Remember people evil enough to steal kidneys of unsuspecting strangers will take only one kidney not both and be kind enough to leave you in ice with a phone nearby and instructions to call 911. Such kind evil people you have never met before.
I will put my freezer, fridge and the wi-fi router on a long lasting battery. Before cost effective batteries, the ICU determined the minimum level of service that should be guaranteed by the grid. With batteries, easily 80% of the load can accept low grade power with 99% up time and tolerate power outages lasting a day or two. Now ICU, data centers and freezer need to pay for their demands unsubsidized by millions of others.
It is the same set of people who work for PWC one day, McKinsey next day, Arthur Andersen the day after then coming back to Accenture....
And these jokers collectively almost destroyed capitalism as we knew it. "I can take bad debts and consolidate enough of them and they will be good debts. Then I will slice off the good debt and magically we have transformed 10 million dollars worth of junk loans into 10 million dollars worth of gilt edged widows-and-orphans securities! Aren't we amazing!"
The sad thing is we solve partial differential equations or manage warehouses or trudge through snow and ice to keep a power plant operating. And hand over all our investments and retirements funds over to these idiots to manage.
Headphone jacks will provide maximum benefit at minimum cost. But the market is going away from it. Market bubbles are a well known failure mode. This is another failure mode. Bubbles burst. At some point a cheaper alternative to walled garden will emerge, it might even be a better blue tooth
Almost everyone blindly says, "free market will provide the maximum benefit at minimum cost", without trying to look at the basic assumptions made.
For the invisible hand of the free market to work, you need competition. You also need informed customers making rational decisions. If customers are not informed, or if they are apathetic or if they make irrational decisions, it would produce weird results.
Market bubbles from tulip bubbles to emu farming to credit default swap derivatives... to million people a day buying phones sans headphone jacks.
Guy who could write Emacs macros bothered to learn about pivot tables in excel. That shows how broad his interests are.
I can write Emacs macros and do Gauss elimination with partial pivoting. But pivot tables in Excel? It must be something so dumb I would not bother to what it is.
If you compare the total compensation this company will be in line with many American companies.
The big difference is, in America almost all the compensation will be taken up by the PHBs in C$O titles and very little will be given to the developers and front line managers. In addition they developers will be called code monkeys by the C$Os derisively when they are having their three martini lunches in the corporate suite.
Why should I pay more for the electricity to run my laundry machine so that some can not turn off even momentarily data centers and hospital ICUs can have 99.999% uptime grid? They need that level of reliability. My laundry machine needs just 2 hours up time over a 1 week period. In emergencies it accept the grid being down for two or three weeks. You are asking thousands of laundry machines and water towers battery chargers to subsidize the electricity prices of a few consumers.
The hospital ICU can buy enough power bank batteries to last longer than any predictable solar/wind outage. The data center can buy its own back up power, even use a dirty diesel engine genset. Who cares?
You do not design a system for the outliers. If you do, every doorway must accommodate 7' 8" tall people, every five seater car must accommodate 2000 lb of passenger weight... Hospital ICU and data centers are users well above three or four sigma over mean. Their needs should not be the primary design consideration. They need a solution that does not increase the cost of mean + 2 sigma users appreciably.
Don't worry, we will never ban the ICE. It will die a natural death. The way incandescent bulbs are dying. Do you still have the trove of 1000 incandescents you stashed in the basement because you bought the hype Obama is going to take away your precious incandescents?
You see it is common for people to switch the data between two fields when they enter it. Obviously the developer switched the fields and is showing hint for password, and password for hint.
I once switched the username and password fields while creating the account in Slashdot and I am still living with it;-)
But my friend, who runs a small company, got the shock of his life when the bank clerk switched the amount and data while entering some transaction. (It was in Chennai, India, not fully automated banking). The bank debited 12102015 rupees from his account or something.
O! FictionPimp!! Ye were the Foremost of the Moon Dynasty in thy prior birth.
Ye were the son of Jaya and Malini, the noblest of the Royals who ruled Pancahsheel
When ye were young, you used a needle and tortured a beetle needlessly. That beetle
cursed you to be born 77 times and suffer torture in each life. That continues.
