Keep fighting the zipper merge, folks. I’ll keep cruising along in the right lane and merging 50 cars ahead every time.

Color, yes, but location is pretty well understood.

You were obviously on an older ship. Modern freight vessels aren’t designed this way anymore. This is why you can manage to sail a triple-e class vessel with a crew of 13. And the trend is moving further in that direction. It’s easier, and cheaper, to increase reliability in design than it is to pay personnel to be on…

Ohh with secondary or even tertiary sensor input to support dead reckoning corrections to the IMU, then you can have a decently robust system (at least in the open ocean with minimal navigation hazards). Here navigation accuracy of 100 meters is perfectly fine (dead reckoning is highly susceptible to cumulative error…

“Automation won’t be able to reliably or cheaply do that soon, will it.”

My company does designs for ships, subs, and autonomous systems (surface, subsurface, and air vehicles). Believe me, the IMU drift issue will be around for a very long time. It’s one of our biggest challenges in the undersea environment.

Auto-reset circuit breakers are pretty common-place.

“I have been on a commercial vessel that lost it’s steering once. Oilfield work boat about 10 years ago. The crew fixed it without calling anyone in.”

You laugh, but the possibility exists. Navy ships are complex systems and inevitably some software or hardware will come from a foreign company. And what the item inevitably requires troubleshooting, someone will have to call them (although it’ll likely be someone ashore not a sailor). Generally speaking though, you…

IMUs are terrible ideas at sea. IMUs are great for short distances or short periods of time. The example your linked to for example can drift up to 10 degrees per hour. That’s terrible. Their are better IMUs in the industry, but they all have the same issue.

“Who fixes it if it breaks down in the middle of the ocean? Thing with having a Ships Engineer and their crew is that they can detect problems before they become major and do repairs while underway to reduce downtime.”

“So they either sit on their hands all that time or work to improve the game.”

“Amateur Soccer Referee” has to rank pretty high in the list of dangerous occupations that don’t fundamentally involve danger.

No, the consumer would just have to wait longer to receive it. You’d still receive the post-day one patch equivalent of software. It would just take longer to ensure the software was bug free. The day-one patch is just a way for the developer to continue development concurrently during the long lead time phases of…

Rode many a Fung Wah bus years ago...

“Efinova’s mistake is not being American I guess.”

“and USA’s Lily King goes on TV and calls a Russian swimmer a cheat.”

Have biometrics been brought in on 2FA yet? Maybe not fingerprints due to their susceptibility to spoofing, but something like Windows Hello might be interesting. As far as I know Windows Hello has yet to be spoofed.

The actual cut up Sale throwback jersey isn’t even worth that much. Probably...

Live in VA. Knew a hard ass that wanted his licence plate to show both his support for the 2nd amendment and fondness for the Gadsden flag. So he applied for a “Don’t Tread on Me” vanity plate with his favorite firearm manufacturer. Glock.