Universal Devices ISY series do a pretty good job; after setup I just let it get an internal NTP server and it is pretty happy. It can be a unified platform for Insteon, Sonos, Hue, etc., with a little bit of work. They charge for add-ons, but the simplicity is nice.
He might have usurped the authority of a Republic, but no democracy. In fact, that is exactly the problem with it all: the political establishment determines the course of action rather than The People.
I don't dispute that most NSA employees are likely trying to be careful and exhibit integrity in their actions, but reality is that law enforcement types tend to be a little more heavy-handed, black-and-white types. This leads them to believe that "stopping the terrorists" justifies all their actions. I understand that it is necessary to a degree, but the nature of evolving communications is that their job gets harder over time. Once you remove the element of trust, this communication is destroyed. This will lead to bigger problems over the next 20 years.
No, nitrogen narcosis requires a partial pressure of nitrogen of around 3 atmospheres, so you need a pressurized room. Decompression sickness (the bends) happens when ascending, as the saturation pressure of nitrogen is exceeded.
Only challenge with nitrogen asphyxiation is warming it up enough where it remains humane... But I am sure that is still cheaper than lethal injection.
Having spent some time living in Thailand, I can tell you that things are much more complicated than your assumption. Girls are sold to brothels by parents, and the girls feel some weird family commitment to send money back home! Societally, the whole system is so fsckd up that you actually see more anti sex trafficking ads in the us than Bangkok!
I'm no Puritan, but things are getting pretty messed up, and something needs to be done to stop it.
In fairness, if they could project more than 20 minutes in advance they would likely open additional lines. Since they need to shift staff between positions, one bad rotation and a single line can drop to 20% of its normal throughput. If that change is poorly timed-- going into a rush as an example-- it can have a quick and terrible impact. The obvious opportunity there is more matrix flow between positions so people can route around the problem...
It wouldn't seem that hard though to track bags per minute per screener to verify that they are suited to be working in a peak period.
There are three primary causes for delay by TSA: 1. People checking IDs spending too much time per passenger. Often being friendly or helping out, but also people that are just slow. (Why the process isn't primarily automated is beyond me.) Other issues arise when people don't know what they are doing.
2. Baggage scanners with inadequate aptitude to review data presented to them on screen, potentially being overly conservative. From what I can tell, this is sometimes caused by screeners that are highly procedural and not creative in their approach; I thought their displays were mirrored to other screens; it would seem appropriate to be able to "vote" to pass bags, or having an AI do more of the work.
3. Lack of a secondary screening X-Ray terminal. While there are bags that need multiple scans, this should not hold up the rest of the line. The systems several airports have where there is a "diverter" line with its own scanner is really needed at high-flow lines. Typically I see it done as one diverter per two primary scanners.
There are a number of other things that could be improved. The naked body scanners have improved, but weird things still slow them down-- long hair, baggy clothes, etc. To that end, more people in Pre Check would improve the situation, but it should still be less than 20 seconds per passenger going through a line. This inefficiency seems more like a space constraint, as just having a full time male and female at each scanner would improve throughput.
It actually seems like pretty fair pay to me as well. I doubt it will be driving the median wage for entry level positions any, but it seems like a smart strategy for booking miles.
A base load power plant has a design life of around 50 years, so on a constant GW basis 60% of coal capacity to be retired, which would put coal around 24%. Given the investment in coal over the past decade (re-powering plants), 28-29% basically just means they don't expect any new. Coal plants to be built.
A much more interesting question would be what percentage of generation would be de-centralized renewables.
To save any other poor souls from reading that link: flow batteries, hydrogen electrolysis, and molten salt. The only marginally useful information was the "hope" that flow batteries could get down to $0.005/kWh (initial cost divided by cycles).
Fiam has an interesting Sodium-nickel battery system with reasonable cost that shows promise available now; you can get 1-1.2MWh in a 20' shipping container, good for about 20,000 cycles. From what I see, it should make sense to require wind turbines to store 10% of rated power x 5h for intertie with the grid to smooth their output. PV is more predictable, so it generally should be fine with at least 10%x1h, although greater storage should be viable.
Storage and opportunistic use are nothing new; the real challenge is in reducing costs to make it viable at $0.15-$0.20/kWh.
70-80% round trip efficiency, best case. More likely 60%. You need at least 80% to make it economically viable, and higher to be environmentally viable.
Ultimately you need some kind of storage at the source, and another at the load. This balances out source variability and distribution loading.
How do you establish the amount of cash necessary to maintain operations offshore? All Apple needs to say is they are thinking of buying BMW, Tata, Hutchison Whampoa, and/or whomever else, and they have justification for maintaining foreign cash reserves. They also have justification based solely on the value of operations outside the US. By investing pre-tax money overseas companies can become stronger than their "foreign" competitors, enhancing the US.
