New code is not perfect on creation and developers need to be prepared to swing the axe, scrap stuff that doesn't work and start off different approaches. However in production it's better to make very gentle changes to a unstable house of cards even if it is utter shit held together by chewing gum and string. To work in both you need to be able to switch between mindsets because they are really very different jobs. Someone working in both is not ideal. Even if you are very good at both there is a strong temptation to make radical changes, make incremental changes an place them in production and thus limit options in development or to develop something new that incorporates the flaws of something in production. An ideal is good communication between people in both roles. "Switching hats" can result in too many compromises and being either too conservative or too radical for the project. If you are stuck in that situation external input from testers or somewhere is vital as a sanity check.
I'm not speaking of the US but instead providing an example from anther country of a child "held accountable for crimes that precede their birth". In Australia, due to odd wording of a law, babies born to refugees are classified as "maritime arrivals" and denied citizenship. If their parents are not refugees that "Anchor Baby" situation applies. I'm not going to argue if it's right/wrong or doesn't matter, I'm just using it as an example.
I never suggested that. However in hindsight you are acting as if you were so I can understand now why you decided you needed to point out that you are recycling silly propaganda for free. You have stated that you are no longer a child. I suggest acting accordingly and lay off the stupid lies or you will get people taking you to task for such stupid lies.
Is that some sort of petty insult suggesting I'm not a "real" citizen? I am an Australian and envious of the US Constitution that the NSA is spitting on. They have betrayed your country and Snowden caught them at it. They have betrayed my country by circulating information about an Australian intelligence operation on the Indonesian President very widely (in a powerpoint presentation FFS) and Snowden got hold of it.
Since the NSA is such a shambles with outside subcontracting, civilians in roles that should be military and various horse judges running things due to social connections, you can be certain that Putin could have got hold of everything Snowden had and more many years ago. With a cast of thousands and people employed due to connections you can be certain that someone in that shambles had a night at Vegas and got a job offer. They have shown from lies to congress that patriotism is not going to stop them doing that, so it's not going to stop them from selling out either.
On interesting bit of the recent anti-Snowden propaganda is a rant similar to yours in the Murdoch press from Laim Fox - the former UK defence secretary who had to resign after a string of very serious security breaches in negotiations with Israel's Mossad and Sri Lankan military intelligence. I suppose at least he knows a bit about the subject matter. The online version is behind a paywall, but it's amusing that he uses the "treason" word for material far less sensitive than the material he gave unauthorised people access to.
Let's throw that back at you - so you support King before Country (and Constitution). My mistake, I thought you were an American and not an English Loyalist.
An air-conditioned office? Funny how that's what is mostly what people shouting "real world" mean. If you want to challenge the experience of others then provide your own "metrics" or anecdotes from your own experience.
Considering that part of that was things like industrial espionage of an Indonesian Clove Cigarette manufacturer for the benefit of commercial clients in the USA where presumably kickbacks would be given to someone in US intelligence who gave the job to the Australians - fuck yes. We should not be risking intelligence assets on that shit just so that someone in Washington gets paid a bribe. Since another was Australia's Telstra handing communications data to the NSA and giving full access to some intercontinental cables - fuck yes. Snowden betrayed a bunch of people going far beyond what their jobs should have allowed TO HIS COUNTRY. He told his country what is going on. He did your country and mine a service. The only losers are the people who went too far and tried an East German Stasi approach to intelligence instead of the targetted approach the USA had used in the past.
Exposing the rot in your country so that it can be cured is different to betraying your country. The bullshit along the lines of "because he told the Washington Post it's the same as telling the KGB" is just damage control by some people who will probably lose their jobs and could even be facing jail time.
What a disgusting little weasel you are. When your made up "facts" failed to impress you've made an empty appeal to authority about a completely different topic. Please use that education and life experience instead of acting like a teenage school debate club member.
Well that's what the propaganda says but in reality they don't have any more stuff than the Washington Post has. Snowden betrayed some corrupt officials for the benefit of his country. Those corrupt officials like to frame things in another way but they showed they are putting themselves before their duty to their country via actions such as lying to Congress.
One William Gibson interview asked about his "predictions", and I recall his view was that some people liked some of his ideas and made things resembling them instead of him actually predicting anything. I'd say some of the Star Trek stuff came about the same way, although the tablet also resembles the slates used in schools a long time back.
This entire article is a "whoosh". A drawing designed to make people think about a computer on your wrist (which this one does very well) is about conveying an idea and not a blueprint for a real object.
To get the same sort of behaviour that users have seen since before Win3.11. As seen with online purchases at HP etc there are certainly people prepared to pay extra for that.
No I'm writing about why it can't happen. Things may change from outside influences but there are some massive roadblocks including the US Nuclear lobby themselves.
