Despite the name they're fairly objective and have won numerous Pulitzer prizes for reporting as well as a Peabody award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The CSM is an excellent news source. Despite the name it is a secular news source that does good investigative reporting. I pay for this as well as a few other news sources which I believe do real journalism such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR. The Wall Street Journal is also good, though I strongly disagree with much of their commentary.
Right now I'm playing with a 96 core system (two 48 core CPUs) (1 thread per core). Needless to say, Intel is trying to catch up in the core count but they have a way to go. There are numerous ARM64 chips out there with more cores than Intel.
There's a huge difference here. Cloudflare is directly enabling this and when notified of what is going on through the use of their network by their client they do nothing about it. PG&E is a public utility that provides services to everyone as long as they can pay and are not abusing those services. In this case Cloudflare is NOT a public utility and the clients often using those services specifically for their actions and Cloudflare knows it. I've had to deal with criminals hiding behind Cloudflare and Cloudflare could care less.
I think the problem is that often Cloudflare does not behave in a responsible manner when complaints arise. At one point my mail server was getting pounded by spam bounce backs and the web sites being advertised were hidden behind Cloudflare. The response I got from Cloudflare was basically sorry, it's not our fault, oh, and we'll do nothing so the spammer can continue to use those sites (selling viagra, pump and dump, etc.).
A responsible company would look at this and kick those sites off of their network. There's a reason criminals love to hide behind Cloudflare (or as others have aptly named it, Crimeflare).
When my mail server was getting hammered from bounce back of spam where the spammer used my domain name the web sites were behind Cloudflare. Complaining to Cloudflare was useless since they tried to paint themselves as innocent. I agree, Crimeflare is a more apt name for them since criminals know they can hide behind them and commit crime with impunity.
This is how things worked out for me many years ago. I interned at a local tech company that sadly was past their peak and headed downward. After I graduated one of the managers I asked to offer a reference offered a job instead in a new division at another company. I didn't spend long out of college before I landed a job. As an intern I was doing some fairly sophisticated work, working on a lot of MS DOS TSRs as well as BIOS for at the time state of the art hardware. At the time I earned a decent salary, especially for an intern and college student and the overtime helped a lot as well. I graduated college with no debt and a job. Much of that began because I was very involved in programming as far back as grade school. This is long before the Internet was a thing. I was writing assembly language TSRs before I learned C and hacking on a lot of PC hardware at the time. For example, I had my own custom boot sector so I could take advantage of the extra memory in my computer without having to use a DOS TSR that rebooted the computer in order to get around BIOS limitations. We're talking mid-1980s here.
If you want to get ahead, learn some good programming skills early. If you want to be pretty much guaranteed a job, learn how to work closely with hardware as well. Arduinos are great for this now. At the time I was growing up none of these sorts of things were available to hobbyists and information was limited without the Internet.
If you look at new power plants, nobody is building coal power plants. They're being dismantled far faster than new ones are being built. They're being replaced by natural gas and renewable power because it's cheaper. If you look at the last 10 years, coal has been declining quickly. Coal just can't compete economically, especially given that all of the cheap coal is now gone. The coal industry has been struggling hard to remain competitive (which is why so many coal jobs have been lost). Look at how many coal companies are going or have already gone bankrupt. Coal just can't compete.
I've never had a problem with my Samsung front washer that I've been using for years. First of all, I leave the door open so it can dry out when not in use. Second, my particular model injects a tiny amount of silver into the rinse water that sterilizes clothes and prevents any mildew or mold from growing. The only issue I've had is the useless LED light doesn't work any more.
Dryers are not that efficient at converting electricity to heat. A heat pump, for example, is far more efficient than a resistive element. Basically yes, it is saying that it takes 20% of the power of a traditional electric dryer.
