Same with me. I blew all of my money on the computer and had nothing left for software or floppy drives and became so obsessed dissecting the computer through BASIC software I stopped earning any more money. I do remember the teacher talking about logo and turtle graphics.
My friend and I kinda wondered what the point was. It seemed like something we could write as a program. I've read that it was an influence on smalltalk which was an AI language back in the 90's. I've recently started getting back into my first computer (atari 800) and will probably pick up a copy on ebay ($20). Despite being 35 years old and less capable tghan my doorbell, it really is an interesting machine, far more than my laptop.
The one time my cc# was stolen (pretty sure by my druggie roommate) they covered the loss and sent me a new card, but for some reason did not cancel the old compromised card and wound up costing them an extra $1000.
As a nerd aside, I found out about the loss when my card was denied while trying to buy windows NT, the very first version, I think 3.1, on the first day it became available.
You need ~2000kcal/day to stay alive. The few anthropological studies/books I've read on cultures and migrations/ability to do stuff only talk about calories and nothing else. I know protien & other things are required, but comes secondary to calories.
This isn't even the first word in farm automation. Not by over 100 years, even with the addition of a microprocessor. Others have been doing it far longer and better and if you're the least bit familiar with farm tech I don't know what their point is other than to 'take back the food' whatever that vapid statement means. I'm sure it resonates with some group of clueless people.
True and it also lacks calories. The plants are sitting on the hand railing, so no rabbit worries. I have maybe 100 tomatoes in pots, but, even though I got the pots for free, they'd cost money if I had to buy them. Also, they are sitting at ground level. I'll get maybe 100kg of good tomatoes this season. Still, they are lacking in calories (@180kcal/kg) as most vegetables are (they're all the same). It was a lot of work setting up the first year, but not so much any more. And maybe a couple dozen pepper plants.
Garlic, onion, carrots and potato went straight in the ground. Potato is the only viable crop if you want to live on your own garden and eat something besides salad.
What does that even mean? Solar cells turn photon flux into electron flux, basic e&m and material science. The more photons you have, the more electrons you have. If you had 100% cells (44%, whatever) you are going to get more electricity where you have more light. If you have 1% cells, you are going to get more electricity where you have more light.
My next door neighbor's parents refused to travel to AZ because of it's discriminatory laws on immigrants and then disowned him after he married one.;/
I have about a dozen empty cottage cheese containers next to my front door each with a lettuce plant. This is enough to keep me in lettuce all summer and I spent literally zero dollars on the system and maybe five minutes combined over the last three months. This is a high tech solution looking for a problem where none is needed.
and does a lot of gardening, this seems...impractical(?) at least at this stage.
Planting seeds? I plant literally a couple dozen square meters in minutes and while spot watering/fertilizing may be slightly more efficient in watering over a sprinkler, it's not going to do much over a buried drip system. And almost all of the time gardening (>99%) is spent on weeding which is not even a problem on a raised bed/processed commercial setup as this. Also not addressed (because it looks like they use pre-mixed soil from miracle grow) is the processing of real soil - tilling it up and removing rocks. I think an autonomous lawn tractor with an intelligent implement of destruction would be much more practical and also cheaper/lower maintenance.
When I was an intern, I was often the one doing the heavy lifting because I was up on the latest technology having learned it only months or weeks prior instead of having to learn about it from a journal using decades old math skills
I interned for four years at various companies in college and was never once asked to make coffee or run errands. In fact, I was doing some of the more technical development work since I was 'up' on the latest technologies and knowing how to solve some problems was fresh as I'd just come off of classes where I learned a subject with recent practice doing it. IRL, solving very technical problems is rare and you forget how to do certain manipulations after years and decades.
In addition to this, with the exception of working at a government lab, I was well paid at over $40k/year, inflation adjusted.
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But our goal then was to make it to the moon.
My friend and I kinda wondered what the point was. It seemed like something we could write as a program. I've read that it was an influence on smalltalk which was an AI language back in the 90's. I've recently started getting back into my first computer (atari 800) and will probably pick up a copy on ebay ($20). Despite being 35 years old and less capable tghan my doorbell, it really is an interesting machine, far more than my laptop.
As a nerd aside, I found out about the loss when my card was denied while trying to buy windows NT, the very first version, I think 3.1, on the first day it became available.
Didn't France say that the TTIP was dead because of this?
do-over until they get the "right" result
That's the way it works in the US. See DMCA and various trade agreements.
I couldn't care less. I've never cared. I seriously doubt that I'll ever care.
put money into account immediately prior to use
Even if it was pure H2, you could still suffocate.
Perfect is the enemy of good
You need ~2000kcal/day to stay alive. The few anthropological studies/books I've read on cultures and migrations/ability to do stuff only talk about calories and nothing else. I know protien & other things are required, but comes secondary to calories.
This isn't even the first word in farm automation. Not by over 100 years, even with the addition of a microprocessor. Others have been doing it far longer and better and if you're the least bit familiar with farm tech I don't know what their point is other than to 'take back the food' whatever that vapid statement means. I'm sure it resonates with some group of clueless people.
load it with seeds and water, etc
There's a 'bot for that.
Garlic, onion, carrots and potato went straight in the ground. Potato is the only viable crop if you want to live on your own garden and eat something besides salad.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/...
Solar has come far enough
What does that even mean? Solar cells turn photon flux into electron flux, basic e&m and material science. The more photons you have, the more electrons you have. If you had 100% cells (44%, whatever) you are going to get more electricity where you have more light. If you have 1% cells, you are going to get more electricity where you have more light.
My next door neighbor's parents refused to travel to AZ because of it's discriminatory laws on immigrants and then disowned him after he married one. ;/
I have about a dozen empty cottage cheese containers next to my front door each with a lettuce plant. This is enough to keep me in lettuce all summer and I spent literally zero dollars on the system and maybe five minutes combined over the last three months. This is a high tech solution looking for a problem where none is needed.
Planting seeds? I plant literally a couple dozen square meters in minutes and while spot watering/fertilizing may be slightly more efficient in watering over a sprinkler, it's not going to do much over a buried drip system. And almost all of the time gardening (>99%) is spent on weeding which is not even a problem on a raised bed/processed commercial setup as this. Also not addressed (because it looks like they use pre-mixed soil from miracle grow) is the processing of real soil - tilling it up and removing rocks. I think an autonomous lawn tractor with an intelligent implement of destruction would be much more practical and also cheaper/lower maintenance.
When I was an intern, I was often the one doing the heavy lifting because I was up on the latest technology having learned it only months or weeks prior instead of having to learn about it from a journal using decades old math skills
Everyone has different jobs, but I would not have had spare time for outside activities.
Unfortunately real engineering is mostly grunt work. You are extremely lucky if you can land a job that isn't. Even science for that matter.
The median annual Engineering Aide I salary is $45,378, as of June 24, 2016, with a range usually between $39,997-$53,985 A number of students that I worked with dropped out of college because the pay was good and continue working to this day after decades. They do the same work as engineers, but are paid about 50% less for not having a diploma.
In addition to this, with the exception of working at a government lab, I was well paid at over $40k/year, inflation adjusted.
And why would you need to do this?
misra?
Assembly is in no way portable. It's processor specific.