> Adding (or removing) a lane does not even remotely have a direct correlation to maximum traffic flow.

Of course it does. What an obviously stupid thing to say. You think a 4 lane motorway doesn't allow more traffic flow than a single lane country road?

For reference, what would you say those bad defaults are? (I would like to know if I should consider changing my configuration)

There is a post[1] on the gitbutler blog where they collect a subset of defaults that allegedly git core developers use. It's where I got most of my config from.

[1] https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git

Here are a few:

1. Git push should default to --force-with-lease --force-if-includes.

2. push.autoSetupRemote should be enabled by default.

3. The default conflict style should be zdiff3.

4. diff.submodule should be 'log' by default (gives much nicer submodule diffs).

5. Submodule updates / clones should be recursive by default. (There is a setting for this but I can't remember it.)

Also would be nice:

receive.denyCurrentBranch should be updateInstead by default (or at the very least mentioned in the help message, rather than it recommending ignore or warn or refuse, none of which do what is wanted)

> 3. The default conflict style should be zdiff3.

This one always baffled me. The default conflictstyle is so hard to read it's almost useless. Using diff3 is mandatory.

I hadn't heard of zdiff3, I'll give it a shot.

rerere should be on

Yeah Astra has decompiled binaries for me without even asking. I just asked like "is there a way to do this?" and it went ahead and disassembled it, found some undocumented APIs, figured out how they worked and gave me sample code to call them.

I think you probably just have to frame things right and get it in the mood (i.e. don't ask straight up at the start of the context).

I seriously doubt that is any more than a theoretical problem, and even if it isn't, so what? People start a warranty claim, send the boards to RPi, they run diagnostics, detect the changed RAM and deny the claim.

Some people do have complex financial situations. It's not as simple as that.

For example in the UK (and maybe US?) you get tax relief for money you put into your pensions, but there's a limit of £60k/year. Unless you earn a lot (which I do, yeay) when that limit is tapered. Except that you can also use up to 3 years of previously unused allowance. But you have to use this year's first.

Also interest is taxed, but you can put up to £20k/year into an ISA which isn't. And if you still want to avoid some tax you have kids ISA's and even pensions!

Then there are also startup investment schemes that save you some tax. Those seem to be not worth it, but you get the idea - it can be complicated. Especially if you are near one of the many tax/benefit thresholds.

The marginal tax rate in the UK bounces all over the place - it's even technically possible for it to be over 100%!

Yeay communism! They built such lovely tower blocks.

Yeah like that ugly drab city of ... Vienna??

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/10/the-soc...

That's more like social housing:

> an income maximum for applicants of €57,600

and can't be bought, only rented

first of all, Europeans don't need American wages. 57k is comfortable middle class in Austria, especially if you have government subsidised housing.

as for the "only rented" part, again, at this level of low rent it does not matter. you're better off renting. And Europeans have actual pension systems, we are nowhere near as reliant on real estate always appreciating in value.

I don't know if that's really fair though because it's unlikely that the people that benefited from the fire sale are still the owners.

It would make more sense just enforce maintenance standards and improve renters rights. You can't really legislate supply & demand.

Still the same companies Deutsche Wohnen and Vonovia but I agree with the second part.

Their yearly profits are capped because of the Mietpreisbremse (rent control) law since all the old buildings that they bought would fall under it, so it would've been better to put the money towards either building new state-owned housing or helping the tenants enforce their rights.

The laws are there to protect tenants against neglect from the landlord but enforcement takes multiple months which is not a reasonable timeline if you have a problem in your apartment and the consequences for landlord are mostly just reducing the rent for that time by a certain percentage which doesn't make a difference if the rents are already cheap because of the Mietpreisbremse, so it would also be good to introduce fines but not sure if Germany's legal framework allows for that.

Plenty of modern cars have all-round cameras that track what you've driven over. Probably pretty easy if it has that.

This news is like a year old. I think they revealed it at the 2025 RISC-V summit in America.

every GPU since the 20 series (2018) ships with Risc-V.

It's what enables their "open" kernel modules. All the talking to the hardware stuff is now done by the Risc-v core.

I doubt that. I mean I'm sure it can catch some cases, but if it worked reliably it would just be a language feature.

Maybe the authors just don't want to do it?

Anyways: its possible, I am building it as a very side project.

github.com/ityonemo/clr