This has been common in Sweden for decades, I had it in my previous house almost 20 years ago. If I remember correctly it was a 100m borehole. The only limitation is that certain soil/rock environments work better than others, so it's not suitable for all locations.
Heated our house in northen Sweden just fine in -20/30C winters.
It's a little unfair to criticise a CS course for not being a SWE course. But I agree that graduating students in CS without having covered the basic requirements in the SWE day job most of them will move into is a disservice.
I did CS (30 years ago) and things entirely missing in the syllabus back then:
- any and all soft skills
- version control
- refactoring
- testing and the value of testing
- staging and replicated environments for raw dev, QA, live, etc
Absolutely. Fucking. Everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
I recently saw this: What are some great YouTube channels worth checking out? which indirectly answers your question I guess for the people that posted suggestions.
Mine were:
- https://www.youtube.com/@TheTimTraveller - Utterly charming and funny travel videos
- https://www.youtube.com/@AtomicShrimp - Incredibly wholesome nerdyness in a multitude of forms
- https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck - Insightful and considered observations about the war in Ukraine
- https://www.youtube.com/@TheCriticalDrinker - Unashamedly non-PC reviews and observations on film and TV
Perhaps worth pointing out that the attacks require the attacker to position a piece of hardware between the Qi charger and the power source.