As I understand it, reconductoring main benefit is it allows you to fit more aluminum in the area. NEC specifies conduit has acceptable % fill value that I could see this optimization having for retrofits, but long haul transmission lines are not underground - they're dangling in the air where it doesn't seem material if the wire is a bit bigger on replacement.
As hinted at, but not elaborated on by the first part that mentions temperature monitoring, those wires in free air expand and contract with temperature changes. The cables need to be able to support their own weight without collapsing or touching other conductive objects like other cables or trees.
Adding more conductive material helps with the resistive losses, but also makes the cable heavier. Using an advanced cable that has better tensile strength for the same or better conductivity accounts for those second order effects better than just adding more aluminum.
What's the use case of 20 nm chips? I understand value in 3D printers for electronics, but what is unlocked at that level? Replacements would require design files, so I'm thinking more of what is unlocked at 20 nm for open-source designs or at hobbyist creations
I have some friends that work in a variety of positions on older boats in the maritime industry, and are quite skeptical about upgrades to drive by wire systems.
They also generally aren't technically advanced, so I'm wondering what the extent of training they'd consume outside of highly technical roles - if it is really value adding, or your typical corporate security training "don't click phishing links".
Of course, there's a _very_ big difference between a drive-by-wire system that has a set of dedicated electric wires with some simple communication scheme, and a networked, potentially hackable, system based on UDP packets.
> "Snapchat opens directly to a camera — rather than a feed of content — and has no traditional public likes or comments. While we will always have more work to do, we feel good about the role Snapchat plays in helping close friends feel connected, happy and prepared as they face the many challenges of adolescence."
Snapchat has a long history of accusations regarding the damage to youth. It feels like there isn't much winning for these companies. I also wonder the effectiveness of going direct to social media companies, versus having the government pass laws about restricting social media for youth under a certain age.
Passing a law is one thing, but what would be the specifics, how would they be enforced, what are the penalties and who pays them? It's relatively easy to say, ban sales of cigarettes to minors, limit advertising, punish people to give cigarettes to minors, etc.
It's hard for a province/country to ban an app/category of app for minors, no? Maybe it's relatively easy to ban the app/website outright in your jurisdiction's borders, but that should be the last resort, if it is to be considered at all, since it is a huge blow to freedom on the web and really doesn't solve much since any manner of app can be just as dangerous.
It’s clear to me that we need laws restricting what’s allowed. We now have evidence that the apps are addictive. We have precedence restricting addictions (alcohol/gambling). It should then be possible to restrict companies from creating algorithms intended to addict. Of course it’s easy to say that at a high level. The written law will be much more challenging to draft.
We have precedence in restricting sales of certain substances to minors. A physical hand off has to take place in a physical place where a government issued ID can be checked for age verification. If you get caught breaking this law, you can lose your license to sell these things (and likely go bankrupt cause these things make a ton of money), because the government controls that, too.
This is in no way the same thing as policing "creating algorithms". We don't/can't go after Labatt for "creating beer" (it was tried...). I agree, writing laws is challenging, but even professional law makers can't get it right, not in the sense that they aren't skillful enough to get it right, but in the sense that it is not possible. We're seeing this with Porn Hub in certain US states. Local laws are just not effective in enforcing a multinational Internet service. To get back to the original point, this is why you might want to try something other than "having the government pass laws about restricting social media for youth under a certain age".
Beer perhaps is a poor analogy because it’s been around forever. A better analogy are drugs. We have approval process for drugs to safeguard against harm and addictions.
I believe that social media could be transformatively positive for society. But companies aren’t pursuing that, they are pursuing engagement in search of profit. We now know that engagement has significant harm in society.
It’s time to do ‘something’ and we need to start having conversations on what that something is, so we don’t just do the obvious and force everyone to submit a government id for access.
Well, like it says on the top of this web page, the Ontario school board is suing social media giants. You seem passionate about this, as do they, so it sounds like you might be interested to start a conversation with them.
Swift is such a delightful language to use, well suited for general application development. It's awesome to see it gaining traction outside of the cocoa ecosystem. If you haven't given it a fair chance yet, I would highly recommend you do!
I get what the author is saying, but I write down ideas to delegate to myself for later exploration. I find search is often good enough to get to what I'm looking for within a couple of queries, and a general read through of the collection makes for a great diving board when it comes to getting started on brainstorming
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Working for some time in the valley as an east coast Canadian native, I absolutely agree about peanut pay. That being said, in my experience it feels like the quality of life is still higher in Canada. In the valley, it feels around every corner there is a landlord/private healthcare/other event that wants to drain finances "because tech worker". I returned to Canada, and despite a lower salary it feels so much more sustainable.
I’m playing with the idea of a trees4travel nonprofit. Eco-conscious individuals or business that requires employees to travel can quickly using some basic information make a donation to plant trees/take other climate change action in order to offset the impact of that flight - in an effort to become carbon neutral/negative.
LMK if this is interesting at all, anyone is free to partner or run with it - whatever to help the climate
Am I missing something?