translated into the simple instructions that the CPU understands by a "compiler" (which is just another program that is run by the CPU). So you can write the same program and compile it once to run on a fancy Intel chip, and then again to run on an ARM chip. Should end up doing the same thing, if the compilers do their job properly.

[tonytats]

Send Fred dibnah round he's good with chimneys at least he was
Brilliant bit of footage of him bringing one down by burning out supports he had placed as he cut out the  5 foot thick brickwork
The elf and safety man wouldvhave a fit these days

[RED-DOG]

I wouldn't have known about the chimney, but I used to make musket-sized lead balls for my catapult by dropping shot.

We always had a bit of lead kicking around and it has an extremely low melting point, you can melt it in an iron pot over an open fire.

Once it becomes liquid you just pour it from a reasonable hight (20 ft or so) into some water. Each drop of leadforms itself into a sphere as it falls.

Did you know that the with of shotgun barrels are measured by the number of barrel-diameter lead balls it takes to make a pound in weight?

For instance, 12 balls = 12 bore.