For those who would prefer to see the actual announcement rather than discussion of it on an add ridden site with auto-play video you can go to https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/news...
I'm not a gamer and do not follow the market for gaming laptops. (I actually do have one gaming laptop, a Lenovo Y50 and it's crap. No more sound, no more SD card slot, housing cracked by hinges and garbage screen to begin with, but I didn't buy it for gaming.) His statement just seems to have that air of "I really hope this happens because the market for crypto mining has fallen off a cliff."
> No matter how you draw the line, you could probably draw it better by some criterion. Agreed. I suspect the exclusion zone was much larger than required to avoid exposure until they could see where the hazards existed. It seems to me that the exclusion zone could be re-evaluated and potentially reduced without allowing habitation right up to the edge of a hot spot. However if the entire area is at risk from the dust raised from a building collapsing or similar, perhaps not much space would be regained.
> What has changed in the US is that labor intensive products are not built in countries with low labor costs.
I'm pretty sure you meant "... are now built in countries..." Not so subtle difference in meaning.;)
Pretty interesting comments about the status of manufacturing in the US. I suspect you are correct.
> 3) Humans control legislatures and can easily regulate automation in places should it become necessary.
I'd be concerned about that, particularly in light of the previous answer. Legislatures are more likely to develop rules based on vested interests than try to understand what will benefit the population as a whole.
It was pretty spooky the first time I saw it. This was on the UP and after dark. Just outside Oglvie there are a *lot* of turnouts and they are all heated with crude gas sparges. The windows are tinted so it is hard to see anything in the dark. All I could see was a bunch of flames dancing at ground level. I did a double-take until I figured out what it was.
I think they could get more efficient results with proper burners and temperature control, but that would also involve more parts to fail. I'm guessing an inventive track maintenance worker ran a propane line to a piece of pipe with holes drilled along the length. They probably refined it until they had something that was reliable and stopped development there. I'm guessing they converted to natural gas as a more reliable fuel at some point (no tanks to refill.)
... If we caught up to it, cracked it open, and it's just a bunch of rock, that'd be a pretty good falsification.
Maybe. Technology developed elsewhere might not be obvious to us. After all, silicon is just manipulated rock. What we've done with it is obvious to us but who knows what it will look like 100 years from now, let alone 1000, 10,000 etc.
Manipulating the futures market on the morning when the report was to be released by providing a fake report to a competitor. And in the process ruining Mortimer and Randolph Duke.
A nuclear engineer tells us that nuclear energy is the solution. Who could have guessed.
I suppose that there is valid information in his claims and conclusions, but it is important to consider his training when interpreting his recommendations. I find it a bit disingenuous that this is not identified in the summary and what little of the article I can see from this side of the paywall doesn't mention it.
I discovered The Expanse last year and really looked forward to Season 3. I was not disappointed. I've also read some of the books and they seem to have a *lot* of material to continue.
I also watched some "Parts Unknown" and have to give a nod to Anthony Bourdain - RIP. I can't say that this was one of the best shows on TV but it did touch me. I'm watching the end of the Seattle episode which gives me chills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I bought a touch free kitchen faucet from Amazon because the local big box store did not have one in stock and estimate for arrival was longer than Amazon's delivery time. When I got the box and opened the instruction booklet, there was a post-it note stuck between the pages describing some kind of drip problem. I foolishly started to install (removing my original kitchen sink faucet) and then discovered that a number of parts were missing. I contacted the manufacturer and they overnighted me the missing pieces. I completed the installation only to discover that the unit was not functioning properly. I contacted the manufacturer and they offered to send more parts, but I was not really sure which parts were bad so I went back to Amazon, communicated with customer service and ordered a replacement. That arrived and I was able to complete a working installation. Amazon discounted the first unit they shipped because it was obviously a returned and defective unit but following the return they refunded the discounted price. In the end I was unable to use my kitchen sink for about a week due to the problem with an Amazon purchase and got no compensation from them despite repeated assurances that the price for the second unit would be discounted. It was about a month before I bought from Amazon again. And ever since I've done everything I can to purchase from other sellers when prices are not too far apart.
