On Mark Rober's new satellite video, they use torque rods before reaction wheels to stabilise the satellite's attitude.
Why did they need to wait?

On Mark Rober's new satellite video, they use torque rods before reaction wheels to stabilise the satellite's attitude.
Why did they need to wait?
@_calmdowndear I have tried both on one of them. But the internet recovery fails the same way as the not internet one, it just takes longer.
Problems:
1. It only gives me the option of installing the same version. I want latest. I don't want to install Monterey or Big Sur.
2. It fails with "The operation couldn't be completed. (com.apple.Buildinfo.preflight.error error 21.)"
I have two 2015 Intel Macbooks.
I want to install fresh MacOS on them.
The reinstall option in recovery mode fails on both.
I can't work out how to make a USB boot disk to just update them.
Apple is fucking painful.
How the fuck do you do this?
🆕 blog! “endless.downward.spiral - is this the beginning of the end of What3Words?”
Long-time readers know that I am not a fan of What Three Words. I think it is a closed, proprietary, and user-unfriendly attempt to enclose the commons. I consider that it has some dangerous failure modes.
A year ago, The Financial Times wrote about What3Words'…
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#maps #what3words
Long-time readers know that I am not a fan of What Three Words. I think it is a closed, proprietary, and user-unfriendly attempt to enclose the commons. I consider that it has some dangerous failure modes. A year ago, The Financial Times wrote about What3Words' business woes. But it looks like things are about to get a lot worse. As reported by a user on Reddit, Mercedes cars no longer support What3words. I was in touch with What3words customer support and they confirmed me that Mercedes…
Anyone know why Heathrow Airport
has been on easterly operations for the 6 of the last 7 days?
Virtually no wind. I don't recall this happening before.
(although if someone can see a history of direction of operation that would be interesting)
TIL Mercedes Benz deleted what3words functionality from all their cars.
This would be the same Mercedes Benz who ***invested*** in w3w.
And why did they disable the functionality? Didn’t wanna renew the licence.
Whichever way you read it it’s a shit show.