I like how our county water system is handled. The voters elect the directors. If they screw up they'll be voted out of office. Since the water is decent quality and is reasonably priced compared to nearby counties I'm fairly happy, especially compared to what I remember before the county took over the water system from Citizens Utilities. Under CU the water was undrinkable and came out of the tap brown. The county had to replace everything (and found CU was still using wooden pipes in places). The local county system is also quite transparent and sends out quarterly reports on the water system and what they are doing and what their future plans are.
As long as a government run public utility is answerable and accountable to the voters (and not politicians) I think it's fine.
One of the big problems is that voters aren't choosing their candidates. In many cases the politicians are choosing their voters through gerrymandering.
Why bother swapping the cab when you can just swap the battery. If it's like the Model S battery swap it would only take a couple of minutes, less time than it takes to fill up with diesel.
The nice thing about electric motors is that they have torque, a LOT of torque. Put in a big electric motor and 80,000LBs shouldn't be a big problem. The other nice thing is they can deliver that torque at low speed, exactly where trucks need it. It probably won't even need a transmission. Hell, trains haul a hell of a lot more than 80,000LBs and they're powered by electric motors. In the US they're diesel-electric, where the diesel engine drives a generator used to power the motors. In other countries they're just electric without the diesel part.
They're certainly preparing for it. I was just at the factory getting my windshield replaced and they're moving everything around in preparation for the model 3. Also, unlike the Model X, they aren't putting any crazy new stuff in it like the falcon wing doors or seats. Even the model S has changed a fair bit under the covers to improve manufacturing.
The model 3 was designed from the beginning with manufacturability in mind. They already have a lot of experience with motors, batteries, inverters, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if they reused the electric motor used for the front wheels in the model S for the model 3 since the model 3 won't need the crazy horsepower of the performance versions. They learned a lot with their first models.
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Despite the name they're fairly objective and have won numerous Pulitzer prizes for reporting as well as a Peabody award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The CSM is an excellent news source. Despite the name it is a secular news source that does good investigative reporting. I pay for this as well as a few other news sources which I believe do real journalism such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR. The Wall Street Journal is also good, though I strongly disagree with much of their commentary.
Right now I'm playing with a 96 core system (two 48 core CPUs) (1 thread per core). Needless to say, Intel is trying to catch up in the core count but they have a way to go. There are numerous ARM64 chips out there with more cores than Intel.
Except we've hijacked that cooling period and are very quickly warming. https://xkcd.com/1732/
You do know that Al Gore heavily retrofitted his house and sources green energy for it.
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/...
Or that Bill Nye backed a solar panel startup?
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
Here's a good graph showing warming and cooling.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1732/
One CH4 = one CO2 + 2 H2O.
I think cosmic rays would be more of a problem since the X-rays used are fairly low energy.
Don't forget the Milpitas Monster.
There's a huge difference here. Cloudflare is directly enabling this and when notified of what is going on through the use of their network by their client they do nothing about it. PG&E is a public utility that provides services to everyone as long as they can pay and are not abusing those services. In this case Cloudflare is NOT a public utility and the clients often using those services specifically for their actions and Cloudflare knows it. I've had to deal with criminals hiding behind Cloudflare and Cloudflare could care less.
I think the problem is that often Cloudflare does not behave in a responsible manner when complaints arise. At one point my mail server was getting pounded by spam bounce backs and the web sites being advertised were hidden behind Cloudflare. The response I got from Cloudflare was basically sorry, it's not our fault, oh, and we'll do nothing so the spammer can continue to use those sites (selling viagra, pump and dump, etc.).
A responsible company would look at this and kick those sites off of their network. There's a reason criminals love to hide behind Cloudflare (or as others have aptly named it, Crimeflare).
When my mail server was getting hammered from bounce back of spam where the spammer used my domain name the web sites were behind Cloudflare. Complaining to Cloudflare was useless since they tried to paint themselves as innocent. I agree, Crimeflare is a more apt name for them since criminals know they can hide behind them and commit crime with impunity.
