At one point the US had 17 small bases in Greenland. Almost all have been abandoned by the USA on its own initiative.

Look at this map: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Former-US-air-bases-in-G...

Today there is only the small Thule/Pituffik base.

The US has closed the bases because they make no sense with modern military and satellites.

Britain is often suffering high prices, likely due to lack of capacity in connections with the mainland EU.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DK-DK2/live/fifteen...

ZX Spectrum in 1982 cost $200 ($692 today) for 16 KB model and had a 48K model for 40% more.

It was the difference between affordable and unaffordable for many people.

https://www.lifewire.com/iphone-notification-history-1189516...

It is missing the equivalent of the "history" in e.g. browsers and YouTube.

If a user dismisses an alertbox on desktop, why isn't there an history menu item that shows the previous 100 alert messages?

For some multi-country companies it makes sense to have all admin pages in English no matter the underlying OS language. Imagine sending a screenshot where the OS date format is different from what everybody else expects from an English page.

http://www.postgis.net

Today x86 hardware is super reliable and unneeded complexity in the software stack is the main source of problems.

It also utilizes the space extremely inefficiently. Single level single family houses everywhere and the rest is parking space. The few parks are difficult to access by kids arriving by foot/bike.

This is what results in the high rent: Can't grow supply and don't use existing land efficiently.

Density: LA = 8,210/sq mi, Lisbon = 17,040/sq mi, Paris = 10,100/sq mi, Amsterdam = 13,670/sq mi, Copenhagen = 19,195/sq mi. (from wikipedia)

Look at Google Street maps: LA is a hellscape of concrete and asfalt. Lisbon and Amsterdam are much nicer and greener and they stil have higer density.

If 64 bit isn't enough, then very quickly 128 is also not enough.

If precision is important then you will very often want systems that represent every number as an interval [a, b] meaning that the true value is between those 2 numbers. This makes you able to detect loss of precision due to e.g. d = a / (b - c) where b-c can result in a number close to zero which makes uncertainty grow. If you use this formula iteratively then precision is lost completely no matter how many bits there are in your floating point variables.

This is systematic for that user. Either the user needs to improve or let go.

The organization needs to learn that good commit messages are a requirement for anything to do with crypto and payment systems.

It is not a top-down decision, production and supply as other armies use for their weapons logistics.

Profit is often at the margin.

Also it should be marked clearly that the company can rescind the license at any moment without giving any reason why.

Average age is 44 years !!!

The oldest is 72. Youngest is 23. Majority is 30-54. https://www.ft.dk/-/media/sites/ft/billeder/infografikker/ta...

source: https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/danmark/det-nye-folketing-...

    return unless fooOK;
    return unless barOK;
    return unless bazOK;
    # do something

The nice thing about trains is that they can run on electricity.

It does require investing in overhead wires.

I have no idea why, it seems such an obvious feature for supporting large databases.

It is always the creative world building part.

The main criticism of the Harry Potter books are not spelling or sentence structure, it is the plot holes and contradictions in the world build.

The same holds for software.