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    Also internationally, Carlton "know it all" Kirby would not shut up about him, and what a mistake he made moving away from MTN in the first place. Robbie the Jobibie was his agent then right? it was certainly an opportunistic move. It was Cartlon's often co-commentator and then MTN GM Brain Smith who sign Cav and his train, EBH, Stephen C LM's move away from MTN Quebeka never bore fruit - he just never featured again, for what ever reason. The move back to DD and trying to pick up where he left off must have been very difficult, but these guys are paid professionals. I hope he can do something this year - they certainly need it. Contrast this to Team Sky, how they spotted and signed up so much new talent who are really quite exciting. Forward looking,
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    Hoody from Velonews writes that Mat is doing the full monty UCI XCO this year with a view to conquering the Olympic event, road race there is too bumpy https://www.velonews.com/2019/04/news/the-cycling-world-is-his-playground-whats-next-for-van-der-poel_492941
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    Cav did manage a 3rd in one of the stages at Tour de Turkey
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    If he keeps on with his 'cross career he will only do the spring classics, that's what Patrick says in that Cycling News interview link I posted earlier,
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    Lefevere highly impressed by Amstel Gold winner Van der Poel
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    That would be a first ...never say never? But he will have to work out how to beat Nino although in 18 months a lot can change in terms of who are the top dawgs. I think he was/is contractually bound to his Pro Conti Circus team because he still plans to dominate cross and not dedicate himself to road just yet, and surely now the money will come from endorsements etc due to the high profile achieved lately.
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    Although it would be great if he did Olympics MTB because I plan to attend that event.
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    Yes that is what he was saying last year mainly because there is no CX Olympic race. I doubt he can do both road and mtb at that level, as was shown by the Peter Sagan saga in Rio so I think he might rethink his plans since road doesn't need the honed in technical skiils of mtb and he really would have to dedicate himself to that but lets see. Also he has now made a name for himself on the world tour road scene.. is there any turning back now? Besides he likes his fast cars ... and lot more $$$$ in road.
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    I'm wondering if he is going to be bothered with UCI XCO this coming season now he has tasted victory on the road, and quite clearly a possibility on the Dutch Olympic Road team. Although last year, try as he may, he could not beat Nino,
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    No one saw the Mat train coming back to the leaders - even Sean Kelly on Eurosport said nah too late.
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    Watching Mat dominate this past CX season with early solo attacks .. boring. Watching Mat win like he did today .... priceless. Guess he night be thinking Olympic Road Race now?
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    Yes, got a few ESP32's and stock the ESP8266 NodeMcu, which is great value for money but generally I need loads of IO pins that why I used the Mega a lot. Due is another option in that form factor but 3.3V
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    I use DS18B20's all over the place for temp monitoring of modules and components monitored by alarm / alert system, like if there is overheating in your electrical distribution box or the fan has failed in your inverter you should be told. I have them in three form factors, the chip, on a small PCB with headers and inside a stainless steel rod. Data sheet claims 0.5C accuracy from –10°C to +85°C About that memory management, its battle on the Arduino's when your code grows and you have to start squeezing it and doing tricks to reference from EEPROM - total drag but generally can make it happen but you don't have the luxury of lots of memory for dynamic memory dependent classes like with that String, I've had loads of hassles and badly behaving code until I dumped it, But working with char arrays takes great care as well. Python gets rid of all that hassle and C/C++ pointers and nonsense but haven't gone that direction myself as yet, The code, compile and burn world works for me right now. There is also the fact that for most add-on's you will only find C++ Libaries
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    One unsolicited tip here in this regard is don't use that String object in your code - its a hungry for dynamic memory and cause many problems (and much agony) in the very limited memory space of the Arduino (Uno and Nano especially) You had to use the char arrays and format / process character by character. I've also done Arduino based controllers for pools and irrigation / pump controls / water tank management.
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    You would need to round to and displaying integers there on that environmental sensor given the accuracy which is often only around 5%. Handling chars and formatting them for display can be challenging in C/C++ but its one of those hurdles. I've given up on the DHT11/22 env sensors, wildly disparate and non-linear readings even after calibration. The Bosch BME/BMP sensors much more reliable although one can get more accurate temp / pressure / humidity if you are prepared to throw more money at the issue, there are other options say for a weather station. I have not had Arduino hardware reliability issues, I have several clones running control systems 24/7. Reliability issues tend to be code issues and one of the great skills to acquire in this field is problem identification and resolution aka fault finding aka debugging.
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    Just saying ... I advertise elsewhere. But let me know if any of you are looking for anything or have questions about the Arduino range although I am more into the legacy stuph not so much the latest MKR range or the Python thing.
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    We came back via Maputo, and the aircraft was packed on both legs. I had just been to a week long music festival (camping) and things were getting smelly... and I was center seat in the center row. GRIM is an understatement.
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    I did the daytime from Europe once on Air Portugal, all the pax wanted the window shutters closed and I had to fight to keep mine open. I have always enjoyed the last part of the flight over Europe in the morning, esp. if the Alps are involved, then all the landscapes in summer, used to prefer Air France when I used to travel to Europe on a regular basis. Singapore have started a daytime flight now, but bar Madagascar,, Reunion and Mauritius there is not much to see, and unless you are stopping over in Singapore there is not much point for me to use that, perhaps less pax though which is always a plus as far as I am concerned. You do get a bit of Madagascar in daylight on the outbound flight which leaves ORT at13h30 I think KLM still do a daytime flight here, I have seen it coming in on FR
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    I use Arduinos a lot in my energy controllers I build and install for clients - a lot of automation: sensors and timers, I/O boards etc, been at it for a few years now, and come a long way. I am heavily into the electronic interfacing and coding side of things, its actually my core profession if I can call it that, so yeah its a great world all this open source stuff and the all the on line resources. I also have a boutique online shop going to share the love of all the goodies i bring in, with a emphasis on useful sensors and controllers.
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    I'm just back from a trip to the East via Singapore Airlines: A350, and 777 connecting to the Philippines. Did a bit of plane spotting, seems to be loads of 777's around doing the long hauls. Manged to get an earlier connecting flight yesterday, which meant we chased the sun set for three hours. I spotted an aircraft traversing out track a few FL's below us on this leg but no vapor trail, still have to check my Action Cam footage for what I got. Also it was full moon last night and once the lights were out in the cabin it was magical outside, unfortunately too light too low to capture. AND flying on Good Friday was a great idea - fewer pax all around.
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    Some other dual fuselage aeros North American F-82 Twin Mustang White Night 2 Saab 21 Lockheed P38 He 111Z http://www.nestofdragons.net/media/22801/he1113v_498x375.jpg
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    Its Micro$ofts Paul Allen's baby in terms of the overall design apparently (the dual cockpits) - I agree its a bit daft and doesn't do it for me in terms of style nor functionality. They could have still had two pylons but grafted a B2 lifting body style cockpit in the middle of the wing
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    I think that is the least of their problems - getting that behemoth to land level seems quite tricky
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    https://youtu.be/cX7uDpKWKrA?t=236 Landing this thing seems a bit tricky - note the yawing oscillations after touchdown
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    It seems that Stratalaunch is only going to fling the Pegasus into orbit for now, although a Lockheed Tristar seemed to have been doing that job adequately and a B-52 before that. Its been a very ambitious project and at least its flown but the space launch market is changing with quite a few start-ups maturing now
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