Doesn't matter? Without somebody putting up the capital it doesn't happen. Civilian Nuclear IMHO has two options - very small units that don't cost a lot or (the unlikely approach) find some way to get itself funded. A windmill doesn't cost much even if it takes ten thousand to match a nuclear power station - but they are not being purchased ten thousand at a time are they?
Sometimes they just indicate bad tax laws. Part timers or seasonal workers getting taxed as if they are full time get large refunds in some places and there's no way they can plan around it - they just have to wait while the government holds their money at zero interest.
That is all of them. Remember one of the nasty tricks with the "Patriot" act (apart from it's name) was to rush it through before anyone in Congress who was not responsible for drafting it had a chance to even see the first page.
are accomplished electrical engineers in transmission
Ask one of them instead of name dropping and supplying stuff dreamed up by political interns instead. The most "accomplished electrical engineer in transmission" I know started in the business in about 1950 - he has solar panels on his roof and wishes they were widespread before he retired. They would have made his job a lot easier. If you can't work out several reasons why you are not really thinking about the issue.
Thanks for the lecture but I suggest attempting to understand what I wrote above before writing simplistic shit like "Too much electricity in the grid is just as bad as too little". It may help if you learn a little bit about how those panels you are being critical about are connected to the grid and how they are controlled.
Every extra solar panel and wind turbine added to the grid increases grid instability a little more.
Who told you that bullshit - some accounts intern at an energy company annoyed at losing market share? It certainly wasn't anyone with enough of a clue to even know ohms law. Try thinking for yourself instead of swallowing then regurgitating such shit. Back in the day we would have loved a lot of nice clean waveform silicon rectified electricity sources right at the points of maximum consumption and pumping out power during the daytime peak.
Nuclear had very large potential returns but you have to put in a lot of capital and a lot of time to build the things. Banks won't touch it and governments don't have spare cash lying around so things with smaller unit sizes and shorter construction time are the things that get built.
I can point you to a paper that gives all the detailed facts in 10 pages
Most readers here are probably beyond far that and probably want something a bit less simplistic than is suggested by your comment above, especially since I just had to state what should be obvious to someone who thinks they know enough about the topic to share their opinion on it here.
I just wonder when the tipping point happens where people and businesses stop wanting to be beholden to Middle Eastern oil
It was 1979, but a later administration decided to go into business with Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc in a big way and scrapped the move towards energy independence.
are all over solar, wind, and other alternative energy
Not as much as the Chinese are, which should be a wake up call because they are about as far from "green" as you can get and are doing it for pragmatic reasons.
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I didn't say anything about nuclear one way or another which is why I'm calling your distraction and accusations childish.
Oh FFS. Act your age.
New code is not perfect on creation and developers need to be prepared to swing the axe, scrap stuff that doesn't work and start off different approaches.
However in production it's better to make very gentle changes to a unstable house of cards even if it is utter shit held together by chewing gum and string.
To work in both you need to be able to switch between mindsets because they are really very different jobs. Someone working in both is not ideal. Even if you are very good at both there is a strong temptation to make radical changes, make incremental changes an place them in production and thus limit options in development or to develop something new that incorporates the flaws of something in production. An ideal is good communication between people in both roles.
"Switching hats" can result in too many compromises and being either too conservative or too radical for the project. If you are stuck in that situation external input from testers or somewhere is vital as a sanity check.
I'm not speaking of the US but instead providing an example from anther country of a child "held accountable for crimes that precede their birth". In Australia, due to odd wording of a law, babies born to refugees are classified as "maritime arrivals" and denied citizenship. If their parents are not refugees that "Anchor Baby" situation applies. I'm not going to argue if it's right/wrong or doesn't matter, I'm just using it as an example.
I never suggested that. However in hindsight you are acting as if you were so I can understand now why you decided you needed to point out that you are recycling silly propaganda for free.
You have stated that you are no longer a child. I suggest acting accordingly and lay off the stupid lies or you will get people taking you to task for such stupid lies.
Is that some sort of petty insult suggesting I'm not a "real" citizen? I am an Australian and envious of the US Constitution that the NSA is spitting on. They have betrayed your country and Snowden caught them at it. They have betrayed my country by circulating information about an Australian intelligence operation on the Indonesian President very widely (in a powerpoint presentation FFS) and Snowden got hold of it.
Since the NSA is such a shambles with outside subcontracting, civilians in roles that should be military and various horse judges running things due to social connections, you can be certain that Putin could have got hold of everything Snowden had and more many years ago. With a cast of thousands and people employed due to connections you can be certain that someone in that shambles had a night at Vegas and got a job offer. They have shown from lies to congress that patriotism is not going to stop them doing that, so it's not going to stop them from selling out either.
On interesting bit of the recent anti-Snowden propaganda is a rant similar to yours in the Murdoch press from Laim Fox - the former UK defence secretary who had to resign after a string of very serious security breaches in negotiations with Israel's Mossad and Sri Lankan military intelligence. I suppose at least he knows a bit about the subject matter. The online version is behind a paywall, but it's amusing that he uses the "treason" word for material far less sensitive than the material he gave unauthorised people access to.
