If you look at the Electrify America charging map you can see they have a pretty good spread of stations across the U.S. - just zoom out.
The map may take a little while to get you a correct total, just wait a few seconds or zoom in and out a little at the top level, it'll eventually settle into the right numbers.
Even the law against headwear that doesn't block your face, doesn't seem like it would apply to hoodies - you can have them pulled up so people at face level can still see your face, but a CCTV (generally mounted up at street light level) could not.
The phone tracking software would practically eliminate such resistance though as few would be willing to go around without phones, and in many modern societies it would be hard to not have the phone on hand for payments...
One thing I don't get about China's plan, it seems worrying but also kind of easily gamed - like you could go around in a hood or those face matching block patterns on normally, but just sometimes go out plain-faced doing good deeds to raise your score.
The face blocking pattern stuff could well get you arrested, but China is not arresting everyone with a hood pulled up are they? That seems unrealistic.
Having tried a number of different team chat platforms, I have to say Slack still has a kind of commanding lead, even in just the basics of chat. I prefer it to anything else.
However it still is not the most pleasant or well organized thing at times, so I personally would be a bit reluctant to invest in Slack just because I feel like it's still possible some other company could figure out a better approach and overtake Slack someday.
If the world population were to increases 50%, to 11 billion, and energy usage rose to the same level as the U.S. total energy consumption would rise 100 times.
So what? That is still not hitting the resource limit especially if you factor in nuclear.
But what you are saying is not even the case - birth rates are falling in areas that use a LOT less energy. You don't have to rise to the level of the U.S. to have declining birth rates, just to where people are generally well off - look all over Europe, even in Africa you are starting to see this effect in areas. What matters far more is medical care and education.
During the recent global Xbox One outage, I felt sad because I could still make use of all the gaming devices I owned. Now I'll be able to participate in global Microsoft server outages along with everyone else!
Everyone knows water freezes at 32F, and they don't care what temperature water boils at as they can just see it's boiling (or steaming and don't enter a temperature to boil - they just turn on heat until it boils.
So the numerical alignment of 100 to boiling is totally worthless, while having weather forecast temperatures that do not need decimal points to be accurate is much nicer for comprehension. When you get between 70-80 degrees there starts to be a lot of variance in what temperature people adjust clothing, In C that is 21.1 to 26.6 which gives you half the whole numbers to express what it will be like outside.
The thing about peak population is that the peak is reached not because of resource constraints, but because of the natural human inclination to have fewer children when people are healthy and have good access to education. Since all of that has been ramping up continuously we are in no danger of hitting resource limits.
I can't believe a programmer (as all Slashdot posters are) is really going to pretend that the fidelity of case will always be maintained across a lot of documents! Remember these are eventually getting into the hands of, or being created by, engineers.
So the article is obviously a stupid flame bait question which I really don't have much direct response to, since I've not been doing any with with Java for some time - either client or server.
Instead of reading responses or the article, I ended up finding this amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe, making said cookies, and then eating them to verify the claims the recipe was as good as it claims - it is.
Instead of me arguing the case for or against Java with others here, I thought all of *you* could use a great recipe for chocolate chip cookies, especially with Valentines day coming up - even if you are single it's a great emotional boon to make cookies for yourself!
Pay special attention to the text just above the actual recipe that mentions roasting the nuts that go in the cookies first, I agree that made it extra awesome.
Mods: I totally understand an off topic mod here, but please only one so that others may see this amazing recipe.
The digging is with in the realm of possibility... having the equipment onsite is admittedly a challenge...
Considering the entire planet is a huge supply of iron oxide, you can simply set up a facility to extract iron and produce as many drill shafts as you need. You'd only need to bring a bunch of drill heads and some of the surface machinery to Mars as those would be a lot harder to produce than the drill shafts (though eventually you'd be able to produce those on Mars as well).
I can see you slipped up here, since obviously you meant to respond to the original poster who claimed the lack of Hyperloop showed that Mush was a failure. Thanks for helping my argument by noting you cannot even attribute the Hyperloop idea to Musk.
