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Navigation is supported, with travel times given for walking, ox cart, pack animal and horse. The feature is a bit hidden: you need to click the place marker at the bottom right.

Not having a dependency on a running service can be an excellent reason to use tools like DuckDB.

Vending machines outside is pretty much the standard for ramen restaurants. Most of them will take passmo/suica, which most foreigners are also likely to have since it is also used for all public transport.

Even with all the GNU tools available there are still a lot of system-specific things that you may need to know: supported C version, supported C++ version, how to invoke the compiler, correct compiler flags for warnings / desired C or C++ version / etc, where to install things, how to install them and set the right owner and permissions and many many more. Autotools (and cmake) can figure all of that out for you. If you operate in a monoculture and, for example, only deal with a single Linux distribution on a single architecture most or all of this may not be relevant for you. But if you target a more diverse set of environments it can save you a lot of headaches.

Let me change that a bit: "it's pretty ubiquitous in the US". It's not common everywhere. My personal observation (in NL) is that with the transition from cash to contactless payment it seems to be becoming less common over time. Payment terminals here are not setup to ask for a tip (with very rare exceptions) - you just pay the amount on the receipt directly.

What matters is that there is nothing listening on port 80 on the same IP address. That may be hard to control if you are using an environment with shared ingress.

/mnt historically was used as a single mount point. This became problematic when it became common to have multiple temporary mounts, for example a CD-ROM and a USB stick. /media solved that by stating mountpoints are folders inside it, eg /media/cdrom.

It primarily existed to standardise paths between different Linux distributions. This, along with the LSB, was intended to make it possible to ship software that would work on all distributions.

> Just because the header is set, it doesn’t mean it’ll do anything

But they can track proxy metrics for this. For example people using GMail's builtin unsubscribe feature more than once with the same unsubscribe link for different emails is a pretty good indicator the unsubscribe did not work.

uuencode was used for SMTP/Usenet. Base64 became popular as part of MIME if I remember correctly.

It's even worse: you can not access Mail's settings until you have configured an email account in Mail. Before that the settings options is greyed out.

Reading the article they are not generated files, but files that are never touched by developers. Translators will work with those files. I expect that for translators they have a different sparse checkout that only fetches .xlf files for their target languages.