It varies. When I moved to my current city 25 years ago, there were around 50,000 inhabitants and a full-on bookseller, another store selling a goodly range of paperbacks in the front and stroke mags in the back, and two used-book stores. Now, with around 80,000 people, the bookseller has devolved to niche books and bestsellers and lots of kitsch - plush toys, puzzles, coffee and snacks (a nice thing, actually, that last) and weekly meetings of various book clubs; they will still order books, even paperbacks, tho. There are no used-book stores within twenty miles that I know of.
Perhaps it's part generational and part my love of reading books, but although I look forward to someday affording an e-reader, I vastly prefer a good overstuffed easy chair, hassock, side table for beverage, ashtray and snacks, with a window and good reader's lamp, and a new or favorite paperback book in hand. Even better when there's a duplicate setup for a friend.
A bit of looking around at before and after photos and a some reading leaves me with the impression that a picked lock will almost always be readily discerned by close observation. Generally, there are scratches where there shouldn't be any. Whether local LEO will find that evidence will depend much on who you are, where you live, and the value of items taken.
AC's second sentence is on the mark. Work your contacts from previous jobs and tasks, so that you have someone in charge at a new place invite you in.
Else, as has been suggested, either consult or start a business.
Dyeing hair and eyebrows is not so far-fetched. About ten years back when a friend of mine quit his job with a state agency just several years shy of fully-vested retirement to open a consulting partnership with a friend of his, he dyed hair, brows, and mustache for the first four or five years. Once their client list and reputation were built up and they had more work than they could possibly handle, he stopped and let the grey appear, with no problems.
Already by late eighties were a design adapted from existing old reactor that would gracefully survive total loss of coolant - no meltdown, and no discernible damage to core. I no longer have it, was an article in Scientific American circa '90 by the three guys at Hanford who did it. Some really neat engineering. After several run-ups, came time for the main test, the main coolant loop valve was turned off. IIRC, one guy sat in control room reading a book all night while keeping an eye on the core temps.
They'd done this experiment on their own hook and essentially in their spare time with help from other engineers and work crews using an idle test reactor. When they wanted to publish their results and the highers learned the full extent of what they'd done, as coincident luck would have it, they were reassigned to other duties or projects and their report filed.
I don't know what happened to their report or if any of them are still alive, but the SciAm article shouldn't be that difficult to find. If you are interested.
Going by memory, did this stuff for a living thirty years ago, one inch generic foam is around R-4.5. Back then I got most of my working data starting with ASTM, ASHRAE, Bureau of Standards, and manufacturers, modified by updates from several university research projects.
Maintenance? Some of the better modular designs are completely sealed and need no none in any conventional sense; such monitoring as they'd need could be done remotely. Of these at least one design is to be set in the ground, then covered when EOL; the others, as mentioned above, returned and retired.
Intermediate designs I've seen seem to be very well equipped for largely automated running, with need for far fewer people and tasking.
Grid works almost well enough as is - we're supposed to be modernizing it, but I don't recall if Congress ever approved the funds. Even so, I think it would be an interesting statistical fluke if all the small reactors in one area were to go tits up at the same time.
I've never read where scaling up encompassed simply increasing the number of units of something, but I don't get out much lately.
Well, I've met Liddy, sat with him and Tim Leary over a couple of pitchers (Lizard's Underground, East Lansing, ~1982). He talks just fine, or did, back then. As for Ballmer? I dunno, never met him. Don't care much for what I see of him, tho.
Let's see, the submission is "security researcher attacked while at conference" and from the first sentence "a fellow speaker....attempted to rape her."
And, because you come here for entertainment, you figured it'd be a good topic to continue reading to get some, you know, entertainment. But instead of pics or amusing animated gifs or something there was only a wall of text that you couldn't get off to, not even some goddam measly bullet points. I mean, the nerve, right?
Beautiful catch, Paul. Thank you! I don't remember reading it. (Just read the Wiki article; yeah, I read it. Remember now being kinda pissed in that there were really no good endings that stayed in character. Yet some good food for thought. What chilled me most was the proposed solution to Nunez' "problem", perhaps because the thought of losing my sight scares the bejeesus out of me.)
As an aside, while there may be some philosophical arguments against, I'd rather we sought to alleviate and prevent blindness rather than place restrictions on the sighted.
Several thoughts occur. When we have the capability of escaping "the tyranny of the flesh" via android bods, how do we, and to what extent ought we, to preserve as best able the known range of perceptions of the various senses (separate from however we choose to augment those prior native senses) to preserve a simulacrum of what it meant to be Human with a body. And should we do so? Or will we decide to alter our working definition of what constitutes "human" by not even including a 'native' or 'historic' mode?
Yes, there was Babbage. And there was never a completed working computing engine; further I misdoubt any Babbage-related machinery were sold to the Germans pre-World War II.
Great read, and a fascinating fellow, nonetheless, and I think we owe him a cultural debt for some of his work.
