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They specifically mention that:

    Removal of model field due to problems with data collection and quality

During my time in Antarctica we had a (Turbo Pascal, I think) program on the met computer that prompted for weather conditions and sent it off to the satellite terminal. The UI was not great, it was surprisingly easy to report sandstorms.

The wire will crush over time and the connection will become looser. That will increase the resistance of the connection and in high current applications will cause heating. If you're really unlucky it will cause a fire.

You can't browse the modern web with Presto. I used to work at Opera and we were sad to switch to Chromium/Blink but a company the size of Opera just didn't have the resources to keep up with Google.

For really low temperatures some of the traditional materials work really well. For example, at -30 °C you don't need a waterproof shell but you want something that's very windproof and breathable. So at the British Antarctic Survey in the late 90s we were still using cotton Ventile[0], it's tough and effective.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventile

Why whisper? Everyone knows Stirling castle is better.

QR codes were created for labelling automotive parts, not for URLs. Part numbers are usually uppercase alphanumeric, with a few punctuation characters.

> > EU 400V (380V) is 3 hots, neutral and ground.

> Three phase 230/400: 400V is line (hot) to line with 230V line to neutral. More for industrial use but I hear some homes can have this service for whatever reason.

It varies from country to country in Europe. In the UK you'll almost never find 3-phase in a home, in Sweden even apartments usually have 3-phase supply. In my Swedish apartment the only thing connected to more than one phase is the induction hob.

That's a Namibia problem, Nigeria is NG.

It's an interesting idea but why would I sign up and give you personal data without any idea of the site's features or UI?

Although a lot of it was filmed in Glasgow.

Isn't the term "rabbit ears" more of an American thing? Can't recall anyone using it in the UK.

Sounds like this is Antarctic _American_ English. The British jargon is quite different.

Took me a while after arriving at Kerguelen to work out who all the people with the weird-sounding job titles were.

IIRC "Disker" (the head of the district) sounds like a slang word for DJ, so his official residence is the "discothèque".

Sweden: https://1409.se/

UK (not a map, similar view to what the signallers see): https://traksy.uk/live/M+58+STIRLNG

Flats on floors in between usually have the floor number as the first part: "3FL" for third floor on the left or "2F3" for second floor, third flat. Or at least that's how it was when I lived in Edinburgh in the 90s.

As other pointed out, this is probably just down to terrible airline IT. I don't know if AF/KLM are worse than others but it's remarkable just how bad it is.

Recently they had a bug where once you selected a seat for one flight in a booking you were blocked from any later seat selection in that booking. The only way to fix it was to call customer service.

I'm lucky enough to have access to the platinum line. You get to talk to people who are pleasant, competent and have sufficient authority to actually get things done. This should be the experience for every call to customer service but I guess it would be too expensive.

There's ongoing work to update the regulations to remove a lot of the loopholes. For example, some airlines like to try to claim that pretty much any delay/cancellation is caused by "extraordinary circumstances", even though court decisions have limited when that excuse can be used.

The efforts to clearly define some of the vague parts of EU261 have been held up by intense lobbying from the airline industry.

One important addition that has been suggested would be to force airlines to publish the cause of disruptions, so that they can't lie about it later when passengers are trying to claim compensation.

That was usually in draft mode, since the left-to-right and right-to-left lines wouldn't quite line up perfectly.

Mini did some tricks so the "display" was much wider than the device display but text columns were wrapped at device display width. So you you could zoom out and see the whole page but the text was readable when you zoomed in.

"The Thing" was best viewed when alone on nightwatch just before walking across to the meteorological building in the dark at 03:00.

Halley 5 was demolished in 2012, everything down to the snow surface was removed. So that iceberg has about 23 years of the steel legs that held the buildings up, various subsurface service tunnels and 23 years of frozen sewage.

Yes, it would have been Belgrano II we flew over. The only other stations I got to visit were some of the other British ones (on the ship in and out) and some of the French subantarctic ones on a later trip.

Were you at Belgrano? I flew over there a few times on depot-laying flights from Halley. The first couple of times people even came out and waved.

Unfortunately that (and occasional radio darts with SANAE and Showa) was the closest I got to visiting another country's base in my two years.

I was at Halley 5, the remains of which are probably part of a new iceberg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34578468