Well, charging different customer differing base rates doesn't sound fair to me, unless there's legitimately some significant infrastructure build-out cost the utility faces to support net power generation at the endpoints (no clue if that's so).
This is the flip-side to regulated utilities. When your profit is determined by the government, you always turn to the government to increase or maintain your profits, which in turn means you become quite expert at that game.
I don't object to a fair "base rate" that actually covers the maintenance overhead; seems fair to pay that even if you're a net seller to the utility. This may become another case where the "last mile" maintenance costs should be separated from the "content provider".
WTF is with all the political bashing on this site lately?
It's gotten frankly absurd. Look,/., intelligent people disagree on some key cultural issues. There may be interesting discussions to be had where that's on-topic, but merely repeating abuse or over-used talking points on every freaking story is really dragging the site down.
Restrain your missionary zeal; it's not helping your cause folks!
Immigration is a short term answer. Eventually, everywhere will face this problem. Having kids when you're 50 is not the answer.
We either need to just be OK with starting your career in the late 20s instead of 21, and not see that as any kind of failure (but that seems unlikely), or change what a career looks like in response to increasing automation and plenty of cheap basics. I favor the latter.
Professional work should be full time for the first 10 years or so, to master the profession, then part time after that, IMO. Two parents each working a 30 hour week will have time for family (as opposed to one parent working, which we tried and was silly). Why not switch to that in your early 30s? Modern employers don't have the concept, of course, but I think it would be a better world if they did (and employers would probably come out ahead paying the same total amount for more workers each with shorter work weeks).
It's one of the older and more interesting fundamental problems in philosophy. What if you have a rock band, and replace the members one by one, but then the original members re-unite to play their classic tunes, but then both bands go on tour together? What's the identity of each band? Interesting scenarios, yes?
I dunno, I'm pretty happy with my grandfather's axe. It must be over 100 years old, and has the head replaced 5 times and the handle replaced 7 times, but it's a fine old axe.
My Netflix DVD comes in the mail same as always, and IIRC Redbox charges the same as always. PPV before release to DVD is different, but that's a premium for stuff with successful theatrical release.
I'd like to see the return of "major medical", or catastrophic care insurance as the norm. For day-to-day health needs, just pay cash up front. Insurance is there for the unexpected, rare, insanely expensive events, not for the stuff we all need every year.
When it come to a fist fight, or feat of strength, there are few female actors that can be convincing. "Mother Russia" in Kick Ass 2? Totally convincing, but also the exception.
Now the whole "butt-kicking waif" thing works just fine if you make her a robot. That Terminator TV show, or the whole Ghost in the Shell franchise? I'm fine with that.
But I'm just not buying your typical Hollywood female lead in an action role featuring fisticuffs or throwing heavy stuff about. The thing about good fantasy stories is you explain the stuff that doesn't match reality. Not doing so is, in fact, just fucking lazy.
What does tech writing have to do with deconstructing the racism and sexism and transphobia inherent in any given literary classic? You don't imagine and English degree is about writing well, do you?
You can already get 3D printers that use metal instead of plastic.
Soft plastic is all you need to make stuff out of ceramic or any cast metal, by the same process as lost-wax casting. You need to print a somewhat different blank, as you need to print the channels to fill the mold (I forget what they're called), but my fellow/.ers tell me this is common enough.
However, cast metal is a really poor choice for a gun, as is any sort of additively printed metal. For safety you need quality steel of the right kind for barrel pressures. However, that's just the barrel and key bits of the receiver, and people routinely buy kits and mill them into working guns.
This happens regularly. Across America there are regular meetings of people at machine shops, to turn the gun kits they bought online into working guns. Perfectly legal in most places (incredibly illegal to sell the finished product). And these are zip guns, these are perfectly fine AR15s.
Except that's BS. There are probably a million "front end" webservers in use by cloud-scale products today, between Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. None of them are at 100% CPU. Web servers just don't run that kind of load. There's simply no system performance cost here. Bit of power and cooling maybe, but trivial in the scheme of things.
The people fixing it aren't the people who made the mistakes, is the thing. This is the clean up crew, and entirely the wrong people to mock. And if you've any doubt at all about whether these guys are ocking the people who did make the mistake, well, this is Theo de Raanter we're talking about here, yes, mocking happened sure as the Sun rose.
I disagree: the Model S was the right car to do first. All electric cars before it were simply crap. Worthless, horrible rides that only a hippie would drive. Yech. The Tesla is fine for many uses, and the main thing is: it's overpriced in a market where it's normal to be overpriced; it's overweight in a market where it's fine to be overweight (the S class was 3 tons not that long ago). It's a nice car, nicer than a Camry, where instead of the refinement of a luxury car for the price difference, you get the novelty of an electric car. And at that price range, you probably also have a gas car (or if not, you can rent one as needed).
