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Cash is still pretty common in Japan and Germany, so some markets wouldn't even notice a difference.

Yes of course this can happen in git as well, as it doesn't know the semantics of the changes it is merging, it only knows about textual conflicts. But if a change applies cleanly it doesn't mean that it necessarily also works, because the other branch might've changed the program logic.

It doesn't happen very often, but it is still worth running integration tests after a merge even if both branches were passing tests on their own.

Some alternatives is a structured data interface, a bit like PowerShell where not everything needs to be serialized and deserialized and parsed in every program in a pipeline.

Another approach is that the OS is basically a complete environment where everything is code. You can see the idea in the Smalltalk environments where you can theoretically interact with every object by sending messages. Lisp machines come to mind as well and one could even consider early personal computers that booted into BASIC as an idea of this (though in BASIC instead ov everything is a file everything is memory)

It used to be extremely common in Denmark a few years ago, with even the official ID system NemID (like BankID in Norway I assume) using nemid.nu.

I can't remember when I last saw a .nu domain advertised recently, they seem on the way out. But it seems business domains in general are also disappearing in favor of Facebook pages or Instagram accounts.

I find squatting .java, an island with a population 7.5 times that of Scandinavia by a tech company even worse. I'd be also annoyed if Oracle had .sjælland.

I think this is because the English concept doesn't map into Japanese. I've seen plenty of times where shops would have signs/labels saying OPEN and… CLOSE.

Tænk[1] in Denmark is a bit like that, which is not surprising given their customer is the consumer, not the advertiser. However they're not quite as much of an institution as Stiftung Warentest is in Germany.

[1]: https://taenk.dk/

I don't think it's about just air purifiers. If their air purifier review is so obviously low quality, how do the other reviews fare? Do I need to read a debunking review of Wirecutter recommendations for every category I read? Why read Wirecutter at all then, if they're not trustworthy? Is it actually a review or an ad for the winner of the comparison?

I think a lot of our mainstream media is so bad because nobody is calling out the shoddy reporting.

I don't think I've ever seen horizontal lights in Europe at all. Fairly common in Japan though.

Except it doesn't support the Gameboy sound chip yet. In general the only sound chips supported are very old and limited, so unless you make 2600 chiptune this is only of limited utility.

> Just go to one of the countless public toilets outside.

If there even are public toilets, if they are open, if they are in a state to be used (and not just an uncleaned mess), if they are free... plenty of reasons to go to a restaurant to use their toilet.

Tap water is unfortunately not included in Denmark; getting charged 25kr per person is not uncommon. Its a bit of a disgrace, honestly.

But at least public toilets tend to be free whereas I believe in Sweden these tend to cost money.

On the other hand: Why fill out PDF forms if you can just send HTML forms and submit them directly to the administration. This is how the Danish system works.

There was and still is. It is actively maintained, works fairly well and has even recently been extended with support for multicore.

A tunnel that you can't use at night makes it significant less useful. I really enjoy returning home by bike at night when public transport has stopped or is running on significantly reduced capacity.

And utilities are also rival, since water and electricity can run out and we've seen this.

By this definition next to nothing qualifies as public good because consumption of a thing usually… consumes it and there is not infinite amounts of things in the world.

Most of these things are one time investments (plus maintenance), which you need for non-renewable energies just as well (and one might argue that building oil rigs and refineries and transporting the fuel is more CO2 intensive than windmills and power cables).

Arguing against a strawman is not a useful discussion technique. I was talking about public transport exclusively. Go to London or Tokyo and ask people living there if they would prefer to exchange the tube/Tokyo metro with individual cars.

Wind, water, solar, geothermal energy…

> That makes it sound less horrible, except that such production doesn't exist yet at a sensible/interesting scale as far as I understand.

To me it sounds less horrible, because it sounds like fantasy technology that will not be economically feasible in the end so the end result is that this exception doesn't actually matter. Suffers the same problem as the whole carbon capture thought experiment.

> That's impossible to achieve. Not in 12 not in 50. It's not possible to cover with public transport all the places where cars can go. It's not capital nor operationally possible.

It doesn't have to. A lot of population is urban and curbing car use in cities will be a massive improvement. So would proper train infrastructure to get between cities.

Or maybe we should replace individual mobility with useful public transport, as electric vehicles are not a general solution due to all the issues you're pointing out and many more.

The difference would be that you wouldn't fork processes for `cat` etc, instead treat them as builtins (like `echo` or `which`).

There's also heated coffee in cans that can be had from vending machines.

Be sure to queue up 2h before opening time of the office you want to visit because everyone else is also dropping by in person too and the office closes for public service at 12:00.

It could also be indicative how verbose C is. Given it is used in the C stubs, it does a lot of data conversion from/to OCaml values which increases the line count fast.

Probably very little 32-bit embedded using 80486 CPUs. If your embedded system uses an x86 CPU that's newer than 1993 it should still be fine for a few years.

> You don't see metric countries resorting to using soccer pitches as unit of measurement.

Unfortunately Germany does.

The fact that it uses Times New Roman gives it a very (old) "MS Word" vibe.

I am firmly planted in the Nordic coffee tradition (living in Scandinavia) but the most over the top place to appreciate coffee was in Substance Cafe in Paris. It's like a japanese ramen bar but instead of pots in the middle there's kettles and a menu of coffees they have on offer.

Ran into people competing in barista championships there, so yeah, you can get decent coffee there.