Me and a buddy of mine cobbled together a Super Sekret Spi Laser Telephone System in highschool. It was a couple of cheap laser pointers and photovoltaic cells wired to the transistors in radio kits with microphones. They only worked well at night, over shortish distances, and were a complete bitch to aim. Still.. SUPER SEKRET SPI LASER PHONE!
As if working in a data center wasn't already a shitty job, now companies looking to take advantage of biogas are going to locate them next to sewage treatment plants and landfills? Hooooo, wonderful!
Maybe next month they'll figure out how to tap power from rotting paper and hog fat and we can get data centers backed up to paper mills and rendering plants.
92 year old man dupes tens of thousands of movies for the troops = no prosecution. 92 year old woman dupes four movies for herself = how much do we have to donate to get the death penalty for copyright infringement?
Don't get me wrong here, I think what Mr. Strachman did here is fantastic, both as a way to help keep up the morale of some poor SOBs slogging through the shit all day, and as an "I dare you fuckers" thumbing of the nose at the MPAA.
In this case, I'd agree with you. However, I think the person I was replying to was asserting that organic, or normal, farming was somehow more dangerous and produced food of inferior quality to industrial scale farming.
Wow, glass with those properties being used for front elements on camera lenses would be amazing. Anti-glare without having to resort to all sorts of coatings, no fogging or moisture would be great too, especially if you're shooting in very humid environments.
As long as the micro-structures on the surface didn't change the optical properties so much as to be detrimental to the incoming light.
What I'd also love to see is a reduction in the trend for people to buy restaurant and laboratory grade equipment for their home kitchens. You're not a god damn French chef and there is no fucking need to spin lime juice at 40,000g.
Care to elaborate on how organic farming produces more dangerous byproducts than industrial scale chemical spraying and the rivers of liquified pig and chicken shit that pour out of factory ranching?
My money is that you come back with some outbreak of e.coli and try to link that to organic practices, completely ignoring that it was the unsafe handling of the food during packaging that caused the contamination.
But, but all means, continue with your incredibly ignorant line of argument. Its a hoot to read.
Yep, you can use larger speakers to make really good low frequency mics. Hell, in a pinch you could use your ear buds as a mic for your PC, if that sort of thing ever came up.
Just like a good reflector of thermal energy also makes an excellent insulator, a good design for converting voltage to photons can be referenced to do the opposite.
I could be wrong, I'm more a behavior guy than a chemistry guy, but here goes. CO2 dissolves in to ocean water and forms carbonic acid which leans to an increase in the concentration of hydrogen ions. This is typically offset by the dissolution of rock and shells leading to an increase in calcium carbonate which reacts to the acid to form an aqueous solution of calcium bicarbonate, which by the way, doesn't precipitate out of water. Depending on temperature and pressure, there is a depth where there is a balance in the dissolution and production of calcium carbonate.
Calcifying organisms like oysters, clams, crabs, corals, and many algae depend on a supersaturation of calcium carbonate in the water to form their shells. As the water pH increases, the depth at which calcium carbonate ions precipitate or are supersaturated rises, leaving less and less of the ocean friendly to calcifying organisms.
The existing shells of calcifying organisms and rocks are subject to more rapid dissolution by the increased pH, which is where I'm getting the feedback loop. More CO2 from dissolving shells leads to more acidity.
I read the blog post you linked, and it struck me as a bit of a Tom Swiftian solution. However, I think there is a kernel of wisdom in there. If you don't remove the short-term incentive for a behavior or set of actions, you will have a much harder time controlling it.
That's how regulation is supposed to work, but along comes regulatory capture to stop all that noise.
Its sad really, that the short term has taken such a superior position in the thought and actions of many people and corporations. Its almost as if, as a culture, we have lost a critical ability to think metaphorically ahead of our next meal.
Its pretty much too late to do anything useful. There are some way out there schemes but the most positive effect for species survival now is figuring out how to sustain our population on a warming Earth. We're going to have to get used to more extreme weather limits and redo our calculations and weather models for starters.
I suspect that cephalopods are about to be in for a pretty wild ride. As the ocean acidifies, shell fish will have less and less protection as the calcium carbonate that makes up the bulk of their shells gets dissolved more rapidly than they can replace it. This may lead to a population boom which will be quickly turn in to a starvation scenario.
If this happens, large marine predatory fish will go through a smaller version of this, which could be followed by the replacement of these fish in their niche by large predatory cephalopods. (most likely the D. gigas or A. dux)
Of course, that's just a guess. Everything in the ocean that relies on calcium carbonate is in for a rough time. This includes fish teeth and cephalopod beaks.
