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When the hurricane hit New York a few years ago. Lots of companies had backup generators on the roof, added after 9/11.
The fuel tanks were in the basement, because of weight, filling, safety etc
Guess where the electrically driven pumps for the fuel were ?
A lot of people trying to carry tons of diesel up 20 floors in buckets
It was more that she was a prominent "successful" business leader who told Trump to get stuffed.
Thus proving to legions of Fox News voters that the democrats weren't a bunch of communists about to put the bourgeois elite into gulags.
That anybody thought this would sway any voter is a bigger example of how bankrupt both parties are.
(HP itself donated millions, but scrupulously to both parties - they don't care who wins, they just need representatives on both sides to vote for whatever HP needs)
>If confirmed, she is going there to do something else.
Ambassador does have a bunch of perks. Apart from the free mansion you get an army of flunkies doing what you say, private planes, your own pet Marines and legal immunity if your family drunk drives over people.
It's the next best thing to actually being a CEO
It works well for everyone remote, or everyone does a few days home / few days in the office.
But if you have a couple of people who are always remote, unless they are so specialised/important that they are effectively full-time contractors, they get forgotten about for new projects / not invited to meetings etc.
>but instead in more suburban areas so as to mean there is no commute
Problem with "surburban areas" is that there often is a bigger commute and it has to be by car.
Office in central London = everybody can get there.
Office on a business park somewhere off the M25 = everybody has to drive there.
Turned down a job here because it was in a business park 10miles out of the city. After watching people spend an hour after work trying to merge out onto the single road along with the other 5000 people who work there.
We're hoping that "wires causing 5G cancer" nuts would persuade them to bury the wires up here in the Pacific North West - but it's cheaper to send out trucks to remove the fallen trees and replace the wires the day after each storm (apparently)
Did have a cool demonstration once where we had a suspect fault in an underground line to the lab. They bring out a big truck with a serious generator and some fun-sized coils and send a mega-zap (technical term) into the cable to find the weak point = a bang and a jet of steam come out from the lawn showing you where to dig.
Most US states are 'right to work' (the 'ethnic cleansing' of euphemisms) which mean you can quit with no notice.
I did ask my first US boss if this meant that a 747 captain could slam on the brakes halfway down the runway, trigger the escape slide and walk off into the sunset. He just gave me the worried smile that most bosses seem to have with me.
Hydrazine is well known, this mission has enough challenges that you don't want to find out that some other propellant eats through a seal after 5 years.
There is a lot of work on alternatives with more boring ingredients. Apart from the Nasa greenwashing it's a pain for university cubesats or SpaceX type quick turn around launches if the fill up has to be done by a guy in a bomb disposal suit and then everyone else has to hide in a bunker a mile away.
Hubble couldn't use propellants at all because of the need for manned servicing missions - this isn't stuff you want to get on your space suit and then bring indoors.
Problem is if you want a rover with lots of image processing / autonomous decision / "AI", then you either need university labs full of AI researchers who know VxWorks, or you hire 1000s of engineers to port opensource libs and algorithms they don't understand to space-grade HW.
More common is to use regular Linux running all the very high level stuff as a job (don't know the technical details) under something like VxWorks that is in charge of uptime/reliability - rather than trying to put a realtime Linux on the bare metal that can run everything.
Is MySQL just Oracle's gateway drug ? When your application becomes big enough the Oracle salesman calls?
Or is it to do the "MS-Office effect" and stop anyone else getting market share? It's an alternative to pirating Oracle for people who can't afford Oracle but it means nobody else can charge money for any low power solution ?
I'm assuming that if MySQL didn't make $$$$ for Larry's yacht fund it would be shut down. Not a database person so no experience.
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