What I find most amusing about your "rebuttal" is that even though the article is only a half page long, here you show that you were obviously too lazy to even read to the end of the page... You fell exactly into the trap I intended by using that particular link.
: "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits.88 C.
Someone above was asking why Musk didn't use C instead of F to refer to the temperature the hull can take...
You just demonstrated why - when talking about spaceships you only want to use F for temperatures so you don't confuse it with the use of C for speed.:-)
someone not vaccinating their kids against common diseases is among the obvious definitions of 'unintelligent'
If these were conservatives from poorer regions they would indeed be labeled as such.
However because by and large at this point almost all anti-vaxxers are from highly credentialed liberal regions, they are by definition of liberal, intelligent.
How on earth do you discount the success of Tesla and SpaceX? Musk is obviously far more than just a byproduct of PayPal.
Musk may not be the smartest guy in the room but he has a very solid track record of saying his companies are going to do something people consider outside the envelope, and not just making it work but making it work really well.
It sure seems like with the success that SpaceX has had, anyone discounting what Musk has to say about how rockets should be built and operated, is very probably either a jerk or an idiot. In either case they are even more probably wrong.
Going by Mr. Musk's other fancy projects like the Hyperloop and his tunnels or even the flame thrower, the outlook for a stainless steel rocket is......fantastic.
The hyper loop already has a demo tunnel built when many said NOTHING would ever be built. It completely validates the concept, to the point you can be sure to see commercial implementation.
The flame thrower turned out really well, to the point I was very sad I didn't get to order one before they were gone.
And of course, Tesla is practically the definition of success (so funny how you left that example out). Not to mention the many fantastic success SpaceX itself has had - in fact the most directly pertinent example, vs. the flame thrower.
It seems you lack the vision to understand when early phases of something portend future success.
Tell someone "That material can withstand 815 to 871 C!".
I'm in full support of metric units elsewhere, but that doesn't look, nor sound, nearly so exciting... C is just a terrible unit of measurement for expressing temperature. Even more true of weather ranges.
It's not nearly so common these days it seems, but I used to run into a lot of libraries where there was a question about if something had zero or one as the starting index.
Even now though sometimes when doing complex length calculations with a lot of parts, it's not impossible to get something just slightly off.
There are many systems and framework in which some boilerplate (repetitive code, which the spellchecker adjusted to "reptile code" at first - so fitting) is sadly needed.
Also sometimes you have to boilerplate some code for a while before you can coalesce it all into something simpler - like one of Blaise Pascal's letters that came with a forward, saying essentially "I'm sorry this letter is so long, I did not have the time to make it shorter".
More than this is needed? To what? Generate lazy and bad programmers?
That is the biggest contradiction I have ever seen typed.
The truth is, as I and many others have learned over decades - the absolute BEST programmers are the laziest ones.
A lazy programmer will spend vast amount of time determining a way to do something that involves less work, to build systems so that they need the least maintenance.
A "dumb" programmer will look for the most modern way to do something, not assuming that they know the best way just because they have worked on something before.
I am not just talking about saving you time, but tools that help keep you on track with your own ideals on how you want to program and name things. A system that could recognize how you've approached a problem before, and suggest starting with a similar approach - or maybe something new if the industry had moved to a different current best practice.
After all, a lot of us use not just stack overflow but turn to looking over older code bases to review problems we think we solved really well before. Why would you NOT do that - again, lazy but it really helps code quality. An AI could spend the time during through your old approaches and Stack Overflow and journals to find something novel that might be a good idea.
We always rightfully scoffed at tools that would replace programmers, but what should not be scoffed at is any use of technology that can augment humans by automating ANYTHING they do repetitively - and programming research is one of those things.
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If you look at the Electrify America charging map you can see they have a pretty good spread of stations across the U.S. - just zoom out.
The map may take a little while to get you a correct total, just wait a few seconds or zoom in and out a little at the top level, it'll eventually settle into the right numbers.
Even the law against headwear that doesn't block your face, doesn't seem like it would apply to hoodies - you can have them pulled up so people at face level can still see your face, but a CCTV (generally mounted up at street light level) could not.
