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Well area looks empty, but recently painted. English wikipedia says no passengers since 2024. French wikipedia says they are, but french influence driven out by russian-backed military coup. 36 hours by train to the coast at Abidjan. Any locals here to tell us ?

Nice architecture, but are there still any passenger trains ?

OK, nice promises, but seems to me overpowered for phone functions, so what's their plan for battery lifetime (bearing in mind that a desktop os is less optimised for efficiency)?

Hmm, so how does the government distribute that potentially lucrative tariff-free quota between importers ? Or if the government imports rice directly, stores it, then resells at a much high price, that's effectively a tariff.
Seems complicated, but then most countries do something similar, consider price-fixing of food by the EU CAP ...

So do they also tariff imports (e.g. american rice) that much ?
I haven't been in Japan since 1997 (COP3) but was impressed by cycling past many little rice fields sandwiched between city buildings - it's human-scale which is worth defending (similarly to some european agriculture - idea of CAP), the opposite of US prairies.

Hope you are right, but depends on the power balance after the election, and whether federal or provincial law decides such things.
Isn't Alberta is more aligned to MAGA politically? Maybe tries to stir up a big provocation, then eventually 'annex' it.

Can anybody explain, how does an easily transportable and storable product like rice get to cost so much more (6$) per kilo in Japan, than elsewhere in the world (including rest of east asia)?

Bon outil !
Mais ça fait apparent, les grands trous sans gares. Il sera encore plus util, avec pris en compte la fréquence des trains par jour qui s'arrêtent a ces gares. Et peut être les forêts sont trop dominant en arrière, topologie serait plus utile pour vélos.

In principle I'd like to see specific permissions - so for example playing with gui enhancements should be a lower trust barrier than adjusting and running code, but afaik (correct me if wrong) neither js nor rust have a built-in security architecture that could implement this. Maybe certain types of extensions could just be custom script language without filesystem access, but that's harder to do.

About source code linking, last time I heard (maybe they fixed it?) it seemed that trick vscode extensions can link to arbitrary (safe-looking) source repos, which didn't actually produce the extension.

I'm less convinced about slowly accumulating publisher trust, as this could be a barrier to honest new contributors, while big actors with a longterm profit or geopolitical motive could game such a system anyway (as they do for social media).

I do trust the scala tools (build Mill, lang-server Metals, compiler) which adjust my code, having seen them evolve over many years.
and like the separation of functions (lang-server / editor), so we are less dependent on any one big-tech solution. So I suppose a fundamental issue is what to trust less - big corps with a reputation but lock-in power, or an ecosystem of small contributors which might include tricksters. No perfect balance.

Well thought out article - worth reading

It seems so far Zed is cautious, providing api only for specific extensions - i.e. language servers and gui themes.

add a line ... right before you run it

I run stuff from the command line using a trusted build tool (Mill, in scala), or via a local server (where js is sandboxed).
But indeed, a tricky language server or AI tool (I don't use yet) might inject code where I don't inspect before running it. That's a risk even with java-based IDEs - java has security permissions, not in js (vscode) or rust (zed), but are they applied...? As for audits, a problem with vscode is the marketplace got too big, so many extensions, many lookalikes, nobody can check them all...

Trump may echo Nixon, iirc, breaking trust in such systems. Anybody know, can he try to stop them withdrawing? What about China, Japan, others ...?