What a waste of money it was. For a similar price we got 13 miles of DLR
Took me a while to dig out my copy but very much not. The next sections of the diary are:
It is. I liked the film but they reworked some elements of it. I don't think it does the book justice.
Love this!
"Enjoys" is not how I would describe it.
This is from The Prestige by Christopher Priest in case any one wonders. It's a good book!
I'm pretty sure it's real. I met someone once who worked in materials research for food and they said that modelling was big there because the scope for experimentation is more limited. In materials for construction where they wanted to change a property they could play around with adding new additives and seeing what happens. For food though you can't add anything beyond a limited set of chemicals that already have approval from the various agencies* and therefore they look at trying to fine tune in other ways.
So for chocolate, for example, they control lots of material properties by very careful control of temperature and pressure as it solidifies. This is why if chocolate melts and resolidifies you see the white bits of milk that don't remain within the materia.
*Okay you can add a new chemical but that means a time frame of over a decade to then get approval. I think the number of chemicals that's happened to is very very small and that's partly because the innovation framework of capitalism is very short term.
Yes I agree that the headline and article is silly to reference memes and undermines the study as a whole which seems more sound.
I know loads of people of take hundred of photos a day and then pay a cloud hoster (or use a "free" service) to store it indefinitely and never look back at it again.
Cloud storage isn't straight forwardly just hard storage because its kept in data centers such that it can be downloaded at any point.
Cloud storage is replacing any sense of needing a digital archivist processes for people and businesses because it much cheaper and easier to store it just in case the data is needed again rather than actually strategetically thinking about what data is important to keep and what isn't.
Though worth saying that the link suggests the computing was used for aerodynamics for ensuring production wouldn't destroy them not. For the shape as such. I've also seem it said that the can is part of that too.
It is quite hard to track down but here's it being reported by the head of modelling at P&G in 2006
https://www.hpcwire.com/2006/05/05/high_performance_potato_chips/
Very much so. We aren't winning until the taps are turned off
Hello Urbanist Hive Mind,
I'm interested in designs that build on flood plains. I often seen the solution being (sacrificial) parking garages on the ground floor of flats.
It got me thinking what uses of that space have people seen that is useful from an urbanist perspective (i.e. not car parking).
What have people seen that works well? Maybe with the climate crisis we should avoid building on them at all?
I feel duty bound to say that the DLR came about because Thatcher was trying to cheap out on a jubilee extention and that there's been much more cost since the initial cost to bring it up to the current level of operation.
That's not overtly a criticism perhaps a cheaper MVP that you can get over the line politically and upgrade along the way might be the right way to do it but I wonder if it would have been cheaper to do it at the start