Go certainly makes concurrent programming easy, but I think that they suffer from the same problem as many languages that came before it. They focus on whatever happens the current hot topic of the day (in Go's case concurrency, class inheritance in the case of Java, string manipulation for Perl, etc), and they put in a bunch of funky syntax to support it.
As time goes by, other hot topics come and go, but the language remains stuck near where it started. It will have great support for this one thing, but will end up with clumsy kludges for newer things. In the case of Go, the concurrency syntax is so specialized, I don't think that they have planned out any way to elegantly extend the language in the future.
Yeah, I'm sure that electrical arcs and overheating don't damage copper wires at all. They'll still be able to handle thousands of amps. Just reuse it!
Considering that big portions of power grids have crumbled like dominoes on their own just because of minor instabilities in normal generation, I don't think its safe to say that safety systems would work in a worst-case solar storm.
BTW, I saw manufacturing power transformers on one of those "how they make it" shows. It wasn't exactly a simple process. They used special machines to precisely arrange the rather thick, inflexible "wires" (more like thin bars) around the core. This isn't a toy train set.
your panels are likely UV protected, which would not be ideal for a solar panel since such high energy photos need to reach the silicon.
If UV made a significant fraction of the solar energy spectrum, you'd suffer severe sunburns every time you step outside. As it happens, the peak power of the solar spectrum is in the visible light range, and most UV gets filtered by the atmosphere.
Moreover, a solar cell usually can't use the extra energy of UV rays, since the energy of each electron generated matches the semiconductor band gap. Any photon energy greater than the band gap is usually wasted as heat.
That would work great if all utilities keep enough spare transformer wire and insulating paper on hand to rebuild most of their transformers, and they train their staff to do the highly technical work required to safely assemble a high-powered transformer.
However, what are the odds of that amount of foresight happening in the real world? Just about nil.
Errr, the article is about how canceling it is going to cost about as much to finish it. Pretty much all the posts I've read here so far say pretty much the same thing, ie, just finish it.
In hindsight, the space shuttle program should have been shut down in the 1970s. Given its astronomical operating costs, even if it had cost 5X as much to shut it down as finish it, we still would have come out way ahead if we had replaced it with a sane launch system.
Since this project is based on recycled shuttle hardware and people, I'm sure it's the exact same situation. Shutting it down now and replacing it with a more cost-effective launch system will save money in the long run, even if it doesn't cost any less right now.
All the street view images that I've seen are so fuzzy that I often can't decipher the large signs on the fronts of businesses, much less anything inside a residential window (curtains or not).
So now you just have to wait in line behind a guy being carded for buying a carton of cigs, another guy buying a stinking reconstituted burrito, and third guy who has to pick out numbers for his 8 lotto tickets.
I wonder how the risk of actually running into a compromised card scanner stacks up against the risk of getting stuck in the middle of an armed robbery during all those extra hours of waiting around inside gas stations.
Smoking pot, while it may be effective and enjoyable, is NOT homeopathic. South American and African cultures have not been practicing homeopathy for ages, since it was invented in 1796 by a German quack.
By definition, homeopathic remedies give you more of what is alleged to be the cause of the disease. (Thus the "homeo" and "pathic" parts of the name.) So if you suffered from lead poisoning, you might get a solution of lead. Except that instead of any detectable amount of lead, it's been diluted down 10:1 so many times that there's probably not a single atom of lead in the entire dose.
No, I'd be removing an individual's freedom to saddle everybody else with his charity emergency room hospital care. Your freedom to be ignorant and irresponsible with basic financial risk management ends at my pocketbook.
Why do you think insurance rates are so high? One reason is that a single serious disease or injury can cost millions of dollars to treat. Even if you only have a 1 in 1000 chance of any of these serious happening to you this year, your averaged risk still runs into thousands of dollars per year. That's thousands of dollars of risk that you're mooching off of everybody else.
Yeah, I thought that you were the type that would say that hospitals should toss dying people out in the gutter. I've got news for you: That's NEVER going to happen in this or any other civilized country, because your selfish myopic viewpoint is a tiny minority of the population. You're just going to have to face up to reality.
And "washing cars" and "borrowing from relatives" (nice job trying to shift the burden them, buddy) is not going to cover a multimillion dollar debt.
You'd end up in bankruptcy and you know it, leaving your irresponsible choice to be covered by other healthcare customers. Leech.
Nonzero. That means that the expected value of society covering his risk of leukemia is not zero. The risk of other serious diseases accumulate to add up to a non-trivial expected value.
This risk has been socialized onto the rest of society. Go think about that over and over until you can wrap your libertarian brain around it. You seem to have a hard time understanding a very simple phenomenon. Not buying health insurance makes you just as much of a leech as any welfare mother.
Now imagine that your uninsured 26-year old son gets leukemia instead of a sprained ankle. I'll bet you change your tune.
BTW, he's *not* being responsible. If he gets leukemia, he's not going to be able to afford the bills on "freelancing", but somebody else will have to pay after he goes bankrupt and ends up in the emergency room. You seem like a typical libertarian who socializes their risks and external costs by ignoring them.
