What stops you from going to work one hour early, so you get off earlier as well? Most employers these days allow flexible working hours.
And if we are permanently moving our clocks to advance by an hour, why stop at just one hour? Why not have +2h or +3h so we get even more brighter evenings.
I think a distinction should be made between a foundation and a charity. A foundation uses an endowment to fulfill the agenda defined by its charter on the society. Only a small portion of the foundation's capital is used each year, as the foundation aims to be a more or less a perpetual organization.
A charity generally uses all of its annual income on its "cause", and needs to constantly raise more capital. Wikimedia sure seems to behave more like a charity than a foundation despite its name. I find this regrettable because it is probably the only non-profit internet organizations whose fundraising volume would allow it to behave more like a true foundation if it chose so.
> The money was transferred to an outside organisation, Tides Advocacy, sometime in the 2019–2020 financial year when the Foundation found it had a large amount of money left over because of an underspend
This is the root of the problem. Wikimedia rises too much money, and instead of putting it in a fund they "need" to find projects, programmes and - now apparently - outside organization that are in no way accountable to Wikimedia.
Instead of burning all the money they are donated, Wikimedia should first and foremost strive to secure the technical and financial continuity of the project by e.g. investing a lion's share of the donations to a distributing fund that provides perpetual passive income from e.g. stock market dividends. Only once that passive income surpasses the current and foreseeable technical running costs (hosting, bandwidth, project and engineering staff) should they start giving money to external organizations.
The creators of this website unfortunately did not consider that BBC broadcasts in British time. You have to jump to 1:59 PM (= 8:59 AM NYC time) for the beginning of the BBC coverage.
I personally vividly remember watching the news on BBC World and saw at least one of the towers collapse on live TV. You don't really forget something like that.
> One process runs for a bit of time, then it is suspended while the other processes waiting to run take turns running for a while. The time slice is usually a few milliseconds so you don't really notice it that much when your system is not under high load. (It'd be really interesting to find out how long time slices usually are in Linux.)
Isn't this the famous kernel HZ? It was originally 100 (interrupts/second), but nowadays often 250 or 1000:
Neat, but this is not a general purpose C interpreter. It seems to lack the preprocessor and is only able to execute the example program and itself because it has wrapper implementations for a static set of standard library functions including printf(), open(), read() and malloc().[1] Use a standard library function it does not readily support, and you're out of luck.
And if we are permanently moving our clocks to advance by an hour, why stop at just one hour? Why not have +2h or +3h so we get even more brighter evenings.