Waterfall in software development was different than a Gantt chart based "project that was managed" like the construction of a bridge (an example close to my house). They added new requirements to this bridge (like they wanted the surrounding grounds to be maintained nicely, so added irrigation and gardening etc). But no new requirements were added to the foundational "here's a bridge and it needs to cross this stream from this point to that point" (high level).
Waterfall in software was continuously changing those fundamental parts. You'd be fine tuning the irrigation and needed to destruct the whole bridge because some new requirements came up. That's where the anti-Gantt and "bad waterfall" comes from, the reality is the software world as a whole moves way quicker and requirements are way more malleable, subjective than building a bridge.
>Waterfall in software was continuously changing those fundamental parts. You'd be fine tuning the irrigation and needed to destruct the whole bridge because some new requirements came up.
Exactly this same thing also happens in non-software "waterfall" projects as well. Mid-project fundamental requirements changes which result in having to re-engineer large parts of the project. This is one of the reasons military acquisitions are so expensive, there's a huge problem with requirements changes.
And thus us why large-scale construction companies can bid so low, because most of their revenue and profit come from the inevitable scope and requirements changes later in the projects.
Being from UK: stop multi home ownership for private companies/persons. Move to majority council owned houses, which then feeds money back into the communities. Follow right to buy, where the money goes back to the council.
I think they'd suggest something like: "single family homes cannot be rented, only bought or sold to individuals or families which must live there some minimum percentage of the time."
If zoning codes can make it effectively impossible to build anything but single family homes, we clearly have a legal framework for distinguishing single-family from multi-occupancy apartment buildings. Thus, apply this requirement to single-family homes (or at least homes in single-family zoned areas).
There are a lot of unintended consequences and edge cases to this though, clearly. For example, I live in a building that is "technically" an apartment building right in the middle of nothing but single family homes. You couldn't build an apartment building like this here, now. This is because it was originally a single family home but was converted into a duplex ~100 years ago (2 different electrical services) and has remained a duplex legally ever since. I purchased the land and home jointly with a family member so that each of our families could live in one half of the duplex, which is how we currently live. A home like ours could end up being classified in very different ways depending on the specifics of a law like we're discussing.
Regardless, I still want my home price to crater if it means everyone else I know can buy a home. I hope home prices go down massively and the residential speculative bubble in this country dies a violent death. The only reason we even bought this house was because buying a home cost so much money that we had to buy half a home to make it a possibility. Even if I'm upside down on this house, I'd still rather be stuck paying off the mortgage or going bankrupt than hold everyone else financially hostage. Housing is too important.
The drastic solution is you ban long term rentals - all 'rental agreements' must return shares in the underlying real estate and structure proportional to length of stay. The rent payments would be distributed pro rata to the existing share holders.
Of course you could also allow people to build homes at market clearing prices, so investments would just be undercut.
Are there any industrial processes where plastic containers get re-used? I know drink containers get returned where I live. But I doubt they get re-used.
Finland replaced those with the lighter ones that get crunched now... Then again it might have been sensible from microplastics perspective... Many of the recycled ones were pretty scuffed...
Maybe hcaptcha, I've never run into captcha hell with it, unlike Cloudflare and recaptcha. If those two decide you're a bot, you're done, better go change that IP and reset cookies.
Long story, but basically there is a push in California gov't to deemphasize rooftop solar, in favor of big solar farms. (I've heard this is a favor to construction unions).
So we get paid very little per watt now, and it no longer balances out if you say use 20kWH from the grid and feed 20kWH to the grid (like it used to).
Joke's on them. Storage is getting very cheap now. At the prices PG&E is charging, it's now cost effective to buy batteries and store your solar power. Some of this requires a certain amount of DIY, but if PG&E restructures rates to go after these people, many of them will simply oversize their system, disconnect from the grid entirely and just have a generator for deep emergency backup.
> no longer balances out if you say use 20kWH from the grid and feed 20kWH to the grid
Should it balance though? One would presumably feed into the grid when sun is shining, meaning there's a lot of supply (not just from you), and consume during the opposite.
Yea, that's my understanding of the introduction of the NEM 3 policy. Production of energy isn't the problem in California (aka: sun), having it stored and accessible at the right moment is. Previously people would be feeding back solar during peak sun hours and getting paid, while taking energy at night and having an effective "0 dollar use" bill if they consume the exact same amount (there is some base connection fee).
The NEM 3 policy reduces a lot what you get paid unless you contribute back during the peak use hours, they say it's "avoided cost" pricing. On the surface it seems fair, you're paying for more than generation when you use energy so you generating and contributing back during huge surplus isn't as valuable as you using during night time.
Huh, thank you. Moved here recently so going to have to check it out. If I have battery storage to supply my home, surplus would at least make some money right?
Any resources in that? Seems ridiculous. I get a “net connection fee” and can even somewhat feel comfortable with this NEM 3 thing, but what I generate should be mine to control, I could do it completely off grid if I wanted.
As mentioned in other comment, moved here recently and exploring the situation.
Yeah it's really ridiculous and leaves me very cynical that California gov't cares anything about climate change aside from scaring people into more bureaucracy and power for themselves.
Compared to simply walking out, packing everything into your bags right away without needing to scan with either a hand terminal or "repacking" at self checkout is a lot more friction. Didn't really think it would be until I tried a couple of times in a row and it was incredible.
It would be an interesting idea to fund a company (probably best as a non-profit) that takes patent trolls to court selecting cases based on what trolls are suing and where we can find prior art. Troll the trolls.
But no way to find out if there’s any data sent to your servers etc, unless I’m missing some links?