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In this same way I see your wording as calling the GP "lazy" even though you did not use the specific grammatical form.

I get if you see this as the same, and, burned by your chastisement by someone, world like to see the same inflicted upon another to give you a sense of fairness or let you feel your weren't singled out. That makes sense, even tho I disagree.

So while I can't vouch for or against the views of others who would chastise, I get if you see this as the same as what you were alleged to have done, but it's not because I'm not calling anyone lazy, or skeptical. And i have no set opinion on whether the commenter is lazy or skeptical. Tho i don't think they are. However, i know very definitely how i feel about the comment, and that it just as i have said, and that is it's lazy skeptical.

If your post is not too old by the time you see this, I suggest finding another way to word your message to get the same point across.

No. I find the way i choose here is already the best to convey my meaning, which is why i choose it. So i think perhaps you have not grasped the meaning there, which is okay, because everyone will for their own interpretation as a function of who they are at that moment. As an aside, possibly one thing in your way of seeing the meaning, and the correct form for that, is your previous experience, which you have narrated as negative, of being chastised.

So while I appreciate your suggestion which I see merely as trying to improve as you see it the tone of commentary on this forum, I have to reject your suggestion. And I hope you can respect that. Ultimately i think we're both trying I think to do the same thing.
Exactly what I’m thinking. What is there even to maintain other than restart it when it fails?
Heh. Turns out there was an aphorism that communicated the essentials of my multi-paragraph comment much more efficiently. :)
There's many topics in this area. Ones that are well known in industry are algorithmic complexity theory and type theory. Ones that are less well known include the two resources below.

http://www4.di.uminho.pt/~jno/ps/pdbc.pdf

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu

I suggest you get use to ML style languages before diving into those two resources (Haskell is a good choice) as it's not easy to learn this stuff and I think it's also part of the reason why it hasn't been so popular in industry.

The first resource builds towards a prolog like programming style where you feed the computer a specification and the computer produces a program that fits the specification.

The second resource involves utilizing a language with a type checker so powerful that the compiler can fully prove your program correct outside of just types.

Both are far away from the ideal that the industry is searching for but in terms of optimizing and formalizing design these two resources are examples of the right approach to improving software design.

I haven't found anything specifically on the organization of software modules so as far as I know none exists. But given the wide scope of software research I'm sure at least one paper has talked about this concept.
This might be a stupid question, but could a vertical farm use systems of mirrors to direct sunlight to the crops? That way the vertical farms can collect sunlight from a wide area. Maybe the mirrors could be positioned in such a way as to take up less ground space overall than an equivalent flat farm.
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Interesting to hear the other side. Are you an iphone/mac user? I know the Apple walled garden makes some people feel jittery, but I have to say when it comes to HomeKit I feel much better off overall from their playing hardball with device manufacturers when I look at how sketchy other home auto stuff is out there. I'm thinking the cheap Chinese stuff off Amazon that won't work without their "cloud".
You can buy a metal hydride storage system next year: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-19/tesla-pow...
I literally said "I genuinely don't care". That is not the same as "I'm right", and I'm perplexed on how you got to that conclusion.
Yes? The high cost being the result of overregulation and overzealous safety standards points to a trivial (in terms of engineering difficulty, not political difficulty) solution to reduce those costs, and nuclear power is region-agnostic, unlike solar, wind or hydroelectric. It can be utilized, along with vertical indoor farming, in areas of otherwise marginal utility.
Or that it stripped the President of the powers to supress an insurrection, unless voted on by congress.

Or that it only gave 600 to Americans.

I don't know man, there are about 5k pages of thing to object to. You picking up on some npr article seems lazy and shortsighted.
I'm so astonished at the output of Lingdong that I find myself doubting that this is one person and may be a collective. I'm not making theories, I'm merely expressing my admiration of these works and these abilities.

https://lingdong.works/
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Presumably, somewhere within the bowels of American Express, there's a test card for testing the Centurion large-payment verification process, where feeding it through a merchant and having them run a verification on it, will get them routed to a mock concierge on Amex's side (or rather, a human concierge diverted to follow a special mock workflow script.)
What chart shows battery backup on that page? What is the sample solar field + batteries that puts out at a cheaper rate than an equivalent coal plant? Or is this just theoretical not based on any real deployment?
> What happens when a half pound drone that's going 15+ kph hits an oncoming car windshield going many times that speed?

