software development has always been about replacing jobs. if we now do it to ourselves and not just other people, maybe there's finally some kind of fairness in the game.

Sometimes things are so obvious to me I don't even think they'd be worthy of a discussion. But this is one of my blind spots, as I've come to realize over many years.

For development, I've always been happy with a 13" screen and nothing else. Not only that, but having all apps in full screen. It brings so much clarity to my mind. Exceptions (because f*ck dogma, right?) have been when I was in charge of monitoring some long-running process, in which case a secondary screen in vertical layout was very useful. Another one was for music making with Ableton Live: 2 screens was much more practical, independently of each individual screen size.

Just because of the setups I've just described, I've been looked at weird, or asked way too much questions. go figure.

I mean... I've consistently seen people chewing with their mouth open, talking while chewing, biting their fork, and so many others, just in occidental places, and it didn't seem to bother anyone but me. so, why would it be different in Japan?

I get why you'd bring these points up. I mean, really, they could make sense. but both "green" and "tourist" points don't line up at all.

to cut short lengthy arguments, just compare urbanism rules in the US and in the EU. the 4, 5, or idk 8 lanes roads you can find in some parts of the US with the at mot 3 lane (paid) highways.

it all comes down to "if you make more room for cars, there will be more cars". if you refuse to cave in for this and you actually provide alternative ways of transportation (bus, bikes, subway if realistic, etc etc), then the overall traffic becomes much smoother. only complaints never cease, but that isn't specific to "moving people around".

I think it's to avoid having two sets of data points. I think the "view angle" affects the "convex amount" so that edge-view = flat and all other viewing angles "bump" the data points a little bit to give the "convex" look.

This is the most relevant use of `to_s` in this class indeed. One could imagine additional methods like:

    def bump_minor
      self.class.new(major, minor + 1, patch)
    end

(although I'm not sure why it would be useful in that particular case, it's just an example of how you can build new objects out of existing ones without having to mutate them)

Reading this altered my consciousness to the point I thought for an instant that I was back on 4chan or something.

Everyone experiences some symptoms of ADHD, ASD, etc. A genuine diagnostic is given when these symptoms become a big problem for daily life, work, social stuff, etc.

It has been established already that crows remember human faces for years, that they mourn, and that they attack people they associate with the death of their mates (while being quite friendly with other people they know well).

Things like this are actually done for very valid reasons, but these easter eggs are a really neat way to do it.

The reason? making an accurate map from a territory is (or used to be) difficult and takes time. Introducing fictional stuff in a map is a way to:

- figure out which of your cartographer competitors are copying you

- bring the case to court (factual data isn't protected by copyright, fictional data is).

Even Google Maps add a few fictional elements, but they're much more boring, like adding ghost streets in rural areas.

Yes, usually boring. OpenStreetMap collected some examples https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs#Ex...

There is a ghost road I reported on Google and was ignored. It wasn't just any road, an impossible road.

It is a straight line from the base of a mountain right to the top, all while gaining thousands of feet in elevation. I haven't checked it out in person, but I'm familiar with the area, and I'd place a large wager that it doesn't.

Anyone who copies this road will have a map that screams "I copied Google!"

I wonder if Google Maps tags the fictitious streets in its metadata somehow, so that it doesn't actually send cars down those roads.

If they are only short dead end streets they won't be at risk sending cars through

That's a real phenomenon -- they're typically called Trap Streets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/trap-streets-with-no-n... -- but that's a bit different from these easter eggs.

You put a drawing of a marmot in a mountainside or turn a stream into a naked lady to have a chuckle and get one over your boss, not to enforce copyright :)

There's a "Map Men" episode on this: https://youtu.be/DeiATy-FfjI

Tangental:

This is why Golf Courses and Land Art Designs are uncopyrightable but media created in the process of their development are