This is how things worked out for me many years ago. I interned at a local tech company that sadly was past their peak and headed downward. After I graduated one of the managers I asked to offer a reference offered a job instead in a new division at another company. I didn't spend long out of college before I landed a job. As an intern I was doing some fairly sophisticated work, working on a lot of MS DOS TSRs as well as BIOS for at the time state of the art hardware. At the time I earned a decent salary, especially for an intern and college student and the overtime helped a lot as well. I graduated college with no debt and a job. Much of that began because I was very involved in programming as far back as grade school. This is long before the Internet was a thing. I was writing assembly language TSRs before I learned C and hacking on a lot of PC hardware at the time. For example, I had my own custom boot sector so I could take advantage of the extra memory in my computer without having to use a DOS TSR that rebooted the computer in order to get around BIOS limitations. We're talking mid-1980s here.
If you want to get ahead, learn some good programming skills early. If you want to be pretty much guaranteed a job, learn how to work closely with hardware as well. Arduinos are great for this now. At the time I was growing up none of these sorts of things were available to hobbyists and information was limited without the Internet.
If you look at new power plants, nobody is building coal power plants. They're being dismantled far faster than new ones are being built. They're being replaced by natural gas and renewable power because it's cheaper. If you look at the last 10 years, coal has been declining quickly. Coal just can't compete economically, especially given that all of the cheap coal is now gone. The coal industry has been struggling hard to remain competitive (which is why so many coal jobs have been lost). Look at how many coal companies are going or have already gone bankrupt. Coal just can't compete.
That might explain why my dog always runs around at high speed going clockwise.
I've never had a problem with my Samsung front washer that I've been using for years. First of all, I leave the door open so it can dry out when not in use. Second, my particular model injects a tiny amount of silver into the rinse water that sterilizes clothes and prevents any mildew or mold from growing. The only issue I've had is the useless LED light doesn't work any more.
My own experience is that washers don't get the pet hair out of clothes very well. All of the pet hair ends up in my dryer filter.
Dryers are not that efficient at converting electricity to heat. A heat pump, for example, is far more efficient than a resistive element. Basically yes, it is saying that it takes 20% of the power of a traditional electric dryer.
I like how our county water system is handled. The voters elect the directors. If they screw up they'll be voted out of office. Since the water is decent quality and is reasonably priced compared to nearby counties I'm fairly happy, especially compared to what I remember before the county took over the water system from Citizens Utilities. Under CU the water was undrinkable and came out of the tap brown. The county had to replace everything (and found CU was still using wooden pipes in places). The local county system is also quite transparent and sends out quarterly reports on the water system and what they are doing and what their future plans are.
As long as a government run public utility is answerable and accountable to the voters (and not politicians) I think it's fine.
One of the big problems is that voters aren't choosing their candidates. In many cases the politicians are choosing their voters through gerrymandering.
What's to stop them from just following closely with a big noisy container ship?
Why bother swapping the cab when you can just swap the battery. If it's like the Model S battery swap it would only take a couple of minutes, less time than it takes to fill up with diesel.
The nice thing about electric motors is that they have torque, a LOT of torque. Put in a big electric motor and 80,000LBs shouldn't be a big problem. The other nice thing is they can deliver that torque at low speed, exactly where trucks need it. It probably won't even need a transmission. Hell, trains haul a hell of a lot more than 80,000LBs and they're powered by electric motors. In the US they're diesel-electric, where the diesel engine drives a generator used to power the motors. In other countries they're just electric without the diesel part.
They're certainly preparing for it. I was just at the factory getting my windshield replaced and they're moving everything around in preparation for the model 3. Also, unlike the Model X, they aren't putting any crazy new stuff in it like the falcon wing doors or seats. Even the model S has changed a fair bit under the covers to improve manufacturing.
The model 3 was designed from the beginning with manufacturability in mind. They already have a lot of experience with motors, batteries, inverters, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if they reused the electric motor used for the front wheels in the model S for the model 3 since the model 3 won't need the crazy horsepower of the performance versions. They learned a lot with their first models.