dgriffith

English is rather notorious for having these phrases

English is essentially just a whole bunch of corner cases that its speakers agree on. Mostly.

I have a QNAP box at home, with Forgejo running as a container on it. It's pretty much a standard docker install straight from Forgejo's repository. It can run tests and a build on each push, which is not strictly necessary, but nice. Took me about half an hour to setup Forgejo, and about 4 hours of swearing setting up CI for a few repos, because I've never done it before.

This doesn't easily scale to a whole organisation's worth of repos like OP wants, but it easily fits a small business/single dev situation.

There's some sort of electrolytic process similar to aluminium available, but yes the reaction that turns iron ore into iron is:

Iron oxide + carbon monoxide + heat ->

A redox reaction where oxygen atoms are transferred from iron oxide to carbon monoxide ->

Iron + CO2.

Heat and CO is conveniently provided by burning coal/coke in a blast furnace in the presence of a lot of oxygen.

You can pretty much just chuck layers of coke and iron ore in the top of your blast furnace, pump high pressure oxygen into the centre, and get molten iron straight out the bottom.

And even the claim that slowing the car down to lower speeds is causing safety issues honestly, is a fairly sketchy one..

They had knowledge of the car's position, and could turn on valet mode which limits speed to 40kmhr.

So you're on a busy Australian motorway doing 110km/hr in the middle lane. Your ex sees that and turns on valet mode. That's a quick way to get rear ended by an inattentive driver of a car or truck behind you. At the very least, you'll cause significant chaos as you try and get over to the side of the road.

Registration cost is quite high in Australia as I understand it, my small 4 cylinder car is around €500 a year, and it's about double for an 8 cylinder.

There is a tax on luxury vehicles over approx €50k, and a fuel tax of about 30 percent per litre , and fuel at about €1.75/l, there's plenty of revenue coming in for the government.

And while Australia is friends with the USA, putting tariffs on Chinese vehicles "to make them happy" would be quite disadvantageous. A lot of Australian raw materials go to China to be turned into stuff that is then sent back. Retaliatory tariffs from China would be quite devastating on those primary industries.

Having said all that, employee leasing arrangements where your employer folds in a car as part of your salary package have been exempt from "fringe benefits tax" if you buy an EV. That works out to around €5000 a year if you are in the upper income tax brackets, so that has had quite an effect on the market.

And to be honest, BYD make EVs that are relatively well built, have good range in the typical Australian climate, have lots of "luxury" items, and are cheap compared to EVs of similar spec from other overseas companies. So if by those means they bring on the wholesale electrification of Australian vehicles, I say go for it.

"We value your privacy"

They value it alright. Like how an oil company can "value" an oilfield - so much untapped resources, just sitting there waiting to be exploited.

Putting tarrifs on Chinese vehicles wouldn't be logical, because there is no domestic car manufacturing left in Australia for tariffs to protect.

Ford and GMH both stopped making cars there a decade ago, Mitsubishi stopped in 2008. All of them were propped up by the Australian government with hundreds of millions before they left.

Well yeah , I mean if you consider that Google's policy is "Be Evil", then everything's fine.

What language features do users say helped them? Existence of libraries didn't make C a good language

Hm, except in the way that being able to call into library functions "relatively easily" from the base language was a good way for others to create a bajillion handy libraries.

And once you've got those available to extend your language in any direction you want, you're well on your way to ubiquitousness.

"There will be a period of change and temporary disruption. But then, after that, we will be living in utopia!"

- said every dictator ever.

It should be able to slide/rotate on top of the rubber base. It was assembled like that, with the spindle notches lining up with the holes in the base. So something has moved in the meantime to take them out of alignment.

A moderate amount of force might be needed. Eg the amount you can apply with your fingers by holding the top piece with one hand and pushing with the fingers of the other hand on the rubber base to rotate it.

You shouldn't need to grab it with tools / pliers to move it. If you think you need tools, it's better to stop and have a bit more of a think about it before going further.

Git is not stupid. It's common. With markdown of course.

XKCD 2501.