@scottjensonNot quite on your route, but you could come and talk with the Design team at IBM Hursley, UK. Would be great to chat about mainframe UX amongst other interesting challenges (all sorts but mainframe's my area). If you can't make it this trip, perhaps on the next one?
Pretty cold. Discoveries I made this morning:EVA rubber boots are no longer flexible and difficult to wear until your feet warm them up.LCD displays stop working.The fancy microcontroller thermometer had an integer overflow and showed +64°C when it was... I guess -31 or 32? 😆 The -25°C winter wiper fluid is now solid, but it shouldn't damage the cars as it has contracted rather than expanded like water does.The barn cat is still alive and got warm water and leftover porridge.LRT reports -34°C in nearby Ukmergė and that diesel engines can't run on jelly. Apparently LPG vehicles had problems too, not enough Propane in the mix: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2825089/lithuania-records-lowest-temperatures-in-30-years-cold-disrupts-public-transport#Lithuania #Cold #Winter #Diesel #Physics #Electronics
This is what the #EU is for:1) Dismantling, shipping & rebuilding an entire thermal #powerplant capable of providing electricity for a million people from #Lithuania to #Ukraine2) Securing defence funding for Ukraine for two years.Picture 20 separate countries trying to make these kinds of massive projects happen. Nope, wouldn't have worked!https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_3137
@ernestas The results are somewhat hard to read because there were separate votes for smaller parts of the document: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-12-18-RCV_EN.html I think the last section 6.10 is the important one, I’ll have to check in more detail after work to make sense of it 🤓
