The mind likes to oversell the small concessions, it's totally okay to fly a weekend to Paris as long as you get a Fairtrade caffe latte with ecological soy milk. A small savings on a big expense, it was expensive but you got it on sale. You walked the stairs so super size that burger, you earned it.
It seems like you're entirely mixing up the groups you're ragging on. Those sound like two entirely different lifestyles.
Here is an outrageous statement: The real purpose of these laws is to force people who want to get things done to make political donations.
Absolutely. No company ever caused any environmental problems in the entire history of the Earth. Never happened. Therefore the only possible reason for the regulations is for bribe money.
It's kind of funny. You know California must objectively suck and be bad for business. That's because it's full of liberals and it's an axiom that liberals are terrible at everything.
So California must be terrible. Objectively.
When your theories meet the evidence and don't hold up, the correct thing to do is shout and get angry. That will fix the evidence up in no time.
It was likely either a cynical attempt to slow the project down and get bribes for stepping aside, or some uneducated people
Uneducated, like the large company with lots of money who "forgot" to file the right paperwork? The law specifically says that companies aren't allowed to hide the impact by splitting it up into lots of tiny chunks.
Musk just tried to do EXACTLY that.
If there isn't impact then that would have come up in the full report.
Why didn't they file it? The law is entirely clear in this regard and not only that entirely sensible.
I've just come off disagreeing with DNS about a bunch of shit but I have to say you have no clue.
Strong words!
Your description of foreign travel portrays your antisocial bias.
That's a lot to get out of me saying "Looking at videos is nothing like visiting in person.".
If you make it as boring as you describe it then yes, foreign travel will be boring and lame. But so will anything else with such a boring attitude.
To each his own. Personally I like to experience the place. If you think anything that's not simply like looking at videos online is "boring and lame" and "antisocial" then, well, I guess it's a good job we're not travelling together.
If you make it less about physically seeing lame tourist sites you can see photos of and more about actually experiencing the fucking country you're in then you can be in for incredible experiences.
You just said that was "boring and lame" right up there!
Or maybe you responded to completely the wrong post? Or prehaps you read soething by someone else and assumed I wrote it. Who knows! You might be wrong but at least you're angry, rude and condescending about it.
It would be nice if we could go with a better CPU architecture like Itanium or something with a ton of registers, with 128 registers, but it seems ARM is doing a good job with 13 registers, and amd64 does OK with 16 registers.
The ISA might not, but any of the superscalar, out of order chips (i.e. the fast ones from Intel, AMD, Arm and others) have hundreds of registers internally. You can't access them explicitly but they are there and the CPU does the register allocation for you.
Actually I do believe in Trump's basic philosophy of success - really hard work.
I say this as soneone who works very hard and is successful, that's a load of rot. Hard work will make a situation better but it's neither necessary nor sufficient for success.
There are tons of hard working people who hold down two jobs just to make rent and food. They are very hard working. Their prospects are not success but likely medical bankruptcy from a treatable condition when they get older and medical issues start to bite.
What really helps is being born rich.
I am a lot better off than most people on the planet, even though I started with nothing and came from a poor family.
That's good for you. But most people cannot achieve that no matter how hard they work. Hard work was only one of a large number of factors. Your hard work certainly contributed but it was not the sole source of your success by a long shot.
But then if you knew anything about Trump (which was easy to do before he became president) you would know that is normal for him...
Why would I care? Is it supposed to impress me? Lots of people work very hard. Few make it to president.
Trump is obviously doing something right if he's able to sleep with porn stars and marry models (whatever the order may be) and have giant buildings with his name on them in multiple cities.
Absolutely yes. He did the best thing one can do for success: have very very very rich parents.
And um those models he marries, well... I bet he loves the way Melania keeps flicking him away whe nhe tries to hold hands. I wish I could be married to a model who hates me. Such success.
He may be flawed as a human but I've not seen anything that says he has any worse flaws than any other president to date, and in fact Trump may be slightly ahead of the curve.
Trump is not a normal person. If the majority were that venal the world would collapse. Trump cares about one thing: Trump. Normal people are uch, much better than that. The fact you insult normal people by equating them to Trump says more about you than them.
Thing is, no matter how "normal" you act, you'll never get to be as rich as "normal" Trump. Give it up and unshackle yourself from that cart.
