from Consumer Reports: "said battery life on the new MacBook Pro was all over the place, hitting 19 hours in a test, but less than four hours in another. "
Seems like if they can't get consistent answers they would want to find out why?
Uh, no, the pools are not necessarily below ground level. In fact, that is what got the Fukushima folks. Their pools were nearly at the highest elevation in the plants.
Two of the spent fuel pools I've been to were about five stories UP from ground level. One was below ground level.
Of course it was, in a sense. All engineered systems have design lifetimes. The tank farms double-shells average around 30 years old. These tanks were not made to last "forever", unlike what the King-5 broadcast said.
It is a political failure, not a design failure. They were supposed to have been pumped dry many years ago. The permanent solution keeps getting postponed so we are stuck with various "temporary" solutions. This has been going on since before I came here after college (in 1979). We are making progress in cleaning things up, but it is very slow.
Yes I am an engineer. No I do not work at Hanford, but my friends and neighbors do.
All financial institutions (FI) in the US are subject to OFAC regs.
Venmo's canned response is incorrect or at least incomplete.
Lots of ordinary words and names get flagged by OFAC. The FI is responsible for checking and then they can either: approve the transfer or forward the problem to the government to handle.
The money is required to be "held" subject to the review. If everything is innocent, the owner should eventually get his money back.
I learned to use one in high school and bought my own as a freshman in engineering. Used it full time till I bought my first calculator in 1975 (HP RPN-style, of course).
I still pull it out to show students when they are learning about logarithms in school. I was doing just that earlier this week in fact. And my younger colleagues at work are always interested.
Look in your local yellow pages or equivalent. I live in a small metropolitan area and know of three or four local firms here that I would consider reputable.
And "a few hundred per year per machine" would cover a lot of local support.
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I started on punch cards in 1972. Worked mostly with punch cards on a CDC 3400, 6600 and 7600, and with punched paper tapes on a 12-bit PDP-8 minicomputer in the 70s, and it seems like I've touched everything under the sun since then: Wang, CDC, Cray, DEC PDP-11 and VAX minicomputers, Data General 16 and 32-bit minicomputers, Tektronix (4054?), Prime minis, HP minis and workstations, Silicon Graphics, IBM, Sun, UNIX from AT&T, UNIX from many others, UNIX-clones before Linux, Linux, old Mac OS, new Mac OS, NeXT, Symbolics, and various DOS, CP/M, and Windows of course.
And, of course, whenever possible, a command line to rule them all. Even the old Mac OS had command line tools for sale from Apple and other vendors, primarily aimed at developers.
I took typing class on manual typewriters in the '60s and we were taught to use the right finger. It actually is the one reason I swear at split keyboards.;-)
I came to MUMPS late in life (programming for 30 years in a dozen other languages before ever encountering it), but I like it just fine. The hierarchical database is very flexible to use and very disk space efficient compared to the standard relational model. Keep in mind that most relational databases get their "efficiency" by creating indexes, which are basically invisible extra tables containing cross-references into the visible tables. You can explicitly do that in MUMPS if you want to; it just doesn't happen "automatically".
Some problem domains just beg for a relational solution and some work well with a hierarchical solution. A good programmer's toolbox contains many tools.
The language is pretty cryptic, but no worse than several others from that era. You can write "good" programs in any language and you can write "bad" programs in any language. You learn the syntax and learn the semantics and then practice for a while. The language itself has some very powerful constructs that can make a programmer's life easier or harder. Likewise with the database that backs it up.
MUMPS today is primarily used in the medical world, but the European Space Agency also uses it extensively as do Credit Suisse and others in the financial world.
This is how my longest lived project has been. Originally written for SunOS and HP/UX and Cray's UNICOS in the late 80s, it is still a live client/server application managing 100+ million files running on a wide variety of UNIX-like environments. The maintainers (me for the first ten years, others since then) have migrated development and production environments several times during the 25 years the project has been running.
Fact is, when my parents were in school, ANY degree was good enough. You really could go get a philosophy degree because the jobs were mostly mid level office jobs and didn't require skill so much as the ability to read and learn a bit....perfect for people who had learned how to learn and could all read. Didn't matter what they studied then.
Now, well, that philosophy degree qualifies you to teach philosophy and fuck all else. The value of the products they offer varies greatly, and they still pretend a philosophy degree even matters. Frankly, I don't see why they should even offer philosophy beyond an associates; its just not worth it to the point it counts as a scam really.
The author says that rather than do that (get an ordinary job), he intentionally chose the (lack of) career path that he's on.
The article presents some info that just isn't quite right. The device will probably be useful but not nearly as good as they claim. Instead of 8 or more to one times the typical battery lifetime, it will be more like two times. Google "joule thief" and read the articles and comments carefully. This device works the same way; just in a compact package.
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There never were reviews to remove. The original reddit poster was wrong.
Same with me. I do still occasionally check them in the library for things like washing machines, but I don't rely on their numbers.
from Consumer Reports: "said battery life on the new MacBook Pro was all over the place, hitting 19 hours in a test, but less than four hours in another. "
Seems like if they can't get consistent answers they would want to find out why?
At least he didn't post at Slashdot as an AC. :-)
I loved the Kidder book. I was a customer of Data General during that time and the book captured the development of the MV-series beautifully.
