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Excuse me? I am living in central UK, rent costs me 5000GBP/month, council tax is around 3000GBP/year, food is more than 2 times expensive than in Europe, transportation is expensive in general.

Then my status here can be anytime reverted by Home Office. I have pre-settlement status, but HO can anytime come, deny it and kick me out of the country.

And before you tell me to move, yes I am currently in phase of moving back to Europe, because for same salary I will have much lower expenses and only thing which was preventing me from moving for last 2 years was the Covid.

Everything seems to be fine in Kremlin, when they hold Africa hostage by blocking export of grain from Ukraine. But they will start a hissy fit when Lithuania will play the same card on Kaliningrad.

I am torn on this issue. On one hand I don't want to waste my time commuting nor I don't want to sit in open-space office where everyone screaming over everyone and I can't concentrate

On the other hand I need that physical separation between I work here and I relax here

This is really dumb on many levels. They can pull nights and weekends when project needs to be done. But they need to pay for it and it is mentally impossible to do it consistently for weeks or even months. After some time you will just burn out like a flare.

I agree. Flying cars (and to some extent supersonic flying) are always hitting barrier called noise. Concorde had limited deployment thanks to noise limitations - was allowed to go supersonic only above oceans, but not enough range to cross Pacific.

Flying cars are running against noise barrier head-on and every proponent of flying cars will be surprised that people really does not like scream of 8 vacuum cleaners at 2am.

Finding any would be a first step.

Point taken that floating point arithmetic might be broken in Excel, but most use cases of Excel are calculation without floating point numbers.

You mean like when Musk whines that SEC is stomping on his freedom of speech?

This. Excel is (kind-of) No Code way for creating general purpose software for masses by masses. But it really depends on skillset of user. I saw a guy who wrote DB system in Excel, I witnessed employee putting data into Excel and then working them out via calculator and putting results in the Excel manually.

Free speech absolutist does not like his critics exercising free speech. Seems to me to be more like a free speech hypocrite.

Yes it does. See "The Chieftain: No, The Tank Is Not Dead" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7T650RTT8

TLDW: Tank has a task on a battlefield and fact that you can easily kill it won't take that task away. Same goes for infantry and they are not going away either. On the other hand we don't see battleships anymore, because big guns were replaced by precise missiles with much more range.

Problem with sodium is very limited amount of charging cycles, which is less than 100 at current stage of development.

Renewables are getting massive amounts of subsidies, either directly on construction, or to buy out power for fixed price or grid operator are required to buy power from renewables first.

Well except that people who can afford used ICE today won't be able to afford used BEV tomorrow. It is like banning bread and telling them to eat cake.

> Electric motors (as used in electric cars) are about 90% efficient.

But where is efficiency of electricity transmission, transformation, battery charging and battery discharging?

That's not an issue. Parents are installing much worse things to monitor every tap on a display in life of their children.

Used BEVs with depleted battery which might not be produced anymore.

Toyota is fully aware that BEV does not have longevity, which is actual core of their brand and that's main reason why they are tiptoeing around BEV

I can live with a contactless debit card payment, but I am done with having 167 applications in my phone to use that or the other charger.

You can whine and die or you can automate picking up of crops when nobody wants to do that.

Funniest part were Brits living in Spain, going to UK to vote in favor of Brexit and then being surprised when later Spain was sending them back to UK.

Hello tech CEOs, employees are renegotiating their contract with you, this is called capitalism. You can try to fire them, but most probably you would disrupt operations of your company, so you won't do it on a mass scale. This is called leverage which employees have towards you. I know, it is strange to be on receiving end of capitalism.

Find a workshop manual for your car and it will be drawn inside it. Because car is more-less a faraday cage, there are coax cables [0] going from ECUs to antennas. Some ECUs, like eCall have also backup GSM antenna integrated, but you will see the PCB antenna just next to GSM / GPS connector. On VAG cars it is usually easy to remove as well.

https://www.carsystems.eu/vw-audi-gsm-fakra-extension-cable-...

Just pull out those pesky GSM/WiFi antennas and it will stop.

Die Hard 4.0

After everything went so smoothly, it will be micrometeorites which will grind the whole mission into a dust. That's sad and also shows why Earth bound observatories are still irreplicable and can't be just swapped for space telescopes as some eccentric billionaire proposed in the past.

I have dropped Chrome for Brave the moment when it started with that yellow highlighting when going from Google search and prevented me to switch it off.

I am using both for my business. Libre Office has excellent Draw program, I like it more than Visio.

But LO Calc is bad, or at least was when I was trying it last time. It has been creating broken tables especially where filters / conditional formatting is involved and was endlessly crashing on attempt to create graph from 2 channel scope (cca 2*2000 X-Y values). OTOH in Excel I can have table with more than 30k lines with filters, sorting calculations and everything works swiftly. No, I am not going to fool around with a database.

In Word vs Writer scenario is not anything really appealing to me as I don't use them too much. So I am neutral on those.

I always find laughable when governments are scolding or limiting peasants for basically nothing, while ignoring the elephant in the room.

* You need to conserve the water, California peasant! Ignore the fact that 80% of water in California is consumed by agriculture and we are not going to do anything about it.

* You need to stop using your gas stove, peasant! Ignore the fact that we are going to switch off Diablo Nuclear Power plant and replace it with gas plants.

Single employee is nothing. Union of employees can grind the company to the halt and needs to be negotiated with.

Unions popped up around 19th century in Europe, when unregulated capitalism was the policy of the day with consequences like working 16 hours a day, 6 days a week for meager pay in dangerous environment able to maul you or crush you when you done smallest mistake.

Same like pain is a response to damage of your body, union is response to abusing your employees.

Do people even want those items? I have a car with adaptive cruise control and line assist and I am not switching it on anymore, because: 1) I don't trust it. 2) I need to have hands on steering wheel, so what's the point.

Also the car is able to park itself using ultrasound sensors and it is just hard pass from me, because it is taking forever and I will rather use ultrasound sensors to navigate myself around than get to parking ECU to park and after it is "done" be forced to fix it anyway.