You’re 15 years late for Europe.

Do you have any special qualifications like a doctorate in something?

No, met up with some friends living in Birmingham.

They did not beehave? They outcompeted local small beesiniess?

Yeah, what are you good at?

I bring 12 years of experience with system x and system y. I’m an engineer but I enjoy selling customers solutions, not just telling them what they need to buy.

Most friendly: Namibia probably.

Least friendly: UK.

Some context: Live in Scandinavia, and been in all those countries. Other countries I’ve been to: Chile, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium (technically, walked across the border from Netherlands), Austria, South Africa, Zambia, Kazakstan.

I’m fairly sure you would not want to break them down so your body could absorb whatever is in them more easily.

About three times the usual speed on a highway.

And a highway is about three times the allowed speed of a school zone.

So roughly the same as driving highway speeds in a school zone.

I think you could do it with a bitwise xor. Any pixel that is not zero should be different.

Napalm Death - You suffer.

I personally think it drags on a bit too long for karaoke.

Only if you draw a face on it and marry it.

Not in itself, but you should probably aspire to make a few more friends.

You’re not a bad person for feeling whatever you’re feeling. It’s your actions that count.

I can forsee some potential issues with it but the worst that is likely to happen is heartbreak. And at that age it’s to be expected from just one boyfriend anyway.

She is almost an adult. Offer advice but at some point she will have to learn to live with the consequences of her actions.

LibreOffice, OpenOffice compete with the office suite. Google docs is American but is a big competition with the online variant of office.

Linux and to some extent BSD compete with windows. Munich, Germany had a project to switch away from windows in favor of Linux. Or got cancelled after some other guy got elected, I don’t know the details.

There are a dozen cloud storage competitors. But that is something Microsoft is not dominating the market at anyway.

The government won’t care about gaming but the public opinion would turn against the xbox and windows, which would cause Sony and Nintendo to celebrate.

Yes, technically they could cause massive disruptions. Not likely they will.

1. They would not get paid.

2. Europe would suddenly have a very good reason to spend billions of euro on funding competitors.

What kind of sensor do you suggest for measuring that? I’m genuinely curious why they are not industry standard.

My guess is price and/or robustness. The RTCs we use are cheap and durable.

There are a lot of smart engineers that design those.

If you have an external temperature measurement it helps. But it can’t see the difference between a cloudy day and a sunny day.

If you connect it to an online weather service that helps, but it’s still hard for it to know how much the sun heats your home due to big south facing windows for example.

This is something AI could be useful for. Feed it forecast, inside, outside temp and let it figure out how to balance those against each other for your home. I’m not sure there are many systems like this on the market yet.

Does leasing the land pay enough to make it worthwhile? Gives you time to think.

If it’s fertile land you should probably use it, or lease it, to grow food.

Farming is not easy. Until you learnt to be good at it you’ll put in a lot of hours into making not much money after costs have been paid.

I dabbled for a few years before I made the switch.

You learn after you switch. Not before. Because then it’s easier to search for a Linux solution than it is to reinstall windows and get it done in the way you’re familiar.

If you can dual boot and do your daily needs you are good enough to make the switch.

Maximum freedom, minimum government. But make sure the 10th percentile also have a meaningful improvement in living standards.

How you ask? Fucked if I know. I make computers go brrrrr, not societies.

At work we run some software that while you can get it to run under Linux it’s not worth the effort even for me to bother.

One supplier is slowly moving towards the runtime being available on BSD at least. They also somewhat decoupled from visual studio in the latest release, while still being mandatory still it’s a step in the right direction.