Another whammy is that as the ocean acidifies, the calcium carbonate reacts with the acid to form calcium bicarbonate and carbon dioxide, further increasing the saturation of the surrounding water resulting in a lower pH and a more intense feedback loop.
That's because the scale of federal spending isn't nearly as massive as it was in the 80's or 30's-50's, and quantitative easing is the wrong approach.
That's nothing, I had an ex-girlfriend who could predict with 100% accuracy when I was going to say or do something stupid, usually in response to her being upset.
Just like there were people willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in aggregate for a game that was released to the public in a very rough alpha.
Seriously, any time a spokesperson representing a large game company laments how their industry has been ruined by something other than their own arrogance or lack of desire to innovate or really any reason other than "we want to leverage an existing property that has already been paid for many times over to create a long string of best selling titles that require the absolute minimum cost and produce the absolute maximum profit." I just look at Minecraft and laugh.
At the same time, you have some incredibly well targeted toxins. Imagine a researcher discovering the unique enough markers for certain families or racial groups (if such a thing exists).
I've always thought working in IT was more like being with a beautiful abusive spouse than anything else.
When times are good, they are really good. You're happy, you're content, and you want the world to know that you love this job.
But when things are bad, they are really bad. You get the shit knocked out of you for the smallest things. You learn little rituals and laundry lists of rules and behaviors that you have to engage it, because you're afraid to get hit again. Of course, some days the mood is just wrong and you're going to get it no matter what.
When you do finally decide that you've had enough, and you turn your back on IT, all you can remember is the beautiful amazing job that you suddenly don't have and it takes every ounce of willpower not to go crawling back. Oh, sure, you know that IT has a history of this sort of thing. Life will be great for a couple of weeks then suddenly it will go back to a living hell, but you think... hey, I'm older and wiser now. Maybe IT has changed. Maybe I can change IT.
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SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY BETHESDA!
Not like I need it, no sir, or exercise or fresh air, or pleasurable companionship.
Me and a buddy of mine cobbled together a Super Sekret Spi Laser Telephone System in highschool. It was a couple of cheap laser pointers and photovoltaic cells wired to the transistors in radio kits with microphones. They only worked well at night, over shortish distances, and were a complete bitch to aim. Still.. SUPER SEKRET SPI LASER PHONE!
As if working in a data center wasn't already a shitty job, now companies looking to take advantage of biogas are going to locate them next to sewage treatment plants and landfills? Hooooo, wonderful!
Maybe next month they'll figure out how to tap power from rotting paper and hog fat and we can get data centers backed up to paper mills and rendering plants.
Imagine the problems though, of trying to break apart systems that were never designed to be maintained, especially in microgravity.
At least with cars and motorcycles the engineers designed them to have parts replaced. How many comsats were designed in the same way?
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In spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
WEEEEEEEEE! Lets here it for situational justice!
92 year old man dupes tens of thousands of movies for the troops = no prosecution.
92 year old woman dupes four movies for herself = how much do we have to donate to get the death penalty for copyright infringement?
Don't get me wrong here, I think what Mr. Strachman did here is fantastic, both as a way to help keep up the morale of some poor SOBs slogging through the shit all day, and as an "I dare you fuckers" thumbing of the nose at the MPAA.
In this case, I'd agree with you. However, I think the person I was replying to was asserting that organic, or normal, farming was somehow more dangerous and produced food of inferior quality to industrial scale farming.
Wow, glass with those properties being used for front elements on camera lenses would be amazing. Anti-glare without having to resort to all sorts of coatings, no fogging or moisture would be great too, especially if you're shooting in very humid environments.
As long as the micro-structures on the surface didn't change the optical properties so much as to be detrimental to the incoming light.
Yeah, what good is a tomato unless it positively glows red. Who cares that it tastes like water and has a similar nutritional value.
What I'd also love to see is a reduction in the trend for people to buy restaurant and laboratory grade equipment for their home kitchens. You're not a god damn French chef and there is no fucking need to spin lime juice at 40,000g.
Care to elaborate on how organic farming produces more dangerous byproducts than industrial scale chemical spraying and the rivers of liquified pig and chicken shit that pour out of factory ranching?
My money is that you come back with some outbreak of e.coli and try to link that to organic practices, completely ignoring that it was the unsafe handling of the food during packaging that caused the contamination.
But, but all means, continue with your incredibly ignorant line of argument. Its a hoot to read.
Yep, you can use larger speakers to make really good low frequency mics. Hell, in a pinch you could use your ear buds as a mic for your PC, if that sort of thing ever came up.
Just like a good reflector of thermal energy also makes an excellent insulator, a good design for converting voltage to photons can be referenced to do the opposite.
