Agreed, but it scares me that obly 44% of Apples tech employees have this feeling.. If ANY company should have many, then it ought to be them
Summary says of 44% all employees at Apple feel like imposters and we know that over half of the total are marketers or lawyers. Suddenly the headphone jack removal/Apple Watch/cordless mouse with charging plug on bottom/etc. all starts to makes sense.
Seeing as it took Intel so long to go from i3 to i5 to i7 processors to only now releasing i9s they have a long way to go to get back to the glory version number days of i386.
In all seriousness though, I've kind of given up on making sense of the processor/GPU models and just paste it in Google to see the specs and compare that with another one I am already familiar with.
Others have already pointed out the impractical nature of this investment, but the idea could see niche applications. For example in remote warehouse type arrangements for autonomous vehicles moving around a shared space or travelling show go-karts that never need to stop.
Makes a lot of sense from a PhD in physics holder like yourself -- I mean, why go into all the nitty-gritty details on things most people will never understand just because a concept may be tough to understand properly?
As a fellow student of physics and knowing that Wikipedia is open to all I will be suggesting this more broadly comprehensible revision:
Electroweak interaction: Once upon a time there were separate ideas for how small particles would interact with each other if they were charged up differently or becoming unstable because they had too many parts to them spinning around a centre bit.
The "elecroweak interaction" is the combination of these things into one combined thing. A particle may be charged ("electro") or weakly able to hold on to all its parts ("weak"). If you put the 2 together you get "electroweak".
The parent comment seems particularly insightful and reminds me of former USA president Barack Obama's detailed description for the cameras of the operation to take out terrorist Osama Bin Laden. The idea if I get it right was to project that this country was so far ahead of others it could say openly what its intelligence services were doing. I wonder if this might ironically make it weak long term if this keeps happening and other countries don't do this.
In the article the GP linked to it says that the exposure to the general public from coal flyash is 10 times more radioactive than from a similar generating capacity nuclear power plant, but also is much less than the background radiation you would get anyway by being alive on earth.
Too bad that's not how radiation works. It's not the coal ash radiation or the background radiation. It's the coal ash radiation and the background radiation. Further, that complete bullshit is based on averages, but radioactive material comes in discrete particles, it doesn't arrive in the real world as an average.
I'm only distilling what was in the linked to article from Scientific American.
The idea is that by burning the coal you are left with a concentrated fly ash that contains a higher density of radioactive material that was present already (i.e. by burning the not as radioactive part). This is then released into the environment and adds less than a millionth or something like this to the background radiation (note this is not uniform over earth) -- which would probably be the equivalent of moving towards the equator by a very small countries worth in Europe like Luxembourg. But what do I know, I only have an honors in computational physics.
If flyash is that radioactive, why isn't it mined for nuclear fuel?
Because it mainly contains materials unsuited to fission power (such as radon or undesirable isotopes of uranium/thorium) and in low quantities. In the article the GP linked to it says that the exposure to the general public from coal flyash is 10 times more radioactive than from a similar generating capacity nuclear power plant, but also is much less than the background radiation you would get anyway by being alive on earth.
Yeah... you may want to start scrolling down the Google images of Banshee and look up CMF (see definition 2 and my humble apologies in advance) before you recommend this to your boss as a safe substitute for Drupal.
I know some people might argue that this is an unfair generalization from one developer to the whole project; that Drupal insn't entirely about screwing you in gratuitous and unpleasant ways you can't escape from. Oh, who's kidding -- this was their plan all along.
This reminds of when I once bought an external USB card reader with "automatic cable management", which is what I was after. In the box on the side was the cheapest and nastiest plastic spool I've even seen.
Ignoring the feasibility of this, if this were to happen mental clarity and focus training will be in high demand.
This is one possible outcome. However, surely it is more likely to be that once you connect with your respected fellow humans in the new Internet of thoughts images of breasts and cocks come popping into your head.
