I think the biggest issue is getting enough sun on them.
In the UK, we had a bit of weather on Monday, snow everywhere (was brilliant!) so on the day that we needed power the most - as it was bloody cold - all the solar panels were covered in snow, and the sky was cloudy, and as it was a snowy day (ie there was a big high pressure area over the UK) the wind farms were barely turning.
Net result, as seen from gridwatch was that renewables were providing about 5% of our energy demand.
That's the problem with renewables, great to reduce overall yearly carbon contributions, but useless on the worst days, which are the days when we need energy the most. So unless we can provide power from traditional sources, we would be screwed. The renewables lobby fails to appreciate that.
no, not "everything is a file" but systemd considers everything to be "configured in a file", the thing that does stuff is still systemd and you can't plug in a binary or a network stream or something and have it work. That's the big difference here.
That was before their user growth started to slow down - apparently all the cool kids are using snapchat now (which I heard on Business Matters on the BBC last night, see how down with the kids I am!!)
So yes, entirely driven by a need to capture more eyeballs for their advertisers.
the big means to censor at the moment is the "stop funding hate" campaign from a few twitterati activists who are "shaming" companies for advertising on newspapers they find objectionable (though perfectly legal and normal - mainly the Daily Mail at the moment which is a centre-right paper that also has an unhealthy (IMHO) section on celebrity gossip)..
They've managed to get paperchase and pizza hut to apologise for running adverts in these newspapers - PH for running a "free pizza" giveaway in the Sun newspaper most recently. I think they also attacked Breitbart using the same tactics a while back.
The campaigners are actually open about this. One of the chief organisers of SFH says it's about changing 'the financial balance' so that we 'get to the point where... you don't make money by publishing these headlines'. And so you stop publishing them. You stop saying things which, rightly or wrongly, you consider to be interesting or important or true, because some fat cat has threatened to defund your operation if you don't.
IIRC The Daily Stormer was little more than a pathetic troll site.
What didn;t get kicked off the platform was pro-terrorist propaganda sites, when Anonymous originally wanted to censor. For some reason they were allowed to remain, and the CEO never woke up angry with them even though their shitty fanaticism contributed far more to deaths than anything that feeble "nazi" site ever did.
Yep, and I'm not going to give any - its easy to demand evidence, troll-like, while offering nothing constructive to a discussion. so tghat's it from me. cya.
surely $(""#my street" house[lawn]").on("change", ".kids", function() { yell ("get off my lawn") ) });
(so that's in the area of my street identified, the lawn attribute as part of the house element has an event handler attached that looks for changes to it from items of class "kids" and calls a function to do some yelling. Frankly, its starting to make perl look sane.
and the whole thing has to be placed well away from the lawn, in order to use security measures like content security policy that prevents inline js from being modified and so the code is totally separate from the markup UI (which might be a good thing) except that the code is now totally distant from the UI so if you try to debug someone else's code, you're in a world of "where did that come from?" guesswork. Awesome, and don;t try to debug it because you'll only go down the rabbit hole that is jQuery to find where it thinks the JS event is attached from, and won't easily tell you where the frigging handler is to debug.
as quick as someone else experienced and proficient in a language. The point is that one language is not "better" than another once you're good at it - a C++ dev is just as fast as a Java dev once they're good at their respective languages because they know what they're doing and can produce results very quickly.
Take a while to think about it from the point of view of developer skill rather than language ease.
experienced developers are just as quick with languages they are experienced in. Its not surprising to see a master craftsman bang out something complex with ease.Once you've reached a level of mastery, the time taken is really just down to typing speed - which is irrelevant.
For junior developers, or those (like me who code C# by pressing '.' and seeing what intellisense clues I get next), then language does make a difference, but possibly that too is irrelevant as the time in developing is more about the overall environment and design practices than the actual coding.
Well NASA-invented Vanadium redox flow batteries for example. Useless for powering your car as they have to be big and are slow to release power but the fact that they retain their capacity for a much longer time and can be recycled very easily makes them perfect fit for grid-scale storage.
I suppose client stuff is constrained by graphics, but I tend to think in terms of server software - and efficiency means the difference between serving a heap of users and a load of users, the difference can be significant.
Now sure a lot is algorithmic, not language these days, but I find that the "easy" languages are the ones laden down with layers and layers of abstractions which fall into the category of bad algorithm practices.