Reality is the laws are set up to enable commerce, not to maximize revenue. Logically, this should be a better strategy in economic terms, but the system has gotten too skewed by tax havens.
Right that, but don't make it retroactive, and things become much more reasonable.
Not to judge, but when I was having an appendicitis and thinking it was food poison searching on the internet gave me better control of the situation than the ED Doctor. He was so excited after the CAT Scan that it actually was an appendicitis and I was going to need surgery, rather than discharging me.
Point being we all have access to different information. As a patient, I didn't know how to filter relevant from non-relevant information. My pain was somewhat asymptomatic due to another problem that I didn't fit neatly into the right box.
I have know three other people who were discharged from the ED, only to be back an hour or three later when their appendix bursts. As a patient, you need to be your own advocate. The "guess what's wrong with me"game just doesn't work.
There is a slight premium (tax) still, but nothing major unless you need to install Windows.
For me, I see our company Macs as being more reliable both in terms of hardware and operating system than the Dell/Windows workstations (high end machines). Macs don't have the profile/registry corruption issues that seem to cause more IT overhead. Doing a remote pull backup on a Mac is trivial (and free).
There is an NFPA standard which I believe is adopted by CARB and other transit agencies as to what constitutes a tanker. As an example, a diesel generator cannot have more than (IIRC) 50 gallons in its internal tank. As long as these startups are under those limits, have a spill kit, and drivers are trained for spill cleanup then it should be fine.
Of course, the mountain of paperwork that would need to be maintained would be another issue.
But it really is when you are trying out distros in a VM. It had been a while since I did it last; I was shocked as to how much they have grown over the years.
I will quickly admit to being an Apple fan, but they do seem to have a number of issues they just don't feel are worth fixing. Preview app is the one that pisses me off the most; it used to be a great viewer with built-in annotation options that rivaled Acrobat. But now the market has moved, and Bluebeam is the hot shit in that area. And Preview went 18 months being completely unusable (now fixed in that sense, but some updates slow things down and others speed things up).
They do need to get back to basics on a number of issues, and usability is one of them.
That said, compared to Windows it is still great in my world. Native ssh, rsync, and all the consistent UNIX commands is great. Compared to Linux... well they have their own systemd, which complicates things. They have a equally schizophrenic security model with pluses and minuses.
But to your complaint on logging, Console does a pretty good job filtering through content even if I prefer grep.
I think salaried is stupid and we should just do away with it.
We transitioned a few employees from Exempt (salaried) to Non-Exempt (hourly) positions last year. It doesn't really matter one way or the other to us; it is just book keeping and HR policy. But, suddenly it is attractive to not have non-exempt employees working more than 30-35 hours a week, to add in flexibility and reduce risk. Nothing has happened yet in that regard, but it is inevitable to recover the balance.
Conversely, for salaried employees we have to let go of all control over their schedule and focus on them getting work done.
Once salary and hourly role differences are clearly defined I don't think nearly as many people would want to be hourly.
This is already common. Do it wrong and you are open for audit, but as long as any incorporated business has a legitimate business purpose (rather than tax efficiency) the IRS is pretty flexible.
Upgrading a phone every year is a fashion decision, not a technical one. Choosing to do so after two years is often more technically driven-- meaningful technical improvements (802.11ac, LTE, screen, etc.). Taking good care of a phone and having it last three years is a personal/economic decision. Keeping it much longer may have diminishing returns.
A tablet I would like to keep for 3-4 years; with heavy use, mine have been closer to 2 years, although I am currently at 2.5 years. For the tablet, it really depends on your use case.
A computer though, I have no idea how most people could last 5 years. My mom's computer did make it almost 13 years, but it was clearly at the bitter end of its life a year or two earlier. I am at 5 years and starting to die when I need to run a VM with Windows, but for most of the people in our office after 4 years it is just constant problems.
Personally, I use Apple Pay with my watch: no reaching into pockets, no unlocking, just double-tap one of the buttons. (The only challenge is the watch only holds one card.)
As for washing cards... Sure, if you have a burner iPhone that is registered in the same name and you don't mind the GPS coordinates being logged... It is a pretty solid system, not perfect, but well thought through.
This engine is actually lower thrust than the previous generation, hence "greener." Likewise, the plane's passenger capacity isn't meaningfully higher than the previous generation...
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Universal Devices ISY series do a pretty good job; after setup I just let it get an internal NTP server and it is pretty happy. It can be a unified platform for Insteon, Sonos, Hue, etc., with a little bit of work. They charge for add-ons, but the simplicity is nice.
