As living in neighboring Czechia, insufferable hot weather is here about 4 months a year, for many years as far as remember. Windows does not help, on the contrary, they have to be closed during day so hot air does not get in, and shaded to avoid radiative heating of interior. While thermal mass helps to avoid daily spikes and get interior temperature ~5 degC below exterior midday-afternoon temperatures, it is still too hot to live comfortably (unless one lives in an old house or a ground floor flat).

Countries of western Europe a generally based on welfare-state capitalism, not socialism. Unsuccessful communist countries of eastern Europe before 1989 were based on socialism.

European countries are generally welfare-state capitalist countries, not socialist countries. There were plenty of socialist countries (in soviet block), who happily abandoned socialism in 1989 and returned back to (european-style) capitalism.

BSDs are chill with breaking API and ABI between major versions, while Linux kernel keeps them stable (or at least not intentionaly broke them), so such transition has to be more complicated (like in off_t 32->64 bit transition where there are two sets of functions / data types and programs can either explicitly use the 64-bit ones, or be recompiled with define that transparently switches to 64-bit ones).

Not really. EGA card was compatible with older monitors and used DIP switch block to specify which monitor was connected. Its default mode depended on these DIP switches, so when switched for CGA monitor it used 15 kHz 640x200 text mode, but when properly switched for EGA monitor (e.g IBM 5154) it used 21 kHz 640x350 text mode with 8x14 chars.

That is true for CGA, but MDA 80 column text mode was 720x350 18 kHz horizontal, 50 kHz vertial, that was better even than EGA text mode (640x350).

Also note that regarding release date of original Amiga (1985), it makes sense to compare it to PC AT with EGA (1984), not original IBM PC (1981).

In article 13 of UDHR

Is it not possible just to pay a ticket with a debit card? (Which, i assume, does not require credit score.)

Checked first 5 holes in SSH in the list you mentioned, all of them seems like semantic errors that would not be prevented by Rust.

Great. Now all the people that for a long time warned against dependence on centralized proprietary services can finally say 'i told you so'.

Especially in context of FOSS development and GitHub it was particularly depressing. Common people could be excused by their ignorance of the issue, but FOSS developers should know better.

Well, the world is not black and white. Not being welcoming does not mean being hostile. Not being patient does not mean being impatient.

People want their emotional autonomy. While reasonable person would have enough self-control to not act hostile even if feeling that way, requirement to act friendly instead of just neutral/professional (with the implicit threat of persecution if the behavior is not friendly enough) is clearly over the top. That is emotional labor and it is degrading even for cashiers and waitresses, who are required to do that. No need to accept that just for contributing to an open-source project.

There are both worker's co-ops and customer's co-ops. One cannot say that the first class is 'true' co-op while the second class is not.

Historical definition of second is irrelevant. Current time standards (TAI, UTC) are defined in terms of the current definition of second. If a clock reports time sufficienty near to appropriate time standard, then it is by definition correct.

With 20 hour smearing you get that for ~10 hours (i.e. significant time interval) time on synchronized computers would be more than 1/2 sec (i.e. human-noticeable difference) from correct value. That is substandard quality for time synchronization.

Parliament rubber stamped the council nomination but where did the public vote for him?

Like in most parliamentary democracies, head of government is formally nominated by president or monarch (or European Council in case of EU), but it is the majority of the parliament who vote for him.

You have obviously forgotten that few in the EU wanted Juncker and if you think European politicians consider Junckers "election" legitimate then consider

Not really. Leading national politicians (e.g. European Council) did not want Juncker as EC president. After 2014 EP election there was conflict between them and newly elected MEPs whether the Council nominate Juncker or some of Council preferred candidate. But leaders of EP party groups expressed that they did not vote for any other candidate that winner of the EP election.

You think the public in Northern Europe would have considered the guy electable?

Well, definitely not worse than last five prime ministers in country me being citizen of.

My reading (and it has been some time) was simply that the commission can overrule parliament and that the council of ministers can overrule the commission.

From Wikipedia:

Article 294 TFEU outlines ordinary legislative procedure in the following manner. The Commission submits a legislative proposal to the Parliament and Council. At the first reading Parliament adopts its position. If the Council approves the Parliament's wording then the act is adopted. If not, it shall adopt its own position and pass it back to Parliament with explanations. The Commission also informs Parliament of its position on the matter. At the second reading, the act is adopted if Parliament approves the Council's text or fails to take a decision. The Parliament may reject the Council's text, leading to a failure of the law, or modify it and pass it back to the Council. The Commission gives its opinion once more. Where the Commission has rejected amendments in its opinion, the Council must act unanimously rather than by majority.

So EP can reject legislation in the second reading.

Rather than a simple majority vote we have an arbitrary 75%

Two-thirds is ~67 %, the usual margin for important decisions.

Well, after experience with unstable governments based on narrow majority of few MEPs, such hysteresis seems like a good idea even for national governments.