Uh, no, the pools are not necessarily below ground level. In fact, that is what got the Fukushima folks. Their pools were nearly at the highest elevation in the plants.
Two of the spent fuel pools I've been to were about five stories UP from ground level. One was below ground level.
Not sure where the majority of them are.
"But the inner tank was not designed to leak."
Of course it was, in a sense. All engineered systems have design lifetimes. The tank farms double-shells average around 30 years old. These tanks were not made to last "forever", unlike what the King-5 broadcast said.
It is a political failure, not a design failure. They were supposed to have been pumped dry many years ago. The permanent solution keeps getting postponed so we are stuck with various "temporary" solutions. This has been going on since before I came here after college (in 1979). We are making progress in cleaning things up, but it is very slow.
Yes I am an engineer. No I do not work at Hanford, but my friends and neighbors do.
All financial institutions (FI) in the US are subject to OFAC regs.
Venmo's canned response is incorrect or at least incomplete.
Lots of ordinary words and names get flagged by OFAC. The FI is responsible for checking and then they can either: approve the transfer or forward the problem to the government to handle.
The money is required to be "held" subject to the review. If everything is innocent, the owner should eventually get his money back.
But not affected by gravity as they fly in perfectly straight lines! :-)
I learned to use one in high school and bought my own as a freshman in engineering. Used it full time till I bought my first calculator in 1975 (HP RPN-style, of course).
I still pull it out to show students when they are learning about logarithms in school. I was doing just that earlier this week in fact. And my younger colleagues at work are always interested.
Look in your local yellow pages or equivalent. I live in a small metropolitan area and know of three or four local firms here that I would consider reputable.
And "a few hundred per year per machine" would cover a lot of local support.
I started on punch cards in 1972. Worked mostly with punch cards on a CDC 3400, 6600 and 7600, and with punched paper tapes on a 12-bit PDP-8 minicomputer in the 70s, and it seems like I've touched everything under the sun since then: Wang, CDC, Cray, DEC PDP-11 and VAX minicomputers, Data General 16 and 32-bit minicomputers, Tektronix (4054?), Prime minis, HP minis and workstations, Silicon Graphics, IBM, Sun, UNIX from AT&T, UNIX from many others, UNIX-clones before Linux, Linux, old Mac OS, new Mac OS, NeXT, Symbolics, and various DOS, CP/M, and Windows of course.
And, of course, whenever possible, a command line to rule them all. Even the old Mac OS had command line tools for sale from Apple and other vendors, primarily aimed at developers.
RPN is wonderful.
Both used a lot in specialized areas; Mumps: Health care, some finance, Ada: military/aerospace.
Both almost unheard of outside those areas.
I took typing class on manual typewriters in the '60s and we were taught to use the right finger. It actually is the one reason I swear at split keyboards. ;-)
I came to MUMPS late in life (programming for 30 years in a dozen other languages before ever encountering it), but I like it just fine. The hierarchical database is very flexible to use and very disk space efficient compared to the standard relational model. Keep in mind that most relational databases get their "efficiency" by creating indexes, which are basically invisible extra tables containing cross-references into the visible tables. You can explicitly do that in MUMPS if you want to; it just doesn't happen "automatically".
Some problem domains just beg for a relational solution and some work well with a hierarchical solution. A good programmer's toolbox contains many tools.
The language is pretty cryptic, but no worse than several others from that era. You can write "good" programs in any language and you can write "bad" programs in any language. You learn the syntax and learn the semantics and then practice for a while. The language itself has some very powerful constructs that can make a programmer's life easier or harder. Likewise with the database that backs it up.
MUMPS today is primarily used in the medical world, but the European Space Agency also uses it extensively as do Credit Suisse and others in the financial world.
Found the zoom. Still didn't find PHP. Curious.
I didn't find PHP anywhere.
Also, is there a way (or browser) to make the diagram larger?
I don't think we won the war of 1812. We might be generous and call it a draw; both sides were happy to quit.
This is how my longest lived project has been. Originally written for SunOS and HP/UX and Cray's UNICOS in the late 80s, it is still a live client/server application managing 100+ million files running on a wide variety of UNIX-like environments. The maintainers (me for the first ten years, others since then) have migrated development and production environments several times during the 25 years the project has been running.
There are lots of OpenVMS systems still running in medical and financial institutions.
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Fact is, when my parents were in school, ANY degree was good enough. You really could go get a philosophy degree because the jobs were mostly mid level office jobs and didn't require skill so much as the ability to read and learn a bit....perfect for people who had learned how to learn and could all read. Didn't matter what they studied then.
Now, well, that philosophy degree qualifies you to teach philosophy and fuck all else. The value of the products they offer varies greatly, and they still pretend a philosophy degree even matters. Frankly, I don't see why they should even offer philosophy beyond an associates; its just not worth it to the point it counts as a scam really.
The author says that rather than do that (get an ordinary job), he intentionally chose the (lack of) career path that he's on.
From the article: "to do with my particular usefulness to society"
It appears to me that you have none.
There are lots of good comments posted after the original article.
The article presents some info that just isn't quite right. The device will probably be useful but not nearly as good as they claim. Instead of 8 or more to one times the typical battery lifetime, it will be more like two times. Google "joule thief" and read the articles and comments carefully. This device works the same way; just in a compact package.