My intuition says the drone would bounce off, being made of light material. In the worst case, it would crack the windshield and the driver would stop.

> what happens when you distract those drives with an aerial nuisance

Many people look at birds while driving with little notable effect. It feels like the distracting-traffic argument is really just a couching of the real gripe, which is more like "weird new thing bad".

> Things don't have to be universally safe to point out a safety flaw with a specific variable

Sure, but we can compare relative safety. It's a bit odd to pick on a slightly-unsafe activity due to its proximity to a much unsafer activity. In general anything involving an urban landscape is going to have traffic/buildings/infrastructure adjacent. And so if we go by a standard of possibly affecting those things, there would end up being no permission for anything new.
full title:

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Spanish tile roofing will last at least 80 years (possibly requiring a relay depending on the climate and how good a job is done with the first laying). With reasonable care, and luck in avoiding damage from above (e.g. trees), tile roofs could last 300 years or more.

Slate varies depending on the region it comes from - Pennsylvania slate tends to suffer badly from freeze/thaw action, but some from New England can match the 200 year lifetime associated with Welsh slate. Similarly for stone.

It is absolutely the case that these materials are not widely used in US construction. But they have lifetimes that more closely match the expected life of even a moderately well-built stud frame house.

Metal roofing is rapidly gaining ground in some parts of the USA, and has a theoretical lifetime even beyond tile or slate. Unfortunately poor initial installs in many cases shortens the real-world life to something closer to high-end asphalt shingles.

The appliance/panel comparison strikes me as apt in some ways, but not in others. While removing/replacing roof-mounted solar might be approaching ease of replacement that is in the same ballpark as a typical stove, refridgerator, washing machine, water heater or furnace, it is necessarily more laborious and more dangerous work, and involves a component that to all effects and purposes is totally passive.

I wasn't commenting on the payoff time, but on the notion that we should be installing this relatively short-lived equipment everywhere we possibly can.
Hah, it's funny that you say this. I just opened GitHub to see that they've added a new "Discussions" feature to repositories, which they describe as "...space for your community to have conversations, ask questions and post answers without opening issues" and appears to be a mini-forum of sorts.
In this case, the play/pause button becomes part of the "video." So now the video includes a piece of state which has perhaps been toggled to "paused." And at that point F(i) = F(i+1)... = F(i+n), since nothing will have changed for n moments (until the user interacts again). Kinda hard though to fully get this in the abstract. I struggled with the same questions. All I can say is SICP, all of Rich Hickey's videos, redux, elm, resources listed on haskel.com all helped.

Also putting it all together in writing here https://softwarefordays.com/post/functional-programming-and-....

In this^ blog I've included an interactive user interface that can be seen as purely functional, even though it's a stateful ATM program. I'm actually hoping that this blog could help teach someone what took me 2 years to finally realize. I think it could be worthwhile given your questions - if you take a look, please let me know what you think!
This is a few years away.

"Mamane believes that this technology is the future, adding that she expects that by 2025, it will be cost effective enough to become mainstream."
They had a series about Apollo 13 this year. It needed to be paused because one of the producers were a doctor that needed to help with Covid, but later it was completed.
You're double counting the without storage benefit, it's already factored in to the $81-140 price.

The plant they list has 100 MW of solar, 50 MW/200 MWh of storage.

Assuming a CF of 0.3 that makes it 720 MWh per day, 73% of it not touching the battery.

If you built a plant that only supplies power at night it would be way more expensive.

It's not yet cheaper than coal if you wanted to run the whole grid on PV + batteries, not close. You need a lot more than 2 hours of nameplate capacity storage per plant.

But as you say, the costs are rapidly falling. The coming EV transition will provide significant economies of scale.

And this is also valuing carbon at $0, which is a horrendous distortion.
> "when a special project comes up that needs leadership."

You think complimenting people is horrible, people should be publicly shamed, insulted and blamed for the failure of the team, and fancy yourself for a leadership role? Grief.

Instead, perhaps take the "if you're on time, you're late, being early is the minimum" self-satisfied chip off your shoulder and realise that blaming Bob for you being a doormat and working on the weekend is you being "a bit of a douche".
> Thus the computer is in fact a tool designed to facilitate this logic game. The computer is in itself a simulator of a simple game involving formal rules with assembly language terms as the axioms.

