Yet, if you exclude last week’s spike Gold is around its all-time high value, which is over 2x its price when Trump took office.

Meanwhile per this article the price of Bitcoin is lower than when Trump took office.

So the biggest by market valuation cypto of all either isn’t really correlated with people’s expectations of economic crash as you postulate or crypto investors totally disagree with Gold investors about an economic crash approaching.

Personally I’m starting to suspect that the theory that crypto is seen as a protection against economic crashes is either false, outdated or some crypto investors do see it like that but they represent a tiny fraction by value of all trading in that asset class so they’re not the ones shaping crypto prices.

Don’t take this badly but generally when people spout that “their society’s values are different from ours” about how countries like Morocco and Turkey wouldn’t be a fit for the EU what they really mean is “they’re Muslims”.

You haven’t see much of Europe if you think LGBTQ rights are looked at similarly all over.

My own native Portugal used to be pretty homophobic 30 years ago and there are still plenty of people around who think like that even though the country’s culture tends towards perceptiveness rather than judgement.

Or just go to Hungary outside a main city and ask people what they think about Transexuality.

Don’t confuse Northern Europe and Scandinavia with most of Europe.

Frankly whenever I look at a country like Turkey or Morocco I mainly see my own country, Greece or even Spain 50 or 60 years ago, with pretty similar values - though a different main religion - and average levels of education. Pretty backwards by today’s standards, but one can hardly claim Portugal, Greece and Spain weren’t European back then.

Looking at my own country I would say universal education is what made most of the difference in those things you seem to think are “European values”.

The main problem with Morocco is as others pointed out it not being properly Democratic, the whole problem of Western Sahara and its self-determination, the huge wealth-imbalance between it and the EU (read: fear of mass immigration from there) and European Islamophobes (who are not just the European far-right).

Whilst this wouldn’t work for this specific application we’re discussing (no USB support, no wireless), it’s an amazing example of just how little a microcontroller can be nowadays.

The entire spirit of Neoliberal Capitalism is that Regulations and Enforcement of Regulations are bad for business and shouldn’t be done.

This guys’ take is pretty much just a continuation of the takes of lots of publicly celebrated CEOs of the last 4 decades.

You could.

It just makes the design more complex (there’s at least one extra nasty corner case I can think of) and generally doesn’t add that much a performance improvement vs “run every 30 minutes”, to be worth it, IMHO.

It’s like people are trying to outsource the “figure things out” part of the process to the automated parrot which is the LLM.

It could be either way.

In a for profit setting when those who do the work are the very same people/institutions who measure the quality of that work (in this case schools which both teach something and then measure how well that something was taught), it’s not at all uncommon that the measuring methodology gets changed over time to yield better results for the same work rather than the work changing to improve the results in the existing measurement methodology.

This is why independent measuring of results is a thing.

In this case to know for sure we would have to get the opinions of existing medical practicioners who have worked side by side with recent graduates from these and other schools - if they tend to see graduates from these schools as coming in worse prepared than those from other schools, then this outcome we saw is probably due to the kind of situation I described above.

It only makes sense if it was checking for it being daytime (i.e. after sunrise and before sunset) which you cannot do in cron, rather than check for a specific hour.

Even then, using an LLM is about the stupidest way imaginable to do it since it’s not as if “when is it sunrise/sunset at a specific latitude and longitude and day of the year” can’t just be calculated with a formula or looked up in a table of values - its not as if the sunrise and sunset hours given latitude, longitude and day of the year change from year to year.

It was true 20 years ago, but is it still true nowadays when it’s the 30-40 year olds who mostly grew up with the kind of computer used in business settings whilst the 20 olds usually grew up with smartphones instead?

Every accusation [is] a confession

That is indeed something which has been very visibly and very often proven, again and again and again, in the last couple of years.

I reckon it was always so, but we just forgot it during the period after WWII and the ressurging of the far-right.

Yeah, even cheap microcontrollers nowadays with support for clock functionality have an ultra low power mode were the only thing running is the clock crystal and the clock functionality which uses so little power that it can run for years from such a button battery.

The thing could do the same as my stupidly cheap alarm clock that has some batteries as power backup and just keep on counting time without displaying whilst mains power is down so that when mains power comes back up it still has the right time.

The extra $1 for the hardware needed for it is hardly going to matter next to the overal cost of anything but a stupidly cheap microwave.

I have a stupidly cheap microwave which I bought a few years ago (because I moved homes and the last one, a rental, included a microwave) and it has no clock.

In fact, it doesn’t even have the simplest of displays - the entire user interface is one analog rotary control for power and another for microwaving time - the latter rotating back by itself at a fixed speed - plus a bell that dings when the second control reaches the zero position.

If I want to know how long till a microwaving operation is finished I just look at the position of the second rotary control.

Sometimes simpler is better.

