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It arguably makes sense in a large monorepo, but otherwise I would agree.

I don't see why I should even have to set up multiple accounts. For the vast majority of these apps, I see no reason they need to be geo-locked anyway.

I assume they're referring to actually residing and working in other EU countries, rather than just visiting.

Germany has a very strong culture of dubbing essentially everything. Just finding any showing of a film in its original language at a cinema is very difficult outside of major cities for example.

I'll admit that there are certain patterns/data structures/etc. that are awkward to implement in Rust, but to write good C++ you are essentially required to think about ownership and lifetimes to some degree anyway (despite the greater lenience awarded compared to Rust and the lack of static checking). For anyone familiar with modern C++, I don't think that the shift in mental model should be too huge so the degree of backlash surprises me somewhat.

By what metric?

I recently moved to Germany (not to Berlin, but seems like most of the content is still relevant) and your website was extremely helpful - thank you for working on it.

It absolutely does offer more maths lectures than you could ever conceivably watch.

I can say for certain of course, but I would guess at that being the result of the poor service that travel network providers typically offer. I have also used travel eSIMs in Japan and had generally a pretty poor experience (bad coverage and slow speeds). Conversely, I've had non-travel, regular monthly eSIM contracts in both the UK and Germany and experienced few issues (at least no more than my experience with physical SIM cards).

Not really anymore, unfortunately.

There was never a 'war on drivers' - just empty rhetoric that Sunak clung on to after the Uxbridge by-election.

Do you really expect a 10 year old to consistently be able to tell when an LLM is feeding them convincing-sounding but ultimately false information?

I think Engineering a Compiler is a great next step after Crafting Interpreters. It's both easier to get into (in terms of writing style and structure) and, as you say, generally more practical than the Dragon Book.

Indeed, while simultaneously doing little of note to address the issue (beyond further propping up the house of cards with schemes like the lifetime ISA).

What's wrong with Haskell's syntax? I think it's generally pretty nice though can be excessively terse at times.

Agreed. Electric cars are frankly a pretty poor solution to the issue of carbon emissions. A far better, more long term solution already exists - high density, walkable neighbourhoods and high frequency, well run public transport systems.

Am I missing something? Is it not just a glorified fitness tracker? I can certainly understand privacy concerns but I don't get how a smart watch is the signifier of a 'broken' world.

While I agree, depending on where you're staying, 'aparthotels' (hotels where rooms have little kitchens) are becoming increasingly widespread and affordable - can be a good alternative to Airbnb for long stays in many cases.

Indeed. I haven't looked too much into this particular site, but I don't really see the utility of this kind of service in most large Western cities. I've rented in Zurich and am looking for somewhere in Munich - unless your budget is particularly high, it's very much a matter of just taking whatever you can get. From what I've heard, this is the case in many/most large American cities too.

Agreed. UK tabloids are an absolute blight. I wouldn't generally advocate for the censorship of reporting on such a case, but if it's going to happen, then tabloid 'newspapers' would be at the top of the list of organisations to restrict.

It seems like a very odd decision. It's not like OpenAI can't afford to develop versions of the application for each OS in parallel.

It was clear to me that that's what they wanted to express but their chosen visuals didn't convey that well at all. Expanding outwards from the iPad would have made a lot more sense.

You might be interested in taking a look at OCaml's extensible sum types which may straddle the line in the way you're describing.

That is not a proper alternative to real pattern matching.

I've yet to have decaf that tastes as good as the regular stuff unfortunately.

I don't see why std::optional being a monad is implied to be a bad/confusing thing? It would be significantly more awkward to use without any monadic operations on offer.

I interviewed there and can confirm they don't require you to know any OCaml (though I did have some Haskell on my CV - I don't know if that was a factor in hearing back or not). The questions are LC-adjacent but the interview is structured such that each question builds on the previous one.

The multiplier is roughly the same even if the dev in London is working at the exact same company as the one in SV.

I also rely heavily on search. When editing code, I am frequently looking to modify a string of characters somewhere in the middle of a line. Navigating firstly to the correct line and then also the correct position within that line is probably going to require several keystrokes anyway so why not just use search to go there directly?

I think you're right - I'm embarassed to have not picked up on that.