Just how popular is Rust? It's not been around for very long and I'm surprised that it would quickly win out over more established ones like D, Eiffel, Scala, Erlang or Ruby
I wonder if Google Go aka golang is ready for prime time. I don't know who Robert Griesemer is but Rob Pike & Ken Thompson? If systems programmers had gods.......
I'm more concerned with the way they force or trick users into upgrading to Windows 10. I have to rebuild a PC for a friend whose Win 8.2 Inspiron that she uses for her small business got trashed by Windows 10 after she tried multiple times to cancel out of it.
There's definitely some impact but I've seen a lot of people who put money down on a Mod3 say that'll lease something else for the next couple years. So the Bolt & newer Volt should do okay, not so sure about the Prius. The VW hybrids & BEV should do alright in Europe but there does seem to be some animosity towards them in NorthAm
Nissan LEAFs have some of the worst battery packs for EVs. They had to change chemistry to cope with hot climates, like most of the southern USA and they've lost a couple class actions for loss of range of the battery packs. The LEAF is really an urban weirdmobile.
1) The price has been stated for years to start at $35k and the reservation is fully refundable. 2) The minimum driving range is supposed to be 215+ miles EPA. That's more than usable for all but a very, very, very few people. 3) This is Slashdot. We're all 12. 4) They have a lot of debt but what they're doing is expensive. But they have more funds than you think. Only NetBSD has been claimed to be dying longer than Tesla. 5) About 1/3 of LEAF owners in CA have their own solar; %age for Tesla is much, much higher and lots of places don't burn much coal.
As for SpaceX, most of the fuel for any rocket is burned on the way UP, not down and it's far, far greener to get your rocket to land than, as most do, dump it in the ocean.
" we're witnessing a new class of rich assholes who think they're superman or something" er, no, that class is as old as civilization. We used to call them kings or lords.
" because its unlikely you'll lose more that one unexpectedly" When something happens that's bad enough to trip a nuke plant offline, it usually affects a sizable chunk of the grid. And getting your nuke plant back online isn't trivial.
Here's an example full of irony - in late Feb 2008, a sudden decline in wind production required the Texas grid operators to cut power to several large interruptible industrial customers, dropping over 1.1 GW of demand within 10 minutes. So a near crisis was averted and a big pile of fodder was grown for the anti-wind crowd who still bring this near-miss event as a testament to the dangers of reliance on intermittent power.
But the last 2 lines of the Reuters link above mentions an actual outage that the renewable energy detractors *never* bring up - the *very same day* in Florida an electrical fire at a substation in Miami triggered a cascading failure that knocked Turkey Point Nuclear Station offline and caused a blackout affecting 3 million across all the way to Tampa & Daytona and it was at least 4 hours before power was restored.
"Just like in Germany, when sometimes they can't even supply 2% of demand"
Looking at Fraunhofer's charts of electricity production for the past 6 years, those times are quite rare or coincide with high solar output. But, yes, intermittency is a concern. That said, Germany has had pretty darn good forecasting in place since about 2009. And, more importantly they have a modern grid with good interlinks to other markets, something the USA could improve domestically. https://www.energy-charts.de/p... The Tres Amigas Superstation, if it ever gets built, will be of tremendous benefit to ERCOT and the southern grids.
"Maintaining capable military is a responsibility explicitly given to the federal government by the US Constitution. We may be (are!) spending too much, but there is nothing wrong with such spending in principle"
Do you think the Founding Fathers would approve of all the subterfuge & sabotage done in the name of freedom? I highly doubt it.
Yes, been spending too much militarily for most of my life and I'm an old guy. The US military budget is as large as the next 10 countries combined - how many are enemies?
"Another no-brainer. Because that would hurt the labor unions" Having less money to support the workers who can & do get their asses laid off or their jobs relocated routinely is a bad plan. And fewer Americans are supported by unions than at any time in a very long time. Which means they're dependent on the government.
What's pathetic is quibbling over relatively small amounts when there are so many, many big problems to solve. The population is aging & obese and much of the vaunted infrastructure is crumbling.
Problem is that your nuke plants are baseload and are *expected* to be up & running at all times, so shutting down just one for safety ususally means having to find a gigawatt of power somewhere else
Before complaining about it, learn how a loan guarantee is different from a loan. Better yet, complain about what "useful things could have been funded" with a small fraction on what's been spent on the US Military since the fall of the USSR or why the auto companies aren't required to pay back the gov't in full for getting their asses bailed out.
With a little shopping around on Orbitz, I've found many Business class flights for $2500 - $4000. Or 1st class for ~$7k on United or American, who can navigate to the UK just as well as the airline with British in the name.
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Just how popular is Rust? It's not been around for very long and I'm surprised that it would quickly win out over more established ones like D, Eiffel, Scala, Erlang or Ruby
I wonder if Google Go aka golang is ready for prime time.
I don't know who Robert Griesemer is but Rob Pike & Ken Thompson? If systems programmers had gods.......