Trump is normal. That is the point - he's just a normal guy basically, and always has been.
Yep just a normal incredibly rich pathological liar from an incredibly rich family.
Don't worrr Kendall, mate, if you just squeeze your eyes and believe really hard how normal Trump is then you too, a normal guy, will also get to be incredibly rich. Because that's totally how causality works.
uh. The nat gas brought us down under O. What is keeping it down now, is NOT nat gas prices, but the states, along with utilities, which KNOW that CO2 is a real issue.
I don't really see how that follows. Natural gas became cheaper when Obama happened to be president, and that displaced coal. Nothing magical has changed. It continues t obe cheaper than coal, so on one's going to invest in coal plants.
What is keeping it down now, is NOT nat gas prices, but the states, along with utilities, which KNOW that CO2 is a real issue. In fact, out of all the idiotic things that Trump has done, I think one of the worst, was in allowing massive exports of our nat gas. That is going to raise our price, which will encourage some utilities to re-open coal.
If it's attitude not proce that's keeping it down, then having the price rise won't make coal plants re-open...?
I don't really follow your argument.
It is for that very reason that I want to see us bring on line with Nuclear SMRs esp. with NuScale.
Main problem is we stopped investing in nuclear tech in like the 1970s. It's like we're forcing ourselves to drive nothing but reliant robins and wondering why it sucks.
Theirs is perfect for putting in place of old coal plants. our old coal plants are small, but gad, are they dirty. They are somewhere around 30-35% efficiency and are major CO2 emitters.
Old coal plants have old turbomachineery. Is it worth keeping that? I've not checked the price. As far as I know the only plants designed with that in mind (using coal based turbomachienery) were the British gas reactors, which have a higher output temperature than the PWR ones. I don't think nuScale will be a good match there.
If we shut down coal plants that are older than 20 years, we would cut our Co2 emissions by something like 20-25%. That is huge. Of course, that is over 150 GW of plants that have to come down.
Yep. Though you're American (I assume?). You have the land area and climate to go all renewable without imports, without the hassle of nuclear.
at peaks a 50 *mm* increase - that is just 0.003 feet!
lolwut?
Not sure why you're switching to decimal fractions of a foot (isn't is more conventional to use multiples of 1/537 of a chain at this point), but that's 0.16 feet, or in more common Imperial parlance, 2 inches.
Step up, vote correctly and you will bring your wildest dreams in to reality. But you may not like what you get. Socialism really does suck kids!
Social democracy on the other hand works very well.
Have not flown in 10 years. Put 23 miles on my Toyota Prius last month. Have not driven over 2k-3k miles a year in, well years. Live in a 2000 sq ft house. And work remotely for the most part. How about you?
I own no car, but I do fly occasionally, mostly for work. Drive well under 1k per year. My house is a little smaller, but I don't work remote. Turns out I'm not very good at that. Works fine for a few days, even a week or two. Then I start going strange.
Turns out I like/need the company. Also, I'm in the kind of job where people keep asking me stuff. Sure it interrrupts my work, but a good part of my job in making sure others can get the most out of their time.
If Americans did not care, why does our emissions continue to drop? Even when we have Trump and the GOP as leaders. Because citizens care and push our states.
That and natural gas is currently much cheaper than coal.
That ultimately is why the coal jobs aren't coming back, no matter how much "degrgulation" (i.e. environmental wrecking) is allowed. It's too expensive.
If all of the public research was public, then we'd all be able to see how much of it is a sham.
Huh?
We already know. It's been reported on repeatedly. And for anyone interested in looking, many papers are available freely online even with paywalled journals and, frankly, most people aren't going to check because until you know the jargon of the field even a sound paper is indistinguishable from gibberish half the time.
This is of course a great reason to mandate that all publicly funded research be made completely free to access.
No. The reason to mandate it is so people have access to the research. Not so that people can see what a sham science is (clutches pearls). Science is the only way of knowing we actually have. That doesn't make it magically immune from Sturgeon's law. Anyone who is surpised by that is naive.
And yet science advances.
For-Pay journals could well survive just by curating the most interesting
That's what the top journals already do. Not all journals are equal.
an accurate of them,
Well, interesting is not the same as accurate *cough*nature*cough*.
and it's likely the quality of journals would go up as a result.
