Nit of a nit; the energy might take that long, but the photons that reach us on Earth are not directly created by the nuclear fusion reactions in the sun's core. Fusion creates high-velocity nucliei and other particles, but not visible light. The resulting heat creates photons which are rapidly destroyed by absorption. Only photon emission from the outer most layers of the sun reach Earth.
I.e., that bit they refer to as the photosphere, effectively the radiating 'surface' of the sun, is the source of the solar photons that strike us here. That trip takes about 8 minutes.
The photons were created a long time ago in the core. It takes thousand of years for it to reach the surface, and THEN it takes 8 minutes to get to us.
The photons created in the core are some seriously energetic gama rays. Sure, gama rays are very penetrating, but the solar core is dense, and it's about half a million miles to the surface, so these mostly get absorbed right there in the core, making stupendous amounts of heat. At any given depth that means that matter is going to re-emit photons, but never any more energetic than the original ones that are absorbed, but that radiation will be reabsorbed as well. That process of emission and reabsorption means that energy travels to the surface a lot slower than light in a vacuum, and sure, it takes a long time for that energy to reach the surface, but the photons that reach the earth are only the ones created close enough to the 'surface' to escape into space.
Photons are not created on the surface but in the core where the environment has the higher pressure needed for the physical creation of the photon and the photon takes about that long to work its way out.
Is this in any sense hydrogen being converted to photons? Photons are massless, but… the mass of the elements in the star are converted to pure energy?
What is the ratio between those and well heat due to nuclear reactions and well pressure. Hot stuff generates visible photons. Say like incandescent light bulb.
So there must be a range in age. As some closer to still hot surface don't need to travel through parts of the sun.
So I am not an expert and recalling what I have read in several books and articles, but the conditions of fusion necessary to create photons only exists in the core of the sun. It was a mystery to us and we did not know until scientists were able to use quantum mechanics was able to explain the mechanism, it requires enough temperature and gravitational pressure to force subatomic particles close enough to overcome the forces that ordinarily keep them apart, and this only happens to a small percentage of meeting nuclei with quantum tunneling explaining how they overcome the forces that want to keep the nuclei apart - there's just so many particles squeezed close together that a small percentage that meet (possibly easier to visualize as the quantum wave function describing the position) fuse. This is also why we cannot use this method of fusion on earth - it's impossible to do on earth barring some sci fi artificial gravity invention. If this were not true and fusion could take place anywhere on the sun, the sun could rapidly use up all of the fuel of hydrogen. I am simply repeating what I have read - each photon has to make its way to the surface of the sun after many collisions, since the direction is random and not always outwards, it is theorized they just ping pong back and forth for x years where x can be hundreds of thousands of years. Here's the clearest explanation I found though they only use one slide on the photon's drunken walkhttps://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11084
Solar power is much more expensive if the power must adhere to some number of 9's of reliability.
Often data centers need to run at three nines of availability (ie: 99.9) and at that level of availability the price of solar power is many multiples of conventional power due to the cost of batteries and over provisioning.
Legislators have made the business almost impossible. The regulatory barriers to creating a new drug are immense and the IP laws give very little protection.
Further, many countries will simply ignore IP laws if a drug is successful.
We need to figure this out so that investment will be made.
TLM role was both the best and worst role in tech.
Best in that the TLM generally has complete control over the product execution (and can commonly bulldoze the PM). It's amazing if you have a solid vision of what you want and you want to get it done.
Worst in that the workload can be intense as the team grows.
About 18 months ago in Quebec, my aunt, who was terminally ill with cancer, had to go to the hospital for severe pain. I had a phone call with her just before she went in, and while the idea of suicide had come up occasionally, usually during bouts of sundowning, it wasn't her focus at that moment. Once she was in the hospital's care, she was offered a permanent solution to her suffering. After a seemingly normal visit with her sisters that night, she died by assisted suicide the next morning. Her sisters were shocked and devastated.
While I think people should be free to choose, I don't know how much information hospital staff should be able to give.
Difficult.
Edit: I'm not 100% certain as to the timeline. She may have been in the hospital for 2 days.
You have to have 2 independent medical assessments at a minimum as well as written consent that is witnessed. So its not like you can just say you want to do it and then they just off you right there. She could have had all sorts of reasons for not telling anyone including her sisters. There's nothing in your anecdote that disputes she could have planned it long in advance and just not told anyone.
"There's nothing in your anecdote that disputes she could have planned it long in advance"
It seems implausible.
She lived with her sisters and while she was quite capable of many tasks, I think that long term subterfuge was beyond her. She was well into mental decline.
"You have to have 2 independent medical assessments at a minimum as well as written consent that is witnessed"
Well its impossible for us to know her state of mind, anything would be speculation.
Yes, it could have happened at the hospital but do you think they have people sitting around waiting to do medical assessments and be witnesses just so they can push MAID onto people? At most hospitals the doctors and medical staff are extremely busy.
I'm not sure how that follows. It's impossible to know anyone's state of mind once they are dead, that doesn't mean they should be required to suffer until a terminal illness causes their death.
I think that the starting point is that productivity/developer has been declining for a while, especially at large companies. And this leads to the "bloated" headcount.
The question is why. You mention microservices. I'm not convinced.
Many think it is "horizontals". Possible, these taxes add up it is true.
Perhaps it is cultural? Perhaps it has to do with the workforce in some manner. I don't know and AFAIK it has not been rigorously studied.
I'm very doubtful about the presented figures there. The author clearly has an agenda and does not present any sources. Additionally it is completely missing ReLEx/KLEx (SMILE etc) methods which afaik are pretty popular.
It seems that ASA is a wide term for methods of moving the epithelium and replacing it after the procedure. I had this with one of my treatments. It is far more pleasant. It makes sense that it is growing in popularity.
Or maybe I have it backwards and they always lead with industrial design and fall into use cases.
All I know is that I want new use cases from my devices.
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