Is to give access to information that otherwise just wouldn't be there. If you're in a position where you can actually measure academic performance then you probably have a semi-functional public school system and you don't need programs like this.

These programs work well in intensely impoverished areas where the school systems have broken down or just never existed in the first place and information isn't available. Places where you're lucky if the kids are taught to read.

But it's going to be a really shitty two or three years. Eventually though the build-out will be done and will be in bailout territory where we're burrowing out Banks who loaned these idiots money to spend $1,000 on a 64 GB ram kit.

Clearly you've never done inventory management before. Managing extra stock like this consumes a whole lot of internal resources. Also given how many PCs Lenovo ship per quarter and assuming you need 2 memory units per PC we're talking for your 15 day extra (assuming that's what it is), about 6 million additional RAM sticks in inventory.

This here! What the hell? Explorer.exe is running permanently. File Explorer should just be an additional window. It's also loaded for literally every application (not written in Java) since it is used to display save as and open dialogues boxes.

Something about this announcement isn't right.

Technically incorrect. Trump has fucked up institutions that generated an incredible level of power for the USA as well. I've never seen a more America first person actively try to destroy America.

Technically incorrect, you have a giant asshole in the Oval Office, the buttplugs are in congress and they are actively trying to outdo each other to see who can get in that asshole the deepest.

Who said tariffs? There just won't be trade. Look at the historic trade deal Trump made with Australia. It opened up the beef industry to Australia reduced the restrictions on import. Hurrrah!. Except precisely no one is importing American beef, and literally every major beef supplier in Australia said they have no intention of stocking any American imports as their idea of "quality" doesn't care what Trump negotiated with the Australian government.

At this point much of the world has figured out it's easier to just wait out another 3 years until the Orange Piggy is gone.

Arduino isn't about the microcontrollers. It's about the IDE and the community built around it.

Non-EE people may find it much harder to program up a communication systems with an external display compared to simply clicking on the display in their IDE, having it load the library, and then typing drawline(x,y).

That said PlatformIO would be a good contender, I'm not sure of any others, and I'm not sure how dependent it is on Arduino upstream.

This! Arduino is a great kids project and the Arduino IDE reflects that, but the Arduino platform is actually powerful and using a system like Platform IO is orders of magnitude better for any project beyond making a light blink.

Errr .... we do. It's been a long time since I've been in a building without CO2 monitoring. Is that just a European thing? It's literally a standard monitoring component of every heat-recovery ventilation system in all new houses and has been from before people even knew how to spell COVID. My friend doesn't even have a new house (early 90s) and she also has a CO2 monitor in the living room which controls the ventilation system.

I retrofitted such a system to my house but I used VOCs instead of CO2 as it is a better proxy for stale air and cleanliness, and CO2 gets picked up on VOC sensors along with outgassing, farts, etc. The only problem is if I walk into the study with a glass of Whiskey it triggers the ventilation system.

Are you one of the people who says smoke burns your house down? Is a fire alarm not a fire alarm because it is triggered by smoke?

This is an anti-virus system not a primary virus identification system. CO2 is a proxy for air quality and ventilation, good ventilation and air quality objectively prevents the spread of viruses. Just because you don't understand a title, doesn't make it clickbait.

Congrats, you're literally the first one to mention COVID and your post complains about others mentioning COVID. You've won the dumb comment of the year award. Shame you led with this because the second part of your post is actually quite insightful.

Yes CO2 levels above 1000ppm can make you feel hazy. It's a good idea to open the window if you get to that level, which is quite easy to reach in a closed meeting room.

They did allude to it but they did a poor job of it. "CO2 is an approximation of many things" In this case they are talking about air quality and lack of ventilation in an occupied space.

If you're sitting in a room with others and the CO2 level is rising you're rebreathing their stale exhaust. It's a pretty good proxy for when you should open a window.

That said VOCs is a better proxy. With VOCs you can approximate CO2 as well, but also pick up other things such as someone's farts, though I suspect you don't need electronics to tell you to open the window then.

This is a story about a success achieved through global action using policy at a national level. A person directly controlling that national policy is inseparably related.

And while he hasn't done anything to damage this success yet (and it's not likely he will), his actions on reversing years of global co-operation at the behest of industry, lobbying, and not wanting to see something from his golf course very much put this at risk. It's 2025, we're now sitting an angry tweet away from reversing global successes.

In fact, the opposite is more likely to be the case. The man bullshits all the time about what’s happening. There is absolutely no reason to believe that the US government will be investing on the same scale as it did for the Manhattan project: 500k people over the years, 30bn in today’s money, 0.3% of GDP, etc. I am sure he’ll waste some government money on this thing, but it won’t be on anything like that scale. Most likely just a rebadge of current private sector spending to claim any inputs/outputs as his own success.