Guys, would you mind keeping the virus discussion here, please: https://forum.autonomi.community/t/coronavirus-mega-thread/30982.
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Earth 1 - Flat Earther 0
Mad Mike Hughes just launched himself in a self-made steam-powered rocket and crash landed. Very likely did not survive. #MadMike #MadMikeHughes pic.twitter.com/svtviTEi8f
— Justin Chapman (@justindchapman) February 22, 2020
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Actually it was questionable if he was even a true flat earth believer. He used it though to generate publicity and this apparently was a launch they were filming for the amateur competition where people launch themselves. Nothing to do with flat earth.
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I beg to differ. He hit the earth and now he’s flat.
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Unfortunately for him that is a fact of his death. Could already be 6ft under too with the force he hit.
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Well he’s certainly under 6 foot now…
The rest of us use Kerbal Space Program for this kind of malarkey. Was his middle name Jedediah?
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We may see more accidents since it was part of an event where people go up in their rockets.
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I bet an awful lot of them are now looking very carefully at their parachute deployment mechanisms and timing.
Whats the festival called? Desert Death Wish 2020?
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Going up is fine… kinked spines permitting…
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This is an interesting take on the Mad Mike thing by Mick West of Metabunk who met him last year.
His death is not a cautionary tale of the dangers of weird conspiracy theories. He died following his passion and being blinded by optimism. Flat Earth was just something tacked on that gave him loads of publicity.
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If you’re on Twitter follow Wolfie:
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If you are on Twitter follow @CyberSporran - I need followers for my new account 
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Error, Learn, Repeat
I have a happy habit of breaking computers and fixing them, sometimes hardware; sometimes software… and useful experience then for giving confidence of what is possible and where the limits lie. Having done the lego that is full build of a PC a while back, I find hardware less of a mystery but still get surprised every so often at what is possible to do simply.
So, a few lessons from the recent past that might be of interest to others…
Lesson 1: Ethernet cables and switches - I thought was simple and no mystery but having tidied up found everything was a bit slow and discovered there really is a difference between Cat 5 cables and Cat 5e! Cat 5 are 100 Mb/s … Cat 5e are 1000 Mb/s. Check your cables and switches… I still had a couple of 10/100 Mb/zzz switches :o
to note: There are now Cat6/7 but unless your pushing over Gigabit/s with the network ports, I can’t see reason for those… and Cat8 is not something for outside server rooms… but amazing to see such speeds are possible.
Lesson 2: Gigabyte Brix - I’m not one for recommending products as so rare they are surprising but the quality of Gigabyte Brix is worth a shout… mini computers that are the size of a coffee mat… under £1000, you can get 64GB RAM 8xi7 CPU and 3.5TB and that’s before you plug into the USB3.1 - USBs are getting fast!! No GPU of course but even the i3 16GB chews something like AndroidStudio like knife through butter.
Lesson 2b: TigerVNC is awesome as ssh view into the mini pc that is Brix. So, old laptop gets a new lease of life being a flat client for the brick.
Lesson 3: Parallel processing across multiple computers. Today I learn there is GNU parallel with option then to melt CPUs and chew as much RAM as is available, and similar in xargs, that allows then for splitting of large tasks into many threads on many computers.
All amazing to me being of an age where I remember pixels as big as my fist and 32Kb was something special!
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My life just improved a little!
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