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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: at present it appears that the South Polar ice cap is gaining ice.
Well, clearly it is stealing it from the North Pole.
Santa will have to put Antarctica on the Naughty List for next year.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And I think you failed at humour. 
CDP1802 wrote: The bigger question still is where the Poles got all that ice from and what they need it for.
Who are the Poles?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: And I think you failed at humour.
 Did you learn that at school?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Sometimes you have to.
The Poles he's referring to comes from a neighboring country
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*Sigh*
I have failed indeed if I must explain.
The Poles (Polish: Polacy, pronounced [pɔˈlat͡sɨ]; singular masculine: Polak, singular feminine: Polka) are a nation and West Slavic ethnic group native to Poland. [^]
And the batteries performed well. I did not notice any sluggishness. I kept them in the car so that they did not get cold and during the flight they warm up from the inside. The motor can draw a current of up to 40 Ampere. Not many batteries can handle that without first getting really hot and then blowing up.
The real problem were my fingers. By the last flight I had almost no feeling left. I think I landed the heli by pure will alone.
There was only one little casualty: The cheap camera gave up. Perhaps I killed it when I pressed that tiny button with numb fingers, or it simply was too cold, or maybe it got wet when I dipped the landing skids into the snow. I'm going to take a look how much it recorded, if anything at all and maybe I can revive it.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: I have failed indeed if I must explain.
Does this mean that we are Poles apart?
(running, ducking and hiding)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I got that, my question was rhetorical.
CDP1802 wrote: The motor can draw a current of up to 40 Ampere
 How big are those batteries actually? I feel battery tech has indeed gone forward. Is that NiMH or Lithium?
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I use those.[^]
They are not cheap, but I have been using mine for two years now and they still show excellent balance (all cells within 0.01 V difference) and still no noticable loss of capacity. I must have reached the 100 charge cycles which are usually assumed to be the life span of a lithium polymere battery, but they seem to be as fit as ever.
At the beginning of my old video[^] you can see both the heli and the batteries when I make it ready for the flight.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I know that happens. The people are far more interesting. They are not really used to the temperatures, don't have proper clothing and don't know at all what to do when they have to get into the car and drive.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I believe we need some statistics on how cold it can be and still fly.
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The colder it gets, the more dense the air gets so should become easier to create lift (more than the extra friction with a good wing design.)
Eventually the gasses in the air would liquefy, at which point would be advantageous to move to a submarine.
And beyond that solidify, a tunnel borer would then be a logical choice.
Sin tax er
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The problems may not come from the air density. Instead, the lithium polymere batteries may catch a cold. I will keep them in the car until I need them and after that they will warm up as they are discharged. It still could be that the helicopter is a little slower than usual today.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I was more thinking about batteries getting useless in the cold, or what kind of motor are you using?
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CDP1802 wrote: but nothing is rendered.
Well, lacking blue sky, everything looks gray. 
Marc
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CDP1802 wrote: temperature barely above zero and there still is snow
I'm not saying you should be debugging on a Sunday afternoon, but you should certainly not go out in the snow and cold. Especially since you'll be holding a remote controller preventing you from making your hands into fists and keeping them in your pockets where they have a chance of not freezing off.
Easiest choice ever.
Let me know when you need some more life advice
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Sander Rossel wrote: Especially since you'll be holding a remote controller preventing you from making your hands into fists and keeping them in your pockets where they have a chance of not freezing off.
That was indeed a problem. By the last flight my fingers were frozen and I had to land it with my telekinetic powers. If you only had not posted it after I already headed out there...
Sander Rossel wrote: Let me know when you need some more life advice
Yes, there is indeed something you can help me with. The highway was full with cars with yellow license plates and 'NL' in a blue field. I think they come all the way from Mordor every year when they hear that there is snow. How can I get them out of the way when the 30 mm is empty again, like it was today?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: The highway was full with cars with yellow license plates and 'NL' in a blue field. I think they come all the way from Mordor every year when they hear that there is snow. How can I get them out of the way when the 30 mm is empty again, like it was today?
Next time, just bring your tank. It won't even notice the other cars.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Until some scrap gets into the tracks, or I get the bill for repairing the road from the highway dept. And a battle tank with 65 tons is not exactly a racing car. If it must be something that gulps down a bathtub full of fuel just to start the engine, I would prefer a real helicopter.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I'll let you know how to get rid of the Dutch in winter once we figure out how to keep the Germans away from our beaches in summer 
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Get out. The code will be there when you get back.
And you never know: being away from the code may give you a light bulb moment.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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CDP1802 wrote: here are no exceptions or any other signs of trouble, but nothing is rendered
Sounds like an automatic conversion issue somewhere (unsigned int to int, or something). Good luck!
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Thanks, it must be something like that. The shader was written with HLSL (High Level Shading Language) Ver. 2, the new compiler wants at least Ver. 4. It's a more complex shader that does not only does the usual transformations and texture mapping. It also does the entire animation for the particles in the particle system.
Tomorrow ater work I'm going to take it apart and then I will try to find out which part goes wrong. As it looks now, the particles are rendered, but appear nowhere in sight. The whole thing is going to be some work. The next step will be to get the UI working again.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: As it looks now, the particles are rendered, but appear nowhere in sight.
:tongue-in-cheek: Maybe if you put your monitor behind you! 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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But then I would not see the rest of the scene anymore.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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