One of these years I'm going to make a Finnish programming language that enforces the correct case in arguments. And I don't mean silly arguments like camelCase vs kebab-case, I mean grammar.

Some examples to illustrate:

  tiedosto on "foo.txt" avattuna
  tulostin on PRN1
  kirjoita(tiedostoon, "a")
  kirjoita(tulostimelle, "b")

Job security for DECADES.

This is equal parts brilliant and demented. Thank you.

  syöte olkoon vakiosyöte

  yritä
    tee syötteen kullekin alkiolle:
      käsittele(alkio)
  paitsi poikkeustilanteessa liukulukuylivuoto:
    kirjoita(virhetulosteeseen, "liukulukuylivuoto")
  muutoin:
    kirjoita(virhetulosteeseen, "odottamaton poikkeus")

Remember to be careful with looping lest you create an ikikieriö.

Like a more devious Lingua::Romana::Perligata?

https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...

Perhaps more inspired by the INTERCAL's PLEASE.

And with all the maths in balanced ternary

And call it AivotP*rkele?

This is the kind of quality response that makes HN great.

Yeah, this is HN at its peak, commentary on a Norwegian based programming language in English :D

Tar. Specifically wood tar,

Pine tar is used in topical medicine for dermatology around the world I don't think it's limited to anywhere particular.

In Finland, they are most likely using birch tar.

Nah, it's pine.

Isn't that the same stuff as in soldering flux?

Smells good, for sure. But I don't know if it promotes good health.

And coal tar

If there were one. The closest thing is the Treaty of Lisbon, which in turn was an update on the Treaties of Maastricht and Rome.

However, the matter has been heard in the European Court of Justice in 2002, and the short version is "Community law does not preclude compulsory military service being reserved to men."

For more details, feel free to study the legal opinion behind the ruling: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Humbug. Defence policy, especially how the EU member states choose to organize their military forces, is very much in the hands of the individual countries. A majority of the member states don't even have conscription anymore.

Yes, there is the common security and defence policy, and the Article 42 of Lisbon and all that, but it all still relies on national systems.

Most of economics is educated guessing, and having more data (hopefully) leads to better guesses.

With this study there's plenty of leads to follow. Does the ABV have an impact? What about the base price? France vs Italy?

Goldman speaks of the current tariff regime; the study here looked at 2019-21 wine tariffs.

Also the tax burden will fall on different places depending on the markets and the good in question.

UTC+2 isn't very convincing as an argument for Russia. Only the Kaliningrad exclave uses that timezone, and if I were in a state-backed group, I'd live in one of the big cities.

Also quick search suggested UTC+3 was seen during the summer, and Russia doesn't do DST either.

Edit: some of the UTC+2/3 times are attributable to being differences in git committer and author dates (e.g. email patches)

I couldn't let this be, so I went through the commits and as far as I can tell, that's the case. The committer/author names and timestamps are consistent with using --author on a commit (... or in a few cases, --amend --author).

Except one: commit 3d1fdddf9 has Jia Tan as both author and committer but the author timestamp is in +0300 while the commit timestamp is +0800.

I’ve always found this an amusing method of attribution considering top tier hackers are unlikely to be writing code only during office hours.

Way more than a foot, but that's the general idea.

There's a soil remediation project near my workplace (former railway depot). They've dug up several meters deep by now.

For most of Great Britain, the grid north differs from true north because the grid cells are fixed size, so they "fan out" compared to longitude lines. The exception is the 2°W meridian where the grid lines up.

The magnetic north wanders around, and it now happens to match along the 2° meridian.

But really the article is a year early, as the alignment point should make a brief landfall in Scotland late next year (which the article acknowledges later on). Or perhaps they expect Scotland to secede before that.