I don't understand why vertical-axis wind turbines are not more common: they take less horizontal space, you can potentially stack shorter pieces as high as you want (and use guy lines for stability), have various heights spin at various rates, etc... I'm no expert so I guess they have good reason for this race to gigantism, but it seems a bit like the dinosaurs...

[I bike a lot (no ebike though)]. More accidents with ebike, sure that's a given: they are heavier so in a collision will do more damage; many are unlocked and can go to 80kph and that's scary as shit on a footpath, and they are often driven by people who are not used to biking (old people with poor reflexes, mothers with 2 kids on the back seat...). As for banning those e-fatbikes, they are still way better than motorbikes (slower and quieter), so maybe just restrict them to roads.

I just came back from a month-long vacation in the England and Wales. Back roads are incredibly narrow: no shoulders, just hedges or walls directly on the side of the road, with no space to walk and no visibility at all in curves. Of course you have to drive slower, you can't see shit. But do you drive slow enough to brake in time ? That's the 10k£ question. You can't walk safely at all on those roads; and we had taken bikes with us but decided not to use them: too dangerous.

Good, I'm glad she's leaving. She's pushed the EFF in a bad direction, and forced John Gilmore (one of the founders of the EFF out).

I think the replacement choice is obvious - bring Gilmore back as Executive Director.

Isn't gitlab just about as big ? The only drawback I see to using gitlab is that there's no traffic statistics per project (number of downloads or clone).

Then why is this bullshit legal ?

If you can do everything you need to do in the language, then anything else is fluff.

C++ supports a wide variety of paradigms and practices. You don't need to learn all of them, just one. And if you stick to modern C++, it is a clean and easy language.

How much caffeine was in there ? I know other posters are making fun of you, but I have one observation that others don't believe as well: I never drink nor eat artificial sweeteners, but I drank a diet Coke recently after lunch. It left me with a horrible aftertaste (like continuous chemical burps) that lasted until I ate dinner in the evening. Washing my teeth didn't help. I'm pretty sure it fucked up my gut microbiota.

Yuk, you bring back bad memories. That movie sure stinks and sucks, in all senses of the terms.

Does it correct for shakycam footage ? I hate those movies, they make me sick (and I have no problem reading a book in a car as a passenger on a mountain road), fortunately this fad is mostly gone by now...

Pure water is not good to drink anyway, which is why I make sure there's a healthy amount of malt and hops in mine. Hope they have this kind of water in those water bars.

>... what he thinks of modern C++ where the learning curve for newbies is now getting close to vertical. Speaking as a C++ dev of 25 years I wouldn't go near the language now if I was starting out, the number of paradigms and syntactic complexity has become ridiculous. And yes, if you're going to work on code written by others you do need to know and understand all these paradigms.

C++ is the easiest to learn now in, like, ever.

It's a mistake you have to know all the ins and outs of the language. The minimal set you need to do interesting things is quite small and it is much more usable than ever. I haven't had a memory leak or other memory issue since I switched over to modern C++ 10+ years ago.

Well, I had one once, but I did it deliberately to see if my tools (ASAN) would detect it. It did.

No, it simply blocks messages that have been marked as spam by a certain amount of receivers. Which in itself says a lot on the difference between both parties.

I'm surprised anything can manage to bring rabbits to near extinction. Those things breed like... rabbits !

I have an Android TV projector and use it to play movies off a local DLNA server with VLC. Half the time the local srt files are completely ignored. I can find no reasons for it and I've tried everything. It's annoying as fuck as I (and family) watch movies in multiple languages. I find all the other media player systems (Plex, Jellyfin, etc...) highly cumbersome because they reorganize everything.
Yesterday I even tried merging avi and srt into an mkv and even that wouldn't display the subtitle. WTF ?!?