Then there is wind. There are places where the wind never stops, the Allegheny Front for instance.
Pennsylvania has been getting high winds for the past two months. Sometimes as high as 30+ mph sustained gusts. They should be producing enough electricity for the surrounding states.
You aren't kidding. We just had another windstorm last night. The good part is it blew a lot of leaves from my yard to the neighbors yard. 8^)
Sand wonâ(TM)t do it. The impact has to fragment the satellite.
Kinetic energy. And it depends on where the sand hits, and how much of it hits. https://hvit.jsc.nasa.gov/impa.... Impacts by things like paint flecks do interesting things, sand is much larger.
But I wasn't trying for a second to say that sand or ball bearings were going to cause a Kessler event. Although a breach of hydrazine propellent with cause impressive destruction if hits thse catalyst bed. My point was that thinking that your satellites are safe is simply wrong. Doesn't take much technology to break a lot of them.
What makes a Kessler event likely is proliferation of satellites, If 2 collide, that starts the chain reaction.n Now we are talking about much larger pieces then sand or ball bearings. Orbital mechanics and energy transfer takes care of the rest. If you think Kessler is wrong (I do not) use your orbital mechanics and energy transfer savvy to support your claim.
I usually end up with a title like Staff Engineer or Software Engineer.
In a courtroom, I'm a software engineer in California. And it is what I report on taxes. What I report on census. And what I report when I apply for a mortgage. My lack of a formal degree in the field makes it very unlikely that my company would call me to act as an expert witness. Even though at one time I was an automotive safety trainer and safety lead for regulated camera. What is good enough for a private company is often insufficient in a courtroom or at least won't stand up to a well placed argument, which is ultimately what an attorney is all about.
So true, I'm not likely to testify in my field, but my employer likes what I do. A lot of experience in different areas, quick on my feet, and very hard to bullshit.
My boss once told a tech guy who was trying to do that with me - "Don't bullshit a bullshitter, you won't win that game with Ol. Do as he tells you." This was in response to a lighting system problem I had diagnosed.
“China was going to hit us with rare earth,” he said. “Now, everybody says, ‘What does that mean?’ Magnets. If China refused to give magnets because they have a monopoly on magnets because they were allowed to — it happened over a 32-year period — there wouldn’t be a car made in the entire world, there wouldn’t be a radio, there wouldn’t be a television, there wouldn’t be internet, there wouldn’t be anything because magnets are such a part — Now, nobody knows what magnets are, and not overly sophisticated, but to build a magnet system would take two years.”
--Donald Trump 2025
Pretty good idea posting as the middle card you are. A non-sequitur irrelevant to the matter we're discussing.
Aren't you a little old to be crying when you can't find your binky? P.S. all bold is the same thing as all caps - a clueless person with a rageboner.
We can back Jasmine Crockett up to a line of windmills and let her naturally breaking wind turn them.
A very attractive lady.
Legally I'm a software engineer despite not having a degree in engineering or computer science.
Not much I can do about it. That's my job title and what I put down when I am told to provide accurate information to a government agency.
You may certainly petition the legislature of my state in order to force my employer to change their job titles. But it's out of my hands (I also do not care)
People call me as they wish, you are right. Over the years, I've been called Optical engineer, Optical scientistElectromagnetics scientist, Systems design engineer, even process chemist! Depended on what I was doing at the time. Since it is a recognition of my abilities, and meant positively, I take it as a compliment. The Process chemist thing was a little weird, a strange short part of my career.
The only place where it really "matters" is in a courtroom, where the lawyers get all atwitter about degrees in specific fields. Then the person can be an incompetent, but as long as they have the degree, they are somehow an expert.
If you thought that, you are probably American, and therefore badly educated.
In most of the world, an engineer designs engines - and/or their control systems. (Whether petrol, steam, or electric - or even hydrogen).
Oh please, more the memss of universally stoopid 'murricans. Is your hatred of us overcoming what to 99.99 percent of us see is an obvious joke?
For what it is worth the person running the train is called an engineer. For what it is worth, part of the engineer's job is operating the old coal fired engines, their power transmissions, their water consumption, and boilers
This is not dissimilar to today, where engineers are responsible for smooth and safe operation of many facilities. And as a bit of eduction even though I'm a stupid 'Murrican, Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Occasionally one of us murrican morons can edumacate those who are smarter than us.
But we cannot get our betters to have a sense of humor.
Solar has an unexpected use. End of line extensions. When there isn't enough ugga-duggas left to meet demand at the last sub-station, solar comes to the rescue.
