No, it should not be normal. In fact it is not normal in almost any city outside NA. While we still have cars in cities (which we categorically should not), we must at the very least make sure there is no more than one lane in each direction, including most intersections. “Endless backups” are unavoidable with cars in any case because of a combination of basic geometry and induced demand. We should instead optimize for the safety & speed of other road users, literally all of which are more efficient than car drivers.

Yeah I agree 100%. There should be no personal cars in populated areas with very limited exceptions. It was just a sequitur on the premises of the OC.

The most obvious solution to “idling combustion engine is polluting” is get rid of the combustion engine to the extent possible.

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I don’t get it. Everyone in IT is screaming about the employment crisis. I have a friend who can’t even get a job that pays 40k € with a Bachelor’s in CS and two years of semi-relevant experience. Are things really that much better in the US that you can get paid over 200k for a job similar to the one in the OP?

Like, I have a similar amount of responsibilities to the OP and closing in on a decade of experience, get paid in your “jira pencil pusher” range and yet consider myself lucky compared to my friends in IT. Granted this is remote work in europe with interesting technical work and open-source aspects, but still…

Looking at what the US military has done over the years, a significant proportion of people in command must be nazis in everything but name and uniform. And plenty of war criminals on the ground willing to follow illegal orders too.

Some of them aren’t even hiding it. Remember how this year a US Marine trying to get into politics had a literal Totenkopf tattoo on his chest?

In a residential setting with reasonable extension cable length & gauge, and reasonable loads you actually kinda can. Impedance and phase mismatches won’t matter on those scales. In fact, that’s basically what a ring circuit is.

Anecdote: my grandparents basically had an “accidental ring circuit” in their old house for like 40 years. It was only noticed when they hired an electrician to upgrade the wiring for an electric stove

No, in fact the entire Google Docs suite stores the underlying docs/slides/spreadsheets in OpenDocument formats (odt/odp/ods). Apple is just being Apple.

No.

It has never been a “legal headache”, more of a bit of additional work for distro maintainers (to keep codecs separate from the rest of the distro) and a tiny inconvenience for users (they had to click an additional button after installing the distro).

Nowadays it’s almost entirely irrelevant. Unless you are in a tiny minority of users who need to play DivX-encoded video (a codec which is 25 years old at this point) for some reason, you don’t need to care at all.

Basically, this just made life of a few media horder nerds a tiny bit more convenient. Frankly i shouldn’t be typing out a comment this long to even explain it…

Huh, that’s fair. I mostly play non-DRM games (or I guess games which don’t check steamlib to start?) so never noticed this.

PC allows you to (mostly) own your games once you buy them, at least the offline functionality. Sure it’s legally still just a “license to play the game” but technically you can back up your Steam library, move it to a new PC, whatever. Steam can’t really “take the game back” from you (again, at least the offline functionality).

Meanwhile on console if Sony decides to remove some game from their store, well, that’s it. IIRC it will even become unplayable on your console if you have it downloaded.

Same difference as buying & downloading MP3/FLAC files vs subscribing to a streaming service.