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Denmark is somewhat more extreme in that regard because people often retain their friendships from primary school or kindergarten so social circles are very difficult to enter for latecomers e.g. if you have moved cities within the country or came from abroad.

Of course, not universally true but it is pretty common and the woman in the article does mention moving cities.

The Anne Pro 2 is mechanical and has bluetooth, maybe an alternative for you?

Depends on the amount of wallets being returned.

Also, the wallets have a cost too, so it is not only the equivalent of $13 being lost in some cases.

No, it is just that it is a video and not a text. I don't always have the means to watch a video when clicking a link, so it is nice to know that there is no text content just a video.

The concept of generics/parametric polymorphism has existed decades prior to that in languages like SML and proven to work rather well.

Is that the save icon?

Also in Europe, I am not getting a 403. Nor any "please agree to our 7000 cookies to track you" message. It is… mostly content, surprisingly.

> Unfortunately, there's no good way to have a font have sets of ligatures per <whatever you're working with right now>.

But there is, see Iosevkas ligature sets which switch different ligatures on and off. The editor can just opt-in which one to use.

There might not be sufficient editor support for it but you can work around it by generating different versions of it as default and then configure your editor to use that font. Not elegant but workable.

Sure, but try playing it with Comic Sans or Wingdings or Lobster or any other font and you'll realize why there are fonts for certain applications.

That's why e.g. Iosevka has language-specific ligations so you can chose between the standard, the slightly extended ML ligatures and the whole set of Coq craziness.

> And this is always a weird thing to me. It's like saying living in Germany sucks because almost nobody speaks Chinese. It's true, yeah, but that burden is on you, not them.

It is not about complaining that people in X don't speak Y, but rather English which, for better or worse has become a de-facto universal second language for people to communicate with. In Germany maybe a bit less but the only people not speaking English in Scandinavia are younger kids. For many Scandinavians it is easier to communicate across borders in English than in their respective languages (which are pretty similar already).

For comparison in Asia, in Taipei it is possible to communicate somewhat passably with many people in English.

But it didn't, really. NT 4.0 was followed by NT 5.0 (branded Windows 2000) and then by 5.1 (Windows XP) and then by 6.0 (Windows 7).

> It probably doesn't matter so much though because the percentage of people who continue biking even in cold winter and with adverse snow conditions is quite low.

This is not necessarily true. Here in Copenhagen the amount of people cycling in winter is not significantly less than at other times of the year. That said, we don't have much snow, but the bike lanes are cleared before the road lanes (to incentivize not taking the car into the city).

Fun fact: Taiwan (ROC) also has an unusual year counting scheme, where they count from the founding of the Republic of China.

I once bought a Japanese product in Taiwan which had an expiration date using Japanese years, included a ROC year translation of said date and the receipt was printed with the gregorian year. Three different counting schemes in just one transaction, quite amusing.

> how come so many successful Systems programs (e.g. Kubernetes) are written in Go

This is because what you call "systems" is not the "systems" that the lack of GC would benefit from. For all intents and purposes Kubernetes could be written in Python or any other general purpose programming language (and for example OpenStack is in fact written in Python).

On the other hand, systems like "writing an operating system kernel" or "running on a microcontroller" are things where GC might indeed be problematic and/or impractical.

Java is a bit special in this regard because of the Java TCK which has caused issues for e.g. Apache Harmony.

This is what everyone is doing. Look at your node_modules folder. How many of those modules has your company contributed to? I think even 1% would be a tall estimate.

Yes, I just love Debian not being able to update libsexy2 because some stupid filtering box blocks "sex" in URLs.

It didn't used to support it not too long ago so I had to setup my server to explicitly not redirect to HTTPS for one particular location because people would need to install apt-transport-https for it.

> Google Maps is very clearly "designed in California", with no awareness of the rest of the world.

I had the same impression in Asia, where subway exists are numbered and it makes a lot of sense to get out at the right exit but Google Maps does not really take the exits into account although they are on the map.

It also does not display the non-Latin names of stops, which would've been useful sometimes, especially when asking people for directions. People in Asia aren't often terribly familiar with the names of the stations in English.

The EasyCard in Taiwan (basically an Oyster card equivalent which can also be used at shops, so more like HK's Octopus card) can be used on trains throughout the country, so train connectivity can be done without paper tickets.

> I personally love these scooters. I'm living in Australia now where we don't have them. But last month I took a 3 week road trip from LAX to DC and back so I could hit cities I hadn't been to before. And in many of these cities, I used a Bird to get around. These scooters opened up so much more of these cities for me than I could have seen if I just walked every where.

I wanted to like them when I was visiting from Europe to STL but I couldn't:

- They require a helmet. I don't have a helmet and I'm not gonna buy one for a 5 day trip. Most people do not wear helmets but if police stops me I can hardly point at other people disobeying the same rule. - They require a drivers license. I last drove a car half a decade ago or so so I tend to use my driver's license at home, especially on trips abroad. - Using the scooters on streets in STL feels a bit scary. I commute to work by bike every day but we have cycle lanes and drivers who are used to seeing cyclists everywhere so it is a rather safe environment.

How so? OCaml complies way faster and you don't actually need to compile it. You can sort of use it as scripting language without any compile step to begin with.

Of course the lettering in Japan is not set in faux-asian typesetting since you already have real-asian typesetting everywhere else. Latin typesetting is mostly added to add a sense of occident stereotypes (to the point where the latin writing makes little to no sense, similarly how Superdry's Japanese slogan makes no sense to Japanese speakers), writing it in a brush stroke would defeat the purpose of such styling.

This is also why you don't see fake-cyrillic writing in any country using cyrillic because it is just odd and meaningless to readers to these scripts.

> hire local underemployed (and Soviet era educated) talent

You are aware that the Soviet era is long ago and the youngest people educated under a Soviet system are mid-30 by now? There is plenty of universities in Poland teaching among other things also Computer Science.

The shop thing is true though, especially in Munich (all of Bavaria really) where stores close at 20:00. Especially when Saturday or Monday are holidays, the rush in shops is like it is the last days of civilization.

Here in Denmark it is no problem to go shopping on Sunday at least until 22:00 at all and even past that it is possible.

It is so much nicer to not have to specifically plan on when to go shopping.

It is modern but the metro is just 1.5 lines and the new ring line takes forever to build. Some of the other extensions are only planned to open by 2024. So it is quite glacial.

The signature of `;` where it an operator is more like

(;) : unit -> 'a -> 'a

And you can see it as a kind of sequencing operator, since it returns the value of the right hand side unchanged.

Also OCaml to OCaml bytecode via ocamlc to Javascript via js_of_ocaml.

> tons of WW2 drama portraying Japan as evil

Well if I look at Japanese history in China in WWII and before , that portrayal might actually be justified. Especially given Japans stance on it, where museums in the country conveniently leave out Japans actions in China at that time. Coming from Germany that attitude seems… dishonest at least.