I could be wrong, I'm more a behavior guy than a chemistry guy, but here goes. CO2 dissolves in to ocean water and forms carbonic acid which leans to an increase in the concentration of hydrogen ions. This is typically offset by the dissolution of rock and shells leading to an increase in calcium carbonate which reacts to the acid to form an aqueous solution of calcium bicarbonate, which by the way, doesn't precipitate out of water. Depending on temperature and pressure, there is a depth where there is a balance in the dissolution and production of calcium carbonate.
Calcifying organisms like oysters, clams, crabs, corals, and many algae depend on a supersaturation of calcium carbonate in the water to form their shells. As the water pH increases, the depth at which calcium carbonate ions precipitate or are supersaturated rises, leaving less and less of the ocean friendly to calcifying organisms.
The existing shells of calcifying organisms and rocks are subject to more rapid dissolution by the increased pH, which is where I'm getting the feedback loop. More CO2 from dissolving shells leads to more acidity.
Please let me know where I'm off base here.
I read the blog post you linked, and it struck me as a bit of a Tom Swiftian solution. However, I think there is a kernel of wisdom in there. If you don't remove the short-term incentive for a behavior or set of actions, you will have a much harder time controlling it.
That's how regulation is supposed to work, but along comes regulatory capture to stop all that noise.
Its sad really, that the short term has taken such a superior position in the thought and actions of many people and corporations. Its almost as if, as a culture, we have lost a critical ability to think metaphorically ahead of our next meal.
Yes, changing our living situations and expectations are a part of it, as is changing the way we manufacture and receive goods, distribute food, etc.
You're absolutely right that we should have been doing these things all along, but dammit, there was just so much profit to be made.
Its so simple! Its like we should have encouraged global nuclear war in the 80s instead of all of this namby-pamby SALT non-sense and wall removal.
Wow, what fools we were.
Its normal in that this has happened before in the past. The difference is that humans weren't depending on living on the Earth at the time.
Its pretty much too late to do anything useful. There are some way out there schemes but the most positive effect for species survival now is figuring out how to sustain our population on a warming Earth. We're going to have to get used to more extreme weather limits and redo our calculations and weather models for starters.
I suspect that cephalopods are about to be in for a pretty wild ride. As the ocean acidifies, shell fish will have less and less protection as the calcium carbonate that makes up the bulk of their shells gets dissolved more rapidly than they can replace it. This may lead to a population boom which will be quickly turn in to a starvation scenario.
If this happens, large marine predatory fish will go through a smaller version of this, which could be followed by the replacement of these fish in their niche by large predatory cephalopods. (most likely the D. gigas or A. dux)
Of course, that's just a guess. Everything in the ocean that relies on calcium carbonate is in for a rough time. This includes fish teeth and cephalopod beaks.
Another whammy is that as the ocean acidifies, the calcium carbonate reacts with the acid to form calcium bicarbonate and carbon dioxide, further increasing the saturation of the surrounding water resulting in a lower pH and a more intense feedback loop.
That's because the scale of federal spending isn't nearly as massive as it was in the 80's or 30's-50's, and quantitative easing is the wrong approach.
That's nothing, I had an ex-girlfriend who could predict with 100% accuracy when I was going to say or do something stupid, usually in response to her being upset.
Just like there were people willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in aggregate for a game that was released to the public in a very rough alpha.
Seriously, any time a spokesperson representing a large game company laments how their industry has been ruined by something other than their own arrogance or lack of desire to innovate or really any reason other than "we want to leverage an existing property that has already been paid for many times over to create a long string of best selling titles that require the absolute minimum cost and produce the absolute maximum profit." I just look at Minecraft and laugh.
At the same time, you have some incredibly well targeted toxins. Imagine a researcher discovering the unique enough markers for certain families or racial groups (if such a thing exists).
As if millions of hipsters cried out in pain, and then were suddenly silent.
I've always thought working in IT was more like being with a beautiful abusive spouse than anything else.
When times are good, they are really good. You're happy, you're content, and you want the world to know that you love this job.
But when things are bad, they are really bad. You get the shit knocked out of you for the smallest things. You learn little rituals and laundry lists of rules and behaviors that you have to engage it, because you're afraid to get hit again. Of course, some days the mood is just wrong and you're going to get it no matter what.
When you do finally decide that you've had enough, and you turn your back on IT, all you can remember is the beautiful amazing job that you suddenly don't have and it takes every ounce of willpower not to go crawling back. Oh, sure, you know that IT has a history of this sort of thing. Life will be great for a couple of weeks then suddenly it will go back to a living hell, but you think... hey, I'm older and wiser now. Maybe IT has changed. Maybe I can change IT.
But IT never changes.