Absolutely. I did the math on it. I was really, really generous with the parameters. Still, we would have to turn each and every bit of arable land into rapeseed fields - every corn field, every garden, every meadow, every park, every bit of forest - every year! And it would still not be enough to produce the amount needed by the airlines in this country.

Indeed, greenwashing. Flying with bio fuel is just a toy, with no relation to reality.

You missed the key issue: Excuse for the extermination of Palestinians.

I never changed the oil in my mower. Never had an issue, except with the power cord getting in the way.

Actually de-dollarizing is probably the biggest threat to the US economy. Because the USA lives off the fact that quite a lot of dollars are hoarded worldwide as cash reserves. There are scenarios that see the USD below 10 Euro-Cents if the dollar fails to stay the default oil currency.

The goal is not to eliminate Hamas. The goal is to depopulate Gaza.

What keeps him in the race? The lack of alternatives. No Republican candidate but Trump has even a chance to win. The GOP has no viable political program that could create a victory, all they have are the blind and dumb masses of Trump followers.

That’s why professionals use XML or JSON for this kind of projects and SQL for that kind of projects. And sometimes even both. It simply depends on the kind of problem to solve.

Where else but Rome?

You went to a large tourist trap and then complain being picked? BTW, that could as easily happen in any US tourist traps.

The wonders of non-Euclidian geometry. Yes, this is a triangle, but as it exists in a non-Euclidian space, some rules you learned about in school which mostly teach Euclidian geometry, don’t apply.

Sorry, but the only AI TV you’ll get has the job of analyzing your habits and selecting additional ads especially for you while completely trampling on your right or privacy.

Have you tried making it yourself? Try roasting and grinding some dried peas or lentils, and report back how you liked that “bean-coffee”. Nobody is going to stop you. Do it FOR SCIENCE!

I stand corrected. Somewhere in the back of my mind I had the idea stored that it is closer to the hazelnut than e.g. apples and peaches. I’ll go and refresh my knowledge at the earliest opportunity.

Nonetheless, it’s not a berry.

A lot of things in botany have similar names, but are totally different things. A “strawberry” is a berry only by names (it’s closest relative is the hazelnut, IIRC), a “peanut” is no nut, either.

So it should not surprize when one learns that the Cofea plant is a Rubiaceae family plant, not a Fabaceae/Leguminosae family plant, i.e. what we commonly call “beans” like green beans, peas, or, amazingly, peanuts. It is just called a “coffee bean” because it reminded someone back in time of a bean, shapewise.

I’m glad that I live in the EU. I don’t even remember when I got my last spam call, that was many years ago.

That’s why I work with an extraordinary diligence to avoid making errors from the very start. Debugging is only a measure of last resort.

One of the key problems of learning VHDL at universities is that most teachers there are amazingly clueless about the language. Not only do you need a bit of a different mindset (you do not program, you define), but their knowledge of language and systems is stuck in the last century.

When I was a regular in a VHDL group on the site we don’t mention here, we regularly had students who got taught techniques that are obsolete or at least deprecated since 1989.

Heisenbug. Nasty buggers, especially in my domain: Embedded Engineering. When you are in the debugger, the whole processor is stopped, missing tons of data coming in, missing interrupts, getting network timeouts, etc. More often than not, resuming makes no sense, and you have to get straight to reboot.

I don’t make money with it, on the contrary - my son is a bit more direct here and claims I’m wasting money ;-) It is just a hobby. OK, a big one. I build my own models for fun and exhibit them at shows and events.

And: Curiosity is good. It kept the human race advancing.

No, the project is still in its early stages, far from what I would publish.

Regarding the amount of LEGO, well, if I write a resource management and inventory system, you can imagine that it is a bit more than a handfull. My current estimates are around one million bricks, give or take a few hundred k. One of the reason to inventorize it…

Indeed. I have done languages like Prolog and Forth, too, and have actually written a bit in APL ages ago. Yes, they are different, but in the end, it just adds a little bit of complexity. The underlying algorithms are universal, just the methods and structures to achieve them differ. Actually, the first programming language I have written was a simplified Forth derivate - in 6510 Assembler.