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Comment Re:Profit over safety (Score 1) 128

Plan and plant are both legal/valid english words.
So they are not red underlined by a spelling complainer.
If you are able to spot such a spelling mistake, consider your self fortunated.
My brain reads 'plant' even as there is written 'plan' ... because 'plan' would not pass the semantical analysis of the sentence. My brain dors error correction just fine ... I don't know nor do I care if the 't' got losst by the writer, the internet or got eaten by the spaghetti monster.
Riding on spelling mistakes of othets is just plain stupid ...
Oh, I lost track, what I was about to say again ...

Comment Re:Profit over safety (Score 1) 128

Sorry, you are an idiot.
The power 'your' plant is producing is not determined by you in any way. The company owning the plant has a job position called 'Dispatcher'.
That is the guy who is running the whole fleet of plants of said company.
Except for unexpected downtime a GM (does that mean 'general manager'?) has no influence at all on power production or sales and hence his salary is in no way related to the power production of 'his' plant.

However I guess you want to be so ehow ironic :)

The problem with 'accidents' are several bad things come together by coincident.

Chernobyl e.g. was not an 'accident'. The operators put the plant intenionally into a situation where it must go 'boom' without realizing that it would go 'boom'.

Comment Re:Modularity (Score 1) 80

Erm, then learn to code?
Compile the libs statically and link only what you need?
Calling a library/framework bloat because you are an idiot who has no clue is an insult to the men and wemon behind that framework.
38MB is bloat? Wow, I guess an empty word document has a similar size ...

Comment Re:One of these days (Score 2) 80

Java is excellent for client code, first of all we have Swing and if you like to use Groovy: Griffon, a GUI framework, and secondly you have JavaFX the new Java GUI Framework.

Against Java and for Qt only speak, what you don't want anyway: portability to mobile devices.

Comment Re:Incredibly farfetched (Score 1) 256

Sorry that is simply wrong.

The matter if something floats is *only* dependent on one single thing: it has to displace more *mass* than it weights, and that is a matter of its volume and relation to its weight.

A ballon only blown up with a few cubic cm of helium wont float, as the rubber is to heavy. It floats when the amount of air displaced by the helium (hence the ballon is blown up enough) is heavier than the rubber + helium.

Comment Re:Knock it off (Score 1) 256

Define truck :D

With an RTG perhaps. Certainly not with a meaningful power output via a steam driven generator, and certainly it wont produce any power useable to lift a spacecraft.

But yeah, ofc you can build a small one, the smallest only need to be big enough to have enough fission able material to sustain a chain reaction.

Comment Re:Venutians vs Martians (Score 1) 256

As long as there is no selective pressure, they won't.

Adaption/Evolution works by weeding out the unfit and only let the surviving breed.

As Mars has no means to kill unfit settlers, there are no "fit" settlers and hence no adaption.

At least that is how Darwin puts it.

Would settlers there be taller and more fragile? Depends how the genes are expressed, what food they have, how hard they work, but not really on how they "adapt".

Comment ScrumMaster, Requirements Engineer, BA (Score 1) 250

If she is still into IT, then either planning/management stuff might be interesting (BA=Business Analyst), or probably operating, second or third level support might be interesting.

I once worked for a bank in operations, very well payed, but boring as I had not much to do. That was 90% Calypso related (a trading software) and SQL on Sybase and a little bit of Solaris/Unix work.

Bottom line I was there 8h a day and worked like 1h - 2h per day, you could read books or surf the internet.

Actually a sign of a smooth running data center that the people working there spend more time reading than "working".

Comment Re:Why force her to do something she doesn't want (Score 1) 250

Last time I checked, Spain was in Europe.

Maternal leave is regulated by law.

Why the *fuck* - excuse my language - should she take less maternal leave than either is *offered* by the law or even *demanded* by the law?

Grow up, and understand that not all countries have a political "we don't care' attitude about families.

In Germany we have on top of forced maternal leave/vacation (demanded by law) an optional 12 month vacation for one parent, or of both take it, in total 14 months.

Everyone who takes that and does not take all 14 is basically dumb.

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