When new access is to be given, it should be framed in the context of what new responsibilities are required.

I think this framing provides not just justification, but can provide inherent expectations of a users behavior that is easier to inspect and interrogate if needed.

I ended up copying it by hand along with every exam and test notes over my entire degree into one little moleskine notebook. its a god send any time I have to remember how to do something or learn something new.

I understand the risks around sodium, but the "passive natural circulation cooling" I don't understand. Is it more feasible with this design and why?

" Pros:

    high temperature means we can use process-heat which is a much more efficient use of heat.

    fast spectrum neutrons means we can burn importantly troublesome parts of nuclear waste.

    fast spectrum is also better for breeding new fuel, significantly increasing how much energy we can extract from uranium/thorium.

    passive natural circulation cooling is much more feasible.

    fast spectrum is a little more complicated to control.

    fast reactors require high enrichment.

    inspection of the plant is very difficult with liquid metal.

    high temperature liquid metal doesn't play nicely with metal pipes.

    sodium burns in air and is explosive with water.

    we simply do not have nearly as much experience with sodium as we do water and that really cannot be understated.
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can't wait for my lease to end.

It infuriates me that software engineering has had to rediscover these facts when the Toyota production system was developed between 1948-1975 and knew all these things 50 years ago.

Farming is not a profitable endeavor. There would be a lot less financial advisors in the world otherwise. A carbon tax will either drive up prices or reduce suppliers, increasing prices. Reducing farmland will require more efficient methods which will also drive up prices

The result will be the public pays more for food, not the agriculture industry makes any more or less money. It will require more imports which will come from countries with less regulation and more exploitable resources.

We've seen the story of disruptions to the food supply play out before. The reality is this is a more dangerous gamble than most people realize.

I think inevitably, there will be price increases. The questions is just how bad and how many farms survive the transition.

There need to be changes, but I am not convinced that this will have the desired effects. Its quite possible this leads to a net conversion of farmland to residential or commercial property rather than nature.

and Difficult Task + increasing audience = improved performance

which makes sense to me. 1 person is a distraction. a group of people is an audience.

on an environmental perspective, if applied to everyone, its almost half a quadrillion kJ removed a year, plus supply chain logistics, waste, packaging,

I still think its probably a ridiculous pipedream, but even pipedreams are meant to be dreamt.

Edit: I remembered by stats class. merging poisson distributions requires Independent processes. since start and completion are dependent, its not mathematically valid.

but I am an engineer and it works, so whatever

I went for industrial engineering. we learned the math as pure math, then the math as free language problems, then how to identify and collect data to identify their attributes, then simulate and verify those processes, then test for variations in the underlying assumptions of those processes.

They never really did teach me to code well in a language that was useful, I had to pick that one up myself.

Data intake, preprocessing, solving performance limitations, executing automated decisions.

If it’s just a “better excel” it’s not better enough.

They have a much higher bar for quality and boutique solutions than almost any organizations.