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> Like Git, Fossil has an amend command for modifying prior commits, but unlike in Git, this works not by replacing data in the repository, but by adding a correction record to the repository that affects how later Fossil operations present the corrected data.

I may be misreading this, but what if I accidentally commit (not push) a piece of sensitive data (say a private key), but notice before I commit. In Git, I would simply remove it, and amend, and it is now gone from the Git history. It sounds like with Fossil, it would remain in the history, or am I misunderstanding something?

There are times where being able to rewrite the history is critical.

Unfortunately, the exceptions only appear in names and proper nouns, which are where you generally want sorting the most.

Like "Aalborg" being after "Zaragoza" in a Danish sorting. And that's more tricky with "aa" being treated as a single character in Danish.

> It's not clear (to me) when you are supposed to show the code with additional information, and I haven't been asked to do so.

The option with more data is only for official situations, like border control. That version is also in English and French.

The Danish title is very similar to the German and Dutch ones, Den sultne larve Aldrigmæt meaning The hungry larva Never-sated.

Another thing to note here: When people take a driving licence in Denmark, a CPR certification is mandatory. So a lot of people in Denmark has CPR training, myself included.

> Would FedAccounts be essentially FedWire extended for regular people?

My general impression with this movement, is not that it is a way of easing transfers, but rather a nationalisation of bank accounts. The subject crops up frequently in Denmark, where citizens are required to have a bank account, that the government knows about. But only private banks offer bank accounts.[0] So it raises the question; why does the national bank not offer bank accounts?

Then public interest, rather than private, could set rates for fees, costs and interests on these bank accounts. It also follows that in this scenario, it might be worth considering whether private banks should even be able to create money the way they are permitted to now, and only let the national bank 'print' money (both physical and digital).

[0] It should be noted that the law requires private banks to offer these account at no cost to citizens (though just one per citizen).

Notice from the DB announced that the 100'000 threshold is only for customers with a NemKonto at DB. If you don't have NemKonto at DB, the threshold is 0.

I know it is also happening in Switzerland.[0][1]

[0] https://www.moneyland.ch/en/swiss-banks-with-negative-intere... [1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/swiss-national-bank_wh...

So far, it appears that most people are either willing to suck up the interest or invest them. There aren't a lot of withdrawals going on. Probably still less safe to sow the cash into a mattress than paying about 600 DKK a year per 100'000 you have above 100'000.

Some context: Denmark has maintained a pegged currency policy since the 1980s, first against the D-mark, then since the Euro. To maintain this, the Danish National Bank needs to maintain inflation, and that usually entails keeping interest rates below what the European Central Bank's interest rate is.

I believe the ECB's interest rate is currently 0 or 0.5%, and thus the Danish National Bank's interest rate is negative to maintain the DKK loosely pegged to the EUR. This means, it costs money for regular banks to have their customers' money at the National Bank, and therefore offsetting the cost to their own costumers.

Initially, the limited was 750'000 DKK before the negative rates would kick in, then 250'000 and now 100'000. Danske Bank is hardly alone in this, a lot of other Danish banks have already done the same. The slow lowering of the limits is indicator that the banks more and more believe that the negative rates at the National Bank will remain with no end in sight.

Disclaimer: I am not an economist.

> very strong consumer protection laws

What if you go bankrupt as a consumer in the US? Credit cards are scarily easy to come by in the US, which suggests to me that credit card issuers aren't worried about consumers potentially unable to pay them off. Which further suggests to me that it's not really the consumers being protected, but rather the credit card companies.

How does consumer bankruptcy work in the US? Raking in a lot of credit card debt, that you cannot afford, could make one liable for life.

If some of them are aggregated, while others are submitted, it is not clear to me to tell them apart, nor where an aggregated story came from. One just says "Submitted by Carol", but I cannot click on the name to learn anything more.

I also notice you hotlink all the images, you might want to contemplate re-hosting the images yourself, or abandon the images altogether.

Considering there is English grammar authority either, I guess you can never be violating English grammar rules? You are merely in conflict with some of the English dictionaries out there. So even if the scale is different, it's sort of the same.

Notice that Consumer Council's page is about selling a house without a real-estate agent. In the US, buyers also have a real-estate agent. In Norwegian and Danish (and presumably Swedish too), they are known as «mekler»/»mægler«, i.e. mediator in English.

In Scandinavia, at least, only sellers hire real-estate agents, buyers at most hire an attorney (which they probably should anyway).