It's somewhat poetic, beautiful and accidentally funny that your argument frays at the same blind spots that your tone does, which is at the gap between theoretical and on-the-ground meaning. It is true in a theoretical sense that you could describe a computer as a simulator which can be modeled with formal rules. But it tells me nothing about why the computer as a mass-market electronic device which runs mass-market software occupies the societal role it does, nor where it will go, nor why it was an innovation which transformationally altered society in the same way as the flame, the wheel, the chariot, the bow, the written word, the loom, the printing press.

Now, if you're not going to try and engage with any of that because "It probably can be done, I just can't spare the effort" what do you think is more likely:

1) your complaint most loudly voices new and fresh insight to the industry which it had previously missed

2) your complaint most loudly voices your own gaps in curiosity and understanding

If it's 2, then I just think that's sad. I see a lot of engineers (frequently early-stage in their careers and suffering from a bit of imposter syndrome) get stuck in a rut where they dogmatically devour formalism as a vehicle to elevate the level and quality of their engineering to the level of rigor seen in the sciences. But the appropriation of surface level aesthetics masks a methodological inability to do the dirty work to get the actual job done via "less sexy" paths (as reality often requires), to differentiate and harden critical sections when necessary. It's sad because it generally only speaks to their own lack of exposure with just how power and impact software can be built to have, and it takes the momentary weakness of inexperience and calcifies it into eternal inexperience and terminal juniority owing to an unrealistic, radioactive hubris far out of proportion with actual capability.

That could be you. It doesn't have to be.
I doubt you'll be able to muster the political will to deregulate nuclear and design and build a sufficient number of cheap nuclear plants before renewables will have made the whole thing obsolete.
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Why do you think they lack the funds or corporate will?
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> It seems to me that vineyards should be the easiest thing to 'verticalize' since you're growing vines anyway. You should be able to cover the entire sunward side of a skyscraper with vines and harvest the grapes using a robot hanging off a crane.

Except when you realize that the most highly valued added product (wine) relies on soil/region specific soil (terroir). No one buying table grapes, even at Whole Foods, is going to spend the kind of money to make something like that at scale. I've worked in a vineyard for a Summer in Croatia, it's how I got run my own Kitchen in Italy soon after as it crated a good 'marketing hook' for a chef, and I can go into why that skyscraper idea is impractical for anything fruit bearing but suffice it to say: it won't work unless you want a small, low yield plaything that can be outperformed from anything in most common grape growing regions even if hyper-local expenses are removed. Hell, even using them as a cover crop/ornament on a trellis in a backyard garden may yield better results.

Cash crops, as specified, are based on economies of scale for a reason and are actually very efficient when properly done and have 10,000+ years of refinement behind them--crop rotation, efficient irrigation, cover crops in the off season, livestock grazing for fertility and micro-organism replenishment. With the advent of more automation, and no till methods we are seeing increases in yield, despite global climate change. Water scarcity, irrigation and water table replenishment and growing organically is something I wished we placed a greater focus on and would do more good for us and our Ecosystem as a whole than anything else hindering cash crop modality if I'm honest.

I sincerely wish people were forced to have to farm as part of their formal education, and continued gardening as their is so much deadly ignorance in regards to where our food comes from and the maladies it creates as a result of being so far from it: obesity and heart disease kills more in the West than anything else.

With that said, I see this as very good data for Mars colonization and food production; but for terrestrial purposes its absurd for anything but Hype/Marketing an expensive and impractical bridge with fanciful ideas of 'closing the gap between food deserts' when urban farming is the real answer in the US (see: Detroit). This model only semi-worked when they were aligned to expensive fine dining restaurants, now that those have been systemically destroyed and may never come back, I don't see it having much if any potential as I've eaten greenhouse stuff that aren't herbs or salad from Holland and its awful!

We could honestly make more headway in solving hunger, food scarcity if they just allotted community gardens in vacant land not in use and mandated fruit bearing trees be used instead of ornamental ones in urban landscaping and reinstated gleaning as a form Community Supported Agriculture.
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the immune system is where intuition goes to die and it is not uncommon for lower potency vaccines to provoke more effective immune responses.

i do agree oxford and astrazeneca have not handled this well. it seems quite clearly an error based on a volume of documentation but leadership at both institutions appear to be insisting it was not, which degrades trust at a time when many members of the public do not trust health officials to tell them which way is up.
> Well turns out that coal is being shut down everywhere, because it can't even compete. We don't need them.