Besides, the issue shouldn't be "this language is easier than others" as all you do is make it quicker to develop shitty software by untrained people. The experienced developers are just as quick in their favoured language as any, so an old experienced C++ dev with a framework he knows will be no slower than the Java developer with a framework he knows, at that point it starts to be the abstractions that come into play. For example, if I as a c++ dev did some DB access, I'd writ e a sproc and call it via native calls. If I do C# work, I'll use entity framework that adds a massive amount of overhead to every call. The EF version is quicker to type out, but not by such a significant amount, particularly when you consider how long I take to design what the functionality should be in the first place!
not compared to the time of a million users though.
Its just that those creating the programs don't pay for the user's time (unless it gets really bad and a competitor product appears), or the server time for the extra hardware required to handle the complexity.
He's wrong, as anyone familiar with perl will tell you, but he's also right - the "code" rather than the "English" syntax is more readable once you progress above beginner levels.
Maybe the ternary operator was a mistake though, or maybe a mistake is to chain operations together on one line without some form of delimiting spacing.
the actual text doesn't matter - its the effects that are problematic. If you pass a law that can be used to oppress people, its an oppressive law, regardless of the original intention.
No, they're qualitatively just as bad as each other.
I suppose you could say Trump is better is this regard - at least he doesn't quite know what he's doing. Trudeau doesn't have that excuse, he knows and is quite happy to do it.
Because I quoted just 2 paragraphs of the entire article rather that post it all. That's what you do with other people's articles, give just enough to understand what the link is, so if you're interested you can RTFA yourself.
One day Matt calls her at 8 am, inviting Amy over to his dorm room. When Amy goes to his dorm room, she immediately recognizes that he is drunk:
I won't give you all the details, but it is important to note that Matt was repeatedly falling asleep during the encounter, according to Amy's story. It gives an indication as to how impaired Matt was, and how Amy let it continue despite the interruptions.
Now is that rape? If not, then all those other cases of men having intercourse with women who were drunk can't be considered rape either.
Lena Dunham though, I can't find any case there except for her defence of a Girls' Writer who was accused.
Are you sure its not you who is the one who is wrong.
"little memo of failure" doesn't sound like you're coming from a position of unbiased critical thought, more parroting the narrative of what everyone else said.
Remember Sir Tim Hunt, hounded out of his job because "sexism" that turned out to be massively overblown twitterstorm? Things like this happen because you refuse to read and understand what he said or was even trying to say, and go straight to kneejerk responses.
I read his memo, it seemed like it had plenty of sensible, factual points to make, and it wasn't some sort of diatribe against diversity, except that it gave ammunition to those who are - that's the problem with facts, they can't really be refuted and so attention has to be deflected away from them. Normally his memo would have simply been read, asked for a TL/DR; and forgotten about.
No, they don't. That the troubling thing - all they care about now is attacking their political enemy. And they do this directly, but also indirectly by promoting an environment that is anathema to them, eg Islamification - the left and progressives will be hurt the most if Sharia law ever gets implemented, but they are the ones screeching the loudest to allow it to happen. Blindly setting an agenda of enablement for some truly horrific things to take place, with impunity.
Watch this, its a history of a UK guy who is vilified, here he talks about what drove him to become like he is. It isn't some innate racism that makes him hate extremists and decide to do something about it - it was that he saw the extremists committing crimes and the police and authorities basically looking the other way (for fear of being called racist themselves).
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -- George Orwell
Unfortunately, the fascists here are the "liberal" of the left, like Twitter who has now determined that an old "this is a real person" flag has become a "this is a person we approve of" flag. ie exactly the opposite of what Twitter was trying to do.
professional politicians? I doubt we'd really want a bunch of unelected self-appointed career politicians running our lives because they say they know best and have a degree in politics and gender studies to prove it.
Unfortunately the bias is prevalent from the left - but that's because the left-wing media actively encourages it and is mainstream, while the right-wing media is simply ridiculed when they do it. The difference is clear that the media on the left, that gives a free-pass to bad practices from the left is the mainstream.
What we should be doing is holding up all examples of bad practice, and criticisng it. The left-wing media should be holding the left-leaning companies and individuals to as much rigour as they can to weed out the bad uns. But instead, we know our media is biased and polarised and this only drives society to be even more tribal and encourages "opposition" media to appear to counter it. This state of affairs is really is nobody's best interests except the political activists who want to make elections about tribal loyalty and not policies.
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I think the biggest issue is getting enough sun on them.
