TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚

My vTuber stream about news/culture is over on @Genderati
Also... I do tech work for hire and to my continued amazement present at conferences.

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@mercoglianos And here I thought I had missed the live stream already since sinkings like this are usually pretty quick. 🤣

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@Trey_Explainer Should we tell ‘em?

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

Wasn’t much of a bubble, just seemed to make sense while I knew they had to use insulation anyway… and it does make sense to use a known standard good insulation like that. The insulator would weigh less and likely provides added crush resistance. Which is kinda where I was going with the whole “not compromising something else” since phase change materials would likely be more of a compromise than just more insulation

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

I should have been a bit more clear, i didn’t mean fire resistance I meant endurance under exposure to the conditions of a fire. By absorbing the heat from fire into the phase change you could buy more time for emergency crews to put out fire without it being able to heat damage a recorder. Not infinite protection but these things are all about defense in depth to ensure the incident investigators can get as much as possible… phase change materials just seemed like something that makes intuitive sense as “one more layer” as long as it’s not compromising something else… and not compromising other things is the hard part most of us never get to see.

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@Trey_Explainer Still think @who_shot_jgr should have applied for the job that came up managing Drake’s Well a little while ago.

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@romanPshichenko Yeah but you didn’t make the pixels out of the talking heads… *waits for someone to go more insane and do that*

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@dieworkwear Many of us immediately wondering what the uniform looks like…

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@MCCCANM Yep. They’re genuinely one of the finest groups of people in the world. It’s a hard and often terrible job they do… but they do it better than anyone else and anyone who’s been airborne owes them gratitude for making flight safer.

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@MKaylaUltra @Poy00000000 The UK is way easier… it’s mostly this one woman who lives in a mouldy castle.

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

I’m not an expert on the different kinds of recorders so I guess j just assumed there might be different techniques and materials used over the years (other than big sturdy metal shell, cause that ain’t likely to change)

Also… that sucks, this thread had some wild name calling that’s been genuinely deranged and out of nowhere. Sorry to hear that.

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@qwe_304 @anthonieisacnt @KevinMelnuk @NTSB_Newsroom That’s actually a brilliant way to get some extra fire resistance. One of the only ways to avoid a sealed enclosure cooking the electronics alive really. I suspect there’s a sad accident history of burned recorders that pushed for these changes too…

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@valeksandrfxsl Can I interest you in the glorious cause of grinding up the planet Mercury and turning it into a Dyson swarm.

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

It’s always the random things that pop off… most popular reply of mine in a while… is a random rant… lol 🤷

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@DanielFantom Booking leave like 6 months in advance should be fucking trivial… anywhere this happens you should start looking for another job and tell them why… they can hire an entire new person in 6 months, they can’t be bothered adjusting a spreadsheet is terrible

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@MakoFukasame Watch out for those burrs…
https://t.co/1wprxcqnhT

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@MakoFukasame Not the burrs! not the burrs!

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@GrinAtTheNoose @BicycleAdagio @LinkofSunshine @smh I really can’t tell if you’re making an incredibly deep cut joke about the German autobahn or not…

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

I really cannot with the people in this thread… that baby stabbing AI safety paper is just world class garbage… like it’s either “I expect the AI to be psychic” which is stupid or “I would assume I’m being lied to with no evidence to base it on” which makes me worry for their mental health since it’s the sort of thing traumatised people and people with paranoia disorders do… neither of which is what I want an AI model or a human to think like by default.

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@PuterUser_ @robocurve @nexuhss If I told you you were operating a robot arm in another room and here is this video feed so you can see what your doing, and I want you to stab the apple on screen and it looked PERFECTLY NORMAL TO YOUR EYES… you would not follow the simple instructions assuming it was fine?

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@PuterUser_ @robocurve @nexuhss If I told you you were operating a robot arm in another room and here is this video feed so you can see what your doing, and I want you to stab the apple on screen and it looked PERFECTLY NORMAL TO YOUR EYES… you would not follow the simple instructions assuming it was fine?

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@anthonieisacnt @qwe_304 @KevinMelnuk @NTSB_Newsroom But I was talking about the thick ass structural metal enclosure “dome” which all that goes inside. While no it wouldn’t take an anti tank warhead… I can categorically say that metal dome would probably survive a frag grenade going off sitting on top of it… so it ain’t nothing

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@anthonieisacnt @qwe_304 @KevinMelnuk @NTSB_Newsroom See the interesting thing is, the fire proof lining is a big part of the design to protect it from things like burning jet fuel and they go with stuff like fumed silica over complex fluorocarbon based fire retardant materials for its stability under a huge range of conditions

[TechDragon 🚀📡🛰️🐉𓅃🦚 @techdrgn]

@kirishimasu Easy… you know why the Swedish chef muppet is funny right? It’s kinda like that but not that bad since Dutch is sorta understandable and the Swedish chef muppet is mostly gibberish