I've been a programmer for over 3 decades and never heard the term code "smell".
I've heard kludge and I've heard elegant.
The elegant might match the artistic point you are making.
I agree that we could have shorter work week jobs with higher employment. And that the income could be better distributed.
For one thing, wealthy people can only buy a dozen cars or so and then they are done. A million working class people with the same money would buy a million cars, a million houses, a million tv's and so on.
It is much better for the economy for money to be recycling back to the bottom instead of piling up in the investment accounts of a few people.
It's good to have capital but we long ago passed the point of healthy capital as evidenced by catastrophically low bond returns.
When automation came along and horses were replaced their population dropped by 90% in a very short period of time (with millions being slaughtered at knackeries long before their time).
In this case, I read he tested before hand but perhaps with the book sitting on a hard surface (like concrete) so the shockwave helped stop the bullet.
In youtube videos, you can see that a 50 cal rifle bullet will go through almost 5,000 sheets of paper. This was a 50 cal pistol bullet from what I understand but I don't think one book is going to stop it.
People do dumb things.
And this couple already reproduced so it's not even a successful darwin award- just a terrible stupid tragedy.
My home is a fraction of the cost to heat and cool because some past owner put in insane levels of insulation. It's 3' thick blown in in the attic. And the walls appear to be filled with something as well.
When everyone around me is getting $200 to $300 electric bills, I'm paying $150. My electric bill pattern is $45,$50,$50, $60,$70,$90,$125,$150,$90,$60,$50,$45.
Also, switching to LED's lowered that about $5-$10 per month from the prior levels. The $45 is the lowest it can go due to fixed fees.
This energy is used in numerous ways, including the generation of electricity via a steam turbine, making hydrogen fuel, testing reentry materials for space vehicles, or performing high-temperature metallurgic experiments. The massive maximum temperatures Odeillo achieves even allow for the production of carbon nanotubes and zinc nanoparticles via solar induced sublimation.
A good chip fab can cost a billion dollars.
If the Odeillo facility cost 100 million dollars, imagine what a 1 billion dollar solar furnace facility could do.
Also, solar panels are frequently used well past 25 years. They decline in production but produce useful levels of electricity for long past their warranty periods.
A 33W solar panel (Arco Solar 16-2000) actually outperformed itâ(TM)s original factory specifications 30 years after it was manufactured.[2]
World`s first modern solar panel still works after 60 years.[3]
Kyocera has reported several solar power installations that continue to operate reliably and generate electricity even though they are nearly 30 years old.[4]
Jewish people can say that stuff christians make up about their religion is wrong. For a start, they don't think jesus is the god, the son of god, etc. But there are *many* other books of the bible which christianity has which the jewish faith does not. And there are many texts besides the old testament the jewish faith has but christians do not.
They are not the same religion and they don't have the same view of the diety.
The religions are about as similar as people living in London today are the same as people living in Jerusalem
Much less similar than americans of british descent are to british citizens today.
I've seen people waste huge amounts of time when they didn't share the same definition for the same word.
Entire 30 page discussions turned on people each using overloaded words to mean their chosen meaning instead of discussing what the shared meaning should be.
God is one of the ultimate overloaded words (for example).
You really need to specify Yahweh, Vishnu, Allah, etc.
It is an interesting point but our city is over 100 miles across. So now large areas of the city are not served by any mall which I think contradicts that theory (here at least).
So they've burned through the 80% of their possible market and now won't be able to sustain further growth.
There are only so many u.s. companies with large IT staff. Smaller companies are going to a hosted model.
And there are a lot of huge failures (Sysco) by indian IT companies which are well known so the remaining companies are less willing to bite. When some "bright young executive" proposes using indian resources the Board and upper management know it's not as good as it sounds.
seriously-- retail jobs used to be stable as a career tho not as a job at a particular place for over three decades.
But lately, they are being killed by online sales. We have 5 to 6 million people and three of our malls have died. The only two doing really well have luxury high rise condos built in to them and sell upscale goods.
The big box stores are increasingly empty.
That's a lot of jobs which no longer exist and those average folks don't have money to buy products as a result.
And that means the corporate headquarters for those chains are laying off professionals. I know of one retail chain which is about to have 50% corporate hq layoffs at every layer even the exec vp's.
So a lot of retail locations are closing and whoever services those locations are losing work as well.
The loss of stability is almost as bad.
But if you want less stability in a professional field -- anything to do with oil fields right now. Massive layoffs in that field and those jobs won't be coming back.
Glad I'm retired and just do a little massage work on ex colleagues these days.
So they can validate some red light tickets can be reissued.
