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Conventional Commit messages have big https://goomics.net/361 energy. Or at least the mechanisms that repositories use to programmatically enforce their use. (I can't believe nobod…

I lived there, and I am familiar with that. I would be happy if they did away with all of it, including the state-administered lottery. But this is a great start of low-hanging fru…

Good on Minnesota.

Piggdekk in Norway are equivalent to North American studded tires. When I lived in the northern parts of the U.S., I had a set of these for times around freezing rains. Beyond the …

Driving discipline, culture, and rules in North America are Mickey Mouse. The reality of car dependency there means that there are people driving and owning cars who can't really a…

Yeah, it was interesting to see some above-ground-to-the-premises power delivery in some of the smaller Norwegian villages above the arctic circle. Things looked rather robust, tho…

Short version is this: If you are going to get into the business of introducing order dependence to test cases through global state (see my other reply on the parent), you will alw…

This is often the path of pain: https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/best-practices#global... .

Method signatures in gRPC present a pandora's box of questions: https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/grpc-method-discipline.htm... . The questions aren't unique to gRPC, however; gRPC…

Another similar naming rabbit hole (hyper-local to Switzerland): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanisch_Brötli .

As an American living in CH, I say send all of the (bland) Emmentaler to the U.S.; I wouldn't miss it! ;-) Inländervorrang for the rest!

Maybe better put: Bazel (and its predecessor) do support Go, but they don't support the traditional directory structure-to-import path semantic that we've come to expect in the out…

One of the worst things a developer accustomed to Bazel (and its relatives) can do with a modern language (say Go or Rust) is to model code and organize it through the Bazel concep…

Seriously. I don't know if folks remember this Java desktop research project from 25-some years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass . To say that it was slow w…

Gentoo and Linux from Scratch (LFS) were a great way to learn back in the day (yes, 20-some years ago) — and support relatively custom operating environments through USE flags (e.g…

He's spent too much time huffing Alexander Dugin's flatulence. It's no different to how revanchist parties in the United States these days characterize their battle against their (…

Those of us who are U.S. citizens who live outside of the U.S. suffer a LOT because growing disallowances like these.

I presume this is hat a based on the ribbon. Note: That link's (actual) photographs seem to suggest that the topic was not adequately researched or generatively produced. Namely th…

I don't have anything against ZSH or similar shells. I think they are great, but they are not my thing. Latency is a deal-breaker for me, and this is where autocompletion engines g…

Coming soon (again) to a Florida near you: Liberty of Contract and Lochner Era jurisprudence.

Don't think for a minute I want human drivers anywhere near bicyclists or pedestrians or assume they are anywhere better for general-purpose driving. Human drivers are awful, but I…

A vehicle that becomes blocked in a crosswalk is unsafe for pedestrians who want to use that crosswalk if it forces the pedestrians to walk around the blocking vehicle. There are c…

I was just on a business trip to San Francisco for a few days, and I observed the near opposite of this from the Waymo fleet in SoMa: * Waymo vehicle creeping into the pedestrian c…

Give the U.S. ten years and "clientelism" will have become a household word.

IIS: Talk about a throwback.