So we're apparently the only developed country in the world whose government can't be trusted to coordinate basic health care for its citizens. I guess that we have to conclude that the US government and its constitution don't live up to all the hype about their alleged greatness.
The US government sucks too much to handle a government function that is standard in every modern country, so we handle it privately to get less-than-average results at almost twice the cost of any other country.
People I know *don't* consider it as a mass noun. Ice makes sense as a mass noun since the same term applies to quantities ranging between ~10 molecules to an entire moon of an outer planet. For Legos, OTOH, it makes zero sense to use a mass noun because you're almost always concerned with a number of pieces from 1 up to a couple of hundred. In fact, you're often occupied handling just a single Lego piece, so not having a singular version available would be highly irritating.
Ice was a bad example. A better comparison would be a mass noun like gravel. In that case, however, you're almost never concerned with an individual piece of rock, and you usually deal with millions of pieces at a time. Legos are still not used in that fashion, and using a mass noun makes no sense even in comparison to gravel.
Yes, just as you wouldn't say that you own a "Honda® automobile". Normal people just say "I have a Honda".
Normal people would also say "There are three Hondas in the garage." instead of the stilted sounding "There are three Honda® automobiles in the garage."
The majority of the corn produced in the united states is feed/field corn. Trust me, you wouldn't want to eat it, It has to be processed before it is suitable for human consumption.
I have no problem with such processing. I like tortilla chips.
One would think that after sitting at the bottom of the salty ocean for 60+ years it's shell would have rusted through and the explosives saturated with water.
IIRC, bombs and mines are often filled with a molten explosive such as TNT, which is then allowed to cool into a solid mass. It's not a given that simply exposing such a monolithic explosive to water would render it harmless.
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Go certainly makes concurrent programming easy, but I think that they suffer from the same problem as many languages that came before it. They focus on whatever happens the current hot topic of the day (in Go's case concurrency, class inheritance in the case of Java, string manipulation for Perl, etc), and they put in a bunch of funky syntax to support it.
As time goes by, other hot topics come and go, but the language remains stuck near where it started. It will have great support for this one thing, but will end up with clumsy kludges for newer things. In the case of Go, the concurrency syntax is so specialized, I don't think that they have planned out any way to elegantly extend the language in the future.
When did i suggested it was a friken train set.
When you said "Just rewind it!" like you could stick the core on your dad's drill press and give it a spin.
Like I pointed out, the wires won't be reusable. More wire will have to be found, national emergency or not.
Rewinding uses the same windings. Not new ones..
Yeah, I'm sure that electrical arcs and overheating don't damage copper wires at all. They'll still be able to handle thousands of amps. Just reuse it!
Considering that big portions of power grids have crumbled like dominoes on their own just because of minor instabilities in normal generation, I don't think its safe to say that safety systems would work in a worst-case solar storm.
BTW, I saw manufacturing power transformers on one of those "how they make it" shows. It wasn't exactly a simple process. They used special machines to precisely arrange the rather thick, inflexible "wires" (more like thin bars) around the core. This isn't a toy train set.
your panels are likely UV protected, which would not be ideal for a solar panel since such high energy photos need to reach the silicon.
If UV made a significant fraction of the solar energy spectrum, you'd suffer severe sunburns every time you step outside. As it happens, the peak power of the solar spectrum is in the visible light range, and most UV gets filtered by the atmosphere.
Moreover, a solar cell usually can't use the extra energy of UV rays, since the energy of each electron generated matches the semiconductor band gap. Any photon energy greater than the band gap is usually wasted as heat.
(ever heard of rewinding)
That would work great if all utilities keep enough spare transformer wire and insulating paper on hand to rebuild most of their transformers, and they train their staff to do the highly technical work required to safely assemble a high-powered transformer.
However, what are the odds of that amount of foresight happening in the real world? Just about nil.
If you wash a surface evenly with alcohol or bleach, you're going to get 100% disinfection.
Not quite true. For example, alcohol hand cleaners don't work all that well against some spore-forming bacteria, such as the nasty C. diff.
Errr, the article is about how canceling it is going to cost about as much to finish it. Pretty much all the posts I've read here so far say pretty much the same thing, ie, just finish it.
In hindsight, the space shuttle program should have been shut down in the 1970s. Given its astronomical operating costs, even if it had cost 5X as much to shut it down as finish it, we still would have come out way ahead if we had replaced it with a sane launch system.
Since this project is based on recycled shuttle hardware and people, I'm sure it's the exact same situation. Shutting it down now and replacing it with a more cost-effective launch system will save money in the long run, even if it doesn't cost any less right now.
All the street view images that I've seen are so fuzzy that I often can't decipher the large signs on the fronts of businesses, much less anything inside a residential window (curtains or not).
Pay cash inside.
