I think I'm losing the plot here and it's a good example of how my mind works sometimes. I just read Jenny-Aster's post about the problem with her computer and then scrolled down to read B3's and it told us that sometimes her lid gets stuck so she runs it under the tap and that something had definitely changed and that the lid had lasted a couple of years. I nearly yelled out oh no don't do that B3 and then the next bit mentions Unilever! Gawd my heart skipped a beat!
I recently read about someone texting their partner to say that the screen was frozen. Advised to pour a kettle of lukewarm water over it. Needless to say, the computer was never the same again.
No, not kidding. Apparently when a bank's system goes down, there's a risk that the person responsible is that traumatised, they usually walk away from the job. Imagine if I'd put a comma in the wrong place causing millions to lose their bank accounts. I'd probably never pull my head from under the duvet ever again.
Great job you had there! Guess it would have been the same for flight controllers too.
If a single comma in the wrong place brought systems down it should be the person in charge of the project carrying the can, not the person typing the comma. All changes to systems should be tested for failure before they are released into a 'live' environment. That is testing not just that they do what is required but don't do what is not required.
My boss at one company asked me to test some purchase ordering software he'd developed, so I put an order quantity of 100,000,000 and the system accepted it. His initial response was that nobody would that. I said "I just did" - he fixed the software. If he hadn't and some poor sap had entered a wrong amount who would have been at fault?
I don't think volcanic activity can be blamed on climate change.
No …. but rising sea levels due to climate change can mean that the effects of tsunamis on low lying areas can be much worse than previously. 😢
Sea level rises to date have been comparatively small. This was caused entirely by a massive underwater eruption, the effects of which would have been very little different even without the sea level increases.
I don't think volcanic activity can be blamed on climate change.
No …. but rising sea levels due to climate change can mean that the effects of tsunamis on low lying areas can be much worse than previously. 😢
Sea level rises to date have been comparatively small. …….
Such things are relative. … “…Many U.S. Pacific islands are atolls fringed with coral reefs and have maximum elevations of 3–5 meters, with mean elevations of 1–2 meters. Sea level in the western Pacific Ocean has been increasing at a rate 2–3 times the global average, resulting in almost 0.3 meters of net rise since 1990. ….”
Whilst the effect of the eruption on Tonga and it’s immediate neighbours was always going to be huge, there have been reports of what had been described as a mini-tsunami of around 1.2m wreaking havoc on low lying islands thousands of miles away … more havoc than would’ve been the case were they not already feeling the effects of sea level rise.
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Somehow I managed to leave off my last passage which was …
All coastal areas across the globe are seeing the effects of climate change … whether from erosion due to periods of drought followed by storms and unusually heavy rains, such as in the East of England, or the impact of saltwater damage on low lying land due to tidal surges.
The lower the land the greater the impact.
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It seems that the news just lately is being dominated by entitled arrogant hubristic characters who think they walk on water ....... I'm glad at least one has got his come-uppance ... (although it could certainly have been handled better by the Australian government), and another has been taken down a peg or two ... do you think that the discovery that giving Djokovic his marching orders hasn't resulted in the sky falling in might result in the same thing happening to a third? 🤞
It's an appalling situation that, given the unseemly behaviour and attitude of a member of the hereditary Royal Family, the most embarrassment being felt by Brits at home and across the world is being heaped on us by our elected leader.
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Sea level rises to date have been comparatively small. This was caused entirely by a massive underwater eruption, the effects of which would have been very little different even without the sea level increases.
“…Many U.S. Pacific islands are atolls fringed with coral reefs and have maximum elevations of 3–5 meters, with mean elevations of 1–2 meters. Sea level in the western Pacific Ocean has been increasing at a rate 2–3 times the global average, resulting in almost 0.3 meters of net rise since 1990. ….”
Whilst the effect of the eruption on Tonga and it’s immediate neighbours was always going to be huge, there have been reports of what had been described as a mini-tsunami of around 1.2m wreaking havoc on low lying islands thousands of miles away … more havoc than would’ve been the case were they not already feeling the effects of sea level rise.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
All coastal areas across the globe are seeing the effects of climate change … whether from erosion due to periods of drought followed by storms and unusually heavy rains, such as in the East of England, or the impact of saltwater damage on low lying land due to tidal surges.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's an appalling situation that, given the unseemly behaviour and attitude of a member of the hereditary Royal Family, the most embarrassment being felt by Brits at home and across the world is being heaped on us by our elected leader.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No mention of the billions of cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens etc etc which would be slaughtered within days if the whole world became vegan.