Thy shall go to Benares, the fairest of all cities, and pray to Maheshwara on the banks
of Ganges, and thy sin will be absolved and you will suffer no more!
If anyone stole any significant amount of money from that telco, you would be the prime suspect. Assuming they can know when significant sums of money was stolen...
I needed a long string to test some of my encryption decryption code. Some local test string for debugging and testing. It was just after 9/11. Naturally I wrote a long rant against Osama Bin Laden and used that as the test string. Encrypted, decrypted, round tripped, compared the strings, checked in the code. But forgot to #ifdef out the testing code.
Some nosyparker busybody customer did a "strings" on our product and found the string and ratted out to our CTO. Nothing serious happened, just a slap on the wrist. But another colleague told me the same customer found the full "man from nantucket" in his test strings for the stringutil library he wrote. And another said that customer also found the "Fuck! Got null pointer again!" in his code.
We think he was looking for some kind of debug switches and env settings that will disable license check.
Existing battery tech is good enough for 66% of the cars. It is merely a question of cost.
Deliver vans and mail vans and school buses can switch to battery with existing technology. Again a question of cost
Price break through is what we need now, for cars and delivery vans. And long range fleet trucks will be next with battery swaps. Again price, not range, not new tech.
Renewables still make up a small fraction of the total installed capacity. Renewables are beating traditional power sources in the expansion or new installations. As time goes by the fraction of renewables will increase inexorably, with a few set backs and stagnation along the way. Some subsidies will get phased out, traditional sources will lower their prices to compete, demand/supply imbalances and interest rate changes etc will make the curve non-monotonic. But the long arc of history will take us towards more and more renewable generation.
And all this is for fixed point energy consumption. Homes, offices and factories. For the transportation sector, oil is still the king.
Trains with electrified tracks and plug in hybrids are the two toe-holes for renewables in the transportation sector. Trucks/locomotives run on diesel, cars on gasoline, planes on kerosene, and there is no viable alternative in sight.
This means all the fossil fuels not used by power utilities, willl end up in the transportation sector. Coal will not be able to come in. But natural gas would make CNG and LPG cheaper and delay the transition of trucks and locomotives to renewables.
Given the long road ahead, thumping chest like this or declaring victory prematurely is very counter productive. "yeah, yeah! these guys have been saying renewables victory is just round the corner for ages!"
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Remember people evil enough to steal kidneys of unsuspecting strangers will take only one kidney not both and be kind enough to leave you in ice with a phone nearby and instructions to call 911. Such kind evil people you have never met before.
I will put my freezer, fridge and the wi-fi router on a long lasting battery. Before cost effective batteries, the ICU determined the minimum level of service that should be guaranteed by the grid. With batteries, easily 80% of the load can accept low grade power with 99% up time and tolerate power outages lasting a day or two. Now ICU, data centers and freezer need to pay for their demands unsubsidized by millions of others.
Started with all 200 clocks setting alarms off, toast getting burnt, news cast about terrorists stealing plutonium from the powerplant.
Very cool documentary, remember every detail of it.
.. They don't build them like they used to anymore..
And these jokers collectively almost destroyed capitalism as we knew it. "I can take bad debts and consolidate enough of them and they will be good debts. Then I will slice off the good debt and magically we have transformed 10 million dollars worth of junk loans into 10 million dollars worth of gilt edged widows-and-orphans securities! Aren't we amazing!"
The sad thing is we solve partial differential equations or manage warehouses or trudge through snow and ice to keep a power plant operating. And hand over all our investments and retirements funds over to these idiots to manage.
Do the new jobs pay as much as the old jobs?
Headphone jacks will provide maximum benefit at minimum cost. But the market is going away from it. Market bubbles are a well known failure mode. This is another failure mode. Bubbles burst. At some point a cheaper alternative to walled garden will emerge, it might even be a better blue tooth
For the invisible hand of the free market to work, you need competition. You also need informed customers making rational decisions. If customers are not informed, or if they are apathetic or if they make irrational decisions, it would produce weird results.
