I'm not sure I'm following but I think what he means is that if normal parenthesis around an addition mean this addition must precede multiplication, these anti-parenthesis around a multiplication have to make addition take place before it.

Worse, it's canvassing for a political movement.

I will keep arguing that canvassing for a political movement is the highest potential thing most Americans could be doing now. I'm not talking about running for office yourself. You don't have to do it full-time. But try it. Focus on one issue and one bill. You could solve a key problem in weeks. See how this changes your life!

If you vote with your feet, you can solve many structural problems with a time investment of only 2-5 years.

Fine, just don't masquerade your canvassing as something that's supposed to help with your mental health.

Depends if you behave like some current canvassers and/or candidates. Of course, I mean those who are straight forward corrupt liars.

And the problem is there seems to be no shortage of canvassers who'll advocate for such candidates.

So, your 'highest potential' argument is somewhat poisoned.

It also deflates pretty slowly. I'd guess any breeze would remove the hazard altogether.

How does that compare to a horse? I want a saddle-broken bear.

It wasn't for fur, they ran a long-term selective breeding experiment just to see if they can pull it off.

The whole publication model is broken, not just the incentives. It used to be researchers eager to share their new findings with the few hundred people that could understand them, now it's throngs of PhD students grinding their way to degrees and postdocs trying to secure tenure. The journals are flooded with nonsense and actual researchers resort to word of mouth point out valuable papers to each other.

This is accurate and known to anyone actually in the area.

This guy invented a spec?

In our org, an RFC precedes a tech spec. The RFC literally is the "let's formally talk about this before we nail down a specification". For smaller specs, annotated comments can serve this purpose. Before this process, what we had found was no one was paying attention to tech discussions in our eng slack channels. Having an RFC gave us an inflection point where we could point back and say, "an official discussion happened, we decided to move forward with a spec".

Setting up the toolchain that's not Arduino IDE is a prohibitively high bar for a school child that wants to blink leds.

There is a version of Thonny[1] designed for use with the Pico that is great for education. Raspberry Pi have some good resources on getting started[2].

If your target audience is school kids, you really can't go past the micro:bit and Makecode[3].

1. https://thonny.org

2. https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started...

3. https://makecode.microbit.org

The Micro:bit Educational Foundation also make a web-based Python Editor at https://python.microbit.org which is designed to be a supportive introduction to text-based coding and physical computing with no installation, friendly error messages and device simulation

So far nothing prevents you from spending $100 to set up LibreElec on an RPi and leave the TV offline and dumb.

This is what I do, but… Kodi sure seems like it is on the downhill. Multiple things don’t work for me like HDR for one example.

I’m looking to see what I would get or lose with Apple TV or some Plex/JellyFin/other player with less baggage.

Does that work with the DRM from streaming apps, though? Can you get 4K and atmos with Netflix or Disney+ with that hardware? And an easy remote and UI?

Elementum to the rescue, all atmos/4k you can find.