Electric car tech simply isn't ready yet for low-margin vehicles. High margin cars, where intangible value is a big part of price, they work fine. It makes perfect sense to me to start there, and gradually come downmarket as they get the hang of it.
Also, most US families have 2+ cars, so one short range car isn't a problem I don't, so I'm skipping the Model S for now, but I'd love a similar car with a 50 HP gas generator under the hood. It doesn't need to provide enough power to run on, just enough to recharge given a few hours in the parking lot. None of this fancy, sure-to-break, parallel hybrid nonsense, but the great "fixie" Tesla drivetrain with a purely separate generator so I can recharge using gasoline as needed.
Any language except C has classes that prevent buffer overruns. Heck, I did assembly programming for 5 years, and the natural way to move data around avoided buffer overruns (mainframe assembly). The tools are right there, people just don't pick them up.
It's not about the language, and it's certainly not about "don't screw up", it's about a coding style that's not amenable to the mistake, and that's practical is most any language except C, really.
(Really, C and Managed aren't the only choices out there.)
This is the problem at the heart of climate science. The key details for models are not published, and (despite being largely paid for by our money), not even available apparently under FOIA to "avoid competitive harm".
That sounds very much like commercial software development and very little like reproducible science, or even open source! WTF, guys? You wonder why so much of the public has a hard time taking climate science seriously? This shit is why.
Good science defeats skeptics through openness. "Look, here's the experiment, do it yourself if you don't trust me." Heck, even experiments on vastly expensive particle accelerators eventually become reproducible through cleverness or technological advance at other universities.
Openness, and beyond openness: the willingness to explain clearly, in detail, and in layman's terms led to the talk.origins FAQ, which takes seriously and answers seriously every common popular question and dispute about evolution, and likely led to the shift from old-school creationism to ID (which at least is progress). This is severely lacking in climate science.
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Well, charging different customer differing base rates doesn't sound fair to me, unless there's legitimately some significant infrastructure build-out cost the utility faces to support net power generation at the endpoints (no clue if that's so).
This is the flip-side to regulated utilities. When your profit is determined by the government, you always turn to the government to increase or maintain your profits, which in turn means you become quite expert at that game.
I don't object to a fair "base rate" that actually covers the maintenance overhead; seems fair to pay that even if you're a net seller to the utility. This may become another case where the "last mile" maintenance costs should be separated from the "content provider".
WTF is with all the political bashing on this site lately?
It's gotten frankly absurd. Look, /., intelligent people disagree on some key cultural issues. There may be interesting discussions to be had where that's on-topic, but merely repeating abuse or over-used talking points on every freaking story is really dragging the site down.
Restrain your missionary zeal; it's not helping your cause folks!
Immigration is a short term answer. Eventually, everywhere will face this problem. Having kids when you're 50 is not the answer.
We either need to just be OK with starting your career in the late 20s instead of 21, and not see that as any kind of failure (but that seems unlikely), or change what a career looks like in response to increasing automation and plenty of cheap basics. I favor the latter.
Professional work should be full time for the first 10 years or so, to master the profession, then part time after that, IMO. Two parents each working a 30 hour week will have time for family (as opposed to one parent working, which we tried and was silly). Why not switch to that in your early 30s? Modern employers don't have the concept, of course, but I think it would be a better world if they did (and employers would probably come out ahead paying the same total amount for more workers each with shorter work weeks).
It's one of the older and more interesting fundamental problems in philosophy. What if you have a rock band, and replace the members one by one, but then the original members re-unite to play their classic tunes, but then both bands go on tour together? What's the identity of each band? Interesting scenarios, yes?
I dunno, I'm pretty happy with my grandfather's axe. It must be over 100 years old, and has the head replaced 5 times and the handle replaced 7 times, but it's a fine old axe.
My Netflix DVD comes in the mail same as always, and IIRC Redbox charges the same as always. PPV before release to DVD is different, but that's a premium for stuff with successful theatrical release.
I'd like to see the return of "major medical", or catastrophic care insurance as the norm. For day-to-day health needs, just pay cash up front. Insurance is there for the unexpected, rare, insanely expensive events, not for the stuff we all need every year.
My cost per rental on Netflix is far, far below $5. $5 is a fair price to own a direct-to-video movie, but is vastly overpriced for a rental.
When it come to a fist fight, or feat of strength, there are few female actors that can be convincing. "Mother Russia" in Kick Ass 2? Totally convincing, but also the exception.
Now the whole "butt-kicking waif" thing works just fine if you make her a robot. That Terminator TV show, or the whole Ghost in the Shell franchise? I'm fine with that.