Market bubbles from tulip bubbles to emu farming to credit default swap derivatives ... to million people a day buying phones sans headphone jacks.
I can write Emacs macros and do Gauss elimination with partial pivoting. But pivot tables in Excel? It must be something so dumb I would not bother to what it is.
The big difference is, in America almost all the compensation will be taken up by the PHBs in C$O titles and very little will be given to the developers and front line managers. In addition they developers will be called code monkeys by the C$Os derisively when they are having their three martini lunches in the corporate suite.
The hospital ICU can buy enough power bank batteries to last longer than any predictable solar/wind outage. The data center can buy its own back up power, even use a dirty diesel engine genset. Who cares?
You do not design a system for the outliers. If you do, every doorway must accommodate 7' 8" tall people, every five seater car must accommodate 2000 lb of passenger weight... Hospital ICU and data centers are users well above three or four sigma over mean. Their needs should not be the primary design consideration. They need a solution that does not increase the cost of mean + 2 sigma users appreciably.
See what is happening to incandescents? Same thing will happen to ICE. You will buy an electric car in your lifetime, mark my word.
Don't worry, we will never ban the ICE. It will die a natural death. The way incandescent bulbs are dying. Do you still have the trove of 1000 incandescents you stashed in the basement because you bought the hype Obama is going to take away your precious incandescents?
Drones are not that efficient. Their energy consumption so high even a fossil fuel powered drone will not have enough range.
I once switched the username and password fields while creating the account in Slashdot and I am still living with it ;-)
But my friend, who runs a small company, got the shock of his life when the bank clerk switched the amount and data while entering some transaction. (It was in Chennai, India, not fully automated banking). The bank debited 12102015 rupees from his account or something.
Ye were the son of Jaya and Malini, the noblest of the Royals who ruled Pancahsheel
When ye were young, you used a needle and tortured a beetle needlessly. That beetle cursed you to be born 77 times and suffer torture in each life. That continues.
Thy shall go to Benares, the fairest of all cities, and pray to Maheshwara on the banks of Ganges, and thy sin will be absolved and you will suffer no more!
If anyone stole any significant amount of money from that telco, you would be the prime suspect. Assuming they can know when significant sums of money was stolen...
Six hours of sleep. and 18 hours of delusion, which is dreaming, which happens in sleep.,... so it will work out.
Some nosyparker busybody customer did a "strings" on our product and found the string and ratted out to our CTO. Nothing serious happened, just a slap on the wrist. But another colleague told me the same customer found the full "man from nantucket" in his test strings for the stringutil library he wrote. And another said that customer also found the "Fuck! Got null pointer again!" in his code.
We think he was looking for some kind of debug switches and env settings that will disable license check.
If you write software, you are most likely subject to a "security review" at some point
Wrong! My code has never been subjected to any such stupid security review.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are mine, not my employer Equifax.
Disclaimer to disclaimer: Nah! I'm not really working for Equifax
It sounds like the evil criminal organization from some old comic book.
Existing battery tech is good enough for 66% of the cars. It is merely a question of cost.
Deliver vans and mail vans and school buses can switch to battery with existing technology. Again a question of cost
Price break through is what we need now, for cars and delivery vans. And long range fleet trucks will be next with battery swaps. Again price, not range, not new tech.
And all this is for fixed point energy consumption. Homes, offices and factories. For the transportation sector, oil is still the king.
Trains with electrified tracks and plug in hybrids are the two toe-holes for renewables in the transportation sector. Trucks/locomotives run on diesel, cars on gasoline, planes on kerosene, and there is no viable alternative in sight.
This means all the fossil fuels not used by power utilities, willl end up in the transportation sector. Coal will not be able to come in. But natural gas would make CNG and LPG cheaper and delay the transition of trucks and locomotives to renewables.
Given the long road ahead, thumping chest like this or declaring victory prematurely is very counter productive. "yeah, yeah! these guys have been saying renewables victory is just round the corner for ages!"
Nobel prize picking three per year or a paper with 5000 authors?
Practically half of us are already hacked NOW.
Let me fix it for you.
Practically half of us know we are already hacked now. The rest will learn soon.