Re: Surely simpler to stick with correct English
Like wot we does, surely.
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As a child, I noticed that my father said very little about World War 2, where he had been in the Navy as a 'radar technician'. When I grew up and my own career became subject to the Official Secrets Act, I began to understand why.
Towards the end of his life, he told me had worked as a technician in the group led by Prof. R V Jones, developing scientific devices to win the war. He told me one or two things, but I am sure there is a lot I do not know.
I do believe your comment about poor data quality. I have inherited various databases over the years. Each contained records with many minor variations, depending on who actually put in the data. As a result, it was not possible to get consistent database reports until I had cleansed the data.
No ordinary person wants to buy an electric car. Their huge, heavy batteries make them an engineering nonsense.
Meanwhile, people cannot buy the petrol cars they want because the makers cannot sell enough electric cars to meet government rules on the ratio of petrol to electric.
It is time we had some real democracy, with the government responding to what people actually want.
In my career as a programmer, I felt that many of my colleagues were not very good. Management made that worse by their drive to get it sold rather than get it right. I fear for a future where AI writes and tests software.
Bring back flowcharts - the two dimensional analysis of the logic.
Raw sunlight is rated at about 1.4KW per square metre. So electricity output from a solar cell will be about 100W per square metre. A gigawatt will require 10,000,000 square metres; say 3,000 by 3,000. More than that when you allow units to be spaced out so maintenance, e.g. dusting, can be done.
So a lot of cabling required within the power station, presumably located in one of the US deserts; and a lot of cable back to a US city.
I am a compulsive cookie clearer; I do it when moving from one website to another. I do not want each website to know what else I have been reading. The downside is that I then have to tell each website: no, stuff your cookies up your posterior. I wish the default was always no cookies.
It is easy for customers and outsiders to say that software should be properly secure. But the vendors are entitled to reply that if you want it, you gotta pay for it. I remember a government department suggesting to us that we could make it cheaper if we skipped the ISO 9000 paperwork.