As others have pointed out your "megawatt" should be a kilowatt, but also you have not factored in full costs such as any battery storage or electrical starter unit, etc. over the 20 year period
Solar power is nice to see improved, but ain't going to make all the cool things from science fiction a reality (like wireless power and the like). It has long been a matter of personal opinion of where we should go as humans with consumption of resources such as power, either towards a more "sustainable" society which uses less and is "able to live within its means" or using more power and hoping that new technologies make life better for future generations. I would personally like to see much greater power generation and take some solace in that both approaches will likely be tried at the same time if history is anything to go on.
Why do you want to do this and what are you trying to accomplish?
The summary says he doesn't need a screen or keyboard, so it's pretty safe to assume he'll be okay with some sort of beeping device on a one-button input -- and I found exactly what he is looking for.
I'm in the 28-34 age bracket and figure the most deserving of the term 'millenial' is anyone who remembers the Willenium. I mean after X, Y, and Z they ran out of ideas so it seems fair to me to just make this shit up as well.
...houses are much larger and nicer than they were in 1970. Living space per person has almost doubled, the average house is 1,000 sq. ft. larger and has amenities like walk-in closets and expensive counter-tops you wouldn't find on an average house in the 70s.
Whilst I can find articles to see where you got this idea from, this doesn't quite pass the smell test. This is true only for new homes (i.e. the well off to construct new dwellings) and if you include established homes and the number of children per adult this picture changes.
Here is a page showing the trend of less people per household in the US over time. It may seem like there has been an improvement in living space per person (again check for all residences and not new ones in your stats), but to me it just means that adults are sharing space in the cities that don't really want to and can't bring up kids like they could in the past for financial reasons.
You can always embrace another aspect of automation and get your groceries, etc. delivered. I find this pretty convenient and you can combine this with going to a fresh food market or specialized shop to get the best of the shopping experience without self-checkouts.
Fortran was still needed for physics in 1990. In fact, it is still needed in many subfields of physics in 2017.
You are right that it is used still. Happily/sadly (depending on your perspective) there's a "new" version of Fortran coming out soon called Fortran 2015 (coming out mid-2018 because it takes this long to write the first program since its release).
I never understood why c++ is not used for serious physics calculations given how much easier it is to write stuff, but there are people who are very sure that Fortran is superior to anything else. I just wish that Fortran would have a good way to print out results so you can see what is being calculated properly!
it would be a fitting end for such an important person to science.
If you mention his name, plenty of people will say "that's the smart guy in the wheelchair with the funny voice", but very few of them would know about anything that he has done. He theorized that black holes emit radiation, and came up with some hypothesis about quantum gravity... and that's about it.
I thought he was the one who in university made the Big Bang hypothesis work out in mathematics for the first time (maybe along with Roger Penrose). This is kind of an important thing in cosmology and in my books puts him amongst the greats like Feynman, Bohr, et al before him. Of course we also have Hawking radiation named after him and all the other stuff that you mention.
That all sounds like hard work. Isn't it easier to just do the time honored thing and bribe the boss, find out something they wouldn't want disclosed publicly, or sleep with them if the appropriate gender?
Ive recently went through a bunch of major renovation projects. Finding good trades people is impossible. Anyone available sucks. Anyone with good recommendation is booked for months and charge whatever they want.
You might want to think about this type of comment a bit more next time, as it can come across as quite condescending. One of the main points the article makes is that the older people have had it generally good in the past for employment/standard of living, etc. and the younger generations are being screwed by the older ones. In the comment above I read it as saying that the younger generation should be there to service you.
Painters don't get payed much of a wage for what is hard work if you've ever tried to paint a large space. Neither do many laborers. The ones that do have to deal with risk of death or injury that office jobs generally don't have to.
For fast food automation here's a link to a short story called Manna by Marshall Brain that I've seen a few times on/. and is a good read. It covers an idea for the "automation" of cleaning at a burger chain that seems quite disturbingly possible.
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Agreed, but it scares me that obly 44% of Apples tech employees have this feeling.. If ANY company should have many, then it ought to be them
Summary says of 44% all employees at Apple feel like imposters and we know that over half of the total are marketers or lawyers. Suddenly the headphone jack removal/Apple Watch/cordless mouse with charging plug on bottom/etc. all starts to makes sense.
