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Second to last point:

> While some recommendations include using a paper towel to turn off the faucet after hands have been rinsed, this practice leads to increased use of water and paper towels, and there are no studies to show that it improves health.

Agreed, but most I2C busses only have 2 or 3 devices on them. There are some boards with 16 or so devices on the same bus, but much more than that and you'd better hope you can either program their addresses or order them with a specific address, or you might end up with 2 chips with the same address.

I really don't like I2C. Yes, in principle it's pretty simple, but if you consider NACKS, slaves holding SCK low, what happens if your master resets while the slave is trying to send a 0 bit (hint: power cycle!), etc, it's so easy for the peripheral to get stuck.

SPI is much easier to write correctly, and pretty much only has the extra wire (usually not a problem) and the phase polarity issues as a negative point.

An important part:

> This is an observational study, and as such, can’t establish cause. And the researchers caution that the number of included studies was small and their methods varied considerably, which may have influenced the results.

People who are sick or have other health issues will do very little running, so correlation and causation and all that.

You can still use the Uint32/Uint8/... types. While performance can vary from system to system, the range should be the same on all reasonable platforms.

Not really, the C++ macro provides information about which source file the statement was generated from, as well as color coding.

Not all of the Greek letters seem to be in the database: a search for "Psi" doesn't reveal ... \psi ...

I was thinking about that too. Although any form of delivering automatically executing code is just another attack vector. It's macro's all over again.

I wonder when we can start using this function without running the risk that our bosses/clients Excel doesn't support this function. Lots of people still use Office 2007 and 2010, so It'll be a while I guess.

The details of this also vary based on where you're at. In the US, neutral is bonded to earth at every house I think. In Europe, neutral is only bonded to earth at a local power station.

€1.3 per litre, so that's $5.53 per gallon.

Electricity is still cheaper than gas, but electricity in many European countries these days is at least 30 cents per kWh (and rising every year), instead of the 15 cents you mention.

As a general indication, the average software developer in the UK earns about 45k$, while the average in the US is more like 60k$ (source: payscale). The averages for London and Silicon Valley will both be higher than that of course.

Healthcare insurance is more expensive in the US, but this is compensated by much lower taxes.

You're definitely right about holidays and vacation days, you'll have more of these in the UK. At the same time, even when you value a vacation day at 300$ (much more than either average UK or US dev earns in a day) and suppose our average UK dev has 20 more vacation days a year (he probably doesn't), that's still only 6k out of a 15k difference.

I agree that being near your family and friends can be worth a lot more than 15k$.

How about the fact that a software developer in Silicon Valley earns much more, up to twice as much as one in London? Before taxes that is.

That's strange. The patch that allows it to work has only existed for less than a year. Tmux apparently passes file descriptors over unix domain sockets, which isn't supported by Cygwin.