Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5
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I mean, if you have USB, for a non-mobile platform, it doesn't really matter. It's not hard to get a USB audio interface.
For cell phones or laptops, I can understand not wanting another thing to plug in, but for something like a Raspberry Pi...shrugs
What Rosebank produces will be sold at world market prices, so the project will not cut energy prices for UK consumers,
Well, it will a little bit, in the sense that any input to the global market does.
Tax revenue generated for the UK is probably more relevant, though.
Thames Water found itself at the centre of another industry scandal, with the supplier yesterday ordered by Ofwat to hand back over £100m to customers after failing to meet standards for fixing pipe leakages, sewage overflows and environmental protection.
Industry regulator Ofwat has ordered the UK’s largest supplier – which serves 15m customers- to cut bills after its latest annual performance review had found the supplier had fallen short of standards.
The report is the latest blow for the troubled supplier, which has been struggling under a £14bn debt pile,
My suspicion is that utility companies are not generally going to spend more on infrastructure if they have their price limits get cut, especially ones that can't handle their existing debt.
Maybe a better way to deal with this is to say that, for utilities with natural monopolies, like water companies, that aren't doing well, they can be compelled to sell part of their network to a neighboring utility that isn't having problems.
TIL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagonway
Wagonways (also spelt Waggonways), also known as horse-drawn railways and horse-drawn railroad consisted of the horses, equipment and tracks used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered railways. The terms plateway, tramway, dramway, were used. The advantage of wagonways was that far bigger loads could be transported with the same power.
I’ve seen the standard of driving. I really don’t want anyone less qualified than a pilot over my head.
A computer?
The IFS report, Reforming Inheritance Tax, found that in 2024, the wealthiest fifth of donors will bequeath an average of £380,000 per child, and pay inheritance tax of about 10% of this amount.
Wait, inheritance tax in the UK is only 10%? Damn, it's 40% here in the US.
googles
Ah, no. The Guardian is just factoring in the exempt portion.
Everyone in the 2023-24 tax year has a tax-free inheritance tax allowance of £325,000 - known as the nil-rate band. The allowance has remained the same since 2010-11.
The standard inheritance tax rate is 40% of anything in your estate over the £325,000 threshold.
Okay, so it works like the US, except that in the US, the exempt portion is much higher, like $13 million. Double that for married couples.
Is the primary residence exempt or something? Because otherwise, I'd think that that'd require a lot of residences to be sold to cover taxes, as a lot of houses are going to be more than that.
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Ah. No, but you do get an extra allowance for that.
Since April 2017, you've been able to pay less inheritance tax when leaving property to a family member. For the 2023-24 tax year, this transferable allowance is £175,000.
Also, it's interesting that the exemption isn't indexed for inflation in the UK, as in the US, it is. The UK has the very-favorable-to-the-elderly triple pension lock that does (at minimum) track inflation, but it sure doesn't extend to inheritance tax.
now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)
OP's words.
I think that that's a sheep.
EDIT: The top comment on YouTube says "goat mommy is Crimson Acid from Paradise Killer".
https://moneyinc.com/linus-torvalds-net-worth/
How Linus Torvalds Achieved a Net Worth of $150 Million
Red Hat and VA Linux went public, and since they acknowledged it would not have been possible without the programmer, Torvalds received shares reportedly worth $20 million. Before it went public, Red Hat had allegedly paid Torvalds $1 million in stock, which the programmer claims was the only big payout he received.
He revealed that the rest of the stock Transmeta and another Linux startup awarded him were not worth much by the time he could sell them. However, in the case of his Red Hat stock, it must have been worth his while because, in 2012, Red Hat became the first $1 billion open-source company when it reached the billion-dollar mark in annual revenue.
Whether he exercised his stock options is unclear, but the money he makes from the gains could be the reason why his net worth has continued to soar.
Well, that's one definition of being communist, I suppose. Myself, I think that it's fairly safe to say that Torvalds is okay with private ownership of industry.
Valve’s “fake Windows Linux device that just runs Windows games without paying Microsoft money – how is this not a violation of Windows TOS”
Valve uses a build of WINE called Proton, not Windows. Microsoft's TOS terms apply to Windows. They don't have anything to do with software that's simply able to run the same binaries.
EDIT: Ah, I looked at your comment history, and it appears to just be trolling, so I assume that this wasn't a serious question.
Only the last five are terminal shortcuts (for some terminal emulator, which the author doesn't specify).
Most of first ones are specifically emacs-like shortcuts used by readline() as bash uses it. You can also set it up to use vi-like shortcuts (I mean, I use emacs, but just pointing out that they're there).
The bang-history stuff with the exclamation points is also a bash feature.
If you use a shell other than bash, or if you aren't in the shell, those won't necessarily apply (unless a given application is also using readline() with emacs-like keybindings).
It seems like both the EU and UK motor industry would be big losers under the current arrangement.
