Where I have worked, its devs and ops who bork the systems then have to set about fixing it while management run off to face the customer. I wouldn't change place with management for love nor money.
You see a lot of mea culpa outage stories on HN, many written by management. If you have never read one you should.
The outcome of a mistake is a learnin.
Altho it is also fun to share fail stories just for the scale of the fsck up. ;)
A lot. One important thing is, that it is possible to focus and work for 10-12 hours per day. Before I bought the "only 4 hours of productive work per day are possible for avg human". Not true. Hard to achieve though. You really have to have good self discipline to do it on your own.
Plastic is an almost meaningless word (at least with metal you can point to part of the periodic table ... until you have to deal with stuff like silicon.)
The only shared property among plastic by definition is that it can be worked using some of the same processes. If you want to know anything else you have to pay attention to the particular material.
ABS is not recyclable, PLA is extremely recyclable etc.
If a tree maps nicely to your way of thinking about the problem-space you are in, then it is not complex (at least not more so than other structures). Right tool for the right user for the right job.
So we need to do more than one thing, this helps us choose one thing and focus on it, then when we want to do something else, we do more than one thing again, and choose another one thing to focus on.
Very wise. It gives us a specific order of doing things. Many things, then one thing, then many things, then one thing. I was kinda doing the opposite.
Nixon actually wanted to build 1000 nuclear power plants in the U.S. by the year 2000. Today there 60. Governments of the past didn't argue against renewable energy, they gave up on renewable energy in the face of political opposition, which ironically at the time came from the anti-nuclear left.
Nixon wanted to build nukes because nuke construction projects are almost ideal conduits for graft. When a nuke plant construction project goes 400% over budget and 3x over schedule, do we get 400% more nuke plant? No, but every penny goes into somebody's pocket. The ratepayers invariably end up paying through the nose.
This is part of why small-scale factory-built nukes never found a foothold in the US. There just isn't the scope for wholly-legal corruption to generate the institutional support that big nukes got.
True, many other government contractor projects have been effective graft vehicles. The F-35 jet and the SLS rocket are other, very current examples. People have begun to catch on about nuke plants; they started out as a scam to make the uranium economy more favorable for weapons work, and that has been baked in.
Notable recent exceptions include solar and wind farms, partly I expect because people can tell how much they should cost: N panels x $P per panel, N turbines x $P per turbine. Also, people doing them tend to be idealists; they want the most power out that money can buy, anywhere else if not here.
GOP has fallen a long way since Nixon('s policies), now they're out for a single party system controlled by them to the point of sending a mob after Congress. I miss the old GOP, I even voted for some of them in times past, now they are but a looming shadow on democracy.
>The thing that really pisses me off is that governments in the past worked SO HARD to argue that renewable energy could never work.
Nobody ever denied the fact that Hydro is viable. You're getting confused by the misleading title because you think that it's wind and solar that is powering Costa Rica .. it isn't. It's hydro.
However I’ve only ever heard stories where management lays the blame.