This had me rolling...

One of the things that Americans are largely oblivious to is just how much anti-American sentiment Mr Trump has created. With the latest sojourn into the middle-east he has hurt our economies and will drive up inflation and our cost of living. His response? To insult us further.

The US voted him in not once, but twice and as such we hold you all responsible for his actions. I am historically pro-America as I have spent so many years there. Now - not at all and I am far from alone.

Not American, but spent 5 years of my life living in the US and still a US tax payer. I donâ(TM)t recognise the place any more.

I had the Polestar 3 on my shortlist for my next car to be bought this year. Not now. My current purchasing policy: I don't buy anything American whilst America seems to have lost its mind.

In Europe we all use 220-240V. Common current ratings are between 10 and 16A (2.3kW - 4kW), hence it's practical for most people to be able to charge from a domestic socket getting around 15-30kWh overnight. However, this is not the way it is normally done.

In countries with single phase, almost everyone installs a home charger - typically on a 30-32A dedicated spur. This provides 7.2kW. In places where 3-phase 400V is common (e,g, Denmark) then you will see a lot of home charge points installed with 11kW points (16A 3-phase).

I live in the UK and the typical supply to a house is single phase 240V 100A and new build homes are increasingly coming with 400V 3-phase installation. My home has 400V 3 phase 100A (75kW) and hence I have a charging post with dual 11kW charging points.

Most importantly - this wasn't that expensive to install - the charging post was about $1,000 with the install adding about another $750 (and that's only because I needed armoured cable for the bit that ran underground).

Almost all US houses have 220-240V supplies (for dryers, stoves, etc.) - there is no need to compromise and use Level 1.

Oh look - AMD seems to have funded an open source implementation of CUDA for their competitive chips (announced on Monday). Did that lock in just disappear? I really hope that NVidia can maintain that 50% margin with competition.

The Australian ASX spent six years on this before abandoning their effort to replace the CHESS system in May of this year (https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/asx-abandons-blockchain-based-system-to-replace-chess/) I wonder what the LSE will do differently?

Really? For what tasks?

This could have been so much more. Is this what a "Principal Engineer" does these days? I kept thinking that pre-computed tables would have solved the issue better (the results being more stable and consistent) and would have been faster to implement.

An there I am replying to the wrong comment - so maybe I am stupid!

I like your passion, but you have to remember that you canâ(TM)t fix stupid.

Like many from my era... It took years to undo the damage!

East Midlands Trains has wifi, but there is a little bit of inconsistency in their network :-)

64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=186.522 ms
64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=382.941 ms
64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=218.723 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=357.108 ms
64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=1866.197 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=7 ttl=237 time=189.342 ms
64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=5 ttl=237 time=3010.007 ms
64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=8 ttl=237 time=186.937 ms
64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=6 ttl=237 time=3081.013 ms
64 bytes from 216.34.181.45: icmp_seq=9 ttl=237 time=196.033 ms

Given I'm doing 100+ mph and still have Internet access I guess I'm not going to moan too much.

I agree - it's why I believe you need to focus less on knowledge of the systems you work on, and more on keeping up with current skills and methodologies.

Wow - I haven't been so wound up by a post in a long time. I'm sorry but I need to call out the BS. The development teams I run in has an average age of 40-something. They are working on modern stuff (functional programming, very high performance modern architectures). If you're good, you'll get paid (significantly) over $100K as age has absolutely nothing to do with it. At the extremes I have a brilliant 25 year old and at the other a great late 50-something. What I can tell you is that I've rejected/fired/removed lots of people - all of them based on ability and performance. And I am I working on removing the role of "project manager" from the large (1,500 person) department I (co-manage) entirely.