LeonidasXIV

Yeah, it was so much nicer with cars everywhere. A great place to raise kids, because if kids need to go somewhere they can just take the car.

Glad you found a place where you can park 3 cars, it is very useful to have so many cars.

I am a paying Flickr customer but only begrudgingly so. Part of it is that Flickr lives in a somewhat weird no-mans land where it is bad for photographers but also bad for casual users.

As a casual user to drop my photos anywhere Google Photos is just so much better. It identifies people and things pretty well, the upload is extremely well integrated into my phone and it is absolutely a no-brainer to have stuff there. Flickr's Android app is slow and clunky, for many years it was extremely bad at actually loading images (taking forever) and is missing all the features.

As a pro-user it is missing customizability that I could have a "professional profile" and it seems all the good and useful organizational features are in a different UI that's legacy and hasn't been updated ever since I started using the site (no new UI but also zero new features).

The whole "deleting photos" thing is also quite bad. While I obviously understand that SmugMug had to pull the rug because they can't bleed money like Yahoo was obviously doing it just left a bad taste in my mouth and the improvements that they did is mostly "look we made a movie". Which is fine and all and there's space for that for sure but maybe also improve the site?

I would like to like Flickr much more than I do. It feels like it had so much potential and a good community but now it is entirely a ghost town where you post to groups only to have comments show up saying "seen in group XYZ". There's still some extremely good photography on Flickr and it is not quite overrun my trends as Instagram seems to be but ehhh, I just wish it wouldn't be so unpleasant.

In all fairness, this is Congstar being shit, a low-cost MVNO. They could also be shit by locking your SIM to the first IMEI they see on their network, so the only difference is that they need to establish a porting process for eSIM but haven't done so.

> It's the revolution that GSM brought: just take your SIM and move it to a different phone. No permission required.

This is not really true:

1. SIM-lock is a thing, where providers prevent you from using the phone with another SIM (because they sold you the phone below cost and you're paying it back through your subscription cost)

2. IMEI lock is a thing too, unfortunately. The situation might be different now but in 2011/2012 it was near impossible to use a local SIM in your phone in Japan because phone providers wanted to sell you a phone with a SIM so you can't use your desired phone.

It is hard to say what my favourite is, but the notion appeals to me immensely. There is a dedicated subreddit for that, /r/BuyItForLife.

I own a 1967 BelOMO-produced (Soviet union, now Belarus) Helios 44 lens. It is quite small compared to modern lenses but made entirely out of metal and glass and is the thing that I would guess will outlive me. These lenses have gotten popular in the recent years because of it's "character" (optically they're quite terrible).

Peugeot Paris pepper grinder. I've seen them used in restaurants, I doubt I'll be able to make a dent in the durability of the burrs with my home use. It looks quite retro and doesn't really fit my aesthetic but it feels so damn nice to use that other pepper grinders feel like toys.

It literally says why it is better and you even quoted it:

> However, those projects are written in platform-specific C, a language considered unsafe compared to Rust

Or to paraphrase it using your wording: "We did it in Rust and we believe it is better because it does not have memory unsafety issues that are the number #1 reason for security issues every year"

I used to live in Germany and the letters I still get are nearly 80% from Germany. My local government just does things online and never bothers me with paper. It is quite amusing if it weren't this sad.

I wanted to vote in German elections but that requires me sending 2(!) letters because for some reason web forms don't exist.

I appreciate the fact that e-bikes are bringing biking to the masses. I really do. But from this post I also read a lot of coping, because your cycling infrastructure is bad. Like the speed argument is completely bogus if you wouldn't need to cycle next to cars that are going that fast. If you had separated bike lanes, maybe not even attached to streets. Proper bike infrastructure is what gets people to bike, e-bikes get more people to bike.

So yes, it is absolutely great that more people are on the road on an e-bike, now more people can demand their taxes to be invested in proper bike infrastructure helping both e-bike and regular bike riders.

That's a good point, I also have been wondering why it is this slow. Maybe a good time to replace the Zero W with a Zero W 2.

The same argument could be taken to the absurd by saying you only use notepad or nano because they're likely to be installed already so you can be immediately productive.

That's exactly why you virtualize, so you don't just have a bunch of small Pis being mostly idle but less but more powerful machines running a lot of virtual istances that on their own are also mostly idle but you can put enough on to put enough load on the higher-powered machine to be worth it.

In a data center they should have enough instances that virtualizing makes sense from the perspective of power efficiency.

Not from Python to Haskell but Thomas Leonard[1] has a very nice series of blog posts about migrating 0install away from Python to OCaml, of which many points also apply to Haskell which he evaluated as a choice as well.