Let's throw that back at you - so you support King before Country (and Constitution). My mistake, I thought you were an American and not an English Loyalist.
An air-conditioned office? Funny how that's what is mostly what people shouting "real world" mean.
If you want to challenge the experience of others then provide your own "metrics" or anecdotes from your own experience.
Considering that part of that was things like industrial espionage of an Indonesian Clove Cigarette manufacturer for the benefit of commercial clients in the USA where presumably kickbacks would be given to someone in US intelligence who gave the job to the Australians - fuck yes. We should not be risking intelligence assets on that shit just so that someone in Washington gets paid a bribe. Since another was Australia's Telstra handing communications data to the NSA and giving full access to some intercontinental cables - fuck yes.
Snowden betrayed a bunch of people going far beyond what their jobs should have allowed TO HIS COUNTRY. He told his country what is going on. He did your country and mine a service. The only losers are the people who went too far and tried an East German Stasi approach to intelligence instead of the targetted approach the USA had used in the past.
Exposing the rot in your country so that it can be cured is different to betraying your country. The bullshit along the lines of "because he told the Washington Post it's the same as telling the KGB" is just damage control by some people who will probably lose their jobs and could even be facing jail time.
What a disgusting little weasel you are. When your made up "facts" failed to impress you've made an empty appeal to authority about a completely different topic. Please use that education and life experience instead of acting like a teenage school debate club member.
Well that's what the propaganda says but in reality they don't have any more stuff than the Washington Post has.
Snowden betrayed some corrupt officials for the benefit of his country. Those corrupt officials like to frame things in another way but they showed they are putting themselves before their duty to their country via actions such as lying to Congress.
One William Gibson interview asked about his "predictions", and I recall his view was that some people liked some of his ideas and made things resembling them instead of him actually predicting anything. I'd say some of the Star Trek stuff came about the same way, although the tablet also resembles the slates used in schools a long time back.
This entire article is a "whoosh". A drawing designed to make people think about a computer on your wrist (which this one does very well) is about conveying an idea and not a blueprint for a real object.
To get the same sort of behaviour that users have seen since before Win3.11. As seen with online purchases at HP etc there are certainly people prepared to pay extra for that.
No I'm writing about why it can't happen.
Things may change from outside influences but there are some massive roadblocks including the US Nuclear lobby themselves.
They are all one error really - the FU2 error from Microsoft.
Doesn't matter? Without somebody putting up the capital it doesn't happen. Civilian Nuclear IMHO has two options - very small units that don't cost a lot or (the unlikely approach) find some way to get itself funded.
A windmill doesn't cost much even if it takes ten thousand to match a nuclear power station - but they are not being purchased ten thousand at a time are they?
Sometimes they just indicate bad tax laws. Part timers or seasonal workers getting taxed as if they are full time get large refunds in some places and there's no way they can plan around it - they just have to wait while the government holds their money at zero interest.
Refugees get held accountable. Get born to the wrong parents and you get deported with them instead of citizenship in the place where you were born :(
That is all of them. Remember one of the nasty tricks with the "Patriot" act (apart from it's name) was to rush it through before anyone in Congress who was not responsible for drafting it had a chance to even see the first page.
Ask one of them instead of name dropping and supplying stuff dreamed up by political interns instead. The most "accomplished electrical engineer in transmission" I know started in the business in about 1950 - he has solar panels on his roof and wishes they were widespread before he retired. They would have made his job a lot easier. If you can't work out several reasons why you are not really thinking about the issue.
What do you think it was for then? Use it! Don't fall for the bullshit spread by people with a political agenda.
Thanks for the lecture but I suggest attempting to understand what I wrote above before writing simplistic shit like "Too much electricity in the grid is just as bad as too little". It may help if you learn a little bit about how those panels you are being critical about are connected to the grid and how they are controlled.
Who told you that bullshit - some accounts intern at an energy company annoyed at losing market share? It certainly wasn't anyone with enough of a clue to even know ohms law. Try thinking for yourself instead of swallowing then regurgitating such shit. Back in the day we would have loved a lot of nice clean waveform silicon rectified electricity sources right at the points of maximum consumption and pumping out power during the daytime peak.
Most readers here are probably beyond far that and probably want something a bit less simplistic than is suggested by your comment above, especially since I just had to state what should be obvious to someone who thinks they know enough about the topic to share their opinion on it here.
Reprocessing into MOX and the rest (plus reprocessing waste) going into Synroc.
It was 1979, but a later administration decided to go into business with Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc in a big way and scrapped the move towards energy independence.
Not as much as the Chinese are, which should be a wake up call because they are about as far from "green" as you can get and are doing it for pragmatic reasons.