That's great to hear; wish my own company thought that way. We have talented developers but limit them to writing mostly reporting, integration & user interface code and spend megabucks buying commercial software when solid, stable free / open alternatives already exist.
Ah, I'm not sure. Some of it is fascinating but a lot of it smacks of "deus ex machina". And I don't like that he incorporated time travel although one of the ways that it was done was interesting. If the 2 Chronicles trilogies are all that you've read of his work, I'd sooner recommend his Gap series, which is sci-fi, not fantasy, the 2 Mordant books or even his short stories collection Daughter of Regals, which includes a story he deleted from the Illearth War called Gilden-fire that features the Bloodguard.
The "hiatus" isn't what people think - " this century has so far seen surprisingly little increase in the average temperature at the Earth's surface" Note that the average temp is still rising even if more slowly than expected. But the entire planet doesn't warm or cool all at once. During that "hiatus" the loss of ice cover, especially in the Arctic has been tremendous and that's noteworthy for 2 reasons.
The first is that the number of temperature monitoring stations in the Arctic is very poor. The other is that it takes a LOT of heat to melt ice - turning it to water at zero deg requires as much as raising room temp water to the boiling point.
And convert barely 1/3rd to electricity while putting out tonnes of soot, slurry, radiation, mercury. I'm willing to pay the higher cost for solar thermal and leave the fucking coal deep underground and the mountains above them standing intact.
I've been hearing about the CA-to-TX exodus for 20+ years. And Texas is awash with oil while Cali has to import 70% of what is uses. Yet the Texas economy is only 14th largest while California is 8th.
Which of those are precedents? Almost every president has done or tried to do the same or worse. Isn't that the point of the checks & balances system?
If he didn't undo what Bush did, which couldn't have been done anyway, with the filibuster being pulled out for every Senate proposal, then he still hasn't established precedent.
"Take Texas for example. For every 100 families below the poverty line there, only six receive assistance, she said. In California, 66 of those below the poverty line are helped."
Only SIX? I knew Texas was hard-assed about helping out poor people but I'm still shocked. Is there any state worse than this?
"when the next Republican president starts abusing his powers based on the precedents Obama has set"
Which precedents would that be? Keep in mind that a precedent means, in this case, something that wasn't done by previous presidents such as, for example, George W Bush, Clinton or Reagan.
Like the Sun? Yeah, that would suck unless you could temporarily store some of that heat.
But the Sun is a nuclear reactor and imagine if we found a flaw that could cause it to prematurely explode. I guess all we'd have to do is take it offline for up to 8 weeks.
It's hardly a non-issue when you're taking gigawatt-hrs of baseload offline for 2 months. Granted, it's not such a big issue in summer but that's just dumb luck. This could just have easily happened in mid-winter although it would be much easier to keep a gas-cooled reactor cooled in February than in August.:-)
Taking that many GW-hrs of production offline for that length of time is a serious outage. Greater modularity would allow for a quicker ID of the scope of the problem, even if the total time to repair or replace would be greater.
Isn't that called a blackout? If it's in the daytime, Tesla would have a better chance keeping the lights on with the up to 3500 sunshine hours you can get in CA. Michigan has wind power & perhaps Tesla could get permission for their own farm but Elon doesn't have any fingers in wind like he does in solar and there's no way in hell Michigan can compete on that basis vs the Southwest. Palisades may have been granted a license to keep operating until 2031 but it's already 40 years old - it's going to need some major overhaul in the next few years.
Two of its steam generators were replaced in '92 after 20 yrs operation. Well, it's been over 20 years since that, so there could be more replacements needed soon.
Since those are only reached at queue depths at 16, 32 or higher - which you'll never reach on a desktop machine. What you want is a drive with high IOPS at queue depths of 1, 2 and 4, maybe 8 as well. The higher the IOPS at the lowest queues, the more responsive your machine feels.
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I've mostly been reading Tweaktown, with AnandTech & HotHardware as fallbacks for the past few years.
That's great to hear; wish my own company thought that way. We have talented developers but limit them to writing mostly reporting, integration & user interface code and spend megabucks buying commercial software when solid, stable free / open alternatives already exist.
Good to know; nice to see more companies giving back to the opensource community.
Does Netflix have a tradition of free / open source software contribs?
It's whoever we say and whoever doesn't have the means to buy us.
If it's not fun for the Chinese, it's not fun for all the developers & maintenance programmers who have to fix, support & enhance all that shit.
