as long as they are not also 2,4D , triazine (nasty stuff, tends to persist), metam-sodium, Dithopyr and pendimethalin resistant we might still have a chance.
The "hydrogen economy" would produce huge amounts of CO2 if we use the cheapest most efficient means of producing hydrogen, namely hydrocarbon fractionation. I had read of energy balances for ethanol that show it requires more energy to produce than it actually produces. Not to mention the stupidity of using food for fuel. Ethanol drove up the price of corn enough that there were food riots in latin America.
Having seen this blow up in our faces before I want to raise a warning flag early so we can nip a bad idea in the bud.
How much energy will be required to keep said organisms alive? Where will it come from? What about waste products i.e. products that are not useful (waste management is the bane of nuclear power)? What do we do with those ? What do we do with organisms that die?
The total carbon footprint. What does it cost to create the enzymes? Odds are they are derived from hydrocarbons. This could be another scam like ethanol and the "hydrogen economy".
Good question. If he had been any other applicant he would probably have been rejected. Younger and fit people are preferred for exactly this reason, they have less risk of medical problems. It is a good thing it happened in the summer as a winter evacuation would be horribly dangerous.
and maybe we can just suspend the laws of physics. Even shielding degrades under assault by high doses of radiation. And equipment maintenance becomes a problem. Remember, rust never sleeps. And batteries must be charged or replaced.
In my experience most developers seem to be emotional and illogical. They have deeply ingrained beliefs; sometimes that the legacy tech is the best and sometimes that the latest new thing is the best, and they will not reassess their position regardless of real world evidence. Personally I try to keep an open mind and use the tools I am given.
If there is steady work in it so what. I have a friend who ended up in AC electrical despite wanting to get into micro electronics, which later begat computer engineering et. al. He always had steady work, commercial and industrial, and he figured that while his salary looked lower than some of his friends and cohorts he made more money over 20+ years because his line of work rarely had layoffs. He never went months with out pay and he never had to dip into savings.
There are companies that tried that and failed. Then they reel the work back in. Then they try again. Lather, rinse, repeat. The slippage is huge. In addition the cost of over seas labor is increasing (due to crappy software needing support, but that's another thread) and the skill level is dropping due to crappy education systems.
The factors are complex. You also have to factor in demand and cost of living. FYI, a large tech company whose initials are HPE is shutting down Silly Valley RnD for "lower cost geographies". They just don't want to pay the salaries developers demand to work there.
COBOL, Fortran, and LISP were very much version 1.0 . no one had ever done anything like it. Mistakes were made but through them it allowed much better languages to be developed Like VB, based on BASIC which borrowed syntax from both Fortran and COBOL. Or Python which adopted Fortran's white space significance three years after Fortran 90 discarded it.
But seriously, they broke ground in a new area with COBOL and Fortran. An attempt to fix Fortran and COBOL resulted in Pascal which then led to UCSD Pascal which compiled to byte code and ran on a VM which then resulted in Java and C#.
They were the first and had nothing to go on. What have *you* (pl.) invented?
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I hope you realize GA are not guaranteed to converge to a global maximum.
This is why the principle of automation and machine intelligence goes hand in hand with the concept of death camps
Fixed that for you, hope it helps.
Never confuse rationality with benevolence.
or you could just starve to death. A "win-win"!
as long as they are not also 2,4D , triazine (nasty stuff, tends to persist), metam-sodium, Dithopyr and pendimethalin resistant we might still have a chance.
but a majority of the voters
The "hydrogen economy" would produce huge amounts of CO2 if we use the cheapest most efficient means of producing hydrogen, namely hydrocarbon fractionation. I had read of energy balances for ethanol that show it requires more energy to produce than it actually produces. Not to mention the stupidity of using food for fuel. Ethanol drove up the price of corn enough that there were food riots in latin America.
Having seen this blow up in our faces before I want to raise a warning flag early so we can nip a bad idea in the bud.
How much energy will be required to keep said organisms alive? Where will it come from? What about waste products i.e. products that are not useful (waste management is the bane of nuclear power)? What do we do with those ? What do we do with organisms that die?
What sort of energy cost is entailed? I assume the temperature and pressure must be correct. I assume some sort of medium is required.
The total carbon footprint. What does it cost to create the enzymes? Odds are they are derived from hydrocarbons. This could be another scam like ethanol and the "hydrogen economy".
Good question. If he had been any other applicant he would probably have been rejected. Younger and fit people are preferred for exactly this reason, they have less risk of medical problems. It is a good thing it happened in the summer as a winter evacuation would be horribly dangerous.
and maybe we can just suspend the laws of physics. Even shielding degrades under assault by high doses of radiation. And equipment maintenance becomes a problem. Remember, rust never sleeps. And batteries must be charged or replaced.
F-35
I was going to post that I have never seen a project that wasn't fad driven.
In my experience most developers seem to be emotional and illogical. They have deeply ingrained beliefs; sometimes that the legacy tech is the best and sometimes that the latest new thing is the best, and they will not reassess their position regardless of real world evidence. Personally I try to keep an open mind and use the tools I am given.
If there is steady work in it so what. I have a friend who ended up in AC electrical despite wanting to get into micro electronics, which later begat computer engineering et. al. He always had steady work, commercial and industrial, and he figured that while his salary looked lower than some of his friends and cohorts he made more money over 20+ years because his line of work rarely had layoffs. He never went months with out pay and he never had to dip into savings.
To heck with sexy tech, show me the money.
There are companies that tried that and failed. Then they reel the work back in. Then they try again. Lather, rinse, repeat. The slippage is huge. In addition the cost of over seas labor is increasing (due to crappy software needing support, but that's another thread) and the skill level is dropping due to crappy education systems.
All of them. H1B is de facto indentured servitude.
And IDEs like Eclipse and IntelliJ CE which are free as in beer.
The factors are complex. You also have to factor in demand and cost of living. FYI, a large tech company whose initials are HPE is shutting down Silly Valley RnD for "lower cost geographies". They just don't want to pay the salaries developers demand to work there.
Diebold would be happy to program one up for you!
speaking of ruby poetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
COBOL, Fortran, and LISP were very much version 1.0 . no one had ever done anything like it. Mistakes were made but through them it allowed much better languages to be developed Like VB, based on BASIC which borrowed syntax from both Fortran and COBOL. Or Python which adopted Fortran's white space significance three years after Fortran 90 discarded it.
But seriously, they broke ground in a new area with COBOL and Fortran. An attempt to fix Fortran and COBOL resulted in Pascal which then led to UCSD Pascal which compiled to byte code and ran on a VM which then resulted in Java and C#.
They were the first and had nothing to go on. What have *you* (pl.) invented?
I turned down a possible job at the naval weapons research center for exactly that reason.
Or how about creating and selling non-ACID compliant database systems and being proud of the fact.