"Was a nuclear power plant engineer" carries no meaning as to whether he was competent.
The arguments presented by him are bullshit, as has been discussed over and over again. His (and many others') logic is actually a Strawman. The real question is Nuclear vs Fossil Fuels. Nothing else can fill the void left by renewables - more renewables is a pipe dream.
As for it not being economically viable, tax fossil fuels according to their environmental impact and suddenly the situation becomes much more even. Renewables are even less viable than nuclear power anyways, on a large scale.
An engineer doesn't say "can't be done" (unless the laws of physics would be broken) - the real answer is "There are problems X, Y and Z that require research and development."
"Renewables" is typical green bullshit. Anything other than solar panels on rooftops and/or exposed surfaces will have a direct environmental impact (let's not even talk about manufacturing, since that inevitably improves and becomes more efficient). Wind turbines kill birds. Insanely large solar farms are insanely large, possibly destroying local ecosystems (focused solar arrays also have the heat ray of death problem, but photovoltaics should be ok). Dams also harm local ecosystems.
So, right now, we have a pipe dream. Yes, it makes sense to deploy renewables, particularly small-scale solar (surface is already there, might as well use it) and hydroelectric (excellent way to store energy for when it's needed). Anyone who truly believes these can replace everything else is living in a fantasy world.
So, in the end, the choice is:
Do you want nuclear power or do you want fossil fuels?
Pseudo-environmentalism (the thing practiced by the likes of Greenpeace) mixed with misinformed NIMBYism.
People who speak up against this are labeled haters of the environment. Meanwhile, the greens degenerate into ever more radical forms of pseudo-environmentalism.
Any engineer with half a brain and some knowledge on the subject immediately concludes that nuclear power is by far the better realistic option. However, society is not made up exclusively of engineers.
iCloud should be very useful for lots of things, same as OneDrive on Microsoft platforms. Most people will want it enabled.
Apple really really really pushes their iPhoto crap. Most clueless users end up using it.
From this perspective, I would not be surprised if most people ended up belonging to the "all pictures are uploaded to iCloud" group, as a sort of default state.
Be careful, primitives might read "primitives" as "primates" and get all offended and mark you for death.
Why should you be careful? After being marked for death, the understandable reaction is to laugh your ass off. If you laugh too hard, you might asphyxiate.
Throw antibiotics at the problem (that's what they're for).
Considering the hygiene issues they probably have as jihadis, they're far more at risk of dying from plague than anybody in a civilized country - this effect is known as "Karma" among the superstitious and "Natural Selection" among everyone with half a brain (not these two sets are not exclusive of each other).
The software was certainly not the best, but considering that most "unintended acceleration" events happened after a couple of nasty accidents (caused by faulty/incorrect floor mats, not a design flaw in the throttle system), I don't buy it, other than for maybe a freak instance.
The vast majority was made up of people who either maliciously covered up their mistakes by blaming the car or should not have been driving at all and genuinely believed they had done nothing wrong.
"No, I'm afraid we can't fix this. We're going to have to work around our problem... Conserve water, reuse wa.... No, no! Don't pay the fucking witch doctor for a rain dance!"
Pi is a universal constant. Furthermore, its value is irrelevant in most calculations, being simply a placeholder. When the value is needed, using as much precision as needed is trivial.
You know why the imperial system is more flawed than the SI? It's defined in terms of SI units. It's a stopgap solution for those too lazy to standardize. Failure to define units in terms of universal constants is not exclusive to SI, considering the imperial system never made such an attempt (and is thus useless without prototypes).
The easy conversion *is* the main point of the SI. Everything else amounts to a pissing match to see who finds more cases where one is arguably "simpler to use". Neither is inherently better in that aspect.
I challenge you to tell the difference between 21 degrees Celsius and 22 degrees Celsius in real life. What kind of accuracy do you need? One degree will not make the difference between "I should take a sweater" and "nice warm day".
For every situation where you get a nice integer by using feet there's at least one where you get a nice integer using meters with whatever prefix you desire.
