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  1. Re:Why? on Americans Are Lining Up To Work For Amazon For $15 an Hour (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I liked it, but I mostly played DoD. (Besides WoW and Decent, ofc)

  2. Re:Why? on Americans Are Lining Up To Work For Amazon For $15 an Hour (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    as a cost free hint:
    o knowing how to code
    o passing the interview

    Have nothing to do with each other. (See below) Even getting an interview might be a hurdle.

    In your country are training schools helping people who have no clues to pass an interview.
    Plenty of people who can code don't easy pass interviews.

    And then comes HR.

    I have an anecdote about a HR department (I'm freelancer, HR should not be involved ...) where they sent a letter back: don't bother to sent this review again, he was 2 times rejected already. Well, freelancer and contractor is basically a company versus company contract, CEO versus CEO ... and HR rejected a letter of application where I basically was the only person in question in range of 250km who could do it.

  3. Actually those markers always have strong overlaps with one out of random 30 people on the planet.
    If you find a match, there are literally something like 240,000,000 potential matches. Of course you can filter them out by match of race, blood type etc and narrow it to perhaps 300, but thats it.
    Keep in mind humans and chimps are 96% identically: https://www.genome.gov/1551509...

    Basing evidence or proof on "high variable" random DNA is possible, if you have 3 possible culprits, and one of the three has a matching DNA ... it is a pointless witch hunt if you only have culprits and wand to screen the society via an DNA data base (at least today).

  4. Re:FBI hoarding DNA data on One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working With the FBI (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like a random chimp or a pig?

    Hm, do you want me to feel insulted?

  5. Re:If you repeat that often enough you might belie on Party Is Over For Dirt-Cheap Solar Panels, Says China Executive (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We talked about Thailand, especially the place where I live, Isan.

    So: no we don't have in winter significantly shorter days. The rainy season has most of the time extremely fixed time periods during wich it is raining. So if it rains today from 16:00 till 18:30, it will do "the same" tomorrow.

    because every country in the world has built their power grids around always available dispatchable power not intermittent sources.
    No, they have not.
    Examples:
    UK, Denmark, Iceland and Germany ... perhaps you missed the news.

    Modern grids are completely the opposite you claim. They are constructed around intermittent sources, because those you can't control ... pretty dumb of you. Probably you wanted to say something like that but are full with hate that you by accident reversed your words.

    So, did you meanwhile google the "load profile" of your "control area" of "your grid"? You know during which time of the day you have peaks and what the difference between peak load and base load is, in rough percentages?

    Bother me again, when you have figured those basics.

    Ah, regarding your previous post (not relevant for the difference between peak and base load): here no one has AC. Does not make sense. The only days where AC would be helpful are perhaps 30 - 45 days when we switch from hot season to rainy season. The hot season is not hot enough, not humid enough, and the cold season/dry season is: fucking cold at night, and nearly never tops 31C around 13:00 .... Stoves ... at night? Yeah, Thai people eat all the time, that is true. But they don't cook all night. And not on electric stoves anyway.

    If you want to argue about electricity: get a clue, stop dreaming. Or better stop it ... you don't look like one who is interested in getting a clue.

  6. PERL has also its problems.

    Why do I put things into an associative array using @x{y} = z but retrieve it with $x{y}?

    There are plenty of others. PERL is the only language where after finishing writing the program I still have bugs inside.

    The way how you use subroutines and their arguments is simply absurd ...

    I don't do much with Python ... but I like it over PERL :D

    What does this give 2^4 how about this 2^8?
    I actually don't know, but in both cases most likely a double ...

  7. Re:If you repeat that often enough you might belie on Party Is Over For Dirt-Cheap Solar Panels, Says China Executive (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    At night I don't need solar power, plain and simple ... unless I produce > 50% of my power by solar and can store the excess power ... wich is unlikely.

    Go google what a "load curve" is ...

    You probably the dumbest hobby electrics expert on the internet.

  8. Re:If you repeat that often enough you might belie on Party Is Over For Dirt-Cheap Solar Panels, Says China Executive (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is not what the PEOPLE do but what the COUNTRY does, and as industry and business is closed, the power consumption is roughy half at night.

    How dumb are you?

  9. That is all nonsense.

    Real time only means: you need to be able to react in a predefined maximum time delay to a stimulus. There are plenty of real time systems that are not "hard".

    And there are actually Java Real Time VMs ...

    There also plenty of games written in Java, e.g. wurmonline ...

    And bottom line, that was not the point. The point was speed. C++ is only faster in isolated scenarios, and then you ay the price in development time etc.

