Most programmers (those doing fancy GUIs and C# programming on a PC) would be seriously out of their league if they ever actually tried to program such a thermostat. Or any other embedded system. You really need a special skillset and hardware knowledge to even get a simple embedded system running. This is what my trainee just learned the hard way in the last weeks…

My (European) school education at least taught me that speed of light (and therefore other electromagnetic radiation, too) can be assumed to be the speed of light without any measurable difference applied by the medium it is passing through.

It is amazing with how little to none in education is sufficient to finish school nowadays.

The “losing taste” is actually a beneficial thing. Most things that kids don’t like are either risky (e.g. coffee) or difficult to digest (all kinds of cabbage), so it is good that kids don’t like them. For adults being able to expand acceess to available foods helps feeding the horde in difficult times.

Not unlikely, indeed. Sorry for you, chaps. We went through this about 80 years ago, and we mostly learned our lesson.

Well, Elon and Donald have taken care of the “salaried” thing now. But yes, they are showing him off like Hannibal Lector. They have treated worse people better, but they just killed “blacks”, not CEOs.

I like that theory.

Someone noted that Midsomer must be the most dangerous county in the UK.

I hope that US citizens will remember who caused the chaos out of pure spite when the next election comes around.

Unless the speech is “shooting CEOs is OK.”

This one, for example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4654709/

Or this one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22197939/

Originally, I had read a cluster of those articles some years ago, but scientific articles like to hide behind paywalls nowadays.

And at old age, it ends like this: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/05/526750174/why-taste-buds-dull-as-we-age

The “kids don’t like broccoli” has a scientific reason. Kids have a lot more receptors for aromas tasting bitter (10 to 15k different chemical compounds taste bitter to them) which reduce to 5k or less when growing up. So some types of food that adults can eat without problems because they lack the receptors have bitter and vile flavours for kids.

I don’t speak elisp, but I speak regexp. Looks like the LLM speaks neither.

If he does want to be recognized as a SovCit, he could just have written “I’m terminally stupid” there.

Or GIMP, yes, but for that kind of logo, Inkscape is definitely the better choice.

It always depends on the project.

You can always export an Inkscape image as a bitmap in whatever resolution you’ll probably need.

I once did an export with a width of >10000px (85cm ~=33.5in @ 300dpi). Yes, the file size sucked. But it looked good.

Instead of using MS Paint, maybe you should use Inkscape for such projects. It can easily align text along lines, but the best thing is that it is vector based, so the images easily scale. Very useful for logos.

Or, alternatively, use a professional paint program. Which does not necessarily have to be commercial.

If they would prevent people and companies to own more than six houses or flazs, that would make way more sense.

All we could do for pity is to throw a fire extinguisher into his grave. Where he is, he will need it.