The whole point of the SI is to demystify manipulations that change between "adjacent" units. Feel silly saying you're 1 750 millimeters tall? Choose at will between 175 centimeters or 1,75 meters. Arguments based on intuition have no merit whatsoever - no single unit is better overall than all its alternatives. The important part is coherency, which allows for trivial usage of multiple prefixes. Since the SI is coherent, it's better.
I don't really ever need to know how many inches are in a mile. Things measured in miles do not need the precision of inches. They don't usually even need the precision of feet. Things measured in kilometers do not need the precision of millimeters, or centimeters, or decimeters, or usually even meters the vast majority of the time.
Do not generalize. An airplane's wing is many meters long, yet its tolerances are in the mm range or smaller. Some application do benefit from being able to freely mix prefixed units. Since having two incompatible systems is stupid, it makes sense to standardize around the better system.
Do not mistake SI for people who cannot standardize on a few sizes of hex heads for screws. It's unfortunate, but bad decisions are everywhere.
The system is absolutely superior as already detailed. "Everyday life" is a matter of getting used to it (the limits of human endurance aren't useful measures of anything typical). Only one country in the whole world is stubborn enough not to change and important enough for me to care.
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"Was a nuclear power plant engineer" carries no meaning as to whether he was competent.
The arguments presented by him are bullshit, as has been discussed over and over again. His (and many others') logic is actually a Strawman. The real question is Nuclear vs Fossil Fuels. Nothing else can fill the void left by renewables - more renewables is a pipe dream.
As for it not being economically viable, tax fossil fuels according to their environmental impact and suddenly the situation becomes much more even. Renewables are even less viable than nuclear power anyways, on a large scale.
Simple: does not have half a brain.
An engineer doesn't say "can't be done" (unless the laws of physics would be broken) - the real answer is "There are problems X, Y and Z that require research and development."
"Renewables" is typical green bullshit. Anything other than solar panels on rooftops and/or exposed surfaces will have a direct environmental impact (let's not even talk about manufacturing, since that inevitably improves and becomes more efficient).
Wind turbines kill birds.
Insanely large solar farms are insanely large, possibly destroying local ecosystems (focused solar arrays also have the heat ray of death problem, but photovoltaics should be ok).
Dams also harm local ecosystems.
So, right now, we have a pipe dream. Yes, it makes sense to deploy renewables, particularly small-scale solar (surface is already there, might as well use it) and hydroelectric (excellent way to store energy for when it's needed). Anyone who truly believes these can replace everything else is living in a fantasy world.
So, in the end, the choice is:
Do you want nuclear power or do you want fossil fuels?
Well said.
Unfortunately, "populist delusions" always were all the rage.
It's the green disease.
Pseudo-environmentalism (the thing practiced by the likes of Greenpeace) mixed with misinformed NIMBYism.
People who speak up against this are labeled haters of the environment. Meanwhile, the greens degenerate into ever more radical forms of pseudo-environmentalism.
Any engineer with half a brain and some knowledge on the subject immediately concludes that nuclear power is by far the better realistic option. However, society is not made up exclusively of engineers.
When are non-anonymous 4chan users a reliable source?
Still, allowing brute force over the internet is a big mistake.
I knew Apple had crappy Windows programmers (some might say "evil" even...), but it seems the problem is larger.
An internet-facing service that doesn't protect against brute force? It's not like enforcing 5 minutes of wait after a few tries is hard.
Look at it this way:
iCloud should be very useful for lots of things, same as OneDrive on Microsoft platforms. Most people will want it enabled.
Apple really really really pushes their iPhoto crap. Most clueless users end up using it.
From this perspective, I would not be surprised if most people ended up belonging to the "all pictures are uploaded to iCloud" group, as a sort of default state.
To be fair, there's the good Cloud and the bad Cloud.
If this is truly caused by a vulnerability in iCloud, it's squarely in the "bad Cloud" segment.
Soon, you're writing your own OS by manually inserting each byte.
