We just use GHA as a simple caller, and everything is coded in nix scripts. The best part of this is how you can call the CI run directly from your own machine and it works the same.

I'm also surprised. I'm user 34967 and I was pretty far from Silicon Valley when I joined in late 2008.

Where are you finding your join number on GitHub? I just spent a few minutes looking at my profile and settings, but I don't see it anywhere.

curl -s https://api.github.com/users/mitchellh | jq .id

I remember asking Gemini about that one famous 9/11 joke from late Norm MacDonald and it got really iffy about answering. Told it that hey I'm not american and in our culture it's not such a taboo.

But yes, they do have similar constraints.

I was born in Finland and 100% agree.

Diners are something else. In Germany we have "American diners" where you pay for each cup of coffee.

It's not the same.

Every now and again someone will open a "American Diner" here in London, then have normal opening times and serve basically the same food every pub serves, only with more milkshakes.

Like, no. I want my American-style hash browns, over-easy eggs, and country-fried steak, not the same burger every pub on the street is doing.

And (refillable) filter coffee please, not just espresso drinks.

Pancakes, maple syrup, and bacon... Biscuits and gravy...

We had a place like that in Berlin about ten tears ago. Free coffee refills, free tap water on every table. That place sadly did not survive.

Nalu?? God I miss that place. Run by an American couple but they moved away and I’ve not found anything truly comparable since.

Yes Nalu. Me and my American partner still miss that place...

Last summer I was visiting Helsinki and they showed Prince's Sign O’ The Times live from 35mm film in that theater. They have these public votes every now and then where you can vote to see some movie from their archives.

I never saw this from a huge screen, and it was fantastic. Be aware if you go see a movie that's not in English, they quite often only have Finnish subtitles.

The Baron in the Trees is mentioned so rarely always, but it was one of the most influential books of my youth. A fantastic read.

I don't understand this. I've been running Linux for decades, and FreeBSD for decades. Love both systems.

"I see the tests failing, but none of our changes caused this breakage so I will push my changes and ask the user to inform their team on failing tests."

I would say booze rather than liquor. Liquor sounds too fancy.

It's call alcohol

Having written a rust client for it, even their documentation is absolutely stellar. You just read how the protocol works from the PDF and implement it.

Can't say the same about Oracle.