One of the truisms I learned early in my career is that every line of code you write is a liability as much as it is an asset. Every line of code you (or your team) writes is a line of code that must be maintained, a line of code that potentially exposes a security...
Several of the weather reporting systems we have running broke down at 5:15 PM yesterday. While setting up fans in the windows after a long hot day, I suspect I bumped the GW1100 gateway device and cause it to malfunction. The gateway gets signals from all the local sensors, and makes that data available on …
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In microgravity, walking doesn't exist. Balance doesn't exist. What does exist is the need to grip surfaces, manipulate tools, move through narrow corridors, and not go flying every time you push against something. Two legs solve none of those problems.
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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Robots, Space exploration, Maintenance, assistant robot, Humanoid
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is maximising frigate availability through developing its approach to maintenance and operations, the service has told Naval News. The details expand upon remarks by Admiral Nicolas Vaujour, the French Navy’s Chief of Staff, that the navy has built up the availability of its ‘first rank’ destroyer and frigate force to ...
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How it feels to live in a home that gets better with time, and what it takes to make one. Why the dwelling is the test case for better living with circularity.
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Pinning down what caused recurrent yacht engine trouble that affected multiple cruises took patience and perseverance for Justin Morton
A year or so ago I was helping a friend, Monty Halls, bring his boat Sobek, around from Plymouth to …Continue reading »
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The U.S. Navy rehearsed wartime repairs and maintenance on an amphibious assault ship at a port located within the central interior of the Philippines last month in an exercise designed to validate the service’s expeditionary sustainment capabilities in the Western Pacific. USS Ashland (LSD-48), a Whidbey Island-class landing ship dock, conducted the simulated wartime repairs ...
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Closing out a season that asked why circularity stalled — and discovered that the environmental case, while critical, is not enough to close the deal. The benefits hiding behind it are the ones that will.