I am personally on the lookout for a house in Denmark, but have not closed (or come close to) a deal yet, since it's not urgent. But my general perspective is that the housing markets in Scandinavia are very different from those in the US.

For those mastering the Danish language, you can also read his Version2 blog entries,[0] which tend to be less Varnish-focused.

[0] https://www.version2.dk/blogs/poulhenningkamp

Except this decision was made by the relevant authorities and not by politicians. If anything, Danish politicians are probably not keen on this decision, but have chosen to respect it.

It should also be noted that Denmark has a relatively low infection rate, which is probably why politicians has decided not to interfere in the decision.

I used to switch between US and DK layouts, it's just so much easier to just have one layout. In my opinion, learning US Intl is worth it. Besides, it's pretty predictable for Spanish characters: á = altgr+a, é = altgr+e and so on.

Why not just use US Intl, and use ALT GR to produce á, é, í, ó, ú and ñ, along with æ, ø and å?

I have a strange ISO/ANSI US keyboard, with an ANSI left shift and an ISO enter key.

While all that is accurate, it should be noted that they have already mitigated some of the problems mentioned above (no more displaying number of keys left), but also that the entire system is being replaced this year with one that does not rely on a physical cardboard key card, but can use something like a Yubikey instead.

You can also change your username to something other than your CPR-number. Indeed, the problem lies more with other services that has used it as a password rather than 'username'. But those are rarer to come by these days.

Here is a comparison for European countries: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Mediapart is not Le Canard enchaîné.[1] Though Le Canard enchaîné is not available for free online. Their reporting also tanked Fillon's chances during the last French presidential election.

One can think of Le Canard enchaîné as the French version of Private Eye.

The original Mediapart story also references Le Canard enchaîné.[2]

[1] https://www.lecanardenchaine.fr/ [2] https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/290212/des-salaries-...

The states, sure, but the people? Some of them still felt a little betrayed after 1848.

While the discussion about why Scandinavian unification never happened, while Italian and German did, is indeed an interesting one, the broader point is that I do not believe it is reasonable to say either the Italian and German ones were inevitable.

It was by no means certain in 1820 that Prussia would be able to beat Austria over German hegemony, hence whether it was probably not inevitable. The article kind of asks whether German unification the way it happened was inevitable. It is not unreasonable to think of a timeline where Austria learns some real lessons of 1848, and becomes a political powerhouse, while Prussia withers.

The answer is probably no. While Pan-German and Pan-Italian nationalists[0] were successful (well, the German ones partially successful, what with Austria being left out), Pan-Scandinavians were not.

I doubt many things in history were inevitable. I do feel like German re-unification were probably more likely following the Second World War than German unification was after the Congress of Vienna, even if it looked bleaker for re-unification from the outset.

[0] To be clear, Italian and in particular German unification were not the success of pan-nationalists movement but rather strong political forces (like Bismarck) exploiting a popular movement for political gains. Put another way, German unification was not for the benefit of Germans, but for the benefit of Prussia.

There was also a caption at the end of that episode: https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions#Special...

There is also a list of opening cartoons: https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_opening_cartoons

I used to be able to know these captions by heart, and knew the episode by caption alone. Can't do that anymore.

And here is a list with some additional trivia: https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions

For the record, it's the Danish government. Denmark now performs both PCR and nose swap tests, both antigen tests. Somewhere between 200'000 - 300'000 tests are performed each day now, making Denmark the country in the world (of above 1 million people) performing the most tests per capita per day.

"Dynamic driving task" comes from the original SAE definitions, and it includes humans in performing the same task (for the relevant levels): https://web.archive.org/web/20180701034327/https://cdn.oemof...

My knee-jerk instinct was to respond with 'but what about UIs in other languages?' But then I checked Fastmail's solution of the same problem as Gmail's, which I have in Danish. Not because I am not comfortable with English, but I have come to appreciate when people actually bother to translate their UI to my language.

And their solution is straight forward; keep a few buttons for the most common actions with an icon along with text indicating what the button does. For further commands, a dropdown is available where all the commands are merely text.

Because usually the problem would have been to design a UI with interface constrains around the size of the text in English, but then »indlæs« (load) turns out to be just a little wider than your box had allocated. But keeping the flexible is the solution (and thus minimise its number).

At this point, Google Maps is the only Google service I use with some frequency. I always use OpenStreetMap first, but if I need satellite imagery or street view, I fall over to Google Maps. All their other services are replaceable (with reasonable replacements), as far as I am aware.

Edit: I suppose YouTube technically counts as a Google service, which I also use with high frequency.