I'm more concerned with the way they force or trick users into upgrading to Windows 10. I have to rebuild a PC for a friend whose Win 8.2 Inspiron that she uses for her small business got trashed by Windows 10 after she tried multiple times to cancel out of it.
messaging apps
Fixed that for you
Meant href not anchor
I'll take Foxit Reader over Sumatra any day
Have you tried asking the vendor to write a driver? They wrote the ones for Windows, didn't they?
There's definitely some impact but I've seen a lot of people who put money down on a Mod3 say that'll lease something else for the next couple years.
So the Bolt & newer Volt should do okay, not so sure about the Prius.
The VW hybrids & BEV should do alright in Europe but there does seem to be some animosity towards them in NorthAm
Nissan LEAFs have some of the worst battery packs for EVs. They had to change chemistry to cope with hot climates, like most of the southern USA and they've lost a couple class actions for loss of range of the battery packs. The LEAF is really an urban weirdmobile.
1) The price has been stated for years to start at $35k and the reservation is fully refundable.
2) The minimum driving range is supposed to be 215+ miles EPA. That's more than usable for all but a very, very, very few people.
3) This is Slashdot. We're all 12.
4) They have a lot of debt but what they're doing is expensive. But they have more funds than you think. Only NetBSD has been claimed to be dying longer than Tesla.
5) About 1/3 of LEAF owners in CA have their own solar; %age for Tesla is much, much higher and lots of places don't burn much coal.
As for SpaceX, most of the fuel for any rocket is burned on the way UP, not down and it's far, far greener to get your rocket to land than, as most do, dump it in the ocean.
I think 100 uses is unachievable in the near future but even if they manage only 10-20, it'll be an enormous advantage over everyone else.
" we're witnessing a new class of rich assholes who think they're superman or something"
er, no, that class is as old as civilization. We used to call them kings or lords.
Cold water washing saves a lot of energy
Add peanut butter and you can die smelling like Elvis.
With the upcoming crop of EVs with 125 - 200+ mile battery packs, that should improve to over 90%
My floor IS my desk, you insensitive clod!!
My desk lamp sits on the floor, you insensitive clod!!
" because its unlikely you'll lose more that one unexpectedly"
When something happens that's bad enough to trip a nuke plant offline, it usually affects a sizable chunk of the grid.
And getting your nuke plant back online isn't trivial.
Here's an example full of irony - in late Feb 2008, a sudden decline in wind production required the Texas grid operators to cut power to several large interruptible industrial customers, dropping over 1.1 GW of demand within 10 minutes.
So a near crisis was averted and a big pile of fodder was grown for the anti-wind crowd who still bring this near-miss event as a testament to the dangers of reliance on intermittent power.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
But the last 2 lines of the Reuters link above mentions an actual outage that the renewable energy detractors *never* bring up - the *very same day* in Florida an electrical fire at a substation in Miami triggered a cascading failure that knocked Turkey Point Nuclear Station offline and caused a blackout affecting 3 million across all the way to Tampa & Daytona and it was at least 4 hours before power was restored.
http://content.time.com/time/n...
"Just like in Germany, when sometimes they can't even supply 2% of demand"
Looking at Fraunhofer's charts of electricity production for the past 6 years, those times are quite rare or coincide with high solar output.
But, yes, intermittency is a concern. That said, Germany has had pretty darn good forecasting in place since about 2009.
And, more importantly they have a modern grid with good interlinks to other markets, something the USA could improve domestically.
https://www.energy-charts.de/p...
The Tres Amigas Superstation, if it ever gets built, will be of tremendous benefit to ERCOT and the southern grids.
"Maintaining capable military is a responsibility explicitly given to the federal government by the US Constitution. We may be (are!) spending too much, but there is nothing wrong with such spending in principle"
Do you think the Founding Fathers would approve of all the subterfuge & sabotage done in the name of freedom?
I highly doubt it.
Yes, been spending too much militarily for most of my life and I'm an old guy. The US military budget is as large as the next 10 countries combined - how many are enemies?
"Another no-brainer. Because that would hurt the labor unions"
Having less money to support the workers who can & do get their asses laid off or their jobs relocated routinely is a bad plan.
And fewer Americans are supported by unions than at any time in a very long time. Which means they're dependent on the government.
What's pathetic is quibbling over relatively small amounts when there are so many, many big problems to solve. The population is aging & obese and much of the vaunted infrastructure is crumbling.
Problem is that your nuke plants are baseload and are *expected* to be up & running at all times, so shutting down just one for safety ususally means having to find a gigawatt of power somewhere else
Or keep their cats indoors or put bells on them when letting them go outside.
Before complaining about it, learn how a loan guarantee is different from a loan.
Better yet, complain about what "useful things could have been funded" with a small fraction on what's been spent on the US Military since the fall of the USSR or why the auto companies aren't required to pay back the gov't in full for getting their asses bailed out.
With a little shopping around on Orbitz, I've found many Business class flights for $2500 - $4000.
Or 1st class for ~$7k on United or American, who can navigate to the UK just as well as the airline with British in the name.
You're confusing nerds with ACs.
Leona Helmsley, is that you?