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Yeah, that's how we do it in Oslo. The road tolls mostly go towards funding transit and investments in bike and foot infra.

Depends on your problem. Newer languages seem to have much better docs than in the old days, so languages like Rust, Go and Typescript seem very underrepresented by Stackoverflow activity compared to public Github activity.

Same thing in Norwegian with "tøy" (verktøy, fly, kjøretøy, plus fartøy for water-faring vessels) … and then tøy by itself means cloth or clothes (also available through klestøy)

Here in Norway the thirteenth yule-day is just the day we throw out the yule-tree and take down the decorations. We should start having cake after we're done cleaning!

This is kinda three different problems, or three effects from one problem:

1. Being stuck in traffic has a negative impact on health, quality of life in general
2. Being stuck in traffic has a monetary cost for deliveries and others who have travel as a significant part of their work, e.g. how easy it is for plumbers to get around to customers and warehouses and the like
3. Being stuck in traffic can have terrible consequences for emergency services

The solutions, of course, are a mix of negative incentives to drive like congestion and parking pricing, and positive incentives to not drive, like investing in transit, cycling, mixed use and at least a certain level of urban density to be able to support transit, services and not have biking and walking be unfeasible or undesirable because of long distances.

Yes, always has been.

There's also no uppercase d in systemd, the word is entirely lowercase (but I'll still write it with an uppercase s at the start of sentences).

Yeah, the manpages for systemd are large but also informative. Most of us only use a small subset of the features—much like we never explored everything possible with separate init programs.

Having used Linux on the desktop for some two decades and worked as a Linux sysadmin for a good while I don't miss the init scripts. My impression is more that a certain cohort wants to pretend that service management is easy by ignoring large amounts of it. It's easy to write a bad init script that breaks when you really need it, or be out of your depth with more complex cases.

Not to mention the whole conformity by convention thing. Systemd unit files are descriptive and predictable by their nature. So-called init scripts didn't really have to be scripts, they just usually were, and their arguments and output and behaviour was also unenforced—there's nothing really stopping you from writing a compiled program that self-daemonizes and place the binary with the init scripts rather than in /bin. Ultimately people who make programs also have to be good at writing init programs with that setup.

So we'd have people doing dumb shit themselves and getting angry at others doing dumb shit. PHP was also pretty popular and full of dumb shit. Lots of "worse is better" to go around.

Ultimately it's more of the stuff covered in Bryan Cantrill's Platform as a reflection of values. Some of us value predictability and correctness, others feel it's a straitjacket. There's no way of pleasing everyone with the same platform.

And currently the people who want to distribute their own riced-out init programs in bash, perl, php, node.js and so on are SOL. (They can still use them on their own machines.)

Too recent. Let Gore win back in 2000.

And it is, of course, all guys who died.

Similar story in Norway, with 10 øre deprecated in early 90s; 50 øre in 2012. Prices are still 1 øre below a round number, even though the average Norwegian has never used coins of that denomination. (And lots of us haven't really used cash for a couple of decades now.)

Or at the very least avoid car ownership and overuse:

When you use a 3500-pound car to transport your 150-pound self around, 96 percent of the weight of that clump of matter is the car. You’re moving 25 times more junk around than you need to, and thus using 25 times more energy to do it.

Imagine that you’re hungry for lunch, so you go to a restaurant. But you don’t just order yourself a blackened salmon salad for $15.00. You order twenty five salads for $375.00! Then, you eat one of them, and leave the other 24 blackened salmon salads, $360.00 worth of food, to get collected by the waiter and slopped unceremoniously into a big black garbage bag. All that fine wild-caught Alaskan Salmon, lovingly seasoned and grilled. All the fine crumbles of feta cheese, the mango salsa, diced green onion, shaved peppers, rich zingy dressing, and everything else the chef worked on for hours – plopped into the slimy garbage bag. This is exactly what you are doing, every time you drive!

Of course, a lot of people, especially in North America, don't really have an alternative, and they'll be financially and bodily worse off for it.

You can get the home delivery, but the common thing is to get it delivered to the post office, which is usually in the grocery store closest to you. (The dedicated post offices died a few decades back afaik.)

So I get a notification in the post app, or by mail or sms, depending, and then I just pick it up wherever I'm getting groceries. Same thing happens if someone tries to mail me something that doesn't fit in the mail box.