Relative to the moral pit which is to have one’s military activelly targetting children with snipers in Gaza and intelligence services involved for decades in a massive child-raping ring, “merelly” razing a cemetery containing graves of allied soldiers is pretty much a moral high ground.

What’s a little grave desecration for a nation of child murderers deeply involved in systematic child rape?!

There is very little in the domain of Depravity that Israel could to that’s more shocking than what we already know that they’ve been doing.

The “funny” thing is that anybody thinking that a mere 5 years ago would have been deemed a conspiracy nutter.

The definition of “crime” is pretty much controlled by a small number of people and it ain’t a crime if there’s no law against it.

Always remember that the mass murder of Jews and Roma in NAZI Germany wasn’t a crime because it was all legal. Similarly, Slavery wasn’t a crime in most of the World, and even today in many countries, such as the US some forms of it (for example using prisioners as forced labour) aren’t a crime.

We’ve been indoctrinated into in everyday speech conflate Legality with Morality (as its very useful for those who control lawmaking for the riff-raff to unthinkingly shun those deemed law-breakers and side with law-enforcers), so IMHO it’s a good idea to, once in a while, remind oneself that Laws are made by Humans, not Gods, and the reasons for Humans to make Laws as they are, are messy and the results themselves are often bad and easy to selectivelly interpret and abuse, something especially bad in ages like the one we live in when widespread political corruption is pretty much standard.

A common trope of this kind of “Press” in the UK was (no idea if still is, as I left Britain some years ago) the “many generations of the same family living on benefits (i.e social security)”, which was part to greater far-right picture they very purposefully painted of poor people as leeches.

Somebody actual went and researched it and found out that in the whole of Britain - home to over 40 million people - there was a grand total of 3 families with 3 generations living on benefits, 4 if you count the massive stippend the Royal family gets from the British state as “benefits”, though they’re filthy rich and don’t actually need it.

A common schitck of the far-right propaganda to selects a handful of people who are assholes and happen to be part of a social group said far-right wishes to slander and point them out as if they’re representative of whole group. They do this for everybody, not just immigrants and it’s not just them doing it: for example, notice how news coverage of demonstrations from some News organisations tends to focus of the handful of people destroying things rather than on the majority who are behaving peacefully, something incredibly common in pretty much the whole of the UK press, even the supposedly serious one.

A phospor absorbs the incoming light and then uses it as power for its own emission process, in a processes called “fluorescence” rather than “filtering”. It’s a very efficient process because almost all of the light coming in and absorbed by the fluorescent material ends up used to emit light.

A filter just cuts out (literally “filters out”) things other than what it’s supposed to let through. Filters just block stuff and thus cannot have on their output anything that’s not present on their input. Further, filtering can be very inefficient because everything that the filter doesn’t let through just ends up as waste heat.

Filtering doesn’t make any sense for light emitted by a diode junction because that specific light emission process emits light of a single wavelength - it’s a totally different process from incandescence and only emits photons whose energy exactly matches a specific quantum gap in that junction, hence all emitted photons have the exact same wavelength, thus there are no other wavelengths in the light emitted by the diode to filter out - thus if you filter out that specific wavelength, no light at all goes through the filter because there’s nothing else there.

Calling a phospor a “filter” is like calling a system with a solar panel connected to a green LED a “filter” - sure, the spectrum of the light coming in is not the same as that of the light going out, but that’s pretty much the only way the thing behaves the same as a filter - it does not share any of the other characteristics of a filter.

Anybody with a Physics or Engineering background will react the same as me when somebody describes a fluorescent material in front of a light source as “a filter” because per the scientific and engineering definitions “fluorescence” is not at all the same as “filtering”.

Whatever source you learned information about LED lights from, it’s really bad and shows no domain expertise, which is probably why you ended up with some things right in your explanations and others horribly wrong. If I was to guess, I would say that you “learned” it from AI, as getting the general stuff mostly right and the domain expertise details incredibly wrong is a common problem of AI.

So are you disputing the fact that historicallly European Royal families have had a lot of inbreeding due to Royals mainly marrying Royals, or that specific fact is not one you care about?

Why do you care?

Do you know any of them? Are they your mates? Do you get paid for it?

Paper gold would suffer from the exact same problem as all other fiat currencies - it would be entirely backed by trust on somebody or some institution and hence could collapse if that trust was abused, same as it seems to be happening with the USD as the US Administration abuses the trust placed in them which amongst other things backs the value of that currency.

The thing with actual physical Gold is that one can’t just print more of it and after millennia its stores are spread out all over the World thus there’s no one single major owner, so its pretty hard to manipulate (the closest to it, funny enough, is manipulating Gold Futures - i.e. paper - though that only seems to work for inducing short-term market movements that end up naturally corrected).

IMHO people would be better of spreading their savings across a basket of geographical locations and currencies than using paper gold.