That would be an interesting angle if your craziness didn't transpire through.

Sure, the USA is suffering from anti-intellectualism and populism. Their economy is starting to suffer from that, and is projected to get worse.

Europe isn't all that different. It has more culture and art-de-vivre, but has also been falling behind economically as its citizens move away from engineering and science.

Ultimately those dynamics are playing out quite slowly though.

the OSI defines open-source, and it's unlikely that license would comply either.

Sommelier is a real job; it's there to help select the best products for the people who appreciate the finest things in life.

I guess it's modern parlance, you could say they're similar to influencers reviewing products. Or evangelists using slightly older buzzwords.

It depends on the kind of stuff you run. Low-latency for example is by definition high-density, and getting more than 50kW per cabinet is usually a problem.

There is actually an increased number of people who make money from playing video games, i.e. professionals.

How illiterate do you need to be not to know that the names people use in different cultures or languages to refer to the same concept is not always a literal translation?

It can take several hours to cook.

That's why they have a wifi model, so that you can go hang out somewhere else.

In English it's called a water circulator.

A sous-vide machine is not only heating the water with a thermostat, but also circulating it to ensure the temperature is uniform within the water container.

That's why they're also called "water circulators".

The problem is trying to use developers as a replaceable serviceable commodity rather than having them own, design and build things.

Thunderbird has been slow and unusable since version 3.

Rust was built because the guidelines set by the then-CTO prevented using C++ correctly and led to most of the team misunderstanding C++ and looking for an alternative, which is essentially just codifying their bad C++ patterns as a language.

Many of the people from then are not involved anymore and Thinderbird is free to evolve independently as it sees fit now, so there is nothing preventing it from using proper C++.

A bitcoin mining setup is not like a real datacenter.

How would it work then?

The reality of the UK is that most public services are of poor quality, be it education or health care. Any middle-class family is aiming to not have to rely on the public system and use the private one instead.

What they're aiming to do is make the private system, which is already quite expensive, even less affordable, so that only the 1% can afford it. As for making the public services better, it seems the strategy is to make people have faith in it rather than actually invest resources to make it better.

Meanwhile even famous education institutions like Oxford and Cambridge which were propping up the UK on the international scene are failing due to bad government policies.