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Not really, at least not in Windows. There are no cross-application macros in Windows, just intra-application ones, and that only for some applications. It is a little better on Ma…

I've gotten surprised gasps for the use of etckeeper. "you can actually do that?" "why didn't anyone tell me?" etc.

Land registry in Germany is per city/town/municipality. Since land doesn't really move, it is always registered in the municipality where it is located. All titles, mortgages, owne…

> PS: Are those tiny, cheap, desktop laser engravers powerful enough to "print" on paper without starting a fire? Yes, you can modulate their power. It usually takes a few experime…

Not sure where the actual limit is or if they changed it, I also don't have any hard sources, just heresay that there is "no limit". But there are 20 buildings over 150m, and 6 ove…

The other answers around here are mostly right, but I'd like to add another one, which is right in some situations: Message queues are often the wrong tool. Often you rather want s…

I'd guess apple would invent some "made for iCrap" certification plus parts authentication to keep prices up and skim off some money for themselves.

While zoning in Germany almost universally sets the limit at the height of the local church (yes, really...), the actual reasons are building codes. Even cities that permit arbitra…

Only direct elections are democratic. Everything else is at best semi-democratic.

Locking someone up is a one-way punishment, they will not get their years back. Branding someone as a child-molester, even if they are later vindicated, is permanent. We already ha…

Excel implementers struggle with it. Half the features of Excel cannot deal with named cells. Try for example to use named cells in Conditional Formatting. Doesn't work at all, ran…

We don't need a subset of HTML. Actually, we need Markdown emails. You can format stuff that needs structure, but not abusively so (no blinking marquee banners in eyesore colors), …

Berlin is also trying to improve it's standard of living, social structure, economic outlook and overall cleanliness. Graffiti vandalism will have less and less of a place there, a…

Basically, in my ideal world, whoever builds an ugly enough building should be liable to remove it or improve it if it is deemed too ugly by a majority. Graffiti is (partially) jus…

Also, the noise pollution regulations that are in place exempt trains.

I think the reason DB introduces this kind of measures over the obviously superior first steps like "building a quieter train" is this: Walls are paid for by the state or community…

An ugly beton brut building defaces the landscape and the view that should belong to everyone. A beautiful graffiti can improve that view and landscape. Under those circumstances, …

> Since you can’t sue an airline, there’s little anyone can do except complaint to the Department of Transportation. I think this is the really big WTF here: Why the hell can't you…

OneDrive sync and "rock-solid" in the same sentence? I beg to differ. Frequent conflicts due to non-synced files, the client crashing, randomly failing auth, files that are indicat…

Now this starts to sound like ClearCase. (me shuddering in disgust)

> irrelevant for a VCS (cloud-native?!) Disagree. "cloud-native" to me sounds offputting. One of the main selling points for me of git over the likes of SVN is the capability to wo…

You are right in that the world would be a better place with more useful and actionable error messages. But: > How is it not obvious to the point of pain that you need to know WHY …

There are reasons for not reporting detailed errors to the user. For websites, security is a big one. Detailed error messages can lead to information exfiltration, exploits, finger…

This is missing the fact that the stainless steel from the ultra-durable umbrella is also easy to recycle. In fact, steel is far easier to recycle than any kind of plastic. Also, t…

Yes. But many parts of excel don't support those. E.g. conditional formatting just doesn't deal with names. Also, when you need names, it is a sign to reach for a proper programmin…