Seeing as it took Intel so long to go from i3 to i5 to i7 processors to only now releasing i9s they have a long way to go to get back to the glory version number days of i386.
In all seriousness though, I've kind of given up on making sense of the processor/GPU models and just paste it in Google to see the specs and compare that with another one I am already familiar with.
Didn't explode a rocket on the launchpad recently? How do you come up with 100% success rate?
Someone must have held the rocket the wrong way.
Others have already pointed out the impractical nature of this investment, but the idea could see niche applications. For example in remote warehouse type arrangements for autonomous vehicles moving around a shared space or travelling show go-karts that never need to stop.
Makes a lot of sense from a PhD in physics holder like yourself -- I mean, why go into all the nitty-gritty details on things most people will never understand just because a concept may be tough to understand properly?
As a fellow student of physics and knowing that Wikipedia is open to all I will be suggesting this more broadly comprehensible revision:
Electroweak interaction:
Once upon a time there were separate ideas for how small particles would interact with each other if they were charged up differently or becoming unstable because they had too many parts to them spinning around a centre bit.
The "elecroweak interaction" is the combination of these things into one combined thing. A particle may be charged ("electro") or weakly able to hold on to all its parts ("weak"). If you put the 2 together you get "electroweak".
(Ironically topical failure to properly asses cause and effect.)
Ironically, if you worked less you mightn't have to apply "topical" / "asses" so much.
(yes, I know we have standards here on /. – but this was asking for it)
The parent comment seems particularly insightful and reminds me of former USA president Barack Obama's detailed description for the cameras of the operation to take out terrorist Osama Bin Laden. The idea if I get it right was to project that this country was so far ahead of others it could say openly what its intelligence services were doing. I wonder if this might ironically make it weak long term if this keeps happening and other countries don't do this.
In the article the GP linked to it says that the exposure to the general public from coal flyash is 10 times more radioactive than from a similar generating capacity nuclear power plant, but also is much less than the background radiation you would get anyway by being alive on earth.
Too bad that's not how radiation works. It's not the coal ash radiation or the background radiation. It's the coal ash radiation and the background radiation. Further, that complete bullshit is based on averages, but radioactive material comes in discrete particles, it doesn't arrive in the real world as an average.
I'm only distilling what was in the linked to article from Scientific American.
The idea is that by burning the coal you are left with a concentrated fly ash that contains a higher density of radioactive material that was present already (i.e. by burning the not as radioactive part). This is then released into the environment and adds less than a millionth or something like this to the background radiation (note this is not uniform over earth) -- which would probably be the equivalent of moving towards the equator by a very small countries worth in Europe like Luxembourg. But what do I know, I only have an honors in computational physics.
If flyash is that radioactive, why isn't it mined for nuclear fuel?
Because it mainly contains materials unsuited to fission power (such as radon or undesirable isotopes of uranium/thorium) and in low quantities. In the article the GP linked to it says that the exposure to the general public from coal flyash is 10 times more radioactive than from a similar generating capacity nuclear power plant, but also is much less than the background radiation you would get anyway by being alive on earth.
Since when are IT employees hired for their looks?
Let me guess, all that practise reading the various Cisco switch manuals in German front-to-back came in handy at your job interview.
How about the Banshee PHP CMF?
Yeah... you may want to start scrolling down the Google images of Banshee and look up CMF (see definition 2 and my humble apologies in advance) before you recommend this to your boss as a safe substitute for Drupal.
I know some people might argue that this is an unfair generalization from one developer to the whole project; that Drupal insn't entirely about screwing you in gratuitous and unpleasant ways you can't escape from. Oh, who's kidding -- this was their plan all along.
This reminds of when I once bought an external USB card reader with "automatic cable management", which is what I was after. In the box on the side was the cheapest and nastiest plastic spool I've even seen.
Ignoring the feasibility of this, if this were to happen mental clarity and focus training will be in high demand.
This is one possible outcome. However, surely it is more likely to be that once you connect with your respected fellow humans in the new Internet of thoughts images of breasts and cocks come popping into your head.
