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I think a much bigger downside would be its effect on the price of your insurance. I can't speak for any other country but in the UK insurers have a reputation for being petty abou…

> For the opposite word, "expensive", it all depends on the word before it: "as expensive" or "more expensive". Frustratingly, I find this isn't always true in practice. Lots of pe…

I don't think the distinction you're trying to make is helpful here if I've understood you correctly. A good faith interpretation of haastad's comment would be that they were think…

GP is correct, per the README: > gojq does not keep the order of object keys. I understand this might cause problems for some scripts but basically, we should not rely on the order…

What you're describing is named the "curb cut effect" [0]. > The curb cut effect is the phenomenon of disability-friendly features being used and appreciated by a larger group than…

What you say about traction is a good point. I think "will it be successful?" is a very different question to "will I like it?". At one end of the scale for me is Rust. I discovere…

> It has been so energetically hyped. Real standards don't have to be promoted I find this interesting because it's the first heuristic I use to judge anything new, technical or ot…

You're absolutely right, there are about a million and one rabbit holes you can go down if you _really_ want to understand the tools you use but in the vast majority of those cases…

The reflog is very helpful but I don't think it counts as an "undo". Some operations (like git add or git push) won't show up in the reflog. Even the operations which do show will …

> Do I need to know how a gearbox works to drive stick shift? No, but it helps. If I treat my car's powertrain as a black box then it won't be intuitive that: * I shouldn't slip th…

I disagree. It has a formal grammar so at least in a CS sense [0] it's a language. Why is JSON not a language but e.g. TOML or YAML are? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_la…

I appreciate your comment. My intention wasn't "Go is dissimilar because it's bad and Rust is good" but I can see why you'd think that. I'll attempt to clarify. The reason I like a…

As the sibling commentor said, syntax highlighting is only one example meant to illustrate Go's sometimes unnecessarily frustrating design. In case it wasn't clear, the example was…

It's interesting that you find Go to be Rust-adjacent. Setting aside the USPs of each language (goroutines and borrow checker respectively) and just speaking about the general expe…

It should be noted that it's possible for electric (~heavy) vehicles to emit less brake dust than conventional vehicles due to regenerative braking

If you don't mind a comment about your English, I'd suggest that what you wrote seems like it's better described as "tongue in cheek" than "sarcastic". "Sarcastic" can have connota…