Appeal to authority argument incoming. Points to self. Am scientist. Am geoscientist. Am hard rock geoscientist who professionally uses instruments to quantify rock properties.
You're quoting things that do not apply uniformly across the shield as though they apply across the shield. Nuclear waste storage locations ideally are within granite plutons, of which there are many within the shield. You don't think the people looking to develop storage facilities don't look for the most competent rocks? There was a research facility in Pinawa Manitoba for years -- they mapped every fracture in that rock from above and below. They learned construction techniques tailored for the rock. It's goddamned perfect.
Furthermore, have you ever heard of grout? How do you think hydroelectric reservoirs retain their water when built in the shield? Engineering and materials science are marvelous things.
Assuming it isn't a fisheye lens, then the best reference is the fence and trees in the top left corner. Without that fence though I think it would be a lot harder :)
That's just junk science. Groundwater flow rates are easy to measure. And any such facility will be both over engineered and one of the best monitored locations on the planet.
I mean, aside from choosing a location specifically because the rock lacks fractures, isn't stressed, not earthquake prone, etc...
Whatever. I guess we kill the planet instead of getting the needle.
I'm strongly pro-nuclear from an environmental perspective. But NIMBYism always stalls it. There's a fallback location near Thunder Bay, but I'd wager a shiny nickel that it gets ruled out after aboriginal consultation.
For some of these projects, the government really just to move forward by dictat, in my opinion. At some point you buy a dying mining town just for this purpose or something.
A lot of the underlying libraries in python are actually written in Fortran (or were when they were conceived, and the Fortran components later replaced). Numpy, for example, was originally pretty much a wrapper on top of BLAS and LAPACK.
This gets even more complex if you're using a toolkit of some sort. C++ has a batteries-included way of doing something, then STL has another, and Qt yet another... Etc.
Don't get me wrong. There is still a time and a place for Fortran. And this will also likely always be the case for C++. But I'm not sure it is entirely wise to choose it if you're creating a new project anymore.
I've done a bit of C++ coding in my time. The feature list of the language is so long at this point that it is pretty much impossible for anyone new to learn C++ and grok the design decisions anymore. I don't know if this is a good thing or not to keep adding and extending or whether C++ should sail into the sunset like Fortran and others before it.
I rarely judge someone for ignorance unless it is wilful. I pretty harshly judge people who cannot assimilate new information. Over time I think I might be evolving from INTP->INTJ as I age. I used to have more patience and would try to encourage people to learn and adjust.
I run a small business. People in my spam folder have really high opinions of my business. They all want to invest or something... Mostly harvesting my LinkedIn profile for keywords.
Making jelly out of our grapes. One plant produced 8kg of grapes this year, which meant 3L of juice. This froth is the cauldron where I'm boiling it with a metric fucktonne of sugar...
If it's a game I'm going to get hundreds, or sometimes thousands of hours from, then I'll pay more. If you look at price per hour spent on entertainment, it's hard to compare. However, you often have to wade through a bunch of shitty overpriced games to find those gems.
Appeal to authority argument incoming. Points to self. Am scientist. Am geoscientist. Am hard rock geoscientist who professionally uses instruments to quantify rock properties.
You're quoting things that do not apply uniformly across the shield as though they apply across the shield. Nuclear waste storage locations ideally are within granite plutons, of which there are many within the shield. You don't think the people looking to develop storage facilities don't look for the most competent rocks? There was a research facility in Pinawa Manitoba for years -- they mapped every fracture in that rock from above and below. They learned construction techniques tailored for the rock. It's goddamned perfect.
Furthermore, have you ever heard of grout? How do you think hydroelectric reservoirs retain their water when built in the shield? Engineering and materials science are marvelous things.