tichiian

Not really, at least not in Windows. There are no cross-application macros in Windows, just intra-application ones, and that only for some applications.

It is a little better on MacOS with AppleScript, which can be used to bind different applications together. But not all of them, and it is far from ideal.

In the end, nothing of this is command-line equivalent.

Btw, if you want to see a GUI application that can do really really good macros, learn Blender! E.g. you can bind any button and knob to keyframes to change them in animations. That would be the level of macro-integration required to be CLI-like...

I've gotten surprised gasps for the use of etckeeper.

"you can actually do that?" "why didn't anyone tell me?" etc.

Land registry in Germany is per city/town/municipality. Since land doesn't really move, it is always registered in the municipality where it is located. All titles, mortgages, owners and weirdnesses (local shepherd having the right to graze his sheep on your land) are registered locally. Downside is that e.g. taking a mortgage on your house incurs the additional cost of recording the mortgage in the land registry and removing the record after the mortgage is paid.

> PS: Are those tiny, cheap, desktop laser engravers powerful enough to "print" on paper without starting a fire?

Yes, you can modulate their power. It usually takes a few experiments if the manual doesn't have a material table.

The other answers around here are mostly right, but I'd like to add another one, which is right in some situations:

Message queues are often the wrong tool. Often you rather want something like RPC, and message queues were wrongly used as poor man's async DIY RPC.

I'd guess apple would invent some "made for iCrap" certification plus parts authentication to keep prices up and skim off some money for themselves.

While zoning in Germany almost universally sets the limit at the height of the local church (yes, really...), the actual reasons are building codes. Even cities that permit arbitrary height (famously Frankfurt am Main) still don't have that many high buildings: Because somewhere around the 5 to 7 story line, you run into really expensive requirements around additional rescue staircases with overpressure ventilation, roof access, rescue balconies and stuff like that.

Only direct elections are democratic. Everything else is at best semi-democratic.

Locking someone up is a one-way punishment, they will not get their years back. Branding someone as a child-molester, even if they are later vindicated, is permanent. We already have irreversible punishments.

Excel implementers struggle with it.

Half the features of Excel cannot deal with named cells. Try for example to use named cells in Conditional Formatting. Doesn't work at all, ranges cannot be named cells or tables, and condition formulas can only reference named cells with extremely ugly contortions.

There are lots and lots of additional examples of similar problems.

Excel is a loose agglomeration of unrelated features hidden under a pretty GUI.

We don't need a subset of HTML. Actually, we need Markdown emails. You can format stuff that needs structure, but not abusively so (no blinking marquee banners in eyesore colors), it is sufficiently compatible to plaintext that you don't even need the text alternative mime object. It is also more compact than HTML.

And before somebody says "won't fly", all those fancy new "will replace email someday" messengers use markdown or some parts of it's formatting.

Berlin is also trying to improve it's standard of living, social structure, economic outlook and overall cleanliness. Graffiti vandalism will have less and less of a place there, and have a lessening acceptance.

Basically, in my ideal world, whoever builds an ugly enough building should be liable to remove it or improve it if it is deemed too ugly by a majority.

Graffiti is (partially) just the consequence of not living in that ideal world, but because of all the other problems with graffiti, I'd rather just treat it as the vandalism it usually is in all cases. No sense holding an election before every prosecution or clean and paint job.

Also, the noise pollution regulations that are in place exempt trains.