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Most or your points would just as easily apply to a robot using bricks and mortar. The *proprietary* "sludge" is just as heavy as the bricks and mortar in terms of transport and still needs people to there to feed it to the robot. Likewise, the robot can work 24/7 with just a small barely trained crew to feed the bricks and mortar into the hoppers and the robot can build to plan and repeat easily. It's a robot :-)
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, just wondering out loud if anyone has actually tried robot building the way I suggest. I'm guessing not, since "designing and building a robot to replace human brickies" is not going to get the investment that "WOW! WE CAN 3D PRINT A BUILDING!!!"
On the other hand, looking at local tradition building projects, once planning has been approved, it seems to take forever to prepare the land, utilities and foundations, then the brickies come in and the houses go up so quickly it's almost undeliverable. Then it seem to take ages for the fit out and finishing, plastering, wiring, windows and doors, roofs etc before the residents move in.
On the other hand, most of military life is either sitting around doing nothing or training. Having skills useful in civvy life when they leave, even the "cannon fodder", would be useful. The majority of any military force are "grunts" who's training makes them good at security and...erm...maybe other stuff like "private armies" labelled as security.
Yeah, but a 46' wide, 15' tall printing robot sounds big and expensive.
I wonder how much it would take to build a robot to place and mortar in bricks and/or breeze blocks (Cinder blocks) with pipes for the mortar, conveyors for the blocks? Is 3D printing actually better? Or has no one actually tried an alternative robot working with existing "traditional" building materials?
3D printing as a solution is starting to seem a little like blockchain. It's a solution for some problems, but not a silver bullet.
"but it seems the upper echelons said one thiing, and did another."
What? You think those people do the courses too? HR mandate the course because either they have to by law or because it looks good to the outside world. I very much doubt anyone from salaried senior managers and up do any of the courses.
"The real outcome is that bad executives will always find a way to game the system."
I wonder what happened to the incentive bonuses of the people in charge of the areas the money was transferred from? Surely they'd be fighting tooth and claw to NOT transfer the money over?
"So fairly or unfairly that also applied to the referendum* meaning expats not being registered could not vote."
But it didn't have to work that way, a referendum is not an election. That was a choice made by the Government. eg the last Scottish "Should I stay or should I go" referendum, just as important as the Brexit vote, allowed for 16 & 17 year olds to vote despite not being eligible to vote in elections.
I suspect if the Brexit vote used the same voting eligibility criteria as the Scotxit, the result might have been different.
According to The Indy, one single cheese manufacture lost about £180,000 worth of exports in the aftermath of Brexit. The total across the industry was a 64% drop. I suspect there's not a lot of wine exports to the EU, but they were a major consumer of UK dairy products and that industry has been devastated by Brexit.
Ironically, prior to Brexit, almost every farmer interviewed about Brexit was in favour of it.
This is where the "reasonable expected lifetime" of a product comes into play in the UK at the least, may not in the EU, not sure about that. If a product fails during its lifetime, but outside of warranty, you may be entitled to a repair or replacement pro-rata based on age, parts likely free but probably charged for labour. It can be a bit of a grey area, but I think there's a gov.uk website listing various types of products and what is the "reasonable expected lifetime".
"If he followed Sony's documented testing & repair procedure it would have taken two hours."
Same for brand name latops, and by extension, most/all brand name kit where you are supposed to carefully follow the official procedures. eg, one particular manufacture of laptops I deal with, the official way to replace a broken LCD panel is to strip half the laptop down, separate the screen from the base before removing the bezel to get the screen out. Anyone with a bit of experience soon finds they can do the job in 5-10 mins rather than nearly an hour once you figure out the "trick" to removing and putting the bezel back on properly while the screen is still attached to the base. There are hard to reach plastic tabs at the bottom in the gap between the base and screen which needs pressure applying "just right" to click them in with a nice bit of rigid plastic as a lever.
The hole doesn't open the inside to the outside quite like that. You don't want debris getting into the mechanism. Usually there will be at the very least a filter inside, more likely, especially on modern drives a rubber/latex membrane. It's primarily to allow for ambient pressure changes, not ventilation.
root is UID 0
User account names start at 1000 and increment as new ones are added. System accounts start from 1 and increment from there.
If you are logged in, depending on the "hardness" of the OS install, you can just
cat /etc/passwd
to see the list. (FreeBSD here. Linux, esp. SystemD based ones, might be different)
I agree that the pi/pi default credentials should have been dealt with a long time ago but on the other hand, the Pi was designed as a cheap educational toy. It's growed and growed since that early concept in what back then were undreamed of production levels and use case.
Or El Reg goodies for sale. ISTR the El Reg shop, Cash'n'Carrion, used to sell Tritium based light thingies. And here's the Health & Safety article they produced relating to the sale of Radioactive Tritium-based goodies.
"How would we fare in understanding eachother? (taking into consideration our inability to communicate generally with eachother)"
Luckily for us, various governments will create a committee of experts to deal with the issue and it won't be some random collection of Facebookerati :-)
Because they have the best Tea. And you know how much Tea is consumed at the sharp end of British infrastructure jobs, especially if it involves digging trenches. And in this specific project, there'll be no shortage of water for the kettle while the job is ongoing. I suspect we can expect this job to to take quite some time!
From the article; "it would be left up to broadband operators to actually tap into the fiber in the pipes and provide the last few metres of connection to subscribers’ homes."
That sound like they are going to run it down the pipes in the street, not just the mains to the town.