The author is now based in Japan, and even owns a veracrypt.jp domain. Meanwhile, the old veracrypt.fr domain redirects to veracrypt.io.

Seems rather clear that he doesn't want French jurisdiction.

Why dig a whole canal when you could just set up a pipeline for much less money?

Most people driving around in a big city don't have the luxury of choosing a shaded vs. sunny parking space. So the owner of a parking lot doesn't have any incentive to offer shaded parking... unless said shade generates revenue, which a solar panel does.

Dense multistory parking underground.

In South Korea, you usually don't see parking lots the size of several football fields like in the U.S., even around venues that generally attract a lot of cars, even in suburban areas. Instead, there are several stories of parking lots under every large building. Above-ground space is simply too valuable to waste on parking.

Unfortunately, you can't install solar panels underground.

> Dense multistory parking underground.

I sometimes forget there are parts of the world where you can go more than about a metre down without breaking out the Kango hammer.

Large parts of Seoul actually sit on very hard rock -- granite and gneiss from the Mesozoic era.

But if the only alternative to blasting the bedrock is to pay through your nose for prime real estate, blast the bedrock you will.

> One major drawback for PHP is that on every request, all files are read from the hard drive, translated into bytecode, and then executed.

How old this this framework? Sounds like they never got the news that opcache has been part of PHP since 2013.

Even then, one of the great things with PHP was the shared-nothing architecture. A whole class of bugs simply do not exist when there is no concept of shared memory between requests.

People would be terrified of it now but patching a change by copying a single file over FTP was the norm in the 00s. The change would be picked up on the next request.

Want to roll it back? Just rename `file.php.bak` to `file.php` and you're golden.

I grew up building random stuff using a hodgepodge of incomplete Lego sets that my parents got from car boot sales. Later they bought me some new sets as well, but sooner or later all the pieces ended up in the big box anyway.

I don't think I would have become a programmer, if not for those weekends when I would sit in front of a desk-sized box of bricks with no instructions and imagine what I could build.

35 years later, I still browse the local Lego store from time to time. But most of the sets I find nowadays are only intended for a single configuration, usually associated with a specific IP like Star Wars or Harry Potter. Too fragile, too many stickers and custom pieces. I'm glad that the proceeds from these collectible sets help Lego stay profitable in the smartphone age, but God I miss those random Lego weekends. Brb, gotta ask my dad whether he still has that box of old bricks in his attic.

I've purposefully bought a lot of the old lego technic universal building sets second hand for my son. They come with multiple ideas and the type of design is less finished and more prone to modifications. I want my son to play with legos by creating his own designs, not by following a set and then shelving it

They still sell large boxes of general-purpose bricks at toy and grocery retailers around the United States. They likely don’t sell nearly as well, but every time I’ve gone to buy legos there has been one “plastic tote” box of legos for sale, no instructions just bricks.

In the US yes. Recently I was in China and was supposed that both lego stores I visited didn't have them. Only available when ordering online.

They can just buy a regular Ryzen 9000 series CPU, then. Maybe add a real graphics card if they're into gaming.

Keep a few throwaway Hotmail/Outlook addresses in your password manager, in case you need to use a Windows PC that demands a Microslop account. That's about the end of their usefulness.

Just like Internet Explorer used to be the program you used once -- and only once -- to download a proper browser.

The eggs had better be deviled, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviled_egg

Vile eggs need de-viling, otherwise not.

They probably mean "Should look like the output of json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)". Which most PHP devs would be familiar with.

It sounds plausible, but they really need to spell out exactly what the formatting requirements are, because it can make a huge difference in how efficiently you can write the json out.

It's a challenge for PHP programmers. I imagine the relevant people would recognise that format.