Yes + Appears it's a rigid structure w/ the engine pushing from the back? At 0.1g I suspect even with advanced composites only a few km would be possible.

This is Windows Aero all over again - why is this a persistent design?

You can't see or process the information behind the glass - at best it's major cognitive load to do so, at worst it's just very noisy with zero added information.

Because it looks really good in a five minute demonstration to the C-level execs.

That and because UK uses a ring circuit, which was seen as a solve for a copper shortage at the time.

Ring circuits generally way higher in power - and a lot more than a single appliance needs or could handle. Hence the need for a fused plug.

The upside is each socket can take a 13A plug (circa 3kW), whereas a standard US socket maxes out closer to 1.8kW.

One part not considered is the grid connections - esp across time zones or geographies.

Some examples:

The SunCable link between Australia and Singapore https://www.suncable.energy/our-projects

The Viking Link from Demark to the UK https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/01/16/uk-and-denmark-...

It's not necessarily a lot of sites that block non-popular bots - but often it's big sites (i.e. content-centric sites such as Social Media). Think Yelp, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.

That can add up to a serious percentage of the web.

If it makes you feel any better, I started my career in the '90s and the same vibes were around then. Back then it was all RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools were going to replace everything. After that is was outsourcing. After that it was something else again.

Seems you're describing something a bit different? In this case, this energy is used to run a cycle defrost on the evaporator rather than run the heat pump.

Not necessarily mandatory - but I'd also recommend a stable sort on the keys prior to `stringify`.

I’m going to jump to the conclusion that being opinionated is somehow negative socially for you? Or do you have another motivation?

If that the case I’d suggest - Keep the opinions - but add in curiosity.

All comes down to good naming in the end. The craft is finding both compact and specific names.

I think the mantra for all names to be short can be counterproductive here. If the code span of a variable is short, a long name can be fine (and very clarifying, perhaps even resulting in a comment not being needed).

Shorter names for longer spans are much better. But you’d hope they’re the very obvious subject of that span.