If the compound words all have single word entries in the dictionary that when combined mean the same thing what is the point?

Water: transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid

Boiling: having reached the boiling point

Boiling Water: transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid which has reached the boiling point

If Boiling Water had some other completely different meaning that has nothing to do with the individual words then sure, maybe, otherwise this is completely redundant and opinionated.

As an English native, I'd rather see proper nouns in a dictionary before seeing "compound words".

Personally, I don't agree that "boiling water" is a word (with a space) - I would refer to it as a phrase if it had specific meaning, but it just seems like an ordinary pairing of adjective and noun. Also, if a word can contain a space, then what is the meaning of "words" as there doesn't seem an easy way to distinguish between a "compound word" and a common phrase. Is "barking dog" a pair of words, a compound word or a phrase? (It's a pair of words in my mind)

Here's an interesting post linked elsewhere in this thread https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horri...

Agree, this kind of complexity is there for a reason. I would rather have a complex component that handles all the cases within its usage in the codebase over having a bunch of little hacks/changes in the usage. It's far easier to maintain one complex component than many different usages of that component.

And you don't have to use such a complex component library if you don't need it. For small codebases it often is overkill. But for large codebases it's a massively worthwhile investment.

But handling edge cases is a self-inflicted wound, because you have decided to re-implement something that already has an extremely well tested specification and implementation in the browser. This is almost always a mistake.

Love the presets! The Broucke one is my favourite

I like the idea of this, but why not just have some time per week/sprint for bugs? At my company we prioritise features, but we also take some bug tickets every sprint (sometimes loads of bug tickets if there aren't many new features ready for dev), and generally one engineer is on "prod support" which means tackling bugs as they get reported

Because marginal work is only marginally rewarded. Spending one week and coming back to whoever with a nice piece of paper saying we fixed 60 bugs will earn a lot more rope from non-technical folk than fixing 3 bugs per week - the latter just looks like cleaning up your incompetence.

I suspect I'm preaching to the choir, but that is a communication issue and a sign the "rewards system" is out of whack, not a "reason" not to push for regular maintenance/tech debt/bug cleanup work.

It should be understood that there WILL be bugs, that is NOT a sign of incompetence, and so cleaning them up should be an ongoing task so they do not linger and collect (and potentially get worse by compounding with other bugs).

What if the fall-back also never comes back up?

Public transport is often the fastest way to get around in some cities for some locations. I live in Prague and it's generally faster to take the metro or tram than drive. Obviously not in all cases, but the majority.

Walkable city doesn't mean you can't have a car, it means there are other (often faster) transport options and amenities within easy travel distance without a car. Children and elderly can still be transported by car.

This was my experience as well while I was stationed in Germany. If you wanted to go downtown, public transport was the clear choice. It was faster, and I didn't have to spend time parking my car.

We have a lack of imagination when it comes to cars. (That, and market-driven commercial interests.) "Cars, but electric!" to deal with climate change. "Cars, but autonomous!" to deal with...what? It's not clear what problem self-driving cars are meant to solve that mass transit couldn't do much better. And this idea of a white light is nuts, for the reasons others have given in comments. It just shows how far off the rails we're willing to go (pardon the pun) in attempting to stick with car-based solutions.

I've been using it for many years, super simple way to have many email addresses deliver to a single gmail. The effort I'll spend migrating will be better spent setting up a non-Google alternative

Why would you think that? Leaving the EU was not a geographical event

Just imagined on the day of brexit whole set of islands just started drifting few hundred kms towards west (or south-west given how canary islands often feels like british overseas territory?) to underscore the leaving part.

Dig up beaches on the east coast, dump as landfill on the west coast. Nothing's too much trouble for The Great Experiment.

Of course, Ireland will have to move out the way. (Wait, is this an actual metaphor for Brexit?)

I don't really see the point of making phones so thin when the camera sticks out as much as much as the phone is thick. I would rather have a flat phone that is thicker