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  • I've very barely dipped my toes in dbus before, and the option to have something else is on its face attractive (not a fan of XML and the late 90s/early aughties style of oop), but JSON for a system interface?

    I mean, Kubernetes shows that yaml can work, but in this day and age I'd expect several options for serialisation, and for the default to be binary, not strings.

    String serialisations are primarily for humans IMO, either as readers or writers. As writers we want something with comments (and preferably no "find the missing }" game), so for that most of us would prefer something like TOML if the data is simple enough, and actually Yaml for complexity at the level of Kubernetes—JSON manages to be even more of a PITA at that level.

    But machine-to-machine? Protobuf, cap'n'proto, postcard, even CBOR should all be alternatives to examine

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  • When you see that sign you must. When you see this sign you can:

    Often it is preferable anyway, but there's a difference between informational signs (blue rectangle) and mandating signs (blue circle). Here in Norway we generally don't have mandatory bike & ped paths, just the voluntary ones.

    These combinations are generally not a good fit for urban areas, there we should have bikeways with sidewalks:

    (Generally new infrastructure in urban areas is being constructed as bikeways with sidewalks, and old shared bike/ped-ways are being upgraded to bikeways with sidewalks.)

  • Yeh. Ubuntu also discussed it back in 2019, and wound up keeping some of it so Steam would keep working.

    I expect the willingness to bend over backwards for one proprietary and very profitable app doesn't last forever, and given how involved gaming often is with pushing technology, it's frankly weird that Steam is still shackled to 32bit like that.

  • Yeah, I think the fact that the next LTS will be 26.04 is the driver here, I just get the impression that things might get a little rocky and that they might've been better off had the next LTS been further into the future.

    But it'll be a real smoke test release, at least. Hopefully they have enough resources to fix the issues that are uncovered, and don't wind up reverting for the LTS, or with a crummy LTS.

  • I'm generally an en_*.UTF-8 user (even tried en_DK.UTF-8 for a bit for a reason we'll come back to), so I don't have a complete picture of it and would have to go look at the documentation or source for that, but I'd expect

    • documentation
    • date formats: en_DK.UTF-8 should give you ISO8601-formatted dates, if I can't have that I at least want DD/MM/YYYY; the US-american nonsense is just plain unacceptable
    • sorting: e.g. Norwegian will have …zæøå and expect aa to be sorted as å, the Swedes have …zåöä, the Germans …zäöü, the Turks will want ı and İ sorted and upper/lowercased correctly, and there are some options around how you deal with "foreign" letters and diacritics.
    • Probably more stuff relating to LC_* that I can't think of off the top of my head

    but in any case, an ls -l output should be different depending on your locale, and in ways you likely don't even think about as long as it looks normal.

  • Yeah, I think those are just lacking in the internationalisation?

    People like me, who at most have some reading glasses needs and have their computer set to generally English utf-8 will be likely be fine.

  • Having had a look at the archived version linked below, it seems pretty clear that it's entirely hogwash:

  • The Commission chose this route to avoid its proposals being vetoed by Slovakia and Hungary, whose governments have opposed the ban. Sanctions would be the strongest legal basis for banning Russian gas, but require unanimous approval from all EU countries.

    It's good that they found a way around those fifth columns!

  • It's generally conspicuous consumption, where the main point is to flaunt wealth.

    Functional aspects like how well an engine runs or a clock displays time are part of that, as poorly functioning but expensive-looking stuff is generally derided, but you also can get great-working stuff that doesn't look flashy.

  • It's actually a collection of four books, which I think these days are sold in sets of two.

    It's got some fun stuff, like an author who's convinced of his own infallibility, and fantasy-like vocabulary, except none of the words are really made up, it's just applications of somewhat obscure latin and greek words. I'd also kind of encourage going into it blind, since there are some bits of it that are more fun to figure out as you go along.

    Bonus for /c/[email protected] players: it has Ascians.

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