You're supposed to take a break every two hours anyways, that can include a meal, snack, and hydration.
If you stock up and have a case of drinks, that is why I suggested a walk as an alternative.

They work for the occasional "blue moon" charging, I think. It'd be like having a house that is solar + battery also having a generator for "just in case", allowing the house to still have power during that week long storm front, an inverter failure, or even just the annual family visit where the place has 10X the normal people there.
Especially if the genset is already there for things like transmission line failures.
IE use the genset to allow EVs to get there to begin with, then upgrade to solar one they're a regular enough occurrence for that to make sense.

Sheep are being used specifically for solar systems
They keep the vegetation down while producing marketable products themselves.

I don't generally consider bathroom breaks, basic food and drinks to be entertainment myself. If you consider modern 70% charging times (From ~15% to ~85%), that's about the mandatory 15 minutes break period mandated in various places for continued good performance.

By the time somebody has plugged in their car, walked to and finished visiting the restroom including washing hands, gotten a drink and a snack, and walked back (actual order optional), it's quite likely that around 15 minutes has passed.

Maybe include a walking path or something around these stations, get a little exercise in? I know I feel better about long drives with regular walking breaks.

That was phrased badly. What I meant is that you can keep multiple versions of a photo, used for different purposes.

If you're doing things right, watermarking/editing a photo doesn't destroy the original. The original goes into evidence, the watermarked is posted to the public. That way, there's evidence of the source of the picture, even if it is scraped and separated from the website/page.

In physical terms, it'd be like writing the details of the photograph on the back, like what we used to do with traditional developed photographs.

I think that you're mixing up that a photo can be used for multiple purposes.
Basically, the original unedited photo goes into the police report/file for evidentiary purposes.
The altered photo - probably also resized and compressed to be easier on bandwidth, is what is posted for publicity purposes, where there isn't a police report also attached, where there's a high probability of it becoming disconnected from the website.
The version of the photo intended for facebook or whatever shouldn't ever be presented in court.

I can see plenty of reasons to add the department logo, to remind people of where that particular bust came from.
What it doesn't need to be, what it shouldn't be, is something that is trying to look like an actual part of the original image. It should look like a computer logo on a photo, not an actual fabric badge pasted to the wall.

The original photo is evidence; it was still intact. The edited photo with the police badge watermark was to be a publicity tool, not evidence.

Though I'll state that you don't even need layers for this - just open the .jpg or whatever you got from the evidence in an email or whatever in paint, save as a new file, paste in the watermark, save again.

It doesn't matter how big a reactor is or isn't, it's a target.

Flying shaped charges are cheap and feasible.

Your neighbors leave dead things on your stoop?

I would call the cops.

"It's a trap!"

Don't Look Up

The quality level that you are talking about is not merely a matter of skill on the part of the developer, but also time. The formal methods used that produce that level of performance and perfection take a long time to apply, no matter how good one is.

The *primary* reason why most software doesn't perform at that level is this: time costs money. Software that is thrown together quickly, and as a result has bugs, will be available for purchase much sooner, and will cost far less (mainly because it cost far less to develop). People are willing to buy buggy software if it is going to save them a fortune.

For most applications, the level of perfection that you are talking about is simply not necessary. People don't need their software to be that perfect in order to do their jobs. Of course, too MANY bugs will be ruinous, so there is a sweet spot to find.

And that's my main point: there is a sweet spot, and for MOST (not all) software applications, it is nowhere near as high as what you are talking about. Therefore, there is no market for top quality software. Any business that tries to aim for that quality level will price themselves right out of the market and go bust before they even get their first product out the door.

So, don't blame the developers. They are simply doing what the market is paying them to do.

Life is competitive, and always has been. And nobody owes you a job.

Tech changes over time and everyone must adapt to it. That's going to put some people out of work. It's not a happy moment for them, but seriously, that's is how it has always been.

There is this nice theory that, by working together, we can all make sure everyone has enough without ever facing the horror of being put out of a job and needing to take unpleasant work to earn a living. Well, human nature doesn't really make this tenable, which is why it consistently fails when it is attempted.

For now, the essential survival strategy is the same as it has been for millions of years: adapt or die.

I am sorry if this news makes you unhappy. But that doesn't make me (or anyone else who understands this) a jackass. We are just adapting like everyone else.

This is yet another predictable side effect of people misunderstanding the stimulus and response reflex of capitalism: Apply dollars, make things happen more.

I have played a handful of FTP games and put a not insignificant amount of time into them... but never any money. If I don't get to own the thing, defined by being able to use it (not even "as I see fit", just at all — but on my schedule) then I won't pay more for the thing than it's worth to me right now, like going to see a movie. If I don't get the server, or if there's DRM which requires activation, that severely reduces what I'll pay.