Has anyone else ever noticed that the cross-section of a properly-shaped sail looks very much more like a brachistochrone and not at all like an airplane wing?
Further study is needed.
Month: July 2017
Sometimes you want to go…
Don’t you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don’t know a soul?
This actually happened.
It was terrifying, yet comforting.
I didn’t come through as the same person.
Heisenberg Monitoring Uncertainty Principle
In certain implementations of software monitoring solutions, the type, quantity, and frequency of monitoring – the system or service checks – can result in an increase in load on the systems being tested. This increased load can lead to the flawed interpretation that additional monitoring tools are necessary to identify the load factors, resulting in further-increased load.
Or, to summarize: throw so much monitoring at a platform that it unexpectedly increases load, which prompts additional monitoring. Repeat.
Or, to summarize the summary: You cannot observe any system without impacting it.
USS Lexington
The USS Lexington providing electricity to the city of Tacoma, which was left without power during the winter of 1929-30 due to a severe drought. (1929)
And now for something completely different.
Fun fact: it’s incredibly unlikely this will ever need to happen again in this region with all of the hydroelectric available here.
However, for certain other regions of the world, this could be a temporary solution in some scenarios.
the rest of me 