The way you describe is how it worked in zope templates (allowing a 'no items here' text if there was nothing to iterate over in a list) - it was frustrating that the later python implementation was different.

They plug in to a socket in the glove compartment, and I don't think the rental is counted as completed until they are returned there. I'd naively assumed this was standard across the globe, but clearly there must be other factors to warrant not allowing you to remove the key.

On the other hand, the fuel payment card does missing - but at least Zipcar in the UK are efficient at refunding your own payment when provided with a receipt.

I think it might have been a pun relating to the phrase "Going Dutch"

On a point of technicality - he was only two years old when the Great War started! (I think you meant the 2nd World War)

Just to extend this - if you're often using different users (or need to otherwise deploy via a configuration manager), I've found out that a good way of having system-wide options on Debian is /etc/vim/vimrc.local with something like:

   " Workaround stupid defaults.vim behaviour
   if filereadable("/usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim")
      source /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim
   endif
   let g:skip_defaults_vim = 1
 
   " Disable stupid seeking to last position
   autocmd! vimStartup BufRead
 
   " Disable stupid mouse support
   set mouse=

Likewise - with visual mode it's normally pretty quick to select an area and do a basic regex, even for things like re-indentation (auto-completes to something like :'<,'>s/^/\t/) even though I'm sure there's a 'proper' way to do that

> for indent, < for un-indent

We deploy our software packages to our own infrastructure and clients using a private APT repository and basic HTTP auth. Obviously we're running it with apt-transport-https installed for making the latter not completely insecure.

I see no reason to do that for signed packages from the main repositories, however.

Unless we use Supermicro kit, presumably?

Unless we use made-in-China kit, presumably.

It wouldn't be that surprising to see Supermicro move their production back out of China after this. Though they've been having a hard time of it recently already -- something about getting delisted from the NASDAQ. I wonder if the two incidents are related at all?

Jökulsárlón lagoon in southern Iceland is a fascinating place for this - large blocks of ice break from the glacier at the top end and slowly float towards the outlet of the lagoon to the sea.

Near the outlet the iceburgs catch on the bed of the lagoon and tumble as they melt. There's a glorious variety of colours as the ice as the freshly exposed dark glacier ice is exposed - like in the attached article - before the ice surface melts and it returns to a white colour.

I was there last year but it was quite overcast and foggy. Even still, we did catch minor glimpses of these gorgeous icebergs.

We had people in the same team with the same differing opinions 15 years - we compromised on a coding standard of 3 spaces, and anything else looks wrong to me now.