I don’t speak German either, but just say what you see and you’ll get it.

When fusion or fission occurs you get new atoms.

It’s Hydrogen that’s existed since the universe cooled enough for electrons and protons to make atoms. Seconds after the big bang.

That’s most hydrogen.

It’s never been fused into heavier elements just still sticking around and caught in the planetary part of the solar system rather than the sun itself. Or any previous suns.

There’s some helium like that but most helium was formed inside suns later, and heavier elements all formed later in suns or supernovas.

The stand up bit that launched a career.

Just in case you’re not aware of him.

Pat Martino

A jazz guitarist who suffered hemorrhage and seizures in the 80s. Had to have part of his brain removed.

It took 7 years of practicing for him to return to playing properly after the amnesia.

It’s a struggle no doubt, but if you want it then it’s possible.

Having tried to pick up a new instrument in adulthood it definitely feels more difficult but to be honest the key thing I had when learning as a kid was time.

As a kid I could work at it in big chunks of time and progress that felt great. In adulthood I have to accept I’m chipping away at the rockface with how little time to put in.

It is possible to make progress though and I’ve learned to delight in the small wins.

I still play my first instrument and can’t imagine the loss I’d feel if all that work over many years went away so you really have my sympathy. But if you love it, please don’t give up.

Music is a life long hobby that’s really good for you, and that’s a valuable thing.

Wrong way to approach it.

To parents, start using the word wrong.

Any time you kid does something cool you might have done as a kid. “Awesome, that’s so boomer.”

If they can’t do their homework. “You’re such a boomer.”

It drives kids up the wall when parents use slang right, but when you use it wrong it’s even more infuriating.

iPods had an 82% share of the US market at the time the term was first used.

https://www.theregister.com/2004/10/12/ipod_us_share/

At the time a “broadcast” to you iPod made the name podcast pretty understandable.

And there’s not much else I could think of to call it given technology at the time.

MP3 player was the generic term. But MP3 cast feels clunky.

I did hear audioblog used. But they weren’t all blogs.

It really comes down to the fact that at the time everyone knew “pod” meant “iPod” and that’s it.

Yes, but magnetic flux causes radio waves and there isn’t a guarantee these will turn into heat in the space you are heating.

They absolutely do exist. I’d just have to install them.

Almost…

Don’t overestimate the cost

https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-13a-2-gang-dp-switched-plug-socket-white-5-pack/49620

That’s the retail price for 5, including tax.

Trade will be 20% cheaper if not more for buying in bulk.

If I moved to the states, my home would get switches on outlets.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-13a-2-gang-dp-switched-plug-socket-white-5-pack/49620

These things last decades. Even the cheapest ones.

A switch should never reduce efficiency any more than the distance in extra wire (a couple of centimetres at most).

If it does I don’t know how you’ve found one cheaper than an already incredibly cheap product.

Fused plugs still have a big advantage.

The amperage can be specific to the device.

We do mandate all circuits have RCD/GFCI now, but we’re not taking away fuses in plugs.

If a lamp starts drawing too much current for its wire, it might be on a 20A breaker. It should have a 1A fuse in the plug.

Fuses on the sockets would mean either specific sockets and circuits for low, medium, and high power devices or a loss of specificity. In fact there are 5 levels, so 5 different levels to replicate with your system.

https://www.stevensonplumbing.co.uk/bs1362-fuses.html

For a short or earth the RCD trips. If more goes out on the live than returns to the neutral the RCD trips. If the current goes high but returns correctly to the neutral, the RCD does nothing, the fuse in the plug breaks.

Fuses are an inch by a quarter inch.

Fuses and plugs could be made smaller but to be honest the pins and wires need to be able to take 13A.

Most of the bulk is about the length of the pins. Making it mechanically safe so the earth connects before the live, making it difficult to accidentally pull out the wall, and making sure no live connection is contactable when partly outside the wall.

We have low power travel adapters for low power devices that fold away bits they don’t need. Or separate onto pieces.

I think we’re good. Plugs are still smaller than AC-DC adapters we use all the time. Calling the bulky is a bit of a stretch. They’re aren’t bulky, even compared to a modern phone charger.

It will work either way, there is no polarity when a circuit is made.

There is polarity before a circuit is made. One wire is live, one wire is a neutral return.

For a basic heater, plugged in one way will have the heating element always live, and the other way it will only be live when it is switched on and a circuit is made.

One is definitely safer than the other.

https://youtu.be/DdpGIOv33L4?si=JtN2I3VH4BhgSIyf

Boot = Bootstrap

If you’ve loaded up a virtual CPU first that’s not a boot of mainline Linux on the CPU.