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by _n_b_ 7y ago
Some cars have do two batteries, one for start/stop and one for everything else. (For example, some Mercedes have these, Suzuki "mild hybrid" cars, etc.)
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by _n_b_ 7y ago
An anecdote: my (not-IT) company does exactly this for out-of-band management... except, in one small satellite location, the phone company no longer provided any copper POTS lines; all they could do was an RJ-11 jack out of the ONT that wa
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by _n_b_ 7y ago
Agree. This is one of the reasons that Fortran remains popular for scientific computing: * dead-simple array/vector operations ( http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/561/Syllabus/6-F... ) * man
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by _n_b_ 8y ago
For the nuclear industry, this is true as well. A lot of it is because of the original codes were written in Fortran, and thus there is some institutional lock-in even for new stuff. Everybody in the organization already knows Fortran, it&#
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by _n_b_ 8y ago
The Chinese had lots of involvement in building these, and neither the AP1000 or the EPR is online anywhere but China yet...
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by _n_b_ 9y ago
I work in the nuclear industry, where most places are pretty good about maintaining a "blame-free" culture. You focus on what processes and procedures failed, what controls were missing, etc., that allowed somebody to make a mista
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by _n_b_ 9y ago
This seems like something completely sensible and even predictable for the NSA to do.
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by _n_b_ 9y ago
It was actually eliminated on "job growth is strong" not on metro area size. The first map is all >1M metro areas, which lists Pgh.
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by _n_b_ 9y ago
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/10/politics/presidential-debt/ I read about this in a book called The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House , which was decently interesting.