Apple et. al. are not stupid clucks, they went over motherboards with a microscope.
Are you certain about that? Can you provide a citation that backs that up? I'm sure that Apple goes over their products that carefully, but they are not selling Supermicro boards. It is more likely that they are providing a specification that details what they want (and hopefully a set of test specifications it must meet) and then asking for quotes.
$5US for a Pi Zero W at my local Micro Center. But I can only buy one at that price. $15 for 2-5. $20 for 6+. It's really hard to beat the price/performance of the various Pi boards.
For those of us not familiar with node.js, what happened? I avoided node.js because I didn't want YAPM on my Debian install. Some of the headlines about npm installing malware, breaking half the web and rewriting directory permissions have convinced me that it was a dumpster fire and my reluctance to use it was well advised. I'm just curious how this relates to the present subject (and nothing I know about it likely matters in this regard.)
I thought about replying and canceling.;) But since I had the contact information for the office I just called them and let them know. The message also included the phone number of the patient so I called her and explained the situation. We had a nice conversation. For a while I was getting some kind of statement from what looked like a job shop in England. No contact info and of course a non-working return address. The funniest one was one that went to a group of women in Australia arranging a girls night out. (I'm in the US.) I replied to all that I had no idea where that was but it sounded like a lot of fun and I was quite looking forward to it.:D Sadly I never heard from them again.:(
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Already happening: https://hackaday.com/2019/04/0...
For those who would prefer to see the actual announcement rather than discussion of it on an add ridden site with auto-play video you can go to
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/news...
Right up there with a previous article "... the 4g/5g Solution We've Been Waiting For."
I'm not a gamer and do not follow the market for gaming laptops. (I actually do have one gaming laptop, a Lenovo Y50 and it's crap. No more sound, no more SD card slot, housing cracked by hinges and garbage screen to begin with, but I didn't buy it for gaming.)
His statement just seems to have that air of "I really hope this happens because the market for crypto mining has fallen off a cliff."
> No matter how you draw the line, you could probably draw it better by some criterion.
Agreed.
I suspect the exclusion zone was much larger than required to avoid exposure until they could see where the hazards existed. It seems to me that the exclusion zone could be re-evaluated and potentially reduced without allowing habitation right up to the edge of a hot spot. However if the entire area is at risk from the dust raised from a building collapsing or similar, perhaps not much space would be regained.
> What has changed in the US is that labor intensive products are not built in countries with low labor costs.
I'm pretty sure you meant "... are now built in countries ..." Not so subtle difference in meaning. ;)
Pretty interesting comments about the status of manufacturing in the US. I suspect you are correct.
> 3) Humans control legislatures and can easily regulate automation in places should it become necessary.
I'd be concerned about that, particularly in light of the previous answer. Legislatures are more likely to develop rules based on vested interests than try to understand what will benefit the population as a whole.
I think shiny is the more important "engineering criterion."
It was pretty spooky the first time I saw it. This was on the UP and after dark. Just outside Oglvie there are a *lot* of turnouts and they are all heated with crude gas sparges. The windows are tinted so it is hard to see anything in the dark. All I could see was a bunch of flames dancing at ground level. I did a double-take until I figured out what it was.
I think they could get more efficient results with proper burners and temperature control, but that would also involve more parts to fail. I'm guessing an inventive track maintenance worker ran a propane line to a piece of pipe with holes drilled along the length. They probably refined it until they had something that was reliable and stopped development there. I'm guessing they converted to natural gas as a more reliable fuel at some point (no tanks to refill.)
... If we caught up to it, cracked it open, and it's just a bunch of rock, that'd be a pretty good falsification.
Maybe. Technology developed elsewhere might not be obvious to us. After all, silicon is just manipulated rock. What we've done with it is obvious to us but who knows what it will look like 100 years from now, let alone 1000, 10,000 etc.
