Looks like the total n c1,500 was for all known projects in the dataset. The quartiles were determined from within areas with known projects.
So the Q4 range ( $133-250k median household), represents the 25% projects in the richest areas of areas that had projects in them. Hence n is 365/366 “projects” in each each group.
If there are tracts with median hh incomes way above that, but no projects, then “resistance” rate is unknown or even undefined.
If their wastewater is clean and goes back into the usable water supply straight away then that’s fine. But if it flushes into drains or evaporates then you might have to wait a while for it to come back as fresh rain - and land in the right places to fill up the reservoirs.
It might matter how they’re designed/regulated and whether they keep the water clean and usable - which I assume costs more of other resources.
To defend against ai or to defend their paywalls?
If they’re not putting their “knowledge” in to public domain I’m not sure how bothered I am.
I think print media is pretty much dead as a way of accountability, and i think something sharper might be beneficial.
Yep, store loyalty cards, vouchers, store mobile phone app, and “points” and so on. There are a few ways to do it.
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Yep. I’m sure its fine in small competent teams with a workflow that they’re comfortable with.
But any large organisation I’ve worked in involves clueless middle managers and teams with some people who really should move on. Agile seems to make incompetence of managers less obvious, and makes them less accountable. Seems to remove control over both the workflow, cost base and the quality of product/service.
It also gives them this great universal technique for problem solving. “We found that Task X is not being done right” . OK we’ll write a job title “X doer”. Appoint person who doesn’t really know what X is, but neither does the interviewer. Make this person go to ‘stand ups’ and assign them some jiras. 3 months later, they wonder why X is still not being done and why their new hire left already.
The root cause for sure is incompetent management not the methods. But their project method seems to protect them and impair actual improvement.
I think I noticed it widespread in the mid 2010s. Maybe around the same time that DIY and various hobby/handicrafts became just “making”.
I still remember when I bought a tool off someone and was chatting about what i was going to do with it and they declared out of the blue: “I am a maker!”. I just had to end the conversation as quickly and politely as possible. I don’t know what the point of that statement was, but it made them sound a bit unhinged.
That said I’m sure the term coding was in use before, but more like a sub-activity that ‘computer programmers’ or ‘software engineers’ might do as part of their job. Maybe ‘coder’ and ‘coding’ became more popular with the spread of the term ‘agile’ into the bullshitting-consultant / middle-management cultures; I think that’s when some people started using that term as an excuse for skipping ‘design’ and ‘engineering’ parts of any complex project.
Yeah, they’d get promoted for sure where i work.
Upvote. It always bugs me when headlines focus on electricity rather than total energy use. And flip between the terms as if the author and their editors maybe don’t know the difference.
Then again i don’t know what I should expect from an article that thinks “warp speed” is a reasonable description of anything.
Even within the limited frame of electricity generation, coal and gas (output electrical energy) have gone up maybe +1.2PWh since 2019. Roughly double that for the input fuel energy but best stick with output to compare to Solar.
Solar elec gen might be up +1.5 to 2.5PWh from 2019 if we believe the cited 2025 estimates. But overall I’d call that ‘growing a bit faster’ than coal and gas generation not really pushing it aside. We’ve not seen coal and gas elec gen figures for 2025 though, if all this ai datacentres talk is to be believed, then it’s very possible that gas and coal has ramped up too - as they’re by far the easiest to turn up in the short term. They just have to ignore any environmental restrictions and run coal for more hours.
I’d be reckoning Solar elec gen at <2% of total energy demand in 2025 factoring in their claimed growth for 2025, not 10%.
If they don’t want to be limp dicks they should rebrand to ‘macrohard’.
Is there such a thing as modular fpga so that you could “plug in” another one and add more gates, sort of daisy chain them? I don’t know if such interfaces exist , sounds like it might need lots of bandwidth.
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In my experience in work there are thousands of documents written in powerpoint or MS word that should be done in DTP software. Fuck the way people abuse text boxes in word. Most people just don’t know they have it, or have to request it from IT, and remember what their budget code is, even though it’s probably included in their license. I won’t use it because of no one else knows they can get it; I’d be giving them all an excuse never to edit the document and they’d just commission me to make all changes in it, forever. They’d probably use it as an excuse not to read the document either.
Similar problem with Visio, people using smart art in ppt to create what should be a flowchart. Unfortunately i cant not use visio, and no one else will ever request it, because they’re arseholes’.
I agree there is better software available - but non specialist businesses are unlikely to procure that, so publisher is basically the only option. And once publisher is available the business case for anything better becomes harder to make.
MS is rarely the best for any specialist use, but I think they just wanted office to tick a load of boxes for generalist procurement so it wins “vfm” choice for procurement teams who don’t care or know what their users need. As long as office is the defacto choice for businesses, they’ve achieved their goal.
I guess they’ve realised publisher was never really a material factor in office suite choice.
do they account for the circumstances?
most public wifi login pages get: u: abc@def.com p: qwerty
from me.
I assume those types of services get breached all the time and no one cares. I think they just want plausible deniability on acceptable use of the wifi.
This ones not too bad, it’s not strictly a smiley though. https://www.codeoftheancients.com/glyphlibrary/glyph/U406
When you look under ‘happy’ they mostly seem to link to concepts of ripening, harvest, blooming and sweet things.
https://www.codeoftheancients.com/dictionary/egyptian/term/happy
Seems like they also could spell it out sometimes with multiple characters, which sort of surprises me.
yeah, wine’s trajectory is the complete opposite of MS.
I reject the idea that MS is the expert in MS stuff. corporate structure and institutional knowledge and strategy are not the same as a person knowing something. I’m sure there are people in MS who know more than anyone. but together I suspect they’re far far less than the sum of their parts.
I remember trying to open word-97 .doc files in office 2002.
Surely MS knows how to read it’s own file format? Nope, well, not as well as star/sun/open/libreoffice (whichever one it was at the time).
I’m sure someone in MS was saying “lets do a bit more work on backwards compatibility”; I’m pretty sure that person was immediately tied to the desk with a giant annoying ribbon and forced to become familiar with a whole box of paperclip suppositories.
Oh hang on, that was decades ago, they’ve grown so much since then .
Only if revenue goes down.
Sacking testers makes nothing but sense if your customers are as dumb as us. My employer continues to sign contracts before the functions we need have been proven. income independent of functionality.
TBF our procurement people don’t seem to think our requirements are any more complex than “big computer” and MS probably offered “really big really good computer, cheap computer, big , nice price, 25% less than oracle, high security, safe computer, cloud, ai, yes fully working with 12 month, you pay now, special discount, extra 10% off if you sign today, hurry rush best deal”.
I suspect negotiations like that drive a disappointingly large amounts of their revenue.
OK for timekeeping but I’d say that’s mostly for human scale stuff and as you say involves dumb stuff like leap seconds every handful of years, and presumably the Earth’s spin and orbits will change more radically eventually - i guess we’re just expecting humans to die out before it becomes too much more of a problem.
But thinking about measuring for science - irrespective of human geocentrism?
Should scientific measures all be built up from planck units or something?
Genuine question, do you think seconds are sensibly defined either in SI or otherwise?
Yes, it seems like an “everyone else is wasting water so why shouldn’t we” argument.
If i were in a drought prone area and there were golf courses watering all the time then I’d hope people would complain about that too.