Placing panels is so much less expensive than getting new right of ways, running new lines, maybe even moving the substation, when new housing developments and businesses need their electricity. And please people, storage batteries are no longer science fiction. There are even bolt on solutions for arrays that don't have tehm now.
Then there is wind. There are places where the wind never stops, the Allegheny Front for instance. At this point, our new wind installs are less than before. The reason? At the moment, what we have now are supplying the power we need at the moment.
Just if you can do something it doesn't mean you'll want to. When I got my first Mac, it was more about working on the computer than working for it. And the mac's unix-ish-terminal is still a nice thing to have, when you need it, compared to windows' command console. At least for me
Just a note - MacOS is Unix https://www.theregister.com/20.... Linux is Unixy as we say. Note that Unix is "POSIX compliant" now, and has been for a long time, (1993) so the pedants among us might want to weigh in on that.
Point is, I bash around in Terminal half the day. The default is now zsh, but bash sounds better to speak.
Yeah, when I have to go into Windows command line, I have to remember to shift my mental state.
Main point is, I have Apple create the ecosystem while I do paid things. Why should I have to do that? My burn rate overwhelms the cost of the phone or computer very quickly. It's like having a starter motor on a car instead of a hand crank. Obligatory car reference.
The iphone sock is a limited edition luxury item. When you have millions of users, there's always a few with more money than brains, regardless of the OS they use.
Exactly. There is a meme that all Apple users are clueless, with more money than brains. Sure, some are. It would be silly to think that Android and Windows users are the intelligentsia of computer, phone, and tablet users. Some are smart and savvy, some are not
The fact that you can't integrate them yourself and require Apple to do it for you tells me that the Unix thing is just something that helps you sleep at night.
You are trying to make the inferior performance of Android product integration a flex. Yes - I get Apple to provide a functioning integrated system. I have things to do that I am paid for, and those things work so much better with an integrated system that I do not have to futz with while unpaid, simply to make them integrate after a fashion. Just getting a computing device to function is so early 1990's.
And my familiarity with UNIX and its close brother Linux - well, I don't know about sleeping better, but I can get more hours of sleep.
Just because some people want to put their penis into everything doesn't mean everything looks like a vagina.
For some, it looks like other places they might put it. Be more inclusive.
Of course, whether they made 80,000 of them - or just 8 - is not something they're gonna tell us.
You are right about that. As well, they only released them in certain markets where they figured out the demographics. In the world at large, they'd not be so successful. We live in a world where a few people think the iSock is a good idea. Probably the same demographic that believe the new Jaguar commercial people are cool. I suppose if they think the iSock is cool and want to spend the money they can. I suspect they might also have problems with financial savvy, but that's another story.
It's almost like Apple owners are a different species. They say they want perfectly manufactured accessories that fit to the device within a millimeter of specification and then they buy... A sock.
Do you think? Do you think that Android ownera are all Mensa members or Illuminati?
The iPhone pocket was for sale in very limited locations, picked for demographics. Deciding Apple users are a separate species is kind of prejudiced.
Let's see, there are many of us, like myself, who are on Apple products for a number of reasons
MacOS is UNIX. I'm UNIX. So I'm going to have a UNIX computer. I spend hella much time in Terminal.
The phones and tablets and computers all integrate to an extent that is is impressive. No, Windows and Android don't, not as well.
Family member integration is excellent ApplePlay is much better than AndroidPlay.
Aside from the orange abomination phone, and the stupid iSock, the products are well designed, and tasteful.
So there are many reasons to own Apple products. Yes, some people are in it for some kind of status. Just like some people are into Android as a reaction to those Apple users who they claim are universally stupid status seekers.
My parents still do though my dad keeps questioning if he wants it any longer. They don't watch much any more and the cost is out of hand.
What they do is spend two hours or so every night watching YT videos of places around the world or watching shows about this or that subject.
And that is the key demographic that would likely have cable. So when they stop, and enough others stop, Cable is in even more trouble than their almost 50 percent drop.
SO and I still have cable, but it's the same thing. She watched Youtube videos, I watch Youtube videos. She keeps things like court shows on for background sound in the house. I watch science channel late at night. But really, the offerings on cable and network TV kind of stink. How many shows can we have of some hot babe banging 10 different guys, than picking one to marry, or real housewives who aren't, or sassy African women fighting with each other? So they're spiraling, and catering to a strange demographic.
Even their models wearing it for the photos look like they fear the ridicule.
To be fair, literally every model wearing literally anything looks like this.
Gawd, I remember a time when a model was attractive. Then came heroin chic, when every female model looked like she was strung out. Now I think they are going for "non human".
Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, then they'd be algorithms.