The phone tracking software would practically eliminate such resistance though as few would be willing to go around without phones, and in many modern societies it would be hard to not have the phone on hand for payments...
One thing I don't get about China's plan, it seems worrying but also kind of easily gamed - like you could go around in a hood or those face matching block patterns on normally, but just sometimes go out plain-faced doing good deeds to raise your score.
The face blocking pattern stuff could well get you arrested, but China is not arresting everyone with a hood pulled up are they? That seems unrealistic.
Having tried a number of different team chat platforms, I have to say Slack still has a kind of commanding lead, even in just the basics of chat. I prefer it to anything else.
However it still is not the most pleasant or well organized thing at times, so I personally would be a bit reluctant to invest in Slack just because I feel like it's still possible some other company could figure out a better approach and overtake Slack someday.
If the world population were to increases 50%, to 11 billion, and energy usage rose to the same level as the U.S. total energy consumption would rise 100 times.
So what? That is still not hitting the resource limit especially if you factor in nuclear.
But what you are saying is not even the case - birth rates are falling in areas that use a LOT less energy. You don't have to rise to the level of the U.S. to have declining birth rates, just to where people are generally well off - look all over Europe, even in Africa you are starting to see this effect in areas. What matters far more is medical care and education.
During the recent global Xbox One outage, I felt sad because I could still make use of all the gaming devices I owned. Now I'll be able to participate in global Microsoft server outages along with everyone else!
Everyone knows water freezes at 32F, and they don't care what temperature water boils at as they can just see it's boiling (or steaming and don't enter a temperature to boil - they just turn on heat until it boils.
So the numerical alignment of 100 to boiling is totally worthless, while having weather forecast temperatures that do not need decimal points to be accurate is much nicer for comprehension. When you get between 70-80 degrees there starts to be a lot of variance in what temperature people adjust clothing, In C that is 21.1 to 26.6 which gives you half the whole numbers to express what it will be like outside.
The thing about peak population is that the peak is reached not because of resource constraints, but because of the natural human inclination to have fewer children when people are healthy and have good access to education. Since all of that has been ramping up continuously we are in no danger of hitting resource limits.
Ok, I could definitely go for that. :-)
Only GP would use C when he meant to write c.
I can't believe a programmer (as all Slashdot posters are) is really going to pretend that the fidelity of case will always be maintained across a lot of documents! Remember these are eventually getting into the hands of, or being created by, engineers.
So the article is obviously a stupid flame bait question which I really don't have much direct response to, since I've not been doing any with with Java for some time - either client or server.
Instead of reading responses or the article, I ended up finding this amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe, making said cookies, and then eating them to verify the claims the recipe was as good as it claims - it is.
Instead of me arguing the case for or against Java with others here, I thought all of *you* could use a great recipe for chocolate chip cookies, especially with Valentines day coming up - even if you are single it's a great emotional boon to make cookies for yourself!
So - Here's the recipe for favorite chocolate chip cookies.
Pay special attention to the text just above the actual recipe that mentions roasting the nuts that go in the cookies first, I agree that made it extra awesome.
Mods: I totally understand an off topic mod here, but please only one so that others may see this amazing recipe.
The digging is with in the realm of possibility... having the equipment onsite is admittedly a challenge...
Considering the entire planet is a huge supply of iron oxide, you can simply set up a facility to extract iron and produce as many drill shafts as you need. You'd only need to bring a bunch of drill heads and some of the surface machinery to Mars as those would be a lot harder to produce than the drill shafts (though eventually you'd be able to produce those on Mars as well).
measured relative to the speed of light, c (not C)
Yeah I prefer not to risk potential confusion to the whims of a bad font or someone who TYPES IN ALL CAPS.
A demo tunnel, that can't do jack else
I dare you to drive a mile in LA at rush hour in under 4 minutes.
Musk can.
And as the tunnel obviously works and was built as easily as he claimed, at the low cost he claimed, there will be many more to come.
The hyperloop WAS NOT HIS CONCEPT.