He might have usurped the authority of a Republic, but no democracy. In fact, that is exactly the problem with it all: the political establishment determines the course of action rather than The People.
I don't dispute that most NSA employees are likely trying to be careful and exhibit integrity in their actions, but reality is that law enforcement types tend to be a little more heavy-handed, black-and-white types. This leads them to believe that "stopping the terrorists" justifies all their actions. I understand that it is necessary to a degree, but the nature of evolving communications is that their job gets harder over time. Once you remove the element of trust, this communication is destroyed. This will lead to bigger problems over the next 20 years.
No, nitrogen narcosis requires a partial pressure of nitrogen of around 3 atmospheres, so you need a pressurized room. Decompression sickness (the bends) happens when ascending, as the saturation pressure of nitrogen is exceeded.
Only challenge with nitrogen asphyxiation is warming it up enough where it remains humane... But I am sure that is still cheaper than lethal injection.
Having spent some time living in Thailand, I can tell you that things are much more complicated than your assumption. Girls are sold to brothels by parents, and the girls feel some weird family commitment to send money back home! Societally, the whole system is so fsckd up that you actually see more anti sex trafficking ads in the us than Bangkok!
I'm no Puritan, but things are getting pretty messed up, and something needs to be done to stop it.
In fairness, if they could project more than 20 minutes in advance they would likely open additional lines. Since they need to shift staff between positions, one bad rotation and a single line can drop to 20% of its normal throughput. If that change is poorly timed-- going into a rush as an example-- it can have a quick and terrible impact. The obvious opportunity there is more matrix flow between positions so people can route around the problem...
It wouldn't seem that hard though to track bags per minute per screener to verify that they are suited to be working in a peak period.
There are three primary causes for delay by TSA:
1. People checking IDs spending too much time per passenger. Often being friendly or helping out, but also people that are just slow. (Why the process isn't primarily automated is beyond me.) Other issues arise when people don't know what they are doing.
2. Baggage scanners with inadequate aptitude to review data presented to them on screen, potentially being overly conservative. From what I can tell, this is sometimes caused by screeners that are highly procedural and not creative in their approach; I thought their displays were mirrored to other screens; it would seem appropriate to be able to "vote" to pass bags, or having an AI do more of the work.
3. Lack of a secondary screening X-Ray terminal. While there are bags that need multiple scans, this should not hold up the rest of the line. The systems several airports have where there is a "diverter" line with its own scanner is really needed at high-flow lines. Typically I see it done as one diverter per two primary scanners.
There are a number of other things that could be improved. The naked body scanners have improved, but weird things still slow them down-- long hair, baggy clothes, etc. To that end, more people in Pre Check would improve the situation, but it should still be less than 20 seconds per passenger going through a line. This inefficiency seems more like a space constraint, as just having a full time male and female at each scanner would improve throughput.
It actually seems like pretty fair pay to me as well. I doubt it will be driving the median wage for entry level positions any, but it seems like a smart strategy for booking miles.
A base load power plant has a design life of around 50 years, so on a constant GW basis 60% of coal capacity to be retired, which would put coal around 24%. Given the investment in coal over the past decade (re-powering plants), 28-29% basically just means they don't expect any new. Coal plants to be built.
A much more interesting question would be what percentage of generation would be de-centralized renewables.
To save any other poor souls from reading that link: flow batteries, hydrogen electrolysis, and molten salt. The only marginally useful information was the "hope" that flow batteries could get down to $0.005/kWh (initial cost divided by cycles).
Fiam has an interesting Sodium-nickel battery system with reasonable cost that shows promise available now; you can get 1-1.2MWh in a 20' shipping container, good for about 20,000 cycles. From what I see, it should make sense to require wind turbines to store 10% of rated power x 5h for intertie with the grid to smooth their output. PV is more predictable, so it generally should be fine with at least 10%x1h, although greater storage should be viable.
Storage and opportunistic use are nothing new; the real challenge is in reducing costs to make it viable at $0.15-$0.20/kWh.
Vested self interest. Priority to green power.
70-80% round trip efficiency, best case. More likely 60%. You need at least 80% to make it economically viable, and higher to be environmentally viable.
Ultimately you need some kind of storage at the source, and another at the load. This balances out source variability and distribution loading.
How do you establish the amount of cash necessary to maintain operations offshore? All Apple needs to say is they are thinking of buying BMW, Tata, Hutchison Whampoa, and/or whomever else, and they have justification for maintaining foreign cash reserves. They also have justification based solely on the value of operations outside the US. By investing pre-tax money overseas companies can become stronger than their "foreign" competitors, enhancing the US.