But I'm just not buying your typical Hollywood female lead in an action role featuring fisticuffs or throwing heavy stuff about. The thing about good fantasy stories is you explain the stuff that doesn't match reality. Not doing so is, in fact, just fucking lazy.
What does tech writing have to do with deconstructing the racism and sexism and transphobia inherent in any given literary classic? You don't imagine and English degree is about writing well, do you?
Coward is a bit off-putting.
No one gets to "have it all". You have to prioritize in life - what will your priorities be?
We're living in a NIMH mouse utopia, I fear, and extinction due to losing the social ability to breed is coming for us.
Well, I sure wouldn't sell a firearm with no serial number unless I was behind seven lawyers.
Dammit, why must you oppose my project to feed members of oppressed communities to endangered species? Surely we must have some common ground.
Got it in one. He was the union negotiator in an ongoing dispute. Now he's not.
You can already get 3D printers that use metal instead of plastic.
Soft plastic is all you need to make stuff out of ceramic or any cast metal, by the same process as lost-wax casting. You need to print a somewhat different blank, as you need to print the channels to fill the mold (I forget what they're called), but my fellow /.ers tell me this is common enough.
However, cast metal is a really poor choice for a gun, as is any sort of additively printed metal. For safety you need quality steel of the right kind for barrel pressures. However, that's just the barrel and key bits of the receiver, and people routinely buy kits and mill them into working guns.
This happens regularly. Across America there are regular meetings of people at machine shops, to turn the gun kits they bought online into working guns. Perfectly legal in most places (incredibly illegal to sell the finished product). And these are zip guns, these are perfectly fine AR15s.
Except that's BS. There are probably a million "front end" webservers in use by cloud-scale products today, between Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. None of them are at 100% CPU. Web servers just don't run that kind of load. There's simply no system performance cost here. Bit of power and cooling maybe, but trivial in the scheme of things.
The people fixing it aren't the people who made the mistakes, is the thing. This is the clean up crew, and entirely the wrong people to mock. And if you've any doubt at all about whether these guys are ocking the people who did make the mistake, well, this is Theo de Raanter we're talking about here, yes, mocking happened sure as the Sun rose.
I disagree: the Model S was the right car to do first. All electric cars before it were simply crap. Worthless, horrible rides that only a hippie would drive. Yech. The Tesla is fine for many uses, and the main thing is: it's overpriced in a market where it's normal to be overpriced; it's overweight in a market where it's fine to be overweight (the S class was 3 tons not that long ago). It's a nice car, nicer than a Camry, where instead of the refinement of a luxury car for the price difference, you get the novelty of an electric car. And at that price range, you probably also have a gas car (or if not, you can rent one as needed).
Electric car tech simply isn't ready yet for low-margin vehicles. High margin cars, where intangible value is a big part of price, they work fine. It makes perfect sense to me to start there, and gradually come downmarket as they get the hang of it.
Also, most US families have 2+ cars, so one short range car isn't a problem I don't, so I'm skipping the Model S for now, but I'd love a similar car with a 50 HP gas generator under the hood. It doesn't need to provide enough power to run on, just enough to recharge given a few hours in the parking lot. None of this fancy, sure-to-break, parallel hybrid nonsense, but the great "fixie" Tesla drivetrain with a purely separate generator so I can recharge using gasoline as needed.
Any language except C has classes that prevent buffer overruns. Heck, I did assembly programming for 5 years, and the natural way to move data around avoided buffer overruns (mainframe assembly). The tools are right there, people just don't pick them up.
It's not about the language, and it's certainly not about "don't screw up", it's about a coding style that's not amenable to the mistake, and that's practical is most any language except C, really.
(Really, C and Managed aren't the only choices out there.)
By providing one, I would refute myself. :p
This is the problem at the heart of climate science. The key details for models are not published, and (despite being largely paid for by our money), not even available apparently under FOIA to "avoid competitive harm".
That sounds very much like commercial software development and very little like reproducible science, or even open source! WTF, guys? You wonder why so much of the public has a hard time taking climate science seriously? This shit is why.
Good science defeats skeptics through openness. "Look, here's the experiment, do it yourself if you don't trust me." Heck, even experiments on vastly expensive particle accelerators eventually become reproducible through cleverness or technological advance at other universities.
Openness, and beyond openness: the willingness to explain clearly, in detail, and in layman's terms led to the talk.origins FAQ, which takes seriously and answers seriously every common popular question and dispute about evolution, and likely led to the shift from old-school creationism to ID (which at least is progress). This is severely lacking in climate science.
The Mustang is a heck of a car these days, if you can get past the horrid cheap interior. I'd imagine it will do well.