Doubtful. The top journals will continue to have the flashiest results. Given that most journals let authors pup papers up on their own website and allow preprints on arvix/bioarxiv (apparently biologists are too snooty to use something dirtied by pyhsicists), there won't be much difference.
Not really. Science doesn't have a credibility problem, at least not among people who will ever not see it as having a credibility problem. Those people can't be reached anyway so there's little point in trying.
because the lack of it is allowing things like anti-vac sentiment and other crazy ideas to spread like wildfire.
Humans will always be irrational. Fixing the journals won't make humans less rational. You might as well argue that science has a cedibility problem because flat-earthers exist.
My old PC has an AMD Piledriver processor. It doesn't do SMT. It does CMP. So it isn't as vulnerable to those exploits as say Ryzen or an Intel processor.
Old i7 with hyperthreading here. Probably vulnerable a. f.
It is vulnerable to out-of-order branch prediction attacks though. But then again so is nearly everything else including ARM.
Phones, yes. I think the RPi is safe since it's an in-order processor. Though that's why it's not really very speedy and the 1.4GHz Pi3 is absolutely no match for this 1.7GHz i7.
Actually, those very models (Tree rings, Ice cores) are constantly adjusted so that they better fit surface temperature records over the last hundred years
Actually no they're not.
The first IPCC report set some of those in stone by having graphs predicting the future. Those models predicted the temperature rise to within the error bars, so far nearly 30 years into the future.
Now unless you're claiming someone went back and edited that report after the fact, "constantly adjusting" the models you have to concede that the models made succesful predictons.
When the data is against you, science is against you and reason is against you, I guess that's all that's left. Global warming is happening. Climate change is the result. Inventing silly quotes will not change reality no matter how much your political inclinations tell you that reality is wrong.
They are actually accomplishing something, besides cost overruns.
I guess I imagined all those rovers that NASA successfully landed on Mars.
What has NASA done since the 60's?
You mean apart from Hubble, many mars rovers, Dawn, Kepler, the X43, and a bunch of other stuff?
Fucked up the concept of a Reusable Space Plane
Firstly, space is hard. Secondly, the shuttle had one of the best safety records of all rockets. If you look at the number of passengers lost versus the number carried it did very well.
Low end M.2 drive can possibly be slower on writes than a bit older, higher end SATA drive. New 128GB drive has fewer flash channels than old 128GB drive..
Huh TIL.
I did try a benchmark for sequential reads on a modern high end laptop. The internal (M.2) drive could hit 2.5G/s, versus mine which saturates the SATAII port. That was a good laptop though, not a cheap M.2 drive.
btw for a laptop like yours it can be possible to add USB 3.0 ports on ExpressCard if you have the slot and need or want them.
It actually has USB3 already (not all ports). And as it happens I do also have an expresscard USB3 adapter too!
A couple months passed then Meltdown and Spectre came around. So basically I've left it in another floor collecting dust while I'm still working on my old PC.
Your old PC (especially if it's intel) will be vulnerable to those unless it's old enough to be single core (i.e. a P4 or older).
I ended up with a M.2 NAND drive which was not any larger than the SATA one I had in my old PC and cost about as much if not more...
M.2 has the capability to be faster, since it'a a much faster bus.
Also 4K just made everything more expensive and it is useless for gaming.
I've got dual 4k monitors at work. I've never gamed on them!
That all said I know where you're coming from. My day to day machine at home is a 8.5 year old laptop (1st gen core i7 Q820 @ 1.7GHz, 16GB RAM and a couple of SATA SSDs). It doesn't suport M.2 as far as I know, only SATA II.
I have a very nice 2k screen that I used to use a lot when I worked from this machine but now serves as a screen to watch TV. Quite often SD tv. Nice screen though.
Honestly it works fine, sufficiently so that I don't see the need to upgrade it in the forseeable future. RAM is the main thing and it's got more than many new machines (and will max out at 32G if need be). Still zippy enough to do everything I'm interested in doing at home.
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The mind likes to oversell the small concessions, it's totally okay to fly a weekend to Paris as long as you get a Fairtrade caffe latte with ecological soy milk. A small savings on a big expense, it was expensive but you got it on sale. You walked the stairs so super size that burger, you earned it.
It seems like you're entirely mixing up the groups you're ragging on. Those sound like two entirely different lifestyles.
