Navigation is supported, with travel times given for walking, ox cart, pack animal and horse. The feature is a bit hidden: you need to click the place marker at the bottom right.

Travel advisory: possible disruptions on the road due to armies of vandals.

Not having a dependency on a running service can be an excellent reason to use tools like DuckDB.

Vending machines outside is pretty much the standard for ramen restaurants. Most of them will take passmo/suica, which most foreigners are also likely to have since it is also used for all public transport.

I’ve been to this restaurant. They take cash as payment so I don’t think they are trying to dissuade tourists. Also, just a short few years ago I would say less than 10% of restaurants took any form of electronic payment.

This is also tied to labor availability. A vending machine interface is expensive to set up, but less than the cost of a full time cashier.

I've been 10 years on-and-off, and 10% sound way too low _if we include_ Suica/Pasmo. Credit card is another story and I'd agree.

Even with all the GNU tools available there are still a lot of system-specific things that you may need to know: supported C version, supported C++ version, how to invoke the compiler, correct compiler flags for warnings / desired C or C++ version / etc, where to install things, how to install them and set the right owner and permissions and many many more. Autotools (and cmake) can figure all of that out for you. If you operate in a monoculture and, for example, only deal with a single Linux distribution on a single architecture most or all of this may not be relevant for you. But if you target a more diverse set of environments it can save you a lot of headaches.

Let me change that a bit: "it's pretty ubiquitous in the US". It's not common everywhere. My personal observation (in NL) is that with the transition from cash to contactless payment it seems to be becoming less common over time. Payment terminals here are not setup to ask for a tip (with very rare exceptions) - you just pay the amount on the receipt directly.

In North America the growth of Square has pushed things the other way; tips are front and center for the most limited of "tippable service" - starting at 18% and up from there. Tipping on fast food or something like a latte were the extra labour is already priced in is ridiculous.

I went to pick up my dog from the groomer and they asked me for a tip as soon as I said I was there to pick him up.

I replied "Can I see my dog first?"

It just shows that there's an expectation, and at that point it should simply be built into the advertised price.

The drive through coffee shack that I get coffee from asks for a tip on its payment terminals.

I typically do tip because I'm never buying just drip coffee and I'd like to reward the person who took the time to make my drink.

In exchange there's typically some latte art which takes some skill to build up.

At a coffee shop I'm sort of a regular at, I hate how they spin around the Square tablet whatever thing and it starts at $1, $2, or $3 for a 2.50 Americano. I usually tip a dollar but honestly, an americano is just two shots and hot water. Basically drip coffee. Sometimes I wonder why I go there at all when I could just make crappy instant coffee at work that more or less tastes same.

As someone also living in NL (Amsterdam though, may be different in other parts of NL), I have to partially disagree with you. It's not at the US level yet, but, my experience is that many if not most cafes/restaurants I go to now display a "Choose your tip %" screen on the payment terminal before paying, and anecdotally it feels like this is becoming more common over time with the newer payment terminals.

I'm in the UK and we have this system too, although half the time the servers will just press 0% for you before they even hand over the terminal just because tipping isn't really a big cultural thing over here (at least compared to the states).

Uks a bit odd since Service charge is a thing as well and sometimes it's always added (at bill calculation) and other places only add it when it's a large group.

Is Square popular and/or growing? This is the biggest change I've seen in Canada and the US

Same. But I always just chose 0%

In Paris, the menu prices include tip and tax and—somewhat miraculously. it felt—the prices are generally less than a comparable meal in the U.S.

I feel tipping is still very common in Austria as well. Wife gives me a hard time when I don't tip a lot or at all but they're still very cash only here.

10%+ "service charge" added to the bill is almost ubiquitous in London now

What matters is that there is nothing listening on port 80 on the same IP address. That may be hard to control if you are using an environment with shared ingress.

/mnt historically was used as a single mount point. This became problematic when it became common to have multiple temporary mounts, for example a CD-ROM and a USB stick. /media solved that by stating mountpoints are folders inside it, eg /media/cdrom.

right. what early distributions were doing was creating subdirectories within /mnt, but that got in the way when users wanted to mount something manually. at least it did bother me.

personally i wish /media would have stuck. i find the current paths /run/media/username/device rather unpractical. whenever i connect a data device i have to go searching for the mountpoint.

Things lile this are why I use Windows daily. I can assign a specific USB mass storage device a letter it will always use and I memorize it.

you can assign a mountpoint to specific devices on linux too. that's not a new feature.

giving sensible defaults to automatic mounts is the issue here.

It primarily existed to standardise paths between different Linux distributions. This, along with the LSB, was intended to make it possible to ship software that would work on all distributions.

It did a pretty poor job of it though, since it made no attempt to separate distro software from third-party software (unless you count "shove everything 3rd-party in /opt and bundle all dependencies").

> Just because the header is set, it doesn’t mean it’ll do anything

But they can track proxy metrics for this. For example people using GMail's builtin unsubscribe feature more than once with the same unsubscribe link for different emails is a pretty good indicator the unsubscribe did not work.

uuencode was used for SMTP/Usenet. Base64 became popular as part of MIME if I remember correctly.