But when librarians got their OPAC systems, they started writing reports to analyse lending patterns and identify stock that was not being borrowed, and identifying lenders that had overdue books &c.
So the decrease in effort needed lead to an increase in analysis of the information captured in the system - new uses.
I'm not sure about other regions, but in my region, non-tech users are too lazy to "program" their customized job. The reason is many, but it's just the fact to let you know. "Programming" in any kind is a hard work, and not all end-users like to do it. They're lazy to do brain work.
"I fondly remember her making her grocery lists and taking notes on the used punch cards that she'd bring home from work."
Old cards were useful for making revision notes as well. And the 'paperthrow' command got accidentally put inside a loop on my batch jobs sometimes so I had plenty of nice large lineprint paper for notes. 1970s at university in UK. (We did Algol 68 but then I had to deal with fortran later as a postgrad)
Good quality 1960s buildings made of concrete with stone flagging and wood paneling inside are nice spaces. I always remember the feeling of light and space in the 1960s blocks I worked in at University (1980s, buildings then 20 years old)
Probably works out a tad lighter than the X200 with whichever battery the user decides to use. The unmodified X220 I'm writing this on weighs 1.6 kg with the 'stick out' battery and I recollect that my old X200 was about the same.
"The fan only turns on if I’m doing something intensive like compiling go or scrolling in Slack."
Things like scrolling down a recent issue Web site are the main reason I'm not still using a vintage unmodified X200. I realise that the OA quote was probably tongue in cheek but I do find that surfing the Web has become a processor intensive activity!
Just reached 4:30 sec and he has mentioned lack of ventilation in their house, which I know to be a common problem with new build housing through dealing with condensation problems.
UK: most of the bog standard double glazed windows have a little vent up at the top so you can open a fairly small slat and get a small air gap.
35min: his risk priorities are mould, particulate matter, volatile organic chemicals, co2, on the grounds that CO2 is easier to manage
The problem is that if it’s cold enough outside that you need double glazing, then opening the slats would negate the benefit. Heat exchangers really are the only solution here, but of course the UK seems to be at least a century behind on residential building standards compared to anywhere else I’ve lived in Europe.
The idea is to minimize heat loss from conductivity through the windows, but accept the heat loss that comes with venting air.
Old single-pane windows were missing the vent probably because a) old building codes let you have less ventilation or b) the old windows were leaking air around the frames in addition to conductively leaking heat through the single-pane glass.
Acoustic isolation is a motivator for double glazing in some locations. And the vents are small (6mm by 30cm full open).
Most Victorian era houses have 'air bricks' in various locations (terracotta bricks with a small grid of holes in them) and the houses were pretty leaky.
UK government is moving to remove *
cooking on open gas from the building regulations for new homes in a few years (big methane/burning fume generator). Eventually as post above parent says we will move to more rational ways of heating the houses. Piping an inflammable gas to millions of houses has always struck me as a bit strange.
I really hope they don’t. One, electric cooking is shit however you wrap it up. I have found a large correlation between people being okay with electric cooking in places I’ve lived and also not cooking/not knowing how to cook. That’s probably the only way electric cooking has become so prevalent in the UK. Who would want to anyway if stuck with electric?
Two, I do not want to have to wait hours for the tank to heat up again after someone takes half a minute too long in the shower.
The power just isn’t there when it comes to electric water heating. I am very glad to live in a house with a combi gas boiler right now where the whole house can have a shower on demand, straight after each other if need be.
Until we all have massive heat pumps or some other way of getting high-power heat from domestic electric, it makes complete sense to me for us to pipe gas around while most of our domestic energy usage in the UK goes to heat.
Yes, induction does have higher max power in comparison to the terrible resistance hobs and the slightly less terrible ceramics. The problem with induction is that it doesn't work when you don't have a completely even bottom (on your cookware). Cookware warps over time. You can get induction wok stoves, but that misses the point. You can also get a nice gas stove with a massive centre hob for your wok needs.
Even forgetting the evenness issues, which ceramic stoves share too, the modulation just isn't there. Lower power on induction and ceramic means alternating the same power on and off. This does average out over the long term to a lower power, but what if you need a constant lower power? The power settings also tend to be discrete and far apart, which is again completely useless for a lot of fine applications. It's completely useless for instance you want your pilau rice to steam properly at the end of cooking at a low power in a shallow, broad stainless steel pan (as it should be), rather than sticking to the bottom of the pan.
Unless you mean the idea is "how do we make it look like we're doing something about building performance without hurting volume house builders' feelings?".
The 'proper' solution all homes should be built with is low air permeability (no trickle vents) and a whole house ventilation system, ideally with a heat exchanger.
"The UK is facing a maths crisis: according to a 2014 report from National Numeracy, four out of five adults have low functional mathematics skills compared to fewer than half of UK adults having low functional literacy levels."
And yet the pass rate at GCSE and previously GCE O Level has been fairly stable at roughly two thirds passing give or take a couple of percent for 60 years...
Isaac Newton was doing chemistry with a range of nasty heavy metals for years. A sample of his hair was analysed some time ago and found to contain significant levels of lead [1].
Boyle, Cavendish and their cohorts investigated a variety of sources and were not empiricists in the modern sense. Remember that they had e.g. no concept of yeast, bacteria, and yet saw the daily baking of bread and brewing of beer. Not surprising perhaps that they saw similar processes in the chemical realm? A flavour of the times slightly earlier can be seen in the use of astrology for medical purposes [2]
Neither have I, but I imagine that time, geography and economics will sort it out.
EU changing, old guard turning over. UK voters changing each year due to the grim reaper and 17 year olds turning 18 (about 600k churn each year).
Charts are really useful. Hope they are updated.