Reality is the laws are set up to enable commerce, not to maximize revenue. Logically, this should be a better strategy in economic terms, but the system has gotten too skewed by tax havens.
Right that, but don't make it retroactive, and things become much more reasonable.
Unfortunately, the errors often drive up costs rather than down, forcing more time in an ICU etc.
Not to judge, but when I was having an appendicitis and thinking it was food poison searching on the internet gave me better control of the situation than the ED Doctor. He was so excited after the CAT Scan that it actually was an appendicitis and I was going to need surgery, rather than discharging me.
Point being we all have access to different information. As a patient, I didn't know how to filter relevant from non-relevant information. My pain was somewhat asymptomatic due to another problem that I didn't fit neatly into the right box.
I have know three other people who were discharged from the ED, only to be back an hour or three later when their appendix bursts. As a patient, you need to be your own advocate. The "guess what's wrong with me"game just doesn't work.
There is a slight premium (tax) still, but nothing major unless you need to install Windows.
For me, I see our company Macs as being more reliable both in terms of hardware and operating system than the Dell/Windows workstations (high end machines). Macs don't have the profile/registry corruption issues that seem to cause more IT overhead. Doing a remote pull backup on a Mac is trivial (and free).
What do you see as missing in the MacbookPro?
They do need a way to keep their headless offerings much more current, despite the smaller volumes in that segment.
There is an NFPA standard which I believe is adopted by CARB and other transit agencies as to what constitutes a tanker. As an example, a diesel generator cannot have more than (IIRC) 50 gallons in its internal tank. As long as these startups are under those limits, have a spill kit, and drivers are trained for spill cleanup then it should be fine.
Of course, the mountain of paperwork that would need to be maintained would be another issue.
But it really is when you are trying out distros in a VM. It had been a while since I did it last; I was shocked as to how much they have grown over the years.
That is kind of my reaction too; there were some topics where the insight there was much better, but /. remained more of a universal appeal.
I will quickly admit to being an Apple fan, but they do seem to have a number of issues they just don't feel are worth fixing. Preview app is the one that pisses me off the most; it used to be a great viewer with built-in annotation options that rivaled Acrobat. But now the market has moved, and Bluebeam is the hot shit in that area. And Preview went 18 months being completely unusable (now fixed in that sense, but some updates slow things down and others speed things up).
They do need to get back to basics on a number of issues, and usability is one of them.
That said, compared to Windows it is still great in my world. Native ssh, rsync, and all the consistent UNIX commands is great. Compared to Linux... well they have their own systemd, which complicates things. They have a equally schizophrenic security model with pluses and minuses.
But to your complaint on logging, Console does a pretty good job filtering through content even if I prefer grep.
We transitioned a few employees from Exempt (salaried) to Non-Exempt (hourly) positions last year. It doesn't really matter one way or the other to us; it is just book keeping and HR policy. But, suddenly it is attractive to not have non-exempt employees working more than 30-35 hours a week, to add in flexibility and reduce risk. Nothing has happened yet in that regard, but it is inevitable to recover the balance.
Conversely, for salaried employees we have to let go of all control over their schedule and focus on them getting work done.
Once salary and hourly role differences are clearly defined I don't think nearly as many people would want to be hourly.
This is already common. Do it wrong and you are open for audit, but as long as any incorporated business has a legitimate business purpose (rather than tax efficiency) the IRS is pretty flexible.
My Buddha-- did I just say that last part?!
Upgrading a phone every year is a fashion decision, not a technical one. Choosing to do so after two years is often more technically driven-- meaningful technical improvements (802.11ac, LTE, screen, etc.). Taking good care of a phone and having it last three years is a personal/economic decision. Keeping it much longer may have diminishing returns.
A tablet I would like to keep for 3-4 years; with heavy use, mine have been closer to 2 years, although I am currently at 2.5 years. For the tablet, it really depends on your use case.
A computer though, I have no idea how most people could last 5 years. My mom's computer did make it almost 13 years, but it was clearly at the bitter end of its life a year or two earlier. I am at 5 years and starting to die when I need to run a VM with Windows, but for most of the people in our office after 4 years it is just constant problems.
Personally, I use Apple Pay with my watch: no reaching into pockets, no unlocking, just double-tap one of the buttons. (The only challenge is the watch only holds one card.)
As for washing cards... Sure, if you have a burner iPhone that is registered in the same name and you don't mind the GPS coordinates being logged... It is a pretty solid system, not perfect, but well thought through.
This engine is actually lower thrust than the previous generation, hence "greener." Likewise, the plane's passenger capacity isn't meaningfully higher than the previous generation...