Comment Rate of reaction is temperature dependent. (Score 2) 158
Arrhenius, 1889. Also re-discovered by anyone trying to put sugar in iced tea.
Comment Re:Who could have predicted? (Score 2) 84
Socialism with American Characteristics
Comment Re:Who could have predicted? (Score 2, Funny) 84
Iowa's rolling farm fields of coffee
Submission + - So many birds are migrating that they're appearing on weather radar (washingtonpost.com)
alternative_right writes: Between 2010 and 2013, the radars were upgraded with technology that allows both horizontal and vertical pulses of energy to be emitted. By comparing the returned signals, meteorologists can determine the shape of whatever is in the sky. Raindrops are a bit wider than they are tall, and shaped like hamburger buns; snowflakes are — obviously — flaky; but lofted tornado debris is spiked or jagged.
Birds, meanwhile, appear as somewhat spiked objects, as do insects. But insects appear a bit more round and uniform on radar, and are also lightweight enough to become caught up in the wind. Birds travel higher than most bugs, and also can fly against or perpendicular to the wind. After all, they have places to go — southward. Meteorologists can also determine their direction of motion through their analyses.
Birds, meanwhile, appear as somewhat spiked objects, as do insects. But insects appear a bit more round and uniform on radar, and are also lightweight enough to become caught up in the wind. Birds travel higher than most bugs, and also can fly against or perpendicular to the wind. After all, they have places to go — southward. Meteorologists can also determine their direction of motion through their analyses.
Submission + - How USB-C Ended the Great Connector Wars (itbrew.com)
An anonymous reader writes: It's easy to forget the dark ages of peripheral connectivity. A twisted nest of proprietary connectors was the norm. Then, in 2014, a hero emerged: USB-C. It promised a reversible connector, high-speed data transfer, and enough power to charge a laptop. It was a revolution. This article from IT Brew breaks down the three waves of USB-C adoption, from its humble beginnings in the PC industry to its EU-mandated takeover of the mobile world. It's how a single connector brought order to the chaos and became the undisputed king of the hardware industry.
Comment Onshoring call centers. (Score 2) 81
Cannot happen soon enough. I recently dealt with insurance issues that had the paperwork in the US and the bad scans thereof in the Phillipines. The two locations claimed they could not contact each other. That took a month to resolve.
Comment Re:They can hide anything in the SEC reports, now (Score 1) 46
Indeed, I fully agree. The funny thing is, monthly numbers would help us move away from the distortions of the quarterly cycle. If key data reporting becomes frequent enough, you can't get into a cycle of "do adverse-numbers stuff early in the quarter and then cram positive-numbers stuff into the end of the quarter". You have to - *gasp* - just run your business normally.
Some businesses could still manage to switch to a monthly cycle, but anyone who deals significantly in transoceanic feedstocks/parts/goods shipments won't be able to.
Comment Re:It's difficult to believe (Score 2) 144
BLS numbers aren't some sort of dark art. They're literally just the compiled numbers reported by companies. Numbers are what they are. To fight against jobs numbers is to fight against reality.
People get confused by the existence of revisions. The problem is that not all data gets reported in a timely manner. When late data comes in, it causes revisions to the earlier reported numbers, either up or down.
Firing the head of the BLS because you don't like what numbers US companies reported is just insane Banana Republic-level nonsense.
Comment Re:It's difficult to believe (Score 4, Informative) 144
Yes, he fired the same person who was ultimately responsible for putting out crap numbers.
US reporting has always been the gold standard. Nobody has accused the BLS of "crap numbers" until Trump decided he didn't like them. It's is so way outside the norms it doesn't even resemble something that could conceivably happen in the US; this is banana republic-level stuff.
Comment Re:They can hide anything in the SEC reports, now (Score 1, Funny) 46
Yeah, as an investor, my reaction to this proposal was, oh HELL no.
Comment Re:It's difficult to believe (Score 2) 144
TL / DR:
BLS chief: "Jobs are turning bad now."
Trump: "Fake news, you're fired. I'm appointing a January 6th rioter conspiracy theorist to head the BLS!"
BLS today: "Jobs were ALREADY bad!"
Comment Re:Shouldnt be surprising (Score 3, Informative) 144
The fact that you take at face value a revision of Biden-era job numbers, immediately after Trump fired and replaced the BLS chief explicitly because he published jobs numbers Trump didn't like, is....
Well, it's certainly a choice.
Comment Re:It's difficult to believe (Score 3, Insightful) 144
I was thinking the same thing. What sort of an idiot will take US jobs numbers at face value right after Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief after he reported numbers that Trump didn't like?
Comment In a related story, (Score 1) 63
Runners who strap their fitbit to the dogâ(TM)s tail for an hour each day have less aerobic fitness.
Comment Re: Can be paired with other energy sources (Re:He (Score 1) 82
Integrated thermal stores with nuclear is more difficult (limited temperatures and limited dT on storage = big storage needed with lots of heat exchange surface area), but if they can make it economical, it could be a game changer for nuclear's problematic economics. The ability of nuclear to switch from baseload (not matching the demand curve, let alone the curve of really-cheap renewables) to load-following and even peaking could make the mean sale value of its electricity much higher, and make it much more useful as a compliment to renewables.
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