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Varies. In Oslo Foodora started as bike deliveries; the cyclists unionised and got better pay and working conditions, and nooow it seems to be a lot of Romanians in beaters that don't look like they'd pass their next EU inspections, don't pay tolls or for parking, and apparently there seems to be something like trafficking going on.

Yeah, JSON is essentially a side effect of having JavaScript already. It makes sense that it shows up a lot of places, especially web. But just like with JS, it's not really good, just ubiquitous.

I know, I just think it's annoying. I even turned on some option to see "adult games" in Steam for a little while because I thought it meant it would shut off the age verification for games like BG3. Instead it started showing me porn games (with no age verification), while still requiring an age check for actual adult games.

Americans.

A wave with an infinitely long period isn't really recognizable as a wave. It'd just be interpreted as a flat line anywhere in the universe. And as mentioned, the energy of light is tied to its frequency: E = hf. (Or with hbar • omega, but that's just multiplied with and divided by 2π, so, the same thing.)

So an infinitely long wave would have f=0 and thus no energy.

The highest frequency you'd get would be 1/planck-time, so the energy would be the Planck constant divided by Planck time, which would be roughly 12.3 GJ. That's a lot of energy for just one photon, but if it's just the one, likely not world-ending.

Side note: I wish they'd just call them porn games, not "adult games". I expect adult games to be games for adults, as in, the games that are age-restricted to 18+.

Or are they going to start removing stuff that's PEGI 18 / ESRB M, like Baldur's Gate 3? No? Exactly.

They could take some other cost-cutting steps with a housing system without auto-demolish if the plots were made abundant. Like if someone's subscription lapsed for some time, then it's entirely possible to move that data to cheap but slow storage. Then people still have their old stuff as an incentive to get back in.

We could probably stand to have some organisation standards in repo roots, but I tend to agree that dotfiles aren't the way to go there. The project root is similar to ~/.config and the like: When you're there you should not be subjected to further hidden levels. Those config files are a significant part of the project.

State files however, like all the stuff in .git, lockfiles and the like are generally¹ fine to hide away. Those are side effects of running other tools, not ordinary editable configuration. Same goes for cache—and both cache and runtime files should likely go in the ordinary XDG dirs rather than be something every project has to set up a gitignore for.

If anything I'm more frustrated with the C projects that just plop every source file in the root directory.

¹ Just don't make it too easy to sneak unexpected crap in there. We don't need to make the next Jia Tan's job easier.

I guess here in Norway we can celebrate Joule with Joulenissen that brings battery-powered toys for the kids

I'm very aware of what it means to be human, especially every time the daylight savings nonsense changes. But what the number on the alarm clock says when I get up doesn't mean jack shit as long as it's the same actual time of day.

A sundial that has the numbers changed around is still the same sundial, and that's the point here.

Sundials haven't been relevant for a long time. We use network time these days, calibrated against UTC (and possibly represented as Unix time).

Personally I'd likely think it was neat to switch to metric time (ten hours per nychthemeron), or kiloseconds (87.6 in a nychthemeron), or even swatch @beat (1000 per nychthemeron).

Somewhat related, the English word for døgn (nychthemeron) is such a mouthful.

The general suggestion is to just use UTC everywhere. Ask if you don't know what UTC is.

Not having everyone set their clocks to show 12:00 at their local solar noon became necessary. Time zones as such weren't and aren't really necessary, except to keep alive the convention that 12:00 is noon (in the winter half of the year for the countries with daylight savings).