openspaceman
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I got that wrong, it's 55 years since I last had to do it. It does add but it does so by NANDing two numbers and the discarding the most significant bit (0)101==Decimal 5 (0)001== Decimal 1 (1)110 NANDed Discard most significant bit 110==Decimal 6 So the most basic thing a computer does is a comparison of binary digits and from this simple operation every thing which we do on a computer is based. Next it's qubits and that totally confuses me.
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So am I, more so as I got older and can't see the benefits in automating and mechanising everything. Physically doing things is satisfying and mostly good for the body. AI is good at recognising patterns, in fact a digital computer only compares things, it can't even do binary adding but uses a quirk of ANDing to look like it's adding. I had great hopes of AI when a guy from Logica explained how a computer programmed to be "intelligent" could recognise objects in unfamiliar surroundings and that was in 1987. I had expected an AI triage system at a hospital or GP's; breathe into a machine to analyse metabolites in your breath, similar for blood, urine and faeces and check them for DNA of foreign microbes. After all there are more viruses and bacteria in you than you have cells of your own.
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I don't know. I won't see it, you might.
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Something similar but less complicated was made from a 1/2" spring steel rod for ground skidding multiple trees when thinning, something thinner would work for ziplining. Picture of the concept made from a piece of copper wire.
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That's what the Luddites and Saboteurs said. Think about all those clerks who sat in rows and columns of desks with mechanical calculators summing up bank accounts, electricity bills etc. All jobs automated by data processing. Look at the service industries that grew with the labour which came available. Loss of jobs was never the issue because the problem comes from the wealth of the people that own the capital that grew the systems taking humanity on a train to the cliff at ever increasing speed.
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
openspaceman replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
I have seen similar with wellingtonia where the drooping bottom branches have rooted and spawned new trees. -
Yes but needs grass that has been managed short.
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Brains was 1/10d when I first went to Wales, it tasted like vinegar to me after the sweet (and stronger) bitters here, but I soon got used to it.
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So it is
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Yes , I have looked under my profile whee I would expect it to be but no mention of signatures there.
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I don't know, not had one here, perhaps we must ask @Steve Bullman how you change a signature?
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thanks Pete and good luck. You still haven't changed your sig
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Yes you are. Where are they made?
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I've avoided Facebook but so many special interest groups seem to be there and closed. So as I have a couple of technical questions, a caravan and three tractors to move on I decided to sign up. All went dandy till I was asked to produce a short video to prove my age and identity, there's no camera on this desktop pc so I had to close out. I immediately got an email saying I am banned for 180 days.
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What does that do that a 7 pin socket can't? Is it because the lights are canbus controlled?
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I don't remember how it came out, certainly not for quite a while and we only worked together for a short time, weeks rather than months, it was 50 years ago.
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A young lad at my last job was left in the onerous position of having a plant trailer left in a layby some few hundred yards from the site compound. No +E for his B licence then. So he coupled up and started towing down the road but got pulled. Not only did he get done for the lack of +E but for driving with defective brakes, he hadn't fitted the break away cable. His manager washed his hands of his mistake in not parking trailer in the compound.
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With an over-run braked trailer the break away wire should apply a brake to all trailer wheels, an un-braked trailer must have a safety chain independent of the tow ball. So something was missing. The chap I started out on the arb adventure with had previously killed a grandfather out walking his toddler grand daughter by spearing him with a ladder that flew off as he drove round a road junction.
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251 exhaust bolts look like they are M5, so using @Deafhead's method get an M6 bolt with a shank that is long enough, grind off the thread by twiddling it in a bench grinder. Buy a split M5 die and jam the set screw in the die holder to open the split and gently cut a new enlarged diameter M5 thread. Cut to length. As long as there's some thread left in the cylinder this will accommodate the slop and the 0.5mm extra radius will form the aluminium to accommodate it.
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Just goes to show what burning wet wood can do.
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It looks more like Meripilus giganteus to me
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Apart from that the socket and lights must all work there is only a legal requirement that a telltale in the cab must work in unison with the indicators, to show the bulbs are working, isn't there. I do wonder how they current sense?
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I have a towball on my 1999 vitara, it can tow 1.2 tones braked but only 500kg unbraked as it is only 1tonne unladen.
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Yes but brush cutting predominantly bramble, even with a mulching blade, is frustrating. If you can wait for stuff to die down after cutting (or roll it up) then a sharp, long handled slasher is effective. Follow up with a mower.
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I reckon the 2kg would be enough to tension the wire on a capstan. With an 8mm diameter semicircular thread machined in the capstan and a fairlead to keep the wire in the groove. Drop the tail to the ground and then launch off on the active part of the rope. Once on the deck unclip and the next person clips on.