As others have pointed out your "megawatt" should be a kilowatt, but also you have not factored in full costs such as any battery storage or electrical starter unit, etc. over the 20 year period
Solar power is nice to see improved, but ain't going to make all the cool things from science fiction a reality (like wireless power and the like). It has long been a matter of personal opinion of where we should go as humans with consumption of resources such as power, either towards a more "sustainable" society which uses less and is "able to live within its means" or using more power and hoping that new technologies make life better for future generations. I would personally like to see much greater power generation and take some solace in that both approaches will likely be tried at the same time if history is anything to go on.
There isn't enough viable space to plant that many trees...every single year.
Good news for you then as there are plenty of artificial tree ideas to do the job.
Why do you want to do this and what are you trying to accomplish?
The summary says he doesn't need a screen or keyboard, so it's pretty safe to assume he'll be okay with some sort of beeping device on a one-button input -- and I found exactly what he is looking for.
I'm in the 28-34 age bracket and figure the most deserving of the term 'millenial' is anyone who remembers the Willenium. I mean after X, Y, and Z they ran out of ideas so it seems fair to me to just make this shit up as well.
...houses are much larger and nicer than they were in 1970. Living space per person has almost doubled, the average house is 1,000 sq. ft. larger and has amenities like walk-in closets and expensive counter-tops you wouldn't find on an average house in the 70s.
Whilst I can find articles to see where you got this idea from, this doesn't quite pass the smell test. This is true only for new homes (i.e. the well off to construct new dwellings) and if you include established homes and the number of children per adult this picture changes.
Here is a page showing the trend of less people per household in the US over time. It may seem like there has been an improvement in living space per person (again check for all residences and not new ones in your stats), but to me it just means that adults are sharing space in the cities that don't really want to and can't bring up kids like they could in the past for financial reasons.
You can always embrace another aspect of automation and get your groceries, etc. delivered. I find this pretty convenient and you can combine this with going to a fresh food market or specialized shop to get the best of the shopping experience without self-checkouts.
Fortran was still needed for physics in 1990. In fact, it is still needed in many subfields of physics in 2017.
You are right that it is used still. Happily/sadly (depending on your perspective) there's a "new" version of Fortran coming out soon called Fortran 2015 (coming out mid-2018 because it takes this long to write the first program since its release).
I never understood why c++ is not used for serious physics calculations given how much easier it is to write stuff, but there are people who are very sure that Fortran is superior to anything else. I just wish that Fortran would have a good way to print out results so you can see what is being calculated properly!
it would be a fitting end for such an important person to science.
If you mention his name, plenty of people will say "that's the smart guy in the wheelchair with the funny voice", but very few of them would know about anything that he has done. He theorized that black holes emit radiation, and came up with some hypothesis about quantum gravity ... and that's about it.
I thought he was the one who in university made the Big Bang hypothesis work out in mathematics for the first time (maybe along with Roger Penrose). This is kind of an important thing in cosmology and in my books puts him amongst the greats like Feynman, Bohr, et al before him. Of course we also have Hawking radiation named after him and all the other stuff that you mention.
This is like comparing a speed to a distance.
If you read any suitably advanced astronomical paper they measure distances in speed. You're just not refined enough ;)
That all sounds like hard work. Isn't it easier to just do the time honored thing and bribe the boss, find out something they wouldn't want disclosed publicly, or sleep with them if the appropriate gender?
Ive recently went through a bunch of major renovation projects. Finding good trades people is impossible. Anyone available sucks. Anyone with good recommendation is booked for months and charge whatever they want.
You might want to think about this type of comment a bit more next time, as it can come across as quite condescending. One of the main points the article makes is that the older people have had it generally good in the past for employment/standard of living, etc. and the younger generations are being screwed by the older ones. In the comment above I read it as saying that the younger generation should be there to service you.
Painters don't get payed much of a wage for what is hard work if you've ever tried to paint a large space. Neither do many laborers. The ones that do have to deal with risk of death or injury that office jobs generally don't have to.
For fast food automation here's a link to a short story called Manna by Marshall Brain that I've seen a few times on /. and is a good read. It covers an idea for the "automation" of cleaning at a burger chain that seems quite disturbingly possible.