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·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
There's a subset of people in Ireland who are legally required to write down an ID on their vehicle, that can be matched to a name/photograph in seconds.

https://www.transportforireland.ie/getting-around/by-taxi/dr...

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Additionally, in plenty of European Countries, it's pretty common to write your name on your address: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B01RP4/personal-name-plates-at-blo...
paddez
·tahun lalu·discuss
Unrealized gains can be taxed - for example, Ireland has a Deemed Disposal tax on ETF investments, where after 8 years, any gains are considered to have been realized and tax is due (even if no sale has taken place)
paddez
·tahun lalu·discuss
Definitely not new - as someone who was diagnosed with Haemochromatosis in 2017 - I was first prescribed phlebotomies until my general iron levels reached a level that my consultant was happy with.

Once I hit that level, I'm able to donate blood about twice a year (once every six months) to maintain (that, and a slightly changed diet to avoid high iron food)
paddez
·tahun lalu·discuss
You're focusing a bit much on the Developers bit. It's not just Developers who are working through the code-base.

As a lame example - Incident Response/SRE will also be trying to get their heads around changes being made - especially if they're responding to an outage, and trying to figure out what change broke production - and why it was made.

Not everyone will know every bit of the project as intimately as the Dev team - and having a good commit message will help any unfamiliar response team mitigate, or escalate accordingly.
paddez
·tahun lalu·discuss
{Tests, Code Comments, Documentation} are 3 distinct places to trawl through when quickly going through git blame.

The commit message is one place - and gives the author an opportunity to speak directly with a future developer over the place-in-time-context that this change was made.
paddez
·tahun lalu·discuss
The first line (or atleast, the first 80 characters) should be a quick summary - so you can quickly browse via git blame.

But the actual commit message should consist of History/Motivation/Context - so that someone who's going through the blame can understand why a certain change was made, and what the context was.

Linus had a good template for this, which makes a lot of sense: https://gist.github.com/finalfantasia/bd0070673ca27e5f7473
paddez
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Research* shows that Twitter only accounts for a fraction of traffic that Facebook/Meta directs to News media.

* https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-media-...
paddez
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
So they'll have to compete elsewhere?

How is this anything but a win for consumers?
paddez
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I've always considered this Malcolm in the Middle scene to perfectly explain Yak Shaving (a number of years before Yak Shaving was a thing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

But as you mentioned, No Yaks included however
paddez
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Behaviour by the rest of society is influenced largely by public policy.

In Ireland, investing in Housing/Land is largely one of the best investment assets you can own due to the lack of Capital Gains or Deemed Disposal rules.
paddez
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Helmets prevent a particular type of injury - traumatic brain injury This is true for all types of transportation including driving.

Traumatic brain injury is a common outcome of an automobile collisions - yet we don't see people with the same concern for introducing mandatory helmets in day-to-day driving.
paddez
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Irish in Irish is Gaeilge, not Gaelic.

Gaelic is an English word for a family of languages which Gaeilge belongs to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic
paddez
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
A few of the offices even have a pool (Google Dublin, and soon Google London)

Because the buildings are usually located in very central city locations - I've often used the offices as a way to kill time til' check-in opens for hotels after a long-haul flight (grab food, caffeinate, have a shower, etc)

Recently I took a night train between Stockholm and Copenhagen.

Showered in the Stockholm office, walked 5 minutes to the train station, slept, woke up in Copenhagen, grabbed a hearty breakfast in the CPH office.

It's a little perk that is honestly vastly underestimated