Because of natural gas. The growth of natural gas almost entirely offsets the coal shutdown.

We have barely doubled the electricity generated by renewables in the US since the 90s: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
And hydro makes up a 1/3 of it, wind makes slightly more than hydro, and solar is nearly a drop in the bucket.
Probably the literature about ten is better these days. When I read about it, it was mostly from D. T. Suzuki. I was surprised when I attended a zazen meditation in Kyoto a few years ago about the differences. It seems (after reading about it) that Suzuki was part of a fringe branch and not telling us about 'mainstream' Zen.
I wonder if there's any modern equivalent...

Wouldn't it be great if such people and theories were employed in designing games that are popular with kids?
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This dovetails with something else I regularly say; everyone defines "normal" as "whatever the state of affairs was before my birth". Human time horizons are really short, and a lot of things that feel unbelievably ancient are actually only a small number of generations in the past. Heck, the Civil War was only ~6-7 generations ago.
Yeah, the 440 to late 1400s were a regress for European civilization. The whole continent was a basket case and hadn't advanced at all, and often regressed from the complexity/organization of civilization of the Roman empire. Even some of the major battles of the time, had only few thousand combatant, not more than a couple of Roman legions. Kings couldn't field armies, even larger to ancient greece, or persian empire (we are talking about 400-500 B.C.). The regress in overall state structure and organization was astonishing.

It took the renaissance to change things up and for innovation and cultural progress to pick up. So, it was more than a 1000 years lost to petty warfare, destruction and general ignorance.

If the Roman Empire had endured, who knows how things would have evolved. We would have been a different civilization by now. We probably would have had colonized mars by now :)

Ps. The byzantine empire, the eastern side of the Roman empire, after the late 600s - 700s, was just a shade of its original, and kept losing territory and influence until it was just a city state conquered by the Ottomans in 1453.
Ha! I find it interesting that while this shop was operating in 79 AD several of the gospels were being written.
The lack of rigor is pretty prevalent in life (legal systems, human communication, etc.) and it’s awesome because it adds a whole extra dimension of complexity that could not exist if things were rigorous.

For example, I can test whether my friend is sad about something without explicitly asking them and thus triggering them.

Or I try to see if someone is interested in me without explicitly asking and making it awkward for either of us.

Or a judge can choose to be more lenient to someone trespassing to save their dog.

It adds this huge “gray area” that can exist when things are wishy washy and it’s like the lubricant that smooths out unique situations that can’t possibly be covered in rigorous system.
Ultimately, what can you really verify as a user? Apple is very different from bitcoin, or IPFS or matrix or the like, in that they have an existing reputation. Instead of trying to provide perfect guarantees, they make a real attempt at preserving privacy, and you just have to trust them on that. I personally trust them after having attempted experiments stymied by the privacy team, but i think in general there's reasonable evidence that apple really does try to be privacy-preserving.

For your example, sure it's possible for the server to do something you don't know. But it's the same people on the server doing the aggregation as on the client doing the obfuscation. If they really wanted they could easily e.g. set the seed for the noise to be based on a key which they have on the server, which would be very difficult to detect. I think you just have to trust that apple wouldn't let that happen.
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I thought they removed that hardware requirement in 2018?
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This is a great read about repairability, and we should also not forget that apple are the worst when it comes to repair. They essentially said “Our Manuals Could Make Repairs Safer, But You Can’t Have Them” (source here: https://www.ifixit.com/News/33977/apple-told-congress-how-re... )
What a cynical take on such an inspired quote. Adults need hope too. And the first step of becoming a helper is often to look for them.

"Look for the helpers" wasn't just a quote meant for children. He repeated it many times, including in this interview clearly aimed at an adult audience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LGHtc_D328

Part of the brilliance of Fred Rogers was his ability to impart deeply profound life lessons in terms small children could understand. But that doesn't mean adults can't learn a lot from his lessons as well.
Yep. All my deployments I set up so they can be run from anywhere (with the right deps and auth), even though I rarely need to use it. Makes it easier to test deployment processes too.
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By law, military-issued clothing needs to be made entirely in the US. This likely made the process slower.

There also may have been a mandatory reverse-auction to source it.