  10. I used PERL from roughly 1989 to roughly 1995 ...

    I don't use Python much, but it is probably the most easiest read programming language ...

  11. Re:Non-removable batteries on Electronics Are 'the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing wrong with my defunct 2010 MacBook Pro is the battery.
    Relatively easy to replace. You probably can do it yourself even.

  12. Re:Makes sense to me on JavaScript Overtakes Java As Most Popular Programming Language (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't programmed Java in decades so I'd need to first get up to speed on Java before getting into Android application development.
    No you haven't. Java is piss easy, that is why everyone uses it. You have to dig into the Android APIs ... so rather start sooner with your app idea than later.

  13. In Europe it is ...

    And if you count users using the back ends, then yes: Java serves the most. Even if it is Scala or Groovy.

  14. Speed difference between Java and C++ is in the real world quite insignificant.

    Only toy programs or very specialized ones are faster in C++ and maintainable etc.

  15. Re:BS on JavaScript Overtakes Java As Most Popular Programming Language (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did it ever occur you that some people simply prefer one language over the other?

    I find PERL incomprehensible ...

    And you find Python hard to read ...

  16. Re:Only part of the costs have been calculated on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the wind does stop, at the same time across all of Northern Europe.
    No it does not.
    Look on a map.

    As I said, the report itself said new natural gas generating capacity needs to be build ... there's nothing terribly controversial about that.
    The report is about abolishing coal ... and that mainly means: abolishing mining! Because that is the economical problem.

    Time frame is till 2038 ... there is no need for any gas plant till then as all plants that get mothballed are replaced by wind and solar.

  17. Re:Are you kidding me? on LSD Changes Something About the Way People Perceive Time, Even At Microdoses (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Some friends of mine are in LSD research, so no, I don't find it silly.

  18. Re:Only part of the costs have been calculated on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously importing some power is cheaper than spinning up a reserve power plant.

    Germany is a member of the EU.

    The EU is a member in the European/Scandinavian(North African super grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    That grid again is interconnected all over the northern eastern hemisphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    No idea what your bullshit about: "Germany needs to do this or that or the light goes out" is about ... go back into your cave in your third world country you come from.

  19. Re:Couldn't that money be better spent on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    We talked about brown coal versus hard coal.
    There is no real difference.

    Natural gas is CH4 ... obviously if you burn it you get less CO2 from it than from any kind of coal.

  20. Re:Way too late on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    So you like to nitpick?

    Look here: http://www.energiewelten.de/el...

    Most still active mining areas are not in populated areas.

    This is a (german :) ) video about renaturation .... but most of the pictures are self explanaiting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. Re:If you repeat that often enough you might belie on Party Is Over For Dirt-Cheap Solar Panels, Says China Executive (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I am also not the guy who thinks the area where I live represents the entire world
    Yes you are.

    I pointed out to some GP post that *here* we have since about 5 month sunshine from 6:30 to 18:00 *every day* except 3 or 4.

    So his brain dead idea about intermittent sunshine is bollocks.

    You jumped in with the the stupid idea that people/countries use at night the same amount of power as they do at day, they don't.

    And that is true FOR EVERYWHERE ON THE WORLD.

  22. Re:Take a cheat of paper and a pencil on Those Opposed To Scientific Consensus Bolstered By 'Illusion of Knowledge' (edmontonjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Orthography is only important if you want to tourture your kids in school ... tourture is red underlined, I don't know why. And in Chrome on my Mac the spelling correction is not working ... up to you to fix it :D

  23. Re:Couldn't that money be better spent on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Chernobyl killed about a million.
    Not instantly, but over the course of 30 years.

    And Chernobyl was close to the city of Chernobyl ... hence its name.

    If something like Chernobyl (yes, I know it can't) would happen in Germany, e.g. in the Ruhr region: we had millions of death, in a course of a few weeks.

    No idea why you like to talk about stuff you have no clue about.

  24. Re:Couldn't that money be better spent on Germany To Phase Out Coal Use By 2038, Says Report (abs-cbn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that was what was I saying, or don't you grasp the concept of "civil war"?
    We were close to one around 1989 ... main stream media seems to have missed it.

  25. Re:Just an observation here: on Those Opposed To Scientific Consensus Bolstered By 'Illusion of Knowledge' (edmontonjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the highest mountain in Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Albeit it is objectively just a hill. A pile of "mud". They call it a mountain. I don't have the time to research which hills in Florida are called mountains ...

    But we could agree on calling everything just an "elevation" ... asshole.