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by gpvos 3y ago
Actually that parking sign may come from an old German parking sign, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666622 .
572.
by gpvos 3y ago
Oops, yeah, you are correct about the relative ages, I wrote a bit too fast there.
573.
by gpvos 3y ago
A very American article. To Europeans (and people in most other places) the answer is obvious that it comes from the street signs. The only open question is where their designers got the idea from. I was rather bemused that the article take
574.
by gpvos 3y ago
Pretty well, so to see.
575.
by gpvos 3y ago
In this case I think it refers to organized religion in general, which is older, roughly dating to the beginning of agriculture and city formation.
576.
by gpvos 3y ago
You get far by only knowing the main categories: circle with red border is forbidden, blue circle is mandatory, blue square is informational.
577.
by gpvos 3y ago
Oh wow, that's terribly confusing.
578.
by gpvos 3y ago
It does mean that after entering that road you aren't allowed to turn around and go back, so there is a bit of a mandatory aspect there. Nevertheless I think it still fits best with the informational signs, also to separate it from the
579.
by gpvos 3y ago
The use of "from" instead of "to" is confusing. I had to read those lines again after figuring out halfway the article what the actual direction was.
580.
by gpvos 3y ago
Lots and lots. Look at how many people are in this thread.
581.
by gpvos 3y ago
This looks like a hack that will inevitably bite you in the back sometime in the future, for example if one of the involved programs starts to validate UTF-8 in the future, or your system locale changes, or something similar.
582.
by gpvos 3y ago
> looping over `read` is essentially never the right thing to do Why? I do it quite often, though admittedly usually in one-time scripts.
583.
by gpvos 3y ago
"I accidentally deleted a game from MAME"
584.
by gpvos 3y ago
A swap file on a RAM disk seems... not useful.
585.
by gpvos 3y ago
It has been used for large professional publications such as the 2013 Dutch protestant hymnal (>1000 songs, versions with and without accompaniment).
586.
by gpvos 3y ago
There should be a cost estimate displayed prominently by default, and an option to turn it off for power users who know what they're doing (but keep the current less-prominently displayed amount of data estimate).
587.
by gpvos 3y ago
You're still liable to Google/whoever for the full amount, so it is only a temporary reprieve. Which can be useful, but does not solve the main problem.
588.
by gpvos 3y ago
Yeah, after 300 years of being occupied by Russia, finishing off by being ravaged by the Soviets, you get that.
589.
by gpvos 3y ago
The history of both nations is hugely different. I would recommend this lecture series by Timothy Snyder to enlighten you: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz... Yes, there are lots of family and fr
590.
by gpvos 3y ago
No, Russia's goal is to keep Ukraine in their sphere of influence and prevent democracy from taking hold there, because if that happens in Ukraine people in Russia might start to think it's possible there as well. Also there are g
591.
by gpvos 3y ago
In addition: after the referendum, the EU offered all kinds of options to make it a soft Brexit, but those same politicians drew unnecessarily strong red lines (and are still doing so regarding Northern Ireland) in order to appease a tiny e
592.
by gpvos 3y ago
Why counterproductive? It has become remarkably quiet on the front of countries making plans to leave the EU. Insightful remark, nevertheless.
593.
by gpvos 3y ago
There was spite involved, and for good reason.
594.
by gpvos 3y ago
Assuming this is because of Brexit, it was the UK that decided that, so you should thank them. The rule that the domain is EU/EEA-only already existed and was clear.
595.
by gpvos 3y ago
That is a very formal way of looking at it. Moreover, this is rather simple hypertext, not an image. HTML, or a remarkably similar and compatible descendant of it, is likely to remain in use for centuries.
596.
by gpvos 3y ago
The item itself is an HTML page. That is extremely unlikely to change, very unlike an extension like .php or .asp .
597.
by gpvos 3y ago
A week or so seems fine to me. Gives you a chance to wrap things up and transfer stuff.
598.
by gpvos 3y ago
I liked the expansion of the ideas. I was bored a couple of times so it could be compressed a bit into maybe a novella half the size of the book, but a short story would have left me wanting.
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by gpvos 3y ago
You could try his other writings, such as The Curators, which I just finished and can recommend. It has some sex in it but much more normal, and the violence is mostly abstract (like destroying a planet by teleporting it into its star). Ava
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by gpvos 3y ago
Is it common in the USA that employees just disappear without getting the chance to say goodbye to their colleagues? At most places I worked, people tended to send a goodbye email to everyone@company and got a chance to say personal goodbye

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