Here is an outrageous statement: The real purpose of these laws is to force people who want to get things done to make political donations.
Absolutely. No company ever caused any environmental problems in the entire history of the Earth. Never happened. Therefore the only possible reason for the regulations is for bribe money.
True story.
It's kind of funny. You know California must objectively suck and be bad for business. That's because it's full of liberals and it's an axiom that liberals are terrible at everything.
So California must be terrible. Objectively.
When your theories meet the evidence and don't hold up, the correct thing to do is shout and get angry. That will fix the evidence up in no time.
It was likely either a cynical attempt to slow the project down and get bribes for stepping aside, or some uneducated people
Uneducated, like the large company with lots of money who "forgot" to file the right paperwork? The law specifically says that companies aren't allowed to hide the impact by splitting it up into lots of tiny chunks.
Musk just tried to do EXACTLY that.
If there isn't impact then that would have come up in the full report.
Why didn't they file it? The law is entirely clear in this regard and not only that entirely sensible.
I've just come off disagreeing with DNS about a bunch of shit but I have to say you have no clue.
Strong words!
Your description of foreign travel portrays your antisocial bias.
That's a lot to get out of me saying "Looking at videos is nothing like visiting in person.".
If you make it as boring as you describe it then yes, foreign travel will be boring and lame. But so will anything else with such a boring attitude.
To each his own. Personally I like to experience the place. If you think anything that's not simply like looking at videos online is "boring and lame" and "antisocial" then, well, I guess it's a good job we're not travelling together.
If you make it less about physically seeing lame tourist sites you can see photos of and more about actually experiencing the fucking country you're in then you can be in for incredible experiences.
You just said that was "boring and lame" right up there!
Or maybe you responded to completely the wrong post? Or prehaps you read soething by someone else and assumed I wrote it. Who knows! You might be wrong but at least you're angry, rude and condescending about it.
No. Mongeese.
We rarely agree on much it seems, but in this we do. Looking at videos is nothing like visiting in person.
It would be nice if we could go with a better CPU architecture like Itanium or something with a ton of registers, with 128 registers, but it seems ARM is doing a good job with 13 registers, and amd64 does OK with 16 registers.
The ISA might not, but any of the superscalar, out of order chips (i.e. the fast ones from Intel, AMD, Arm and others) have hundreds of registers internally. You can't access them explicitly but they are there and the CPU does the register allocation for you.
Actually I do believe in Trump's basic philosophy of success - really hard work.
I say this as soneone who works very hard and is successful, that's a load of rot. Hard work will make a situation better but it's neither necessary nor sufficient for success.
There are tons of hard working people who hold down two jobs just to make rent and food. They are very hard working. Their prospects are not success but likely medical bankruptcy from a treatable condition when they get older and medical issues start to bite.
What really helps is being born rich.
I am a lot better off than most people on the planet, even though I started with nothing and came from a poor family.
That's good for you. But most people cannot achieve that no matter how hard they work. Hard work was only one of a large number of factors. Your hard work certainly contributed but it was not the sole source of your success by a long shot.
But then if you knew anything about Trump (which was easy to do before he became president) you would know that is normal for him...
Why would I care? Is it supposed to impress me? Lots of people work very hard. Few make it to president.
Trump is obviously doing something right if he's able to sleep with porn stars and marry models (whatever the order may be) and have giant buildings with his name on them in multiple cities.
Absolutely yes. He did the best thing one can do for success: have very very very rich parents.
And um those models he marries, well... I bet he loves the way Melania keeps flicking him away whe nhe tries to hold hands. I wish I could be married to a model who hates me. Such success.
He may be flawed as a human but I've not seen anything that says he has any worse flaws than any other president to date, and in fact Trump may be slightly ahead of the curve.
lol
You didn't actually engage in any ideas nor refute anything that was said
He litreally did.
inked to a couple of Wikipedia articles
Which in fact refuted the points.
that were obviously written by SJWs like yourself
You don't really understand irony, do you?
Trump [...] (as a normal person would),
Trump is not a normal person. If the majority were that venal the world would collapse. Trump cares about one thing: Trump. Normal people are uch, much better than that. The fact you insult normal people by equating them to Trump says more about you than them.
Thing is, no matter how "normal" you act, you'll never get to be as rich as "normal" Trump. Give it up and unshackle yourself from that cart.
