Correct. That's not energy density. They need to state it in Watt hours per kilogram, or state the voltage they are assuming.

"In 2012, National Science Board member James Lawrence Powell investigated peer-reviewed literature published about climate change and found that out of 13,950 articles, 13,926 supported the reality of global warming. Despite a lot of sound and fury from the denial machine, deniers have not really been able to come up with a coherent argument against a consensus."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad...

The kind of status-quo-maintaining garbage you are spouting is nothing short of deliberate evil, given what a careful read of the relevant scientific literature would tell you. If we check back in 2025 and find the warming continuing, do you give us permission to banish you to the island of Vanuatu, where you can sink or swim on the strength of your convictions?

I had a programming job in a startup where not only was it open plan but the sales team was in the same space (so you could hear in real time the lies about the product you hadn't finished building yet, and the laughter, oh god the vacuous fake forced jocular hilarity!!!! shudder) , and also, the CEO would come to ask a question about 5 times a day, and would redirect the each programmer's work at least twice a day. Hint ADHD and programming are not a productive mix.

Needless to say, I was more productive hacking in 30 minute blocks in the back seat of the crowded bus on the way to and from work. It's too bad for the company that that hacking was for my own different product. We were underpaid and no equity so there was no way I was going to hack on the bus for the company.

Bad scene altogether. Happens when anti-programmers try to lead programmers.

In fairness, the libraries aren't being closed. They're being re-purposed as public relations offices responsible for such things as communicating the need to move forward with new forms of multimodal multimedia information dissemination, on a go forward basis.

Also, the books are not being dumped, they're being converted into bio-fuel (burned in very efficient co-generation waste incinerators).

Yup. Two months is insane for such a project.

Smacks of decrees from non-technical executives who know nothing about the technology they are "leading".

Isn't this the reason the original project was such a mess? Bizarrebitrary deadlines imposed from the top with no recognition of engineering reality?

At least it will be a quick march to the death (only two months) not a protracted one.

Yes, theoretically, according to Turing, you could get by with enough gates to make a couple of registers, a goto/jump instruction and a branch if is-zero test, as long as you have some read-write memory somewhere else.

Without breaking any laws except hunting out of season, lighting a fire in forest-fire-ban season, construction of an unpermitted permanent structure, and mischief and negligence for causing an unnecessary search-and-rescue operation.

Should have thought of that, when you actually had a say.

Non-voter whiners are beyond lame.

That is, unless you can articulate a superior method of picking leadership of a very large group. I'd respect you if you are saying you won't vote until the voting method is improved to e.g. mixed member proportional rep or single-transferable vote. But if you're just one of those "all politicians are the same" non-voters or lazy-ass non-voters, then STFU about politics.

In the current system, if you don't express your opinion on policy at the ballot box, you don't have the right to get your number counted in the political policy opinion statistics.

Because who would want a company that is managing its development processes or focussed on optimizing them?

The fact that scientific knowledge, in the form of scientific articles, is locked behind exorbitant journal paywalls is what is preventing amateur science the most, not to mention would be professional science in places that can't afford the outlandish subscription fees.

It's a crime against humanity preventing what is often publicly funded scientific knowledge from being shared far and wide, as it could be with virtually no cost on the Internet.

This is a shameful state of affairs that needs to be fixed one way or the other. Long live Aaron!

It's crystal claro that we have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions rapidly and getting the coal plants off the grid is one of the most efficient ways to do that. Technologies have been designed for large-scale grid storage to balance intermittent renewables. There is underground hydroelectric, underground compressed air, underwater compressed air bags, molten salt heat storage, electric trains on slopes, sodium-sulfur batteries.

Oh, and much more use could be made of high-voltage DC long distance transmission (e.g. of what's possible now: 2300km at 800kV) to shunt power from where it's being produced to where it is needed, and to, for example, time-shift PV across longitudes, and flatten out wind intermittency (it's always windy somewhere).
And that doesn't even scratch the surface (pun intended) of new superconducting transmission lines technologies that could boost long distance transmission efficiency even further.

We are at the baby steps (no, the crawling) phase of this transition now. Governments should simply across the board legislate that utilities MUST accommodate ALL new zero-carbon electricity generation with no additional fees. Period. Full stop. Any other policy is suicidally backwards.

Ok, so some projects, as has been pointed out, are doomed from the very first bad architectural decision (or lack of architectural decision.)

But regardless of that factor, the most common thing I've seen is management/corporate promising a particular release date, in a contract, say, and eventually getting around to telling development/engineering, who say, if they're brave, um, that's not possible. If they are less brave, they smile and get on with faking it, all the while knowing it's impossible in the time given. If they're highly skilled and properly whipped, they'll get something that looks superficially ok out the door on schedule, but don't ever, ever, try to use it.

You've got to ask yourself, who's building and deploying reliable, performant, extremely scaled apps these days? Who has been doing that successfully for over a decade? Why don't we ask them to build our big app? Or if they're busy, ask them who they would recommend.

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No, really.