I really don’t know about English in Austria, Poland or Italy. My experience with English in Italy is 30 years ago, but it comes to: nobody speaks English, and very few people tries.

If you want an open minded population, you’re way better off going for a large city, than a specific country. Last time I was in Berlin I found what was described as an English language feminist queer bookstore. I doubt that you’d find that in a picture-esque Toscan town.

Be aware that you’ll need to have some formal training in English grammar and language theory, in order to teach in most cases. You can’t just drop in with a high school diploma and teach English.

If you’re designing for production then talk with the assembly guys, they will have options and cost estimates.

If we’re talking a one of, then just try. It’s only 500mm so not that much can happen. Especially at the slow speeds you mentioned. 20kHz isn’t that fast compared to the +100MHz that a cat5e is designed for when using differential signalling.

Are plugs a must? If not I’d consider soldering the wires. At least for testing the cable’s suitability.

If you must use plugs, then don’t use rj45. Some yahoo, like yours truly, will come along and go “neat, an undocumented ethernet capability” and fry something expensive. Have a look around DigiKey or where you get your parts, and find a less common plug.

And if you end up needing more wires, then get an old parallel ATA HDD cable from the early 2000s. They have 80 wires and are free at the dump.

Imagine any European suggesting that states seceding from the union be rewarded and the rest punished. It would be so bizarre.

You can do that? I’d think that you signed a waiver the first time you uploaded something. Along with agreeing to arbitrage and handing over your first born.

So you’ll be joining the job market? Good news is that you will be free of turnitin…

And here I was thinking this was about emacs and lisp. Yougster complaining about not knowing how to quit Vi smh they have never experienced the horrors of emacs

I don’t think that any language is generally worse for emotions than others.

Ruling something out though, without having anything but your own opinions to justify it, seems like scientific misconduct.

But in writing that, I had to search my vocabulary for 15 seconds for “opinion”, and I spend considerably longer to translate “scientific misconduct” without being satisfied.

So I will maintain my hypothesis that speaking a second language, adds an emotional shield by distancing the speaker.

I found myself writing an email to a Norwegian recipient the other day. I wrote in English, despite Danish and Norwegian bokmål being >95% the same.

It waters out our native languages when we do this, and it is, as you say, in favour of bad English. I find even the most English proficient Danish teens lacking in their vocabulary. Pronunciation is good, but they can express themselves.

I’ve given it a fair bit of thought. I think that the kids choose English, because it’s emotionally distancing. Saying something in English doesn’t carry the same weight, as using their mother’s tongue. Simply because they don’t feel the words the same. Occasionally I will catch myself using English for my internal dialogue, especially when I’m thinking about something that causes me emotional distress.

Is this officially the first bad thing to happen to Iceland that isn’t attributed to Denmark? I knew AI was coming to takes all of our jobs, but this is some black mirror level stuff.

Don’t lick, that’s dangerous, but nobody said “don’t eat 60/40 solder”. So go for it. Just remember to put a few sheets of paper in the bowl before taking a dump, otherwise you might break it.

I whole heartedly agree with you on the virtue of simplicity in design, and this heater is a bit over the top for its basic function. But we wanted something that

1. Could do 400V
2. We could control remotely
3. Was available for sale in Denmark in case if an RMA

and at the time that narrowed it down to either the Clea or neo series from adax, and I believe one other product line from a second manufacturer. The remote control part was really hard to find in 400V.

A relay would do the job, but they also wear out faster and the sound is noticeable.

While writing that, I found myself thinking about how significant the life span difference is. So I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations.

The defective heater had been installed for roughly 2100 days. Sometime during April we shut the heaters off, and they’re not powered up again until October, so let’s call it 50% of the year. The schedule for the heaters is usually two power on cycles daily. Again let’s call it 50% of the time. The house is pretty OK insulated, but let’s say that the heating element is powering up 4 times each hour. In reality it’s probably closer to 25-30% and twice an hour, so I’ll use that as the lower bounds for this calculation.

1050 days is 25200 hours, meaning that the heaters will have done between 12k and 50k power cycles in the almost 6 years of operation. I’ve seen relays weld shut before 10k, but MTBF for suitably rated relays on RS starts at 50k power cycles.

So maybe a relay could actually do the job. But then there’d still be the issue of the noise, which, while negligible, could still be annoying for some, especially in a bedroom.

Wow, thanks, that is much appreciated. I was trying to find a SoMe channel. And knowing that Adax isn’t averse to support is even better.

I could rewire the heating circuit, but doing so without the backing of an authorized electrician would be illegal. I’m already on thin ice just installing the heater by self.

But the thought has crossed my mind, as I have noticed there being an order of magnitude more 230V heaters on the market than 400V. On top of having to rewire everything, I’d have to put in a new 3 phased breaker, otherwise I’d be pulling way too much current… Let’s just say that this 1200W heater isn’t the only one we have in operation in my house.

But you managed to pack my thoughts into 3 sentences. Unfortunately that means a new heater, because I don’t have a source for the board.

I was thinking about contacting the manufacturer, but they don’t really have any post sale customer support. That’s all on the stores, and besides the heater has been in operation for almost 6 years now. So I’d they’d tell me to go away at best.

I don’t know what stopped it. I wrote the occupant, but it was really just me. Neither RCD or fuses were blown. There’s a fuse (bimetal in a plastic box positioned above the heating element inside the heater) in series with the heating element, but that’s 400mm from the short, and its probably only there to prevent overheating and setting clothing coverie the heater on fire.

A new heater is 200€, because it has to be 400V as there’s no neutral wire available. That’s why I’d even entertain the idea of repairing the board.

And even if you sampled at 10 sps, and did 50 sensors at 10b, you would still only be looking 5000bps or 5.8x10^-7 GBps, meaning that it would take roughly 26 years to fill up a 512GB SD card.

While I don’t know for how long the sub had been submerged, I doubt it was close to a quarter of a century. If that was the case, I believe that we would have been talking about that as well. Even if it was 500 sensors, at 100sps at 12b we’d be looking at 79days.

IMHO there’s only a few things a 512GB SD card would be used for. And I hope it was music, because I don’t think we should watch the final moments of these people’s lives.

Yes, it certainly bears semblance to my first 9 months in solitary confinement, before the hag dragged me out from her wretched womb. Curse you vile woman!

Well it’s what you get when you decide to instill democratic values in every school child for decades. Perhaps we should make note of that?

It’s finally coming to England.

Do you remember when Clarkson finally just gave May a Sandero? Only to destroy it after a single drive