Our after/before school system is run in partnership with the local YMCAs. There are high school kids that help in addition to some teachers, paid extra for their time, and paid staff.
Maybe you could join the local parent teacher association and see if anything can be done to make it cheaper.
All the schools in my area have before and after school programs for parents that both work or single parents or any other reason you want your kids to be at school longer. I recall my school as a kid had it as well. There isn't traditional class work but it serves as additional recess before and after school as well as lets age groups mix. There is a lot of social learning that happens in that setting that is good for the kids.
I don't get it, AI does some impressive things but I don't trust it to write any code that goes to production. I've used AI for many one off python scripts for visualizing some log files that mostly worked, which was convenient. Maybe AI is just bad at embedded C but the other day I had it write some code that resulted in a subtle error because the AI didn't account for C truncating, not rounding, when doing math with integers. It makes me wonder if most errors are going undetected since reviewing code can be harder than writing code.
So articles like this that someone is using AI in finance scare me. Maybe the big 4 are using AI as an excuse to put pressure to get lower rates, it doesn't mean they actually think AI is capable of it. Or maybe auditing was already a racket that is easily disrupted by another racket.
I also recommend that podcast but I would suggest balancing it with '5-4' podcast or 'strict scrutiny'. Sara and David do a very good job explaining both sides and the law but there are times I think advisory opinions could spend more time on the arguments made by the other side or the weaker portions of their supported view.
This is not true, in my experience, in rural Indiana. I hear the n word a lot for an area that I have yet to meet a black person. One neighbor was complaining about the California family that moved to town and brought all the drug problems with them, despite our county having been the meth capital of Indiana for years before they moved here. Somehow my first conversation with a friend's mom I met while visiting their rural farm involved how there were no black people in the area. But this is why all anecdotal data should be taken with a grain of salt.
You'd probably still win the wager but I do want to say there are some of us using C23. We even use it in our embedded systems running on arm based microcontrollers. Though we still do maintain some C89 code :(
Entirely possible I don't understand something as I'm not sure what you mean by taking advantage of higher data rates. We're sending data over UART at the max rate that doesn't introduce too many bit errors. Mainly we needed a protocol to correct for the bit errors (by rerequesting data) and I've always used x/y/z modem for that purpose.
I picked Kermit this time because I didn't want to implement x/y/z modem again and had never used Kermit.
This [1] claims Kermit is faster in some instances depending on what features you have enabled.
It probably depends on the bank somewhat. My local community Bank in a small rural town won't have many, if any, million dollar home mortgages, maybe some of the farm or business loans are that large.
Also I hope you meant £1M is ~$25 M today and not £1 :D
I have not used this and it says it targets embedded systems but maybe it is close enough to what you might be looking for: https://github.com/knurling-rs/defmt
I've used https://github.com/rokath/trice which is similar but targeting microcontrollers. It isn't immediately clear to me if nanolog could run on a microcontroller with its output directed over RTT/uart/etc or not.
Despite the project being archived and no longer maintained I continue to use it and recommend it. I use sourcetrail when diving into new codebases to help get a sense of the flow and organization of a program. I've mainly used it for C but also C++ a few times. If you have a compile_commands.json setting up sourcetrail is as simple as telling it where that file is located.
Though I do wonder if issues will start to crop up around new language features in C23 and beyond. We just moved our embedded C project to C23 and I haven't tried sourcetrail on it yet.
Last year I discovered I really enjoy group workouts. The local YMCA has several group classes and I find it far easier to exert myself and go when there is a group of people all doing the same thing as me. When I was by myself it was too easy to slack off or just not workout. But when I'm in a class it's hard to slack off or skip, for me at least.
At the age of 34 I've also discovered I love dancing. I do Zumba, sha'bam, and Les Mills Dance every week. Just listen to music and mimic the actions of the instructor.
The YMCA also has childcare that the kids enjoy which helps too. I don't have to find time when I'm not watching the kids.
Safety certifications add to cost. We recently took an EVSE through certification and although we passed on the first try it was still expensive and to pass on the first try we did extensive testing and documentation before submission.
Maybe you could join the local parent teacher association and see if anything can be done to make it cheaper.