I mean, that was, if more generally, an issue kind of raised during Brexit campaigning and negotiations. That cross-Channel supply chains were going to be messed up and that this would impact automakers.
Some other quirks I ran into -- native speakers who don't read much often confuse "their", "they're", and "there", because they're homophones. They learn the language as speakers years before they learn to write or cover grammar, and in that environment, it's easy to mentally treat the words as one. The people on that Europe forum virtually never did that.
But one error that did come up -- in languages in Europe, there is often a "Romance" word and a "Germanic" word and they translate directly into each other when you move across languages, whereas in English, sometimes both of the words exist as loanwords and have different meanings. Examples are "manikin" and "mannequin" or "block" and "bloc". I especially saw "block" get used to refer to a political group, whereas normally in English, you'd use "bloc" for that.
One that I'd been aware of for a while that Russians have trouble with is use of the definite and indefinite article. So, in English, you have the definite and indefinite article, "the" and "a". In English, you are required by the language to always indicate whether a thing is a specific thing or an example of a type. I didn't realize until listening to a series of linguistic lectures that that's actually an unusual property for a language to have -- English does that, but most languages do not. In English, you must have "the cat" or "a cat"; you can't just say "cat drank milk". But it was so embedded into my thought process that I hadn't realized that I just always do that. Russian, as well as most languages out there, doesn't work like that.
Well, there aren't paper costs, but now there are smartphone screens.
I'm assuming that you're not a native speaker, as I've seen many people in a Europe subreddit have difficulty with US headlines having different grammatical rules from non-headline text. They complained about them being not understandable; it's apparently not something that English classes cover.
Said forum also had people complain about title case use in headlines (the norm in American English, though not British English) and use of some words like "slams" that are a common convention in headlines.
EDIT: Here's a British English source listing some of the other grammatical rule differences for headlines.
I'm kind of surprised that nobody's done a Wikipedia page on headline grammar rules (or at least hadn't last time I looked, for people on that Europe forum), or I'd link there. It seems to me to be a common-enough issue that someone would have summarized them there, but apparently not.
EDIT2: It was a grammar difference that I wasn't even aware of until I saw it brought up there. I mean, if you'd asked me, I could have told you prior to that that headlines looked different, could have written text that "looked like a headline", but you learn grammar differently when learning a language as a native speaker -- you use articles and conjunctions and such before you've learned what they are, so you don't think about grammar the same way. As a second language, you already have parts of speech and grammatical rules under your belt, so the mental representation is different.
When I first ran into this, there was some guy, who I think was maybe German, insisting that a headline was incorrectly-written. I took a look and was equally insistent that it was not incorrectly written. He hadn't specified was was wrong about it, because to him it was so obvious that it was wrong, and to me it was so normal that it wasn't wrong and I couldn't even guess what he was talking about, so it took a couple rounds of back-and-forth before we even understood what the other was talking about. My English classes had never covered headline grammar (people in the US had been probably reading headlines for a long time before they were taught grammar in a school), and it sounds like his hadn't either, so neither of us had been consciously aware of the existence of a different set of grammar for headlines. But he was sort of doing the mental grammar diagramming that I would for Spanish, which I know as a second language, but don't do for English. The headline didn't diagram out at all using normal English grammar rules.
It is possible to get a USB power station. The Deck can charge at up to 45W.
I wish that power stations acted more like "external batteries" (would automtically be flipped on by devices when their internal batteries get low, will be charged after their internal batteries are charged), but even as things are, they do let one extend battery life on portable devices dramatically.
Environmental groups and farmers are waiting to hear whether a toxic neonicotinoid, thiamethoxam, will be approved by the government for English sugar beet farms for a fourth consecutive year.
I mean, all pesticides are toxic. That's what a pesticide is -- something toxic to the pest, while not being an issue for humans. You aren't going to avoid that unless you just want to swear off pesticides entirely.
Gareth Morgan, the head of farming at the Soil Association, said: “Year after year this failure to help farmers has led to the suspension of the so-called ban on these bee-harming pesticides. With so much of British wildlife in decline, it is critical that the government stops kicking the can down the road on this issue. Organic and agro-ecological farmers are proving that food can be produced without pesticides. Government must act now to help all farmers switch to nature-friendly practices across their entire farms. We must stop simply reaching for another toxic solution.”
...which I guess that guy does, but I think that that's probably not going to be a consesus position.
At 55% of these 29 sites one or more neonicotinoids were above the EU’s proposed environmental quality standard (EQS) – the level deemed safe for aquatic wildlife.
So this is unsafe as defined by (a) an EU standard which (b) is not actually in force even in the EU.
Open source community have their own chat system since 2014 (Matrix).
I think that IRC is kind of the original open chat system.
EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InternetRelayChat
IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox at the University of Oulu in Finland, where he was working at the Department of Information Processing Science. Jarkko intended to extend the BBS software he administered, to allow news in the Usenet style, real time discussions and similar BBS features.