It's worth noting that enjoying doing something and being good at it are not necessarily synonymous. I've always enjoyed fiddling about with computers and, about 20 years ago, was happily working as … (View Post)

During my time working for tech/software companies in the early 2000's, it seemed to me that, although there were far fewer women, they were usually extremely good at their jobs - better than most of… (View Post)

That would be suicidal. Fusion power remains a pipe dream, and the economic argument for SMRs is tenuous at best. What we should be doing is putting our main efforts into optimising the technologies … (View Post)

The word has a pretty broad meaning in German. The best translation here is probably "habitat". Edit: This works both ways. I've interacted with Germans who simply refused to believe that t… (View Post)

Why is 'literally' such a troublesome word? TLDR: "Literally" has been used as an intensifier for a long time. It's probably best not to use it in that way, but there's little point in rail… (View Post)