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I live in Europe, never ever seen a CNC in a hardware store.

I ordered my kitchen fronts from such a place, to fit on … an IKEA kitchen. Giving it a different look, but the benefits of standardised units and the IKEA universe. This was customised mass-production, but still about 3x IKEA price point.

Given unlimited time, read all of them, learn all the languages. It will all help make you a better programmer in your preferred language. With limited time (as a normal being), start with the top 100 books. Any of them. The next will be simpler than the first...

I have an M.Sc. in Comp.Sci. Flicking through books like these, all the chapter titles resonate with courses, exams, and problems we solved. It also makes me realise I have probably forgotten more than I like to think.

On the other hand, bashing my head against graph theory and logic, has made me a much better programmer. Similarly, the hours spent in Van Roy and Haridi's fairly abstract and technically language-agnostic "Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming" made me primed to learn a lot of languages fast - because I had the primitives mastered.

Minitab had a good SPC toolbox back in the day.

For the longest time, open source solutions were incomplete in the sense that all of them did x-bar/S/R and then usually never got to the more esoteric but handy stuff. Multivariate, even less support.

not only, in most countries operating as a physician requires a license to operate. It can be revoked if the professional violates the terms of the license.

If software had such a thing, it would be possible to achieve something similar. It is not the oath per se that keeps doctors on the righteous path, it is just as much the treath of not loosing your job - but having your professional status revoked (i.e. permamently loosing the ability to work).

On the other hand, reviewing code every now and then, it would be good if you could revoke programming privileges for ever for certain individuals.

and the wasted CPU and memory involved. Git is by no means a good design for a comment-system, it is overcomplicating it in ways previously unimaginable.

On the other hand, remember that energy = power * time. Yes a kettle 13A kettle pulls 2990W in the UK and 1560W in the US... but it would take twice as long to boil the water in the US.

For the energy consumed the voltage is close to irrelevant.