In my state we have rape kits over a decade old and the governments solution is to try to crowdfund processing rape kits (instead of allocating state funds to that cause).
I think he's saying that illegals frequently lack current insurance so they will be disproportionately effected by enforcement of insurance requirements.
My personal experience (and that of a couple friends) does seem to be in line with that position. i was rear ended and another friend was T-Boned by illegal aliens and I even have a worthless $25,000 judgement against the guy that rear ended me.
Similar experience to a friend of mine.
One piece of advice- never ever cut "uninsured motorist" to save a few bucks. There are too many people out there without current insurance.
Well, I go skiing with a group of much younger people every year. This phrase, "I wasn't born yet" comes up more often than you'd think in our conversations. It's a punchline used in something those young punks watch.
One work around is to make it where the zipper handle is locked too so it can't be moved back and forth across the zipper. At least then, it will be obvious it's been opened. It will still be easy to open in under a couple seconds with a ball point pen tho.
It's been discovered that it is trivially easy to break into zippered luggage with a ball point pen, plunder it, and then reset the zipper (with the zipper handle) so it looks like it wasn't opened.
Any new luggage, you probably want to get without zippers. Shady baggage handlers have been quickly and easily robbing stuff from suit cases lately.
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I've been a programmer for over 3 decades and never heard the term code "smell".
I've heard kludge and I've heard elegant.
The elegant might match the artistic point you are making.
I agree that we could have shorter work week jobs with higher employment. And that the income could be better distributed.
For one thing, wealthy people can only buy a dozen cars or so and then they are done. A million working class people with the same money would buy a million cars, a million houses, a million tv's and so on.
It is much better for the economy for money to be recycling back to the bottom instead of piling up in the investment accounts of a few people.
It's good to have capital but we long ago passed the point of healthy capital as evidenced by catastrophically low bond returns.
When automation came along and horses were replaced their population dropped by 90% in a very short period of time (with millions being slaughtered at knackeries long before their time).
In this case, I read he tested before hand but perhaps with the book sitting on a hard surface (like concrete) so the shockwave helped stop the bullet.
In youtube videos, you can see that a 50 cal rifle bullet will go through almost 5,000 sheets of paper. This was a 50 cal pistol bullet from what I understand but I don't think one book is going to stop it.
People do dumb things.
And this couple already reproduced so it's not even a successful darwin award- just a terrible stupid tragedy.
It can be tricky.
My home is a fraction of the cost to heat and cool because some past owner put in insane levels of insulation. It's 3' thick blown in in the attic. And the walls appear to be filled with something as well.
When everyone around me is getting $200 to $300 electric bills, I'm paying $150. My electric bill pattern is $45,$50,$50, $60,$70,$90,$125,$150,$90,$60,$50,$45.
Also, switching to LED's lowered that about $5-$10 per month from the prior levels. The $45 is the lowest it can go due to fixed fees.
So I looked up steel mills and they cost from 400 million to 5 billion dollars.
And saw some really cool videos of huge machines working with slugs of titanium magma the size of office chairs.
I like your idea but the salt has to go somewhere.
The more we do this, the more salt that has to be safely put somewhere.
Or it's going to destroy soil or increase ocean salinity.
If that storage place isn't close by, then put in costs for moving the salt.
Good information, thanks.
It does look like we can reach 1400C easily and can reach 3500C at some facilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The solar furnace at Odeillo in the Pyrénées-Orientales in France can reach temperatures up to 3,500 ÂC (6,330 ÂF)
By free I meant without using fuel. The thing about solar facilities is that they wear very slowly compared to most traditional facilities.
This is a fairly small facility (like the size of a 17 story building)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's been in operation since the 1970s.
This energy is used in numerous ways, including the generation of electricity via a steam turbine, making hydrogen fuel, testing reentry materials for space vehicles, or performing high-temperature metallurgic experiments. The massive maximum temperatures Odeillo achieves even allow for the production of carbon nanotubes and zinc nanoparticles via solar induced sublimation.
A good chip fab can cost a billion dollars.
If the Odeillo facility cost 100 million dollars, imagine what a 1 billion dollar solar furnace facility could do.
So the obvious question...
Why can't we use solar to do the melting making it essentially "free"?
Project it 20 years forward to when "BIG SOLAR" is the equivalent of big coal and nuclear now.
The EPA will be bought off to ignore pollution issues.
If it even still exists after the mockery it's being made now.
Also, solar panels are frequently used well past 25 years. They decline in production but produce useful levels of electricity for long past their warranty periods.
http://energyinformative.org/l...
