Posts by Doctor Syntax 40471 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"the concrete absorbing CO2"
Quite. Calcium really does want to become the carbonate so most if not all the CO2 is absorbed in the long run - except what's released by burning the fuel to produce the energy to drive off the original CO2. This is why I get a bit sceptical about solutions that depend on using some form of calcium to absorb CO2. There's one which involved using it as a sort of middle man to absorb CO2 from chimneys, then heating it to drive it off again for sub-sea storage. But what's the overall efficiency if it depends on a fossil fuel for the heat? And if there's some sort of renewable energy for the heating why wasn't that used instead of whatever required the chimneys? You need to look at the complete system.
US Geography is not by strong point but I don't think Boulder, Colorado is near the sea. That raises the question of where the calcium in this "biogenic" limestone comes from. If it's from non-carbonate sources such as gypsum that's fine but if it's obtained by treatment of limestone that releases CO2 then it's not a gain.
"Biogenic" limestone in quotes because all limestone is biogenic.
A better test would be to provide it with a problem for which there is currently no solution although it should not be impossible to produce one.
For instance the open Document Foundation define a format with the file extension .odi as an image format. As far as I can follow it's a multilayered format in the same manner as, say .ora but can include SVG as well as PNG layers. Produce a paint application to generate, display and edit files which contain arbitrary arrangements layers of both types with variable levels of transparency in each layer..
It should be possible but as far as I know nobody has produced on so there is no prior art to regurgitate. Imagining and realising a good solution to a novel problem is what distinguishes a developer from a coder.
Split the bits either side of Cooper Bridge from each other. Historically they had very little to do with each other and it's very unlikely councillors from Dewsbury would know much about Huddersfield & vice versa. I'm not even sure councillors from Huddersfield know much about the valleys.
The monstrosity is actually named after a place that's not in it.
See my comments about paranoia and Dunning-Kruger. Stuff happens.
One of the most frightening was the gig where the actual command scripts for some of the overnight jobs where composed on the fly by permanent TCL/expect scripts running vi. They worked but no way was I going to touch any of those.
"As an end user of Mastodon I do find it a bit confusing that you have to select a particular server to join with"
I suppose the answer would be one well publicised server for onboarding new users until they find their way around. Call it omething like JoinMastadonHere.
We've been pushing information backwards and forwards between boxes for longer than the almost 40 years since I started in IT. FTP is one of the oldest tools I've used for the job. There have been some long standing, solid implementations since well before .Net was even thought of. Why anyone thought a reinvention of that wheel should be necessary is beyond my comprehension. And countless sysadmins have scripted ftp and the like into their processes for years without the need for some 3rd party overlay which I presume is to make it easier for businesses that aren't prepared to employ admins with scripting skills.
Adding that up it's a substantial increase of the attach surface most likely accompanied by a weakening of the guard. Is anyone surprised we have problems like this? And weren't we supposed to replace FTP with something that didn't sedn passwords in plain text years ago?
If I don't want adverts thrust in my face there are NO relevant adverts. Any which are shown to me are liable to bias me away from whatever product is being pushed should that product class subsequently become relevant.
The only time ads become relevant is when I'm explicitly searching for something. If I search for excavation report of Ballygobackwards horned cairn adverts for hotels wouldn't be relevant. If I search for hotels near Ballygobackwards they would. If I were to get an hotel ad in response to the first it would bias me away from that hotel on its appearance in response to the second.
It is, of course, not in the advertising industry's interests to understand this. It would be very much in the advertisers' interest to understand it, however, and to insist that the advertising industry take note; unfortunately narcissism is likely to imped this.
"i wholeheartedly concur with your point about the utility of talking with real users."
OTOH - S/W prints picking list. Users then enter the serial numbers of what's been picked. They should then print the despatch not, complete with serial numbers and "Despatch Note" printed across the top. No amount of talking with them would stop them writing the SNs on the picking list and sending it out as a despatch note.
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