Posts by Dagg

Re: Capability

Nope, A company I worked for in the industrial process control space used PASCAL because it was a SAFE application language. At that time Algol-68 compliers were extremely rare and Ada didn't exist.

Re: Every single time

A friend once described such as "oh my GOD, she talks in CURSIVE!!"

When I was doing my OE I met and married an english lady (had to marry as the NZ govn would not give me an import licence). Anyway moved to NZ and after a couple of years went back for a holiday and to meet her family again.

Sister immediately commented to SWMBO "Oh you sound so posh!". Me thinking WTF as she came from the Midlands and the base accent was anything but posh. Then I realised she was now pronouncing all of her consonants. Because she had been living in NZ for a couple of years it was the only way for kiwis to understand what she was saying.

Re: significantly lower power degradation over time

Another option could be to use the space charge effect https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmech.2017.00013/full

Re: Implant where??

Seems like a very invasive procedure to undergo in order to save on having an infusor needle taped to your arm for 10 days

You should not make this comment until you have actually undergone this treatment. Take it from me it is NOT nice especially if the site becomes infected (which it did for me) or if it blocks up (which it also did for me).

It means that you in effect lose the full use of the arm for that period. Just little problems like showering, changing clothes eating etc.

Re: Child protection

I remember years ago in the mid 80's I was living in the states and at the start of the major football (Gridiron) finals they actually displayed a grey screen on the TV as the advertisers realised that during the initial advertisements people got up and went to the toilet, got food, got beer etc and that no one would watch these expensive adverts.

Re: they didn't appear to be acting with prior knowledge of Hamas's actions

Israel pushed and promoted hamas, funded hamas to take control of Gaza. It wanted to divide and conquer the Palestinians.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/

Re: Obvious Countermeasure

Water based gel or finely powered ferrite works nicely.

Re: Obvious Countermeasure

tin-foil Faraday cages

Consider the use of tin-foil (actually Aluminium foil) in a microwave over parts of the food such as the end of a drumstick to control the heating process. People do try this a home all the time.

Re: Depends.

Variations!

Hell, one end of the country (just England!) speaks a totally different language compare a Geordie to Cornwall. Even in the Midlands two villages 15km (about 10miles) use a different language.

Re: Tim Cook's punishment?

"pinch of salt", not "grain of salt"

From what I understood "pinch of salt" rich as you actually had nice table salt, "grain of salt" poor as you had raw rough salt corns.

Re: Tim Cook's punishment?

The use of "gotten" also exists in the antipodeans due to the point of separation and the source group from the UK. New Zealand has a very large Scottish sourced population base that brought its language base with it.

Re: A quick question

PDP-11 machine code was extremely easy to write and maintain. I have used several assemblers over the years and the PDP-11 is still my favourite. Worst was a late 70 early 80 HP that I can't remember the name of.

Certain industries have far stricter codes for making sure everyone is accounted

Nope! It's all about money, if the company can get away with it they will. Example Monsanto, 3M... even IBM poisoned its home town of Endicott.

Re: Proof Of Concept Business

C++ is not to blame, Bad programming is independent of the language used.

I have seen some incredibly bad examples in all languages including PASCAL, JAVA and ALGOL and OLD (decades old) COBOL. One of the problems is it might of started as good code but over time various developers of different skill levels have patched it and because they may not have understood the original code they end up logically commenting out large blocks of code.

Little things like variable names. I worked on one suit of code where one developer loved using using a single letter followed by a number. The worst combination was l1 (lowercase L), I1 (uppercase i). Why, I have no idea! It may have been that the original font might have made these different.

Fukushima anyone! The population centres of Australia close to where you would put these seawater cooled nuclear plants are just across the Tasman sea from the west coast of the south island of New Zealand, right by the alpine fault. The west coast has had earthquakes in the past that have raised the coast by 3-5 metres. Just look at the coast around Hokitika. On the east coast of Australia they have found examples of large coastal boulders moved inland by these tsunamis.

Similar thing happened in South Australia where they use a lot of wind, solar and battery. It turns out a whole line of transmission towers were blown over. I would love to know how nuclear would have solved that problem!

One other big issue with the SMRs is cooling. Here in Aus some have been going on about getting loads of these. The problem that Aus has got is it doesn't have a lot of water. And where the water is people have built cities and towns. So would these good citizens want or like a couple of SMRs in the middle of their city or town?

Re: Interesting

Yes, you can charge your EV during peak hours in summer, but it's going to be dear

Nah, I just use the cheap power from my solar panels.

Re: We need bigger ground based lasers

Yep, mount them on sharks...

Re: Astronomy tax

Some cities (Dunedin, New Zealand) are changing from low-pressure sodium to special night sky LED street lights. They include significant shielding to prevent light spilling upwards. Get your city to follow.