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It arguably makes sense in a large monorepo, but otherwise I would agree.

I don't see why I should even have to set up multiple accounts. For the vast majority of these apps, I see no reason they need to be geo-locked anyway.

I assume they're referring to actually residing and working in other EU countries, rather than just visiting.

Germany has a very strong culture of dubbing essentially everything. Just finding any showing of a film in its original language at a cinema is very difficult outside of major citi…

I'll admit that there are certain patterns/data structures/etc. that are awkward to implement in Rust, but to write good C++ you are essentially required to think about ownership a…

By what metric?

I recently moved to Germany (not to Berlin, but seems like most of the content is still relevant) and your website was extremely helpful - thank you for working on it.

It absolutely does offer more maths lectures than you could ever conceivably watch.

I can say for certain of course, but I would guess at that being the result of the poor service that travel network providers typically offer. I have also used travel eSIMs in Japa…

Not really anymore, unfortunately.

There was never a 'war on drivers' - just empty rhetoric that Sunak clung on to after the Uxbridge by-election.

Do you really expect a 10 year old to consistently be able to tell when an LLM is feeding them convincing-sounding but ultimately false information?

I think Engineering a Compiler is a great next step after Crafting Interpreters. It's both easier to get into (in terms of writing style and structure) and, as you say, generally m…

Indeed, while simultaneously doing little of note to address the issue (beyond further propping up the house of cards with schemes like the lifetime ISA).

What's wrong with Haskell's syntax? I think it's generally pretty nice though can be excessively terse at times.

Agreed. Electric cars are frankly a pretty poor solution to the issue of carbon emissions. A far better, more long term solution already exists - high density, walkable neighbourho…

Am I missing something? Is it not just a glorified fitness tracker? I can certainly understand privacy concerns but I don't get how a smart watch is the signifier of a 'broken' wor…

While I agree, depending on where you're staying, 'aparthotels' (hotels where rooms have little kitchens) are becoming increasingly widespread and affordable - can be a good altern…

Indeed. I haven't looked too much into this particular site, but I don't really see the utility of this kind of service in most large Western cities. I've rented in Zurich and am l…

Agreed. UK tabloids are an absolute blight. I wouldn't generally advocate for the censorship of reporting on such a case, but if it's going to happen, then tabloid 'newspapers' wou…

It seems like a very odd decision. It's not like OpenAI can't afford to develop versions of the application for each OS in parallel.

It was clear to me that that's what they wanted to express but their chosen visuals didn't convey that well at all. Expanding outwards from the iPad would have made a lot more sens…

You might be interested in taking a look at OCaml's extensible sum types which may straddle the line in the way you're describing.

That is not a proper alternative to real pattern matching.

I've yet to have decaf that tastes as good as the regular stuff unfortunately.