Trump is normal. That is the point - he's just a normal guy basically, and always has been.
Yep just a normal incredibly rich pathological liar from an incredibly rich family.
Don't worrr Kendall, mate, if you just squeeze your eyes and believe really hard how normal Trump is then you too, a normal guy, will also get to be incredibly rich. Because that's totally how causality works.
Didn't THE scientific mind of our times, Bill Nye, just last week pontificate that Mars exploration is pointless?
B-but no he didn't.
Why the fuck was this post modded up?
uh. The nat gas brought us down under O. What is keeping it down now, is NOT nat gas prices, but the states, along with utilities, which KNOW that CO2 is a real issue.
I don't really see how that follows. Natural gas became cheaper when Obama happened to be president, and that displaced coal. Nothing magical has changed. It continues t obe cheaper than coal, so on one's going to invest in coal plants.
What is keeping it down now, is NOT nat gas prices, but the states, along with utilities, which KNOW that CO2 is a real issue. In fact, out of all the idiotic things that Trump has done, I think one of the worst, was in allowing massive exports of our nat gas. That is going to raise our price, which will encourage some utilities to re-open coal.
If it's attitude not proce that's keeping it down, then having the price rise won't make coal plants re-open...?
I don't really follow your argument.
It is for that very reason that I want to see us bring on line with Nuclear SMRs esp. with NuScale.
Main problem is we stopped investing in nuclear tech in like the 1970s. It's like we're forcing ourselves to drive nothing but reliant robins and wondering why it sucks.
Theirs is perfect for putting in place of old coal plants. our old coal plants are small, but gad, are they dirty. They are somewhere around 30-35% efficiency and are major CO2 emitters.
Old coal plants have old turbomachineery. Is it worth keeping that? I've not checked the price. As far as I know the only plants designed with that in mind (using coal based turbomachienery) were the British gas reactors, which have a higher output temperature than the PWR ones. I don't think nuScale will be a good match there.
If we shut down coal plants that are older than 20 years, we would cut our Co2 emissions by something like 20-25%. That is huge. Of course, that is over 150 GW of plants that have to come down.
Yep. Though you're American (I assume?). You have the land area and climate to go all renewable without imports, without the hassle of nuclear.
at peaks a 50 *mm* increase - that is just 0.003 feet!
lolwut?
Not sure why you're switching to decimal fractions of a foot (isn't is more conventional to use multiples of 1/537 of a chain at this point), but that's 0.16 feet, or in more common Imperial parlance, 2 inches.
Step up, vote correctly and you will bring your wildest dreams in to reality. But you may not like what you get. Socialism really does suck kids!
Social democracy on the other hand works very well.
Have not flown in 10 years. Put 23 miles on my Toyota Prius last month. Have not driven over 2k-3k miles a year in, well years. Live in a 2000 sq ft house. And work remotely for the most part. How about you?
I own no car, but I do fly occasionally, mostly for work. Drive well under 1k per year. My house is a little smaller, but I don't work remote. Turns out I'm not very good at that. Works fine for a few days, even a week or two. Then I start going strange.
Turns out I like/need the company. Also, I'm in the kind of job where people keep asking me stuff. Sure it interrrupts my work, but a good part of my job in making sure others can get the most out of their time.
If Americans did not care, why does our emissions continue to drop? Even when we have Trump and the GOP as leaders. Because citizens care and push our states.
That and natural gas is currently much cheaper than coal.
That ultimately is why the coal jobs aren't coming back, no matter how much "degrgulation" (i.e. environmental wrecking) is allowed. It's too expensive.
If all of the public research was public, then we'd all be able to see how much of it is a sham.
Huh?
We already know. It's been reported on repeatedly. And for anyone interested in looking, many papers are available freely online even with paywalled journals and, frankly, most people aren't going to check because until you know the jargon of the field even a sound paper is indistinguishable from gibberish half the time.
This is of course a great reason to mandate that all publicly funded research be made completely free to access.
No. The reason to mandate it is so people have access to the research. Not so that people can see what a sham science is (clutches pearls). Science is the only way of knowing we actually have. That doesn't make it magically immune from Sturgeon's law. Anyone who is surpised by that is naive.
And yet science advances.
