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New Zealand Should Not Be On Maps
Programming Git
2 months ago 110.5M views 0 shares
New Zealand Should Not Be On Maps
Someone opened a PR to literally delete New Zealand from all world map charts because, and I quote, "including New Zealand on a world map is a cartographic regression." The best part? They actually wrote proper documentation with verification steps confirming that "New Zealand is absent from country datasets" and "Australia survived." Even CodeRabbit approved it. The reference to r/MapsWithoutNZ is *chef's kiss* - it's a whole subreddit dedicated to the fact that New Zealand gets accidentally omitted from world maps so often it became a running joke. So naturally, some developer decided to make it official by submitting a "bug fix" that treats New Zealand's existence as the actual bug. This is what happens when developers have both too much time and the perfect amount of commitment to the bit. The thoroughness of the PR description is what really sells it - treating the removal of an entire country with the same seriousness as fixing a memory leak.

Now Everyone Can Be Happy
Python Programming Bash
1 year ago 309.2K views 0 shares
Now Everyone Can Be Happy
BEHOLD! The Gulf of Mexico has been GLORIOUSLY renamed using environment variables! Because nothing says "international diplomacy" like renaming an entire body of water with a string interpolation! 💀 The f-string format with that os.environ['MY_GLORIOUS_COUNTRY'] variable is the PEAK of passive-aggressive geopolitics. Americans get "Gulf of America," Mexicans get "Golfo de México," and everyone else gets whatever their environment variables are set to! DIPLOMATIC CRISIS AVERTED THROUGH THE POWER OF STRING FORMATTING!