There were computers before World War II? In what sense, and what kind? I mean, I know there were adding machines, and a more complex type, the comptometer. Further, there were slide rules and specialized types such as the is-was. But computers? You mean the analog firing solution mechanisms such as used for main batteries on capitol ships? The rudimentary TDC? Tabulating machines? What?
No sweat, man; some have done the same for me over the years for some real doozies, so I try to pass it on. I rather liked "que", truth be told. And I'm not gonna tell you how badly I got ribbed for my pronunciation of horizontal back in '55. (I'd never heard the word pronounced, so it was down to creative phonetics.)
Thanks, guys; nothing like good old science and engineering to introduce some reality. I've gotten some flicker from time to time over the years and it's annoying as hell at best. I don't know what the incidence is amongst the general population, but trashing the phenomenon down to kooks does no one good service.
You're kidding, right? Of all the bone-headed bullshit, 'acid flashback' ranks right up there. There ain't no such thing. While some very rare number of people can have a psychological twinge or something, it's still not an acid flashback. I speak from over ten years of fairly wide observation (over a hundred people and not a few on multiple occasions) and extensive direct personal experience (well over a hundred trips) and as part of a conversation with Timothy Leary; but that's anecdotal, so do even a cursory search and steel yourself for a bit of, you know, _reading_ and you'll find out it's bullshit.
Well said. Also, being one of the nuts that often RTFA, including when asked to drink from the firehose, I value the posts written by people who at least seem to know what they're talking about on technical issues. This thread is a case in point; I may never compile my own stuff from source, but now I have some excellent background of things to be aware of when doing so.
Whatever it is, I find it interesting in that however it does whatever it does it apparently works differently than any other computing machine. It's that black-box weirdness that has kept me following D-Wave for the past six years.
(Please note I don't know a damn thing about any of this; I do like a bit of mystery and odd phenomena. Helps avoid ennui, and keeps the "man will never fly" demons from my door.)
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Yes. And yes. It stinks. Mea culpa, or something. At the time I intended to keep what I bought, and at the time hadn't considered the rest.
It varies. When I moved to my current city 25 years ago, there were around 50,000 inhabitants and a full-on bookseller, another store selling a goodly range of paperbacks in the front and stroke mags in the back, and two used-book stores. Now, with around 80,000 people, the bookseller has devolved to niche books and bestsellers and lots of kitsch - plush toys, puzzles, coffee and snacks (a nice thing, actually, that last) and weekly meetings of various book clubs; they will still order books, even paperbacks, tho. There are no used-book stores within twenty miles that I know of.
Perhaps it's part generational and part my love of reading books, but although I look forward to someday affording an e-reader, I vastly prefer a good overstuffed easy chair, hassock, side table for beverage, ashtray and snacks, with a window and good reader's lamp, and a new or favorite paperback book in hand. Even better when there's a duplicate setup for a friend.
A bit of looking around at before and after photos and a some reading leaves me with the impression that a picked lock will almost always be readily discerned by close observation. Generally, there are scratches where there shouldn't be any. Whether local LEO will find that evidence will depend much on who you are, where you live, and the value of items taken.
AC's second sentence is on the mark. Work your contacts from previous jobs and tasks, so that you have someone in charge at a new place invite you in.
Else, as has been suggested, either consult or start a business.
Dyeing hair and eyebrows is not so far-fetched. About ten years back when a friend of mine quit his job with a state agency just several years shy of fully-vested retirement to open a consulting partnership with a friend of his, he dyed hair, brows, and mustache for the first four or five years. Once their client list and reputation were built up and they had more work than they could possibly handle, he stopped and let the grey appear, with no problems.
Already by late eighties were a design adapted from existing old reactor that would gracefully survive total loss of coolant - no meltdown, and no discernible damage to core. I no longer have it, was an article in Scientific American circa '90 by the three guys at Hanford who did it. Some really neat engineering. After several run-ups, came time for the main test, the main coolant loop valve was turned off. IIRC, one guy sat in control room reading a book all night while keeping an eye on the core temps.
They'd done this experiment on their own hook and essentially in their spare time with help from other engineers and work crews using an idle test reactor. When they wanted to publish their results and the highers learned the full extent of what they'd done, as coincident luck would have it, they were reassigned to other duties or projects and their report filed.
I don't know what happened to their report or if any of them are still alive, but the SciAm article shouldn't be that difficult to find. If you are interested.
Going by memory, did this stuff for a living thirty years ago, one inch generic foam is around R-4.5. Back then I got most of my working data starting with ASTM, ASHRAE, Bureau of Standards, and manufacturers, modified by updates from several university research projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-value_(insulation) starts to bring us current, with good exposition and some useful values.
Maintenance? Some of the better modular designs are completely sealed and need no none in any conventional sense; such monitoring as they'd need could be done remotely. Of these at least one design is to be set in the ground, then covered when EOL; the others, as mentioned above, returned and retired.
