One of our developers used a couple of very off color limericks as static strings to test some of his functions in our string utilities library. Well, he forgot to take it out before committing them, and it ended up in code, and some customer ran strings on it...
Another developer left in ShowError("Fuck! Got null again!",true/*=fatal*/) in shipping code.
Another one had a long rant denouncing Osama Bin Laden as a static string, unused but visible in strings.
Lithium is needed only for automotive application where the weight is important. For stationary projects like power grids, weight does not matter. The chemistries of Li, Na, K, are remarkably similar, they all belong to the same column in the periodic table.
In fact Li and Na occur abundantly together in salt flats. The present source in Africa is high in concentration. But it would be economical to mine any salt flat for Li.
When employees are fired/let go with no notice typically receive 2 weeks pay instead.
The only time I fired someone he was escorted out immediately, and the security cleared his cube. But he got two weeks of pay, 90 days at a temporary office with access to internet, fax machine, phones and job search help. Our company recruiter assigned a head hunter to be on the premises to talk to him before being escorted out. He had 90 days to exercise vested stock options.
I know this might not be the norm. But I was lucky to work for a nice employer. When he eventually found a job and moved out of state, he personally visited me, thanked me.
Let us say the ghosted employees are posted to a special list. And there is a bug in payroll software that reports 2 million dollars as salary to IRS. The company discovers the bug on April 13th and issues a corrected W2. Would it be legal?
Or the company refuses to issue W2 for these employees and informs IRS that W2 is pending. What happens to these ghosts at tax time?
Thanks for the nugget of info. Not being sarcastic, I really dig such information.
The only book I felt like reading twice, (after adulthood), was "The Discoverers" by Daniel Boorstein, Chief Librarian, LoC, Pulitzer winner. History of science told in context chronologically.
Unposted messages and photos are used to share information privately as a sort of ad-hoc drop box.
People share log-ins and save things as draft for the party to read. Some under the impression it is really private. I was shocked to see some General commanding our troops in Afghanistan using it to share notes with some lady he was having an affair with. Talk about blackmail vulnerability!
Short answer: Because we dont have the capacity to make the batteries fast enough.
Case 1 PG&L has decided to retire three gas fired peak power plants and replace them with batteries. Contract already awarded. It calls for one 1.2 GWh battery system, and a 700 MWh battery system. It is cheaper to store this much electricity to meet the peak demand of CA summer afternoon-evenings than to run gas powered plants. This 1.9 GWh of batteries represent 4.75% of the total battery making capacity of the world. Once we have the capacity, we can replace ALL the peak load powerplants at today's prices, we just dont have the manufacturing capacity. yet. It is just a matter of time, the most lucrative part of power generation, peak load plants selling electricity in spot market will have its legs cut out from under.
Case 2 A salt mine is using diesel powered earth movers deep underground. Its ventilation system upgrade costs 130 million dollars. For that money you could buy 1 GWh of batteries and run 40 earth movers, each powered by 500 HP motors, 24/7, batteries on a 16 hours of charge, 8 hours of use schedule. (For such fixed installations, it is possible to create liquid cooled super chargers and put the batteries on 2 hours to charge 8 hours of use schedule, but let us not go there right now, it is distracting.) 1 GWh of batteries is 2.5 % of the world battery making capacity.
Clearly as the battery making capacity expands, even if the price does not fall, we can retire more and more of the fossil fuels. But as the capacity expands the cost will fall too, that will dramatically accelerate its adoption.
1. The known reserves of these elements today, will be the same reserves we will have till 2050
2. The known techniques and cost for extracting them today, will be the same till 2050
3. Similar study done in 1868 would have concluded there is not enough oil in Pottsville, PA to replace coal as a major source of fuel
4. Similar study done in 1750 would have concluded there is not enough coal to replace whale oil as a fuel for lighting
5. Similar study done in 1550 would have concluded the known reserves of whales and the cost of extracting oil from their blubber would be prohibitive and wax candles will be used forever for lighting.
One of the things that used to intrigue me, when I was little, was this barber shop mirrors that create a series of images by repeated reflections. Wondered how come all the images were equally bright.
Later when we were taught absorption, reflection, scattering and transmission it dawned on me that even if the mirrors were nearly 99.9999% reflective, even that 1.0e-06 or 1.0e-12 scattering would degrade the images and eventually the later images will be less bright and eventually fade to black.
Reflection and scattering from clouds from one supernova burst, and we were bathed by repeated reflections for 10,000 years? And the radiation remained potent for that long? It is boggles my tiny brain. Hope the guys doing the math did not forget a decimal point or two.
Says someone who has a canned post accusing me of faking my tesla car ownership, and posts it obsessively. It takes a maniac to recognize a fellow maniac, I suppose.
But to give credit where it is due, this guy stopped posting it under his handle and switched to anonymous coward after I said a few nice words about him in some thread.
I agree with many of his modded up postings. It is unfortunate, he likes to post far too many snarky one liners.
