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I'm saying it's very likely that the business has exactly zero tolerance for the detector missing those signs while there are known, unresolved issues. They can't have something happen when they "knew it could happen".

After "resolving" the issue, then they can resume tolerating the normal probabilities.

In the US, it might be more of a precaution. In Europe, it could be more of a legal obligation. Either way, I doubt engineering has a say in the matter.

It should be obvious what "evolutionist" means considering that it's explained in the sentence you quoted starting immediately after the word. If anything, it seems like you might actually want creationists to own the word. Crazy warning, indeed.

What you think that will accomplish? We already schedule industrial loads for times of low demand from residential and commercial. Rescheduling those loads to coincide with high intermittent generation usually requires more transmission and distribution capacity.

Debating total cost depends almost entirely on the particular grid in question. For all we know, those "nuclear fans'" estimates could be spot-on but completely irrelevant to you.

All of the Falcon 1 payloads were expendable (which includes low-priority). It was a test vehicle conducting test flights in all but name. Had they continued developing it instead of pivoting to Falcon 9, it would have been its own test vehicle.

Suppose that the eventual production vehicle has a fairly different design, a different name, and it succeeds on its first flight. Would it then have used the same methodology that resulted in Falcon 9?

I'm only asking rhetorically. The Ship of Theseus is an interesting philosophical question, but the way you define "methodology" shouldn't depend on your answer.

Probably the more compelling answer is that the industry doesn't' really want them to for the most part.

This is it. Everyone is making money hand over fist despite not doing it. You might want it, but you don't need it.

They gave a list of characteristics that differentiate one human vowel sound from another, and showed that the whale clicks have all of the same types of differentiators.

ELV is not a fundamental definition of "safe". The limits of what's safe depends on the application and your risk tolerance, and ELV is just a name for a couple of definitions out of many.

Also, those numbers are for ripple-free DC, which you're not going to find in a car. They're cut roughly in half for ripple peaks.

Legally, I can destructively analyze your ancestor's genetics, use it to get rich selling you skinny pills instead of an inexpensive one-time therapy, and unknowingly destroy the genetic information that would have unlocked a remedy for a birth defect that runs in your family. The law is very underdeveloped in this area, so ethics stand in for now.

Does scripting get the job done for you? You're at the point where everyone has different objectives and methods, so it's no surprise that you have to make your own solution.

Maybe a better way of phrasing what I'm trying to say is it sounds like you're relying too much on metadata search for what you're trying to accomplish. I agree that the search is bad for the way you're using it.

Optimizing Digikey prices is a bit of an oxymoron, isn't it? They're expensive because they're fast.

Also, specs aren't well standardized between manufacturers. TI has some good videos explaining what their power MOSFET specs mean and how those definitions vary across the industry.

Automatic optimization can only get you so far.

Fortran 2023 3 years ago

I've used Fortran for commercial engineering codes. Numerical computing is moving towards layered intermediate representations (IR) in the compiler and runtime to better specialize on the inputs and target hardware. The compiler passes are becoming the focal point and the languages are becoming clients. Fortran's future is probably as a domain-specific language alongside other languages (eg Julia) targeting a common IR (eg MLIR). I don't think we'll see any big changes in the language until it's adapted to fit into the emerging ecosystem.

I've donated information to a few nature databases. I care a lot about which organizations are behind them. They each have their own legitimate reasons for usually light restrictions, which I fully support.

The tips are not contradictory if you follow the advice to start at a higher level.

Let's say you had to invent that wire protocol. You would write a test for a client that doesn't care which wire protocol is used.