Intermediate designs I've seen seem to be very well equipped for largely automated running, with need for far fewer people and tasking.
Grid works almost well enough as is - we're supposed to be modernizing it, but I don't recall if Congress ever approved the funds. Even so, I think it would be an interesting statistical fluke if all the small reactors in one area were to go tits up at the same time.
I've never read where scaling up encompassed simply increasing the number of units of something, but I don't get out much lately.
Well, I've met Liddy, sat with him and Tim Leary over a couple of pitchers (Lizard's Underground, East Lansing, ~1982). He talks just fine, or did, back then. As for Ballmer? I dunno, never met him. Don't care much for what I see of him, tho.
Let's see, the submission is "security researcher attacked while at conference" and from the first sentence "a fellow speaker....attempted to rape her."
And, because you come here for entertainment, you figured it'd be a good topic to continue reading to get some, you know, entertainment. But instead of pics or amusing animated gifs or something there was only a wall of text that you couldn't get off to, not even some goddam measly bullet points. I mean, the nerve, right?
Wonderful, just wonderful.
The layers do get compensation of a sort as food and shelter but the living conditions are horrid and the retirement plan sucks.
Beautiful catch, Paul. Thank you! I don't remember reading it. (Just read the Wiki article; yeah, I read it. Remember now being kinda pissed in that there were really no good endings that stayed in character. Yet some good food for thought. What chilled me most was the proposed solution to Nunez' "problem", perhaps because the thought of losing my sight scares the bejeesus out of me.)
As an aside, while there may be some philosophical arguments against, I'd rather we sought to alleviate and prevent blindness rather than place restrictions on the sighted.
Several thoughts occur. When we have the capability of escaping "the tyranny of the flesh" via android bods, how do we, and to what extent ought we, to preserve as best able the known range of perceptions of the various senses (separate from however we choose to augment those prior native senses) to preserve a simulacrum of what it meant to be Human with a body. And should we do so? Or will we decide to alter our working definition of what constitutes "human" by not even including a 'native' or 'historic' mode?
Yes, there was Babbage. And there was never a completed working computing engine; further I misdoubt any Babbage-related machinery were sold to the Germans pre-World War II.
Great read, and a fascinating fellow, nonetheless, and I think we owe him a cultural debt for some of his work.
He has no mouth, and needs must.
There were computers before World War II? In what sense, and what kind? I mean, I know there were adding machines, and a more complex type, the comptometer. Further, there were slide rules and specialized types such as the is-was. But computers? You mean the analog firing solution mechanisms such as used for main batteries on capitol ships? The rudimentary TDC? Tabulating machines? What?
Funny, that. It's been said that in the valley of the blind the one-eyed man is king; my reading is that he's the first one killed.
Nice; even nicer if those junior Tom Swifts could get some credit for their work.
No sweat, man; some have done the same for me over the years for some real doozies, so I try to pass it on. I rather liked "que", truth be told. And I'm not gonna tell you how badly I got ribbed for my pronunciation of horizontal back in '55. (I'd never heard the word pronounced, so it was down to creative phonetics.)
Thanks, guys; nothing like good old science and engineering to introduce some reality. I've gotten some flicker from time to time over the years and it's annoying as hell at best. I don't know what the incidence is amongst the general population, but trashing the phenomenon down to kooks does no one good service.
"acid flashback"
You're kidding, right? Of all the bone-headed bullshit, 'acid flashback' ranks right up there. There ain't no such thing. While some very rare number of people can have a psychological twinge or something, it's still not an acid flashback. I speak from over ten years of fairly wide observation (over a hundred people and not a few on multiple occasions) and extensive direct personal experience (well over a hundred trips) and as part of a conversation with Timothy Leary; but that's anecdotal, so do even a cursory search and steel yourself for a bit of, you know, _reading_ and you'll find out it's bullshit.
Many thanks for "checkinstall" from one who might never have known.
Well said. Also, being one of the nuts that often RTFA, including when asked to drink from the firehose, I value the posts written by people who at least seem to know what they're talking about on technical issues. This thread is a case in point; I may never compile my own stuff from source, but now I have some excellent background of things to be aware of when doing so.
Seems could be of some use for not just musicians but writers and photogs, possibly bloggers and reporters.
Whatever it is, I find it interesting in that however it does whatever it does it apparently works differently than any other computing machine. It's that black-box weirdness that has kept me following D-Wave for the past six years.
(Please note I don't know a damn thing about any of this; I do like a bit of mystery and odd phenomena. Helps avoid ennui, and keeps the "man will never fly" demons from my door.)
I'd settle for my old 800, the machine I learned to program on, for my first proprietary program.
Reading the experiences and history from a topic like this are one the big reasons I find /. valuable.
Thanks for the links, you two. I think. "The Trial" is one of the few books I've read that gave me nightmares.