It is not "ideological" to explore if, given the last year or so of US "FA" behaviour, the UK should decouple from it...

Finally getting the FHS out the door seems to be the key point to me. There must be a good reason for hiding that amongst all the other stuff...

Also, the Future Homes Standard, long long delayed, discounted electricity instead of constrained off, etc, etc...

Yep, my dad wouldn't let me get my first handheld (LED display!) calculator ~50Y ago until I could prove to him that I didn't need it for simple things such as multiplications up to 12... (Yes, 12, since we still had/have feet and inches for example...)

Because of computers/hex I can also do 16 (but forget about 176 :shrug:).

Also:

[1] https://lite.cnn.com/

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news (at least when viewed from the UK)

The mobile version of BBC has ton of ads

When viewed from in the UK?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questions/behind-the-scenes/ad...

I have worked with a lot of langauges over decades including YAML, and I regard it as one of the worst that I have tangled with for a number of reasons...

If your type checking was in the Martin-Löf school, and you started with a putative proof that what you wanted to execute was possible, then maybe! B^>

I used all three of those to some extent, in investment banking back when it was bigger than tech, and while I still have some time for J2EE (WAR in particular), the other two, especially SOAP, should be taught as cautionary tales to the young 'uns...

I have had some fun exhuming my old LaTeX skills and assembling a BibTeX bibliography from which I automatically extract the right entries presented in whichever style is needed for a given paper and for my own (HTML) site. I even publish the collection in Zenodo in case useful to others. I use the 'annote' field for the reminder you suggest.