I don't know where you live, but any civilized country has something like the Crucial MX100 128GB available for some 80ish bucks or less.
Spoken like someone who has never witnessed an SSD at work.
Be careful, primitives might read "primitives" as "primates" and get all offended and mark you for death.
Why should you be careful? After being marked for death, the understandable reaction is to laugh your ass off. If you laugh too hard, you might asphyxiate.
Bubonic plague... Bah.
Throw antibiotics at the problem (that's what they're for).
Considering the hygiene issues they probably have as jihadis, they're far more at risk of dying from plague than anybody in a civilized country - this effect is known as "Karma" among the superstitious and "Natural Selection" among everyone with half a brain (not these two sets are not exclusive of each other).
SC4 works reasonably well on Windows 7 x64
Even back in the day it crashed quite a bit, but I do think it's worse on Windows 7.
Every BIOS in consumer hardware has been on EEPROM (or flash) for more than a decade, easily.
Mask ROM is not worth the effort, except in very specific cases.
And yet another argument turns into a C++ hatefest.
The software was certainly not the best, but considering that most "unintended acceleration" events happened after a couple of nasty accidents (caused by faulty/incorrect floor mats, not a design flaw in the throttle system), I don't buy it, other than for maybe a freak instance.
The vast majority was made up of people who either maliciously covered up their mistakes by blaming the car or should not have been driving at all and genuinely believed they had done nothing wrong.
It sounds like a typical reaction:
"No, I'm afraid we can't fix this. We're going to have to work around our problem... Conserve water, reuse wa.... No, no! Don't pay the fucking witch doctor for a rain dance!"
What's wrong with the radian?
Pi is a universal constant. Furthermore, its value is irrelevant in most calculations, being simply a placeholder. When the value is needed, using as much precision as needed is trivial.
You know why the imperial system is more flawed than the SI? It's defined in terms of SI units. It's a stopgap solution for those too lazy to standardize.
Failure to define units in terms of universal constants is not exclusive to SI, considering the imperial system never made such an attempt (and is thus useless without prototypes).
The easy conversion *is* the main point of the SI. Everything else amounts to a pissing match to see who finds more cases where one is arguably "simpler to use". Neither is inherently better in that aspect.
Sarcasm aside, as far as clip shows go, that one was especially awful.
Surely you're kidding...
I challenge you to tell the difference between 21 degrees Celsius and 22 degrees Celsius in real life. What kind of accuracy do you need? One degree will not make the difference between "I should take a sweater" and "nice warm day".
For every situation where you get a nice integer by using feet there's at least one where you get a nice integer using meters with whatever prefix you desire.
The whole point of the SI is to demystify manipulations that change between "adjacent" units. Feel silly saying you're 1 750 millimeters tall? Choose at will between 175 centimeters or 1,75 meters.
Arguments based on intuition have no merit whatsoever - no single unit is better overall than all its alternatives. The important part is coherency, which allows for trivial usage of multiple prefixes. Since the SI is coherent, it's better.
I don't really ever need to know how many inches are in a mile. Things measured in miles do not need the precision of inches. They don't usually even need the precision of feet. Things measured in kilometers do not need the precision of millimeters, or centimeters, or decimeters, or usually even meters the vast majority of the time.
Do not generalize. An airplane's wing is many meters long, yet its tolerances are in the mm range or smaller.
Some application do benefit from being able to freely mix prefixed units. Since having two incompatible systems is stupid, it makes sense to standardize around the better system.
Do not mistake SI for people who cannot standardize on a few sizes of hex heads for screws. It's unfortunate, but bad decisions are everywhere.
The system is absolutely superior as already detailed. "Everyday life" is a matter of getting used to it (the limits of human endurance aren't useful measures of anything typical). Only one country in the whole world is stubborn enough not to change and important enough for me to care.
The fact that the SI has a flaw that the imperial system also has does not make the SI inferior or equal.
I hope that's a joke.
I do not need to know the value of pi in many cases - it serves as a sort of placeholder. When I do need it, I do not need infinite precision.