For-Pay journals could well survive just by curating the most interesting
That's what the top journals already do. Not all journals are equal.
an accurate of them,
Well, interesting is not the same as accurate *cough*nature*cough*.
and it's likely the quality of journals would go up as a result.
Doubtful. The top journals will continue to have the flashiest results. Given that most journals let authors pup papers up on their own website and allow preprints on arvix/bioarxiv (apparently biologists are too snooty to use something dirtied by pyhsicists), there won't be much difference.
Not really. Science doesn't have a credibility problem, at least not among people who will ever not see it as having a credibility problem. Those people can't be reached anyway so there's little point in trying.
because the lack of it is allowing things like anti-vac sentiment and other crazy ideas to spread like wildfire.
Humans will always be irrational. Fixing the journals won't make humans less rational. You might as well argue that science has a cedibility problem because flat-earthers exist.
.humor.
Um humour is supposed to be funny. I think you meant ".sarcasm.".
My old PC has an AMD Piledriver processor. It doesn't do SMT. It does CMP. So it isn't as vulnerable to those exploits as say Ryzen or an Intel processor.
Old i7 with hyperthreading here. Probably vulnerable a. f.
It is vulnerable to out-of-order branch prediction attacks though. But then again so is nearly everything else including ARM.
Phones, yes. I think the RPi is safe since it's an in-order processor. Though that's why it's not really very speedy and the 1.4GHz Pi3 is absolutely no match for this 1.7GHz i7.
Actually, those very models (Tree rings, Ice cores) are constantly adjusted so that they better fit surface temperature records over the last hundred years
Actually no they're not.
The first IPCC report set some of those in stone by having graphs predicting the future. Those models predicted the temperature rise to within the error bars, so far nearly 30 years into the future.
Now unless you're claiming someone went back and edited that report after the fact, "constantly adjusting" the models you have to concede that the models made succesful predictons.
Is that supposed to be some sort of argument?
When the data is against you, science is against you and reason is against you, I guess that's all that's left. Global warming is happening. Climate change is the result. Inventing silly quotes will not change reality no matter how much your political inclinations tell you that reality is wrong.
They are actually accomplishing something, besides cost overruns.
I guess I imagined all those rovers that NASA successfully landed on Mars.
What has NASA done since the 60's?
You mean apart from Hubble, many mars rovers, Dawn, Kepler, the X43, and a bunch of other stuff?
Fucked up the concept of a Reusable Space Plane
Firstly, space is hard. Secondly, the shuttle had one of the best safety records of all rockets. If you look at the number of passengers lost versus the number carried it did very well.
Low end M.2 drive can possibly be slower on writes than a bit older, higher end SATA drive. New 128GB drive has fewer flash channels than old 128GB drive..
Huh TIL.
I did try a benchmark for sequential reads on a modern high end laptop. The internal (M.2) drive could hit 2.5G/s, versus mine which saturates the SATAII port. That was a good laptop though, not a cheap M.2 drive.
btw for a laptop like yours it can be possible to add USB 3.0 ports on ExpressCard if you have the slot and need or want them.
It actually has USB3 already (not all ports). And as it happens I do also have an expresscard USB3 adapter too!
A couple months passed then Meltdown and Spectre came around. So basically I've left it in another floor collecting dust while I'm still working on my old PC.
Your old PC (especially if it's intel) will be vulnerable to those unless it's old enough to be single core (i.e. a P4 or older).
I ended up with a M.2 NAND drive which was not any larger than the SATA one I had in my old PC and cost about as much if not more...
M.2 has the capability to be faster, since it'a a much faster bus.
Also 4K just made everything more expensive and it is useless for gaming.
I've got dual 4k monitors at work. I've never gamed on them!
That all said I know where you're coming from. My day to day machine at home is a 8.5 year old laptop (1st gen core i7 Q820 @ 1.7GHz, 16GB RAM and a couple of SATA SSDs). It doesn't suport M.2 as far as I know, only SATA II.
I have a very nice 2k screen that I used to use a lot when I worked from this machine but now serves as a screen to watch TV. Quite often SD tv. Nice screen though.
Honestly it works fine, sufficiently so that I don't see the need to upgrade it in the forseeable future. RAM is the main thing and it's got more than many new machines (and will max out at 32G if need be). Still zippy enough to do everything I'm interested in doing at home.