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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Ten years in any one position or ten years total in any elected position?

    Career politicians have their downsides but for stability you do want a portion of experienced people. Governments comprised entirely of ‘fresh blood’ tend to be a steaming pile of garbage because no-one knows what they’re doing.

    Age quotas could be a reasonable solution, if you had an MMP or other proportional system involving members elected at large rather than every election being a direct election.


  • The average age in most electorates is going to be pretty similar, unless you start splitting them up by age.

    So you’re going to have representatives serving for one, maybe two terms - anyone staying longer is going to have to move to progressively older electorates each election.

    Having them stick around for 50 years isn’t great, but having a constant parade of brand-new mid-30s MPs isn’t going to be any better.






  • It was a few years back, but after it hit ChromeOS EOL I’m pretty sure it just got some KDE distro; I don’t think I even used LXDE. Didn’t need to do much.

    I was mostly using it for web browsing, forums, spreadsheets, documentation etc. Nothing particularly strenuous.

    I did have one really fun time of modifying PDF engineering drawings by opening them in Libre Office Draw which it handled kinda OK.

    It did get a 240GB SSD but everything else was soldered.












  • HDMI and DP do not carry their signals in the same way. HDMI/DVI use a pixel clock and one wire pair per colour, whereas DP is packet-based.

    “DisplayPort++” is the branding for a DP port that can pretend to be an HDMI or DVI port, so an adapter or cable can convert between the two just by rearranging the pins.

    To go from pure DisplayPort to HDMI, or to go from an HDMI source to a DP monitor, you need an ‘active’ adapter, which decodes and re-encodes the signal. These are bigger and sometimes require external power.


  • The ‘door’ that blew out wasn’t an emergency exit: it was a plug that filled the hole where an emergency exit would go, if they put more seats in the plane and needed more exits.

    From the inside of the plane, it looks like any other row except the window spacing is a bit off. Not an exit row.