Electricity is sold on the market. If you live next to a data center you can choose not to use any services enabled by that center, but you cannot choose to pay non-datacenter prices for the electricity to charge your car or run your household

Get your new drug approved by the FDA, and ~50+ countries would follow more or less on autopilot.

This wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, because as far as I know, they really _were_ that good.

That might have changed somewhat, recently.

> Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland

> In 2004, Torvalds moved with his family from Silicon Valley to Portland, Oregon.

How about we keep it civilized

> > Not to be confused with Binary large object (BLOB).

> In the context of free and open-source software, proprietary software only available as a binary executable is referred to as a blob or binary blob.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob

Nitpick, but it’s just ‘blob’ as in ‘a big blob of bytes’. It’s not an acronym or abbreviation for anything :)

Unfortunately it is now a question of sovereignty and basic risk management, not nationalism ([0] and multiple other sources).

[0]: https://mspoweruser.com/europe-calls-out-us-tech-after-micro...

Electricity has been comparatively cheap (to DK at least) for a long time due to all the hydro.

I remember as a kid when visiting family in Norway, we were surprised that there were no rules on turning off the lights when closing the door to an empty room :)

Exactly - that’s the point.

Story points assigned to a SINGLE task is not for estimating time spent on that task.

Story points can - given prior data - give you an estimate of time spent on a GROUP of future tasks

I’d like to disagree on that one. A single story point shouldn’t be translated to time, but should reflect the relative complexity between tasks (ie. a 7 is harder than a 3 and so on).

You could assign relative complexity based on a number of things:

- number of integrations to other systems, - is the area well known to the team, - is the code well tested, - is CI/CD set up, - do we need a lot of alignment or can we just get started, - etc.

So you’re not estimating time, but complexity or hardness.

Then, supposing you have a stable team, you can go back six months and find out “we do on average 90 points per month” or similar

The linked articles are not about NATO obligations.

The CD-ROM I had was pre-SP2 (so no firewall), and our internet setup was basic modem + switch. No router with “drop invalid state” or fancy things like that.

So, installed Windows and plugged in Ethernet to fetch Windows updates.

2 minutes later, with no user interaction whatsoever, the PC was infected with malware.

I don’t see why that would be the case? In my country, most prices with VAT (which is what you’re charged) are nice, round numbers, but not the price without VAT.

I suppose the stores set a target price, and then adjust it a bit to make the price + VAT a “nice” number.

Is there a reason that couldn’t be done to make all prices + VAT multiples of 5c?

I meant “\makeatother, and a lot of other things whose meaning is not clear”