Growing up, my parents didn’t let us have stuff at the dinner table, and we were expected to be home for dinner unless there was something special going on. I never really thought much about it at the time, but since then I’ve known so many people whose families didn’t eat together normally and I feel like the difference is meaningful.
For sure, and much more doable, though still relies on being able to make a metal vessel that can hold pressure.
Okay, but you still need to get electricity to the electric motor. How would you so that?
So then you have copper cables covered in something to insulate them that are long enough to cover a whole field, which by itself would likely be problematic at the time.
For most applications, I’m guessing the windmill directly to the machine is going to make more sense, though of course that has to be a stationary machine.
I understand that but it’s not useful in this context, is it? You make an electric motor to power something, and then you have to use a mechanical generator to power the motor. How is that helpful? Unless you also know how to make batteries.
Don’t you need to vacuum the air out of that glass so the wire doesn’t just burn up?
Where do you get the electricity for your motors?
I love that show - it and The Twilight Zone are probably my all time favorites. The production is amazing and it’s just so fun and interesting.
Unexpectedly interesting and educational cartoon discussion thread.
That is very truly unfortunate.
Yeah, for a while there was really good progress on search results serving up the things you’re looking for, and not just by Google. I remember how impressed I used to be by the Amazon search engine. I could put a description of something that I didn’t know the name of into the search box and the first result was usually what I wanted. I could sort by user rating and usually get the best one on top.
Now there are pages of sponsored products that keep getting shown if you keep scrolling. The search engine has become completely enshitified, and so many bots have created positive and negative reviews that the ratings are way less useful.
Say that to my face!
It’s hard for a lot of people to get past the look of something or someone. Hopefully the people you know who saw the disheveled version of you would just want to know what’s wrong.
It grows up to be this.
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Yeah, it’s interesting. I was hiring embedded software engineers for space-based, human rated applications. The company was hardcore engineering, with software being a tiny piece of the engineering staff. They wanted engineering degrees from good schools as a kind of risk reduction: it didn’t guarantee people were good, but it ensured that they had mastered the subject matter from an academic point of view.
But I was there 40 years, from the mid 1980s, and computer science had only more recently been a degree offered by universities for a little while at that time. Most of my peers when I started learned to code as part of other degrees or non-degreed interests. A number of math and physics majors, but a couple excellent employees who learned to code as part of music/recording. A degree wasn’t a requirement for software people before my time.
So I had mixed emotions about it. Certainly a person could be an excellent developer by having learned on the job, but we were only rarely short of applicants with good GPAs from good schools. Oh, and we mostly promoted engineering leadership from the engineering staff, so your dad’s situation wouldn’t apply.
As an aside, my dad also came here (US) from England with only a high school education, though at least at the time, English high schools were more like US junior colleges.
People who did well usually put their grade point average (GPA) on their resume. I was a hiring manager for some decades, and I didn’t tend to hire people who had less than a 3.2 from a decent school. Generally when people didn’t put their GPA it meant they didn’t get 2.5 or better.
But I was hiring for a specialty, and for a lot of jobs they really just want you to have the degree.
A lot of classes would do A+ on assignments/tests, meaning that you got some extra credit, but generally in college/university, the top score is 4.0, which equates to an A. In the US, colleges tend to be smaller than universities, and universities have more degree programs available.
I had a professor in college who believed an A should be reserved for the rare student who really nails a subject. He felt that if he gave a test, and several students got an A on it, it was a bad test. He said that was like having a speedometer on a car that only went to 50. So if you worked really hard in his class and did well, you’d likely get a B. Most students got a C, because that’s average.
I actually agreed with him, but the problem was that the rest of academia didn’t behave that way, so his classes lowered your GPA.
Yeah, you’re using “quite” incorrectly here. Add the other person said, “quite good” means “really good” or “very good.” You want something like “somewhat good.” If it were me, I would change 5 to “decent” and 6 to “enjoyable” since “enjoyable” has a much more positive connotation than I’d expect from the middle of the scale.
We weren’t allowed to have the TV on at dinner, either. And it was okay if no one had anything to say, but usually people did.
I think those things are pretty unhealthy behavior.