I live in London. Can you tell me where I apparently canâ(TM)t go?

This just seems so short-sighted. You spend a bunch of money familiarising with the code knowing that youâ(TM)ll be forced to do it again after youâ(TM)ve forgotten it. This is an opportunity to eliminate an unnecessary upgrade step. Each step of course will risk new and different regressions. Never mind that people donâ(TM)t find working on old code and tooling very motivational.

Iâ(TM)m not so au fait with the Java world anymore, but in C++ land, there are some serious benefits from using new compilers in terms of code speed and better language features and compiler errors/warning they help you write better code. Every time we upgrade, the compiler finds something in our 25 year old code base that shouldnâ(TM)t have worked!

Our former colonies have all made the metric switch just fine. Canada's a bit confused because the building industry tends to be Imperial (or the US equivalents), but otherwise they're switched fine. As a Briton who emigrated to Canada as an adult and married an Aussie, before returning to the UK, I can attest to the fact that you can adjust. I don't do anything in miles anymore, even though I've been back in the UK almost 20 years. For a while I did low temperatures in celsius (I'd lived in Canada) and high temperatures in Farenheit (I'd live on a RAF base in Cyprus in the early 80s and later in the US in my 20s), but then I lived in Melbourne and experienced high temperatures and metric at the same time. It comes down to experiences.

Pints are defined in mls! Please don't go metric in the Aussie way: their beers are tiny ;)

But Ireland, Malta and Cyprus can continue driving on the on the left? Would the province of Northern Ireland be given a special exemption? Seems fair given that it's already got half a foot in the EU already due to Boris's Brexit deal that sold them out and undermined British sovereignty with a line down through the Irish Sea. Or would you force a switch of sides when crossing the border? That would all seem to undermine the Good Friday Agreement though.

Two decades seems a bit arbritary, maybe even spiteful. Maybe an absolute majority of the electorate rather than just of those who bothered to vote or perhaps a clear margin of 20% or more would be a better measure of suitability to rejoin the EU. Anything less risks reversal a few years later.

I don't think many people supporting rejoining actually realise or support the idea that rejoining won't be on the same terms as before. You're alluding to that in a spiteful and unrealistic way, but your comment is based in reality.

Can I run Homebrew on that? What about Linux, Windows and macOS VMs?

Thatâ(TM)s not true: they have a matte option.

Wrong: macOS can be installed without an email address or phone number.

... you insensitive clod!

And it works just as good, if not better, than the fully up-to-date Office 365 on my work Mac.

Your error is on this line:

104,544,000 square feet / (5280 feet / mile) = 19,800 square miles

You need to square the denominator so that you're dividing by the number of square feet in a square mile. 104,544,000/5280^2 = 3.75

An acre is 1/640th of a square mile, so 2,400 acres/640 = 3.75 sq miles.

An acre is defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is equal to 10 sq chains. There are 80 chains in a mile, or 6,400 sq chains, hence dividing by 640.

God, I love these old units. They make me feel so feudal!

You're thinking of supercavitation. While it's something used for underwater vessels such as torpedoes, is it the same principle for partially submerged hulls?
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Not strictly true, historically. What we will probably see is the death of is 200-man IT projects. But they always failed anyway and were wasteful garbage so good riddance.

A lot of bread is ultra processed food, which will kill you. Have you noticed that it no longer goes mouldy or stale like it used to? That ain't natural.

When are when are we going to see American ships in the Caspian Sea?

Americans forces stationed in Afghanistan couldn't stop things getting across the border in to Afghanistan, so how successful do you think they're going to be when they're not even in the country?

As long as the US blockades the Straits of Hormuz, so will Iran. Iran has more tolerance to pain than American voters do. Today's news: Trump chickened out again and didn't attack Iran.

I'm all for criticising Israel; what they've done in Gaza is disproportionate and probably amounts to war crimes. This doesn't change the fact that there is widespread left wing antisemitism. See for example the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report on Labour antisemitism, published in October 2020, that found the Labour Party had committed unlawful acts of discrimination and harassment against Jewish members, highlighting serious failings in its handling of antisemitism complaints and political interference in the process. The former leader of the Labour Party who wanted to be prime minister continues to downplay it and deny there was a problem. AmiMojo has defended the man on this site and posted on multiple occasions that demonstrate his position. Many people in the UK are using Jewish people as a proxy for Israel and there's been a rise of violent antisemitic hate crimes against them. They don't deserve to live in fear, but the leaders of left wing parties in the UK will not speak out, just like AmiMoJo won't either.