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Comment Re:Texas? (Score 1) 172

And? Perhaps you should put that into proportion?
A single wind mill or a wind farm of 1000 mills cost as much 'raw materials' as another power plant.

It has no running demand of mining materials.

No wind and solar has no waste ... everything can be recycled or if it is not economic feasable safely deposited somewhere.

Muclear waste can't or at least no one found a working way to do it.

Comment Re:Mostly political was my choice (Score 1) 278

Why? It is well known that China overtook the USA in CO2 production just a year ago.
The population of China is 6 times as big as the USA's ...
This is neither insulting nor do you need exact numbers to draw your conclusions.
Either the USA has to reduce their production by 5/6th or China still can increase its production by a factor of 6 so both have the same 'share' ...

Comment Re: n/t (Score 1) 278

You are either an idiot or a troll or both.
The average temperature on the planet did not cool since a hundred years. Or do you mean your local winter is colder than your local summer? Rest assured this is normal behaviour for a planet and your local climate ...

Comment Re:n/t (Score 1) 278

Actually transforming lead into gold is rather simple. Happens in a nuclear reactor all the time.
I fail to see the connection between your Answer to my Previous post, what did you actually want to say?
Or did you hit reply on the wrong link?

Comment Re:Your Results Will Vary (Score 1) 241

My first idea was to say: "I second that" but then I remembered that I'm not a native english speaker and that I indeed did some math (Trigonometry) heavy programming.

However: my university focused in the computer science education math in the first two years (University of Karlsruhe, german, now called KIT). Hence the most drop outs happened in that period.

My school math education was very good, geometry and Trigonometry was never a problem, after all it is simple math defined by Euclid and Thales 3 thousand years ago.

Nevertheless I nearly either failed or lost interest in my CS studies because of the mandatory math classes. (I'm not bad at math, but I do not like studying it for no purpose or into arcane depths)

I'm a professional software developer since 40years, predating my university studies 10years with programming games and financial applications on Apple ][ s

The math 'they' demanded from me I never needed the last 20 years, and they are still not able to teach:
o programming
o some simple UML modelling
o anything about architecture
o even software engineering is on a very low level

Sorry, the idea that math helps in programming is completely idiotic.

The problem of programming is mapping human problems to computer solutions.

The key to that is requirements engineering, finding an architecture and conducting the actual doing (programming).

In the real hard core programming there is no math at all involved. Well, at some point it comes, so having an open eye helps, scalability e.g is a thing, but it is tackled with architecture, not with math. Math only helps to foresee and address it, not to solve it.

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