A 33W solar panel (Arco Solar 16-2000) actually outperformed itâ(TM)s original factory specifications 30 years after it was manufactured.[2]
World`s first modern solar panel still works after 60 years.[3]
Kyocera has reported several solar power installations that continue to operate reliably and generate electricity even though they are nearly 30 years old.[4]
Unlike the fragile arrays that stand up to hurricane force winds elsewhere?
They are only fragile if you build them fragile.
Again- it's really just a question of cost.
Jewish people can say that stuff christians make up about their religion is wrong. For a start, they don't think jesus is the god, the son of god, etc. But there are *many* other books of the bible which christianity has which the jewish faith does not. And there are many texts besides the old testament the jewish faith has but christians do not.
They are not the same religion and they don't have the same view of the diety.
The religions are about as similar as people living in London today are the same as people living in Jerusalem
Much less similar than americans of british descent are to british citizens today.
It's a convenient fiction.
No they really don't.
Many Jewish Orthodox people have said strongly that the christian "god" is not their god.
But thanks for the perfect example. The gods of each religion are NOT the same, have very different personalities, desires and characteristics.
But it makes many people feel comfortable (at first), the paper over the differences.
Exactly.
I've seen people waste huge amounts of time when they didn't share the same definition for the same word.
Entire 30 page discussions turned on people each using overloaded words to mean their chosen meaning instead of discussing what the shared meaning should be.
God is one of the ultimate overloaded words (for example).
You really need to specify Yahweh, Vishnu, Allah, etc.
Keep in mind that with solar power now less expensive per watt than coal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
That many areas which were not as good for solar are doable- you simply add more panels til you get to the price of coal generated power.
So if coal is 12c/kwh and solar is 10c/kwh then you can use 20% more solar panels.
It is an interesting point but our city is over 100 miles across. So now large areas of the city are not served by any mall which I think contradicts that theory (here at least).
So they've burned through the 80% of their possible market and now won't be able to sustain further growth.
There are only so many u.s. companies with large IT staff. Smaller companies are going to a hosted model.
And there are a lot of huge failures (Sysco) by indian IT companies which are well known so the remaining companies are less willing to bite. When some "bright young executive" proposes using indian resources the Board and upper management know it's not as good as it sounds.
seriously-- retail jobs used to be stable as a career tho not as a job at a particular place for over three decades.
But lately, they are being killed by online sales. We have 5 to 6 million people and three of our malls have died. The only two doing really well have luxury high rise condos built in to them and sell upscale goods.
The big box stores are increasingly empty.
That's a lot of jobs which no longer exist and those average folks don't have money to buy products as a result.
And that means the corporate headquarters for those chains are laying off professionals. I know of one retail chain which is about to have 50% corporate hq layoffs at every layer even the exec vp's.
So a lot of retail locations are closing and whoever services those locations are losing work as well.
The loss of stability is almost as bad.
But if you want less stability in a professional field -- anything to do with oil fields right now. Massive layoffs in that field and those jobs won't be coming back.
Glad I'm retired and just do a little massage work on ex colleagues these days.
So they can validate some red light tickets can be reissued.
In my state we have rape kits over a decade old and the governments solution is to try to crowdfund processing rape kits (instead of allocating state funds to that cause).
You misunderstand.
I think he's saying that illegals frequently lack current insurance so they will be disproportionately effected by enforcement of insurance requirements.
My personal experience (and that of a couple friends) does seem to be in line with that position. i was rear ended and another friend was T-Boned by illegal aliens and I even have a worthless $25,000 judgement against the guy that rear ended me.
Similar experience to a friend of mine.
One piece of advice- never ever cut "uninsured motorist" to save a few bucks. There are too many people out there without current insurance.
Well, I go skiing with a group of much younger people every year. This phrase, "I wasn't born yet" comes up more often than you'd think in our conversations. It's a punchline used in something those young punks watch.
Good times. Fun group.
Oh, he probably just "brushed their shoulders"... I'm sure Bill Cosby can set him right.
Sheesh.
One work around is to make it where the zipper handle is locked too so it can't be moved back and forth across the zipper. At least then, it will be obvious it's been opened. It will still be easy to open in under a couple seconds with a ball point pen tho.
Here's one of many examples on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And one example (of many) of a device that helps some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just fyi...
It's been discovered that it is trivially easy to break into zippered luggage with a ball point pen, plunder it, and then reset the zipper (with the zipper handle) so it looks like it wasn't opened.
Any new luggage, you probably want to get without zippers. Shady baggage handlers have been quickly and easily robbing stuff from suit cases lately.
He wasn't BORN yet!