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Okay, that experience (dogs, theft and dead cyclists) was actually in Sicily, not north Italy, which is very different in many ways, except for the driving.
These roads don't really have "lanes", it's more of a squeeze past each other kind of thing if you hear a returned honk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPZhLiozAg
Being Italy, of course they do race cars down these roads :)
In the mountains of Italy, drivers give a short honk before entering a turn on a serpentine road, which usually can't be seen around. If there is no responding honk, they will take the full width of the road (making the very tight turn easier and faster). Tourist drivers have to pick up on this :)
In much of Europe oncoming cars flash their lights to warn others about dangers and (especially) speed traps or police checks, so they can slow down in time.
Here in Lithuania, flashing your warning lights (the four orange ones on the corners of the car) means thanks, for example if you let someone merge from one of the very short onramps. I've never seen this in Germany, where onramps are however much longer.
And amongst truck drivers it's pretty wide-spread to blink right to tell a following car you think it's safe for them to overtake you and blink left when you think it no longer is. At least on long roads where there are no obvious right turns. I flash them a grateful hand sign when passing their mirror.
> How would you stay warm?
Just like any regular outdoor dog. Find shelter, huddle together, grow winter fur and eventually adapt to the climate. Meanwhile, spend the nights in sleepless shivering fits - but survive. Evolution is brutal, but it works.
> What would you do when it rains?
Get wet! So what?
> What would you eat?
Whatever is available! In any place with a stray dog population, this quickly becomes obvious: Any other animal you can take on (unless it has guns), including other, smaller dogs. Forage for trash or vegetable matter. If humans weren't so crafty and well armed, they'd be yummy too. Stray packs certainly do have a history of nomming the occasional lost human (post-war Croatia for example).
> And most importantly, wouldn’t you be lonely without me?
Hell no. Most of the strays I've seen formed packs or sometimes pairs if they were strong enough to defend their territory.
The current gen is oookay to type on after you get used to it, but when I go back to my X220, the difference is that the X220 is a _joy_ to type on, rather than just okay. They also seem to last pretty well, given how old that X220 is now.
The 7 rows were nice because you had a few extra "media" keys without needing to Fn-combine (assuming you've set Fn to be off by default so you can use the function keys for your software).
There's automatic updates if you install it via homebrew/winget/[packagemanager of choice].
Sadly not the image search. Surely this must be possible. We don't need inline previews.
Back then the client (viewer) was still closed source, which seems to have changed since.
Of course it has RSS feeds. Anything worthwhile does.
Nice work!
I certainly would! More than one hour of interviewing is a sure sign of a diseased company that probably suffers from massive management overhead, internal conflict resulting in inability to make decisions or someone's complete paralysis out of fear of making wrong decisions.
You'd have to be pretty desperate wanting to start work at such a place. If not, better to keep looking and not waste your time.
> That's how tar works. Just the other day I was making a backup and streamed 5gb of data as a tar archive, opening it in the archiver took a lot of time.
That's because tar is the tape archiver, specifically written for a medium whose very nature is linear reading/writing and where skipping around was highly impractical or even impossible.
Ugh, this conflicts with my favorite file sync tool: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
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Annually (last year): Boat maintenance/upgrades €2547, Food €2333, Marina fees (mostly in winter) €1335, Fuel €900, Cruising fees €664, Shorepower €350, Entertainment €240, theoldreader.com subscription €17.
Details vary a lot depending on where we are every year and what exactly breaks on the boat or gets upgraded. That year we anchored in Greece for the summer and spent winter in a Sicilian marina with a good discount.
RSS is alive and well if you want it to be. I've switched to theoldreader.com when Google pulled the plug, imported my feeds and have been there ever since.
I'm subscribed to 125 feeds, 72% of which had new posts in the last year (following super low volume things is one of the many advantages of RSS). Most of the inactive ones have simply atrophied or ceased to exist entirely rather than turn off their RSS feeds.
I never log into YouTube but follow many channels via RSS instead. There's also Twitter gateways, although the one I've used stopped working and most everyone I care about has moved on to Mastodon anyways, so I haven't bothered with finding another.
I still regularly subscribe to new blogs, Youtube channels and other stuff via RSS and don't really know any other sane way to follow such things. I'll certainly not go and bookmark a bunch of sites and then click on them to see if they have posted something new or not - that would be insanity.
So yes, Google took a big dump on RSS, but then that's what Bigcorp does. Get on with it - RSS is fine. Build more feeds into your webthings because if it doesn't have RSS the grumpy old nerds like me will probably not look at it twice! :-P
For scripting I still stick to bash because it's more portable and I already know how to cope with its warts. And sometimes when I can't remember the fish syntax by heart, I just launch a bash from inside fish to run my command and then Ctrl-D :-)