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Businessman from Bury invents crypto mining machines that can run on cow poo
Cows not included.
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Unless he also has come up with a way of harvesting the methane and carbon di-oxide produced by the cows, this is probably even less environmentally friendly than electricity from fossil fuel plants. To say nothing of the smell. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Right. We don't need crypto stuff nor cows when we go to Mars. Even astronauts produce poop, so let's do something useful[^] with it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Just what we need - even more sh*t in the atmosphere. 
(OTOH, it's their ass to risk...  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Eat up already! We don't have enough fuel to fly home yet!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: harvesting the methane and carbon di-oxide produced by the cows
Alas (I really mean yipee!) there's even more bad news[^] for the bitcoin kiddie as their bovine bet will also lose value
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This may be good for vegetarians, but is likely to be a disaster for the cow population.
Horses uses to be quite common. People used them for transport, motive power, etc. When the internal combustion engine was invented and cars became cheap(er), these horses were no longer needed. Most of them were slaughtered for cat food. If this non-bovine "milk" becomes popular, the same fate is likely to befall the dairy cows.
(I make no comment on the morality or otherwise of eating animals or animal products)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Why does this seem like such a good fit?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Do C programmers have no class?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm struct you'd even think that.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Do C programmers write medical procedures?
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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C has only subjects and verbs; no objects.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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hm. That one threw me for a loop.
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#define class
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Went to Vlissingen yesterday to watch "The Forgotten Battle" (De Slag om de Schelde) in the CineCity cinema.
This is one of the most expensive Dutch films ever, made in co-production with Netflix, it might appear on Netflix after about a year.
For the occasion they had parked an original Sherman tank outside the cinema which had about a dozen holes in it from anti-tank weapons. We also made a bike trip around Vlissingen and saw a lot of monuments to remember what happened during the heavy battles in this region in WWII. There was also an original "Biber" mini submarine on display on the boulevard that was used in the shallow waters of the Schelde river.
The movie did not disappoint, although I would like to have seen more scenes playing in the southern part of Zeeland (where my roots are), they could have skipped the part playing on the Eastern front in Russia as far as I'm concerned.
The emphasis of this movie however is not on the battles, although there are some gruesome realistic scenes, but more on the personal experiences of the main characters, an English glider pilot, a Dutch girl and a Dutch boy that fought on the side of the Germans.
A positive point about the movie is that not all Germans are depicted as being cruel Nazi monsters.
The Forgotten Battle - Trailer - YouTube[^]
Shared album - Vlissingen - Google Photos[^]
modified 9-Jun-21 10:10am.
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OK, my company decided that we are Agile. Fine, I've been in agile shops before and it worked but this has a few oddities. OK, many oddities. My C# niche has always been leading edge technologies. I tend to write BIG C# AJAX base Intranet or data processing Windows Services. I could go on about the reasons my development fits the agile model poorly but I end up with two questions. In a large company (> 3000 developers), my previous (Db master) manager created a very small (< 10), very highly skilled team that provided a service to the to the rest of the company. (We never had layoffs, our team was too lean.) With the re-org, we lost critical skills and knowledge including our C++ guy, our Db cultural knowledge and LF who is a as red as I am blue, but I love her for her mad skills... that I can't describe but rely on. The team is no more than 8 people now. I'm a C# expert writing YAML and PowerShell scripts for AWS. Our Db guy does his thing and helps me. We have RPG specialists because we also consume data from iSeries machines. We are told that we all interchangeable and all should be able to do any of the tasks in the backlog as they come up in priority (or write user stories). This interchangeability of skills seems absurd but is "easily" fixed by "Knowledge Transfers". (Seriously? No one can even test my software without my technical help.) Knowledge transfer? I've spent years upping my C# skills from MS ecology to .Net Core, Open Source, git, AWS, etc. If needed though, I'm supposed to be able to do a Knowledge Transfer to any other team member so they can work on my ... their project. Same thing with them doing a Knowledge Transfer to get me up to speed with RPG, iSeries or the crazy SQL that T writes. So where did that idea of identical skills on the team come from? It seems like on surgery day, the anesthesiologist, vascular surgeon and the neurologist decide what role they want to do... maybe pull in a nurse to do the skull opening.
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I think that idea came from the one thing you already mentioned. You have had no layoffs and someone in HR noticed that your team hasn't had any layoffs. So they wonder why you are too lean and then they think like most people in management that a coder is a coder is a coder and you are all interchangeable and they begin to think hey lets make them cross train each other so we can make them even more lean. and the cycle repeats until the team goes away.
Having been part of one of these teams that was highly qualified and doing great work. And watching it happen where we had to cross train each other. It sucks.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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This interchangeability is supposed to be a feature of Plan, Build, Run or maybe Agile. It's not coming from HR. The company has only been able to hire one contractor with the C# and AWS skills I've worked to develop. Ain't gonna be no cross training to a SQL specialist or RPG person.
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You may wish to explain to them that the knowledge transfer they want, or as you may consider it, interchangeability, can be explained to them thusly:
Next time you need your teeth cleaned or a cavity filled, just go a the proctologist. A doctor's a doctor, after all.
You can add to it that you mean that both literally and figuratively.
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Quote: Next time you need your teeth cleaned or a cavity filled, just go a the proctologist. A doctor's a doctor, after all.
Or the reverse. Need your backside checked. The Dentist can do it. The drill will work wonders on your firmament.
Thanks. I loved your quote by the way
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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As a (possibly) self promoting note, the Ravings en masse[^] (just above the quotes on the page) has a lot of quotes - the ones on the right side are mine. Also, one on the left (guess which one?). I don't expect anyone to like them all . . .not even me.
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Michael Breeden wrote: This interchangeability of skills seems absurd but is "easily" fixed by "Knowledge Transfers"
It's not absurd.
If one of you die and everything stops because he was the only one to know how one specific things works then it is a failure on you, your manager and the company.
You do not need to be 100% replaceable, but you need to have some sort of internal training to share as much knowledge as possible.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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In a group of n, the truck (lorry) number has to be >1, not n.
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