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They specifically mention that: Removal of model field due to problems with data collection and quality

During my time in Antarctica we had a (Turbo Pascal, I think) program on the met computer that prompted for weather conditions and sent it off to the satellite terminal. The UI was…

The wire will crush over time and the connection will become looser. That will increase the resistance of the connection and in high current applications will cause heating. If you…

You can't browse the modern web with Presto. I used to work at Opera and we were sad to switch to Chromium/Blink but a company the size of Opera just didn't have the resources to k…

For really low temperatures some of the traditional materials work really well. For example, at -30 °C you don't need a waterproof shell but you want something that's very windproo…

Why whisper? Everyone knows Stirling castle is better.

QR codes were created for labelling automotive parts, not for URLs. Part numbers are usually uppercase alphanumeric, with a few punctuation characters.

> > EU 400V (380V) is 3 hots, neutral and ground. > Three phase 230/400: 400V is line (hot) to line with 230V line to neutral. More for industrial use but I hear some homes can hav…

That's a Namibia problem, Nigeria is NG.

It's an interesting idea but why would I sign up and give you personal data without any idea of the site's features or UI?

Although a lot of it was filmed in Glasgow.

Isn't the term "rabbit ears" more of an American thing? Can't recall anyone using it in the UK.

Sounds like this is Antarctic _American_ English. The British jargon is quite different.

Took me a while after arriving at Kerguelen to work out who all the people with the weird-sounding job titles were. IIRC "Disker" (the head of the district) sounds like a slang wor…

Sweden: https://1409.se/ UK (not a map, similar view to what the signallers see): https://traksy.uk/live/M+58+STIRLNG

Flats on floors in between usually have the floor number as the first part: "3FL" for third floor on the left or "2F3" for second floor, third flat. Or at least that's how it was w…

As other pointed out, this is probably just down to terrible airline IT. I don't know if AF/KLM are worse than others but it's remarkable just how bad it is. Recently they had a bu…

There's ongoing work to update the regulations to remove a lot of the loopholes. For example, some airlines like to try to claim that pretty much any delay/cancellation is caused b…

That was usually in draft mode, since the left-to-right and right-to-left lines wouldn't quite line up perfectly.

Mini did some tricks so the "display" was much wider than the device display but text columns were wrapped at device display width. So you you could zoom out and see the whole page…

"The Thing" was best viewed when alone on nightwatch just before walking across to the meteorological building in the dark at 03:00.

Halley 5 was demolished in 2012, everything down to the snow surface was removed. So that iceberg has about 23 years of the steel legs that held the buildings up, various subsurfac…

Were you at Belgrano? I flew over there a few times on depot-laying flights from Halley. The first couple of times people even came out and waved. Unfortunately that (and occasiona…