Currently sitting here developing the software for the ground segment of a space mission and visualising the result of algorithm changes on the data using a Mac with those specs - absolutely flies compared to the fully-specced iMac Pro it replaced.

This is true. It's also true that a large segment of the user base of lowest-spec MacBook Airs use their machines so lightly that this will never be a problem in practice during the lifetime of the machine.

Well, of course they will. That's the price-point that they have computed will bring them the most profit. You set your price according to what the market will bear - simple free-market economics.

The main reason that the UK has a problem today is because Russian-sponsored organised crime has established a pipeline to convince people they can legally live and work here and then charge them vast amounts of money to get here. Back in the day, this would have been effectively countered by having a presence in the countries that this is happening in, courtesy of the foreign aid budget. That got massively slashed years ago due to certain elements spreading the story that all of our tax was going overseas to foreigners. So if not bigotry, then certainly people weaponising bigotry for their own purposes.

Also, if you are really short of cash, the publisher has frequent sales, I've seen Command: Modern Operations available at 40%-60% off a few times in the past year. Really no excuse to pirate at those prices.

The definition is: 'obtained via a net reduction in outgoing cash'. The 'massive entry cost' was zero, and the net cost of making the switch is getting more negative each month. I'm literally saving money by driving a BEV.

A link to the science, which itself has several useful papers cited. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

TLDR; Serifs don't make much difference, but a serif font can (in some circumstances).

There are two ways to achieve that. You can buy a vehicle capable of doing that and pay the increased cost of running it over the lifetime of the vehicle. Or you can buy a vastly more efficient vehicle that meets your day to day needs and rent something suitable for towing when you need it. The second approach is what someone in the prudent fiscal conservative camp would take.

Depends on your 12-year old 'econobox'. A new BEV can be free - you don't get that with an ICE. Because our old ICE was really inefficient, the monthly fuel cost was larger that the cost of a loan to buy the BEV plus the cost to charge it. Scrapping the ICE and buying a new BEV literally saved us money each month. Of course, this requires you to be living somewhere where petrol is expensive, electricity cheap, and have an inefficient ICE.

I won't, because the fact that they punished him for breaking rules that he had agreed to tells us nothing about their concerns for his education, nor about their actions to remedy it - that's a presumption on your part. Indeed, being punished for breaking rules that you agreed to is a useful lesson in and of itself.

What happens to the other 1/3 of your shopping?

When recruiting we develop a matrix of characteristics we are looking for, specifically so that _where_ those abilities were gained can not affect the result. Big name universities are more about who you meet than what you learn. In fact, you may be advanced further at a second-tier university as they are more used to supporting students.

Education is not a contest - grading is a contest. Taking a course, doing your best, and coming out with a C is not being a 'loser'.

And when your customers don't understand that and demand UK certification anyway, you still need to provide it. That's the 'if everything worked perfectly Brexit would have been a success' fallacy.

It was only ever going to add to bureaucracy and red-tape, but it did allow some people to do some disaster capitalism, so the main aim of the Brexit project was achieved.

Or, rather than politicians agreeing to pay out cash to curb production, they should have agreed to pay _back_ the cost of installing the necessary battery capacity to deal with the cyclical demand/load issue?