Manipulating the futures market on the morning when the report was to be released by providing a fake report to a competitor. And in the process ruining Mortimer and Randolph Duke.
A nuclear engineer tells us that nuclear energy is the solution. Who could have guessed.
I suppose that there is valid information in his claims and conclusions, but it is important to consider his training when interpreting his recommendations. I find it a bit disingenuous that this is not identified in the summary and what little of the article I can see from this side of the paywall doesn't mention it.
I discovered The Expanse last year and really looked forward to Season 3. I was not disappointed. I've also read some of the books and they seem to have a *lot* of material to continue.
I also watched some "Parts Unknown" and have to give a nod to Anthony Bourdain - RIP. I can't say that this was one of the best shows on TV but it did touch me. I'm watching the end of the Seattle episode which gives me chills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We enjoyed watching it but felt the ending was a little disappointing.
Apparently you have to sell your soul to Microsoft to view the contract. Looks like gibberish in LibreOffice.
Please be kind to editors for whom English is not their primary language.
I bought a touch free kitchen faucet from Amazon because the local big box store did not have one in stock and estimate for arrival was longer than Amazon's delivery time. When I got the box and opened the instruction booklet, there was a post-it note stuck between the pages describing some kind of drip problem. I foolishly started to install (removing my original kitchen sink faucet) and then discovered that a number of parts were missing. I contacted the manufacturer and they overnighted me the missing pieces. I completed the installation only to discover that the unit was not functioning properly. I contacted the manufacturer and they offered to send more parts, but I was not really sure which parts were bad so I went back to Amazon, communicated with customer service and ordered a replacement. That arrived and I was able to complete a working installation. Amazon discounted the first unit they shipped because it was obviously a returned and defective unit but following the return they refunded the discounted price. In the end I was unable to use my kitchen sink for about a week due to the problem with an Amazon purchase and got no compensation from them despite repeated assurances that the price for the second unit would be discounted.
It was about a month before I bought from Amazon again. And ever since I've done everything I can to purchase from other sellers when prices are not too far apart.
Apple et. al. are not stupid clucks, they went over motherboards with a microscope.
Are you certain about that? Can you provide a citation that backs that up?
I'm sure that Apple goes over their products that carefully, but they are not selling Supermicro boards. It is more likely that they are providing a specification that details what they want (and hopefully a set of test specifications it must meet) and then asking for quotes.
$16 at ebay (with 512GB RAM) And no HDMI.
No.
$5US for a Pi Zero W at my local Micro Center. But I can only buy one at that price. $15 for 2-5. $20 for 6+.
It's really hard to beat the price/performance of the various Pi boards.
Thanks for the specific reference.
>Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate HTML and JavaScript engines provided by the Windows Platform.
I wonder if that's TOS speak for "other browsers need not apply" or if there is a valid reason for that exclusion.
It wasn't there yesterday when I looked. I didn't bother looking for chrome.
For those of us not familiar with node.js, what happened? I avoided node.js because I didn't want YAPM on my Debian install. Some of the headlines about npm installing malware, breaking half the web and rewriting directory permissions have convinced me that it was a dumpster fire and my reluctance to use it was well advised.
I'm just curious how this relates to the present subject (and nothing I know about it likely matters in this regard.)
I thought about replying and canceling. ;) But since I had the contact information for the office I just called them and let them know. The message also included the phone number of the patient so I called her and explained the situation. We had a nice conversation. :D Sadly I never heard from them again. :(
For a while I was getting some kind of statement from what looked like a job shop in England. No contact info and of course a non-working return address.
The funniest one was one that went to a group of women in Australia arranging a girls night out. (I'm in the US.) I replied to all that I had no idea where that was but it sounded like a lot of fun and I was quite looking forward to it.
We all know that Apple is operating on the thinnest of margins.
What I wonder, and what I didn't get from the essay is what the author hoped to accomplish.