Come on quick, Copy and paste that posting you have ready on the other window which accuses me of faking my Tesla Model 3 ownership as an anonymous coward.
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Elon is a deca billionaire or a centi trillionaire, with millions of followers. It gives him some clout to by pass the media and explain his side of the story. In addition to defenders like you and I. That Tripp guy, whatever his misdeeds were, is incapable of mounting a credible defense.
If there are behind the scenes negotiations to drop the suit in exchange for full cooperation, and if there were behind the scenes actors who instigated him to act and then quietly disappeared, and he is willing to name them, then it is probably justified. If this law suite flushes out the shady actors who use unwitting third parties for stock manipulation and short-and-slander schemes (the mirror of pump-and-dump scheme) it would be good.
But, as it stands today, we have to admit, the optics do not look good for Elon. At this moment a few big well known public shorts are changing their tune, UBS is the latest one. So not sure why this law suite was filed.
Don't get me started on that UBS story. It is the same Dec 2017 built car, it is the same Monroe tear down. Suddenly UBS says Tesla is winning and after consistently claiming Tesla has negative gross margins in Model 3, and consistently gave low price targets. Has it closed all its short positions and acquired enough at 250 to go with a pump-and-dump scheme now?
GF1 has a bigger foot print and it is three floors, so floor space or carpet area GF1 is the biggest building.
The Space Shuttle assembly building is the world's tallest enclosed space. It rains inside the building. Boeing Everette also rains inside I heard. not sure if its true.
Oil price falling will help ICE in the short run, true.
Right now, BEV is more expensive to buy but lot less expensive to run. People balk. Five years from now, BEV will be cheaper, and even if ICEV is cheaper, people will balk. Gas has to become 80 cents a gallon to compete with a BEV on running costs. That will never happen.
The subsidy, as implemented is bad. It punishes Tesla for being in the forefront. Its competitors who played the waiting game can undercut it because they lose nothing, they are assured of subsidy for their 200,000 vehicles.
It would have been better if the subsidy was for the first million BEV, who ever makes them, gets them.
So what if the dont reduce emissions? So what if they increase emissions?
People will switch to BEV because it saves them money pure and simple. In 2021, in just two years, BEV and ICEV will cost the same off the dealers' lot. And electric miles will be four times cheaper than gasoline miles. People will switch, emissions or no emissions, carbon or no carbon, climate change believer or not.
There are tons of *other* reasons than pollution to switch to BEV. Not sending money to Saudis, saving money, more convenient, better handling,....
Dinky, my friend, I threw in a reference to grandpa's trust fund as a last minute curve ball to them. Sorry it is too subtle even to you. We are on the same side.
It really bugs me people who vigorously defended the tax cuts that went entirely to the one percent turn around and rail about rich people getting EV credits. They would also rail about budget busting deficits while at the same time voting for tax cuts.
You must be a socialist. Why punish success? Who stopped you from making mega millions? We one percenters are the ones paying 60% of the taxes collected by the government. We paid the taxes, and this incentive is a small token thank you gift from the American public.
That is why we deserve 60% of all the tax cut dollars coming to us. Stop envying us, get off your butt and work your ass off. You might make a tenth of what my grandpa left in the trust fund.
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After cherry-picking all the profitable items, if you leave only the CRaP to the grocery stores, it will be expensive there too.
Another developer left in ShowError("Fuck! Got null again!",true/*=fatal*/) in shipping code.
Another one had a long rant denouncing Osama Bin Laden as a static string, unused but visible in strings.
It happens a lot.
In fact Li and Na occur abundantly together in salt flats. The present source in Africa is high in concentration. But it would be economical to mine any salt flat for Li.
The only time I fired someone he was escorted out immediately, and the security cleared his cube. But he got two weeks of pay, 90 days at a temporary office with access to internet, fax machine, phones and job search help. Our company recruiter assigned a head hunter to be on the premises to talk to him before being escorted out. He had 90 days to exercise vested stock options.
I know this might not be the norm. But I was lucky to work for a nice employer. When he eventually found a job and moved out of state, he personally visited me, thanked me.
Or the company refuses to issue W2 for these employees and informs IRS that W2 is pending. What happens to these ghosts at tax time?
Or at least give the mean after throwing out the outliers.
Rare? Indium? There are 1.3 billion of them. Pretty soon they will beat Chineum as the most abundant.
The only book I felt like reading twice, (after adulthood), was "The Discoverers" by Daniel Boorstein, Chief Librarian, LoC, Pulitzer winner. History of science told in context chronologically.
People share log-ins and save things as draft for the party to read. Some under the impression it is really private. I was shocked to see some General commanding our troops in Afghanistan using it to share notes with some lady he was having an affair with. Talk about blackmail vulnerability!
So impact of this bug is going to be quite big.
