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I don't know where on earth you got those numbers for Houston from... that would be a world record by an amazing margin. Very few places to date have recorded wet bulb temps above …

The mismatch is expectations about what would be known from sequencing DNA doesn't speak to the validity of the analogy but to the poor mental models about the reality of code, com…

Software engineering isn't special in this regard. It happens in a lot of other domains. Software often doesn't have a lot of the constraints of other disciplines so effects like t…

Even without the code differences just the connecting those services between panels is hard. Your service life is also going to take a hit due to having a lot more of the most unre…

What do you think bathtubs, showers, sinks, taps, doors and most fittings are? There is a ton of prefabrication in construction already. There are also large libraries of shared de…

I would say the biggest factor is that it is a very repetitive rectangular box. Overall design and how it is detailed is the dominant factor in time it takes to build things. Do I …

It can actually be very problematic and difficult, depending how how easy the new slab location is to access now that you have a building in the way and presumably landscaping you …

Depending on how you measure a lot of prefab construction you don't save time overall (design to finished) or end up with better quality. You also tend to up with buildings that wi…

For sure. I don't know how you overcome the inertia of our societies structure to head towards something that would likely be better for the majority of citizens. Which is a proble…

Oh for sure, I should probably add a non-profit driven caveat to the actors in the system. I am not sure if you can implement a system that would work well when your actors are pro…

It is most definitely a fair discussion to have, and the bidding/financing/contractual system for these projects really does need to change to have better incentives. I just don't …

The problem as I see it is you don't have to actively run it over budget in bad faith. Even as an ethical actor you can only price what is specified. However, you can then use your…

That just wouldn't work for large civil projects for so many reasons. It also seems like you are only trying to address the problem of people introducing needless variances as a wa…

How do you specify the contract so the unknown unknowns can be priced into the bid and compared to each other. Given that resolving those unknowns costs about as much as the just d…

It is definitely a system issue. Our contractual/financial system just doesn't work well when confronted with large complex projects that have enough variance and unknown unknowns.…

Interestingly enough, the part number is not listed in the MX series datasheet. What is the PCB layout like, would you be able to splice in SMD diodes where they are needed :) [1] …

Have you tried digikey? They don't seem to have the exact part number you are seeking. But they do have MX1A-E1NW which is a similar part but without the internal diode. Not sure w…

You could also arge that adopters 'sql style RDBMS' end up building a NoSQL datastore. If you find you are using a lot of EAV, polymorphic associations, multicolumn attributes, tre…

I don't think breakdowns would be much of an issue, for one they aren't complicated mechanical devices in the slightest, they seem to be even more minimal than a bicycle. The diffe…