I can see you slipped up here, since obviously you meant to respond to the original poster who claimed the lack of Hyperloop showed that Mush was a failure. Thanks for helping my argument by noting you cannot even attribute the Hyperloop idea to Musk.
Your support is noted and appreciated!
over-valorized himself
What I find most amusing about your "rebuttal" is that even though the article is only a half page long, here you show that you were obviously too lazy to even read to the end of the page... You fell exactly into the trap I intended by using that particular link.
: "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits .88 C.
Someone above was asking why Musk didn't use C instead of F to refer to the temperature the hull can take...
You just demonstrated why - when talking about spaceships you only want to use F for temperatures so you don't confuse it with the use of C for speed. :-)
someone not vaccinating their kids against common diseases is among the obvious definitions of 'unintelligent'
If these were conservatives from poorer regions they would indeed be labeled as such.
However because by and large at this point almost all anti-vaxxers are from highly credentialed liberal regions, they are by definition of liberal, intelligent.
How on earth do you discount the success of Tesla and SpaceX? Musk is obviously far more than just a byproduct of PayPal.
Musk may not be the smartest guy in the room but he has a very solid track record of saying his companies are going to do something people consider outside the envelope, and not just making it work but making it work really well.
It sure seems like with the success that SpaceX has had, anyone discounting what Musk has to say about how rockets should be built and operated, is very probably either a jerk or an idiot. In either case they are even more probably wrong.
Going by Mr. Musk's other fancy projects like the Hyperloop and his tunnels or even the flame thrower, the outlook for a stainless steel rocket is... ...fantastic.
The hyper loop already has a demo tunnel built when many said NOTHING would ever be built. It completely validates the concept, to the point you can be sure to see commercial implementation.
The flame thrower turned out really well, to the point I was very sad I didn't get to order one before they were gone.
And of course, Tesla is practically the definition of success (so funny how you left that example out). Not to mention the many fantastic success SpaceX itself has had - in fact the most directly pertinent example, vs. the flame thrower.
It seems you lack the vision to understand when early phases of something portend future success.
Tell someone "That material can withstand 815 to 871 C!".
I'm in full support of metric units elsewhere, but that doesn't look, nor sound, nearly so exciting... C is just a terrible unit of measurement for expressing temperature. Even more true of weather ranges.
Thanks, those are both excellent examples - especially JS Nice sounds really interesting, will take a look at that.
It's not nearly so common these days it seems, but I used to run into a lot of libraries where there was a question about if something had zero or one as the starting index.
Even now though sometimes when doing complex length calculations with a lot of parts, it's not impossible to get something just slightly off.
There are many systems and framework in which some boilerplate (repetitive code, which the spellchecker adjusted to "reptile code" at first - so fitting) is sadly needed.
Also sometimes you have to boilerplate some code for a while before you can coalesce it all into something simpler - like one of Blaise Pascal's letters that came with a forward, saying essentially "I'm sorry this letter is so long, I did not have the time to make it shorter".
More than this is needed? To what? Generate lazy and bad programmers?
That is the biggest contradiction I have ever seen typed.
The truth is, as I and many others have learned over decades - the absolute BEST programmers are the laziest ones.
A lazy programmer will spend vast amount of time determining a way to do something that involves less work, to build systems so that they need the least maintenance.
A "dumb" programmer will look for the most modern way to do something, not assuming that they know the best way just because they have worked on something before.
I am not just talking about saving you time, but tools that help keep you on track with your own ideals on how you want to program and name things. A system that could recognize how you've approached a problem before, and suggest starting with a similar approach - or maybe something new if the industry had moved to a different current best practice.
After all, a lot of us use not just stack overflow but turn to looking over older code bases to review problems we think we solved really well before. Why would you NOT do that - again, lazy but it really helps code quality. An AI could spend the time during through your old approaches and Stack Overflow and journals to find something novel that might be a good idea.
We always rightfully scoffed at tools that would replace programmers, but what should not be scoffed at is any use of technology that can augment humans by automating ANYTHING they do repetitively - and programming research is one of those things.