When I see switches like this, I think ..

'Indefinitely Free'. Charge may come anytime. Stay alert.

Like with Tesla: 'Mostly Autopilot'. Crash may come anytime. Stay alert.

I'd rather use the default OS app password manager or setup rsync. Just so I don't have to stay alert about yet one more thing.

Are they doing '100 points of ID' or just checking email?

This is a trial. Standards for testifying in trials are indeed different than shooting your mouth off on TV. They even do the whole swearing to tell the truth thing, and you can go to jail if you don't.

China spends less than 2% of their GDP on the military (~1.7% his year) and has been since it briefly hit 2% twenty five years ago. If they were in NATO US senators would be calling them deadbeats and Trump would be threatening to kick them out for it.

They're not aggressive. They're a big country, but they're not even really that big in absolute military numbers. They spend about a third what the US does, less than a quarter of NATO, they have about a quarter of the aircraft the US does, most of which are a lot older, about half the naval tonnage and a lot less firepower, about a tenth of the nukes, one overseas base versus over 800 American ones... the only thing that's even comparable is the raw number of army soldiers which is ~60% larger, for a country with more than 4x the population.

Actually, at the extreme scales, which is the total volume of the observable universe, the universe is quite homogeneous. As I recall, to the order of 1-in-10000 variance. This is why Inflationary cosmology was developed, to explain the distinct lack of lumpiness in the universe, which is what we would expect if the Big Bang alone were responsible.

As astronaut Frank Borman put it, "a superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations which would require the use of his superior piloting skill".

The programmer's version of that would be "a superior programmer uses his superior judgement to avoid creating the bugs that would require the use of his superior debugging skill".

The risk in this scenario is that after a few iterations of people applying AI-generated "black box" modifications, users start reporting that the ancient app is crashing on them now and then, and nobody has the first clue why, or how to fix it... and since the crash isn't readily reproducible, you can't even do a "git bisect" to figure out which commit introduced the regression. Now you're left with two unappetizing choices: either live with the instability forever, or roll back all of the "blind" commits to the last known-stable version and never touch the codebase again.

So you're pissed because they let you?

I've only met users, so the creator's thoughts are sort of irrelevant.

It's stuff like this that makes donating your time to open source the most rewarding thing in the world.

It depends on the complexity... Safety matches are an ultra-simplified procedure. I was taught to use flintstone but have forgotten how to.

The human body produces things like acetone, cyanide and bleach - but does this in molecular amounts and carefully compartmentalised enclosures.

Grades are usually ranked certification systems. Grading gemstones, surface plates, instruments, whatever, aren't just a ranking system. They're a certification of belonging to a particular quality class. The ones from accredited educational institutions awarding certifications are certainly not meant to be just a blocky ordering of students in a class.

Steppers skip steps without damage.

Anyway, this software does not replace the firmware.

It's French. The French guy who created it calls it key-cad because, in French, it is indeed written that way:

https://youtu.be/V9y8H2JMRow?s...

If you're American it's not terribly surprising you've never heard it pronounced that way. You may have never heard croissant, champagne, or St. Louis pronounced or seen connaisseur spelled correctly either. The single syllable "ki" is even more subject to anglicisation, especially if even a few popularisers pronounce it that way.

KiCad seems to support both pronunciations. The creator has said he doesn't care which you use.

Everybody uses the public's tax money. You do, your employer does. That by itself isn't much of an argument.

Is there something specific you think CERN should open source that they haven't?