Humans affect the rate of physical weathering in several ways. The first way I am going to discuss is acid rain. Humans have increased the rate of acid rain through our use of pollutants. Cars do a lot of damage because of their exhaust fumes. The sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide released from the tailpipes of cars go into the atmosphere and return back to Earth in the form of acid rain, snow, fog, or dust. Factories throw away waste and release gases into the atmosphere. This affects the environment in a similar way cars do. Another way humans affect the rate of weathering is through the mass removal of vegetation. This is done when we are building highways, malls, subdivisions, and other structures. Deforestation exposes soil to high levels of rainfall and runoff, leaving areas open to wind and chemical weathering. Deforestation also exposes rocks that were once covered by vegetation. These rocks are now susceptible to all types of physical weathering, including acid rain weathering and biological weathering. Forest fires can cause the rocks that are located along the surface of the ground to weather as well.
As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...
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