So now you just have to wait in line behind a guy being carded for buying a carton of cigs, another guy buying a stinking reconstituted burrito, and third guy who has to pick out numbers for his 8 lotto tickets.
I wonder how the risk of actually running into a compromised card scanner stacks up against the risk of getting stuck in the middle of an armed robbery during all those extra hours of waiting around inside gas stations.
You still have no idea what homeopathy is.
Smoking pot, while it may be effective and enjoyable, is NOT homeopathic. South American and African cultures have not been practicing homeopathy for ages, since it was invented in 1796 by a German quack.
By definition, homeopathic remedies give you more of what is alleged to be the cause of the disease. (Thus the "homeo" and "pathic" parts of the name.) So if you suffered from lead poisoning, you might get a solution of lead. Except that instead of any detectable amount of lead, it's been diluted down 10:1 so many times that there's probably not a single atom of lead in the entire dose.
No, I'd be removing an individual's freedom to saddle everybody else with his charity emergency room hospital care. Your freedom to be ignorant and irresponsible with basic financial risk management ends at my pocketbook.
Why do you think insurance rates are so high? One reason is that a single serious disease or injury can cost millions of dollars to treat. Even if you only have a 1 in 1000 chance of any of these serious happening to you this year, your averaged risk still runs into thousands of dollars per year. That's thousands of dollars of risk that you're mooching off of everybody else.
Yeah, I thought that you were the type that would say that hospitals should toss dying people out in the gutter. I've got news for you: That's NEVER going to happen in this or any other civilized country, because your selfish myopic viewpoint is a tiny minority of the population. You're just going to have to face up to reality.
And "washing cars" and "borrowing from relatives" (nice job trying to shift the burden them, buddy) is not going to cover a multimillion dollar debt.
You'd end up in bankruptcy and you know it, leaving your irresponsible choice to be covered by other healthcare customers. Leech.
What is his level of risk here?
Nonzero. That means that the expected value of society covering his risk of leukemia is not zero. The risk of other serious diseases accumulate to add up to a non-trivial expected value.
This risk has been socialized onto the rest of society. Go think about that over and over until you can wrap your libertarian brain around it. You seem to have a hard time understanding a very simple phenomenon. Not buying health insurance makes you just as much of a leech as any welfare mother.
Now imagine that your uninsured 26-year old son gets leukemia instead of a sprained ankle. I'll bet you change your tune.
BTW, he's *not* being responsible. If he gets leukemia, he's not going to be able to afford the bills on "freelancing", but somebody else will have to pay after he goes bankrupt and ends up in the emergency room. You seem like a typical libertarian who socializes their risks and external costs by ignoring them.
So we're apparently the only developed country in the world whose government can't be trusted to coordinate basic health care for its citizens. I guess that we have to conclude that the US government and its constitution don't live up to all the hype about their alleged greatness.
The US government sucks too much to handle a government function that is standard in every modern country, so we handle it privately to get less-than-average results at almost twice the cost of any other country.
Cruel and unusual punishment doesn't really apply AFAIK. It doesn't matter whether a judgment is excessive or not when considering that prohibition.
No matter, the 8th amendment still proscribes these ridiculously large statutory damages:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Nobody in their right mind could possibly claim that these are not excessive fines. Case closed.
People I know *don't* consider it as a mass noun. Ice makes sense as a mass noun since the same term applies to quantities ranging between ~10 molecules to an entire moon of an outer planet. For Legos, OTOH, it makes zero sense to use a mass noun because you're almost always concerned with a number of pieces from 1 up to a couple of hundred. In fact, you're often occupied handling just a single Lego piece, so not having a singular version available would be highly irritating.
Ice was a bad example. A better comparison would be a mass noun like gravel. In that case, however, you're almost never concerned with an individual piece of rock, and you usually deal with millions of pieces at a time. Legos are still not used in that fashion, and using a mass noun makes no sense even in comparison to gravel.
Yes, just as you wouldn't say that you own a "Honda® automobile". Normal people just say "I have a Honda".
Normal people would also say "There are three Hondas in the garage." instead of the stilted sounding "There are three Honda® automobiles in the garage."
Yes, non-pedants call each little piece of plastic a *LEGO*. How hard is that for you to understand?
The only people who care about that pointless distinction are trademark lawyers.
For the rest of us, they're simply called LEGOS.
Indeed, it's not all that uncommon for a senior engineer to have a higher job grade and salary than his boss. It's happened to me on occasion.
The majority of the corn produced in the united states is feed/field corn. Trust me, you wouldn't want to eat it, It has to be processed before it is suitable for human consumption.
I have no problem with such processing. I like tortilla chips.
One would think that after sitting at the bottom of the salty ocean for 60+ years it's shell would have rusted through and the explosives saturated with water.
IIRC, bombs and mines are often filled with a molten explosive such as TNT, which is then allowed to cool into a solid mass. It's not a given that simply exposing such a monolithic explosive to water would render it harmless.
How do we know that we aren't the anti-matter and that what we think is anti-matter is really matter?
We know because most of us are not wearing goatees.