Charlie StrossRE: https://mastodon.social/@jef/116308472633215904
Can't park there, mate.
Steveg58@Steveg58 Wherever it wants to!
(But why are your locomotives so heavy? No overhead electrified traction and no electric multiple units—with a motor on every bogie—so only the loco has drive wheels and it needs mass to hold it in contact with the rails while it's laying down the torque, that's why. Primitive!)
@Steveg58 Here, have a speed record: https://youtu.be/1Enrz9FRgNY?si=slSH0brlFH2tGg7i
TGV World speed record 574.8 km/h in french
@cstross
Nice, but it is such a small light train, of course it gets to go fast.
Here is a report of 40-50 thousand tons doing 144 kph: https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2018/rair/ro-2018-018
Nice, but it is such a small light train, of course it gets to go fast.
Here is a report of 40-50 thousand tons doing 144 kph: https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2018/rair/ro-2018-018
tudor@tudor @cstross
It does make interesting reading. I was part of the external group maintaining the signalling and track control system so it was our system that threw the switch to cause the derailment. They derailed the train because just down the track a bit was a bridge that they didn't want to risk damaging.
It does make interesting reading. I was part of the external group maintaining the signalling and track control system so it was our system that threw the switch to cause the derailment. They derailed the train because just down the track a bit was a bridge that they didn't want to risk damaging.
@tudor @cstross
This has always been one of my favourites: https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2000/aair/aair200002836
You could see it happening to a data centre.
This has always been one of my favourites: https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2000/aair/aair200002836
You could see it happening to a data centre.
@Steveg58 @cstross "The UPS switchboard is physically set up in a manner that when facing the switchboard, the "A" system, is on the left side and the "B" system is on the right side. This is the exact opposite to the schematic diagram for this UPS system, where the "A" system is on the right side of the diagram and the "B" system is on the left side."
So so so so beautiful.
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