[1]: https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/06/09/choosing-a-python-...

Fact is that Xorg is more or less effectively abandoned, so yes, while distributions don't deprecate them yet because there's still a lot of places where X11 is required this is where it is going.

Hmm, I guess you should let Fedora know that GTK+ and Qt don't support Wayland given they ship with Wayland by default and these... just work.

And also no antenna connector. My Zero W is nice but the connectivity can be bad so being able to attach a camera without jumping through hoops would be nice.

I would wish it would support a few more fonts, like Iosevka, Hasklig and Fira Code. Like others I'd prefer if it didn't display the names of the fonts and an option to say "I don't have a preference between these two".

Also very popular in Denmark, not uncommon to see groups of people socialize in cementaries. Also, cycle routes through the cementaries can be quite nice.

Visual Studio (Code) have tabs as far as my hazy memory reaches back.

Which also didn't add multicore support, it still has a GIL. But it has been an extremely valuable lesson for other systems, so there's tha.

> The US has easy economies of scale for many types of business due to its large population. If you come up with a successful business model in one state, there is a low barrier to expanding it.

The UK had access to such a market and was quite a large force in certain sectors like finance but then decided to just burn all bridges.

Of course the challenge in the EU is a big higher because of different languages and possibly different cultural attitudes but the UK is now learning how much harder things were back in the good old days.

I generally agree that the rules were well-intentioned, so now we have seen a bunch of loopholes being exploited (basically dark patterns) so I fully expect the next revision of these rules to come down with improvements that would make the current dark patterns illegal.

> To claim their future existence, the EU government really has to prove their usefulness for the EU citizens.

A lot of it has to do with the EU government being the punching bag of local politics. Like the German conservatives would throw up their hands "we can't do anything against this nonsensical EU legislation", completely omitting that they are represented in the EU parliament and could've done something against it there.

And the population buys it because the in general the EU population knows less about EU governance than US governance. A shame.

In a way Copenhagen has done a similar thing. The harbour used to be a terrible mess in 1995 with sewage and whatnot going in but these days the water is so clean that swimming in the harbour became a thing. Last year the Diesel harbour busses were replaced by electric ships and the seafront is a place where tons of locals hang out and enjoy the city in summer.

Maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to uncover Ladegårds Å and get rid of the terrible concrete street mess that is Åboulevard.

Or you use contactless payment with your phone which then does not have a 25 EUR limit (actually I think these days it is more like 50 EUR) since the phone supplies some form of authentication, which a plain contactless card can't.

In Germany you have to have an address and submit it to the Bürgerbüro, that's all. But you can be unemployed and move from place to place in Germany, no problem, even to Flensburg. But you can't just (legally) move to up the border to Padborg in Denmark, since you need a residence permit and you only get that as a worker (or a person with sufficient funds).

> I'm not so much saying you're wrong as afraid you're right, do you have sources ?

Yes, in addition to alibarber reporting their experiences in Finland, the same is true for EU citizens in Denmark: https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-GB/You-want-to-apply/Residence-...

Where you see that you can stay in Denmark provided you're a worker at a Danish company, a student, a self-employed person, have sufficient funds or are from another Nordic country.

So this is very much up to the EU country and Denmark really doesn't want to have people moving there (and the rules for non-EU citizens are even more restrictive).

So in general the EU freedom of movement is "freedom of movement of workers", not just anyone.

One of them is mirrored and the way Canon is unreadable on the camera is vaguely annoying me.

In Android-land this is currently about the best actually. There is a chance of it improving over time as the updates will be decoupled from hardware support but the situation is markedly worse than on iOS.

MobilePay in Denmark (which is about the same as Swish, with very similar constraints wrt to phone numbers and banks) seems to be trying to enter the online payments business. But it does require MobilePay which is ubiquitous in Denmark, but utterly useless outside of it. So the rollout to other markets is slow to non-existing (and given how Danish banks - which run MobilePay - seem not to be aware of the rest of the world), so if I were a merchant no way in hell I would chose to exclusively accept MobilePay online.

Yes, but this can be easily worked around by creating custom types that wrap the integer (and can be unwrapped on compile time) and some conversion functions. So slightly more tedious but saying one can't define complex constraints on static types is not quite correct.

It truly is, theft in general. I moved to Denmark expecting it to be as safe as Germany only to have my backpack stolen while I was eating. Of course the police can't do anything about it, because why would they, they're busy raiding Christiania. At work 2 of my colleagues had their bikes stolen and mine looks deliberately beat up so it doesn't attract attention.

Oh yes, refugees. Never had a single problem with them. A nice Syrian restaurant would actually be on my wishlist.