In the UK, we had a bit of weather on Monday, snow everywhere (was brilliant!) so on the day that we needed power the most - as it was bloody cold - all the solar panels were covered in snow, and the sky was cloudy, and as it was a snowy day (ie there was a big high pressure area over the UK) the wind farms were barely turning.
Net result, as seen from gridwatch was that renewables were providing about 5% of our energy demand.
That's the problem with renewables, great to reduce overall yearly carbon contributions, but useless on the worst days, which are the days when we need energy the most. So unless we can provide power from traditional sources, we would be screwed. The renewables lobby fails to appreciate that.
no, not "everything is a file" but systemd considers everything to be "configured in a file", the thing that does stuff is still systemd and you can't plug in a binary or a network stream or something and have it work. That's the big difference here.
That was before their user growth started to slow down - apparently all the cool kids are using snapchat now (which I heard on Business Matters on the BBC last night, see how down with the kids I am!!)
So yes, entirely driven by a need to capture more eyeballs for their advertisers.
the big means to censor at the moment is the "stop funding hate" campaign from a few twitterati activists who are "shaming" companies for advertising on newspapers they find objectionable (though perfectly legal and normal - mainly the Daily Mail at the moment which is a centre-right paper that also has an unhealthy (IMHO) section on celebrity gossip)..
They've managed to get paperchase and pizza hut to apologise for running adverts in these newspapers - PH for running a "free pizza" giveaway in the Sun newspaper most recently. I think they also attacked Breitbart using the same tactics a while
back.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/...
IIRC The Daily Stormer was little more than a pathetic troll site.
What didn;t get kicked off the platform was pro-terrorist propaganda sites, when Anonymous originally wanted to censor. For some reason they were allowed to remain, and the CEO never woke up angry with them even though their shitty fanaticism contributed far more to deaths than anything that feeble "nazi" site ever did.
Yep, and I'm not going to give any - its easy to demand evidence, troll-like, while offering nothing constructive to a discussion. so tghat's it from me. cya.
surely
$(""#my street" house[lawn]").on("change", ".kids", function() { yell ("get off my lawn") ) });
(so that's in the area of my street identified, the lawn attribute as part of the house element has an event handler attached that looks for changes to it from items of class "kids" and calls a function to do some yelling. Frankly, its starting to make perl look sane.
and the whole thing has to be placed well away from the lawn, in order to use security measures like content security policy that prevents inline js from being modified and so the code is totally separate from the markup UI (which might be a good thing) except that the code is now totally distant from the UI so if you try to debug someone else's code, you're in a world of "where did that come from?" guesswork. Awesome, and don;t try to debug it because you'll only go down the rabbit hole that is jQuery to find where it thinks the JS event is attached from, and won't easily tell you where the frigging handler is to debug.
as quick as someone else experienced and proficient in a language. The point is that one language is not "better" than another once you're good at it - a C++ dev is just as fast as a Java dev once they're good at their respective languages because they know what they're doing and can produce results very quickly.
Take a while to think about it from the point of view of developer skill rather than language ease.
experienced developers are just as quick with languages they are experienced in. Its not surprising to see a master craftsman bang out something complex with ease.Once you've reached a level of mastery, the time taken is really just down to typing speed - which is irrelevant.
For junior developers, or those (like me who code C# by pressing '.' and seeing what intellisense clues I get next), then language does make a difference, but possibly that too is irrelevant as the time in developing is more about the overall environment and design practices than the actual coding.
what's more advanced?
Well NASA-invented Vanadium redox flow batteries for example. Useless for powering your car as they have to be big and are slow to release power but the fact that they retain their capacity for a much longer time and can be recycled very easily makes them perfect fit for grid-scale storage.
Have a link to one company that makes these things:
http://www.redtenergy.com/how-...
I suppose client stuff is constrained by graphics, but I tend to think in terms of server software - and efficiency means the difference between serving a heap of users and a load of users, the difference can be significant.
Now sure a lot is algorithmic, not language these days, but I find that the "easy" languages are the ones laden down with layers and layers of abstractions which fall into the category of bad algorithm practices.
Besides, the issue shouldn't be "this language is easier than others" as all you do is make it quicker to develop shitty software by untrained people. The experienced developers are just as quick in their favoured language as any, so an old experienced C++ dev with a framework he knows will be no slower than the Java developer with a framework he knows, at that point it starts to be the abstractions that come into play. For example, if I as a c++ dev did some DB access, I'd writ e a sproc and call it via native calls. If I do C# work, I'll use entity framework that adds a massive amount of overhead to every call. The EF version is quicker to type out, but not by such a significant amount, particularly when you consider how long I take to design what the functionality should be in the first place!
not compared to the time of a million users though.
