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We have a choice of either 2-3 days at the office hot desking or 4+ days at the office with fixed desks. Most devs actually choose the latter, other staff prefer the former.

That's a cool variant. There are dozens of binary json variants that are neither very good at optimizing feeding a 'sax-style' interface beyond a normal json file (they are all ok, solving the obvious issues that json has while parsing: base10 to base2 conversion, string unescaping, string length determination and whitespace, but none of them are excellent) nor being close to a dom-style representation to skip parsing for repeated simple queries. This is the second kind, and the first of them that I am aware of.

I like especially the realization that we don't need tons of number formats (duh). The beauty of json is its simplicity, so I don't get why people that try to invent a binary version of that add this complexity.

This process has an infinitely small (but non-zero) chance of never terminating.

Non-native speaker myself, I had to do a double take as well. I think 'to regret sth' can have two slightly different meanings:

1. If I could reverse time, I would decide differently getting a different outcome.

2. I am sad that this happens, but it is still the preferable outcome, compared to the alternative.

I think I 'default' to the first meaning. But in this case the second is probably more fitting.

Well depends on how you define PII

> name, address, credit card, etc.

So?

Germany is still a net exporter of electricity. France benefits from that, because in recent years they had to shut down their nuclear plants during heatwaves, when the rivers they use to cool them got too warm. I guess that will only get more frequent in the future.

So, by how much did Germany increase its carbon output during the nuclear shutdown? Hint: it didn't. It went from 14.8 to 7.7 tons/capita. You can always argue that it could have decreased faster by keeping nuclear plants online. But please don't believe the headlines of opinion makers without looking at the actual data.

TFA says that the reactor part of a plant only makes up ~25% of the construction costs. The rest is the same that coal plants also have to deal with.

The term 'Schutzgebühr' comes to mind. No idea what the english term is. Basically a price people have to pay, for the sole purpose to prevent people wasting it if they don't really need it.

What threat is the security for?

.eu is not a ccTLD, because the European Union is not a country.

A clock maybe

Good luck with your quest

I stopped after 5 minutes (don't have so much time) and got 102. I guess thats what I am: average, not because of lacking potential, but due to lacking perseverance...

> It still has its own totally esoteric custom language, it still discourages globbing source files and requires re-running upon adding any file

We use cmake, with Windows as our main (but not the only) target platform. We found that not globbing is slow and impractical for us.

1. We generate VS project files, which then guides the build process. When you add source files using the IDE, the generated project(s) will be updated, no regenerate is triggered, the build system will do the correct thing: only the added file, not everything is (re-)built.

2. If we didn't glob, then given the nice local workflow above, people would often forget to update the cmake files and get CI failures.

3. When injecting cmake regeneration into the build process, then for some strange reason we found a bad serialization of build steps, which slows everything down.

4. The slow part on Windows seems to be that cmake has to use some system call to figure out if source file name casing is correct, which is very slow (for us the slowest part of the generation process by far). I don't recall the details here, but I think globbing somewhat reduces this issue.

All in all, I can say: figure out what works best for you and don't trust experts that discourage globbing altogether.

Two comments regarding flags: it looks a bit awkward, that the letters are staggered instead of deformed according to the flag curving. A whole other idea, of how countries are identified without colors are the oval car sticker symbols. On cars they are getting less common, but they are still commonly used in printed international instruction manuals and warranty notes and sometimes even on product packaging.

The blockchain is relying on the perfect solution fallacy. It tries to solve a problem that is mostly theoretical, does a very incomplete job and creates bigger problems than it is ever able to solve. The 'redeeming' factor is that on the way it makes some people rich.

A database does this. The trusted party isn't eliminated by blockchain, because someone has to code the implementation of the software. Unless you checked the software for bugs or backdoors camouflaged as bugs and compile it yourself, you trust someone else.

The trust 'problem' is overrated, because nothing in this world works without trust.

It only works on Pixels as well.

If I unserstand it right, this is in ducks a defense against contraception, not against coerced sex.

Further, if this is supposed to be an argument against legal abortion (I heard before from the anti-abortion crowd, that the body has defenses against unwanted pregnamcy), then the question becomes if this really can be willfully controlled and if we really want to limit the choice making of women to that short period of time, when they are being violated.

I think the disorder comes in, when women complain about it to their doctors, i.e. they are unable to control it. So I don't see a reason why it should be considered anything else in such circumstances.

I don't think laws have to explain how to technically solve these things. e2ee could be maintained, it all depends on the level of integration/interoperation that these companies will choose. Of course, it is equally likely that they won't bother (since e2ee is under constant attack from governments anyway) and just don't go that extra mile.

I guess ~15 people bike to work, the rest uses cars or public transport. I don't think anyone walks to work.

Hm, average apartment size in this city: 790 sq ft, average USA: 880 sq ft. Average household size my country: 1.99 ppl, average USA: 2.5 ppl. I guess we just have better working conditions in the office than average or in the USA.

I keep reading those comments that almost nobody wants to go to the office. In my (European) company, maybe ~80 SWEs, people were given the choice to either mostly go to back to the office (4 out of 5 days) or mostly work from home (3 out of 5 days at home, hot desking in the office). After 2 years of mostly having no choice and being forced out of the office, 80% of them decided to mostly work from the office after the pandemic. We always had a handful people working fully remote, and I think 1 or 2 asked if they could switch to that permanently to be able to live somewhere else. But otherwise people mostly want to be in the office. Notably people outside engineering seem to prefer WFH much more. I wonder why we are so special.

Instead of domestic production you could also buy them from China and put them on stock for the next pandemic, like a strategic PPE reserve.

Actually I didn't. But everyone else did, even though Russian troops were surrounding Ukraine. Now Russia is under much more pressure than Putin ostensibly anticipated. They wrongly published a victory piece after just a few days into the invasion. Also they 'made' a referenadum to station nuclear weapons in Belarus. So, I wouldn't be so sure is all I am saying.

A week ago Russia wasn't going to invade Ukraine. I think if there is a lesson to be learnt, then that some things we thought are certain really aren't that certain.

It's not cheap. I gave reasons why the world changed. You reasons (they used to listen, now they don't) don't hold water, because you can't point to anything concrete.

I think you misunderstood me. How did they decide what to implement? Reacting to the outrage of individuals from their user base? I don't think so. Instead they innovated and did what nobody really asked for, because they knew it was good and had the capabilities to do it.