Case 1 PG&L has decided to retire three gas fired peak power plants and replace them with batteries. Contract already awarded. It calls for one 1.2 GWh battery system, and a 700 MWh battery system. It is cheaper to store this much electricity to meet the peak demand of CA summer afternoon-evenings than to run gas powered plants. This 1.9 GWh of batteries represent 4.75% of the total battery making capacity of the world. Once we have the capacity, we can replace ALL the peak load powerplants at today's prices, we just dont have the manufacturing capacity. yet. It is just a matter of time, the most lucrative part of power generation, peak load plants selling electricity in spot market will have its legs cut out from under.
Case 2 A salt mine is using diesel powered earth movers deep underground. Its ventilation system upgrade costs 130 million dollars. For that money you could buy 1 GWh of batteries and run 40 earth movers, each powered by 500 HP motors, 24/7, batteries on a 16 hours of charge, 8 hours of use schedule. (For such fixed installations, it is possible to create liquid cooled super chargers and put the batteries on 2 hours to charge 8 hours of use schedule, but let us not go there right now, it is distracting.) 1 GWh of batteries is 2.5 % of the world battery making capacity.
Clearly as the battery making capacity expands, even if the price does not fall, we can retire more and more of the fossil fuels. But as the capacity expands the cost will fall too, that will dramatically accelerate its adoption.
Indium too expensive? .
Come on, if Indium is too expensive how come 90% of the H1Bs go to India? Wait... oops.
2. The known techniques and cost for extracting them today, will be the same till 2050
3. Similar study done in 1868 would have concluded there is not enough oil in Pottsville, PA to replace coal as a major source of fuel
4. Similar study done in 1750 would have concluded there is not enough coal to replace whale oil as a fuel for lighting
5. Similar study done in 1550 would have concluded the known reserves of whales and the cost of extracting oil from their blubber would be prohibitive and wax candles will be used forever for lighting.
Later when we were taught absorption, reflection, scattering and transmission it dawned on me that even if the mirrors were nearly 99.9999% reflective, even that 1.0e-06 or 1.0e-12 scattering would degrade the images and eventually the later images will be less bright and eventually fade to black.
Reflection and scattering from clouds from one supernova burst, and we were bathed by repeated reflections for 10,000 years? And the radiation remained potent for that long? It is boggles my tiny brain. Hope the guys doing the math did not forget a decimal point or two.
Damn. This is what obsession looks like, folks.
Says someone who has a canned post accusing me of faking my tesla car ownership, and posts it obsessively. It takes a maniac to recognize a fellow maniac, I suppose.
But to give credit where it is due, this guy stopped posting it under his handle and switched to anonymous coward after I said a few nice words about him in some thread.
I agree with many of his modded up postings. It is unfortunate, he likes to post far too many snarky one liners.
Please disregard this notice if you have already complied with the requirement.
Elon is a deca billionaire or a centi trillionaire, with millions of followers. It gives him some clout to by pass the media and explain his side of the story. In addition to defenders like you and I. That Tripp guy, whatever his misdeeds were, is incapable of mounting a credible defense.
If there are behind the scenes negotiations to drop the suit in exchange for full cooperation, and if there were behind the scenes actors who instigated him to act and then quietly disappeared, and he is willing to name them, then it is probably justified. If this law suite flushes out the shady actors who use unwitting third parties for stock manipulation and short-and-slander schemes (the mirror of pump-and-dump scheme) it would be good.
But, as it stands today, we have to admit, the optics do not look good for Elon. At this moment a few big well known public shorts are changing their tune, UBS is the latest one. So not sure why this law suite was filed.
Don't get me started on that UBS story. It is the same Dec 2017 built car, it is the same Monroe tear down. Suddenly UBS says Tesla is winning and after consistently claiming Tesla has negative gross margins in Model 3, and consistently gave low price targets. Has it closed all its short positions and acquired enough at 250 to go with a pump-and-dump scheme now?
There. Done.
From the summary it looks like it should have been named 1350 gram.
The Space Shuttle assembly building is the world's tallest enclosed space. It rains inside the building. Boeing Everette also rains inside I heard. not sure if its true.
Right now, BEV is more expensive to buy but lot less expensive to run. People balk. Five years from now, BEV will be cheaper, and even if ICEV is cheaper, people will balk. Gas has to become 80 cents a gallon to compete with a BEV on running costs. That will never happen.
Wind is cheaper than coal power plants, wind mills are just the right size for these islands and outbacks.
It would have been better if the subsidy was for the first million BEV, who ever makes them, gets them.
People will switch to BEV because it saves them money pure and simple. In 2021, in just two years, BEV and ICEV will cost the same off the dealers' lot. And electric miles will be four times cheaper than gasoline miles. People will switch, emissions or no emissions, carbon or no carbon, climate change believer or not.
There are tons of *other* reasons than pollution to switch to BEV. Not sending money to Saudis, saving money, more convenient, better handling, ....
It really bugs me people who vigorously defended the tax cuts that went entirely to the one percent turn around and rail about rich people getting EV credits. They would also rail about budget busting deficits while at the same time voting for tax cuts.
That is why we deserve 60% of all the tax cut dollars coming to us. Stop envying us, get off your butt and work your ass off. You might make a tenth of what my grandpa left in the trust fund.