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From what I remember from this particular code-base, there are also: - Programmer to farmer - Programmer to musician - Programmer to writer and of course - Programmer to landlord.
Don’t forget programmer to pilot. Every time an aeronautical post appears they come out of the woodwork and chat about equipment.
One thing that surprised me when I started running a tugboat business: A country can be both an exporter and importer of sand. Sand of one type goes from the U.S. to The Bahamas to be used in concrete. Sand of another type goes from The Bahamas to the U.S. to be used in aquariums. Specialty sands go to make regulation volleyball courts.
Yeah but there is going to be a massive imbalance in the quantity of those two types of sand. I bet the sand required for aquariums is a rounding error on the amount of sand required for concrete.
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Since neither the general economy nor agriculture has gotten anywhere near getting off fossil fuels yet, that is assuming a lot isn’t it? Even if electrical grid needs are 100% renewable, that is just a couple percent of most economies energy usage.
For some places that is happening: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/more-than-98-percen... 2020 had the UK reaching 43%: https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/how-mu... Interesting point about electric being only a small part of overall usage --- I guess direct heating and things such as smelting/refining metals makes up the bulk of energy usage?
A similar effect (if not as dramatic) occurs when replacing a fuel-burning furnace with a heat pump. In the US, 2/3rds of industrial heat demand is below 300 C and could be addressed with industrial heat pumps of various kinds (especially if the process has a waste heat stream to recycle by feeding it into the heat pump.)
One thing that surprised me when I started running a tugboat business: A country can be both an exporter and importer of sand. Sand of one type goes from the U.S. to The Bahamas to be used in concrete. Sand of another type goes from The Bahamas to the U.S. to be used in aquariums. Specialty sands go to make regulation volleyball courts.
Don't we have to move to GaN anyway?
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Just marveling as an old school computer programming geek that I happen to be in a forum that also includes someone in the tugboat business.
We have the programmer to woodworker pipeline, programmer to runner pipeline... is there a programmer to tugboat operator pipeline I'm missing out on?
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Just marveling as an old school computer programming geek that I happen to be in a forum that also includes someone in the tugboat business.
We have the programmer to woodworker pipeline, programmer to runner pipeline... is there a programmer to tugboat operator pipeline I'm missing out on?
This means a lot of intelligent (and not so) folks who could do whatever they wanted chose tech to chase the money. Get a little lucky in life and maybe stock options and they get to do what they actually enjoy the latter half of their life.
Most of society can only dream of such capability. The ones who actually have the bravery to pull it off vs. grinding out their final days in a career they are not passionate about are incredibly inspirational to me at least!
Learned so much about sand in 20 minutes! He mentions nebula.tv at the end. Does anyone have feedback on the content over there?
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I would argue that there's no reason to continue misspelling "lead" as "lede" outside of a context where you are worried about conflating the "lead" paragraph with the "lead" piece of metal which was used as a spacer between words in a Linotype machine
It's not a misspelling, it's jargon. FWIW I prefer it and I think it's valuable to preserve in part because people who dig into it a bit learn about the history of the term and practice of putting publications (especially newspapers) together.
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Don’t forget programmer to pilot. Every time an aeronautical post appears they come out of the woodwork and chat about equipment.
Can we just agree there's X to Y for every X and Y?