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I am old enough to have lived in Germany when they were not coin operated, and most carts were returned at that time as well.

Though occasionally you saw a cart far far away from a supermarket, where someone had basically stolen it, either teenagers to have fun, or someone asocial who, I don't know, used to carry all the shopping home? I don't really know what they did with it.

And it was the cost of replacing those stolen carts that drove the adaption of the coin operation system. Not that people just left them in the parking lot. Some supermarkets also tried a system where the cart locked if you moved it out of range of some radio in the supermarket, but that one really didn't take off.

(Also, quite a few people in Germany just do shopping by walking or biking to the supermarket).


> I am old enough to have lived in Germany when they were not coin operated

And now they are again. Some new REWE carts already come without this feature.


I actually migrated from Homebrew to Macports after ending up in dependency hell in Homebrew with Postgresql + Postgis, and not being able to fix this properly even with my own brew recipes.

So for now that works a lot better in Macports. The portfile stuff needed some digging to understand, but that's doable.

Not sure what made you move from Macports to Homebrew. (Should I worry?)


> Most of the world is powered by Unix

Well, Unix came into being on a DEC PDP-11, and C is basically high-level PDP-11 assembly...

And MS-DOS was influenced by CP/M which was influenced by DEC operating systems (like OS/8 for the PDP-8).


You can play Empire on cyber1 [1], an emulated PLATO system.

[1] https://www.cyber1.org


Thanks!


Unlike the IBN 5100 [1] (which I guess actually was IBM's First Laptop Computer), the 5140 ran MS-DOS, and couldn't emulate the IBM/360 ISA like the IBN 5100 could, so it would be useless for John Titor because you couldn't hack SERN with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100


Try exporting things from Excel to CSV on a Mac with non-us locale.

Some genius at Microsoft decided the exporting to CSV should follow the locale convention. Which means I get a "semicolon-separated value" file instead of a comma-separated one, unless I change my local to us.

Line breaks are also fun...


> You almost always know how the formers’ work will be broken.

The thing is that there are enough people who blindly trust ChatGPT's answers, and they don't know in which ways they could be broken, and they wouldn't have the knowledge to verify the answers because they are asking about things they themselves know very little about.


But that doesn't need new peripherals, I could do that in my home WLAN network if they'd just install standard software for it on the phone (which you can fix by installing it from F-Droid etc.)


I am always disappointed they didn't go all the way and made async/await syntactic sugar for a general Monad abstraction, like in Haskell.

And I like the Haskell do-blocks.



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