Ah, I'm not sure.
Some of it is fascinating but a lot of it smacks of "deus ex machina". And I don't like that he incorporated time travel although one of the ways that it was done was interesting. If the 2 Chronicles trilogies are all that you've read of his work, I'd sooner recommend his Gap series, which is sci-fi, not fantasy, the 2 Mordant books or even his short stories collection Daughter of Regals, which includes a story he deleted from the Illearth War called Gilden-fire that features the Bloodguard.
Did you read all of them? I enjoyed them far more than I ever did any of the Dune books but I have mixed feelings about the way he ended it.
The "hiatus" isn't what people think - " this century has so far seen surprisingly little increase in the average temperature at the Earth's surface"
Note that the average temp is still rising even if more slowly than expected. But the entire planet doesn't warm or cool all at once.
During that "hiatus" the loss of ice cover, especially in the Arctic has been tremendous and that's noteworthy for 2 reasons.
The first is that the number of temperature monitoring stations in the Arctic is very poor. The other is that it takes a LOT of heat to melt ice - turning it to water at zero deg requires as much as raising room temp water to the boiling point.
Hmm, that was typed as sq rt 2 x i electrons but Slashdot made it a 3.
Oh, c'mon, everyone knows that the ultimate power source will be an element with pi protons, e neutrons & 3i electrons
And convert barely 1/3rd to electricity while putting out tonnes of soot, slurry, radiation, mercury.
I'm willing to pay the higher cost for solar thermal and leave the fucking coal deep underground and the mountains above them standing intact.
How efficient is the average US coal plant? Those supply 40% of US electricity.
Thanks for explaining why you showed up; but we already knew that.
I've been hearing about the CA-to-TX exodus for 20+ years. And Texas is awash with oil while Cali has to import 70% of what is uses.
Yet the Texas economy is only 14th largest while California is 8th.
What makes you think they don't have "skin in the game"? A huge number of people below the poverty line have jobs, which means they pay payroll taxes.
Which of those are precedents? Almost every president has done or tried to do the same or worse.
Isn't that the point of the checks & balances system?
If he didn't undo what Bush did, which couldn't have been done anyway, with the filibuster being pulled out for every Senate proposal, then he still hasn't established precedent.
Last time I heard that joke, I thought it was so funny, I fell off my dinosaur.
Here's something that is mentioned in the article
"Take Texas for example. For every 100 families below the poverty line there, only six receive assistance, she said. In California, 66 of those below the poverty line are helped."
Only SIX? I knew Texas was hard-assed about helping out poor people but I'm still shocked. Is there any state worse than this?
"when the next Republican president starts abusing his powers based on the precedents Obama has set"
Which precedents would that be? Keep in mind that a precedent means, in this case, something that wasn't done by previous presidents such as, for example, George W Bush, Clinton or Reagan.
Like the Sun? Yeah, that would suck unless you could temporarily store some of that heat.
But the Sun is a nuclear reactor and imagine if we found a flaw that could cause it to prematurely explode.
I guess all we'd have to do is take it offline for up to 8 weeks.
It's hardly a non-issue when you're taking gigawatt-hrs of baseload offline for 2 months. :-)
Granted, it's not such a big issue in summer but that's just dumb luck. This could just have easily happened in mid-winter although it would be much easier to keep a gas-cooled reactor cooled in February than in August.
Taking that many GW-hrs of production offline for that length of time is a serious outage.
Greater modularity would allow for a quicker ID of the scope of the problem, even if the total time to repair or replace would be greater.
Isn't that called a blackout? If it's in the daytime, Tesla would have a better chance keeping the lights on with the up to 3500 sunshine hours you can get in CA.
Michigan has wind power & perhaps Tesla could get permission for their own farm but Elon doesn't have any fingers in wind like he does in solar and there's no way in hell Michigan can compete on that basis vs the Southwest.
Palisades may have been granted a license to keep operating until 2031 but it's already 40 years old - it's going to need some major overhaul in the next few years.
Two of its steam generators were replaced in '92 after 20 yrs operation.
Well, it's been over 20 years since that, so there could be more replacements needed soon.
Since those are only reached at queue depths at 16, 32 or higher - which you'll never reach on a desktop machine.
What you want is a drive with high IOPS at queue depths of 1, 2 and 4, maybe 8 as well.
The higher the IOPS at the lowest queues, the more responsive your machine feels.