Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz, Flight Director of Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 among other missions give a lot of insight into the preparation and focus of safety critical operations.
I have seen good speakers with large audiences and screaming babies that can make a quip along the lines “baby, your skepticism is healthy, but let me convince you, I have done my homework” that is funny at least once, everyone relaxes, and it doesn’t kick anyone out. If the baby keeps yapping, parents will usually find another place anyway.
Also onsite daycare would be a honking great business idea for so many events, including but not limited to company holiday parties.
Not sure if this a bug or an Easter egg but when I go to the buy form and choose the Ultra version the price always jumps by $10 when I pick it ($89.99 vs $79.99, $39.99 vs $29.99) ;-. Is this tiny surge pricing?
You can't directly extrapolate from April to November. April is generally the optimal month in California for renewable generation (days are long enough, rainy season is drawing to a close, not too cold or hot, and summer fog from the oceans hasn't started), so the graph is definitely showing the best case. Nonetheless, with more battery installs, we can almost certainly bank the majority of power needs all year round in California.
Not sure if this is trolling but I honestly couldn't disagree more. Also what is a propaganda sniff test?
First, I think you should have run sed s/strongman/manager/g.
Second, when I do either I see mostly contradictions. The manager, has a manager and so on until you get to the CEO (usually). And the CEO is held accountable by a board and/or shareholders. And the board has to follow (democratically formed) laws and can be held accountable and has a reputation to defend with their name. Also each manager has to compete with other managers for the trust of their subordinates since they can more or less easily switch to other managers or companies.
There is no such correspondence in a dictatorship. Good luck switching the bureaucrat assigned to your city or switching countries (besides the immense cost involved).
The most important quality of a democracy is that you can get rid of a bad government without blood shed. Without that mostly bad things will happen.
Mistakes happen inside democracies and outside but in a strongman fantasy they will most likely last longer and get more amplification.
Ruthenium and Iridium are known stable catalysts that are also among the most rare elements. Their structure used Ru. This new paper seems to propose only abundant materials. If it can be used at scale and proves to be stable that would be an important advancement.
I don’t buy the basic premise of the post. Why should a mobile server be good thing? It is either a constant drain on the battery or a server that responds very rarely. I remember taking a mobile communication class in university in 2007 and it was full of acronyms and history of standards but had some interesting stuff to it, eg how networks using directional microwave antenna would not work after an earth quake.
However, one of the last topics was the problem of routing for mobile servers and how to find optimized path if both the client and the server frequently change physical locations. And I remember the professor saying how this is a big unsolved problem for the industry. I think it is just not something that many people would use in practice.