Its just that those creating the programs don't pay for the user's time (unless it gets really bad and a competitor product appears), or the server time for the extra hardware required to handle the complexity.
He's wrong, as anyone familiar with perl will tell you, but he's also right - the "code" rather than the "English" syntax is more readable once you progress above beginner levels.
Maybe the ternary operator was a mistake though, or maybe a mistake is to chain operations together on one line without some form of delimiting spacing.
That's right - welcome to the 1980s citizen.
We have hate crime laws too, where the criteria for any allegation to be a hate crime is that someone feels it is offensive.
the actual text doesn't matter - its the effects that are problematic. If you pass a law that can be used to oppress people, its an oppressive law, regardless of the original intention.
No, they're qualitatively just as bad as each other.
I suppose you could say Trump is better is this regard - at least he doesn't quite know what he's doing. Trudeau doesn't have that excuse, he knows and is quite happy to do it.
Because I quoted just 2 paragraphs of the entire article rather that post it all. That's what you do with other people's articles, give just enough to understand what the link is, so if you're interested you can RTFA yourself.
Its so easy to spout the usual "no it wasn't" line when your position is criticised, slightly less easy to google for an answer. So I did it for you.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/ano...
One day Matt calls her at 8 am, inviting Amy over to his dorm room. When Amy goes to his dorm room, she immediately recognizes that he is drunk:
I won't give you all the details, but it is important to note that Matt was repeatedly falling asleep during the encounter, according to Amy's story. It gives an indication as to how impaired Matt was, and how Amy let it continue despite the interruptions.
Now is that rape? If not, then all those other cases of men having intercourse with women who were drunk can't be considered rape either.
Lena Dunham though, I can't find any case there except for her defence of a Girls' Writer who was accused.
Are you sure its not you who is the one who is wrong.
"little memo of failure" doesn't sound like you're coming from a position of unbiased critical thought, more parroting the narrative of what everyone else said.
Remember Sir Tim Hunt, hounded out of his job because "sexism" that turned out to be massively overblown twitterstorm? Things like this happen because you refuse to read and understand what he said or was even trying to say, and go straight to kneejerk responses.
I read his memo, it seemed like it had plenty of sensible, factual points to make, and it wasn't some sort of diatribe against diversity, except that it gave ammunition to those who are - that's the problem with facts, they can't really be refuted and so attention has to be deflected away from them. Normally his memo would have simply been read, asked for a TL/DR; and forgotten about.
No, they don't. That the troubling thing - all they care about now is attacking their political enemy. And they do this directly, but also indirectly by promoting an environment that is anathema to them, eg Islamification - the left and progressives will be hurt the most if Sharia law ever gets implemented, but they are the ones screeching the loudest to allow it to happen. Blindly setting an agenda of enablement for some truly horrific things to take place, with impunity.
Watch this, its a history of a UK guy who is vilified, here he talks about what drove him to become like he is. It isn't some innate racism that makes him hate extremists and decide to do something about it - it was that he saw the extremists committing crimes and the police and authorities basically looking the other way (for fear of being called racist themselves).
the irony is that they *are* being persecuted by people who hate them.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
-- George Orwell
Unfortunately, the fascists here are the "liberal" of the left, like Twitter who has now determined that an old "this is a real person" flag has become a "this is a person we approve of" flag. ie exactly the opposite of what Twitter was trying to do.
professional politicians? I doubt we'd really want a bunch of unelected self-appointed career politicians running our lives because they say they know best and have a degree in politics and gender studies to prove it.
Unfortunately the bias is prevalent from the left - but that's because the left-wing media actively encourages it and is mainstream, while the right-wing media is simply ridiculed when they do it. The difference is clear that the media on the left, that gives a free-pass to bad practices from the left is the mainstream.
What we should be doing is holding up all examples of bad practice, and criticisng it. The left-wing media should be holding the left-leaning companies and individuals to as much rigour as they can to weed out the bad uns. But instead, we know our media is biased and polarised and this only drives society to be even more tribal and encourages "opposition" media to appear to counter it. This state of affairs is really is nobody's best interests except the political activists who want to make elections about tribal loyalty and not policies.
or you could use Ublock origin and ghostery....